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Bethel Park’s Travis Zeis claims WPIAL rifle championship
Travis Zeis became the first Bethel Park student to win a WPIAL rifle title in almost 20 years, edging Hempfield’s Lydia Dunn and Waynesburg’s Tayler Burnfield at the individual championships Friday at the Dormont-Mt. Lebanon Sportsmen Club. Zeis, Dunn and Burnfield finished with scores of 200-18x. Zeis had six centers,...
Kiski Area’s Brayden Roscosky and Sammy Starr get 100th wins
After this week’s WPIAL Class AAA Section 1A individual subsection meet, Kiski Area’s Sammy Starr and Brayden Roscosky joined a long line of Kiski Area wrestlers to win 100 career matches. Coming into this season, not knowing what it might hold because of the coronavirus pandemic, one Kiski Area wrestling...
Franklin Regional ready to hire football, soccer coaches
Franklin Regional plans to hire head coaches Monday night to fill vacancies in football and boys soccer. According to the school board agenda, Franklin Regional will recommend Lance Getsy for football and Thomas Louisy for boys soccer. Getsy, an assistant under longtime coach Greg Botta who resigned in January after...
Latrobe linebacker Tucker Knupp picks Lehigh
Latrobe senior Tucker Knupp will play college football in the Patriot League. Knupp gave a verbal commitment to Lehigh, a Divison I-FCS program. Lehigh was his only Division I option, but he also had interest from Carnegie Mellon. A 6-foot, 220-pound inside linebacker, Knupp was a Class 5A Big East...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 18, 2021
High schools Basketball Boys Thursday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Section 3 Fox Chapel 79, Greensburg Salem 34 Class 5A Section 3 Kiski Area 61, Franklin Regional 53 Class 4A Section 2 Quaker Valley 72, Lincoln Park 64 Section 3 South Park at Uniontown, ppd. Class 3A Section 3 Apollo-Ridge at...
High school roundup for Feb. 18, 2021: Quaker Valley gets its revenge
Markus Frank scored 31 points to lead No. 4 Quaker Valley to a 72-64 victory over No. 2 Lincoln Park in Section 2-4A boys basketball Thursday night, avenging a loss from earlier in the week. Adou Thiero added 26 for Quaker Valley (9-3, 8-2). Dakari Bradford and Brandon Cummings scored...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Feb. 19, 2021: Seeds up for grabs in Class 6A hoops
In the last week, both of these boys basketball teams defeated Section 1-6A front runner North Allegheny to cut the gap between the Tigers and the field. Now, North Hills will host Seneca Valley on Friday with seeding implications in play in the upcoming 6A open postseason tournament. The Indians...
No. 2 Upper St. Clair girls use 3-point barrage to sink No. 3 Bethel Park
Tied at the end of three quarters, Upper St. Clair finally came up with a way to score against a suffocating Bethel Park defense. Shoot over it. The Panthers hit four 3-pointers in the final quarter, including on three straight possessions midway through the fourth that turned a one-point deficit...
Southmoreland cuts it close, beats Belle Vernon to clinch share of section title
Talk about cutting it close. Southmoreland knew it was going to bring out the ladder and scissors and cut down the net if it defeated Belle Vernon on Thursday night to clinch at least a share of back-to-back section championships. Belle Vernon didn’t know about the Scotties’ plans but played...
Valley, Leechburg opt out of WPIAL girls basketball playoffs
Earlier this week, Valley girls basketball coach Ernie Sipolino said he was optimistic his team, despite only having five players able to take the court, would enter the open WPIAL Class 4A playoffs. However, one of those five, freshman guard Ryleigh Kasten, has been trying to play through a condition...
Greensburg Salem girls repeat as WPIBL champions
For the second year in a row, the Greensburg Salem girls bowling team is the WPIBL champion. The Golden Lions prevailed over top-seeded Butler, 2-1, in a best-of-three title match Thursday afternoon at Sims Lanes in Beaver Falls. Greensburg Salem won the first game of the finals, 215-156, while Butler...
Four years later, St. Joseph’s Andrew Sullivan continues to score
For the past four years, St. Joseph senior guard Andrew Sullivan has been a mainstay in the Spartans program and has given the team a leader to look to when things get tough. Even as a sophomore, Sullivan helped the Spartans capture a Section 3-A title and make a run...
