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Norwin baseball team loaded with experience
Experience should be on the Norwin baseball team’s side this season. The Knights are looking to rebound from going 7-8 in 2018. While that team entered the year with little experience, the 2019 squad returns six starters. “We will still have a mix of older and younger guys, but most...
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Player of the Week: Moon’s Donovan Johnson
Donovan Johnson School: Moon Class: Junior Donovan Johnson has been scoring points all year for Moon. The senior is averaging more than 23 points per game. However, when points are harder to come by as the regular season turns into the district and state playoffs, Johnson has continued to do...
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Team of the Week: Vincentian Academy Royals
The Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Team of the Week reached the title game in the WPIAL Class A playoffs and is one win away from playing for state gold in the PIAA finals — the Vincentian Academy Royals. Talk about mixed feelings. On one side, there is the team you...
High school sports broadcasts scheduled this week on Trib HSSN
Both the Road to Hershey and the PIHL Penguins Cup hockey playoffs conclude this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN continues postseason hoops coverage with semifinals and possibly championship game action from Hershey for the 2019 PIAA boys and girls basketball playoffs. The Network also has...
Pine-Richland stays atop Trib HSSN PIHL power rankings
Every Monday during the 2018-19 PIHL hockey season, the TribLive High School Sports Network releases weekly Power Rankings. These rankings have zero classification boundaries. This is our next to the last rankings of the season. Next week, we will have postseason rankings following the Pennsylvania Cup state finals. Here are...
Girls basketball rankings for week of March 17, 2019
The Road to Hershey has shuffled the deck with three rounds in the book and two more coming this week. Four of the six top-ranked teams in the Trib HSSN girls basketball state rankings are still alive for a PIAA title. Two others saw their golden dreams come to an...
PIAA girls basketball sites, times: Chartiers Valley, Thomas Jefferson rematch Tuesday
WPIAL champion Chartiers Valley and runner-up Thomas Jefferson will rematch at 7 p.m., Tuesday in a PIAA Class 5A semifinal at Peters Township. They’re among the four WPIAL teams that are one win away from a trip to the state finals in Hershey. In Class 6A, Peters Township plays Upper...
PIAA boys basketball sites, times: 6 WPIAL teams reach state semifinals
New Castle’s field house will host a state semifinal two nights in a row. WPIAL champion Lincoln Park and District 10 champion Sharon will play their Class 3A semifinal in New Castle at 7 p.m., Tuesday. The PIAA already had picked New Castle to host the Class 5A semifinal Monday...
Matheny sets national record at PIAA championships
Josh Matheny was witness to history at last year’s PIAA Class AAA swimming championships at Bucknell University. The Upper St. Clair sophomore saw the North Allegheny boys 400-yard freestyle relay swim into the record books and establish a new National Federation of High Schools record. On Saturday evening, Matheny had...
OLSH uses 3rd quarter surge to top Ridgway in PIAA quarterfinals
The Our Lady of the Scared Heart boys basketball team has been playing with emotion all season. The Chargers found themselves in a fast-paced, up-and-down the floor game against District 9 champ Ridgway, and it hit a fever pitch in the final seconds of the first half. OSLH’s Daren DiMichele...
Fox Chapel’s Manelis, Skirboll earn silver at PIAA swimming/diving championships
LEWISBURG — David Manelis wanted to move up the ladder during Saturday’s PIAA Class AAA boys diving championships at Bucknell. The Fox Chapel sophomore placed 10th last year, and this time around, he had designs on improving from his ninth seed. Manelis, the fourth-place finisher at WPIALs three weeks ago,...
PIAA notebook: Deer Lakes done, but accomplishments will ring out
Although the Deer Lakes ride came to an end Saturday afternoon at Slippery Rock University, the memories generated by the Lancers in the past few months will be savored for many years. Fans know the factoids by now: best section start since 1987; first outright section title since 1992; first...
Leechburg softball chases 33rd straight playoff spot
The Leechburg softball program has been soaring for more than 30 seasons. But senior catcher Kristen Knapp will be doing her own sort of soaring in the fall as she has enlisted in the Air Force. First, however, Knapp and her teammates will try to extend Leechburg’s WPIAL record streak...
