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PIAA Class 5A girls championship breakdown: Chartiers Valley vs. Archbishop Carroll
PIAA Class 5A girls championship Chartiers Valley vs. Archbishop Carroll 6 p.m., Saturday at Giant Center, Hershey TV: PCN Radio: WJPA-FM/TribLive HSSN Chartiers Valley (29-0) Coach: Tim McConnell No., Name, Pos., Ht., Yr. 4, Megan McConnell, G, 5-7, Jr. 12, Mackenzie Wagner, G, 5-10, Sr. 23, Alexandra Ferrella, G, 5-6,...
PIAA Class 3A boys championship breakdown: Lincoln Park vs. Trinity
PIAA Class 3A boys championship Lincoln Park vs. Trinity (Camp Hill) 2 p.m., Saturday at Giant Center, Hershey TV: PCN Radio: WBVP-AM/TribLive HSSN Lincoln Park (26-4) Coach: Mike Bariski No., Name, Pos., Ht., Yr. 0, Montae Reddix, F, 6-5, So. 1, Johnnie Bryant, G, 6-0, Jr. 5, Isaiah Smith, G,...
Trib HSSN preseason softball rankings for week of March 24, 2019
Trib HSSN preseason rankings Softball Class 6A 1. Hempfield (24-3) 2. Seneca Valley (12-6) 3. Norwin (12-8) 4. Baldwin (13-6) 5. Canon-McMillan (10-7) Class 5A 1. West Allegheny (23-3) 2. Latrobe (13-5) 3. Albert Gallatin (14-5) 4. Penn-Trafford (16-4) 5. Trinity (13-8) Class 4A 1. Mt. Pleasant (19-2) 2. Yough...
Trib HSSN preseason baseball rankings for week of March 24, 2019
Trib HSSN preseason rankings Baseball Class 6A 1. Canon-McMillan (21-5) 2. Pine-Richland (14-7 3. Bethel Park (17-4) 4. Seneca Valley (9-11) 5. Hempfield (16-6) Class 5A 1. Mars (16-7) 2. South Fayette (17-6) 3. West Allegheny (16-3) 4. Shaler (7-10) 5. Hampton (16-6) Class 4A 1. Ringgold (20-4) 2. Greensburg...
Quaker Valley, Sewickley Academy looking for improvement this season
Count Sewickley Academy and Quaker Valley among the baseball teams aiming for bounce-back seasons. The Panthers and Quakers earned a combined 8-20 record and missed the playoffs in 2018. Each team believes it has the roster to be a contender this spring, and it starts on the mound. “I see...
Pine-Richland softball team looks to contend in new-look WPIAL Class 6A
With a solid group of experienced players returning, the Pine-Richland softball team enters the 2019 season with an eye on extending its streak of three consecutive winning seasons. The Rams, however, do not plan to rest on their laurels as WPIAL Class 6A has been adjusted from three sections to...
Shady Side Academy softball returns 8 starters
The Shady Side Academy softball team finished 2018 with a 7-3 record and took second in the section. It also qualified for the WPIAL playoffs, where it lost in the first round. Coach Dave Havern has high hopes of getting back to the playoffs. “We didn’t lose a player to...
Shady Side Academy boys lacrosse motivated to rise
The Shady Side Academy boys lacrosse team is hoping to improve on its 2018 season, which ended with a 10-6 record and section co-championship. The Indians lost to Mt. Lebanon in the WPIAL Class AAA quarterfinals. “We lost a few key contributors to graduation in leading scorer and all-section attackman...
Gateway boys tennis sets eyes on WPIAL playoff spot
It’s been nine seasons since the Gateway boys tennis team showed up in a WPIAL Class AAA postseason bracket and, for the Gators, that’s long enough. Gateway coach Rochelle Seilhamer feels if her team can beat the teams it should and upset a few along the way, the Gators can...
Thomas Jefferson softball team aiming high after reaching state semifinals
High expectations. After finishing as the WPIAL Class 5A runner-up and reaching the PIAA final four last season, that’s what the Thomas Jefferson softball team has for 2019. The Jaguars have dropped to 4A this season and lost only one starter to graduation. “Our expectations are always to reach the...
Thomas Jefferson hockey says goodbye to remarkable seniors
The seniors on the Thomas Jefferson hockey team wrung out heralded career numbers in their time. Counting the regular and postseason, the five seniors attained 60 wins in their careers at TJ. “That’s the highest total from any group to graduate from the program in my nine years of coaching,”...
Brentwood girls basketball had history-making season
The reconstruction project continued — and flourished — for the Brentwood girls basketball program. In her first five years at the helm, coach Rachel Thomas guided the Spartans to 15-7, 11-10, 13-9, 17-6 and 18-8 records, advancing to the WPIAL playoffs all five years. This season, Brentwood finished with a...
