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High school scores, schedules for March 20, 2019
High Schools Basketball Boys PIAA championships At Giant Center in Hershey Class 6A Saturday’s schedule Pennridge (26-4) vs. Kennedy Catholic (26-3), 8 p.m. Class 5A Friday’s schedule Archbishop Wood (20-8) vs. Moon (27-2), 8 p.m. Class 4A Thursday’s schedule Bonner-Prendergast (22-5) vs. Imhotep Charter (25-6), 8 p.m. Class 3A Saturday’s...
Moon boys, Peters Township girls stand atop Trib 10 power rankings
Every Wednesday during the 2018-19 WPIAL basketball season, the TribLive High School Sports Network releases Power Rankings during the WPIAL Roundball Report at 6:30 p.m. Then, after the show, they are posted at TribHSSN.TribLive.com. These rankings have zero classification boundaries. Here are the rankings for the week of March 18....
WPIAL Class 2A softball preseason breakdown
Laurel edged Frazier, 1-0, in the WPIAL Class 2A softball title game a year ago to win its first championship. Chartiers-Houston and Mohawk also were WPIAL semifinalists and reached the PIAA playoffs. Mohawk advanced all the way to the state title game before falling to Upper Dauphin. All are expected...
WPIAL Class 2A baseball preseason breakdown
The largest classification numbers-wise in WPIAL baseball has grown out of its three-section shell. For the first time since the expansion to six classifications three years ago, the district has a four-section class, Class 2A. Twenty-four teams a year ago is now 27 teams, thus the addition of a fourth...
Pitt recruit Bach hopes to lead Yough baseball to postseasonVideo
Yough’s baseball team made a late run to end the 2018 season, and that carried over to a successful American Legion season in the summer. That success gives Yough baseball coach Craig Spisak a reason to be optimistic for the 2019 season. Yough returns one of the best pitchers in...
Waywood, Yough softball dreaming of success in postseasonVideo
Kierra Waywood was the starting center fielder when Yough won the PIAA Class 3A softball title in 2016. Now, three years later, the Cougars’ ace pitcher hopes to lead her team back to the big game in June. Yough was one bad inning away from returning to the PIAA playoffs...
Vincentian Academy boys ready for PIAA finals matchup against Sankofa Freedom Academy
When the ball goes up in the air at Hershey’s Giant Center at 2 p.m. Thursday for the start of the PIAA Class A boys championship game, a team from the North Hills and the other from North Philly will add to the state’s already rich sports rivalry between East...
North Allegheny blanks Peters Township to claim PIHL Penguins Cup Class 3A title
North Allegheny sought perfection Tuesday night. The Tigers found it as they shut out Peters Township, 3-0, to capture the PIHL Class AAA Penguins Cup championship at the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex. “Tonight, they played as good as we’re going to play,” North Allegheny coach Mike Bagnato said. “It is...
George Guido: Deer Lakes boys highlights memorable basketball season in A-K Valley
It’s time to close the book on another scholastic basketball season in the Alle-Kiski Valley. Deer Lakes lost a PIAA quarterfinal game to Sharon this past Saturday and all that’s left, locally, is Cager Classic XXIII on Saturday night at Highlands High School. What a great season it was for...
High school scores, schedules for March 19, 2019
High Schools Basketball Boys PIAA playoffs Class 6A Semifinals Tuesday’s results Kennedy Catholic 75, Coatesville 69 Pennridge 52, La Salle College 47 Championship Saturday’s schedule Pennridge (26-4) vs. Kennedy Catholic (26-3) at Giant Center in Hershey, 8 p.m. Class 5A Championship Friday’s schedule Archbishop Wood (20-8) vs. Moon (27-2) at...
Unbeaten Chartiers Valley girls hold off Thomas Jefferson in PIAA Class 5A semifinals
As the Chartiers Valley girls basketball players saluted their fans from midcourt following their win over Thomas Jefferson, coach Tim McConnell showed off his sweet tooth as he begged for more Hershey’s kisses to reign down on him and his team. In a season filled with all wins, this may...
OLSH boys fall short to Bishop Guilfoyle in PIAA Class 2A semifinals
Losing a tooth wasn’t going to stop the path to Hershey for Bishop Guilfoyle’s Luke Ruggery. The senior guard and St. Francis (Pa.) recruit lost a front tooth driving to the hoop in the second quarter of Tuesday’s PIAA Class 2A semifinal boys basketball game. He gave the tooth to...
