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WPIAL boys basketball playoff clinchings for Jan. 25, 2022
We have less than three weeks remaining in section play in the WPIAL boys basketball regular season. This winter, the district returns to earning your ticket to ride on the Path to the Pete with no “open tournament” and the championships returning to the University of Pittsburgh’s Petersen Events Center...
High school roundup for Jan. 25, 2022: Quaker Valley’s Frank hits 1,000-point mark
Markus Frank scored 24 points, becoming the 14th boys basketball player in school history with 1,000 career points, to lead No. 1 Quaker Valley to a 71-33 Section 2-4A victory over Central Valley (5-5, 2-5) on Tuesday night. Adou Thiero, who became the 13th Quaker Valley (12-0, 9-0) player to...
Chartiers Valley scores comeback win over Baldwin
The Chartiers Valley boys basketball team’s nonsection game Tuesday at Baldwin was a lot like its season: a mistake-prone slow start followed by a slow comeback trot and then an all-out gallop to the finish line for the victory. The Colts fell behind early on the road but chipped away...
Franklin Regional boys claw past Woodland Hills for Section 3-5A basketball win
The grind makes the victory that much sweeter. That was what Franklin Regional coach Jesse Reed had to say after his team rallied — scratched and clawed was more like it — to finally brush past visiting Woodland Hills, 45-42, on Tuesday night in a Section 3-5A boys basketball game...
Highlands boys keep pace with crucial win over Hampton
Trailing first-place Mars by just a game in Section 4-5A, Highlands knows it needs every win to stay on the heels of the Planets. The Golden Rams kept pace Tuesday, emerging with a 69-53 victory at Hampton, where many visiting teams have had problems over the last 40 seasons. Junior...
Key matches at section tournaments could decide WPIAL team bracket
WPIAL wrestling committee chairman Frank Vulcano Jr. said he has a good idea who the top teams are this season. But will Wednesday’s section tournaments change his mind? A lot of possible key section matches in both classifications could change things. In Class AA, No. 2 Beth-Center and No. 3...
WPIAL wrestling notebook: Greensburg Salem’s McChesney wins heavyweight showdown
Greensburg Salem senior heavyweight Bill McChesney breezed to the title at the Burgettstown tournament on Saturday. McChesney had three pins under 32 seconds, the fastest coming in 16 seconds. He then defeated Washington senior Cam Carter-Green, 7-2, in the finals in a battle of the top heavyweights in the Trib...
WPIAL releases latest swimming and diving performance lists
Fox Chapel junior Sophie Shao, the defending WPIAL and PIAA Class 3A champion in the 100-yard butterfly, looks at her time in the event on the swimming performance list on the WPIAL website and sees who also is recording top times and making a charge up the rankings. Shao is...
Trib HSSN WPIAL individual wrestling rankings: Jan. 25, 2022
Class 3A 106: 1. Luke Willochell (Latrobe) 25-3; 2. Nico Fanella (Indiana) 16-0; 3. Ty Kapusta (Franklin Regional) 15-5; 4. Casey Walker (North Allegheny) 20-8; 5. Rylen Campbell (Plum) 19-4. 113: 1. Ty Chappell (Seneca Valley) 21-3; 2. Leo Joseph (Latrobe) 19-7; 3. Brandon Dami (Canon-McMillan) 11-4; 4. Evan Petrovich...
Trib HSSN team wrestling rankings: Jan. 25, 2022
Trib HSSN team wrestling rankings as of Jan. 25, 2021: With ranking, team name, record and previous week’s raking Class 3A 1. Waynesburg (10-0) 1 2. Latrobe (7-0) 2 3. Connellsville (14-0) 3 4. North Allegheny (4-0) NR 5. Canon-McMillan (8-2) 5 6. Kiski Area (11-3) 6 7. Franklin Regional...
Hempfield rifle team aims to defend WPIAL championship
Ping … ping … “Matt, keep that elbow in tight, bud! Where ya at?” With his first relay team of the day taking aim, Hempfield rifle coach Jason Wilkinson looks through a telescope at a magnified view of the targets as the hollow, pinging sound of the Anschutz 22 long-range...
Valley off to 2-1 start as swimmers gain valuable experience
Kim Johnson has watched her team progress every day. And now the results are starting to show. Johnson is in her third year as Valley’s swimming coach, and early success has hit a program that historically has had its share of struggles. “So far, we’re 2-1, which is super good...
