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High school scores, summaries and schedules for Jan. 8, 2020
LOCAL High schools Basketball Boys Wednesday’s results WPIAL Class 2A Section 1 Sto-Rox 87, Winchester Thurston 47 Nonsection East Allegheny 43, Carrick 39 Freedom 74, South Side Beaver 65 Hopewell 60, New Brighton 48 Jefferson-Morgan 70, Bentworth 49 Mohawk 62, Beaver County Christian 39 Riverside 59, Western Beaver 55 Riverview...
High school roundup for Jan. 8, 2020: North Hills’ Sam Hillegas provides another highlight
Two-time state champ Sam Hillegas was presented with a bobblehead featuring his own likeness during Senior Night ceremonies on Wednesday at North Hills. Once he took the mat, the Virginia Tech recruit with a 143-3 career record gave another reminder of why his accomplishments won’t soon be forgotten. Wrestling the...
Thomas Jefferson’s Bill Cherpak nominated for Shula award as nation’s top high school football coach
Thomas Jefferson coach Bill Cherpak, who last fall won his record-tying eighth WPIAL football title, is among 32 nominees for the NFL’s Don Shula Award to honor the nation’s top high school coaches. The nominees, one per team, will be invited to attend the Pro Bowl in Orlando, Fla., on...
Plenty of shuffling but few changes in this week’s basketball power rankings
It wasn’t all smooth sailing for the Trib Ten boys and girls basketball teams during the first week of the New Year. However many of the losses suffered were against other ‘power’ teams around the WPIAL and how the decks may have been shuffled, all but one team survived to...
Thursday highlighted by girls basketball, clash of WPIAL champions on mat
On Tuesday, the Knoch boys basketball team took over first place in Section 1-4A with a victory over Highlands. Two days later, the Knights girls basketball team will try to win a battle for first place. Knoch (5-0, 8-3) will visit Freeport (4-1, 6-4) with at least a share of...
Latrobe tops Greensburg Salem, closes in on spot in WPIAL team tournament
Latrobe will be headed back to the WPIAL Class AAA team wrestling tournament as long as it takes care of business. All the Wildcats (3-1, 2-1) must do to clinch an automatic bid into the tournament is defeat Gateway on Thursday and Penn Hills on Jan. 15 to clinch second...
Greensburg Salem’s Stoner has her eye on another state titleVideo
Greensburg Salem senior Riley Stoner was in an unfamiliar spot Wednesday night. Because of a random draw before the match, her match against Latrobe freshman Nate Roth would be the final bout of the WPIAL Class AAA Section 1-B matchup. Stoner was a little overmatched by Roth, who was coming...
WPIAL football realignment: Small tweaks or major overhaul? Schools will decide
The WPIAL revealed two football realignments options Wednesday night, one that only tweaks the current format and another that would change the landscape drastically. Now, WPIAL schools must choose. Football coaches and administrators gathered in the North Hills Middle School auditorium Wednesday to discuss conference and schedule options for the...
A-K Valley girls basketball notebook: Knoch, Freeport set for key section game
The Knoch and Freeport girls basketball teams took care of business in their respective Section 1-4A games Monday evening. Now, the rival Knights and Yellowjackets will clash for the first time this season with a lot on the line in the first cycle of section play. Thursday’s game is scheduled...
Westmoreland girls basketball teams get boost from fabulous freshmen
Brian Pritts had heard of Olivia Cernuto long before the point guard made her way to the varsity at Southmoreland. He was hoping to get the chance to coach her because of the promise she showed. Now that the Scotties girls basketball coach has seen Cernuto match her potential to...
Westmoreland girls basketball notebook: Southmoreland moves forward after key player transfer
The Southmoreland girls are having their best season, record-wise, in program history. The Scotties found their way to an 11-0 record and No. 3 ranking by the Tribune-Review in WPIAL Class 4A by playing team basketball. That mantra won’t change as the Scotties move forward after the departure of sophomore...
Ethan Morton’s triple-double leads Butler past rival Pine-Richland in OTVideo
Ethan Morton’s 3-point shot wasn’t falling and Pine-Richland’s defense didn’t allow many layups, so Butler’s star prevailed instead with free throws. He took 18. He made 17. Morton finished with 33 points, 23 rebounds and 12 assists at home Tuesday night as No. 2 Butler defeated No. 4 Pine-Richland, 88-84,...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Jan. 7, 2020
Basketball Boys Tuesday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Section 1 Butler 88, Pine-Richland 84 (OT) North Allegheny 62, Central Catholic 46 North Hills 63, Seneca Valley 48 Section 2 Mt. Lebanon 61, Bethel Park 59 Peters Township 70, Baldwin 60 Upper St. Clair 83, Canon-McMillan 52 Section 3 Connellsville 79, Latrobe...