Montour’s offense shines in PIHL Class A Penguins Cup championship victory
Offense wins championships, too. Montour proved that Tuesday night as the Spartans rolled to a 6-3 win over South Fayette in the PIHL Class A Penguins Cup championship game at the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex. “It’s unbelievable,” Montour captain Richie Froehlich said. “I am so proud of everyone. This is...
Lincoln Park headed back to Hershey after PIAA semifinal win over Sharon
Lincoln Park’s Isaiah Smith launched a 3-pointer from deep in the left corner and then slapped the floor in celebration as his fourth-quarter shot squeezed through the rim. The Leopards hadn’t made a shot in more than 4 minutes and their 19-point lead was down to three. “I had to...
North Catholic girls take down Mifflinburg to reach PIAA championship game
LORETTO — North Catholic has played the wicked step-mother to many opposing girls’ basketball teams’ Cinderella dreams over the years. On Tuesday night, it was Mifflinburg. It took about 28 minutes until the clock finally struck midnight, but the Trojanettes found their shooting touch over the final two quarters, and...
Freshmen, sophomores to make quick impact for Springdale softball team
Springdale softball coach Anthony Pototo pointed to a few factors that went against his team last season: poor weather, a lack of pitching depth and a young team. Cancellations for poor weather led to playing section games three days in a row or having to resort to doubleheaders, and the...
WPIAL Class 3A softball preseason breakdown
History was made a year ago when Southmoreland captured the WPIAL Class 3A softball title for the first time. The Scotties went on to reach the PIAA semifinals to complete their best season. So what will they do for an encore? Can South Park avenge that title-game defeat? What other...
WPIAL Class 3A baseball preseason breakdown
Much like Class 4A, a new champion will be crowned in Class 3A after 2018 champion Brownsville fell to Class 2A with district realignment. In fact, the WPIAL champion from a year ago isn’t the only successful squad to drop in class. WPIAL runner-up Avonworth and PIAA Class 3A runner-up...
Westmoreland athletes of the week: Belle Vernon’s Robert Spekis, Norwin’s Olivia Gribble
Robert Spekis School: Belle Vernon Sport: Swimming and diving Class: Senior Claim to fame: Spekis captured the 100-yard breaststroke title at the PIAA Class AA championships after finishing in 56.63 seconds March 14 at Bucknell. Spekis placed third in the 100 breast as a junior and 14th as a sophomore....
Late surge lifts Pine-Richland to PIHL Class AA Penguins Cup title
The final surge was the difference for Pine-Richland. The Rams scored the last three goals in a 3-minute, 21-second span in the third period Monday night to post a 7-5 win over Upper St. Clair in the PIHL Class AA Penguins Cup championship at the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex. “It’s...
High school scores, schedules for March 18, 2019
High Schools Basketball Boys PIAA playoffs Class 6A Semifinals Tuesday’s schedule Pennridge (25-4) vs. La Salle College (26-3) at Norristown, 7 p.m.; Coatesville (29-2) vs. Kennedy Catholic (25-3) at Williamsport, 6 p.m. Class 5A Semifinals Monday’s results Archbishop Wood 63, Abington Heights 53 (OT) Moon 73, Mars 55 Championship Friday’s...
Cook, Ringgold edge No. 1 Burrell to claim PIHL Division II championship
With the score tied in the third period, Burrell had the ice tilted in its favor and fired a bunch of shots on goal, but Ringgold goalie Evan Cook answered each time. When the Rams finally got some sustained pressure late in the period, Justin Day made sure it would...
Peters Township girls rally past Upper Dublin in overtime to reach PIAA title game
WINGATE — Peters Township’s Jordan Bisignani didn’t have much time to process the moment when she heaved a desperation half-court shot at the buzzer of a PIAA Class 6A semifinal. She sent shock throughout the Bald Eagle Area gym when her shot crashed off the backboard and rattled in, which...
Vincentian Academy boys defeat Monessen to reach PIAA Class A championship
Ethan Embleton led the fast-break and found teammate Angelo Reeves crashing in from the weak side toward the basket. Embleton tossed the ball up, and Reeves finished it with an emphatic dunk to put Vincentian Academy ahead by a dozen and send the Royals’ fans into a state of delirium....
Riverview baseball raises expectations, targets playoffs
Riverview baseball coach Bill Gras asked his players during practice to write down one personal goal and one team goal on a note card and give it back to him. While the individual goals were different, the team goals had one thing in common: make the playoffs. Gras, in his...
