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PIHL high school hockey standings through Jan. 26, 2020
Here are the latest PIHL high school hockey standings through Jan. 26. Exclusive coverage of the 2020 PIHL Penguins Cup hockey playoffs can be heard and viewed only here on the TribLive High School Sports Network. In Class AAA, the top eight teams qualify for the playoffs. In Class AA,...
Upper St. Clair’s Josh Matheny named to list of country’s top under-18 swimmers
Upper St. Clair junior swimmer Josh Matheny is focused on this year’s U.S. Olympic Team Trials after earning a top honor recently from USA Swimming. Matheny, 17, was named to the organization’s 2019 18 & Under World 100 list as one of the best 18-and-under male swimmers in the country....
Colgate football adds another recruit from Mt. LebanonVideo
Mt. Lebanon senior Evan Jones, an all-conference running back for the Blue Devils, announced his commitment Sunday to Colgate. Jones is the second Mt. Lebanon recruit in three years to pick the Raiders. The 6-foot-2, 210-pound senior led the Blue Devils with 17 touchdowns while playing various positions last fall,...
Deaths of former classmate, Kobe Bryant put win in perspective for Penn-Trafford boys
It was a day of reflection and proper perspective for the Penn-Trafford boys basketball team. A 64-43 win over Jeannette in the final game of the Shootout at Seton Hill showcase Sunday night was nice. It eradicated the bad taste of a section loss to Latrobe two days earlier. But...
Trib HSSN PIHL Player of the Week: Week ending Jan. 26, 2020
When Hampton defeated Pine-Richland in a shootout to hand the Rams their only loss of the 2018-19 PIHL season, Jacob McGee stopped 41 of the 44 shots he faced. It was a game in which the Talbots were outshot by a wide margin. That happened again this year. This past...
Trib HSSN PIHL Team of the Week: Week ending Jan. 26, 2020
Last season, the Pine-Richland Rams lost one game. It was a 4-3 loss to Hampton in a shootout. At the time, the Rams were the No. 1-ranked team in the PIHL. On Monday, Hampton welcomed Latrobe — the No. 1 team in the state. The Wildcats were 12-0 and had...
Bethel Park bumped from top spot in 6A in latest PIAA girls basketball rankings
It was another week of lots of wins for the teams in the Trib HSSN girls basketball state rankings. There were a couple of flip-flops, with three teams losing but remaining in the top five among the elite throughout the Commonwealth. The only exits were by a pair of Class...
WPIAL team wrestling playoffs, key section basketball this week on Trib HSSN
The WPIAL team wrestling playoffs take place while the stretch run of the high school basketball regular season begins this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. We have plenty of WPIAL boys and girls section basketball games, including the HSSN boys and girls video stream Games of the...
WPIAL Girls Basketball Team of the Week: Week ending Jan. 26
A year ago, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart was not the favorite in Class 2A, yet the Chargers raised eyebrows by beating Burgettstown, Serra Catholic, Bishop Canevin and Brentwood to win the school’s first WPIAL girls basketball crown. Now, they are trying to be the team to beat as...
Girls basketball games and WPIAL team wrestling playoffs make for Monday madness
Monday begins the stretch run of the WPIAL basketball season as two weeks left in section play. Some section races are clear cut. Others are jammed up like the Parkway at rush hour. One such example for girls basketball is in Section 1-6A. Norwin and North Allegheny are a clear-cut...
WPIAL Girls Basketball Player of the Week — Week ending Jan. 26
After winning a combined seven games the three previous seasons, New Brighton is in the hunt for a playoff spot, tied for fifth place in Section 1-2A. The Lions are one game out of a playoff spot heading into the final two weeks of the regular season. Part of the...
High school roundup for Jan. 26, 2020: Highlands tops Allderdice
In a rare Sunday boys basketball game, Highlands earned a 70-52 win over Allderdice (13-4) at the Pittsburgh Basketball Club Classic at Montour. Korry Myers scored 17 points, and Johnny Crise added 15 points and nine rebounds for the Golden Rams (16-2). Luke Cochran tallied 13 points, five rebounds and...
High school scores, schedules for Jan. 26, 2020
High schools Basketball Boys Sunday’s results WPIAL PBC Hall of Fame Classic At Montour Highlands 70, Allderdice 52 Lincoln Park 58, Kennedy Catholic 45 Sto-Rox 79, Seton LaSalle 78 Uniontown 56, Ambridge 52 Upper St. Clair 77, Mars 68 Shootout at Seton Hill University Greensburg Central Catholic 57, Derry 49...
