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Matchups set for PIAA boys basketball quarterfinals
The few games that made up the first round of the 2021 PIAA boys basketball playoffs are complete, putting teams where they were last year when the state postseason was first suspended, then later canceled because of the global pandemic. So the district champion-only shorter version of the PIAA playoffs...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for March 17, 2021
High schools Basketball Boys PIAA playoffs First round Class 3A Wednesday’s results Lancaster Catholic 50, Taylor Riverside 47 Class 2A Wednesday’s results Bristol 40, Williams Valley 36 Old Forge 59, Wyalusing 52 Karns City 72, Conemaugh Township 46 Girls PIAA playoffs First round Class 4A Wednesday’s results Gwynned Mercy 39,...
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball State Rankings for March 17, 2021
With the district playoffs in the rearview mirror and the state playoffs underway with select first-round games, it’s time to shuffle the deck before the PIAA quarterfinals. Or in this case, shuffle the top 5 in the HSSN boys basketball state rankings. With some teams losing in the district playoffs...
Trib 10: WPIAL finals shuffle up power rankings
WPIAL championship game results forced a shuffling of the deck in the first post-district playoff edition of the Trib 10. Belle Vernon had been No. 1 on the boys side, but a semifinals loss dropped them out of the power rankings. Trinity has been on top of the girls since...
Jeannette opens girls basketball coaching position
Jeannette is taking its girls basketball program in a new direction. The district opened the coaching position held for the last three seasons by Jonathan Bass after the Jayhawks finished 0-19 this season. The team was 0-6 in section play but opted to enter the WPIAL open playoff tournament and...
Dan DeRose makes ‘tough decision,’ resigns as North Allegheny boys basketball coach
Calling it “a very tough decision,” Dan DeRose resigned Wednesday night after one season as boys basketball coach at North Allegheny. “I really need to step back and evaluate some things,” he said, “because I’m going through some personal and some family issues that I need to deal with.” DeRose...
6 WPIAL wrestlers headline state team for Pittsburgh Wrestling Classic
The Pennsylvania and WPIAL teams were announced for the Pittsburgh Wrestling Classic and six WPIAL wrestlers were named to the state team. The Classic will be April 2 at the Hilton Garden Inn at Southpointe. The WPIAL team will face the Maryland All-Stars at 4 p.m. and the Pennsylvania team...
Covid-19 concerns won’t keep Upper St. Clair boys out of PIAA basketball playoffs
Upper St. Clair’s boys basketball team has at least six healthy players, so the Panthers will compete Saturday in the PIAA playoffs as scheduled. The school was awaiting results from team-wide covid-19 tests after a case was discovered Sunday, two days after Upper St. Clair won the WPIAL Class 6A...
Mt. Pleasant softball team honors late State Rep. Mike Reese by wearing his numberVideo
You could not tell the players apart by their roster numbers, but you could tell they were playing collectively for a common purpose. Everyone wore No. 12 for the Mt. Pleasant softball team on a sunny Wednesday afternoon when the Lady Vikings hosted Laurel Highlands for a scrimmage. The team...
Fox Chapel’s Shao ready to defend 100 fly title at state meet
One title defense down, one to go. Two weeks after Fox Chapel sophomore Sophie Shao captured her second WPIAL Class AAA girls 100-yard butterfly championship in as many attempts, she will go after her second PIAA gold medal in the event Saturday as the state championships descend on Cumberland Valley...
Southmoreland’s Miller eager for crack at state swimming gold
Henry Miller and his father were about 10 minutes away from Bucknell University’s Kinney Natatorium last year when they got the call that the PIAA, out of growing concern with what would become the covid pandemic, canceled the two-day Class AA swimming and diving championships. “At first, we were like,...
Latrobe athletic director to retire, will continue role as wrestling coachVideo
Mark Mears’ days as an administrator at Latrobe are nearing an end, but not his involvement with the district’s wrestling program. The school board this week accepted Mears’ retirement as the district’s athletic director, a post he has held for about 11 years. The resignation will take effect Aug. 6....
