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Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Player of the Week for Feb. 22, 2021
For most WPIAL basketball teams, the final week or so of the regular season is a sprint to the finish with the hopes of a section title or at least a district playoff berth waiting at the finish line. For Quaker Valley, the end of this crazy 2021 season has...
Apollo-Ridge girls race past nonsection rival St. Joseph
Despite not residing in the same section, the St. Joseph and Apollo-Ridge girls basketball teams have played every year since the 2009-10 season. That streak continued Monday as the Spartans and Vikings renewed pleasantries to open the final week of the regular season. Behind 17 points apiece from sophomores Brinley...
Hempfield adds girls golf program
Katie Miller won three PIAA titles and a WPIAL girls golf championship during her career at Hempfield . Miller, who is married to Oakmont Country Club head professional Devin Gee, won state titles in 1999, 2000 and ‘02. She will be indicted into the WPIAL Hall of Fame this summer...
WPIAL: Gyms must have capacity of 700 or greater to host basketball playoff games
Some top seeds in the WPIAL basketball playoffs could find themselves playing on their opponent’s home floor this winter. The WPIAL has decided to award home games to higher-seeded teams in the playoff brackets, but there are criteria the schools must meet before they can host, WPIAL executive director Amy...
Westmoreland high school notebook: Ligonier Valley girls basketball opts out of WPIAL open playoffs
Ligonier Valley still is getting its feet wet in the WPIAL sports scene, including girls basketball. A challenging first year showed the Rams what is necessary to compete in a new district. It also showed they are not quite ready for playoff competition. At least that’s the sentiment of coach...
20 WPIAL players selected to big school East-West All-Star Game
For the first time in the history of the event, there will be two PSFCA East-West all-star football games. On Sunday, May 30, the Pennsylvania Scholastic Football Coaches Association will host two games at Central Dauphin’s Landis Field, which will be split by classification and pit all-stars from the Eastern...
5 WPIAL players selected for small school East-West All-Star Game
For the first time in the history of the event, there will be two PSFCA East-West all-star football games. On Sunday, May 30, the Pennsylvania Scholastic Football Coaches Association will host two games at Central Dauphin’s Landis Field, which will be split by classification and pit all-stars from the Eastern...
WPIAL posts final swimming and diving performance lists
The WPIAL released its final swimming and diving performance lists Sunday evening, and individual swimmers and relays continued to produce new WPIAL-best performances during the final week of the regular season. Posting new top times in Class AAA are Butler senior David Bocci (boys 100-yard butterfly, 49.82), Upper St. Clair...
WPIAL bracketology: HSSN’s Chris Harlan, Don Rebel forecast girls basketball playoff seeds
The WPIAL basketball regular season is entering its final days, but there’s no need for playoff scenarios this winter. There are no win-and-you’re-in games this week. No anxious moments for players and coaches on the bubble, knowing their postseason fate rests in hands of others. This year, there’s no bubble....
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for Feb. 22, 2021: Class 6A girls basketball powers clash
The final week of this unique WPIAL basketball regular season tips off Monday. One of the marquee matchups is a clash between the top two teams in Section1-6A girls basketball. North Allegheny and Norwin were a combined 28-2 heading into their nonsection games Saturday, but both were handed rare defeats....
High school scores, schedules for Feb. 21, 2021
Basketball Boys Sunday’s results Nonsection North Allegheny 70, Allderdice 55 North Catholic 75, Springdale 43 Monday’s schedule WPIAL Class 6A Section 1 Butler at North Allegheny, 7:30 p.m. Pine-Richland at North Hills, 7:30 p.m. Section 3 Central Catholic at Penn-Trafford, 7:30 p.m. Fox Chapel at Greensburg Salem, 8 p.m. Class...
Trib HSSN Girls Basketball Team of the Week for week ending Feb. 21, 2021
For most of this season, the Oakland Catholic basketball team has been trying to stay above water. A four-game losing streak in late January dropped the Eagles under .500. However, February has been a bit brighter for Oakland Catholic, which improved to 9-8 thanks to a couple of big wins...
