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Welcome to Quarterfinals Friday on the Road to Hershey with third-round PIAA basketball games in boys Class 5A, 4A and A, along with girls 6A, 3A and 2A taking center stage. The WPIAL had dominated boys 5A through two rounds. All four teams in the “western” semifinals are from District...

A trio of North Allegheny divers got the ball rolling Thursday afternoon with points scored in the PIAA Class 3A competition. Juniors Juliet Hood and Lola Malarky and sophomore Maggie Lapina finished second, third, and 10th, earning 40 points to the overall team total. Then the Tigers swimmers took over...

Yes, these are the state playoffs, but WPIAL champion Moon is back fighting its way through teams from its own league. Aiden Reesman scored 10 of his season-high 26 points in the fourth quarter Friday night to fuel a strong finish as Moon outlasted Bethel Park, 67-51, in a PIAA...

Deer Lakes had a five-on-three power play late in the second period and a chance to get back into the game, but Aidan Petroff was having none of it. After his goalie, Kooper Price, robbed Mark Rauenswinter on a point-blank shot, Petroff went the other way and scored on the...

Minimal changes were made to the rankings this week, considering the best teams across the state have gone head-to-head through two rounds on the Road to Hershey. Eight teams dropped out of the weekly Trib HSSN girls basketball state rankings from last week as their seasons came to an end....

The Road to Hershey is nearing the halfway point with two rounds in the books and three rounds remaining. Usually there are big changes at this point, but the best of the best in boys basketball across the state continue to take care of business and are now headed to...

Holden Thomas owned the top seed in the Class 3A boys 100-yard backstroke and had his sights set on big things in the preliminaries Thursday morning on Day 2 of the PIAA swimming championships at Bucknell University’s Kinney Natatorium. The Franklin Regional senior, the WPIAL champion in the event with...

Fox Chapel junior Sarah Pasquella entered the finals of the girls Class 3A 100-yard breaststroke Thursday evening at Bucknell University as the second seed to North Allegheny’s Natalie Sens. Hoping to add a state title to her portfolio of accomplished swims, Pasquella swam to an all-time best in the finals...

Familiarity is only going to take Norwin so far Friday night in the PIAA Class 6A girls basketball quarterfinals. At least that is Lady Knights coach Brian Brozeski’s take on his team’s next matchup. “We played them in the beginning of the year, but both teams look a lot different...

Penn-Trafford and Latrobe are coming off memorable seasons. The Warriors finished third in the WPIAL Class 5A playoffs and ended up defeating Central Mountain, the No. 1 team in the PIAA, in the first round of the state playoffs. They fell to the WPIAL and PIAA champion Shaler in the...

Jeannette has a bright future in boys basketball. That much is clear in a talented rotation oozing with athletes and acumen. But it looks like a budding crop of underclassmen would prefer to win now, thank you very much. “These guys compete,” Jayhawks coach Adrian Batts said. “They are young,...

It was another banner year in 2023 for the Plum baseball team. The Mustangs used a walk-off win against Fox Chapel on the final day of the regular season to earn a split of the Section 1-5A title with Penn-Trafford and went on to make the WPIAL semifinals before falling...

A new PIAA Class 3A girls diving champion was guaranteed to be crowned Thursday afternoon at Bucknell University’s Kinney Natatorium. The champion the past three years, North Allegheny’s Christina Shi, graduated and is now diving at Harvard. Last year’s runner-up, Latrobe’s Hannah Polosky, also moved on and is at Pitt....

PIAA basketball playoffs Boys Class 5A Quarterfinals Franklin Regional (25-3) vs. Shaler (25-3) 7:30 p.m. Friday at Gateway High School District seeds: Franklin Regional 7-2; Shaler 7-3 Winner plays: Winner of 7-6 Bethel Park (15-13)/7-1 Moon (25-3) on Monday in semifinals (time, site TBD) Players to watch: Cooper Rankin, Franklin...

LEWISBURG — WPIAL swimmers will go after titles and additional medals Thursday evening on Day 2 of the PIAA Class 3A championships at Bucknell University’s Kinney Natatorium. Preliminary swims Thursday morning will give way to the consolation and championship finals this evening. Boys Upper St. Clair sophomore Nazar Zoukovski is...

South Fayette became the first WPIAL champion to be eliminated before the PIAA quarterfinals. However, Class 5A girls are well represented by WPIAL teams. Armstrong, Oakland Catholic and McKeesport are all alive for state gold heading into the Elite 8 round this weekend. In girls 4A, WPIAL finalists North Catholic...

The WPIAL is looking good in the PIAA Class 2A boys basketball playoffs with three teams in the western region final four. The Road to Hershey is now through two rounds and Aliquippa, Fort Cherry and surprising Jeannette remain alive heading into the state Elite 8 in 2A. Deer Lakes...

After winning the past two WPIAL Class 2A softball championships, Neshannock again enters the season as a favorite. Behind an all-state pitcher and seven returning starters, coach Jackie Lash’s Lancers have the arm and bats to again contend for WPIAL and PIAA gold. Standing in the way will be a...

Since 2017, either Seton LaSalle or Serra Catholic has reached the WPIAL Class 2A baseball championship game. In fact, in the five title games played since 2017, the Rebels and Eagles have squared off against each other in two of them, including last year. Seton LaSalle beat Serra Catholic both...

The WPIAL has released its football schedules for the next two seasons and Week 1 should be exciting. Some of the notable nonconference games scheduled for Week 1 include Central Catholic at Pine-Richland, Gateway at North Allegheny and Thomas Jefferson at Central Valley. Woodland Hills and Penn Hills will renew...

The PIHL Penguins Cup Playoffs conclude their week-long final four games at the RMU Island Sports Complex on Neville Island and here on Trib HSSN. The winners head to the championship game next week while the losers pack their gear until next season. Thursday features the two Division II semifinals...

High schools Basketball Boys Class 6A Second round Wednesday’s results Archbishop Wood 66, Lower Merion 64 Spring-Ford 45, Springfield Delco 32 Parkland 61, Chambersburg 46 Roman Catholic 47, WC Henderson 40 Coatesville 52, Cumberland Valley 37 Reading 54, McDowell 47 (OT) Central York 70, Red Lion 54 Upper St. Clair...

Sylvia Roy won silver in the 50-yard freestyle at last year’s PIAA Class 3A swimming championships. In her return to Bucknell University on Wednesday, the Mt. Lebanon junior wanted gold. But in a fast 50 free championship heat, Roy was edged out for the title by State College sophomore Molly...

While this is Armstrong’s first appearance in the state girls basketball playoffs, it’s hardly Emma Paul’s first time on the PIAA stage. As a slugging shortstop on the River Hawks softball team, Paul has been to the state finals twice and the state semifinals last year. On Wednesday, she hit...

The anatomy of this victory started with a game plan and a belief that anything was possible. Through exacting execution and a willful buy-in by a young group as unfazed by the pressure as it is naive to it, Jeannette did the unthinkable. The upstart Jayhawks pulled off a monumental...