High school scores, summaries and schedules for March 16, 2021
High schools Basketball Boys PIAA playoffs First round Class 4A Tuesday’s results Danville 51, Scranton Prep 49 Allentown Central Catholic 43, Pope John Paul II 40 Class 3A Wednesday’s schedule Riverside (19-2) at Lancaster Catholic (18-4), 7 p.m. Class 2A Wednesday’s schedule Bristol (5-7) at Williams Valley, 7 p.m. Old...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on March 16, 2021: WPIAL champs learn who they’ll play
With the district basketball championships now history, our attention turns from the WPIAL postseason to the PIAA playoffs. The newly crowned 12 WPIAL boys and girls champs won’t enter the PIAA playoffs until the quarterfinals on Friday and Saturday. Meanwhile, the first-round state playoff games conclude Wednesday. Here are the...
Trib HSSN Girls Basketball State Rankings for March 16, 2021
With 11 of the 12 district playoffs complete, the attention turns to the champion-only PIAA state brackets. Select first-round games were scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday with the quarterfinals taking place this weekend. Major changes to the Trib HSSN girls basketball state rankings took place in Class 3A and 2A...
Belle Vernon freshman Quinton Martin gets 2 more Power-5 offersVideo
Quinton Martin had his share of exciting slam dunks this season for the Belle Vernon boys basketball team. He even had a few alley-oops from junior point guard Devin Whitlock. But that is only one of the sports in which Martin makes big plays. Only a freshman, he could be...
Upper St. Clair basketball coach Danny Holzer talks WPIAL titles, his successful career, son’s hockey exploits
It was a great week of sports for the Holzer household. Thomas Jefferson’s hockey team, sparked by senior forward Riley Holzer’s two goals, beat Baldwin, 3-1, on March 9 to climb into a tie for first place in the PIHL Class AA Southwest Division. Two days later, the Jaguars skated...
Trib HSSN Wrestling Team of the Week for March 16, 2021: Waynesburg
No team in the WPIAL had a better showing at the PIAA Class AAA tournament this weekend than Waynesburg. The Raiders had five wrestlers reach the finals, which is the second most in program history.They had seven wrestlers reach the finals in 1943 and came away with four champions. On...
Trib HSSN Wrestler of the Week for March 16, 2021: Briar Priest, Hempfield
After not placing at WPIALs a year ago, Hempfield 132-pounder Briar Priest made a run he never will forget as he won the first PIAA Class AAA title of his career over the weekend. He capped his junior season with a 34-5 record — identical to his record last year...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for March 15, 2021
High schools Basketball Boys WPIAL playoffs Class 4A Finals Monday’s results Lincoln Park 66, North Catholic 57 Class 3A Finals Monday’s results Ellwood City 53, South Allegheny 50 PIAA playoffs First round Class 4A Tuesday’s schedule Danville (16-1) at Scranton Prep (12-5), 7 p.m. Pope John Paul II (11-6) at...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for March 16, 2021: State playoffs tip off
With the WPIAL basketball championships in the books, the focus turns from the district postseason to the state playoffs. While the freshly golden minted 12 WPIAL boys and girls champs won’t enter the PIAA playoffs until the quarterfinals on Friday and Saturday this week, the state playoffs begin with first-round...
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Team of the Week for March 15, 2021
History was made when Our Lady of the Sacred Heart defeated Greensburg Central Catholic on Saturday to win the 2021 WPIAL Class 2A boys basketball championship with a perfect 21-0 record. The Chargers became one of the few WPIAL boys basketball teams in history to win a district crown with...
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Player of the Week for March 15, 2021
He plays basketball, not hockey, but Sheldon Cox scored a hat trick last week. The New Castle senior had another big game in leading the Red Hurricane to another WPIAL boys basketball championship. When Cox graduates from New Castle in a few months, he will take three gold medals from...
Chartiers Valley strikes back at Trinity, wins 3rd straight WPIAL title
Almost two months ago, the top-seeded Trinity Hillers did something no other team had done in almost three years. They beat the two-time defending WPIAL Class 5A champion Chartiers Valley Colts in a nonsection matchup and snapped their state-record 64-game winning streak in the process. “They beat us on Jan....
Lincoln Park tops North Catholic, avenges last season’s WPIAL championship loss
Dakari Bradford never forgot the emotions he saw in Lincoln Park’s locker room last winter, especially the sadness from the seniors playing their final WPIAL championship. “It was a heart-breaker,” he said. To keep that from happening again, the senior scored nine of his 19 points in the fourth quarter...
