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This week on Trib HSSN for week of Jan. 5, 2026
A new year of high school sports begins with a potpourri of district winter sports action this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN continues coverage of WPIAL boys and girls basketball with a return to section play after the holidays. Plus, we also have WPIAL scholastic...
Westmoreland athletes of the week: Norwin’s Landon Sidun, Southmoreland’s Zoey Murphy
Landon Sidun School: Norwin Class: Junior Sport: Wrestling Claim to fame: Sidun is the No. 1 ranked 120-/121-pound wrestler in the country by FloWrestling. He recently won the Beast of the East and Powerade tournaments for the second consecutive year. He is a three-time Powerade champion. His career record is...
High school roundup for Jan. 3, 2026: Chartiers Valley takes care of Aliquippa
Julian Semplice scored 26 points to lead Trib HSSN Class 5A No. 3 Chartiers Valley to a 60-45 boys basketball victory over Class 3A No. 2 Aliquippa at The Rumble at North Allegheny on Saturday. Logan Helfrick added 12 points and the Colts (9-1) jumped out to a 14-7 lead...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Jan. 3, 2026
High schools Basketball Boys Saturday’s results Class 6A Section 2 Imani Christian 53, Norwin 46 Chuckie Mahoney Classic At Burgettstown Avella 60, Burgettstown 47 Washington 59, Fort Cherry 40 McGuffey 45, Weir (WV) 28 Neighborhood Academy 74, Beaver 53 Slammin’ at The Port At McKeesport Central Catholic 49, Woodland Hills...
WPIAL girls basketball rankings for week ending Jan. 4, 2026
Here’s a look at this week’s Trib HSSN girls basketball rankings: Class 6A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. Norwin, 9-0, 1 2. Canon-McMillan, 9-2, 2 3. Hempfield, 9-2, 4 4. Seneca Valley, 5-5, 3 5. Pine-Richland, 6-5, NR Out: Upper St. Clair (3-6, 5) Class 5A 1. South Fayette, 11-1,...
WPIAL boys basketball rankings for week ending Jan. 4, 2026
Here’s a look at this week’s Trib HSSN boys basketball rankings: Class 6A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. New Castle, 9-0, 1 2. Central Catholic, 9-1, 2 3. Upper St. Clair, 10-1, 3 4. Norwin, 7-4, 5 5. Mt. Lebanon, 8-3, NR Out: North Allegheny (6-5, 4) Class 5A 1....
Imani Christian plays fast in 4th quarter, dashes to win over Norwin
Imani Christian had just come back from playing two games at the Governor’s Challenge in Maryland, where the Saints lost two games but played with a 30-second shot clock. Their return to WPIAL play could have come with a stopwatch. Playing faster in the fourth quarter allowed Imani to finally...
A-K Valley athletes of the week: Plum’s Riley Stephans, Fox Chapel’s Grant Fenton
Riley Stephans School: Plum Class: Senior Sport: Basketball Claim to fame: Stephans scored 57 total points across two games at the Peter Sauer Memorial Tournament at Shady Side Academy. She went off for 33 points in a loss against Class 6A Pine-Richland on Monday. She then followed that with her...
Glass-cleaning skills help Knoch boys get off to sparkling start
Teegan Finucan knows which skill set the Knoch boys basketball team needs to lean on to win games. The 6-foot-1 senior guard and his teammates aren’t afraid to employ it. “A lot of it comes from genetics,” Finucan said. “We have a lot of length, and we want to abuse...
Parade of champions: WPIAL, PIAA team winners for 2025
What better way to honor the top teams from 2025 than to march the WPIAL champions in a victory parade stretching from Lawrence County down to Washington County. Even in the bitter days of the start of a new year, everybody enjoys a nice parade as we wrap up the...
Parade of champions: WPIAL, PIAA individual gold medalists for 2025
There is no “I” in team, but there is an “I” in the word impressive. These district athletes rose above all others to claim gold in their respective high school sports in the year 2025. This salute to champions includes these folk who marched alone to what turned out to...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Jan. 2, 2026
High schools Basketball Boys Friday’s results Class 6A Section 1 Pine-Richland 57, North Allegheny 48 Nonsection Ambridge 57, Beaver Falls 42 Beth-Center 84, South Side 73 Geibel Catholic 95, Brownsville 65 Central Catholic 42, Penn Hills 31 Mohawk 66, Deer Lakes 59 Environmental Charter 76, Wilmington 72 Peters Township 60,...
