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High school scores, summaries and schedules for Jan. 27, 2020
Basketball Boys Monday’s results WPIAL Nonsection Bentworth 65, Neighborhood Academy 44 Brashear 76, Northgate 47 Brownsville 58, West Greene 52 Deer Lakes 67, Springdale 65 Steel Valley at Nazareth Prep, ppd. Tuesday’s schedule WPIAL Class 6A Section 1 Butler at Pine-Richland, 7:30 p.m. Central Catholic at North Allegheny, 7:30 p.m....
High school roundup for Jan. 27, 2020: Chartiers Valley’s Tim McConnell wins 600th game
Chartiers Valley coach Tim McConnell celebrated the 600th victory of his high school coaching career Monday night. Forty-eight of them have come since he made the transition from boys basketball to the girls side at the start of last season, and in that role, he has yet to taste defeat....
Girls hoops showdown joins list of many big boys basketball games on Tuesday
There are plenty of key boys basketball games slated for Tuesday. One of the biggest games, however, is on the girls’ side of the hardwood. Two of the top Class 6A girls basketball teams collide when Norwin visits North Allegheny. Norwin is a perfect 10-0 in Section 1, one game...
No. 1 North Catholic fights off serious challenge from Freeport
Coming into Monday’s game, North Catholic girls basketball had won 54 section games in a row — all but one of them by double digits — so when Freeport tied the game with five minutes remaining, it presented a situation that hadn’t come up in a while. The Yellowjackets had...
WPIAL Clinched: Girls basketball through Jan. 27.
The WPIAL girls basketball regular season is winding down. There are less than two weeks left in section play with four days remaining in January. The playoff field is starting to grow. When the regular season ends, at least 68 girls basketball teams will earn a spot in the WPIAL...
Laurel girls’ freshmen guide way to big home victory, tie for section lead
On a late January night in Lawrence County, the Laurel freshmen grew up. In a game the Spartans (12-6, 10-1 in Section 1-2A) had to win to have any legitimate hope of a girls basketball section championship, freshmen Regan Atkins, Danielle Pontius and Joselynn Fortuna scored 26 of the team’s...
Fox Chapel tops Shaler for key victory in WPIAL playoff chase
The Fox Chapel girls basketball team took one step closer to what it hopes is a trip to the WPIAL Class 6A playoffs with a 44-32 home victory over Shaler on Monday. The Foxes came into the game tied with the Titans and Seneca Valley for third place in Section...
Norwin, Franklin Regional, Pine-Richland, Chartiers Valley move on in WPIAL wrestling playoffs
Norwin didn’t have a good Section 1-3A wrestling tournament on Jan. 22, losing twice and finishing fourth. But the Knights bounced back, winning the Sharon Duals on Saturday and then defeating West Mifflin, 51-18, in the WPIAL Class AAA pigtail round match Monday at Canon-McMillan. The victory was the 250th...
Mt. Pleasant girls optimistic about WPIALs after winning county swim title
After winning its third straight county Class AA title, the Mt. Pleasant girls swimming team has high hopes for the WPIAL championship meet in late February at Pitt. “We have a strong team and a great group of girls,” senior Heather Gardner said. “We are excited to see how we...
Fox Chapel swimmers ready to take run at section title
The Fox Chapel girls swimming and diving team went undefeated in 2016-17 and captured a section championship. The last two years, Franklin Regional brought home the section title. But with performances from a mix of veterans and top-flight freshmen and overall depth up and down the lineup, the Foxes, 9-0...
Thomas Jefferson’s Shane Stump commits to DuquesneVideo
Thomas Jefferson’s Shane Stump, who led the Jaguars to undefeated WPIAL and PIAA football titles, committed Monday to Duquesne. Stump announced his decision on Twitter. The 6-foot-1, 205-pound senior was a two-way standout at quarterback and defensive back. Stump passed for 2,664 yards and 36 touchdowns, and rushed for 546...
Trib HSSN boys basketball team of the week — Week ending Jan. 25, 2020
There are various ways and reasons teams are successful in WPIAL basketball. Combine some of them, and you get a team that’s on a serious roll that has now taken control of its section. Chartiers Valley beat the two teams in closest pursuit in the Section 2-5A standings last week...
