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Final night of WPIAL regular-season basketball brings intriguing Monday matchups
The WPIAL basketball steering committee will meet Monday to begin the process of putting the brackets together for all 12 boys and girls basketball postseason tournaments. But while the games won’t mean anything when it comes to playoff seeding, there are plenty of season finales set in district boys and...
WPIAL Girls Basketball Player of the Week — Week ending Feb. 8
In December, Bethel Park sophomore Emma Dziezgowski drove for a layup and ended up going down with a season ending knee injury. The devastating loss looked like it might derail the championship hopes of the Black Hawks. But thanks to the play of he older sister, Maddie, Bethel Park hopes...
Trib HSSN girls basketball state rankings for Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020
Three weeks remain before the PIAA girls basketball brackets are finalized as the regular season concludes and the district playoffs begin. With teams prepping for the postseason, very few changes were made from last week in the Trib HSSN girls basketball state rankings. Only three teams lost their grip on...
WPIAL Girls Basketball Team of the Week: Week ending Feb. 8
When the regular season’s stretch run began two weeks ago, Penn Hills was below .500 and in the middle of the Section 3-5A hunt. Four sections win later, including victories last week over the top two teams in the section, and suddenly the Indians have a ton of momentum on...
St. Joseph’s Sullivan, Lockwood-Morris named Trib HSSN scholar-athletes of the month for January
The TribLive High School Sports Network is recognizing some of the best and brightest student-athletes in Western Pennsylvania. School administrators, athletic directors, coaches and teachers have the opportunity to nominate one female and one male scholar-athlete to receive the TribLIVE High School Sports Network Scholar Athlete of the Month Award....
Fox Chapel hockey hopes to ride momentum into postseason
In 20 years of being involved in hockey, Fox Chapel coach Cam Raidna never experienced anything like what his team pulled off Thursday night against Kiski Area. With the Foxes’ playoff hopes hanging by a thread, Andrew Rich and Reed Troutman scored 38 seconds apart with the goalie pulled —...
Greensburg Salem hockey in hunt for a playoff berth
Greensburg Salem’s hockey team has four games remaining in the regular season, but the Lions are acting as if they are in the midst of the playoffs already. Five points behind Southeast Division co-leaders Bishop McCort (13-2-0-1) and Norwin (13-3-1), Greensburg Salem (10-4-2) is in the hunt for one of...
Trib HSSN broadcasts for Week of Feb. 10-15
The Path to the Pete is about to tip off as the WPIAL basketball postseason begins on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Exclusive coverage of the WPIAL boys and girls basketball playoffs starts with the Playoff Pairings Show on Tuesday and then first-round games Friday and Saturday. We also...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 8, 2020
Basketball Boys Saturday’s results WPIAL Class 5A Section 1 Gateway 56, McKeesport 54 Section 2 South Fayette 77, Trinity 63 Section 3 Indiana 60, Armstrong 53 (OT) Mars 67, Hampton 41 Class 4A Section 2 New Castle 60, Ambridge 50 Class 3A Section 3 South Allegheny 57, East Allegheny 44...
PIHL high school hockey standings through Feb. 9, 2020
Here are the PIHL high school hockey standings through Sunday. Exclusive coverage of the 2020 PIHL Penguins Cup hockey playoffs can be heard and viewed only here on the TribLive High School Sports Network. In Class AAA, the top eight teams qualify for the playoffs. In Class AA, the top...
WPIAL clinched: Final boys basketball playoff field
The WPIAL boys basketball regular season section play is over. The playoff field is complete as 78 boys basketball teams have earned a spot in the WPIAL postseason. Trib HSSN will once again have exclusive coverage of the Path to the Pete starting on Tuesday, Feb. 11 at 7 p.m....
High school roundup Feb. 8, 2020: South Fayette win cements playoff berth for West Allegheny
Brandon Jakiela scored 18 points and South Fayette knocked Trinity out of playoff contention with a 77-63 boys basketball victory Saturday afternoon. Kade St. Ledger added 14 points, Connor Mislan had 12 and Joey Alcorn 11 for the Lions (13-7, 9-5), who clinched sole possession of third place in Section...
WPIAL clinched: Final girls basketball playoff field
WPIAL girls basketball regular-season section play is complete, and the final playoff field is set. Sixty-nine teams have a spot in the WPIAL postseason that begins next weekend. Trib HSSN once will again have exclusive coverage of the Path to the Pete starting Tuesday, with the Playoff Pairings Show at...
