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Quaker Valley swimmers hitting peak as WPIAL meet approaches
The Quaker Valley girls swim team opened the 2021-22 season with a nonsection loss at Northgate. Since then, the Quakers won six of seven meets to go to 6-2 overall. “The season has gone well and we are happy with where the teams are at right now,” coach John Nemeth...
Quaker Valley hockey rebounds from 3-game skid, looks forward to postseason
Quaker Valley’s hockey team stopped the bleeding. The Quakers ended a three-game losing streak by winning three of its last four games in January, skating past Wheeling Catholic, 9-3, Blackhawk, 4-1, and Chartiers Valley, 4-3, in a shootout. QV improved to 10-4 to maintain its firm grip on first place...
WPIAL bracketology: Chris Harlan, Don Rebel forecast 2021-22 girls basketball pairings
The February Frenzy is about to heat up as WPIAL basketball teams hop on the Path to the Pete. The real WPIAL playoff pairings will be revealed at 5 p.m. Monday on TribLive HSSN. However, while we wait, here’s a look at how HSSN’s Don Rebel and Chris Harlan would...
WPIAL bracketology: Chris Harlan, Don Rebel forecast 2021-22 boys basketball pairings
The February Frenzy is about to heat up as WPIAL basketball teams hop on the Path to the Pete. The real WPIAL playoff pairings will be revealed at 5 p.m. Monday on TribLive HSSN. However, while we wait, here’s a look at how HSSN’s Don Rebel and Chris Harlan would...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 12, 2022
High schools Basketball WPIAL Boys Saturday’s results Class 2A Section 1 South Side 55, Sewickley Academy 47 Section 3 Greensburg Central Catholic 75, Jeannette 36 Class A Section 3 Imani Christian 65, Propel Andrew Street 33 Nonsection Bethel Park 79, St. Joseph 58 Central Catholic 44, Baldwin 38 Laurel 77,...
High school roundup for Feb. 12, 2022: New Castle tunes up with win over Lincoln Park
Mike Wells scored 26 points as Class 5A No. 2 New Castle tuned up for the playoffs with a 59-55 nonsection boys basketball victory over Class 4A contender Lincoln Park at the Coaches vs. Cancer Shootout at Geneva College on Saturday. Isaiah Boice added 20 points for New Castle (19-1)....
Westmoreland H.S. athletes of the week: Hempfield’s Sean Gordon, GCC’s Mya Morgan
Sean Gordon School: Hempfield Sport: Basketball Year: Senior Claim to fame: Gordon, who is averaging 18.4 points and 7.5 rebounds this season, scored 17 points to lead Hempfield (7-13, 4-6) to a 50-42 win over Penn-Trafford in Section 3-6A action on Feb. 8. Gordon led Hempfield with 15 points in...
Greensburg Central Catholic boys bounce back, clinch section title with rout of Jeannette
The Greensburg Central Catholic boys basketball team had its 20-game home winning streak end Friday night in a loss to Serra Catholic. It was the No. 2-ranked Centurions’ second defeat in three games. One way to make it all better and end the late-season slip? Blow out your rival on...
Trib HSSN WPIAL girls basketball rankings: Week ending Feb. 13, 2022
Class 6A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. North Allegheny, 19-1, 2 2. Mt. Lebanon, 20-1, 1 3. Upper St. Clair, 17-4, 3 4. Norwin, 15-5, 4 5. Bethel Park, 10-9, NR Out: Peters Township (11-10, 5) Class 5A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. Chartiers Valley, 19-1, 1 2. South Fayette,...
Baldwin freshman Abby Rexrode captures WPIAL gymnastics all-around gold
Abby Rexrode was competing in her first WPIAL individual gymnastics championships Saturday afternoon. The Baldwin freshman had the poise of a veteran competitor, winning the all-around title for the Diamond division. “It feels great because I didn’t know that I could do this as a freshman,” Rexrode said. “I just...
Trib HSSN WPIAL boys basketball rankings: Week ending Feb. 13, 2022
Class 6A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. North Hills, 21-0, 1 2. Fox Chapel, 20-1, 2 3. Central Catholic, 17-5, 3 4. Mt. Lebanon, 13-8, NR 5. Upper St. Clair, 14-6, 4 Out: North Allegheny (14-8, 5) Class 5A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. Laurel Highlands, 20-0, 1 2. New...
A-K Valley athletes of the week: Burrell’s Riley Sterlitz, Fox Chapel’s Eli Yofan
Riley Sterlitz Class: Junior School: Burrell Sport: Basketball Report card: Sterlitz helped Burrell close the season strong with three section wins in one week. She had a team-high 23 points to help Burrell upend Derry, 51-43, on Monday and 11 points in a 60-16 win over Valley on Wednesday. The...
