Trib HSSN 2020-21 WPIAL Class 3A girls basketball preseason breakdown
Getting to the WPIAL girls basketball finals will take more dedication and focus than ever this season. Teams will have to navigate an invisible opponent in covid-19 that could test them more than a section rival. But a reward of a WPIAL championship will drive girls basketball teams across Western...
Beaver Falls’ Josh Hough, Laurel’s Mitch Miles earn top conference honors in MAC
WPIAL champion Beaver Falls earned seven first-team spots on the Midwestern all-conference team led by senior Josh Hough, who was named offensive player of the year. Hough, Beaver Falls’ Shileak Livingston and Laurel teammates Mitch Miles and Luke McCoy were named first-team all-conference for both offense and defense. Beaver Falls...
WPIAL Class 2A roundup: Jenkins guides Sto-Rox past Brentwood
Josh Jenkins threw for 171 yards and three touchdowns and added two rushing TDs to lead playoff-bound Sto-Rox to a 49-22 Class 2A Three Rivers Conference win against Brentwood (3-4, 2-3) on Friday night. Zay Davis chipped in 125 rushing yards and a touchdown for Sto-Rox (6-1, 4-1). Jase Keib...
WPIAL Class 2A roundup: Hough, Livingston guide Beaver Falls to MAC championship
Josh Hough and Shileak Livingston ran for 193 and 167 yards, respectively, and scored three touchdowns each as top-ranked Beaver Falls scored a 50-14 victory over Freedom (3-3, 3-3) in the Class 2A Midwestern Conference on Friday night. The Tigers (6-0, 6-0) clinched the conference title with the win. Shady...
WPIAL Class 2A roundup: Thad Gray leads Western Beaver past Brentwood
Thad Gray ran for the game’s first three touchdowns as Western Beaver earned a 35-22 victory over Brentwood (3-2, 2-1) to stay atop the Class 2A Three Rivers Conference on Friday night. Gray finished with 73 rushing yards for Western Beaver (4-0, 3-0). Jase Keib paced Brentwood’s offense with 164...
WPIAL Class 2A roundup: No. 1 Beaver Falls cruises past No. 5 New Brighton
Tyler Jones and Quadir Thomas each returned interceptions for touchdowns as top-ranked Beaver Falls rolled past No. 5 New Brighton, 44-15, in the Class 2A Midwestern Conference on Friday night. Jaren Brickner tossed for 184 yards and a touchdown for the Tigers (4-0, 4-0). Xavier Reynolds caught a touchdown pass,...
WPIAL Class 2A roundup: Charleroi edges Waynesburg in Century Conference
Nikko Pellegrini’s 10-yard scoring run in the second quarter was enough to lift Charleroi to the 7-6 win over Waynesburg (0-3, 0-3) in the Class 2A Century Conference on Friday night. Sam Iacovangelo booted the winning extra point for Charleroi (1-2, 1-2). Breyden Woods scored on an 87-yard run earlier...
Chick’s Picks: After demoralizing awards snub, prognosticator forecasts big 5A, 6A battles
This week was one of utmost importance for Chick’s Picks. It was the week of the 72nd Prime Time Emmy Awards. It came as no surprise when Chick’s Picks received a nomination earlier this year for Best Prognosticating Performance. Thanks to the pandemic, awards were presented virtually. Chick’s Picks made...
Neshannock bounces back, tops Mohawk
Neshannock, a team that was won four conference titles in the last eight years, isn’t used to starting the season 0-1. On Thursday night, the Lancers showed just how much they didn’t like it. Kurt Sommerfield and Cam’Ron Owens both ran for 106 yards and two scores and Neshannock rolled...
WPIAL Class 2A roundup: No. 3 McGuffey edges No. 2 Washington
Kyle Brookman scored on a 3-yard run in the third quarter as No. 3 McGuffey slipped past No. 2 Washington, 7-6, in the Class 2A Century Conference opener Friday night. The teams played a scoreless first half in a defense showdown in Week 1. Tayshawn Levy scored on a 1-yard...
