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Stay-at-home directive suits Southmoreland girls just fine
Home-court advantage could play a much larger role than in past years when the WPIAL basketball playoffs get started Saturday. Most years, all games are played at neutral sites. The Southmoreland girls could be a beneficiary of a new rule that will allow higher-seeded teams to host tournament games through...
A-K Valley wrestling notebook: Three Kiski Area wrestlers nab No. 2 seeds for WPIALs
No wrestler from the Alle-Kiski Valley will enter the WPIAL Class AAA tournament as the No. 1 seed, but three Kiski Area Cavaliers will have the next-best thing at Canon-McMillan on Saturday. Enzo Morlacci (160), Sammy Starr (172) and Brayden Roscosky (189) earned No. 2 seeds. Both Starr and Morlacci...
Sisters team up — or in one case, square off — on A-K Valley hardwood
When Kalleigh Nerone took the court for her second varsity game Jan. 11, the freshman guard at Highlands found herself going up against a unique opponent. As the Golden Rams faced Section 1-4A rival Knoch, Nerone matched up for the first time with her step-sister, Knights sophomore standout Nina Shaw....
Westmoreland girls basketball notebook: Mt. Pleasant’s Tiffany Zelmore quietly emerges
As far as scorers go, Mt. Pleasant might have the best-kept secret in WPIAL Class 4A girls basketball. Sophomore Tiffany Zelmore has been on a scoring tear of late, with 35- and 30-point efforts in back-to-back wins. The 5-foot-10 forward had 35 in a 57-52 victory over South Allegheny, and...
Alle-Kiski Valley girls basketball notebook: Deer Lakes ready for Southmoreland
Deer Lakes last played a game Feb. 9 at North Hills. Shortly thereafter, the Lancers went on a covid pause, halting practices and games until they were able to return to the court earlier this week. Coach Dave Petruska said his players are excited to be back and have put...
Wrestling notebook: Ligonier Valley’s Harbert hoping to build off WPIAL performance
Ligonier Valley junior Ryan Harbert has had his share of struggles at the PIAA Class AA Southwest Regional wrestling tournament. He has a 1-4 record in two seasons and missed qualifying for the state tournament by one win. He hopes to change that trend this weekend. “The Southwest Regional is...
WPIAL releases entry lists for swimming championships
The WPIAL swimming psych sheets for the Class AA and Class AAA championship meets March 6-7 at Upper St. Clair High School have been released on WPIAL.org. The swimming committee met Wednesday morning to assemble the lists — the top 16 entries for individual events and top 12 for relays...
Greensburg Salem’s McChesney celebrates section title; more work awaits
It was a celebratory weekend for Greensburg Salem junior Billy McChesney. He picked up football scholarship offers from Penn and Lehigh, and he defeated Hempfield senior heavyweight Isaiah Vance for the first time in his wrestling career. McChesney used an escape and a takedown to build a 3-1 lead en...
Apollo-Ridge’s Logan Harmon searching for WPIAL title
Over the last four years, Apollo-Ridge senior Logan Harmon has been a catalyst for the Vikings football team, leading the group to its best season in school history. But for all his accomplishments on the gridiron, Harmon has been just as good on the wrestling mat. Apollo-Ridge doesn’t have a...
Trib HSSN WPIAL wrestling individual rankings for Feb. 24, 2021
Here’s a look at this week’s Trib HSSN individual wrestling rankings: Class AAA 106: 1. Tyler Chappell, Seneca Valley, so. (28-2); 2. Antonio Walker, Plum, fr. (20-1); 3. Giavonie Schipani, North Hills, fr. (23-2); 4. Ky Szewczyk, Waynesburg, fr. (19-5). 113: 1. Vinny Kilkeary, Latrobe, so. (18-1); 2. Troy Hohman,...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 23, 2021
High schools Basketball Tuesday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Section 2 Bethel Park 57, Canon-McMillan 49 Class 5A Section 1 West Mifflin at Connellsville, ppd. Section 3 Gateway 69, Kiski Area 32 Penn Hills 81, Woodland Hills 24 Section 4 Indiana at Mars, ppd. Class 4A Section 1 Knoch 69, Derry...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Feb. 24, 2021: Perennial powers meet in girls hoops
Thirty years ago, Penn Hills and North Allegheny were doing battle for supremacy in WPIAL Class AAAA girls basketball. The Indians defeated the Tigers, 68-49, to win their sixth consecutive district championship. Penn Hills would defeat North Allegheny again in the 1992 title game, 65-41, for a record seventh straight...
