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Mt. Lebanon’s Sylvia Roy, North Allegheny’s Natalie Sens earn top times at PIAA swimming Day 2 prelims
LEWISBURG — WPIAL swimmers will go after titles and additional medals Thursday evening on Day 2 of the PIAA Class 3A championships at Bucknell University’s Kinney Natatorium. Preliminary swims Thursday morning will give way to the consolation and championship finals this evening. Boys Upper St. Clair sophomore Nazar Zoukovski is...
WPIAL teams learn sites, times for Saturday’s PIAA girls basketball quarterfinals
South Fayette became the first WPIAL champion to be eliminated before the PIAA quarterfinals. However, Class 5A girls are well represented by WPIAL teams. Armstrong, Oakland Catholic and McKeesport are all alive for state gold heading into the Elite 8 round this weekend. In girls 4A, WPIAL finalists North Catholic...
PIAA sets sites, times for Saturday’s boys basketball quarterfinals
The WPIAL is looking good in the PIAA Class 2A boys basketball playoffs with three teams in the western region final four. The Road to Hershey is now through two rounds and Aliquippa, Fort Cherry and surprising Jeannette remain alive heading into the state Elite 8 in 2A. Deer Lakes...
2024 WPIAL Class 2A softball preseason breakdown
After winning the past two WPIAL Class 2A softball championships, Neshannock again enters the season as a favorite. Behind an all-state pitcher and seven returning starters, coach Jackie Lash’s Lancers have the arm and bats to again contend for WPIAL and PIAA gold. Standing in the way will be a...
2024 WPIAL Class 2A baseball preseason breakdown
Since 2017, either Seton LaSalle or Serra Catholic has reached the WPIAL Class 2A baseball championship game. In fact, in the five title games played since 2017, the Rebels and Eagles have squared off against each other in two of them, including last year. Seton LaSalle beat Serra Catholic both...
WPIAL releases football schedules for 2024, ’25 seasons
The WPIAL has released its football schedules for the next two seasons and Week 1 should be exciting. Some of the notable nonconference games scheduled for Week 1 include Central Catholic at Pine-Richland, Gateway at North Allegheny and Thomas Jefferson at Central Valley. Woodland Hills and Penn Hills will renew...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on March 14, 2024: Penguins Cup semifinal week wraps up
The PIHL Penguins Cup Playoffs conclude their week-long final four games at the RMU Island Sports Complex on Neville Island and here on Trib HSSN. The winners head to the championship game next week while the losers pack their gear until next season. Thursday features the two Division II semifinals...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for March 13, 2024
High schools Basketball Boys Class 6A Second round Wednesday’s results Archbishop Wood 66, Lower Merion 64 Spring-Ford 45, Springfield Delco 32 Parkland 61, Chambersburg 46 Roman Catholic 47, WC Henderson 40 Coatesville 52, Cumberland Valley 37 Reading 54, McDowell 47 (OT) Central York 70, Red Lion 54 Upper St. Clair...
Mt. Lebanon’s Sylvia Roy leads medal-winning WPIAL contingent at PIAA swim meet
Sylvia Roy won silver in the 50-yard freestyle at last year’s PIAA Class 3A swimming championships. In her return to Bucknell University on Wednesday, the Mt. Lebanon junior wanted gold. But in a fast 50 free championship heat, Roy was edged out for the title by State College sophomore Molly...
High school roundup for March 13, 2024: Emma Paul, Armstrong march into PIAA quarterfinals
While this is Armstrong’s first appearance in the state girls basketball playoffs, it’s hardly Emma Paul’s first time on the PIAA stage. As a slugging shortstop on the River Hawks softball team, Paul has been to the state finals twice and the state semifinals last year. On Wednesday, she hit...
Jeannette shocks rival Greensburg Central Catholic in PIAA 2nd round
The anatomy of this victory started with a game plan and a belief that anything was possible. Through exacting execution and a willful buy-in by a young group as unfazed by the pressure as it is naive to it, Jeannette did the unthinkable. The upstart Jayhawks pulled off a monumental...
Trib 10: WPIAL champs keep rolling through PIAA brackets
The thought of double titles must be very intriguing to the 12 WPIAL champions this year because through two rounds of the PIAA basketball playoffs, 11 of them are still alive, three wins from finding that rare pot filled with district and state gold. Girls 5A champion South Fayette was...
