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Trib HSSN Girls Basketball Team of the Week for week ending Feb. 21, 2021
For most of this season, the Oakland Catholic basketball team has been trying to stay above water. A four-game losing streak in late January dropped the Eagles under .500. However, February has been a bit brighter for Oakland Catholic, which improved to 9-8 thanks to a couple of big wins...
Trib HSSN Girls Basketball Player of the Week for week ending Feb. 21, 2021
The Clairton girls basketball story this century is one of great highs and the lowest of lows. The Bears begin the third decade of the 21st century riding a sweet three-year high. Twenty years ago, Clairton won the first of back-to-back championships with a 64-50 triumph over Monessen in the...
PIHL standings through Feb. 21, 2021
Here are the latest PIHL high school hockey standings through Sunday. The PIHL announced games for Wheeling Park and Wheeling Central Catholic were postponed until March 1. The Pennsylvania Cup hockey championships are set for April 24. Wins – Losses – Overtime/Shootout Loss = Total Points Class AAA Canon-McMillan, 10-1-1...
This week on TribLive High School Sports Network: Week of Feb. 22
Let the games begin. We complete the regular season and tip off the postseason as February comes to an end this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. We have plenty of video and audio coverage of WPIAL boys and girls high school high school basketball along with some...
Westmoreland high school notebook: Power-5 offer could be 1st of many for Jeannette’s Birch
Oregon assistant football coach Joe Moorhead called Team 412 Elite coach Will Reynolds on Wednesday, and Reynolds turned it into a conference call. He called Jeannette freshman quarterback Brad Birch on another cellphone and let him hear the good news from Moorhead, a Central Catholic grad and former Penn State...
Busy month ahead for undefeated Freeport hockey team
In a normal high school hockey season in Western Pennsylvania, the regular season would be all but finished by now and teams would be looking to start a possible run in the playoffs. But that is not the case in this season of covid uncertainty, when many teams have a...
WPIAL bracketology: HSSN’s Chris Harlan, Don Rebel forecast boys basketball playoff seeds
The WPIAL basketball regular season is entering its final days, but there’s no need for playoff scenarios this winter. There are no win-and-you’re-in games this week. No anxious moments for players and coaches on the bubble, knowing their postseason fate rests in hands of others. This year, there’s no bubble....
Devin Whitlock develops into fearless leader for Belle VernonVideo
Devin Whitlock has a tattoo on his right arm that says “Fear None.” “We all bleed the same,” Whitlock said. “But it’s like a mental thing for me. That (phrase) never leaves my head. Nobody is beating me. They might be good, but I want them to show me how...
Lehigh making recruiting inroads to Westmoreland County
Lehigh is making its rounds in the WPIAL as it looks for future football talent. The Patriot League program located about 300 miles east of Pittsburgh, in Bethlehem, is particularly eyeing Westmoreland County. Lehigh this weekend extended scholarship offers to a pair of local juniors in Greensburg Salem lineman Billy...
Gateway’s Morgan Holmes aims for faster times in 2nd trip to WPIAL meet
Morgan Holmes’ introduction to swimming at WPIALs as a freshman last year came in the 200- and 50-yard freestyle events and as a member of the Gateway 200 and 400 free relays. Her inaugural WPIAL race in the 50 produced a time of 25.48 seconds and landed her in 21st...
Penn Hills basketball standout Eddie Daniels learns to embrace every moment
After a summer league game before his junior season in 2019, Penn Hills’ Eddie Daniels was woken up by his sister asking him if he’d heard from their mother. Daniels later found out his mother, Theresa Latimer, suffered a brain aneurysm, forcing Daniels to grow up real fast. After Latimer...
Gateway basketball teams prepare for WPIAL postseason
The Gateway boys and girls basketball teams have reached the end of the regular season. The Gators will host a varsity doubleheader against McKeesport at 6 and 8 p.m. Friday. Then, it is on to their respective open WPIAL Class 5A playoff tournaments where they hope to make things happen....
Shaler girls look to regain momentum once playoffs start
Filling time between the final regular season game and the start of the WPIAL Class 6A girls basketball playoffs required some guesswork for Shaler coach Cornelious Nesbit. The Titans can’t improve their seed because the team was shut down for covid-19 related issues in the school district. Shaler’s last game...
