High School category, Page 32
High school roundup for Feb. 14, 2026: Derry crowns 8 champs at section tournament
Trib HSSN No. 2 Patrick Bulger knocked off No. 1 Javeon Chambers of Highlands, 10-3, in the 114-pound finals to lead Derry at WPIAL Class 2A Eastern Section tournament Saturday at Greensburg Salem. The Trojans won eight of the 13 weight classes and sent 11 wrestlers through to the WPIAL...
Penn-Trafford wrestler Dylan Barrett cuts weight to take shot at WPIAL, PIAA titles
Penn-Trafford senior wrestler Dylan Barrett’s main goal is to win a PIAA title. But he knew wrestling at 121 pounds was probably not the path to his goal with Norwin junior Landon Sidun, the No. 1 ranked wrestler in the country at that weight class. “His decision was to either...
Sites, times set for Wednesday’s WPIAL basketball quarterfinals
As the WPIAL boys and girls basketball playoffs continue with first-round action Monday and Tuesday, the first night of the second round is set with sites and times. The district quarterfinals will begin Wednesday with boys Class 4A, A and girls 5A and 3A contests now set. Here are the...
A-K Valley athletes of the week: Fox Chapel’s Bella Geller, Deer Lakes’ Evan Moore
Bella Geller School: Fox Chapel Class: Freshman Sport: Basketball Claim to fame: Geller finished with 10 points and scored the go-ahead 3-pointer with 1:37 left in the fourth quarter to help No. 7-seeded Fox Chapel (15-8) to a 60-58 win over No. 10 Latrobe in the first round of the...
Westmoreland County athletes of the week: Hempfield’s Ava Hickman, Franklin Regional’s Sal Colangelo
Ava Hickman School: Hempfield Class: Junior Sport: Gymnastics Claim to fame: Hickman won first place all-around and on the balance beam and also took third on the bars and sixth on the vault at the WPIAL gymnastics championships. She competed in the gold division. What was it like winning the...
After splitting in regular season, Allderdice, Obama Academy to meet for City League girls crown
Obama Academy girls basketball coach Monique McCoy would prefer to defer any credit. What McCoy would like to see at 4 p.m. Sunday at Brashear High School during the City League girls basketball championship game is for the Eagles to showcase their progress in another matchup with Allderdice. McCoy felt...
Allderdice, Obama Academy to square off again in City League boys championship game
Allderdice boys basketball coach Devin Crummie wants to put to rest any concerns about the City League basketball championships being played at Brashear High School. While the high school venue won’t have the gravitas of a Petersen Events Center or UPMC Cooper Field House, it won’t be lacking in electricity....
Young North Hills girls basketball team punches ticket for return trip to postseason
North Hills is hoping to channel its inner-2005 Pittsburgh Steelers when the WPIAL girls basketball playoffs start. Following a 7-14 regular season and 4-6 mark in Section 1-6A, the Indians received the final seed in Class 6A playoffs, which were set to start Feb. 16. “That old Steelers team in...
Battle-tested North Hills boys basketball hoping experience leads to playoff success
North Hills’ 2025-26 basketball regular season, just like their campaign a year prior, led them to the WPIAL playoffs. But coach Buzz Gabos admits that this season feels a bit different. And that it feels a lot better. A year after finishing with a 7-16 record, North Hills concluded its...
North Allegheny gymnast reaches elite level, still has goals in mind
North Allegheny junior Hannah Seidl tried all kinds of sports and activities when she was younger. But only one turned her world upside down. Seidl has grown from a novice tumbler to a Level 10 gymnast with her sights set on qualifying for nationals. “My mom stuck me in the...
North Allegheny boys coach stays upbeat after rough debut season
North Allegheny first-year boys basketball coach Rob Niederberger knows all about growing pains. He oversaw dreadful debut seasons at Shaler and Burrell before making remarkable turnarounds at those programs. So as North Allegheny wrapped up another last-place season, Niederberger felt no panic with the trajectory at his alma mater. “We...
Patient Franklin Regional pass rusher finds college fit at West Liberty
Lochlan Bresnahan led his team in quarterback hurries, but that didn’t mean he was in a hurry to commit to a college. The Franklin Regional senior tight end and linebacker — he also played some defensive end — waited until late in the game to choose a side. A late-arriving...
Shady Side Academy shakes off early season woes to earn playoff bid
The length of the high school boys basketball season was a benefit for Shady Side Academy. First-year coach Jim Dudas and his team had an opportunity to spend the first month of the season ironing out the kinks that come with a program transitioning to new leadership. The Bulldogs won...