Trib HSSN Girls Basketball State Rankings for Feb. 23, 2021
After a few quiet weeks in a row, there were plenty of changes in this week’s Trib HSSN girls basketball state rankings. Six teams lost and fell from the fab five, including former No. 1 Central Dauphin in 6A, Mohawk and Taylor Riverside in 3A, Keystone and Windber in 2A...
High school roundup for Feb. 23, 2021: Fox Chapel boys win neighborhood squabble
Behind a 27-point performance from Eli Yofan, Fox Chapel extended its winning streak to 15 games with a 76-65 victory over Shady Side Academy in a nonsection matchup of top 3 seeds in the WPIAL boys basketball playoffs Tuesday night. JP Dockey added 20 points, eight assists and seven steals...
4 A-K Valley teams receive top 4 seeds for WPIAL basketball tournament
In a year like no other, every WPIAL basketball team had the opportunity to play in the postseason this year, and when the WPIAL announced the brackets on Tuesday, four teams from the Alle-Kiski Valley found themselves with top-four seeds in their respective classifications. For the second straight year, the...
GCC boys will travel; BV gets top seed in WPIAL postseason
While many higher-seeded teams in the WPIAL basketball playoffs will be playing at home, a rare luxury afforded to participants this season in response to the pandemic, Greensburg Central Catholic will have to take its show on the road. The Centurions’ boys team was awarded the No. 2 seed in...
Breaking down the 2021 WPIAL boys basketball playoffs
Here is a breakdown of the 2020-21 WPIAL boys basketball playoffs: Class 6A Favorite: Upper St. Clair has talent and depth but also experience, having reached the WPIAL semifinals and PIAA second round a year ago with much of the same lineup, led by Luke Gensler (13.7 ppg), David Pantelis...
Breaking down the 2021 WPIAL girls basketball playoffs
Here is a breakdown of the 2020-21 WPIAL girls basketball playoffs: Class 6A Favorite: Defending champion North Allegheny (18-1) was cruising along on a 30-game winning streak when it was clipped by Class 5A No. 1 Trinity, 59-56. Still, the Tigers remain the cream of the crop in the WPIAL’s...
In seeding basketball brackets, WPIAL asks: What have you done lately?
When it came time to seed the basketball playoff brackets, the WPIAL asked: What have you done lately? Teams that finished hot were rewarded. That made North Allegheny coach Dan DeRose wonder why his section played 12 games this winter if only the last four actually mattered. His Tigers clinched...
Yough pulls out of WPIAL girls basketball playoffs
Yough’s first trip to the WPIAL girls basketball playoffs since 2009-10 is over before it started. Covid-19 contact tracing showed the Cougars played a team last week that had a player test positive for the virus, so Yough, out of an abundance of caution, has withdrawn from the Class 4A...
Trib HSSN to unveil WPIAL basketball playoff pairings tonight
The largest field in the history of the WPIAL basketball playoffs provided quite a challenge for the district’s basketball committee members. Tonight on the TribLive High School Sports Network, 235 high school basketball teams will learn their path to the championships. The traditional WPIAL basketball pairings meeting that typically draws...
Trib HSSN Wrestler of the Week for Feb. 23, 2021: Ian Oswalt, Burrell
Ian Oswalt, a 138-pound senior, accomplished something only 31 wrestlers have as he won his fourth WPIAL title on Saturday with a 10-5 decision over Ligonier Valley’s Ryan Harbert in the championship match. Norwin’s Kurtis Phipps and Frazier’s Thayne Lawrence accomplished the feat last season, and Oswalt was one of...
Trib HSSN Wrestling Team of the Week for Feb. 23, 2021: Laurel Spartans
Sophomore Grant Mackay and senior Mitch Miles carried the Spartans this past weekend as they both brought home individual WPIAL and section titles. Along with Mackay (152) and Miles (285) winning section titles, Charles Krepp (138), Chase Tinstman (172) and Colin Bartley (113) all finished in second in their respective...
Controversial finish sees Butler defeat North Allegheny, avenge 2 earlier lossesVideo
North Allegheny ran undefeated through its boys basketball section twice, but this winter’s quirky schedule included a third time through, much to NA’s dismay. Butler became the latest opponent to exact revenge, using a game-high 36 points from star Devin Carney and a head-scratching mistake by the game officials to...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Feb. 23, 2021: Playoff brackets to be unveiled
Welcome to the biggest party ever thrown by the WPIAL. Everybody was invited, and 235 boys and girls district basketball teams accepted a berth in the 2021 open basketball playoffs. Every game through the preliminary round, first round, quarterfinals and semifinals will be played at the home court of the...