Shaler boys learn to shake off rust during stop-and-start season
Developing chemistry after a long layoff won’t be such a foreign concept for Shaler junior guard Dylan Schlagel. In preseason, the Titans’ boys basketball team would have benefited from having name tags on their jerseys with the number of freshmen vying for varsity playing time. Seven freshmen have played for...
Junior Jayden Gales having breakthrough season for Bishop Canevin
At the start of the season, there were high expectations for the Bishop Canevin boys basketball team. The Crusaders were the preseason No. 1 in the Class A Trib HSSN rankings. Junior guard KeVaughn Price was named the preseason Class A player of the year while teammates senior guard Dom...
Senior duo builds impressive resumes for Thomas Jefferson wrestling
Thomas Jefferson wrestlers Kale Buckiso and Michael Zacur burst onto the scene as freshmen in 2017-18. Both won 27 matches and recorded double-digit pins. Following their sensational varsity debuts, Buckiso and Zacur posted 26-10 and 28-12 records as sophomores. Buckiso logged 16 falls and repeated his freshman performance by not...
Hard-nosed approach carries Thomas Jefferson boys to strong season
Hard work does have its benefits. “Our team has worked as hard as any team I have coached,” said Dom DeCicco, Thomas Jefferson’s veteran boys basketball floor boss. “We always take the approach of one game at a time and try to get a little better each day. “After losing...
With defensive identity, Sewickley Academy boys finding rhythm heading into playoffs
As the WPIAL playoffs approach, Sewickley Academy boys basketball coach Win Palmer is confident with where the Panthers are. Since the beginning of February, the Panthers (6-7, 3-5) have played No. 3 Springdale, No. 1 Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Shenango, which has won seven of its past 10,...
Former Quigley Catholic guard Hailey Drutarosky fitting right in at Sewickley Academy
Not many high school athletes change schools before their senior season, but when Quigley Catholic closed at the end of last school year, Hailey Drutarosky set off on a path she never expected to take. “Nobody ever thinks about transferring schools their senior year of high school,” said Drutarosky, who...
Penn-Trafford notebook: Warriors place 5th in WPIAL rifle finals
The Penn-Trafford coed rifle team just missed advancing to the PIAA state tournament for the second consecutive season. The Warriors finished fifth with a score of 797-47x, 3x short of finishing among the top four teams that advanced to the state tournament at Avella. Hempfield won its fifth WPIAL title...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 20, 2021
High schools Basketball Boys Saturday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Section 1 Butler 74, Pine-Richland 71, OT Section 3 Central Catholic 58, Greensburg Salem 15 Class 5A Section 2 Trinity 55, West Allegheny 42 Section 4 Highlands 65, Mars 52 Plum 43, Hampton 32 Shaler at Armstrong, ppd. Class 4A Section...
High school roundup for Feb. 20, 2021: Trinity girls stun North Allegheny
In a battle of the top-ranked girls basketball teams in the WPIAL’s top two classes, Alyssa Clutter hit five 3-pointers and scored 21 points to lead Class 5A No. 1 Trinity past Class 6A No. 1 North Allegheny, 59-56, on Saturday. Courtney Dahlquist added 17 points for Trinity (15-1), which...
Cymmerman denied 4th WPIAL wrestling crown; Mt. Pleasant has 2 champions
Derry senior Ty Cymmerman sat by himself in the auxiliary gym at Canon-McMillan High School, his head down. He appeared to be in deep thought after he was denied a chance at joining an elite group for four-time WPIAL champion wrestlers. Cymmerman gave up a four-point move in the second...
Burrell’s Oswalt joins elite group; Bucs have 4 championsVideo
The Burrell wrestling team could not have asked for better performance in the finals than it had Saturday at the WPIAL Class AA championship at Canon-McMillan. The Bucs were 4-for-4 in the finals, highlighted by senior Ian Oswalt becoming the 31st wrestler to win four WPIAL titles. He also is...
Highlands beats Mars, grabs at least share of section title
Highlands reached a milestone Saturday afternoon, securing a school-record fourth consecutive section title. And the Golden Rams did it against a long-time nemesis. Highlands defeated Mars in a Section 4-5A make-up game, 65-52, sweeping the season series against the Planets. Before this season, Mars had a 15-game winning streak against...