High school roundup for Jan. 2, 2026: South Fayette beats Ohio power
Juliette Leroux scored 30 points to lead South Fayette to a 75-65 victory over Archbishop Hoban on Friday in a matchup of one of Pennsylvania’s top girls basketball teams against one of Ohio’s best. Haylie Lamonde added 21 for the Lions (12-1), who are ranked No. 1 in Class 5A...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Jan. 3, 2026: Norwin, Imani Christian jockey for position
In Section 2-6A boys basketball, everybody is looking up at first-place Central Catholic. Two of the teams locked in a three-way tie for second place, one game behind the Vikings, meet in a rare Saturday afternoon section game. Imani Christian visits Norwin with the winner improving to 3-1, matching the...
Upper St. Clair kicker Jacobo Echeverria Lozano adds Ohio State offer
One of the WPIAL’s top kickers could be playing for one of the nation’s premier college programs next fall. Upper St. Clair senior Jacobo Echeverria Lozano picked up a scholarship offer from Ohio State on Thursday. Echeverria Lozano, a two-time all-conference selection, made 12 of 13 field-goal attempts and 46...
Steelers honor 11 high school football players with Jerome Bettis Leadership Award
The Pittsburgh Steelers honored 11 WPIAL and City League football players Friday as recipients of the Jerome Bettis Leadership Award. Designated for athletes “who go above and beyond to provide mentor-like support for their teammates,” this year’s award winners were South Fayette’s Connor Hiser, Bethel Park’s Charles Simmons, Greensburg Salem’s...
After strong start, Plum girls basketball braces for upcoming section tests
Rich Mull knows that for his Plum girls basketball team to earn a playoff berth and contend for a title in Section 1-5A, it is going to have to make sure to take care of the little things that often form a razor-thin line between triumph and defeat. “The section,...
Behind lone senior Elizabeth Kantoris, Latrobe girls wrestling continues to build
The Latrobe girls wrestling team has an uphill battle heading into its third season as a program, but things got off to a promising start at the annual Powerade tournament last weekend. Elizabeth Kantoris, the lone senior on the five-person squad, earned a sixth-place finish at 235 pounds, going 3-3...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for Jan. 2, 2026: Pine-Richland, North Allegheny to collide
Happy New Year from all of us here at the TribLive High School Sports Network! The year’s first WPIAL basketball section contest takes place Friday with a pair of northern rivals set to ring in 2026. Pine-Richland visits North Allegheny in a boys basketball Section 1-6A clash that will be...
High school sports schedule for Jan. 2, 2026
High schools Basketball Boys Friday’s schedule Class 6A Section 1 Pine-Richland at North Allegheny, 7 p.m. Nonsection Beaver Falls at Ambridge, 7:30 p.m. Beth-Center at South Side, 7:30 p.m. Brownsville at Geibel, 7:30 p.m. Central Catholic at Penn Hills, 7:30 p.m. Deer Lakes at Mohawk, 7:30 p.m. Fox Chapel at...
Kiski Area girls place 3 wrestlers at prestigious Powerade tournament
Kiski Area has been known for the success of its wrestling program, and after a fourth-place team finish at the Powerade tournament, the girls are looking to add to that reputation. During the annual tournament held at Canon-McMillan High School this past weekend, the Cavaliers earned their podium finish with...
Girls basketball notes: Norwin-Hempfield section showdown picks up intensity
Though Norwin versus Canon-McMillan looks like the premier matchup in Section 2-6A girls basketball, another encounter is becoming more intriguing. Could Norwin (9-0, 2-0) versus Hempfield (9-2, 1-1) be a sneaky-good matchup to watch? Canon-McMillan opened the season as the TribLive preseason No. 1-ranked team, but unbeaten Norwin has taken...
Westmoreland boys basketball notes: Hempfield tinkers with lineup, substitutions
Hempfield boys basketball coach Austin Butler and his staff were none too happy when they saw their team’s energy dip in recent games. So Butler, the first-year leader of the Spartans, mixed things up a bit. At the two-game Greensburg Salem Holiday Classic, Butler used a five-in, five-out rotation in...
2025 Trib HSSN year in review top stories countdown: Nos. 5-1
The year 2025 in WPIAL sports saw a lot of history and unusual happenings that kept all three sports seasons exciting. Whether it’s a game, a season or multiple seasons, this is a perfect way to wrap up the countdown with historic performances aplenty, plus a shot clock for down...
Former Laurel Highlands star Rodney Gallagher to transfer from West Virginia
Former Laurel Highlands star Rodney Gallagher is hitting the transfer portal. The 5-foot-10, 180-pound receiver played three seasons for West Virginia, totaling 64 catches for 605 yards and three touchdowns. This past season, he caught 28 balls for 243 yards. The versatile Gallagher also rushed 45 times for 221 yards...