Westmoreland high school notebook: Soccer teams face changes to sections
A new PIAA enrollment cycle means realignment of WPIAL sections in all sports. Soccer has not joined the six-classification movement, but there are notable changes that will affect the local scene. The most significant change for Westmoreland is on the girls side, where longtime Class A rivals Greensburg Central Catholic...
Team Blue rallies from 4-goal deficit to win PIHL Class AAA All-Star Game
In most situations, a four-goal deficit would be worrisome. That was not the case for Team Blue on Sunday in the PIHL Class AAA All-Star Game. The squad rallied from a 4-0 deficit to beat Team Gold, 11-8, at RMU Island Sports Center. “This was definitely more fun than a...
Former Penn-Trafford baseball star who died in Penn Township crash remembered
A star baseball player died Saturday as a result of injuries he suffered when his car collided with a pickup in Penn Township, authorities said. Maclean Peter “Mac” Maund, 18, of Harrison City died at Forbes Hospital in Monroeville, where he had been taken for treatment, according to his obituary....
Norwin girls defeat Hempfield in Shootout at Seton Hill
Norwin plans to play in front of big crowds and in potentially foreign gyms with large courts as a season of high expectations continues toward the WPIAL and PIAA postseason. So playing in the Shootout at Seton Hill came with its advantages. Norwin got more out of the event than...
Team Blue uses late surge to win PIHL Class AA All-Star Game
It took Team Blue a while to find some offensive chemistry in Sunday’s PIHL Class AA All-Star Game. Once it did, the squad racked up four goals in the third period to post a 7-5 win over Team Gold at the RMU Island Sports Center. “It was special to get...
Hannah Potter makes surprise comeback for Kiski Area girls basketball
When Hannah Potter suffered a broken wrist in Kiski Area girls basketball’s opener, she and others thought her season would be lost because of the nature of the injury and the recovery time needed. But good news during a doctor visit Thursday gave the Cavaliers senior captain a second chance....
Thomas Jefferson’s Pazo, North Catholic’s Shaffer lift Team Blue to PIHL Class A All-Star Game win
Thomas Jefferson junior Eddie Pazo and North Catholic junior Quinten Shaffer had a hat trick each to lead Team Blue to a 9-5 win over Team Gold in the PIHL Class A All-Star Game Sunday at RMU Island Sports Center. Shaffer scored once in each period. In the second, he...
Ringgold’s Budjos nets hat trick to lead Team Blue to victory in PIHL Class B All-Star Game
Typically going on the penalty kill late in a game down by two goals is not a successful strategy, but in the PIHL Class B All-Star Game, Team Blue made being down a player work in a major way. Team Blue scored four times shorthanded in the third period, including...
PIAA considers significant change for football heat acclimatization weekVideo
Heat acclimatization week might become a little more eventful for PIAA football teams. After finishing five days of mandatory heat acclimation, two schools could join together on that Saturday for a non-contact scrimmage, according to a football steering committee idea discussed this week by the PIAA board. “They can go...
High school roundup for Jan. 25, 2020: Bethel Park girls top Woodland Hills in tournament finale
Bethel Park, Class 6A’s No. 2 team girls basketball team, got out to a hot start and never looked back in a nonsection victory over Class 5A No. 2 Woodland Hills, 58-40, on Saturday in the finale of the Joey Fabus Memorial Classic at Bethel Park. The Black Hawks (15-1)...
Kiski Area freshmen impress at Westmoreland County swimming championships
A pair of Kiski Area freshmen were excited to see where they stood compared to the top swimmers in Westmoreland County. Parker Sterlitz and Levi Hansen, who were the top two seeds in the boys 500 freestyle, finally got the experience they were looking for as they competed in the...
High school scores, schedules for Jan. 25, 2020
High schools Basketball Boys Saturday’s results WPIAL Nonsection Elizabeth Forward 73, Carrick 52 Greensburg Salem 73, Valley 48 Kiski Area 56, Burrell 49 Monessen 62, Sewickley Academy 59 Quigley Catholic 97, Beaver County Christian 45 Shenango 74, Ellwood City 53 Waynesburg 69, Fort Cherry 49 PBC Hall of Fame Classic...