Greensburg Salem upsets Shaler, heads to Penguins Cup final vs. Chartiers Valley
Greensburg Salem gave up eight goals in each of its previous two meetings against Shaler in the PIHL Class A regular season. It was a different story Wednesday during their Penguins Cup semifinal at Robert Morris University’s Island Sports Center. The Golden Lions won their eighth consecutive game and third...
Latrobe relay team outswims seed to earn PIAA medal
The Latrobe girls 200 free relay of Lauren Bell, Destini Homan, Hannah Carasia and Maggie Elder arrived at the PIAA Class 3A swim championships at Bucknell University on Wednesday seeded 14th. They had designs on improving their time of 1 minute, 38.42 seconds recorded in taking fifth at WPIALs on...
Oakland Catholic makes statement without injured star, drops WPIAL champ South Fayette
Oakland Catholic handled its PIAA Class 5A second-round girls basketball playoff game against South Fayette like child’s play Wednesday night. The first half was Chutes and Ladders as the Eagles kept making shots and climbing the ladder toward a big lead while the Lions kept sliding further into a hole...
St. Joseph girls ousted from state tournament as Berlin Brothersvalley rallies in 2nd half
The St. Joseph girls basketball team didn’t have to wait until the following morning to feel the pain of the bumps and bruises. The Spartans likely felt the agony on the trip bus back from their PIAA Class A second-round playoff game Wednesday night at Hempfield High School. District 5...
Fox Chapel swimmers start medal collection on 1st day of PIAA meet
Fox Chapel junior Sarah Pasquella swam a time of 1 minute, 51.08 seconds in the preliminaries of the girls 200-yard freestyle Wednesday on Day 1 of the PIAA Class 3A championships at Bucknell University’s Kinney Natatorium. The time was identical to the one she swam in winning the WPIAL title...
Upper St. Clair embraces the madness, avenges loss to State College
JOHNSTOWN — This is the kind of March madness Upper St. Clair coach Danny Holzer likes most, a state basketball tournament where his Panthers are making a deep bracket run. And one where he’s there to watch. Upper St. Clair is headed to the PIAA elite eight after a 63-43...
Billy Schaeffer’s grand night helps Deer Lakes boys down Forest Hills in PIAA 2nd round
Billy Schaeffer has been dreaming of reaching 1,000 points since he began his high school career. Doing so on a big stage and helping Deer Lakes put away Forest Hills made the moment all the more sweet. Schaeffer had a game-high 22 points, including 12 in the fourth quarter, and...
Hempfield sets championship goals as Westmoreland County teams open softball season
Hempfield won its eighth WPIAL softball championship last season. The Spartans are not shying away from the expectation that comes with winning a ninth. The season opens Friday, and WPIAL and PIAA championships are the order of the day — each day of tireless, detail-oriented preparation gleaned from legendary coach...
‘Impressive’ list of 2024 Westmoreland County Scholar/Athlete nominees announced
“What an impressive group.” That’s how Judge Michael Stewart, who replaced John J. Driscoll in 2023 as sponsoring judge for the annual Westmoreland County Scholar/Athlete banquet, described the 2024 group of nominees for the Excellence Award. Athletic directors or representatives from 15 of 18 county high schools met this week...
Plum among A-K Valley teams gunning for section title as softball season begins
Vying for a title in a softball section that boasts the state runner-up can be quite the challenge. That challenge increases after graduating two all-state players, but that hasn’t deterred Plum from its goal. Mackenzie Lang and Taylor Lorish, who received Valley News Dispatch first-team all-star nods, are gone and...
Seneca Valley senior goes out on top with PIAA diving gold
Seneca Valley senior Isaiah Clerkley ended his high school diving career on the highest of high notes. The Penn State commit finished the 11-dive PIAA Class 3A championship meet Wednesday afternoon at Bucknell University’s Kinney Natatorium with 570.40 points, roughly 80 points clear of the field, including runner up Alex...
PIAA reveals details of Friday’s boys basketball quarterfinal matchups
It has been a strong showing from the WPIAL teams in boys Class 5A this state postseason. District 7 will have four of the eight teams remaining in that classification and a WPIAL team is guaranteed to be playing for PIAA gold in Hershey next Friday. Three district teams remain...
PIAA announces sites, times for Friday’s girls basketball quarterfinals
The WPIAL champions continue to shine bright in the 2024 PIAA girls basketball state playoffs in Class 6A, 3A and 2A. However, all of the other District 7 teams have been bounced with one Class 3A exception. WPIAL runner-up Avonworth is the only district team left in 6A, 3A and...
