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Trib HSSN girls basketball rankings: Feb. 21, 2021
Class 6A Rk. Team, W-L, Last 1. North Allegheny, 17-0, 1 2. Upper St. Clair, 12-1, 2 3. Mt. Lebanon, 13-3, 4 4. Bethel Park, 11-3, 3 5. Norwin, 11-3, 5 Out: none Class 5A Rk. Team, W-L, Last 1. Trinity, 14-1, 1 2. Chartiers Valley, 15-3, 2 3. Thomas...
Trib HSSN boys basketball rankings: Feb. 21, 2021
Class 6A Rk., Team, W-L, Last 1. Upper St. Clair, 12-1, 1 2. Fox Chapel, 14-2, 2 3. Hempfield, 10-3, 3 4. Pine-Richland, 9-4, NR 5. Penn-Trafford, 9-5, 5 Out: North Allegheny (12-5, 4) Class 5A Rk., Team, W-L, Last 1. Chartiers Valley, 17-1, 1 2. New Castle, 14-2, 2...
Hempfield wins low-scoring game vs. Franklin Regional
Hempfield boys basketball coach Bill Swan said he didn’t know what to expect from a “Saturday soiree” at Franklin Regional. A soiree refers to a fancy evening affair. You wouldn’t call Hempfield’s latest victory fancy, but the Saturday afternoon nonsection matchup will pass as another tune-up for the upcoming WPIAL...
George Guido: WPIAL’s 1984 open tournament remembered for wild upsets
For the first time since 1984, the WPIAL will hold an open basketball tournament. In other words, any team that wants to get in can. The playoff brackets are scheduled to be distributed Tuesday, with action expected to begin Saturday. For now, let’s take a look back at the tournament...
North Allegheny seniors earn redemption with WPIBL championship
A couple of pins cost North Allegheny’s boys bowling team a title two seasons ago, so the Tigers made certain this year’s championship match wasn’t as close. North Allegheny took down top-seeded Butler, 167-148, in the finale of a three-game series to win the WPIBL team finals Feb. 17 at...
Spencer leads way for Pine-Richland wrestling team
Pine-Richland wrestling made some big strides during the team portion of the season, and now the hope is it has set it up for success in an expanded individual season. That starts with defending WPIAL champ Cole Spencer, a Penn recruit who is No. 1 at 160 pounds in the...
Wrestling community helped Franklin Regional senior through family tragedy
Garrett Thompson has never advanced past the WPIAL Class AAA Championship. But the senior has big plans to end his high school career. Despite being in one of the toughest weight classes in the state, 152 pounds, Thompson (21-3) wants to end his high school career atop of the podium...
Franklin Regional girls show skill from beyond perimeter
If anything can turn around a basketball season, it’s one of those can’t-miss games. You know, when everything a team tosses up seems to splash down through the net? Some call it lights-out shooting. Others say luck had a front-row seat. Franklin Regional’s girls had one of those games recently...
Hampton wrestler overcomes size disadvantage to have big senior season
Nearly every time Conrad Harold stepped on the wrestling mat this season, he was facing someone bigger than him. But few were better than him. The Hampton senior finished with a 24-7 record — by far the best mark of his high school career — despite being outweighed by nearly...
Talented juniors lead Hampton girls basketball renaissance
Every once in a while — it doesn’t happen often — one of the top players on the Hampton girls basketball team will toss up a wildly off-target shot at practice. That’s when it gets funny. “If it’s like an airball,” junior guard Sophia Kelly said, “we give each other...
Shady Side Academy’s Maeve Kelley is picking up where she left off
Shady Side Academy sophomore swimmer Maeve Kelley wasn’t sure how this season would go. After the coronavirus pandemic disrupted her regular training schedule last March, Kelley came into this season not really knowing what to expect. She couldn’t train at all from March until June and then couldn’t restart her...
Fox Chapel girls looking to peak at right time with playoffs approaching
The Fox Chapel girls basketball team hasn’t won a playoff game since its last extended playoff run to the WPIAL Class 4A semifinals when it took down Pine-Richland and Norwin. That was seven years ago. Now, after winning seven of their past eight games heading into a Section 2-5A matchup...
New coach DeGregorio seeing good signs with Pine-Richland girls basketball team
When Kyle DeGregorio took over as coach of the Pine-Richland girls basketball team before this season, his first objective was establishing a culture. That culture has tenets that include growth, strengthening relationships between players on the court and developing an open line of communication and trust between players and the...
