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The Greensburg Central Catholic boys basketball team didn’t play a home game in 2020. Because of covid cancellations and schedule-shuffling, the Centurions had to wait until Jan. 8 last season, after the calendar flipped to 2021, to play on their home floor. Now the team is letting out a collective...

Once you reach the one-month mark of the WPIAL basketball regular season, the “battle of unbeaten” matchups become rare. However, two Section 2-4A teams who are a combined 13-0 collide on the first “Frayday” of 2022. First place will be up for grabs when Montour (7-0) hosts Quaker Valley (6-0)....

Leechburg had hoped to augment its hot 7-0 start with a victory in the Section 3-A opener at Imani Christian on Tuesday. Instead, the Saints used a combination of rebounding and a stingy defense to hand the Blue Devils boys their first loss of the season, 65-44. Leechburg had entered...

A pair of WPIAL girls soccer standouts and Pittsburgh Riverhounds Academy players were selected to play in a national showcase. Franklin Regional senior Sydney Lindeman and Pine-Richland junior Ava Boyd made the cut for the Elite Clubs National League Florida National Selection Games, set for 6 p.m. Saturday at Premier...

Weeks after leading Our Lady of the Sacred Heart to the WPIAL finals, Dan Bradley resigned as Chargers football coach after six seasons. His teams went 49-19, reached the playoffs every year and won a WPIAL title in 2018. “To be honest, I feel like I was pretty lucky to...

Greensburg Salem’s Golden Lions will compete against teams from schools with smaller enrollments beginning next fall, a move down that school officials say should be a good one for district athletics. Greensburg Salem will drop from Class 4A to 3A in football, Class 6A to 4A in boys basketball and...

High schools WPIAL Basketball Boys Wednesday’s results Clsss 2A Section 2 Carlynton 48, Northgate 44 Class A Section 2 Geibel 81, Avella 46 Nonsection Armstrong 52, Perry Traditional Academy 35 Latrobe 79, Connellsville 61 Ligonier Valley 69, Southmoreland 47 Ringgold 61, South Park 41 Carmichaels 72, West Greene 41 Waynesburg...

Nathan Monteparte (132) and Jayson Flener (138) recorded clutch pins and Krist Vizcarra (145) took a critical decision in the final three bouts of the night to lead North Allegheny to a 34-33 victory over Pine-Richland in Section 3B-3A wrestling Wednesday night. The match ended up tied 33-33. The Tigers...

Greg Perry resigned as football coach at his alma mater Keystone Oaks, citing a union contract decision that reduced money available for his assistant coaches. Perry went 45-34 in eight seasons. “I quit because in the spring, the school board and the (Keystone Oaks Education Association) decided on a contract...

Latrobe junior Nate Roth has been waiting for this day since the season began. It didn’t matter who his opponent was going to be. He just wanted to compete after recovering from a second surgery on his right shoulder. Beating reigning PIAA Class AAA 132-pound champion and rival Briar Priest...

It was a girls game played on night when the spotlight shined on the top boys basketball action in the WPIAL. But Greensburg Salem at Southmoreland still lived up to its billing Tuesday. There weren’t a lot of points, possessions were precious and defense was the order of the day...

With two regular starters out of the lineup Monday for a Section 1-4A matchup against Burrell, Ava Soilis set out to lift up her youthful Freeport teammates. The junior guard, a second-year starter for the Yellowjackets and currently the team’s leading scorer, came through with a career-best 26 points and...

So far, there has been a full Moon in the sky over Class 5A in WPIAL girls basketball. The Tigers are a perfect 9-0 and tied for the top spot in Section 1-5A with three-time defending champion Chartiers Valley. Emma Theodorsson led Moon with 20 points on Monday in a...

We allowed three weeks for teams to flex their muscles at the start of the 2022 season. Now it’s time to see which teams are showing off the most early season power. The weekly Trib 10 power rankings slot the elite teams from around WPIAL boys and girls basketball. With...

For Southmoreland, it’s not as much about the loss as it is what happens after it. The Scotties, who were ranked No. 1 in WPIAL Class 4A, were upset Monday at Belle Vernon, 52-40. Belle Vernon (6-2) is no slouch. Everything went the Leopards’ way, and they seemingly couldn’t miss...

Derry is on the verge of hiring a new football coach. According to the agenda for its Thursday meeting, the district will recommend Mike Arone to take over the program. Arone is an associate principal at Derry Area High School. He was an assistant coach for 20 years at Homer-Center....

Wednesday is another busy night of dual meets in WPIAL team wrestling with over 30 sub-section matches scheduled. With only a couple of weeks left in the team regular season, positioning in the sub-sections becomes more important. There are four matches that will affect the top of these sub-sections: •...

The first Trib HSSN state girls basketball rankings are out for the 2021-22 season. The WPIAL leads all districts with eight ranked teams, including North Allegheny at No. 1 in 6A. District 3 begins the new season with five ranked teams, followed by District 4 with four. Districts 6 and...

After letting the new basketball season simmer for a couple of weeks, it is time to debut the first Trib HSSN boys basketball state rankings for the 2021-2022 season. Of the six defending PIAA champions, five start this season in the top five: Reading (6A), Cathedral Prep (5A), Allentown Central...

High schools WPIAL Basketball Boys Tuesday’s results Class 6A Section 1 Butler 84, North Allegheny 78 North Hills 78, Pine-Richland 74 Section 2 Bethel Park 54, Peters Township 44 Mt. Lebanon 55, Canon-McMillan 51 Upper St. Clair 65, Baldwin 39 Section 3 Fox Chapel 89, Greensburg Salem 22 Hempfield 77,...

Jake DiMichele hit five 3-pointers, scored 29 points and reached the 2,000-point mark for his career to lead Our Lady of the Sacred Heart to a 78-38 boys basketball victory over South Side in Section 1-2A Tuesday night. Bryson Kirschner scored 14 points and Dawson Summers had 12 points for...

On two previous occasions this season, Hempfield scored 77 points — and lost. The Spartans are playing an exciting brand of basketball with kickout 3-pointers, quick passes and transition layups, but they haven’t been getting the results they’ve wanted. They had seen enough Tuesday night in the Section 3-6A opener....

Imani Christian was down to seven players in uniform Tuesday night because of an injury and non-covid illnesses. But seven was enough as the Saints controlled the boards and rolled past Leechburg, 65-44, in the Section 3-A opener for both teams. Alier Maluk, a 6-foot-10 freshman, scored 24 points and...

Since the Westmoreland County Coaches’ Association wrestling tournament began in 1954, only 57 wrestlers have won three titles. Eleven of those were four-time champions. Hempfield senior Briar Priest has a chance join that list this weekend at Kiski Area, the host school of the 69th annual tournament. Priest was a...

TribHSSN Wrestling Rankings as of Jan. 4 Team Class AAA 1. Waynesburg (0-0) 2. Latrobe (2-0) 3. Connellsville (7-0) 4. West Allegheny (6-1) 5. Canon-McMillan (2-0) 6. Kiski Area (6-1) 7. Franklin Regional (2-0) 8. Hempfield (2-0) 9. Penn-Trafford (1-0) 10. Butler (2-0) Others to watch: Bethel Park (4-2), Trinity...