Penn-Trafford’s Sherwin just misses out on PIAA diving medal
LEWISBURG — Penn-Trafford senior Logan Sherwin hoped to snag a top-eight medal in his first opportunity to compete at the PIAA Class AAA state diving championships. He stayed close to the top eight throughout the 11-dive meet before finishing ninth with 420.65 points Saturday afternoon at Bucknell University. Sherwin was...
Shaw, Weber cap special careers with Thomas Jefferson wrestling
It sounds like a distinguished law firm: Shaw, Weber & Co. Max Shaw and Alex Weber certainly have enjoyed distinguished seasons and careers with the Thomas Jefferson wrestling program. The two senior matmen advanced to the PIAA Class AAA tournament in Hershey off their performances at the recent WPIAL championships....
High school scores, schedules for March 16, 2019
High Schools Basketball Boys PIAA playoffs Class 6A Quarterfinals Saturday’s results Coatesville 96, Chester 82 Kennedy Catholic 68, Mt. Lebanon 51 La Salle College 55, Roman Catholic 47 Pennridge 50, Methacton 47 Semifinals Tuesday’s schedule Times, sites TBD Pennridge (25-4) vs. La Salle College (26-3); Coatesville (29-2) vs. Kennedy Catholic...
WPIAL Class 6A baseball preseason breakdown
Baseball teams in WPIAL Class 6A in 2018 could not deal with the Big Mac attack. Canon-McMillan used an outstanding one-two punch of pitchers Zach Rohaely and Cam Weston to win not only the school’s first WPIAL championship, but also PIAA gold. However, Rohaley has graduated and there are plenty...
WPIAL Class 6A softball preseason breakdown
Can anyone dethrone Hempfield softball? Many have tried over the past four seasons, but the Spartans have hung on to the top spot in the WPIAL’s highest classification. They have won four straight WPIAL titles and three consecutive PIAA championships. Led by veteran coach Bob Kalp (401-97-1), the Spartans again...
Norwin boys take 3rd at state team bowling tournament
A day after Cedar Crest bowlers won the boys and girls singles titles, the school also captured the boys team state tournament title at 222 Lanes in Ephrata. Norwin finished third in the qualifying round with 4,046 pins to reach the stepladder playoffs. The Knights beat Wilson, 2-1, in the...
Hempfield baseball field backstop damaged by wind
The Hempfield High School baseball field’s backstop suffered wind damage during a recent storm. The wind uprooted a pole holding up the backstop and, according to athletic director Greg Meisner, repairs will begin Tuesday. “It should be finished by Thursday,” Meisner said. “It should be ready for the start of...
Derry’s DeLuca dealing with knee injury
Derry senior Dom DeLuca wrestled with an injured left knee in the PIAA Class AA semifinals and finals in Hershey on March 8-9 according to wrestling coach Mike Weinell. “We knew he tweaked it on Friday in the quarterfinals, but we didn’t know to what extent,” Weinell said. “Looking back...
Leechburg baseball wants more from WPIAL playoffs
For the first time in seven years, Leechburg got a taste of WPIAL postseason baseball last season when the Blue Devils qualified for Class A playoffs, losing to Jeannette, 2-0, in first-round play. Leechburg finished 4-6 in Section 1, grabbing the fourth and final playoff berth. The Blue Devils were...
North Catholic routs Villa Marie, rolls into PIAA Class 4A semifinals
Even with all of its success, WPIAL Class 4A champion North Catholic girls basketball team has been in search of its most complete game of the season, and it seemed like a scare from Blackhawk on Wednesday in the PIAA second round did the trick. After 27 games, the Trojanettes...
Wilder guides Lincoln Park boys past Richland into PIAA Class 3A semifinals
Two-time WPIAL champion Lincoln Park is headed to another state semifinal round in boys basketball. Andre Wilder scored 26 points, including eight during a crucial fourth-quarter run, and Lincoln Park turned back District 6 champion Richland in the PIAA Class 3A quarterfinals Saturday at Hempfield. It is the Leopards’ eighth...
Berlin Brothersvalley too much for Sewickley Academy girls in PIAA quarterfinals
Berlin Brothersvalley girls basketball is starting to smell the chocolate. But before their fans can start launching Hershey’s Kisses at them, the Mountaineers have to dispose of section and District 5 rival Shanksville-Stoneycreek for the second time in four tries. That will be Tuesday at a site and time to...
