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Burrell freshman Cooper Hornack wins Southwest Regional wrestling title

A week after capturing his first WPIAL title, Burrell freshman Cooper Hornack left IUP’s Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex with his first PIAA Class AA Southwest Regional title. Hornack took the 106-pound weight class by beating fellow freshman Landon Bainey of West Branch in the second ultimate tiebreaker after an...
High school roundup for Feb. 27, 2021: McKeesport rolls into 1st round

Robert Robinson’s 22 points led No. 17 McKeesport to a 78-49 victory over No. 16 Hampton in a WPIAL Class 5A boys basketball preliminary round game Saturday afternoon. Kahrake Andrews and Travarese Rowe added 15 and 14 points, while teammate Brison Kisan scored 11 points for the Tigers (7-8). Matt...
1-point losses stop Kiski Area trio from claiming WPIAL wrestling titles

CANONSBURG — The best way for Kiski Area seniors Sammy Starr and Brayden Roscosky to look at what happened at the Class AAA WPIAL/PIAA Southwest Regional on Saturday at Canon-McMillan? There’s always next week. For junior Enzo Morlacci, there’s always next year. The trio of Cavaliers dropped one-point decisions. For...
Seneca Valley’s Chappell, Herrera-Rondon become 3-time WPIAL wrestling championsVideo

Coaches around the state talk about how tough the WPIAL is in wrestling. That was proven again Saturday at the Class AAA WPIAL/PIAA Southwest Regional at Canon-McMillan. There were a lot of great battles, a lot of physical matches. There was only one pin in the finals, and two wrestlers...
Fox Chapel’s Manelis, North Allegheny’s Shi repeat as WPIAL diving champs

The 2021 WPIAL Class AAA diving championships were full of repeats. For the second consecutive year, Fox Chapel senior David Manelis put forth a dominant performance to win the boys title, and the North Allegheny trio of Christina Shi, Maya Ennis and Zoey Ky finished 1-2-3 in the girls meet....
Franklin Regional boys rally in 4th quarter to defeat Armstrong

Franklin Regional scored three points in the third quarter and surrendered the lead for the first time to that point against visiting Armstrong. Some teams might have withered at the lack of offense and shift in momentum, especially in a playoff atmosphere. Not Franklin Regional. “We weren’t losing this game,...
Seton LaSalle girls take down Jeannette in opening round of WPIAL playoffs

It has been eight years since the Jeannette girls basketball team last won a WPIAL basketball playoff game. It took only eight minutes Saturday afternoon before the harsh reality set in that the Jayhawks postseason drought would continue. Junior Ava Dursi scored 22 points while senior teammate Emma Walsh chipped...
Moss scores 29, Plum boys hold off West Allegheny to advance in WPIAL playoffs

In what is likely to be their final home game, Plum’s Connor Moss and his fellow seniors came up big in the fourth quarter of Saturday’s WPIAL Class 5A preliminary-round playoff game. Moss scored 11 of his 29 points in the final quarter, and Plum went 9 of 10 from...
George Guido: Covid concerns force organizers to cancel 2021 Cager Classic all-star game

For the second straight season, the A-K Valley Cager Classic has been canceled. Organizers were hoping to get some of the area’s top basketball players on the hardwood, but covid concerns halted any hopes of them competing in what has become a local, postseason highlight for more than 20 years....
Central Valley claims 1st WPIAL gymnastics title

Central Valley’s gymnastics team made history Friday night by capturing the school’s first WPIAL gymnastics title. The Warriors scored 144.850 overall to edge host Moon (144.650) in the annual competition. Hopewell (142.675), two-time defending champion Thomas Jefferson (141.950), Baldwin (125.900) and Pine-Richland (122.175) rounded out the scoring. Central Valley finished...
Opponents try, and fail, to knock North Allegheny top scorer off his game

North Allegheny’s Connor Chi occasionally gets cross-checked behind the play or hit a little late by an opponent trying to intimidate him on the ice. At maybe 5-foot-8, Chi understands why. “It’s all good,” he said. “It’s part of the game.” Yet, so far this season, that strategy certainly hasn’t...
Hampton’s Murray siblings show drive to succeed

For years, Brennan and Meghan Murray have squared off at the basketball hoop in the driveway of their Hampton home. Older brother vs. little sister. “I’ve always been taller than her,” Brennan said, “but it was always competitive no matter what. We never go easy on each other, and we’re...
Diving no longer ‘secondary thing’ for Hampton’s Carslaw

When Koda Carslaw took up diving last season, he admits it was “more of a secondary thing.” Carslaw was, after all, a longtime gymnast and a qualifier in trampoline for the USA Gymnastics national championships in 2018 and ‘19. “One of my friends was like, ‘Hey, come dive with me,’...
Shady Side Academy boys beaming with confidence after big wins, playoff seeding

At the beginning of this season, no one expected the Shady Side Academy boys basketball team to be much of a threat. The Bulldogs only had three seniors and a few starters returning from last year, but they were also going to be very young. At times this season, they...
Fox Chapel basketball teams prepare to make run through WPIAL playoffs

When the WPIAL announced seedings for the girls and boys basketball tournaments Feb. 23, both Fox Chapel teams found themselves in unique positions. For the second straight year, the boys were awarded the No. 2 seed after putting together a record of 17-2 through 19 games. Their only two losses...
Pine-Richland hockey team riding prolific offense

With the volatility that comes with playing during a pandemic, Pine-Richland hockey coach Jordan Yoklic told his players to embrace each opportunity and not take it for granted. After all, the Rams were gearing up for a Class AAA semifinal with North Allegheny last year when the pandemic first hit...

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