High School category, Page 291

After spending the recent high school season competing against Lincoln Park’s Brandin Cummings, Hampton’s Liam Mignogna will join him in 2024-25. Mignogna, a 6-foot-9 center, will enter the Pitt program as a preferred walk-on after he concludes his senior year this spring. Pitt’s recruiting class includes signed recruits Cummings, a...

Lincoln Park is making a return trip to Hershey, where the team hopes to celebrate a second straight state title behind the talented tandem of Brandin Cummings and Meleek Thomas. Waiting for the Leopards is an opponent from Philadelphia, but that shouldn’t surprise them. They’ve now drawn a District 12...

High schools Baseball Wednesday’s results Nonsection Riverside 6, Beaver 1 Kiski Area 10, Burrell 3 Bethel Park 11, Canon-McMillan 1 Mohawk 6, Hopewell 0 Mapletown 22, Turkeyfoot Valley 8 Penn-Trafford 9, Mt. Pleasant 0 Ringgold 8, Charleroi 7 Jefferson-Morgan 4, Trinity Christian 1 Avella at Washington, (n) Carmichaels at Albert...

Travis Kovarik and Hunter Brown combined on a one-hit shutout as Penn-Trafford defeated Mt. Pleasant, 9-0, in a nonsection baseball game Wednesday in Myrtle Beach. Kovarik fanned nine and Brown worked the last two innings. Ian Temple homered and drove in two, Chuck Fontana III doubled and drove in a...

For the first time in nearly 25 years, the same two teams are playing for state gold in the PIAA Class A boys basketball championship game two years in a row. WPIAL champion Imani Christian will battle District 5 winner Berlin-Brothersvalley in the Class A boys basketball state title game...

The PIAA boys basketball championships are set as 12 teams have completed the Road to Hershey and will play for state gold Thursday through Saturday. Seven districts will be represented at the Giant Center. Here is the district breakdown for the title games. The WPIAL (District 7) leads the way...

The Road to Hershey is complete as 12 girls basketball teams are headed to Chocolate Town to play for a state championship. It is pretty balanced with seven districts represented at the Giant Center. Here is the district breakdown for the finals. District 6 is the leader with three teams...

Latrobe wants to hold off uniform turn-in day a little longer. The hockey team is playing in the USA Hockey National Championship tournament this week in West Chester. The event is Wednesday through Friday. Latrobe was set to open against the Valor Screaming Eagles on Wednesday and has games against...

For the second straight year, the WPIAL will send four district teams to Hershey to play for a state basketball championship. A year ago, Lincoln Park in Class 4A and Imani Christian in Class A came away with PIAA titles while Deer Lakes in 3A and Aliquippa in 2A returned...

For the first time since the expansion to six classifications in 2017, the WPIAL has only one team advancing to the PIAA girls basketball championships. The last time only one District 7 team reached the girls basketball finals when North Catholic was the lone WPIAL rep in 2016, the final...

Rob Greenleaf called it a “perfect storm,” his 1997 Franklin Regional boys basketball team that made the state finals in Hershey. “These guys truly liked each other,” the former Panthers coach and Franklin Regional alum said. “They did everything together. “I remember after we had a (youth) basketball camp, I...

Sometimes you just need a bounce. That’s what Chartiers Valley got in overtime to defeat Greensburg Salem, 2-1, in a tremendous PIHL Class A Penguins Cup championship game Tuesday night at the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex in Cranberry. The Colts (23-0) got the game-winner when a shot from the right...

High schools Baseball Tuesday’s results Nonsection Carlynton 12, Freedom 9 Ellwood City 6, New Castle 5 East Allegheny 6, Greensburg Salem 5 Hopewell 13, Shenango 12 Peters Township 11, Ringgold 6 Pine-Richland 15, Gateway 6 Riverview 8, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart 3 Serra Catholic 9, California 1 Shaler...

Owen Dumbroski and three relievers combined on a no-hitter to lead Serra Catholic to a 9-1 victory over California (0-2) in nonsection baseball Tuesday. Dumbroski went four innings and struck out 10 while Isiah Petty, Tyler Skaggs and Collin Holmes each went and inning. Jake Holmes was 2 for 3...

McKeesport’s girls basketball team has prided itself on defense all season long, and it maintained its tenacity without the ball Tuesday night in a PIAA Class 5A semifinal matchup against Cathedral Prep. Unfortunately for the Tigers, their offense just wasn’t there in a 35-20 loss to the Ramblers. “I don’t...

The Rolling Rams, in just their second year as a Ligonier Valley High School varsity program, are sending an eight-member team to the state bocce championships in Hershey. One of two Ligonier Valley squads competing in the sport, the second-seeded Rams Team One, is scheduled to face off Thursday morning...

Pine-Richland defeated North Allegheny twice during the regular season in one-goal games, so it was no surprise when the PIHL Class 3A Penguins Cup championship was also decided by one goal. It also might not be a surprise, then, that it was the Rams emerging victorious, 3-2, at the UPMC...

ALTOONA – Blackhawk sophomore forward Aubree Hupp and Wyomissing junior post player Amaya Stewart had to carry much of the load offensively while both sides struggled to make shots during their PIAA Class 4A girls basketball semifinal Tuesday at the Altoona High School Fieldhouse. The good news for the Cougars,...

Cameron Lindsey doesn’t eat much chocolate, but he sure loves making trips to Hershey. No matter what sport he’s playing. Lindsey, a Pitt football recruit, showed his soft touch around the rim on the basketball court Tuesday night, scoring 18 points to help Aliquippa defeat Fort Cherry, 65-53, in the...

Burrell’s run in the PIHL Division 2 playoffs ended in heartbreaking fashion Monday night with a 6-5 loss to Neshannock in the championship game at UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex in Cranberry, but it wasn’t hard for the Bucs to find highlights from a stellar season. The current group of Bucs...

Franklin Regional ripped off the band-aid from its WPIAL boys basketball championship loss to Moon and promptly avenged the defeat with a 60-43 win over the Tigers in Monday’s PIAA Class 5A semifinals. Funny how those state playoffs work, serving as a platform to exorcise demons and reset. Panthers third-year...

Trib HSSN girls basketball player of the week: Aubree Hupp School: Blackhawk Class: Sophomore Height: 5-foot-10 Position: Forward #Earned: While senior Alena Fusetti has been the leading scorer for Blackhawk this season, Hupp has stepped up and been a force on the blocks for the Cougars in the postseason. In...

Welcome to Semifinals Tuesday and the final stop on the Road to Hershey with PIAA basketball final four games in boys Class 6A, 3A and 2A, along with girls 5A, 4A and A. While the Class 5A and 4A “western finals” were rematches of WPIAL championship games this winter, the...

High schools Baseball Monday’s results Nonsection Belle Vernon 15, Lutheran Southern 5 Carrick 3, Seton LaSalle 2 Charleroi 18, Monessen 3 Clairton 18, Northgate 11 Freedom 17, Carlynton 1 Potomac School 14, Mt. Pleasant 7 St. Albans School (DC) 9, Franklin Regional 7 Valley 4, Ligonier Valley 1 Aliquippa at...