Fox Chapel relay team making noise in indoor season
Fox Chapel indoor track coach Tom Moul has a good problem. The Foxes’ girls 3,200-meter relay team has five athletes capable of competing in the event. When Fox Chapel went to Youngstown State on Feb. 7 to compete, the Foxes continued what has been a winter of records by placing...
Fox Chapel notebook: Shady Side Academy grad shines in Olympic debut
Gwyneth Philips didn’t waste her first opportunity to start in net for the Team USA hockey team. Philips, a Shady Side Academy graduate and native of Athens, Ohio, made 20 saves to help the Americans blank Switzerland during group play at the Milan Cortina Olympics. Philips played collegiately with Northeastern...
Focused Fox Chapel boys get job done in section to reach playoff goal
When the smoke cleared, the Fox Chapel boys basketball team did what it needed to in order to qualify for the playoffs. The Foxes closed the season by winning five of their final six games. In a Section 1-6A schedule filled with potential pratfalls, the Foxes collected an emphatic 75-51...
Westmoreland County high school notebook: Penn-Trafford ace to pitch for Mercyhurst
Penn-Trafford softball has a Division I pitcher. The defending PIAA Class 5A champion Warriors again will lean on ace Allyson Paulone to lead the way this spring. The only difference this year is that the standout right-hander has her college commitment in tow. Paulone, a junior, announced she will play...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 13, 2026
High schools Basketball Boys WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Monday’s schedule First round Norwin (11-11) at Fox Chapel (13-9), 7 p.m.; Pine-Richland (11-11) at Mt. Lebanon (14-8), 7:30 p.m.; Imani Christian (6-16) at North Hills (15-7), 7 p.m. Quarterfinals Thursday’s schedule Norwin/Fox Chapel winner vs. Upper St. Clair (21-1), TBA; Seneca...
High school roundup for Feb. 13, 2026: Mimi Thiero nets 30 in Quaker Valley’s 1st round victory
Mimi Thiero hit for 30 points to power No. 4 Quaker Valley to a 50-36 victory over No. 13 Keystone Oaks in the WPIAL Class 3A girls basketball first round Friday night. Keira Watson added 11 points for the Quakers (17-6), who will take on No. 5 Seton LaSalle in...
12th-seeded Peters Township girls come together for upset win over No. 5 Plum
Despite his team’s fourth-place finish in Section 4-5A and being slotted as the No. 12 seed for the WPIAL playoffs, Peters Township girls basketball coach Steve Limberiou felt confident a rugged section and overall schedule and strong play down the stretch in the regular season would translate into good things...
Penn-Trafford girls finally shake loose vs. Franklin Regional in WPIAL 5A 1st round
On a night when the rims were tight and shots weren’t falling, Penn-Trafford had to get used to some initial discomfort before it could find its footing in the playoff opener. “When we’re on, we’re on,” Lady Warriors coach Chuck Fontana said. “When we’re not, we have to get to...
Lyla Jablon keeps her cool, helps Fox Chapel advance past Latrobe in Class 5A 1st round
Fox Chapel girls basketball coach Marty Matvey believes guard Lyla Jablon won’t wilt at the first sign of trouble. During her four seasons with the Foxes, she has been challenged by Matvey to be ready for the tough moments. During Fox Chapel’s 60-58 win over Latrobe in the first round...
Deer Lakes boys get physical, drop section champ Derry in Class 4A 1st round
High school basketball coaches often say the end of the first half and the beginning of the second half is the most crucial time of the game. Usually, that’s when a winner will be determined. That is what happened Friday at Derry in a WPIAL Class 4A first-round boys game....
Defending WPIAL champ Belle Vernon smothers Burrell in Class 4A 1st round
Belle Vernon boys basketball coach Ricky Tyburski picked up his first career playoff win Friday as his Leopards dominated No. 9 Burrell to open defense of last year’s WPIAL Class 4A championship. The No. 8 Leopards used smothering pressure and multiple defense to roll to a 60-45 win over the...
Behind big night from James ‘Booboo’ Armstrong, Hopewell zips past Greensburg Salem
Hopewell used a 22-point third quarter to get past Greensburg Salem for a 74-49 victory Friday in the first round of the WPIAL Class 4A boys basketball playoffs. It was the Vikings’ first playoff win since 2008 and also the 400th career victory for coach Doug Biega. James “Booboo” Armstrong...