Decade’s best WPIAL finals: Boys basketball No. 10
There were a lot of changes to the WPIAL basketball championships over the last 10 years. They expanded from two days to three days and from eight boys and girls finals to a dozen championship games. The district also switched venues, moving from Palumbo Center at Duquesne to Petersen Events...
Unbeaten Southmoreland girls highlights WPIAL playoff field from Westmoreland County
Twenty-one up, 21 down. Southmoreland has pieced together a perfect regular season — with one game to go — for the finest pre-playoff run in the history of its girls basketball program. Now, the Scotties will put their playoff path in the hands on the WPIAL. “This is something that...
Trib WPIAL girls basketball rankings: Week ending Feb. 8, 2020
WPIAL rankings Girls basketball Class 6A 1. Bethel Park, 19-1, 1 2. North Allegheny, 18-3, 2 3. Norwin, 17-4, 3 4. Mt. Lebanon, 17-4, 4 5. Upper St. Clair, 13-6, 5 Out: none Class 5A 1. Chartiers Valley, 22-0, 1 2. Woodland Hills, 18-4, 2 3. Oakland Catholic, 15-5, 3...
Trib WPIAL boys basketball rankings: Week ending Feb. 8, 2020
WPIAL rankings Boys basketball Class 6A Team, record, Previous 1. Butler, 15-4, 2 2. Upper St. Clair, 17-3, 4 3. Fox Chapel, 20-1, 1 4. Mt. Lebanon, 15-5, 3 5. Pine-Richland, 14-6, 5 Out: none Class 5A 1. Chartiers Valley, 17-4, 1 2. Penn Hills, 17-4, 2 3. Mars, 16-4,...
Waynesburg’s 2nd-place finish at PIAA team wrestling start of something big
HERSHEY — The path to the PIAA Class AAA team wrestling championship next year could run through Greene County. Waynesburg showed it should be the team to beat in 2021 after its second-place finish Saturday at the Giant Center. In the final, the Raiders lost 38-21 to Nazareth, the District...
Burrell wrestling team comes up short of PIAA goal
HERSHEY — Burrell wrestling coach Josh Shields gave his team a stern message after it fell one step shy of its goal in the PIAA team championship Saturday at the Giant Center. While he was pleased with the Bucs’ effort, he didn’t like losing in the same round and against...
High school notebook: Southmoreland’s Comforti settles on sport, college
While challenging and often debatable, Riley Comforti finally found comfort in his college decision. The two-sport standout from Southmoreland opted to play football at the next level, signing a letter-of-intent Wednesday to play wide receiver at Alderson Broaddus in Philippi, W. Va. Comforti was one of the WPIAL’s top pass-catching...
State wrestling gold, basketball playoff spots up for grabs Saturday
The boys basketball playoff field was supposed to be finalized by Saturday. Instead, Mother Nature’s first strike this winter forced the postponement of several boys basketball games from Friday to Saturday, three of which have playoff implications. In Class 5A, McKeesport visits Gateway at 1:30 p.m. The Gators have clinched...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 7, 2020
Basketball Boys Friday’s results Class 6A Section 1 North Allegheny 61, North Hills 40 Section 3 Hempfield 66, Latrobe 52 Class 5A Section 1 Laurel Highlands 76, Albert Gallatin 61 Penn Hills 71, Woodland Hills 59 McKeesport at Gateway, ppd. Section 2 Chartiers Valley 63, West Allegheny 47 Montour 71,...
WPIAL clinched: Boys basketball clinchings through Feb. 7, 2020
The WPIAL boys basketball regular season section play is all but over. The playoff field is nearly complete as 76 boys basketball teams have earned a spot in the WPIAL postseason. Trib HSSN will once again have exclusive coverage of the Path to the Pete starting on Tuesday, Feb. 11...
High school roundup for Feb. 7, 2020: North Allegheny overcomes North Hills in winner-take-all battle for playoff spot
Two of the WPIAL’s fiercest rivals met Friday in a winner-take-all showdown on the final night of section play. North Allegheny claimed both bragging rights over North Hills and a spot in WPIAL playoffs. Khalil Dinkins and Zach Andreykovich scored 16 points apiece and the Tigers defeated the Indians, 61-40,...
Brayden Reynolds’ big fourth quarter helps Chartiers Valley bury West Allegheny
Mother Nature dumped enough snow on the region early Friday to force the cancellation of classes at several schools, including West Allegheny. But that is nothing like the avalanche of points Chartiers Valley junior Brayden Reynolds dropped on West A in the fourth quarter. Reynolds scored 19 of his game-high...