Riverview basketball teams look forward to open playoffs
When the WPIAL announced in December that it would stage open playoff tournaments for basketball, fearing unbalanced section standings would create issues in determining playoff qualifiers, the Riverview girls basketball team knew it would be one of the participants. But Raiders veteran coach Keith Stitt said he didn’t want his...
Plum’s Logan Parker improves on indoor shot put record
At the third Youngstown State open high school meet of the indoor season Feb. 13, Plum senior Logan Parker threw further than anyone else in the shot put. He recorded a heave of 57 feet, 6½ inches to claim the title, outdistancing regional rival Connor Vass-Gal, a senior from Wilmington...
Norwin notebook: Krevokuch lands football scholarship from Fairmont State
Recruiting can be an odd thing. Timing can play a key part in determining where a prospect plays in college. Sometimes the stars have to align. Norwin senior football player Tanner Krevokuch is a prime example. After he lost a Division I scholarship offer, he began to explore other options....
North Journal notebook: North Allegheny girls basketball keeps rolling
It was 16 up and 16 down for the North Allegheny basketball, which started the season 16-0 after recent victories over Class 5A power Chartiers Valley, as well as Baldwin and Pine-Richland. Jasmine Timmerson scored 18 points and freshman Kellie McConnell had all 11 of her points in the second...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Feb. 20, 2021: Mars, Highlands meet for section lead
Last year, they played for a WPIAL boys basketball crown in two different classifications. One found a pot of gold at The Pete while the other settled for silver after a two-year championship run. On Saturday, No. 3 Mars travels to No. 4 Highlands in a battle not only of...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 19, 2021
High schools Basketball Boys Friday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Section 1 Pine-Richland 73, North Allegheny 47 Seneca Valley at North Hills, ppd. Section 2 Mt. Lebanon 66, Canon-McMillan 36 Section 3 Norwin 67, Greensburg Salem 21 Class 5A Section 1 Laurel Highlands 58, Thomas Jefferson 56 Connellsville 49, West Mifflin...
High school roundup for Feb. 19, 2021: Pine-Richland boys storm past North Allegheny
Luke Shanahan scored 20 points and Pine-Richland blew open a game that was tied at halftime, rolling to a 73-47 Section 1-6A boys basketball victory over No. 4 North Allegheny on Friday night. Jameson O’Toole added 13 for the Rams (9-4, 6-3), who got 12 from Joey Petcash and 11...
Rodney Gallagher’s winner lifts Laurel Highlands over Thomas JeffersonVideo
Laurel Highlands’ Rodney Gallagher already has accomplished more than most sophomores, but the Mustangs star added two more firsts to his list. With time ticking away, Gallagher pulled up in the right corner and made the first winning jumper of his high school career Friday night, sinking a contested shot...
Elizabeth Forward stops Mt. Pleasant for 5th straight win
Elizabeth Forward turned a home economics classroom at Mt. Pleasant into a makeshift locker room Friday night. There certainly weren’t too many cooks in that kitchen. Two players did all the heavy lifting for the Warriors, scoring 88% of the team’s points in a 42-38 victory over the Vikings in...
Late surge carries Shady Side Academy boys past Apollo-Ridge
Even after Shady Side Academy sustained a 30-point loss in the opening round of last year’s WPIAL playoffs, coach David Vadnais felt good about his program going forward. His confidence has paid off this season as the Bulldogs moved a step closer to the Section 3-3A title Friday night with...
Mt. Pleasant junior flexes muscles at WPIAL Class AA section wrestling tournament
Mt. Pleasant junior Noah Gnibus has had a successful high school career, but he’s yet to make it to Hershey. Gnibus hopes that changes this season. He looked sharp Friday, winning his second section title, and now he moves to the WPIAL Class AA championship Saturday at Canon-McMillan. Gnibus (25-8,...
Plum’s Proviano to play soccer at Division I Long Island University
Plum senior Gina Proviano scored 70 goals and had 33 assists over four years as one of the WPIAL’s top girls soccer players. The last two years, the All-WPIAL performer helped the Mustangs capture back-to-back section titles and earn WPIAL Class 3A runner-up finishes. Now, Proviano, the Valley News Dispatch...