With home pool closed, Highlands swimming performing at high level
There’s no place like home, as they say. But, to Highlands’ swimming team, right now, there simply is no home. A major challenge hit the Highlands program this year, one that drastically altered the way the team prepares and competes. The school’s pool began leaking and could cost up to...
Moon’s Mia Cochran repeats as Pa. Gatorade girls cross country award winner
Moon’s Mia Cochran has defended yet another cross country title. The senior repeated as Pennsylvania Gatorade Girls Cross Country Player of the Year on Monday, recognition for winning the PIAA Class 3A title last fall for the third year in a row. The 5-foot-7 Arkansas recruit also won the WPIAL...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Jan. 24, 2022
High schools Basketball Boys Monday’s results Class 5A Section 1 Laurel Highlands 81, West Mifflin 50 Class 4A Section 2 Hopewell at Lincoln Park, ppd. Class A Section 3 Leechburg at Aquinas Academy, ppd. Nonsection Our Lady of the Sacred Heart 84, Avonworth 47 Fox Chapel 69, Bishop Canevin 57...
With heavy hearts, OLSH ties WPIAL record for longest winning streakVideo
As Our Lady of the Sacred Heart made WPIAL history Monday night, the boys basketball team wasn’t focused on what it was playing for, but rather who. Jake DiMichele scored 31 points, Dawson Summers had a triple-double and the Chargers tied for the longest winning streak in WPIAL history —...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Jan. 25, 2022: Top 4 teams square off in Section 4-5A
Mars is the only boys basketball team in Section 4-5A to have already clinched a WPIAL playoff berth, but it might be only a matter of time before Highlands, Shaler and Hampton soon follow. Those top four teams in Section 4 have built a 2½-game gap between themselves and the...
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Player of the Week for Jan. 24, 2022
Adou Thiero is in his fourth season playing a key role for a Quaker Valley boys basketball team that is undefeated this season and has come so close to WPIAL gold in his first few high school years. But to be Frank, Thiero isn’t alone in being driven this season...
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Team of the Week for Jan. 24, 2022
Jeff Ackermann knows a thing or two about winning basketball. He led Moon to three straight WPIAL boys basketball championships from 2004-2006. He then took over the Pine-Richland program and led the Rams to back-to-back district gold in 2016-2017. Now he is in his second season at Baldwin. After the...
WPIAL girls basketball playoff clinchings as of Jan. 24, 2022
We have less than three weeks remaining in section play in the WPIAL girls basketball regular season. This winter, the district returns to earning a ticket to ride on the Path to the Pete with no “open tournament” and the championships returning to the University of Pittsburgh’s Petersen Events Center,...
Jeannette makes plays down stretch to stave off Greensburg Salem rally
Greensburg Salem was coming back furiously late in the third quarter. A 22-point lead for Jeannette was dwindling — fast — as the Golden Lions scored 18 straight points to close the gap considerably. Did Jeannette coach Adrian Batts call timeout during the run? “No, but maybe I should have...
High school roundup for Jan. 24, 2022: Neshannock’s Luann Grybowski joins exclusive 700-win club
With a 64-17 victory over Sewickley Academy on Monday night, the Neshannock girls basketball team helped coach Luann Grybowski gain entry to an exclusive club. Grybowski became the third WPIAL girls basketball coach to amass 700 career wins, joining North Catholic’s Don Barth and Mt. Alvernia’s De Porucznik. “I joined...
Deer Lakes’ Hasley hits 1,000 points on game-winning shot vs. Freeport
Reese Hasley’s 1,000th career point Monday night against rival Freeport was quite dramatic. The Deer Lakes senior guard delivered a jumper from about the foul line with 6 seconds to go, and the bucket broke a tie and sent the Lancers to a key 39-37 home victory over the Yellowjackets....
Penn-Trafford’s Balest, Latrobe’s Gatto lead their teams to WCCA bowling titles
The Westmoreland County Coaches’ Association held its first bowling championship Monday, and it was met with joy. The WCCA recently put together the championship, which was held at Lincoln Lanes in Latrobe. Penn-Trafford junior Alyssa Balest took home the girls individual honor, and Latrobe senior James Gatto grabbed the boys...
Mt. Lebanon’s Alex Tecza commits to Navy football, joining Blue Devils teammate
Mt. Lebanon’s Alex Tecza has played football with teammate Eli Heidenreich for as long as he can remember. As it turns out, high school graduation won’t break their bond. Tecza committed to play football for Navy on Friday, five months after Heidenreich also committed to the Midshipmen. However, their lifelong...
