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Westmoreland County wrestling notebook: Latrobe collects medals at West Branch
It was another successful tournament for Latrobe, which earned a fourth-place finish at the West Branch Ultimate Warrior tournament. The Wildcats finished with 130.5 points, finishing behind Southern Columbia (210.5), Mifflin County (189.5) and Johnsonburg (131). Gabe Willochell was the Wildcats’ only champion, winning the 132-pound title. Freshman Nathan Roth...
Norwin’s Vince DeAugustine reaches coaching milestone
The Norwin wrestling team presented coach Vince DeAugustine a couple of banners following Monday’s match against West Mifflin. The banners were to commemorate his 250th coaching win. In 15 years as a coach, DeAugustine’s record stands 250-61, including 218-53 in 13 years at his alma mater Hempfield. And while DeAugustine...
Kiski Area looking for redemption after section championship loss
For the past three years, the Kiski Area wrestling team has come home from the WPIAL team tournament with gold in hand. The Cavaliers start their journey toward a fourth straight WPIAL team title on Wednesday when they travel to Hempfield for their first-round matchup against South Fayette. But this...
Alle-Kiski Valley Athetes of the Week: Plum’s Kennedie Montue, Leechburg’s Jake Blumer
Kennedie Montue Class: Junior School: Plum Sport: Basketball Report card: Montue eclipsed 1,000 points for her career with a 23-point effort in a 44-37 win over Franklin Regional last Monday. She also had a game-high 28 points in a 47-43 win over Mars on Friday, helping the Mustangs avenge their...
Trib HSSN WPIAL team wrestling rankings for Jan. 28, 2020
Class AAA Team record LW 1. Waynesburg 9-0 1 2. Seneca Valley 12-1 2 3. Canon-McMillan 11-3 3 4. Hempfield 17-2 4 5. Kiski Area 12-3 5 6. Thomas Jefferson 9-3 NR 7. Connellsville 10-3 7 8. North Allegheny 6-1 9 9. Latrobe 6-2 10 10. Norwin 15-4 6 Class...
Trib HSSN state team wrestling rankings for Jan. 28, 2020
Class AAA Team record LW 1. Nazareth (11) 14-1 2 2. Waynesburg 9-0 3 3. Bethlehem Catholic (11) 9-1 1 4. Seneca Valley 12-1 4 5. Erie Prep (10) 16-1 5 6. Canon-McMillan 11-3 6 7. Hempfield Area 17-2 7 8. Northampton (11) 14-1 8 9. Quakertown (1) 16-0 10...
Trib HSSN individual wrestling rankings for Jan. 28, 2020
Class AAA 106: 1. Mac Church, fr., Waynesburg (30-3); 2. Briar Priest, so., Hempfield (25-1); 3. Jacob Houpt, so., Canon-McMillan (19-7); 4. Vincent Kilkeary, fr., Latrobe (19-4); 5. Nick Gorman, fr., North Allegheny, (22-2). 113: 1. Carter Dibert, jr. Franklin Regional (26-1); 2. Ethan Berginc, jr. Hempfield (19-3); 3. Nico...
WPIBL regular season winding down to final two weeks
With two weeks left in the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Bowling League’s regular season, teams and individuals are jockeying for championship-tournament positioning with some still fighting to qualify for the postseason. The WPIBL team championships will be Feb. 12 for the boys at Nesbit’s Lanes in Plum and Feb. 13 for...
George Guido: Special chance to see special player Kobe Bryant
The terrible news that came out Sunday about Kobe Bryant’s death in a helicopter accident is another example of it being great to be a high school sports reporter and getting to see athletes before they become famous. I was at the old Hersheypark Arena in 1996 when Bryant played...
Two-way Gateway football standout Tui Brown commits to UConnVideo
Gateway senior Tui Brown, a two-way standout for the WPIAL champion, committed Sunday to UConn. The 6-foot-3, 215-pound linebacker and tight end caught a team-best 45 passes for 587 yards and nine touchdowns. He also had 45 tackles, three sacks, an interception and a fumble recovery for a Gateway team...
TJ notebook: Alyssa DeAngelo hits 1,000-point milestone
Thomas Jefferson senior Alyssa DeAngelo scored her 1,000th career point Jan. 13 in a section game at Trinity. DeAngelo, a multiple-year starter who averages 18 points per game, reached the milestone with 2 minutes, 15 seconds remaining in the second quarter of her team’s 61-50 loss to the Hillers. After...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Jan. 27, 2020
Basketball Boys Monday’s results WPIAL Nonsection Bentworth 65, Neighborhood Academy 44 Brashear 76, Northgate 47 Brownsville 58, West Greene 52 Deer Lakes 67, Springdale 65 Steel Valley at Nazareth Prep, ppd. Tuesday’s schedule WPIAL Class 6A Section 1 Butler at Pine-Richland, 7:30 p.m. Central Catholic at North Allegheny, 7:30 p.m....
