High School category, Page 1127
Top 19 of ’19: Trib HSSN breaks down the top stories of the year — No. 7
The 2019 high school sports season is nearly in the books. While we anxiously look ahead to 2020, let’s reflect on the district high school sports scene over the last 12 months. Here is a look back at the top 19 stories from around the WPIAL in 2019. HSSN Top...
George Guido: Unbeaten Springdale — and its pet turtle — worth remembering
As time marches on, an unfortunate casualty can be reunions of great sports teams. That was the problem several months ago when James Yanni, captain of the 10-0 Springdale football team from 1959, tried to organize a reunion marking the 60th anniversary of one of the greatest Dynamos teams. Sadly,...
High school basketball holiday tournament schedule
Boys basketball Thursday, Dec. 26 Charleroi Tournament Southmoreland vs. Clairton, 5:30 p.m. Frazier vs. Belle Vernon, 7 p.m. Yough vs. Charleroi, 8:30 p.m. Jeannette Tournament Valley vs. Serra Catholic, 6 p.m. Indiana vs. Jeannette, 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 27 Apollo-Ridge Tournament Leechburg vs. Riverview, 4:30 p.m. Saltsburg vs. Apollo-Ridge, 7:30...
Westmoreland Athletes of the Week: Penn-Trafford’s Zach Rocco, Norwin’s Danielle Rosso
Zach Rocco School: Penn-Trafford Sport: Basketball Class: Senior Claim to fame: Rocco scored 28 points to lead Penn-Trafford (6-1, 1-0) to a 66-41 win over David Douglas (Ore.) on Dec. 19 in the KSA Events Classic in Orlando, Fla. Rocco scored 21 points in a 70-66 win over Uniontown in...
Top 19 of ’19: Trib HSSN breaks down the top stories of the year — No. 8
The 2019 high school sports season is nearly in the books. While we anxiously look ahead to 2020, let’s reflect on the district high school sports scene over the last 12 months. Here is a look back at the top 19 stories from around the WPIAL in 2019. HSSN Top...
Trib HSSN PIHL team of the week — Dec. 23, 2019
The Montour Spartans didn’t get off to the start they hoped for in the 2019-20 PIHL regular season. They lost three of their first four games after winning their opener against Armstrong. That span included a 9-1 loss to Baldwin and a 7-2 loss to West Allegheny. The other was...
Norwin’s Kurtis Phipps ready to defend Powerade titles
Norwin senior Kurtis Phipps didn’t have a usual summer wrestling in different major tournaments. He couldn’t. Phipps spent his summer rehabbing from surgery on his left foot. “I didn’t start wrestling live until October,” Phipps said. “I wrestled in the Super 32 and didn’t do well. But I feel I’m...
A-K Valley high school athletes of the week: Knoch’s Nevaeh Ewing, Apollo-Ridge’s Keighton Reese
Nevaeh Ewing Class: Jr. School: Knoch Sport: Basketball Report card: Ewing helped Knoch to two Section 1-4A victories last week. She had 13 points in a 39-37 win over Indiana on Monday and 27 in a 64-42 victory over Greensburg Salem on Thursday. Ewing also had a team-high 16 points...
WPIAL wrestling notebook: Waynesburg takes over top spot in rankings
It was quite a week in the WPIAL and for the Waynesburg wrestling program. The WPIAL reversed its original decision to ban Waynesburg junior Wyatt Henson from postseason competition and then No. 4 Seneca Valley and No. 5 Canon-McMillan each defeated No. 1 Hempfield and No. 2 Kiski Area in...
Trib HSSN WPIAL team wrestling rankings for Dec. 24, 2019
Class AAA Team Record LW 1. Waynesburg 3-0 3 2. Seneca Valley 4-0 4 3. Canon-McMillan 4-0 5 4. Hempfield 12-2 1 5. Kiski Area 7-2 2 6. Norwin 5-2 6 7. Connellsville 6-1 7 8. Mt. Lebanon 7-1 9 9. Butler 2-1 10 10. Greensburg Salem 2-1 8 Class...
Trib HSSN state team wrestling rankings for Dec. 24, 2019
Class AAA Team Record LW 1. Nazareth (11) 3-0 1 2. Bethlehem Catholic (11) 2-0 2 3. Waynesburg 3-0 5 4. Seneca Valley 4-0 8 5. Canon-McMillan 4-0 9 6. Council Rock South (1) 3-0 6 7. Erie Prep (10) 1-0 7 8. Hempfield Area 12-2 3 9. Northampton (11)...