Mohawk looking to take 2 steps forward after 1 step back
The Mohawk football team has made the climb from the bottom of the standings to playoff contender once in the past few seasons. Now it’ll just have to do it again. After winning a total of one game in his first two seasons on the Mohawk sidelines, coach Tim McCutcheon...
No petition needed: Players receive Penn-Ohio all-star jerseys after all
Each spring, select senior football players from around Western Pennsylvania receive the opportunity to test their mettle against seniors from Ohio in the annual Penn-Ohio Classic. This year’s battle between border rivals, which would’ve been the 41st annual game, was canceled in late April due to the coronavirus pandemic. The...
2019-20 Trib Cup: Basketball success lifts OLSH to repeat in Class 2A
Though the school did not sweep gold in football along with both boys and girls basketball like it did the previous year, one championship out of three was enough to give Our Lady of the Sacred Heart another Class 2A Trib Cup. The honors continue with the announcement of the...
All-state girls basketball: Mohawk’s Karly McCutcheon, Carlynton’s Jada Lee honored in Class 3A
Mohawk’s Karly McCutcheon and Carlynton’s Jada Lee, whose girls basketball teams met twice in the playoffs this winter, each earned all-state honors Tuesday in Class 3A. They were the only WPIAL players selected in 3A in a statewide vote of Pennsylvania sports writers. Both earned third-team honors. Lee is headed...
PIAA officials cancel spring sports season, winter sports championships
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...
Mohawk joins 6 other WPIAL teams in HSSN girls basketball state rankings
An old song had lyrics that proclaimed “one is the loneliest number.” That is true if you are the one team that got bumped in each class from the Trib HSSN state rankings. Four teams in each classification won their second-round PIAA playoff game last week and advanced to what...
Big changes in HSSN power rankings as WPIAL teams continue to shrink
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...
Girls basketball sites, times: North Allegheny, Bethel Park travel to Bellefonte for PIAA quarterfinals
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...
Mohawk girls keep historic season going with win over Carlynton
The Mohawk girls basketball team continues to write new chapters in its historic season. The Warriors, coming off their first WPIAL title win and first PIAA win, notched a second-round victory Tuesday night, 61-44, over Carlynton at North Allegheny High School. Mohawk (24-3) led the entire way, building up a...
Plenty of PIAA playoff factoids as the 2nd round begins Tuesday
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...
WPIAL Girls Basketball Player of the Week — Week ending March 8
The WPIAL continues to dominate the first round of the PIAA Class 5A girls basketball playoffs, going 4-1 for a third straight season. One of those teams flexing their muscles was Thomas Jefferson, the No. 3 team out of District 7. The Jaguars crushed District 6 champion Portage, 62-30, in...
Butler boys, Chartiers Valley girls sit atop HSSN power rankings heading into states
Twelve WPIAL basketball champions were crowned last weekend. Four were successful in a golden repeat, or in the case of North Catholic girls, a four-peat. Like Our Lady of the Sacred Heart last year, North Catholic’s boys and girls teams pulled off the golden double of district titles. Mohawk’s girls...
WPIAL Girls Basketball Team of the Week: Week ending Feb. 29
It may seem the Mohawk girls basketball team is an overnight sensation, but it has been winning a lot of games over many years. The problem is most of those wins were in December and January with the program hitting a postseason wall come February. Over a seven-year span from...
Mohawk tops Beaver to claim 1st WPIAL Class 3A girls basketball title
All six Mohawk girls basketball players who attended the press conference following the WPIAL Class 3A girls basketball championship game couldn’t help but talk over each other. The Warriors were brand new to all the pomp and circumstance surrounding playing in a title game Saturday morning at the Petersen Events...
Watch Day 3 of WPIAL basketball championships on Trib HSSN
Five more WPIAL championship trophies will be awarded Saturday at Pitt’s Petersen Events Center as the district basketball finals conclude. Here’s where you can see all the action on the TribLive High School Sports Network: Class 3A girls basketball Section rivals Beaver and Mohawk will open the day’s action in...