Baldwin softball ‘bigger and stronger than ever’
Baldwin has won four consecutive section titles in softball. The Highlanders, with new coach Gina Fuchs, expect more of the same in 2019. “Our expectation is to come out and compete every game, and to compete for a section title,” said Fuchs, who has stepped up from her assistant’s role...
Plenty of positives for Baldwin hockey team
Slowly but surely, the Baldwin hockey program is climbing up the ranks in the PIHL. “Last season, when we moved up from A to AA, we missed the playoffs by a point,” coach Justin Glock said. “This year, we made the playoffs and won our first playoff game. “Next season,...
PIAA Class 4A girls championship breakdown: North Catholic vs. Bethlehem Catholic
PIAA Class 4A girls championship North Catholic vs. Bethlehem Catholic Noon, Saturday at Giant Center, Hershey TV: PCN North Catholic (26-3) Coach: Molly Rottmann No., Name, Pos., Ht., Yr. 2, Emma Pospisil, G, 5-5, Jr. 3, Cassie Foster, G, 5-7, Jr. 21, Kylee Lewandowski, G, 6-1, Jr. 23, Tess Myers,...
High school scores, schedules for March 22, 2019
High Schools Baseball WPIAL Friday’s results Nonsection Canon-McMillan 9, Evanston Township (Ill.) 4 Connellsville 2, Lakeview 1 Franklin Regional 9, Martha’s Vineyard (Mass.) 0 Kennedy Catholic 16, Plum 6 Montour 10, Grayslake Central 0 Pine-Richland 16, Mt. Lebanon 1 Plum 7, Poly Prep Country Day (N.Y.) 5 Trinity 17, Northgate...
Valley’s Carter sweeps Cager Classic skills competition
It was never a secret Valley senior Nyjewel Carter was one of the top shooters the Vikings had this season; now he can stake his claim as one of the top shooters in the Alle-Kiski Valley Carter made history by becoming the first person to win all three events at...
Young Valley lineup looks to maintain momentum from trip to quarterfinals
Valley coach Jim Basilone trotted his Vikings off Washington & Jefferson’s Ross Memorial baseball field following a gut-wrenching, 6-5 loss to Brownsville in the WPIAL Class 3A quarterfinals and delivered his most important speech of the season. “I pulled them off to the side, through the gate, and I told...
Moon rallies in 4th quarter to defeat Archbishop Wood in PIAA Class 5A finalVideo
HERSHEY — Moon coach Adam Kaufman was certain that this win would shock folks around the state. Rarely does the Philadelphia Catholic League lose in the state finals, especially not to WPIAL schools. Yet, senior Connor Ryan scored 17 of his 28 points in the fourth quarter and Moon overcame...
Valley softball ready to take next step toward success
Nine years have passed since Valley won the WPIAL softball title; it’s been eight years since the Vikings made an incredible run through the state bracket and captured a PIAA Class AAA title. That wave of players who came through won a couple of titles and consequently created a standard...
Freeport’s Brown follows in mother’s footsteps with selection to Cager Classic
Jalen Brown paused a moment before describing the impact his mother, Eve VanDyke, has had on his life and his basketball career. “She’s meant everything to me,” he said. “She’s been there for me through the good times and all the bad times.” VanDyke has never missed one of Brown’s...
Renewed optimism for Gateway boys volleyball team
Three new coaches in three seasons, temporary leadership and a lack of consistency took their toll on the Gateway boys volleyball program. With the arrival of first-year coach Phil Randolph, those days seem to be over. Couple that with Gateway dropping from Class AAA to AA, and, for the first...
Marisa scores 29, Peters Township caps perfect season with 1st PIAA title
HERSHEY — Peters Township completed a perfect season with a 62-49 win over Garnet Valley in the PIAA Class 6A girls basketball finals Friday night at Giant Center. The Indians (30-0) led wire-to-wire on the way to becoming the fourth WPIAL girls basketball team to finish a season undefeated, but...
Montour, Pine-Richland, North Allegheny take aim at Pennsylvania Cup titles
After several years of games being played at Pegula Ice Arena at Penn State, the Pennsylvania Cup high school hockey state championships have returned to an alternate home base. For the second time in three years, the PIHL is hosting and the event returns to the RMU Island Sports Center...
Chartiers Valley girls in search of perfection Saturday in PIAA title game
If they win one more game, they will be known as a perfect team. Win or lose in the PIAA Class 5A girls basketball championship game, maybe it would be more appropriate to refer to this 2018-19 Chartiers Valley squad as the “ultimate” team. “It’s been a total team effort...
