High School category, Page 881
Carlynton bowling revels in successful season
Daniel Kuhn just completed his fourth season as Carlynton boys and girls bowling coach. Color him very pleased with how the season played out for both of his Cougars teams this season. “When you expect great things, they tend to happen,” Kuhn said. “Greatness, both physically bowling and the emotional...
Defense carries Penn-Trafford boys to 1st playoff win in 20 years
When Doug Kelly was hired as the boys basketball coach at Penn-Trafford, one thing he and his staff focused on was team defense. It was a big reason why the team won its first playoff game in 20 years. The Warriors defeated North Hills, 63-50, in a WPIAL Class 6A...
Franklin Regional notebook: Dibert, Solomon have state title aspirations
Franklin Regional senior Carter Dibert captured his second Class AAA WPIAL/PIAA Southwest Regional title on Feb. 27, but the Arizona State recruit wants another PIAA title. Junior Finn Solomon was denied his WPIAL title, but he too wants the bigger prize. Dibert used an escape, takedown and a three-point near...
Franklin Regional team manager Ben Kimmich is ‘life of the team’Video
Ben Kimmich smiles as the basketball comes to him in the Franklin Regional lay-up line. He takes the ball, dribbles a couple of times, hop-steps and banks in a two-handed shot that he shoves into the air with a grunt, before jogging back to the end of the line. Varsity...
Fox Chapel freshman makes mark at WPIAL championships
Whether it was a sprint or a more measured pace, Zachary Zornan-Ferguson was able to shine in his WPIAL swimming championship debut Sunday at Upper St. Clair High School. The Fox Chapel freshman recorded a pair of second-place finishes in opposite events: the 50-yard freestyle and 500 free. He first...
High school scores, summaries and schedule for March 6, 2021
High schools Basketball Boys City League Saturday’s result Brashear 50, Obama Academy 38 WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Semifinals Tuesday’s schedule Upper St. Clair (17-1) vs. Butler (12-8), 6 p.m.; Pine-Richland (12-5) at Fox Chapel (18-2), 6 p.m. Class 5A Quarterfinals Saturday’s results Chartiers Valley 53, Gateway 47 Laurel Highlands 48,...
Hampton boys win school’s first WPIAL team swimming title in 22 years
Everyone knew what to expect from Belle Vernon senior Ian Shahan coming into the WPIAL Class AA swimming championships Saturday. After all, he had previously won five gold medals in his high school career. But the fact that Hampton won the team title, something the Talbots hadn’t done since the...
Belle Vernon’s Shahan claims 2 more WPIAL individual championshipsVideo
Ian Shahan found himself in seventh heaven at Saturday’s WPIAL Class AA swimming championships at Upper St. Clair High School. The Belle Vernon senior and Army commit captured his sixth and seventh individual titles: the 50-yard freestyle and 100 butterfly. He joined Southmoreland sophomore Henry Miller (100 breaststroke) and the...
Mt. Pleasant’s Pitzer pins his way to Class AA West Super Regional title
Over the past three weeks, Mt. Pleasant 215-pounder Dayton Pitzer has been dominating, and that continued Saturday at the PIAA Class AA West Super Regional tournament. Pitzer extended his pin streak to 13 in contested matches by pinning all three of his opponents at IUP’s Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex...
5 WPIAL wrestlers headed to Hershey with Class AA Super Regional titles
AJ Corrado did something Saturday at IUP’s Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex no other Burrell wrestler has done. He also hopes he is the only one to do it. With a 3-2 ultimate tiebreaker decision over Johnsonburg’s Cole Casilio in the PIAA Class AA West Super Regional 160-pound championship, Corrado...
Freeport’s Schrecongost sets school record at WPIAL championshipsVideo
Alexis Schrecongost finished third in the WPIAL Class AA 100-yard breaststroke as a freshman and placed fourth last season. She battled both years but fell just short against the likes of graduates Heather Gardner from Mt. Pleasant, Rachel Blackburn from Highlands and Harley Kessler from Indiana. The Freeport junior didn’t...
WPIAL wrestlers acquit themselves well at Class AAA Super Regional
ALTOONA — Franklin Regional junior Finn Solomon and Hempfield senior heavyweight Isaiah Vance made statements Saturday at the PIAA West Super Regional at Altoona High School Field House. Solomon had a dominating 12-1 victory against Waynesburg junior Cole Homet in the 138-pound final. Vance was equally impressive with a 7-2...
