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Franklin Regional girls basketball coach Bernie Pucka and his players are being kept in suspense. On Jan. 15, doctors may determine if senior point guard Angelina Brush can come back to the lineup. Brush has yet to play a game this season, and her absence has weighed heavily on a...

Girls basketball practice is over — so says the clock — but parents sit idle in their vehicles outside of the Hempfield Spartan Field House, waiting to fill their backseats with tired daughters. Ten minutes go by. Then 15. Then 20. Finally, players begin filing out. “I don’t make them...

High schools Basketball Boys Tuesday’s results Class 6A Section 1 Central Catholic 55, Pine-Richland 48 Butler 72, Seneca Valley 60 Section 2 Canon-McMillan 57, Norwin 50 Mt. Lebanon 73, Baldwin 50 Upper St. Clair 57, Hempfield 25 Class 5A Section 1 Bethel Park 70, Ringgold 52 Trinity 64, Connellsville 47...

Ava Kobus scored 15 points, and Lauren Palangio finished with 13 to lead No. 2 Norwin to a 47-42 victory over No. 1 North Allegheny in a battle of the top two girls basketball teams in Section 1-6A Tuesday night. Norwin (8-2, 1-0) took control of the game with a...

Now that we’ve begun a new year, wrestling’s dual meet season will heat up over the next four weeks. There are some key matchups to begin the year Wednesday. In Class 3A, Ringgold (14-1) will visit unbeaten No. 4 Franklin Regional (11-0) in the Section 3 opener. Penn-Trafford grad and...

The Plum girls basketball team entered the New Year hoping to get back on the winning track after three straight losses to close out 2023. The Mustangs got what they were looking for as they improved to 3-0 in Section 1-5A on Tuesday with a 53-43 victory at Woodland Hills....

Franklin Regional has a pilot light that burns brightly and ignites the Panthers’ fast-paced attack. Coach Jesse Reed never wants to see that light burn out, but he wants to temper it. Why? Because he loves his team’s fire. It’s just a matter of when to crank up the heat....

Sometimes games are decided by a fourth-quarter run, but Hampton showed Tuesday that the first few minutes can be just as crucial. Hampton scored the game’s first 11 points, built an early lead and then relied on its defense for a 49-41 victory over Highlands in a low-scoring section opener...

WEEK 3 2023-24 Class 3A Top 10 Team (This year’s record) Last week’s rankings 1. Trinity (4-0) 1 2. Connellsville (2-0) 2 3. Canon-McMillan (2-0) 3 4. Franklin Regional (11-0) 4 5. North Allegheny (8-2) 5 6. Norwin (8-4) 6 7. Plum (5-2) 7 8. West Allegheny (6-0) 8 9....

On the third day of 2024 and just over a month into the season, defending WPIAL Class A boys basketball champion Imani Christian will finally play another district team. The Saints have been marching here, there and everywhere but in the WPIAL through the first month of the season. Imani...

With the start of a new year, it’s time to start ranking the best high school girls basketball teams across the state. Each week until the final buzzer in Hershey in mid-March, Trib HSSN will rank the top five teams in each classification. Here is a reminder of the PIAA...

The TribLive High School Sports Network begins 2024 by introducing the first Trib HSSN boys basketball rankings from across the PIAA. Each week until the final buzzer in Hershey in mid-March, Trib HSSN will rank the top five teams in each classification. Here is a reminder of the PIAA boys...

Three wrestlers have the opportunity to become part of an elite group with victories this weekend at the 71st annual Westmoreland County Coaches’ Association tournament. Latrobe junior Luke Willochell, Hempfield senior Eli Carr and Franklin Regional senior Juliano Marion could join the list of 45 others as three-time county champions....

Quaker Valley’s Emily Connors is widely recognized as one of the blue-ribbon swimmers in the WPIAL. She was coached at QV for three years by John Nemeth, who resigned following the 2022-23 season and has been succeeded by former Oakland Catholic/Central Catholic coach Merci McCarthy. “I started coaching Emily as...

High schools Basketball Boys Tuesday’s schedule Class 6A Section 1 Pine-Richland at Central Catholic, 7:30 p.m. Seneca Valley at Butler, 7:30 p.m. Section 2 Canon-McMillan at Norwin, 7:30 p.m. Mt. Lebanon at Baldwin, 7:30 p.m. Upper St. Clair at Hempfield, 7:30 p.m. Class 5A Section 1 Ringgold at Bethel Park,...

There is no ‘I’ in team, but there is an ‘I’ in the word individual. These district athletes rose above all others to claim gold in their respective high school sports this past year. This salute to champions parade includes those who marched alone to the best of their own...

An assistant football coach from Southern Cal flew across the country recently to meet with coveted Latrobe prospect Alex Tatsch. The coach covered 4,916 miles round trip, just to meet with the junior four-star linebacker. “Schools really like him,” Latrobe football coach Ron Prady said. “We have more coming in,...

Last season, current Highlands senior guard Jordyn Tavarez was a versatile role player for the Golden Rams. Tavarez was the point guard and best defender on a squad that made the WPIAL semifinals two years in a row: in Class 5A in 2021 and 4A a year ago. “Jordyn knew...

Last year, Greensburg Salem’s hockey team went 17-3 and rode that momentum all the way to the PIHL Class A semifinals, where a 3-1 loss to eventual champion Kiski Area ended the season. The setback wasn’t all bad. It gave Greensburg Salem motivation to see a team it played closely...

During a WPIAL playoff game last month Quinton Martin hurdled a defender on his way to a first down, but no penalty was called. Maybe such an athletic move had become expected of Martin, even by the officials. His highlight film is one breakaway rush or catch-and-go after another, each...

Thirty years ago, the City of Pittsburgh went on with plans for its annual St. Patrick’s Day parade through downtown despite being in the middle of the Blizzard of ’93 that dumped just over 25 inches of snow. That is as hardcore as it gets, but while this parade may...

High schools Basketball Boys Saturday’s results Ambridge tournament Bethel Park 88, Blackhawk 69 Highlands 71, Ambridge 59 Sto-Rox 52, Nazareth Prep 40 Rochester 67, New Brighton 54 Avella tournament Seventh place Burgettstown 79, Propel Montour 61 Fifth place South Side 70, Western Beaver 49 Third place Chartiers-Houston 54, Avella 46...

Nick Brown scored 22 points to lead four Bethel Park players in double figures in an 88-69 win over Blackhawk on Saturday at the Ambridge tournament. Shawn Davis scored 20, Michael Mathias had 14 and Jack Bruckner added 10 for the Black Hawks (5-4). Justin Shanor had a double-double with...

Persistence and hard work in the wrestling room were big reasons why Norwin freshman Landon Sidun won the 114-pound weight class Saturday at the Powerade Wrestling Tournament. Sidun (25-1) was carrying the torch for the WPIAL and extended the district’s streak of having at least one champion to 57 consecutive...

Sharp-shooting senior basketball player Elle Snyder of Latrobe announced Saturday a verbal commitment to NCAA Division I Evansville. Snyder, a 5-foot-9 guard, is Latrobe’s leading scorer (18.5 points per game) and rebounder (12.3). She had a 36-point game earlier this season and has produced eight double-doubles. She plays AAU basketball...