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Youthful Fox Chapel softball sets sights toward future
Fox Chapel softball coach Lisa Hess is in a situation she hasn’t seen in her five seasons with the program after nine seniors graduated from a team that made the postseason last year. Hess has a roster short on numbers and experience, with 13 girls out for the team and...
Greensburg Salem baseball hopes to build on strong finish to 2018Video
A seven-game winning streak, which included a win over No. 1 Blackhawk in the WPIAL Class 4A playoffs, toward the end of last season gives Greensburg Salem baseball coach Bill Wisniewski a reason to be optimistic about the 2019 season. Wisniewski believes his team can challenge Knoch for the top...
Rosters released for 23rd annual Cager Classic
Organizers for the Cager Classic All-Star basketball game released the rosters for the 23rd annual event, which will take place March 22-23 at Highlands High School. The event features senior players from the Alle-Kiski Valley and surrounding schools. For the first time, the game will include players from Butler and...
A-K Valley swimmers get shot at PIAA gold this week
Rachel Halapchuk is a four-time WPIAL medalist with two each in the 100-yard butterfly and 100 backstroke. The Springdale senior posted a pair of eighth-place individual finishes at WPIALs earlier this month. But she didn’t want her high school career to conclude without an opportunity to swim at the PIAA...
Greensburg Salem softball looking to contend in new sectionVideo
A move to a new section could be the right formula for the Greensburg Salem softball team this season. Greensburg Salem dropped from Class 5A to Section 1-4A, and while the new section isn’t any easier, second-year coach Rachel (Roddy) Brannigan and her players are excited about the challenges. The...
Norwin girls overwhelm opponents with depth, substitutions
Usually by state playoff time, basketball teams have pared their rotations down to a workable number, maybe six or seven players. They go with what got them there and don’t mess with chemistry. Championships have been won with minimal depth. Then there is this year’s Norwin girls team. As the...
Trib HSSN boys basketball state rankings for week of March 11, 2019
If this week’s Trib HSSN boys’ basketball state rankings look familiar, there’s a simple reason. There were no shockers on opening weekend of the PIAA boys basketball playoffs as all 30 ranked teams were winners in Round 1. That will change this week with several possible head-to-head matchups in the...
Similiarities exist between PIAA basketball opponents Monessen, Bishop Carroll
It will be a “Dog Day Afternoon” tonight at Greensburg Salem as Monessen takes on District 6 runner-up Bishop Carroll in a PIAA Class A second-round game. The Greyhounds (16-9) and Huskies (20-5) have plenty of tradition in the state playoffs, with both having made deeps runs in the past....
Mt. Pleasant’s Gardner, Belle Vernon pair among top seeds at PIAA swim championships
Four Westmoreland County swimmers are among individual favorites at the PIAA Class AA championship meet Wednesday and Thursday at Bucknell. On the girls side, Mt. Pleasant junior Heather Gardner is seeded first in the 50-yard freestyle (23.24 seconds) and second in the 100 breaststroke (one minute, 3.92 seconds) after earning...
Franklin Regional hockey relishing underdog role
After years of being one of the top-seeded teams in the PIHL Penguins Cup playoffs, Franklin Regional is relishing its underdog role this postseason. The Panthers (12-8) served noticed they are a force with a 2-1 upset win over Mars in the first round. It set up a semifinal encounter...
Hopewell’s Ealy, Kiski Area’s Miller picked for PA All-Stars at Pittsburgh Wrestling Classic
Fresh off winning their first PIAA championships over the weekend, Hopewell’s Jacob Ealy and Kiski Area’s Darren Miller were picked to represent the PA All-Star team at the upcoming Pittsburgh Wrestling Classic. Ealy became the first individual state wrestling champion when he won the 138-pound title at the PIAA Class...
Trib HSSN PIHL Team of the Week: Franklin Regional
After back-to-back Class A Penguins Cup championships, Franklin Regional exited the postseason earlier than they hoped last season, bowing out in the quarterfinals to eventual Double-A champion Armstrong. Fast forward to 2019, and the Panthers are one step away from the Class AA title game. That’s because Franklin Regional recorded...
