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Sometimes in sports, a team needs a little failure to propel itself forward. That was the case for Latrobe’s hockey team last season and the start of this season. The Wildcats missed the postseason for the first time in 17 years last year. Senior Fletcher Harvey was on that team,...

For hockey teams still competing this time of year in the PIHL, the buzz around the rink automatically is amped up a notch. This is the case for a handful of teams around Westmoreland County that are competing in the Penguins Cup playoffs. Greensburg Salem (17-3) earned the 2B seed...

In the four years before Rob Nogay was hired as girls basketball coach at his alma mater, the Union program won a total of 8 games. Four years after Nogay took over as sideline boss, the Scotties are district champions. Top-seeded Union captured its first WPIAL Class A girls basketball...

It’s official: 2023 is the Year of the Deer. At least when it comes to WPIAL 3A boys basketball. No. 5 seed Deer Lakes became the streak busters for the second time this season against Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. First, the Lancers ended the Chargers’ district- and state-record...

The PIAA released the at-large (time) qualifiers Sunday afternoon for the Class 2A and Class 3A state swimming championships March 15-18, at Bucknell University. The WPIAL is well represented in every boys and girls event and owns numerous top seeds. Only the champion in each event at all of the...

Five years ago, Seneca Valley defeated Peters Township in the Class 3A finals to win the 2018 PIHL Penguins Cup championship. This postseason, the Raiders are the No. 2 seed and the Indians are No. 1 as the 2023 PIHL Penguins Cup playoffs kick into full gear with eight quarterfinal...

Norwin likes to manage minutes, using group substitutions to keep the lineup fresh at all times. It has become a way of life for the girls basketball team, which returns to the PIAA playoffs this week after three years away. Watch a game, no matter its level of importance, and...

Here are the final PIHL high school hockey standings and postseason clinchings through the end of the regular season. The Penguins Cup playoffs in 3A, 2A and A, along with the PIHL Division II postseason begin with quarterfinal games Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Watch the high school hockey postseason with...

High schools Basketball Boys PIAA playoffs Class 6A Saturday’s schedule Chambersburg (15-11) at Plymouth-Whitemarch (24-4), 4 p.m.; CB East (22-4) vs. Archbishop Wood (16-8) at Archbishop Ryan, 6:30 p.m.; Cenral (16-11) vs. North Penn (18-8) at West Philadelphia, 3 p.m.; Coatesville (18-9) at Scranton (14-11), 5 p.m.; WC Henderson (16-11)...

We all take a deep breath with the completion of the WPIAL basketball, wrestling and swimming championships. Now our attention turns to the PIHL Penguins Cup hockey postseason and the PIAA basketball and wrestling playoffs this week here on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN continues our coverage...

The growth of girls wrestling was on display Sunday as more than 100 girls wrestlers competed in the first MyHouse Western Regional girls championships at Kiski Area. In a meet composed of wrestlers from schools in PIAA Districts 7, 8 and 10, the wrestlers from the WPIAL schools shined: 10...

The high school hockey playoffs continue this week for eight Westmoreland County teams. In PIHL Class 2A, No. 8 seed Hempfield (7-11) travels to Kittanning to play No. 1 Armstrong (17-3) in the quarterfinals at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. No. 4 seed Penn-Trafford (13-7), meantime, hosts No. 5 Thomas Jefferson (12-8)...

The Path to the Pete is complete as the focus turns to the Road to Hershey and the start of the PIAA basketball postseason next weekend. The state basketball playoffs tip off Friday and Saturday. Here is a look at the dates, sites and times for the 37 WPIAL girls...

The Path to the Pete is complete as the focus turns to the Road to Hershey and the start of the PIAA basketball postseason next weekend. The state basketball playoffs tip off Friday and Saturday. Here is a look at the dates, sites and times for the 36 District 7...

When Deer Lakes’ boys basketball team took the floor against the top teams in the WPIAL during the district playoffs, the Lancers felt right at home. Mostly because they already had played some of the best teams Western Pennsylvania has to offer. Those early-season tests helped shape the Lancers and...

Penn Hills wrestling spent the season in a developmental phase, trying to build self-confidence on the roster and give kids a chance to qualify for the WPIAL Class 3A championship tournament. The Indians, though, faced a daunting task by seeing its inexperienced roster having to navigate through a sectional field...

Senior Emily Smallwood and sophomores Kendyll Jerry and Jake Jones advanced to the final round of 16 divers at the WPIAL Class 3A diving championships at North Allegheny High School on Feb. 25. Smallwood finished best among the Rams qualifiers, placing eighth with a score of 380.25. Jerry was right...

It wasn’t the season that the Pine-Richland boys basketball team hoped for, but it did end on a high note. The Rams capped a 6-15 season with a 76-72 win over playoff-bound Butler in their season finale on senior night. “It was a good way to end,” Pine-Richland coach Bob...

Plum girls basketball coach Rich Mull said he knew his team had its work cut out for it when it took on No. 1 South Fayette in a WPIAL Class 5A first-round matchup Feb. 21. “South Fayette had a great reputation that precedes them, obviously, and it was a challenge...

Basketball season ended in the WPIAL Class 6A quarterfinals for the Norwin boys. The Knights had to face the No. 1 seed in their playoff opener and, although they played with host New Castle for much of the contest, they dropped a 59-47 decision. Norwin ends the season at 14-9...

Hampton freshman Dustin Kerr proved a wrist fracture and a sore elbow couldn’t prevent him from climbing a podium. The 15-year-old 127-pounder, who missed a total of six weeks this season with lingering injuries, placed second at sectionals in mid-February and fifth at the WPIAL Class 2A wrestling championships Feb....

Hampton senior Benny Haselrig agonized a bit during the recruiting process. Should he walk on at a big-time Division I football program or take a full ride to a smaller Division II school? In the end, Benny bet on himself. The three-time all-Greater Allegheny Conference first-team wide receiver committed to...

Alexander Kaufmann started having fun with wrestling again when he decided to change things up. The 152-pound Fox Chapel junior spent this season trying to press the pace and make opponents match his tempo. Kaufmann, who says he spends a lot of time reflecting on matches, was the lone Foxes...

Getting punched in the gut several times hasn’t deterred the Fox Chapel boys basketball team. The Foxes closed the season on a three-game losing streak and backed into the WPIAL Class 5A playoffs. After opening the playoffs with a win over Thomas Jefferson, the Foxes lost 67-62 to North Hills...

Kaleb Pryor still feels the sting of the Gateway boys basketball team’s loss to top-seeded Peters Township in the WPIAL Class 5A semifinals Feb. 25. “In a playoff atmosphere like that, in the final four or five minutes of the fourth quarter, it comes down to half-court possessions and playing...