Trib HSSN Girls Basketball Player of the Week for week ending Feb. 21, 2021
The Clairton girls basketball story this century is one of great highs and the lowest of lows. The Bears begin the third decade of the 21st century riding a sweet three-year high. Twenty years ago, Clairton won the first of back-to-back championships with a 64-50 triumph over Monessen in the...
PIHL standings through Feb. 21, 2021
Here are the latest PIHL high school hockey standings through Sunday. The PIHL announced games for Wheeling Park and Wheeling Central Catholic were postponed until March 1. The Pennsylvania Cup hockey championships are set for April 24. Wins – Losses – Overtime/Shootout Loss = Total Points Class AAA Canon-McMillan, 10-1-1...
This week on TribLive High School Sports Network: Week of Feb. 22
Let the games begin. We complete the regular season and tip off the postseason as February comes to an end this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. We have plenty of video and audio coverage of WPIAL boys and girls high school high school basketball along with some...
Westmoreland high school notebook: Power-5 offer could be 1st of many for Jeannette’s Birch
Oregon assistant football coach Joe Moorhead called Team 412 Elite coach Will Reynolds on Wednesday, and Reynolds turned it into a conference call. He called Jeannette freshman quarterback Brad Birch on another cellphone and let him hear the good news from Moorhead, a Central Catholic grad and former Penn State...
Busy month ahead for undefeated Freeport hockey team
In a normal high school hockey season in Western Pennsylvania, the regular season would be all but finished by now and teams would be looking to start a possible run in the playoffs. But that is not the case in this season of covid uncertainty, when many teams have a...
WPIAL bracketology: HSSN’s Chris Harlan, Don Rebel forecast boys basketball playoff seeds
The WPIAL basketball regular season is entering its final days, but there’s no need for playoff scenarios this winter. There are no win-and-you’re-in games this week. No anxious moments for players and coaches on the bubble, knowing their postseason fate rests in hands of others. This year, there’s no bubble....
Devin Whitlock develops into fearless leader for Belle VernonVideo
Devin Whitlock has a tattoo on his right arm that says “Fear None.” “We all bleed the same,” Whitlock said. “But it’s like a mental thing for me. That (phrase) never leaves my head. Nobody is beating me. They might be good, but I want them to show me how...
Lehigh making recruiting inroads to Westmoreland County
Lehigh is making its rounds in the WPIAL as it looks for future football talent. The Patriot League program located about 300 miles east of Pittsburgh, in Bethlehem, is particularly eyeing Westmoreland County. Lehigh this weekend extended scholarship offers to a pair of local juniors in Greensburg Salem lineman Billy...
Gateway’s Morgan Holmes aims for faster times in 2nd trip to WPIAL meet
Morgan Holmes’ introduction to swimming at WPIALs as a freshman last year came in the 200- and 50-yard freestyle events and as a member of the Gateway 200 and 400 free relays. Her inaugural WPIAL race in the 50 produced a time of 25.48 seconds and landed her in 21st...
Penn Hills basketball standout Eddie Daniels learns to embrace every moment
After a summer league game before his junior season in 2019, Penn Hills’ Eddie Daniels was woken up by his sister asking him if he’d heard from their mother. Daniels later found out his mother, Theresa Latimer, suffered a brain aneurysm, forcing Daniels to grow up real fast. After Latimer...
Gateway basketball teams prepare for WPIAL postseason
The Gateway boys and girls basketball teams have reached the end of the regular season. The Gators will host a varsity doubleheader against McKeesport at 6 and 8 p.m. Friday. Then, it is on to their respective open WPIAL Class 5A playoff tournaments where they hope to make things happen....
Shaler girls look to regain momentum once playoffs start
Filling time between the final regular season game and the start of the WPIAL Class 6A girls basketball playoffs required some guesswork for Shaler coach Cornelious Nesbit. The Titans can’t improve their seed because the team was shut down for covid-19 related issues in the school district. Shaler’s last game...
Shaler boys learn to shake off rust during stop-and-start season
Developing chemistry after a long layoff won’t be such a foreign concept for Shaler junior guard Dylan Schlagel. In preseason, the Titans’ boys basketball team would have benefited from having name tags on their jerseys with the number of freshmen vying for varsity playing time. Seven freshmen have played for...