A-K Valley boys basketball notebook: All 14 boys teams opt into WPIAL playoffs
The WPIAL basketball playoffs are approaching, and teams had until Thursday afternoon to decide whether they were going to play in this year’s open tournament format. In December, after Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf put a three-week pause on winter sports, the WPIAL decided to use an open tournament format that...
Westmoreland boys basketball notebook: Everyone going to playoffs
All 18 boys teams from Westmoreland County will enter the WPIAL basketball playoffs. The WPIAL is having an open tournament this year where all teams are invited to compete. The league deadline to opt in was 3 p.m. Thursday. Southmoreland was undecided going into Wednesday night’s game against Geibel but...
After tough losses, Mt. Pleasant boys turn it up in time for playoffs
Mt. Pleasant had just surrendered a six-point, fourth-quarter lead against Jeannette and took a gut-punch. Jayhawks 32, Vikings 30. The Vikings did not score in the final period. That game, although nonsection, would have been a nice feather in their collective cap, but instead left them wrung out and looking...
25 basketball teams won’t participate in WPIAL’s open postseason tournament
Derry’s girls basketball team earned its way into the WPIAL playoffs last winter, but the one-win Trojans won’t go back this year. They could have. The vast majority of schools will take part in the WPIAL basketball playoffs this winter in an open-tournament format, but 25 teams decided to not...
Franklin Regional boys basketball doing double duty Saturday
Franklin Regional will pull double-duty Saturday. The Panthers boys basketball team will play two nonsection games as they continue to sharpen their rotation for the WPIAL Class 5A playoffs. Coach Steve Scorpion’s grandfather, legendary Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop Dick Groat, might appreciate the “let’s play two” reference as it pertains to...
Big 33 Football Classic goes ‘full-speed ahead,’ announces roster with 19 WPIAL players
The weather will be perfect for the Big 33 Football Classic, predicts Garry Cathell, executive director of the Pennsylvania Scholastic Football Coaches Association. Sure, call him an optimist. But his positive thinking doesn’t end there. Cathell also envisions the all-star game surging back to action this spring with four- and...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 17, 2021
High schools Basketball Boys Wednesday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Section 1 Butler 87, North Hills 60 Seneca Valley 71, North Allegheny 70 Class 5A Section 1 Thomas Jefferson 67, Connellsville 19 Ringgold 65, West Mifflin 49 Section 2 New Castle 55, South Fayette 39 Section 3 Latrobe 56, Franklin Regional...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Feb. 18, 2021: South Hills powers square off
Upper St. Clair, Mt. Lebanon and Bethel Park girls have all been ranked in the Trib HSSN top 5 all season long. The combined overall record of these three juggernauts is 34-6. However, because of the Mt. Lebanon mask policy, not allowing the Blue Devils to play teams without masks,...
High school roundup for Feb. 18, 2021: Shady Side Academy shocks No. 1 South Allegheny
Thompson Lau scored 20 points, including the go-ahead 3-pointer with eight seconds left, as Shady Side Academy stunned No. 1 South Allegheny and moved into first place in Section 3-3A with a 68-61 boys basketball victory Wednesday night. Alex Kramer added 15 points and Ethan Salvia and Eli Teslovich had...
Hempfield wins fifth WPIAL rifle title
The Hempfield coed rifle team achieved one of its goals Wednesday. Now, it will be shooting for the other next week. The Spartans captured their fifth WPIAL title, third in the past four seasons, by outscoring Trinity, Waynesburg and Bethel Park. All four teams advance to the PIAA championship Tuesday...
Latrobe boys basketball gets thrilling victory vs. Franklin Regional
Ryan Sickenberger thought the ball might miss the rim completely when he double-clutched and launched a desperation 3-pointer as the final seconds ticked off. “Frankie (Newill) set a great screen,” the Latrobe senior lefty guard said. “I was just looking for a shot. I thought it was a little flat....
Burrell girls basketball team gets revenge with win over Highlands
Highlands won the first meeting Jan. 30. Burrell returned the favor Wednesday. Behind 17 points from freshman Kate Myers and 11 more from junior Allison Fisher, the Bucs earned a 47-37 victory in a competitive Section 1-4A girls basketball game at Highlands High School. It was the Bucs’ fourth win...
North Allegheny boys win program’s 1st WPIBL team title
The North Allegheny Tigers took down top-seeded Butler in the WPIBL boys team finals on Wednesday at North Versailles Bowling Center to capture the first team championship in program history. The Tigers, who were the No. 2 seed after the qualifying round, beat Butler, 2-1, in the championship match with...