High school roundup for Jan. 27, 2020: Chartiers Valley’s Tim McConnell wins 600th game
Chartiers Valley coach Tim McConnell celebrated the 600th victory of his high school coaching career Monday night. Forty-eight of them have come since he made the transition from boys basketball to the girls side at the start of last season, and in that role, he has yet to taste defeat....
Girls hoops showdown joins list of many big boys basketball games on Tuesday
There are plenty of key boys basketball games slated for Tuesday. One of the biggest games, however, is on the girls’ side of the hardwood. Two of the top Class 6A girls basketball teams collide when Norwin visits North Allegheny. Norwin is a perfect 10-0 in Section 1, one game...
No. 1 North Catholic fights off serious challenge from Freeport
Coming into Monday’s game, North Catholic girls basketball had won 54 section games in a row — all but one of them by double digits — so when Freeport tied the game with five minutes remaining, it presented a situation that hadn’t come up in a while. The Yellowjackets had...
WPIAL Clinched: Girls basketball through Jan. 27.
The WPIAL girls basketball regular season is winding down. There are less than two weeks left in section play with four days remaining in January. The playoff field is starting to grow. When the regular season ends, at least 68 girls basketball teams will earn a spot in the WPIAL...
Laurel girls’ freshmen guide way to big home victory, tie for section lead
On a late January night in Lawrence County, the Laurel freshmen grew up. In a game the Spartans (12-6, 10-1 in Section 1-2A) had to win to have any legitimate hope of a girls basketball section championship, freshmen Regan Atkins, Danielle Pontius and Joselynn Fortuna scored 26 of the team’s...
Fox Chapel tops Shaler for key victory in WPIAL playoff chase
The Fox Chapel girls basketball team took one step closer to what it hopes is a trip to the WPIAL Class 6A playoffs with a 44-32 home victory over Shaler on Monday. The Foxes came into the game tied with the Titans and Seneca Valley for third place in Section...
Norwin, Franklin Regional, Pine-Richland, Chartiers Valley move on in WPIAL wrestling playoffs
Norwin didn’t have a good Section 1-3A wrestling tournament on Jan. 22, losing twice and finishing fourth. But the Knights bounced back, winning the Sharon Duals on Saturday and then defeating West Mifflin, 51-18, in the WPIAL Class AAA pigtail round match Monday at Canon-McMillan. The victory was the 250th...
Mt. Pleasant girls optimistic about WPIALs after winning county swim title
After winning its third straight county Class AA title, the Mt. Pleasant girls swimming team has high hopes for the WPIAL championship meet in late February at Pitt. “We have a strong team and a great group of girls,” senior Heather Gardner said. “We are excited to see how we...
Fox Chapel swimmers ready to take run at section title
The Fox Chapel girls swimming and diving team went undefeated in 2016-17 and captured a section championship. The last two years, Franklin Regional brought home the section title. But with performances from a mix of veterans and top-flight freshmen and overall depth up and down the lineup, the Foxes, 9-0...
Thomas Jefferson’s Shane Stump commits to DuquesneVideo
Thomas Jefferson’s Shane Stump, who led the Jaguars to undefeated WPIAL and PIAA football titles, committed Monday to Duquesne. Stump announced his decision on Twitter. The 6-foot-1, 205-pound senior was a two-way standout at quarterback and defensive back. Stump passed for 2,664 yards and 36 touchdowns, and rushed for 546...
Trib HSSN boys basketball team of the week — Week ending Jan. 25, 2020
There are various ways and reasons teams are successful in WPIAL basketball. Combine some of them, and you get a team that’s on a serious roll that has now taken control of its section. Chartiers Valley beat the two teams in closest pursuit in the Section 2-5A standings last week...
Knoch, North Catholic enter, Mars exits latest Trib HSSN boys hoops state rankings
Seven teams started the week ranked among the elite in the state, but a bump or two in the road had all seven headed to the exits in the hopes of returning soon. The latest Trib HSSN weekly boys basketball state rankings heading into the final week of January has...
Trib HSSN boys basketball player of the week — Week ending Jan. 25, 2020
Two big wins last week not only clinched a playoff spot for Leechburg with two weeks left, it also kept them in the hunt for a piece of the Section 3-A title. Leading the way for the Blue Devils in a week in which they scored 191 points in two...
