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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...
Upper St. Clair boys basketball quarantines after covid case, state playoffs in question
Three days after winning a WPIAL title, Upper St. Clair’s boys basketball season could be in jeopardy. The team shut down activities after learning Sunday of a covid-19 case, USC athletic director Kevin Deitrick said. The Panthers are scheduled to face either Altoona or Erie in the state playoffs Saturday....
Rochester tops West Greene in WPIAL finals for 3rd straight year
Rochester used big games from their top two scorers to roll to a third straight WPIAL Class A girls basketball championship with a 71-41 victory over West Greene Monday at Peters Township. Senior Alexis Robison scored a game-high 29 points while junior teammate Corynne Hauser added 23 points for Rochester....
11th-seeded Ellwood City knocks off No. 1 South Allegheny in WPIAL championship shocker
Joe Roth described his feelings succinctly. “It’s awesome to make history for Ellwood City,” he said. Not only did he and his Wolverines teammates win the first WPIAL boys basketball championship in school history Monday, but how they did it will be talked about for a long time in their...
WPIAL notebook: League won’t face financial loss from winter sports
The WPIAL lost around $28,000 by holding its swimming championships with no spectators, but the league expects to break even once all winter sport revenues are counted. “There won’t be a financial windfall and there won’t be a financial deficit,” WPIAL executive director Amy Scheuneman told the WPIAL board Monday....
After claiming WPIAL gold, Gateway’s Holmes turns attention to PIAA meet
Andrew Holmes had WPIAL gold on his mind March 7 at the Class AAA championships at Upper St. Clair High School. Soon enough, after posting a school-record time of 1 minute, 41.43 seconds in the 200-yard freestyle, he had gold around his neck. “It was an amazing feeling to see that...
With young, talented roster set to return, Gateway boys turn focus to future
All Will Kromka could do was watch. The Gateway junior guard/forward missed the Gators’ WPIAL Class 5A quarterfinal game at No. 1 Chartiers Valley on March 6 after suffering a broken wrist in his team’s first-round win over Albert Gallatin three nights earlier. “It was obviously really tough not being...
Shaler girls basketball team plans to build on this season’s experience
Shaler girls basketball coach Cournelious Nesbit believed Bethel Park’s Olivia Westphal provided a valuable lesson for his Titans. Westphal, a Duquesne recruit, established her presence early and poured in 33 points to lead the Black Hawks to a 64-37 win in the first round of the WPIAL Class 6A playoffs...
Playoff win shows young Shaler boys basketball team making strides
Twenty-one days of waiting followed by a playoff game felt how Shaler coach Rob Niederberger believed it would. “It was weird,” Niederbeger said of the Titans’ 85-64 win over Ringgold in the preliminary round of the WPIAL Class 5A playoffs. “It was a home game, and there was no atmosphere....
South Fayette boys take pride in navigating challenging season
A similar theme that many district basketball coaches have talked about recently is not of the disappointment of team goals not met, but the satisfaction of having a season in an effort to reach those goals. Count South Fayette boys basketball coach Dave Mislan among them. “I guess the best...