Trib HSSN wrestler of the week: Waynesburg’s Wyatt Henson
The Beast of the East Tournament in New Jersey had close to 130 teams this past weekend and Waynesburg’s Wyatt Henson found a way to earn a third-place finish in the 138-pound bracket. The Iowa commit went 6-1 against wrestlers from Maryland, Ohio, New Jersey, Florida and Delaware. All six...
Sewickley Academy athlete of the week: Kamryn Lightcap
Kamryn Lightcap School: Sewickley Academy Sport: Girls Basketball Class: Junior Claim to fame: Kamryn Lightcap’s favorite subject in school is math. If she’s not in the classroom crunching numbers to find an answer, you can probably find her solving opponents on the basketball court. Lightcap has nearly averaged a double-double...
Quaker Valley athlete of the week: Colin Rice
Colin Rice School: Quaker Valley Sport: Hockey Class: Senior Claim to fame: Colin Rice was on his first hockey team about a decade ago when he thought he could be a good goaltender. He asked his dad if he could try it and hasn’t left the crease since. Rice has...
Offensive mindset leads to good start for Highlands wrestler Jrake Burford
In his first high school season on the mat last year, Highlands’ Jrake Burford turned in quality performance after quality performance as he was a key contributor to his team’s playoff appearance. So far this season, Burford has continued that trend. He has three losses, and this past weekend at...
TribHSSN PIHL player of the week for the week of Dec. 23, 2019
Danny Stauffer’s in-net success at Pine-Richland is well-documented. Last season, as a junior, Stauffer was 18-0-1 in the regular season and 4-0 in the postseason, helping the Rams to championships in the Penguins Cup playoffs in Class AA and in the Pennsylvania Cup. His .909 save percentage and 1.68 goals-against...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Dec. 23, 2019
Basketball Boys Monday’s scores WPIAL Class 6A Section 3 Fox Chapel 63, Latrobe 47 Nonsection Connellsville 91, Derry 73 Central Catholic 59, Penn Hills 57 Central Florida Christian 61, Butler 52 Peters Township 56, North Allegheny 47 Indiana 54, West Shamokin 47 Washington 58, Albert Gallatin 53 Beaver Falls 59,...
High school roundup for Dec. 23, 2019: Dueling milestones for McKeesport’s Bray, Uniontown’s Murray
Jhayla Bray of McKeesport and Mya Murray of Uniontown made basketball history Monday night. Bray poured in 42 points, setting a school record for most points in a girls game and reaching 1,000 points for her career, to lead McKeesport (5-2) to a 87-36 nonsection win. Murray led Uniontown (1-6)...
Defense leads the way as Fox Chapel cruises past Latrobe
No team has scored more than 50 points on Fox Chapel this season. When the Foxes hosted the defending Section 3-6A champion Latrobe on Monday, they weren’t about to allow the Wildcats to be the first. Led by a 17-point contribution from Arnold Vento, 13 points from Eli Yofan and...
Penn Hills, Quaker Valley debut in TribHSSN boys basketball state rankings
The final pre-holiday Trib HSSN weekly boys basketball state rankings are here with few changes from the original top five. A pair of District 2 teams were bounced and are the only teams to drop out of the original rankings. They are replaced by WPIAL teams Penn Hills in 5A...
WPIAL boys basketball team of the week — Week ending Dec. 21
Gino Palmosina is in his second year as boys basketball coach at Bishop Canevin. His first year began on a high note with a 4-1 start. It finished with a second-place finish, a 14-10 record and an early exit from the playoffs after a 59-40 Class A first-round loss to...
WPIAL boys basketball player of the week — Week ending Dec. 21
Nobody is off to a better start in WPIAL boys basketball this season than 6-foot Steel Valley guard Camden Polak. The senior has scored 260 points in his team’s eight game thus far, a mind-numbing average of 32.5 points per game. Steel Valley went 2-1 this past week with a...
Top 19 of ’19: Trib HSSN breaks down the top stories of the year — No. 9
The 2019 high school sports season is nearly in the books. While we anxiously look ahead to 2020, let’s reflect on the district high school sports scene over the last 12 months. Here is a look back at the top 19 stories from around the WPIAL in 2019. HSSN Top...
Highlands swimmer Rachel Blackburn in position to battle it out with WPIAL’s best
A youthful group led the Class AA girls 100-yard breaststroke at last year’s WPIAL swimming championships at Pitt’s Trees Pool. The top 12 finishers were underclassmen. Mt. Pleasant’s Heather Gardner, now a senior, won the WPIAL crown with a time of 1 minute, 3.92 seconds and went on to finish...
PIHL high school hockey standings through Jan. 1
Here are the PIHL high school hockey standings through Wednesday, Jan. 1. 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,...