Westmoreland high school notebook: Ligonier Valley’s Hollick brings hockey sensibility
Jake Hollick is one of the top senior basketball players at Ligonier Valley this season. He is known for playing with a little bit of an edge. Well, there’s an explanation for that. Hollick also is a talented hockey player. But because Ligonier Valley does not have a team, he...
Latrobe bows out of PIAA team wrestling championship with loss to Williamsport
HERSHEY — The Latrobe wrestling team learned a valuable lesson Saturday: Sometimes things just don’t go your way. That’s what happened to the Wildcats on Saturday against Williamsport in the consolation semifinals of the PIAA Class 3A team wrestling championship at Giant Center. The Millionaires were able to get favorable...
PIAA Team Wrestling Championship: Resilient Waynesburg bounces back to take 3rd
HERSHEY – For what the Waynesburg wrestling team has gone through this season — an unexpected coaching change and having two quality wrestlers sidelined — finishing third in the PIAA Class 3A Team Wrestling Championship was quite an accomplishment. Despite winning only six of 13 bouts, Waynesburg was able to...
Aquinas Academy girls eye next step after defending section title
The Aquinas Academy girls basketball team is hitting stride at just the right time. Having overcome numerous early-season injuries, a flu bug and a five-day covid shutdown that wiped out three games, the Crusaders are pointing toward another deep WPIAL Class A playoff run. “Everyone is back and healthy and...
Led by high-scoring Vinnie Cugini, Aquinas Academy having historic season
Aquinas Academy’s boys basketball team has emerged on the WPIAL radar this season. Led by the prolific scoring of 6-foot-2 junior guard Vinnie Cugini, the Crusaders are one of the top teams in Class A. After jumping out to a 6-0 start that included winning their own tip-off tournament championship,...
Plum athletes off to strong start during indoor track season
Plum cross country and track and field coach Stephanie Kennedy is optimistic as she looks ahead to the outdoor track season. Those positive feelings, she said, have their genesis in the work a number of Mustangs athletes have put in this winter in advance of moving outdoors early next month....
Soccer rivalry between Norwin, Penn-Trafford takes hit in realignment
A longtime soccer rivalry was sideswiped by the new enrollment numbers for the PIAA’s next two-year cycle. The ramifications will be felt from Turner Valley to the Bushy Run Soccer Complex. Norwin and Penn-Trafford have been playing in the same section since the 1990s, but the girls and boys teams...
Neighborhood Academy, Shady Side Academy team up in volleyball
After a successful co-operative experience in football this past fall, Shady Side Academy and The Neighborhood Academy will now pursue a partnership in girls volleyball. The WPIAL and the PIAA both gave the OK recently for the schools to combine forces starting this with this fall’s schedule. Shady Side has...
Fox Chapel’s Zach Skrinjar, Eli Yofan hits major milestones
Early February turned into a time for milestones with the Fox Chapel boys basketball team. Coach Zach Skrinjar reached the 200-victory mark in just his 13th season with the Foxes and Eli Yofan became the school’s all-time career scorer. Skrinjar hit the mark on Feb. 1 when the Foxes visited...
Norwin notebook: Swimmer gets in on ground floor at Southern Indiana
Norwin senior Joey Testa moved from Katy, Texas, where she was a standout for Katy Aquatics in the AAA Junior Olympics. She still holds records there. But she earned her college scholarship as a Norwin Knight. Testa, who moved to the area in eighth grade, recently signed to swim at...
Franklin Regional standout Caden Smith seeking college football fit
Franklin Regional standout senior Caden Smith, a terrific three-sport athlete, wants to play football in college. Many consider him a Division I prospect, and some schools have inquired. But the 6-foot-4 wide receiver and safety doesn’t have any offers — yet. He was hoping to commit by national signing day,...
Franklin Regional motivated to make Penguins Cup run
When the Franklin Regional hockey team plays a game, the Panthers do so with a chip on their shoulder. The 2021 Panthers reached the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League Penguins Cup championship game in Class 2A, but lost to Baldwin. “Every time we play a game, we talk about that game,”...
Moon gymnasts capture 7th WPIAL title
The Moon gymnastics team retook its place atop the WPIAL podium Friday night, capturing a seventh district title by edging Baldwin. The host Tigers also won WPIAL titles in 2008, ‘12, ‘13, ‘14, ‘17 and ‘18. Moon finished the regular season 6-0 and claimed the Section 2 title. Thomas Jefferson...
