Ellis School

The battle for the HSSN Trib Cup in Class A in 2021-2022 turned into one of the closest and most unique battles where overall success won out. In the end, it was Greensburg Central Catholic hoisting the cup aloft again, this despite the school only winning one district championship all...

Welcome to May, where the regular season continues to wind down, and the postseason is two weeks away. Most WPIAL baseball teams will close out their sectional series schedule this week. In five of those sections, the top two teams are deadlocked for first place and will meet in a...

Last spring was a celebration as district athletes returned to the diamonds after the 2020 season was canceled because of the covid-19 shutdowns. Softball was a success throughout as the WPIAL crowned four new champions while Laurel and West Greene remained on top in 2A and A. District softball squads...

Going into halftime, the Springdale girls basketball team positioned itself to break a long postseason victory drought, but Ellis School had other ideas. After being limited to eight first-half points, the Tigers nearly tripled that number in the third quarter, scoring 21, on their way to a 37-25 comeback victory...

Boys Class 4A First round 9-Blackhawk (12-9) at 8-Deer Lakes (15-5) 7 p.m. Friday Winner plays: At 1-Quaker Valley (20-0), 7 p.m. Wednesday in quarterfinals Lay-up lines: At 7-7, the Cougars finished fourth in competitive Section 2, behind Quaker Valley, Montour and Lincoln Park. They lost three of four games...

Neshannock girls basketball coach Luann Grybowski says her team has “unfinished business.” The Lancers won Section 1 and WPIAL championships last season but finished runner-up in the PIAA tournament after losing to Mount Carmel in the Class 2A finals. The veteran coach with 685 career wins returns the entire starting...

Days after winning WPIAL titles, the Pine-Richland, Penn-Trafford and Shady Side Academy field hockey teams had another reason to celebrate Wednesday. Combined, the three WPIAL champions had 15 players honored as WPIAL all-stars. The all-stars were chosen by a vote of coaches, who also identified an All-WPIAL team. Class 3A...

This year’s WPIAL field hockey tournaments have a lot on the line for the favorites in each classification. Pine-Richland is seeking a third straight title in Class 3A. Penn-Trafford is looking for a sixth consecutive crown in Class 2A, and Shady Side Academy is aiming for a four-peat in Class...

One of the more amazing streaks in the WPIAL is the on-going rivalry between Shady Side Academy and the Ellis School in field hockey. The programs have faced each other in the last seven WPIAL Class A or AA championship matches. SSA has won the last three titles while Ellis...

The WPIAL/James Collins Scholar-Athlete Program luncheon was canceled again this spring because of the pandemic, but the $1,000 scholarships will be awarded as planned. The WPIAL announced 10 boys and 10 girls scholarship recipients Wednesday during the league’s annual meeting with school administrators. This is the second year in a...

Shady Side Academy and Ellis School are no strangers in battling for a WPIAL field hockey championship. The teams met for the seventh consecutive time in the finals, including each of the five Class A matchups since the WPIAL expanded to three classifications in 2016. Monday’s title contest at a...

WPIAL girls basketball teams have had a hard time stopping Ellis School guard Natalie Jasper over the past few years. Now, she’ll be the Big East’s problem. The senior guard verbally committed to Georgetown and announced her decision via her Twitter account Friday. Childhood dream come true. 110% committed!? #HoyaSaxa...

Ellis School junior Natalie Jasper and Bishop Canevin senior Diajha Allen, who led their teams deep into the playoffs, earned all-state honors Wednesday in Class 2A girls basketball. Jasper was named to the second team and Allen made third team in a vote of Pennsylvania sports writers. Bishop Canevin went...

For nearly a month, high school student-athletes held out hope they could return to normalcy on the fields, courts and track. On Thursday, those hopes were dashed. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announced all schools in the state will remain closed for the remainder of the school year as people all...

In the WPIAL Class 3A girls basketball championship game, Beaver struggled mightily on offense and fell to rival Mohawk, 44-26. In two state playoff games, the Bobcats appear to have found their touch thanks to the scoring of a standout sophomore. Payton List had a game-high 21 points as the...

As the Road to Hershey hits the midway point this weekend with the upcoming quarterfinals, two rounds have shifted the power in the weekly Trib HSSN power rankings. With Mt. Lebanon in limbo, only eight WPIAL boys basketball teams remain alive through two rounds, with nobody left in both the...

WPIAL finalists North Allegheny and Bethel Park will play on the same floor Friday night, one after the other as part of a PIAA girls basketball doubleheader at Bald Eagle in Bellefonte. Bethel Park plays Plymouth-Whitemarsh at 5:30 p.m. in one PIAA quarterfinal, and North Allegheny faces Nazareth at 7...

Like an amateur surfer on a giant wave, six WPIAL Class 5A boys basketball teams got wiped out in the first round of the state playoffs Friday. Laurel Highlands, Mars, Thomas Jefferson, Chartiers Valley, Penn Hills and South Fayette all were eliminated. This leaves City League champion Obama Academy as...

A 3-pointer in the waning seconds of the game wasn’t enough for The Ellis School to complete its comeback. The No. 2 Bishop Canevin Crusaders advanced to the WPIAL Class 2A girls basketball championship game with a 46-44 victory over the six-seeded Tigers on Monday night. After a solid start...

Nearly 30 years ago, back in 1991, the Michigan men’s basketball team made history by starting five freshmen and reaching the NCAA championship game. They were known as the Fab 5. They may not reach the heights of that famous group, but the freshmen on the Upper St. Clair girls...

The WPIAL basketball playoffs are at the midway point. Two rounds in the books, two rounds coming this week. Games this week not only will decide which teams play for district gold but also which teams qualify for the PIAA playoffs. Others will be added as the week progresses, but...

Needing a strong performance to knock off defending WPIAL champion OLSH in a WPIAL Class 2A girls basketball quarterfinal, Ellis School frequently put the ball in the hands of Natalie Jasper on Thursday night. She didn’t miss often. The junior guard scored 34 points, including a 20-for-21 night from the...

There were only 34 WPIAL girls basketball games played last week: 30 on the final night of the regular season and four playoff games Friday. In two of those games, Ellis School junior Natalie Jasper was a dominant force. “Natalie has been one of our leaders this season both on...

The much discussed landscape of WPIAL football for the next two years will be finalized Thursday when the district football steering committee meets to map out the conferences for the 2020 and 2021 seasons. The WPIAL presented two options to schools coaches and administrators in a town hall meeting last...

The first half of section play concludes in WPIAL girls basketball Monday. Outright first place will be up for grabs in three games, including a pair in Class A. In Section 2, 5-0 West Greene will visit 4-0 Avella. “We still have to twice play a really good Avella team...