Mars scores 24 consecutive points in WPIAL 5A quarterfinal win over Trinity
Zac Schlegel and his Mars teammates were reluctant to see the second quarter clock reach zeroes Saturday. Those eight minutes went by like a blur. “That was the funnest quarter I’ve ever played,” Schlegel said. “Everybody was hitting shots.” Everybody wearing white, at least. For Trinity, the second quarter surely...
Mt. Lebanon edges Bethel Park in Class 6A battle
Senior Morgan Palmer drained a key 3-pointer in overtime then connected on a free throw with 4.5 seconds remaining to give Mt. Lebanon a thrilling 59-58 overtime win over Bethel Park in the WPIAL Class 6A quarterfinals Saturday afternoon. The win for the Blue Devils avenged a semifinal loss to...
Big 2nd half allows Norwin girls to pull away from Butler
Halftime speeches and the adjustments that accompany them have helped many a WPIAL basketball team advance in the postseason. After a sluggish first half Saturday afternoon against Butler, Norwin had a heart-to-heart at the break and reversed course for another trip to the semifinals. In a flurry, the third-seeded Knights...
Greensburg Central Catholic boys advance to WPIAL semifinalsVideo
With some film to watch and more time to prepare, Greensburg Central Catholic installed a new defense for Sewickley Academy, a team that beat the Centurions in the last game of the regular season, for the rematch in the WPIAL playoffs. Maybe the result would be different, GCC figured, if...
High school roundup for March 6, 2021: Laurel Highlands, Chartiers Valley move on in 5A bracket
Rodney Gallagher scored 16 points as No. 3 Laurel Highlands overcame a slow start and defeated No. 6 Penn Hills, 48-41, in the WPIAL Class 5A quarterfinals Saturday afternoon. Brandon Davis added 13 points and Jayden Pratt had 12 points and nine rebounds for Laurel Highlands (13-3), which trailed by...
North Allegheny, Peters Township will host WPIAL basketball championships
North Allegheny and Peters Township, two of the area’s larger high school gyms, are expected to host all 12 WPIAL basketball championship games. The finals are March 12, 13 and 15. The WPIAL already revealed the schedule for the first two nights of championship games with two contests per day...
Surging Jeannette boys overwhelm Winchester Thurston in quarterfinals
Count Winchester Thurston boys basketball coach Justin Walther among the believers in surging Jeannette’s WPIAL title chances. “They’re loaded,” he said. “I think they’ve got a chance to win it all.” The Jayhawks won for the seventh time in a row Saturday at home in the Class 2A quarterfinals and...
Hempfield bowlers come through in the clutch, claim regional team title
The Hempfield boys bowling team won a Western Regional championship Saturday at the North Versailles Bowling Center, avenging a loss from last month and saving some of its best bowling for last. The Spartans defeated North Allegheny, 2-1, in the finals. Last month, North Allegheny defeated Hempfield in the semifinals...
Northgate wins 2nd WPIAL girls swimming championship in 3 years
Sparked by two second-place finishes in three relay races at Upper St. Clair High School, Northgate captured its second WPIAL Class 2A girls swimming championship in the past three years. The Flames, who won with a score of 254 points, were also team champions in 2019. Elizabeth Forward was crowned...
No. 2 New Castle holds off Latrobe to reach WPIAL semifinals for 11th straight season
New Castle took advantage of some cold Latrobe shooting early on Saturday and rolled to its 11 consecutive WPIAL boys basketball semifinals appearance. The No. 2-seeded Red Hurricanes provided a balanced scoring attack with all five starters tallying nine points or more in a 65-51 quarterfinal victory over the No....
George Guido: Plum baseball, softball fields getting turf upgrade
Plum High School baseball has certainly come a long way since the sport was played in the front yard of the school with outfielders running up a hill to catch a fly ball. The school is in the process of installing artificial turf on both the baseball and softball fields...
Norwin notebook: Bilinsky to be selected for Roundball Classic
The Roundball Classic is returning in full force this spring. Organizer Allen Deep said the all-star basketball event will be played May 13-15 at Geneva. Rosters are far from finished, but Deep knows one player he will invite to the event. He said Norwin senior guard Ty Bilinsky will be...
North Journal notebook: North Allegheny’s Coy wins WPIAL wrestling title
Dylan Coy can now call himself a WPIAL champion. The North Allegheny junior wrestler defeated one of the WPIAL’s top grapplers in the 120-pound championship match, edging Waynesburg’s Mac Church, 4-3, to claim the Class AAA title Feb. 27, at Canon-McMillan. He also scored a quarterfinal-round tech fall and a...
