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High Schools WPIAL Basketball Boys Tuesday’s results Nonsection Allderdice 72, West Mifflin 43 Aquinas Academy 95, Leechburg 92 Bethel Park 56, Baldwin 54 Bishop Canevin 81, Belle Vernon 42 Brashear 61, West Allegheny 59 Brentwood 58, Albert Gallatin 55 Burrell 59, St. Joseph 28 Carlynton 70, Burgettstown 38 Central Valley...

A steal by Ben Guffey and a bucket by Michael Mathias with 2.3 seconds left lifted Bethel Park to a 56-54 victory over Baldwin in nonsection boys basketball Tuesday night. Guffey and Shawn Davis each scored 19 points for the Black Hawks (4-0). James Wesling scored 17 points and Nathan...

Vinnie Cugini took some giant leaps among the WPIAL’s all-time scoring leaders Tuesday night. The Aquinas Academy senior went from 20th to 14th on the all-time list with 48 points. But it was a freshman that keyed a strong fourth quarter, allowing the Crusaders to improve to 5-0 with a...

High-scoring Southmoreland let its defense take the wheel in its latest boys basketball victory. The Scotties, who came into Yough Tuesday night averaging 77.7 points, did their best to slow the host Cougars, keeping what was expected to be a fast-paced matchup in the halfcourt with a 2-3 zone. The...

The Burrell wrestling team last beat neighboring rival Kiski Area in 2011. The Bucs hope this year’s clash — the teams meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Kiski Area High School — can be the end of the decade-long winning streak by the Cavaliers. “This is always a highlight of...

Latrobe was dealt a devastating blow to its season Tuesday with the news that senior girls basketball standout Emma Blair will miss the rest of the season with a knee injury. Blair, a 6-foot-1 center, was injured Friday in the first game of the She Got Game Classic in Virginia....

Waynesburg seniors Mac Church and Rocco Welsh captured titles at the Walsh Jesuit Ironman on Saturday. Church won the 144-pound weight class by defeating Western Reserve Academy’s Sam Cartella, 2-1, in overtime. Church was 5-0. Welsh posted a 13-4 decision in the 175-pound finals against St. Edward’s Jarrel Miller. He,...

Class 3A Team rankings Pos. Team Record LW 1. Waynesburg (0-0) 1 2. Canon-McMillan (0-0) 3 3. Connellsville (1-0) 4 4. Trinity (3-0) NR 5. Latrobe (2-1) 2 6. Franklin Regional (3-0) 5 7. North Allegheny (4-1) 6 8. Hempfield (0-0) 7 9. Seneca Valley (4-0) NR 10. Plum (4-1)...

High Schools WPIAL Basketball Boys Monday’s results Nonsection Armstrong 65, Perry Traditional Academy 32 DuBois 59, Indiana 45 Homer-Center 50, Apollo-Ridge 37 Hopewell 52, Riverside 44 McGuffey 64, West Greene 55 Mohawk 68, Wilmington 32 New Brighton 68, Western Beaver 53 Obama Academy at Aliquippa, ppd. Rochester 82, Freedom 44...

Lainey Yater netted 14 points to lead South Fayette to a 66-35 victory over Chartiers Valley on Monday night in a nonsection rematch of last year’s WPIAL Class 5A championship game. Ava Leroux and Maddie Webber scored 13 each for South Fayette (4-0). Lilah Turnbull scored 11 and Ella Cupka...

The Fox Chapel girls basketball team lost its season opener, falling by seven to Highlands at the Freeport Tip-Off on Dec. 2. The Foxes have reeled off four straight since then. The latest triumph came Monday evening at Plum. Led by a balanced effort where five players had at least...

Norwin played lockdown defense on another opponent, only that opponent looked quite different than the one the Knights expected to see Monday night. Norwin ran away with a 59-21 nonsection girls basketball victory at Latrobe, but the host Wildcats were missing their centerpiece: 6-foot-1 standout Emma Blair. The Knights (5-0)...

Former Gateway standout Derrick Davis, the TribLive HSSN Football Player of the Year in 2019, has announced plans to transfer from LSU. The 6-foot, 210-pound safety and running back said he’d entered the transfer portal Monday. Davis played in four games this season for LSU and saw action on both...

With the fall sports season now completed, high school hoops heats up this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Tune into Trib HSSN for coverage of WPIAL and District 6 boys and girls basketball, as well as hockey and wrestling. Here’s a look at this week’s broadcasts: Monday,...

The Belle Vernon football players involved in a controversial social media video weren’t trying to racially taunt anyone, said the school’s top administrator, but they will face consequences for including a racial slur. The TikTok video, which used an audio file popular in the app, was filmed on the team...

The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League announced its November players of the month. In Class 3A, Bethel Park senior forward Christian Strang claimed top honors after scoring a pair of goals in November. Strang, who has battled illness and injury, has seven points (5 goals, 2 assists) this season for the...

Derry’s girls basketball team plays in one of the toughest sections in the WPIAL, and the Lady Trojans are now without 23-point-per-game scorer Tiana Moracco, who graduated and moved on to Pitt-Greensburg. While Moracco’s departure is a tough pill to swallow, senior power forward Mara Lewis is confident the team...

Having lost no seniors to graduation, the Apollo-Ridge girls basketball team has quite a familiar roster this season. The way senior standout Brinley Toland sees it, that gives the Vikings an advantage. “We play really well together and have been playing together for a long time through in-house, middle school...

Yes Virginia, defense does win championships. And if anyone says otherwise, just roll the tape of Belle Vernon’s PIAA 3A championship win over Neumann-Goretti. The Saints feature a number of Division I recruits. It didn’t matter. The Saints won eight straight games entering the championship matchup. It didn’t matter. No...

High schools WPIAL Basketball Boys Sunday’s result Clash at New Castle Union 52, Fairview 43 Monday’s schedule Nonsection Apollo-Ridge at Homer-Center, 7:30 p.m. Freedom at Rochester, 7:30 p.m. Hopewell at Riverside, 7:30 p.m. Indiana at DuBois, 7:30 p.m. McGuffey at West Greene, 7 p.m. Mohawk at Wilmington, 7:30 p.m. New...

Here are the latest PIHL high school hockey standings through Sunday: Team – Wins – Losses – Overtime/Shootout Loss = Total Points Class 3A Seneca Valley, 8-1-1 = 17 North Allegheny, 8-2-1 = 17 Peters Township, 7-1-0 = 14 Central Catholic, 6-3-1 = 13 Cathedral Prep, 6-5-0 = 12 Baldwin,...

A pair of local players made the Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association All-State teams in the two largest classifications. Penn-Trafford senior outside hitter Kate Schall was selected in Class 4A, and Latrobe senior setter Lily Fenton was a 3A pick. Schall helped guide the Warriors to the WPIAL semifinals. She finished...

Alex Keeling-Oliver finished seventh in the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Bowling League’s East section last year with a 184.03 average with a high game of 242 and a top series of 644. The Gateway junior used those totals to earn a trip to the WPIBL and Western Regional singles tournaments. Keeling-Oliver,...

It most definitely was a season to remember. Quaker Valley wrapped up the best wrestling season in school history March 12 with four individual medalists at the PIAA Class 2A championships at Giant Center in Hershey. “We qualified five kids to compete in arguably the toughest wrestling tournament in the...

Emily Connors has experienced much success in her two years in the Quaker Valley pool. Connors ended her outstanding sophomore season in 2021-22 as a triple medalist at the PIAA Class 2A girls championships held at Bucknell. She placed sixth in the 100-yard freestyle and eighth in the 100-yard butterfly....