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Fast start fuels Latrobe wrestling to Section 2-3A championship
It took all of 22 seconds for the Latrobe wrestling team to seize momentum Wednesday in its WPIAL Section 2-3A tournament championship match against Connellsville. Wildcats freshman Luke Willochell recorded a quick pin in the opening match at 106 pounds over the Falcons’ Trent Huffman, helping propel Latrobe to a...
Burrell wrestling rolls to section title, ready to defend WPIAL championship
And the beat goes on for the Burrell wrestling team. Just when some teams think they can take the Bucs down, Burrell finds another gear. Burrell captured its 19th consecutive section title Wednesday by defeating Mt. Pleasant, 43-25, in the Section 3-2A finals at Mt. Pleasant. The Bucs defeated Southmoreland,...
Kiski Area wrestlers top Franklin Regional, repeat as section champs
For the 26th time in program history, the Kiski Area wrestling team is section champion. The Cavaliers won twice Wednesday at Franklin Regional and capped the evening with a 40-29 victory over the host Panthers to bring home the Section 1-3A title for the second year in a row. “It’s...
St. Joseph girls basketball team develops chemistry
The St. Joseph girls basketball team entered the fourth quarter of Tuesday’s nonsection game against Class 3A Shady Side Academy trailing by three points. But clutch scoring and a defensive effort that held the Bulldogs to four points over the final eight minutes helped the Spartans rally for a 37-33...
Aliquippa wins PIAA appeal, remains in Class 4A football
Add another win to Aliquippa’s record. The PIAA board on Wednesday accepted Aliquippa’s appeal and agreed to leave the Quips in Class 4A football for the next two seasons, a victory that let the reigning state champions avoid a promotion to 5A under the PIAA’s competitive-balance rule. The board voted...
Latrobe girls basketball integrates guarded approach
Latrobe has gained some attention around WPIAL girls basketball circles because of its height and old-school post play. The Wildcats have a size advantage that teams envy. They are a skyscraper in a Class 5A skyline. But watch the team play this season and it’s clear there is much more...
Westmoreland girls basketball notebook: Sizing up the Norwin-North Allegheny rematch
Odds do not favor an offensive extravaganza when North Allegheny and Norwin meet again Thursday night in North Huntingdon. It’s a good a bet to expect the opposite. These are teams that usually come away with dirt under their finger nails. No. 1 North Allegheny (15-0, 9-0) won the first...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Jan. 25, 2022
High schools Basketball Boys Tuesday’s results Class 6A Section 1 North Hills 75, North Allegheny 52 Pine-Richland 55, Seneca Valley 49 Class 5A Section 3 McKeesport 92, Kiski Area 73 Penn Hills 87, Latrobe 44 Franklin Regional 45, Woodland Hills 42 Section 4 Highlands 69, Hampton 53 Mars 62, Shaler...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Jan. 26, 2022: Section titles to be decided on mats
The stage will be set for the upcoming district team wrestling playoffs with WPIAL team sectionals Wednesday. Seven sites will host four teams each with two semifinals matches at 6 p.m. followed by the sectional title match and the battle for third place. These results will help the WPIAL steering...
Trib HSSN Girls Basketball State Rankings for Jan. 26, 2022
There was only one team that slipped out of the Trib HSSN state Top 5 from last week as the elite teams across Pa. weathered the storms and took care of business. The only change was in Class 3A, where defending champion West Catholic dropped and was replace by undefeated...
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball State Rankings for Jan. 26, 2022
With less than a month before district playoffs begin, the teams in the weekly Trib HSSN boys basketball state rankings are fine-tuning their game. It was another week of very little movement with only two teams falling out of the Top 5, one in Class 4A, the other in A....
WPIAL boys basketball playoff clinchings for Jan. 25, 2022
We have less than three weeks remaining in section play in the WPIAL boys basketball regular season. This winter, the district returns to earning your ticket to ride on the Path to the Pete with no “open tournament” and the championships returning to the University of Pittsburgh’s Petersen Events Center...
High school roundup for Jan. 25, 2022: Quaker Valley’s Frank hits 1,000-point mark
Markus Frank scored 24 points, becoming the 14th boys basketball player in school history with 1,000 career points, to lead No. 1 Quaker Valley to a 71-33 Section 2-4A victory over Central Valley (5-5, 2-5) on Tuesday night. Adou Thiero, who became the 13th Quaker Valley (12-0, 9-0) player to...