Knoch, North Catholic enter, Mars exits latest Trib HSSN boys hoops state rankings
Seven teams started the week ranked among the elite in the state, but a bump or two in the road had all seven headed to the exits in the hopes of returning soon. The latest Trib HSSN weekly boys basketball state rankings heading into the final week of January has...
Trib HSSN boys basketball player of the week — Week ending Jan. 25, 2020
Two big wins last week not only clinched a playoff spot for Leechburg with two weeks left, it also kept them in the hunt for a piece of the Section 3-A title. Leading the way for the Blue Devils in a week in which they scored 191 points in two...
PIHL high school hockey standings through Jan. 26, 2020
Here are the latest PIHL high school hockey standings through Jan. 26. 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,...
Upper St. Clair’s Josh Matheny named to list of country’s top under-18 swimmers
Upper St. Clair junior swimmer Josh Matheny is focused on this year’s U.S. Olympic Team Trials after earning a top honor recently from USA Swimming. Matheny, 17, was named to the organization’s 2019 18 & Under World 100 list as one of the best 18-and-under male swimmers in the country....
Colgate football adds another recruit from Mt. LebanonVideo
Mt. Lebanon senior Evan Jones, an all-conference running back for the Blue Devils, announced his commitment Sunday to Colgate. Jones is the second Mt. Lebanon recruit in three years to pick the Raiders. The 6-foot-2, 210-pound senior led the Blue Devils with 17 touchdowns while playing various positions last fall,...
Deaths of former classmate, Kobe Bryant put win in perspective for Penn-Trafford boys
It was a day of reflection and proper perspective for the Penn-Trafford boys basketball team. A 64-43 win over Jeannette in the final game of the Shootout at Seton Hill showcase Sunday night was nice. It eradicated the bad taste of a section loss to Latrobe two days earlier. But...
Trib HSSN PIHL Player of the Week: Week ending Jan. 26, 2020
When Hampton defeated Pine-Richland in a shootout to hand the Rams their only loss of the 2018-19 PIHL season, Jacob McGee stopped 41 of the 44 shots he faced. It was a game in which the Talbots were outshot by a wide margin. That happened again this year. This past...
Trib HSSN PIHL Team of the Week: Week ending Jan. 26, 2020
Last season, the Pine-Richland Rams lost one game. It was a 4-3 loss to Hampton in a shootout. At the time, the Rams were the No. 1-ranked team in the PIHL. On Monday, Hampton welcomed Latrobe — the No. 1 team in the state. The Wildcats were 12-0 and had...
Bethel Park bumped from top spot in 6A in latest PIAA girls basketball rankings
It was another week of lots of wins for the teams in the Trib HSSN girls basketball state rankings. There were a couple of flip-flops, with three teams losing but remaining in the top five among the elite throughout the Commonwealth. The only exits were by a pair of Class...
WPIAL team wrestling playoffs, key section basketball this week on Trib HSSN
The WPIAL team wrestling playoffs take place while the stretch run of the high school basketball regular season begins this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. We have plenty of WPIAL boys and girls section basketball games, including the HSSN boys and girls video stream Games of the...
WPIAL Girls Basketball Team of the Week: Week ending Jan. 26
A year ago, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart was not the favorite in Class 2A, yet the Chargers raised eyebrows by beating Burgettstown, Serra Catholic, Bishop Canevin and Brentwood to win the school’s first WPIAL girls basketball crown. Now, they are trying to be the team to beat as...
Girls basketball games and WPIAL team wrestling playoffs make for Monday madness
Monday begins the stretch run of the WPIAL basketball season as two weeks left in section play. Some section races are clear cut. Others are jammed up like the Parkway at rush hour. One such example for girls basketball is in Section 1-6A. Norwin and North Allegheny are a clear-cut...
WPIAL Girls Basketball Player of the Week — Week ending Jan. 26
After winning a combined seven games the three previous seasons, New Brighton is in the hunt for a playoff spot, tied for fifth place in Section 1-2A. The Lions are one game out of a playoff spot heading into the final two weeks of the regular season. Part of the...
