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Class 6A Rk., Team, W-L, Last 1. New Castle, 17-2, 1 2. Central Catholic, 11-8, 2 3. Butler, 14-5, 4 4. Upper St. Clair, 12-8, 5 5. Mt. Lebanon, 13-4, 3 Out: none Class 5A Rk., Team, W-L, Last 1. Penn Hills, 15-2, 1 2. Peters Township, 16-3, 2 3....

Burrell had gotten the better of Burgettstown four times in the WPIAL Class 2A playoffs over the past decade. That included wins in the 2020 and 2021 championship matches. But Saturday at Chartiers-Houston, Burgettstown turned the tables and captured its first WPIAL Class 2A team-tournament title 31-24. “That was a...

Lily King School: Mt. Pleasant Sport: Swimming Class: Sophomore Claim to fame: King was dominant for the second straight year at the Westmoreland County Coaches Association championships at Derry, winning the 100- and 200-yard freestyle races in record fashion. She set county records of 49.63 seconds in the 100 free...

Waynesburg’s run as king of WPIAL wrestling ended Saturday at Peters Township. Canon-McMillan got pins from Collier Hartman (107 pounds) and Joseph Ryder (127) to defeat Waynesburg, 28-28, by criteria D, most team wins, in the Class 3A team championship. The Big Macs (14-2) won seven matches to the Raiders’...

Eliza Miller Class: Junior School: Kiski Area Sport: Swimming Report card: Miller won a pair of gold medals at the WCCA championship meet Jan. 28 at Derry. The junior broke her own school record in winning the 500 freestyle in 5 minutes, 5.31 seconds. She also won the 100 breaststroke...

Ty Iwanonkiw put up 19 points, Joey Dopirak hit for 18 and Joe Marquis added 11 as North Allegheny earned a 61-54 win over Pine-Richland (5-13, 1-6) in triple overtime in a Section 1-6A boys basketball game Jan. 31. Emery Moye dropped 22 points and Owen Luellen finished with 14...

During the preseason, Franklin Regional swimming coach Vic Santoro said one of the goals for his team was to win the Westmoreland County Coaches’ Association title. That goal was achieved as the Panthers boys claimed the title with 298 points Jan. 28, edging Class 2A Kiski Area (285). The girls,...

Hampton missed the WPIAL wrestling playoffs in its first season as a Class 2A program, but there’s still a lot to shoot for. The Talbots have turned their attention to the WPIAL individual postseason, which begins with the 14-team Eastern Sectional Feb. 18 at Greensburg Salem. The top six finishers...

Rebuilding is a dirty word for the Aquinas Academy girls basketball team. One year after graduating four starters from the most successful team in program history, the Crusaders are top five in the WPIAL Class A rankings and assured of a sixth consecutive playoff berth. The Crusaders opened the season...

The Shady Side Academy basketball team never planned on being a half-court, defensive-oriented team. But circumstances have changed how the Bulldogs have had to approach things down the stretch. Shady Side Academy lost senior guard Ethian Salvia to a torn ACL and has played several games without Eli Teslovich, who...

Sarah Slember’s athletic resume isn’t lacking in skills and experience to display. Playing basketball was difficult for Slember because of poor fortune. A pair of sprained ankles as a freshman limited her availability, while a torn ACL halted her sophomore season. Finally healthy, Slember has shown her versatility for a...

Needing 151 yards to become Plum’s all-time leader in career rushing yards, senior tailback Eryck Moore-Watkins exploded in the 2022 season finale against Indiana. In his final varsity game, he rushed 22 times for a career-best 356 yards and six touchdowns as the Mustangs scored a 46-27 victory. Moore-Watkins finished...

Zach Miller hasn’t taken lightly the opportunity to suit up this year for the Plum varsity ice hockey team. The Mustangs senior captain led the team in goals with 11 through a tough 5-2 loss to Indiana on Jan. 30. The day before, he was one of several area skaters...

A bout of adversity didn’t stop the Norwin hockey team from winning, and it didn’t stop an offensive player from suiting up and playing goaltender. Norwin had to face Freeport without junior goalkeeper Owen Burmeister, who suffered a concussion while playing for his youth team the previous weekend. Knights coach...

It was only last year when Michael Fleming was firing in 3-pointers for Norwin, and two years ago when Nick Fleming was contributing key points and rebounds for the Knights. Now, the brothers are calling fouls and wearing stripes. Like their father, who has officiated basketball, football and other sports...

High schools WPIAL Basketball Boys Friday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Section 1 New Castle 67, Central Catholic 53 Butler 66, North Allegheny 55 Seneca Valley 57, Pine-Richland 37 Section 2 Hempfield 67, Canon-McMillan 45 Upper St. Clair 37, Mt. Lebanon 36 Norwin 63, Baldwin 50 Class 5A Section 1 Bethel...

Isaiah Boice planned to celebrate New Castle’s section title by drinking lots of chocolate milk, the bone-healing beverage he credits for his quick recovery. “Maybe a couple of gallons,” Boice said with a laugh Friday night, after the No. 1-ranked Red Hurricanes clinched at least a share of the Section...

They made history last year when they met in the WPIAL team wrestling 2A finals. Now they will collide again, a round earlier in the district semifinals. No. 2-seeded and defending champion Quaker Valley will battle longtime master of the mat, No. 3-seeded Burrell, on Saturday afternoon. The Quakers are...

A year after struggling to a 1-18 season, the Clairton boys basketball team is back in the WPIAL playoffs. The Bears used a strong second-half effort to erase a seven-point halftime deficit and earn a 63-58 win over visiting Jeannette to clinch a postseason berth inside the Paulette Bradford Memorial...

At halftime, West Mifflin held a half-court shot contest for fans in which the winner would receive half of the pot. South Allegheny senior Bryce Epps beat them to the punch. The most prolific scorer in Gladiators program history hit a half-court shot at the buzzer at the end of...

The 2023 WPIAL boys basketball playoff field is starting to take shape with only one week left in the regular season. Trib HSSN will once again have exclusive coverage of the WPIAL boys basketball playoffs starting on Monday, Feb. 13 with the Playoff Pairings Show at 3 p.m. as we...

Devin Hall scored a game-high 14 points as Upper St. Clair split the season series and moved into a tie for first place in Section 2-61 with a 37-36 victory over rival Mt. Lebanon on Friday night. The Blue Devils (13-6, 7-1) jumped out to a 10-1 lead after one...

It might have been expected if the Yough boys basketball had suffered a letdown after a huge victory earlier this week. But veteran coach Jim Nesser wasn’t about to let that happen Friday against Mt. Pleasant. He made sure that his team continued to step forward, and after a sluggish...

What could have been a rebirth and momentum builder for the Belle Vernon boys basketball team was anything but that Friday night. Laurel Highlands went into the Belle Vernon gymnasium and embarrassed the out-of-sorts Leopards, 78-59, in front of a capacity crowd. The bread and butter of a Joe Salvino-coached...

The playoff race in WPIAL Section 3-5A boys basketball just got a lot more interesting. Latrobe was one of the teams throwing wrenches into the works. The Wildcats clearly aren’t ready to call it a year just yet, as evidenced by their 66-53 win over reeling Franklin Regional on Friday...