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Westmoreland athletes of the week: Norwin’s Ryan Weinzen, Hempfield’s Mackenna Orie
Ryan Weinzen School: Norwin Sport: Wrestling Class: Junior Claim to fame: Weinzen (32-4) captured the 220-pound title with a takedown with 46 seconds left to upset Armstrong’s Ogden Atwood, 2-1, at the WPIAL Class AAA championships at Canon-McMillan on Saturday. Weinzen will participate in the PIAA tournament this week in...
PIHL roundup: Mt. Lebanon defeats Cathedral Prep in Penguins Cup playoffs
Luke Husak and Wyatt George each had two goals to lift No. 4 seed Mt. Lebanon to a 7-3 victory over Cathedral Prep in the first round of the PIHL Class AAA Penguins Cup playoffs Monday at Mt. Lebanon Ice Center. Griffin Erdely, Feno Monaco and Samuel Mitchell also scored...
High school scores, schedules for March 4, 2019
High schools Basketball Boys PIAA playoffs First round Class 6A Saturday’s schedule Abington (27-1) vs. Cumberland Valley (17-9) at Council Rock South, 4 p.m.; Lincoln (10-16) vs. Pennridge (22-4) at Southern, 5 p.m.; Boys Latin (22-5) vs. Norristown (21-6) at Lincoln, 5 p.m.; Hazleton (21-6) vs. Methacton (20-7) at Wilkes...
Stewart’s 7 points lead Burrell to PIHL Division II 1st-round victory over Trinity
After Tyler Stewart skated around three Trinity players before depositing the puck into the back of the net for his fifth goal of the game midway through the third period, Burrell hockey coach Max Rickard said he looked at one of his assistant coaches and just shook his head. Even...
Upper St. Clair tops Baldwin in PIHL Class AA 1st round game
After being swept in both regular-season matchups, No. 2 seed Upper St. Clair got some sweet postseason revenge by defeating Baldwin, 6-2, on Monday in a PIHL Class AA Penguins Cup first-round game at Ice Castle in Castle Shannon. The Panthers’ Anthony Carone scored twice and added an assist as...
Latrobe takes down Hampton in Penguins Cup playoffs
Latrobe opened the PIHL Penguins Cup playoffs with an emotional victory Monday night, riding the energy of a large, vocal crowd and the offensive expertise of Alex Walker. The sophomore scored a goal and assisted on three others to lead the IceCats to a 4-1 victory over Hampton in a...
Pine-Richland’s offense shines in PIHL quarterfinal win over Hempfield
Hempfield entered Monday night’s PIHL Penguins Cup Class 2A quarterfinal as the classification’s top scoring offense. However, it was Pine-Richland’s offense that took over. The Rams scored the first five goals, including four in the game’s first 8 minutes, 31 seconds, to post an 8-4 win over the Spartans at...
A-K Valley wrestlers took different paths to PIAA Class AA tournament
Ian Oswalt noticed the lights of the Giant Center when he stepped in to the arena as a first-time competitor at the PIAA Class AA wrestling tournament last year. “It’s just bright in there,” Oswalt said. “There’s just different lighting. It’s weird about that. Then all the matches, you have...
Reigning PIAA champions prepare to defend titles; WPIAL swimmers earn top seeds
The WPIAL, as expected, will be well-represented at the PIAA Class AAA and AA swimming and diving championships March 13-16 at Bucknell. Several new WPIAL records were established last Thursday and Friday at Pitt’s Trees Pool, and the fast WPIAL meet produced up to a dozen state qualifiers in certain...
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Player of the Week: Mars’ Andrew Recchia
Andrew Recchia School: Mars Class: Senior It really was ‘The shot heard around the world.” The intergalactic 3-point shot from Andrew Recchia in the final seconds of the WPIAL Class 5A boys basketball title game made Mars a back-to-back champion. Led by Recchia’s 23 points, the Fightin’ Planets edged Moon,...
Norwin girls ready to ‘come back even stronger’ for PIAA playoffs
Jayla Wehner called on a motivational quote to help erase a tough semifinal loss and fast-forward to what lies ahead for the Norwin girls basketball team. “We feel like we aren’t done yet, and we believe that we haven’t played our best basketball yet,” the Norwin junior guard said. “Coming...
Seven WPIAL wrestlers win Junior High state titles
Frazier junior Thayne Lawrence is headed to Hershey on Thursday to compete in the PIAA Class AA wrestling championships. He is the returning 152-pound champion. His younger brother, Rune, a seventh grader, already picked up his state title in the Pennsylvania Junior High tournament in Johnstown. Now, the Lawrences have...
