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HERSHEY — The victory march continued for the Hempfield wrestling team Thursday during the first round of the PIAA Class 3A team championship at Giant Center. The Spartans squeezed out a 34-32 victory against District 1 champion Pennridge, taking advantage of a disqualification early in the match. Pennridge’s Colby Martinelli...

In game that was winner-takes-all, the Burrell girls basketball team stood tall. The Bucs clinched the fourth-place WPIAL playoff spot from Section 3-3A with a 40-24 victory over Deer Lakes on Thursday during senior night at Burrell High School. “We had a pretty tough season last year, and we came...

HERSHEY — When you compete on the big stage at Giant Center in the PIAA team wrestling championship, you better bring your “A” game. Thursday during the first round of the Class 2A tournament, Burrell was hoping to reverse a loss from late January. The WPIAL runners-up came up short...

Pitt is in the early stages of building its 2024 recruiting class, but so far three of the four verbal commitments, including Central Catholic junior defensive end Ty Yuhas, reside in Pennsylvania. Yuhas confirmed his verbal commitment Thursday through his Twitter account. Locked in…H2P????????@CoachPartridge @CoachDuzzPittFB @Pitt_FB @PCC_FOOTBALL @CoachLehmeier @JasonPinkstonOL pic.twitter.com/5ZAo6XmpgF—...

As the Deer Lakes boys basketball team was celebrating senior night following its game Tuesday, word came in that Shady Side Academy had been upset by Derry. That meant the Lancers were guaranteed a split of the Section 3-3A title regardless of their outcome with the Bulldogs on Friday. That...

HERSHEY — Burgettstown ended a long streak for WPIAL Class 2A teams other than Burrell at the PIAA team championship Thursday at the Giant Center. The WPIAL champions defeated District 2 champion Honesdale, 34-27, and became the first Class 2A team other than Burrell to win in Hershey in 16...

McGuffey junior Riley Dunn defended her WPIAL rifle championship Thursday, edging out Fredrick Mach of Bethel Park at the Dormont-Mt. Lebanon Sportsmen’s Club in Canonsburg. Dunn finished with a score of 200-19x, the same score she won with last year. Mach finished at 200-18x. Bria Bruce and Elizabeth Engle of...

A number of Westmoreland County teams still had a shot at the WPIAL boys basketball playoffs in the final week of the regular season. Friday night’s action will fill out the full list of qualifiers. County teams that already have clinched are Norwin (12-8) in 6A, Kiski Area (11-10) in...

Franklin Regional has been banged up, thrown out of rhythm and backed into a corner. The Panthers are on an eight-game losing streak. Yet, despite all of that, they can still get into the WPIAL Class 5A playoffs. “It’s hard to believe,” coach Jesse Reed said. “I have never been...

Egypt Coleman didn’t need to wait to hear the whistle or for the first basket to be scored. The 5-foot-11 junior forward believed the Penn Hills girls basketball team was back on the path back to the WPIAL Class 5A playoffs. “We already knew,” Coleman said. “With how much work...

High schools WPIAL Basketball Boys Wednesday’s results Class 3A Section 4 Washington 88, Waynesburg 46 Class A Section 2 Geibel 81, West Greene 65 Section 3 St. Joseph 2, Hillel Academy 0 (forfeit) Nonsection Bentworth 66, Mapletown 53 Bishop Canevin 86, Serra Catholic 57 Propel Montour 63, Propel Braddock Hills...

Quinn Borroni scored 23 points as Blackhawk defeated Quaker Valley, 61-28, to clinch the Section 2-4A girls basketball title Wednesday night. Kassie Potts scored 14 and Alena Fusetti had 13 for the Cougars (18-2, 9-0), who used a 27-7 margin in the third quarter to pull away. Oumou Thiero led...

The last time the Kiski Area girls basketball team earned a spot in the WPIAL playoffs was the 2011-12 season when it went 16-7 overall and finished 8-4 in section play. That streak had to come to an end, senior guard Lexi Colaianni said. And it did Monday as the...

The WPIAL will announce playoff pairings beginning at 3 p.m. Monday via Trib HSSN, and postseason games could begin as early as next Thursday, according to the league calendar. Local teams that have clinched spots in the playoffs are: Norwin (18-3) in Class 6A, Penn-Trafford (13-5) and Latrobe (14-7) in...

Practice is over, and her teammates have gone home for the evening. But Tiffany Zelmore is still firing up shots, rebounding for herself in an echoing gym and making sure she doesn’t leave on a miss. “You good, Tiff?” Mt. Pleasant girls basketball coach Scott Giacobbi says as he waits...

Section play for most WPIAL girls basketball teams concludes Thursday with a few playoff spots up for grabs and a couple of section championships to be decided. There are two win-and-you’re-in games slated for Thursday. In Section 3-3A, Burrell (3-6, 9-12) hosts Deer Lakes (3-6, 5-16) with the winner finishing...

The district boys and girls basketball elite are finishing strong as we head toward the “Path to the Pete.” There were two changes in the boys weekly Trib 10, with Indians from both Penn Hills and Peters Township debuting while North Hills and South Allegheny were bumped. There were zero...

The PIAA team wrestling championship will begin with first-round matches Thursday at the Giant Center in Hershey. Here is a closer look at the five WPIAL teams in the field. Class 3A Canon-McMillan 2022-23 record: 14-2 Opponent: Chambersburg, 8 p.m. PIAA appearances: 11 PIAA records: 29-18 PIAA titles: 2, 2012,...

High schools WPIAL Basketball Boys Tuesday’s results Class 6A Section 1 Central Catholic 65, Butler 43 New Castle 72, Pine-Richland 51 Seneca Valley 70, North Allegheny 49 Section 2 Hempfield 55, Baldwin 53 Norwin 58, Mt. Lebanon 46 Upper St. Clair 68, Canon-McMillan 43 Class 5A Section 1 Peters Township...

There were not a lot of changes in the weekly Trib HSSN girls basketball state rankings, but that doesn’t mean it was smooth sailing into the start of February. The top two teams in Class 4A tasted defeat this past week, but losing to 6A Cardinal O’Hara and 5A Cathedral...

Advice from an older brother can be valuable, especially when your brother is the top college basketball player in the country. Just ask Central Catholic senior Debaba Tshiebwe, whose big brother Oscar is a star for Kentucky. The younger Tshiebwe, himself listed at 6-foot-7, says he has adopted some brotherly...

The first few days of February turned out to be a struggle for state-ranked teams. Some only dropped a few spots while others fell out of the Pennsylvania elite 30. In all, nine teams ranked in last week’s Trib HSSN boys basketball state rankings lost with five of those losing...

The 2023 WPIAL boys basketball playoff field is nearly set with only a few days left in the regular season. Trib HSSN will once again have exclusive coverage of the WPIAL boys basketball playoffs starting on Monday with the Playoff Pairings Show at 3 p.m. as we unveil the brackets...

Vinnie Cugini scored 36 points to lead Aquinas Academy to a 71-50 victory over Hillel Academy in Section 3-A Tuesday night, becoming the fifth player in Pennsylvania boys basketball history to hit the 3,000-point mark. Cugini finished the game with 3,001 points, joining Northern Bedford’s AJ Nastasi (3,833), Mansfield’s Tom...

From the bottom of the section to the WPIAL playoffs? Penn-Trafford just might pull it off. The Road Warriors did it again. Penn-Trafford, saving its best for last, won for the third time in four games to keep their flickering postseason hopes alive. The Warriors rallied from a slow start...