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Lincoln Park saw a 15-point lead vanish Friday night, but that was all forgotten once senior LA Pratt made a clutch runner with five seconds left to lift the Leopards to a 51-49 victory over Montour in a battle of ranked teams. The Duquesne recruit was having a quiet night...

Mars senior Zach Schlegel remembers last season’s trip to Highlands that resulted in a 13-point loss that ended the Planets’ streak of eight consecutive section titles. The 5-foot-10 guard didn’t want a repeat. Schlegel scored 24 points — including 15 of 15 from the foul line — as Mars took...

Covid wreaked havoc with last year’s winter sports season, and the annual wrestling clash between Alle-Kiski Valley rivals Burrell and Kiski Area was one of the big events which fell victim to cancellation. But the match returned Friday night in front of a spirited crowd at Burrell High School. The...

If Plum hopes to challenge for the team title at the 20th annual Allegheny County Wrestling Championship, it has work to do Saturday. The Mustangs put themselves in position at least give it a run, sitting in third place after Day 1 of the tournament Friday at Fox Chapel. Plum...

North Hills sophomore Giavonie Schipani began his high school career with 21 consecutive wins. But the end of his freshman season didn’t go as planned, and he lost four of his final seven matches, which cost him a trip to the PIAA tournament. He finished 25-4. That disappointed has ignited...

If the weather forecasts are right, Saturday’s scholastic schedule will be the sweet calm before the storm. Two of the top girls basketball teams in Class 6A will square off against a pair of elite teams in 5A in two nonsection games slated for Saturday afternoon. Class 5A top-ranked Chartiers...

Ellwood City hired former OLSH football coach Dan Bradley on Thursday to fix a distressed program that hasn’t won a game in three seasons. The Wolverines have a 25-game losing streak. The school hopes the solution is hiring Bradley, who went 49-19 in six seasons at Our Lady of the...

How good is Section 1-6A in WPIAL boys basketball? The answer is very good. Through the first month of the season, North Hills has proven to be the top team, sitting on its first-place perch with a 5-0 section record and a perfect 10-0 overall mark. The fight for second...

High schools WPIAL Basketball Boys Thursday’s results Class 2A Section 2 Sto-Rox 70, Chartiers-Houston 35 Nonsection Imani Christian 68, Nazareth Prep 25 Friday’s schedule Class 6A Section 1 Butler at Seneca Valley, 7:30 p.m. North Allegheny at Pine-Richland, 7:30 p.m. Section 2 Bethel Park at Mt. Lebanon, 7:30 p.m. Peters...

Payton List had 25 points and surpassed the 1,000 mark for her career with a layup in the fourth quarter, leading Beaver (6-3, 3-1) to a 50-26 girls basketball victory over Quaker Valley (4-7, 2-4) in Section 2-4A win Thursday night. Avonworth 54, Steel Valley 29 – Rebecca Goetz hit...

The big Section 1-5A girls basketball showdown between undefeated Moon and three-time defending champion Chartiers Valley became a game of runs. Or, it turned into a game of droughts. The host Colts took over sole possession of first place with a 49-45 victory over the Tigers. The win came despite...

For Tim Burchett, it happened to be the right fit at the right time. Burchett was named head football coach at Knoch by the South Butler County School District earlier this week. A computer teacher at Knoch Middle School and a business teacher in the high school, Burchett, 33, has...

Derry girls basketball coach Gene Brisbane reached a career milestone Thursday night in the Trojans’ 44-41 victory at Burrell. He now has 400 career wins in 26 years of coaching female teams in basketball — 350 at the high school level. Brisbane, in his third season at Derry, coached the...

Two teams that would like to be in the group hoping to dethrone WPIAL Class 2A power Burrell collided Thursday in a nonsection match. And No. 2 Beth-Center showed No. 4 Mt. Pleasant why it is a serious contender. The Bulldogs used pins by Alston Csutoros (189 pounds), Josh Deems...

Greensburg Central Catholic sat a few starters midway through the first quarter Thursday night, but the move had nothing to do with their conduct or early play. “Rest,” GCC coach Chris Skatell said. “I wanted to get them some down time because I knew we were going to need them...

Part necessity, part rising talent, Latrobe is playing four freshmen this season. The Wildcats (3-7, 1-3 Section 3-5A) have a deep bench that includes ninth-grade guards John Wetzel and Max Butler and freshmen forwards Jack Hamaty and Alex Tatsch. “It’s been over the last two weeks I’d say where we...

Brock White Jr. knows what it is like to suit up for a football game at Dallas’ AT&T Stadium, nicknamed “Jerry World” after Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. The Highlands senior played in the Bret Cooper Junior Academic All-American Bowl as an eighth grader in late 2017. Now, four years...

The Latrobe basketball roster is like a map of Western Pennsylvania. There is always a Butler. But we’re not talking about a city or county, here. Instead, it’s a last name that seems to be branded into the scorebook — one that has become synonymous with the Wildcats’ program. This...

The PIAA on Thursday denied an initial appeal from Aliquippa, which wants to avoid a pending promotion to Class 5A football next season. But the appeal process isn’t over. Aliquippa superintendent Phillip Woods said the school district will appeal again, this time to the entire PIAA board of directors, which...

Kiski Area’s boys basketball team has not only exceeded last year’s win total, the Cavaliers have actually doubled it. New coach Corey Smith, a standout with the program from the early 2000s, has taken over as head coach and has his alma mater at 2-1 in Section 3-5A play and...

The MLK Day basketball showcase that recently called Woodland Hills home has shifted about 150 miles east, but this weekend’s event still has some WPIAL teams taking part. Former Woodland Hills athletic director Ron Coursey, now AD at Chambersburg, organized a three-day event at his new school and will welcome...

They are ranked No. 1 and No. 2 in the latest Trib HSSN girls basketball rankings in Class 5A. They are No. 2 and No. 3 in the latest HSSN girls hoops state rankings in 5A. Finally, they are No. 2 and No. 4 in the hot-off-the-presses latest weekly Trib...

The second power rankings of the 2022 basketball season are almost a carbon copy of the initial Trib 10 posted a week ago. That is called the elite of the WPIAL hardwood taking care of business. There was only one change in each of the boys and girls weekly Trib...

High schools WPIAL Basketball Boys Wednesday’s results Class 3A Section 4 Brownsville 51, Beth-Center 23 Nonsection Armstrong at Brashear, ppd. Carrick at South Park, ppd. Gateway 65, South Allegheny 53 Elizabeth Forward 68, Plum 63 Seneca Valley 66, Penn-Trafford 47 Southmoreland at Brownsville, ppd. Brentwood 68, South Side 48 St....

Olivia Lyscik had 24 points and Raegan Kadlecik scored 17 to lead Montour to a 60-33 Section 2-4A girls basketball victory over Quaker Valley on Wednesday night. Jordyn Wolfe added 12 for Montour (7-2, 3-1). Lauren Blackmer led Quaker Valley (4-6, 2-3) with 12 points. Albert Gallatin 52, Charleroi 35...