Trib HSSN Girls Basketball Team of the Week: Chartiers Valley
The Trib HSSN Girls Basketball Team of the Week picked up two postseason wins this past week, the second victory earning them gold for the second time in three years — the Chartiers Valley Colts. After two and a half decades of coaching the boys basketball team at Chartiers Valley,...
Trib HSSN boys basketball state rankings for week of March 4, 2019
Let the fun begin. Five rounds will produce six champions in three weeks in the Pennsylvania boys basketball version of March Madness. The state playoffs tip off this weekend with a lot of changes and head-to-head battles among teams in the Trib HSSN state rankings coming up in the next...
PIAA releases qualifying lists for swimming championships
The PIAA on Monday released the preliminary psych sheets for the swimming and diving state championships set for March 13-16 at Bucknell University. The lists are expected to be finalized Tuesday when scratches are determined. Three alternates for each event are included. The district champions for each individual and relay...
North Hills AD Amy Scheuneman joining WPIAL administration
North Hills athletic director Amy Scheuneman will resign this summer and accept an administrative position with the WPIAL. Scheuneman will become associate executive director, the WPIAL announced Monday, a newly created position in the administration just below executive director Tim O’Malley. The position puts Scheuneman in line to potentially succeed...
Big goals for Fox Chapel boys tennis team
The Fox Chapel boys tennis team claimed its third straight WPIAL Class AAA title last April as they blanked rival Shady Side Academy, 5-0. Foxes coach Alex Slezak will have most of the pieces returning from that team with the exception of doubles players Kuran Singh and Karsten Lagerquist, both...
Trib HSSN PIHL Player of the Week: Mario Eafrati, Canon-McMillan
During the PIHL regular season, two goaltenders in Triple-A faced more than 500 shots. One of them, sophomore Mario Eafrati of Canon-McMillan, faced 570 shots, the most in the classification by 56. He allowed 63 goals for a save percentage of .889. He recorded a shutout and made 30 or...
Trib HSSN PIHL Team of the Week: Thomas Jefferson
During the regular season, the Thomas Jefferson Jaguars lost just three games — two of which came to South Fayette — by a combined five goals. Going into the postseason, the Jaguars knew they had to be on alert. After all, Thomas Jefferson made a run to the semifinals a...
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Team of the Week: Mt. Lebanon
Our Trib HSSN Team of the Week proved they are the top team in the top classification with a first championship in nine years as we salute the Mt. Lebanon Blue Devils. Mt. Lebanon finished the regular season with a 19-3 record and Section 2-6A champions. After beating Fox Chapel...
Trib HSSN Girls Basketball Player of the Week: North Catholic’s Tess Myers
Tess Myers School: North Catholic Class: Junior Last year, Tess Myers drove the court and hit a buzzer-beating shot to lift North Catholic past Beaver, 50-49, for WPIAL title No. 18 for the Trojans. A year later, last-minute dramatics were not necessary for North Catholic at The Pete. The Trojans...
Pine-Richland remains atop Trib HSSN PIHL power rankings
Every Monday during the 2018-19 PIHL hockey season, the TribLive High School Sports Network releases Power Rankings. These rankings have zero classification boundaries. Here are the rankings for the week of March 3. Overall record includes wins, losses, ties and overtime losses. PIHL TRIB 10 1. Pine-Richland Rams (18-0-0-1) (Last...
Broadcasts planned this week on Trib HSSN
The Path to the Pete is over as the hardwood focus turns to the Road to Hershey this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN continues postseason hoops coverage with first round action of the 2019 PIAA boys and girls basketball playoffs. The Network also has three-day...
Nine WPIAL wrestlers earn top seeds in state tournament
The PIAA released the pairings for the individual wrestling championships, which begins Thursday at Giant Center in Hershey, and nine WPIAL wrestlers earned No. 1 seeds. The PIAA used a new point system to determine the top seeds from the regional champions. Returning PIAA champions from the WPIAL, Seneca Valley...
Westmoreland PIHL playoff capsules for March 4, 2019
Monday’s games PIHL Penguins Cup Class AA First round Hempfield (12-7) vs. Pine-Richland (18-0-1) 7:30 p.m. Monday at Baierl Ice Complex, Warrendale Winner plays: Latrobe (14-4-1) or Hampton (10-7-2), March 13 at RMU Island Sports Center, Neville Island Goals for/against: Hempfield, 121/78; Pine-Richland, 112/32 About Hempfield: The Spartans advanced to...