Chartiers Valley scores comeback win over Baldwin
The Chartiers Valley boys basketball team’s nonsection game Tuesday at Baldwin was a lot like its season: a mistake-prone slow start followed by a slow comeback trot and then an all-out gallop to the finish line for the victory. The Colts fell behind early on the road but chipped away...
Franklin Regional boys claw past Woodland Hills for Section 3-5A basketball win
The grind makes the victory that much sweeter. That was what Franklin Regional coach Jesse Reed had to say after his team rallied — scratched and clawed was more like it — to finally brush past visiting Woodland Hills, 45-42, on Tuesday night in a Section 3-5A boys basketball game...
Highlands boys keep pace with crucial win over Hampton
Trailing first-place Mars by just a game in Section 4-5A, Highlands knows it needs every win to stay on the heels of the Planets. The Golden Rams kept pace Tuesday, emerging with a 69-53 victory at Hampton, where many visiting teams have had problems over the last 40 seasons. Junior...
Key matches at section tournaments could decide WPIAL team bracket
WPIAL wrestling committee chairman Frank Vulcano Jr. said he has a good idea who the top teams are this season. But will Wednesday’s section tournaments change his mind? A lot of possible key section matches in both classifications could change things. In Class AA, No. 2 Beth-Center and No. 3...
WPIAL wrestling notebook: Greensburg Salem’s McChesney wins heavyweight showdown
Greensburg Salem senior heavyweight Bill McChesney breezed to the title at the Burgettstown tournament on Saturday. McChesney had three pins under 32 seconds, the fastest coming in 16 seconds. He then defeated Washington senior Cam Carter-Green, 7-2, in the finals in a battle of the top heavyweights in the Trib...
WPIAL releases latest swimming and diving performance lists
Fox Chapel junior Sophie Shao, the defending WPIAL and PIAA Class 3A champion in the 100-yard butterfly, looks at her time in the event on the swimming performance list on the WPIAL website and sees who also is recording top times and making a charge up the rankings. Shao is...
Trib HSSN WPIAL individual wrestling rankings: Jan. 25, 2022
Class 3A 106: 1. Luke Willochell (Latrobe) 25-3; 2. Nico Fanella (Indiana) 16-0; 3. Ty Kapusta (Franklin Regional) 15-5; 4. Casey Walker (North Allegheny) 20-8; 5. Rylen Campbell (Plum) 19-4. 113: 1. Ty Chappell (Seneca Valley) 21-3; 2. Leo Joseph (Latrobe) 19-7; 3. Brandon Dami (Canon-McMillan) 11-4; 4. Evan Petrovich...
Trib HSSN team wrestling rankings: Jan. 25, 2022
Trib HSSN team wrestling rankings as of Jan. 25, 2021: With ranking, team name, record and previous week’s raking Class 3A 1. Waynesburg (10-0) 1 2. Latrobe (7-0) 2 3. Connellsville (14-0) 3 4. North Allegheny (4-0) NR 5. Canon-McMillan (8-2) 5 6. Kiski Area (11-3) 6 7. Franklin Regional...
Hempfield rifle team aims to defend WPIAL championship
Ping … ping … “Matt, keep that elbow in tight, bud! Where ya at?” With his first relay team of the day taking aim, Hempfield rifle coach Jason Wilkinson looks through a telescope at a magnified view of the targets as the hollow, pinging sound of the Anschutz 22 long-range...
Valley off to 2-1 start as swimmers gain valuable experience
Kim Johnson has watched her team progress every day. And now the results are starting to show. Johnson is in her third year as Valley’s swimming coach, and early success has hit a program that historically has had its share of struggles. “So far, we’re 2-1, which is super good...
With home pool closed, Highlands swimming performing at high level
There’s no place like home, as they say. But, to Highlands’ swimming team, right now, there simply is no home. A major challenge hit the Highlands program this year, one that drastically altered the way the team prepares and competes. The school’s pool began leaking and could cost up to...
Moon’s Mia Cochran repeats as Pa. Gatorade girls cross country award winner
Moon’s Mia Cochran has defended yet another cross country title. The senior repeated as Pennsylvania Gatorade Girls Cross Country Player of the Year on Monday, recognition for winning the PIAA Class 3A title last fall for the third year in a row. The 5-foot-7 Arkansas recruit also won the WPIAL...