High school schedules for March 11, 2019
High Schools Basketball Boys PIAA playoffs Second round Class 6A Wednesday’s schedule Abington (28-1) vs. Pennridge (23-4) at Bensalem, 7:30 p.m.; Boys Latin (23-5) vs. Methacton (21-7) at Harriton, 7 p.m.; William Allen (18-9) vs. La Salle College (24-3) at Geigle Complex, 6 p.m.; Lower Merion (25-3) vs. Roman Catholic...
Deer Lakes softball hopes to get back on track this season
The Deer Lakes softball team was denied a seventh straight section title last spring and suffered a WPIAL first-round exit, an uncharacteristically early exit for the Lancers after advancing to the WPIAL title game five times in the previous six seasons. But veteran coach Craig Taliani said his team improved...
A-K Valley athletes dot rosters for Roundball Classic
The Alle-Kiski Valley will be well-represented at the Roundball Classic. The annual all-star basketball games, featuring seven games over two days April 12-13 at Geneva, will include more than 200 senior players, including 13 from the A-K Valley. On April 12, there will be three boys games: East vs. West...
Broadcasts planned this week on Trib HSSN
The Road to Hershey shares the postseason winter spotlight with the Penguins Cup hockey playoffs this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN continues our postseason hoops coverage with second round and quarterfinals action of the 2019 PIAA boys and girls basketball playoffs. Trib HSSN also has...
Quarzo, Anderson run personal bests at New Balance Nationals Indoor
Brownsville’s Gionna Quarzo and Greensburg Salem’s Malia Anderson, two of the WPIAL’s top runners, set personal bests Sunday at the New Balance Nationals Indoor in New York. Quarzo, a junior, placed 17th in the girls two-mile run in 10 minutes, 35 seconds at the Armory Track and Field Center. Anderson,...
Burrell hockey eyes payback against Connellsville in PIHL Division II semifinals
A month ago, the Burrell hockey team skated into Connellsville looking to wrap up an undefeated regular season. Instead, the Bucs got a reminder of what could happen if they don’t play what coach Max Rickard calls “the Burrell way.” The Falcons frustrated the Bucs on Feb. 12 and put...
Trib HSSN Girls Basketball Team of the Week: Bethel Park
Bethel Park improved to 22-3 and defeated a district champion in the opening round of the PIAA playoffs, earning Trib HSSN Girls Basketball Team of the Week It has been another successful season for coach Jonna Burke at her alma mater. The Black Hawks finished the regular season 20-2 and...
Southern trip gives Deer Lakes baseball time to build into winner
Graduation hit the Deer Lakes baseball team hard the past two seasons. A combined 19 players moved on, including nine from last year’s squad that posted an 11-9 record and qualified for the WPIAL playoffs for the third year in a row and eighth time in nine seasons. But with...
Mars, Meadville drop out of Trib HSSN PIHL power rankings
Every Sunday during the PIHL hockey, the Trib Live High School Sports Network releases the weekly Power Rankings. These rankings have no classification boundaries. This is our final Top 10 of the season. Next week, we will rank the eight finalists in the PIHL playoffs. Here are the rankings for...
Trib HSSN Girls Basketball Player of the Week: Blackhawk’s Mackenzie Amalia
Mackenzie Amalia School: Blackhawk Class: Junior This has been a unique season for the Blackhawk girls’ basketball team. Right before the start of a highly anticipated campaign, it was announced assistant coach and the father of one of the top players, Bob Amalia, was in a fight for his life...
Trib HSSN girls basketball state rankings for week of March 10, 2019
The Road to Hershey is open, and the fun has begun. Only one round into the PIAA girls basketball playoffs and five teams were bounced from the Trib HSSN rankings. Warren, Springfield-Delco, Scranton Prep, Penns Manor and Lancaster Country Day are eliminated from the postseason and out of the rankings....
Greensburg Central Catholic baseball on fast track to success
If the 2019 baseball season if a journey, Greensburg Central Catholic expects to spend the trip in the passing lane. The past couple of excursions for the Centurions lasted into June, each ending in the PIAA Class A semifinals. Along the way, GCC won one-run games, defeated out-of-district teams and...
Numbers, hopes up for Greensburg Central Catholic softball
Two things were missing from Greensburg Central Catholic softball last season: players and possibilities. The Centurions occasionally fielded only nine players for games, and they never had more than 11. The lack of depth led to a difficult season for a program that qualified for the WPIAL playoffs in each...