High school roundup for Jan. 7, 2020: Frank Stumpo racks up 51 points to lead Keystone Oaks past Freedom
One of the top scorers in the WPIAL all season, Keystone Oaks senior Frank Stumpo took it to another level Tuesday night. The 6-foot-1 guard scored 51 points, 23 in the first half and 28 in the second, to lead the Golden Eagles to a 80-75 victory over Freedom in...
Football alignment questions to be discussed in WPIAL pow-wow
Many questions surround the WPIAL football landscape for the 2020 and 2021 seasons as realignment is set to take place. Will there be changes to the playoff format? Will the WPIAL use a more geographical setup when creating regular-season schedules? How will conferences be affected by teams moving up or...
Montour comes up big in the clutch to beat South Fayette in overtimeVideo
Montour struggled offensively in the second half and into overtime, but when the Spartans needed a tying hoop and then a winning basket, they were a scoring machine. Senior Tyler Banks hit an off-balance shot before the buzzer to tie the game at the end of regulation, then sophomore Isayh...
Springdale ekes out win over rival Apollo-Ridge
Another game between Springdale and Apollo-Ridge, another nailbiter. After two games decided in the final seconds last season, Springdale held on to defeat Apollo-Ridge, 51-48, Tuesday night at Donald McGhee Fieldhouse. Dynamos sophomore Logan Dexter made two steals in the final minute of play near the Apollo-Ridge key to help...
Zach Rocco’s big night carries Penn-Trafford past Hempfield
Zach Rocco had a feeling he might get to the foul line a lot against Hempfield, depending on how tightly the game was officiated. But he knew if he was hacked, it would be because of his efforts to get to the rim. “I knew they would play physical with...
No. 1 Fox Chapel stays unbeaten with convincing win over Norwin
Fox Chapel, the top-ranked team in Class 6A, jumped ahead in the first minute and didn’t look back, leading the entire way to a 63-48 victory over Norwin on Tuesday night. Shots fell, defensive adjustments worked wonders and multiple players stepped up in the scoring department in the absence of...
Knoch shocks top-ranked Highlands in section showdown
Tuesday night’s meeting between WPIAL Class 4A No. 1 Highlands and No. 4 Knoch was one of the most anticipated matchups of the season, and it didn’t disappoint. The teams went back and forth like two heavyweight contenders battling for a championship belt. One would throw a punch and the...
Latrobe gets lift from freshmen wrestlers
Latrobe wrestling coach Mike Ciotti wasn’t surprised his team was leading the 67th annual Westmoreland County Coaches’ Association tournament after first day of action. And while the Wildcats weren’t able to secure their 13th team title, Latrobe let teams from the county know it’s making a comeback. Latrobe (2-1, 1-1)...
George Guido: Plenty of intrigue surrounding WPIAL football scheduling
As Rod Stewart once sang, “Tonight’s the Night.” But on an entirely different topic than Rod’s, tonight’s the night the WPIAL will hold a football meeting with coaches, athletic directors and principals regarding how the sport should be set up for the next two seasons. The meeting is slated for...
Westmoreland athletes of the week: Hempfield’s Isaiah Vance, Derry’s Tiana Moracco
Isaiah Vance School: Hempfield Sport: Wrestling Class: Sophomore Claim to fame: Vance (21-1) won his second Westmoreland County Coaches Association championship after defeating Greensburg Salem’s Billy McChesney by a 3-1 decision in the heavyweight final at Kiski Area on Jan. 4. “It was good. I felt pretty proud of myself....
A-K Valley athletes of the week: St. Joseph’s Trinity Lockwood-Morris and Plum’s Connor Moss
Trinity Lockwood-Morris Class: Sophomore School: St. Joseph Sport: Basketball Report card: Lockwood-Morris scored a game-high 21 points to help St. Joseph earn its first win of the season in a 42-39 overtime victory over Propel Andrew Street on Thursday. She also had a team-high 13 points in a 50-34 loss...
With newfound confidence, Kiski Area’s Sammy Starr is seeing success
Kiski Area’s Sammy Starr came away from the 67th annual Westmoreland County Coaches Association tournament with an individual title in hand. With the type of talent that filled out the 152-pound bracket this weekend at Kiski Area, some may have been surprised by how Starr worked his way through the...
