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Fox Chapel boys getting valuable contributions from role players during winning streak
Heading into this season, Fox Chapel boys basketball coach Zach Skrinjar knew what he was going to have in junior Eli Yofan, but the rest of his starting lineup remained a mystery. After going 21-2 last season, the Foxes had to replace four senior starters with players who had to...
Fox Chapel’s David Manelis set to defend his WPIAL diving title
Fox Chapel senior diver David Manelis ran away with the WPIAL Class AAA diving title last season when he beat out the rest of his competitors by more than 100 points. Now, in his final varsity season, Manelis is up to his old tricks and looking to take it one...
Plum wrestlers ready for individual tournaments
The Plum wrestling team turns its focus this week from team competition to individual accomplishments with subsection and section tournaments taking center stage throughout the WPIAL. The Mustangs were slated to wrestle at the Class AAA Section 1B tournament Wednesday which feeds surviving qualifiers to Saturday’s main Section 1 tournament...
Riverview’s Shoop chasing WPIAL swimming success in 500 freestyle
Riverview senior Beth Shoop swam the 500-yard freestyle in a time of 5 minutes, 31.36 seconds during Fox Chapel’s Jan. 14 meet with Woodland Hills. She was excited with that time, which was about a half-second faster than her medal-winning eighth-place finish (5:31.96) at last year’s WPIAL Class AA championships...
Norwin notebook: Big day finally arrives for Giansante
Finally, the day of promise arrived for Anthony Giansante. Signing Day allowed Giansante, the burly senior lineman from Norwin, to finally make his dream of playing Division I football a reality. After his first run through the recruiting process fell through for reasons out of his control, the second was...
Norwin girls seek consistency as postseason nears
Norwin plans to be in the thick of the WPIAL Class 6A chase when the playoffs begin later this month. Based on program tradition, it would be unusual if the Knights were not. But coach Brian Brozeski thinks some fine-tuning needs to be done to get his team ready for...
Aspiring photographer, North Hills swimmer Josh Bogniard seeks picture-perfect WPIALs
When North Hills senior swimmer Josh Bogniard isn’t in the water, he’s often taking photographs of some. Icy waterfalls, mossy streams and a duckweed covered pond appear on the aspiring photographer’s Instagram account. Bogniard focuses his camera on nature, landscapes and people. In recent months, he relied heavily on his...
Trio of female wrestlers make history at North Allegheny
High school students certainly spend a lot of time learning about history. Not many of those students get to make history. Three North Allegheny wrestlers made quite a bit of history with their performance in a recent dual meet. Taylor Stover, Leyna Rumpler and Hannah Williams teamed up to defeat...
Franklin Regional wrestling turns focus to individual goals
Franklin Regional could have entered the WPIAL Class AAA Team Tournament and probably would have won the Section 1 title and reached the semifinals. But coach Matt Lebe, school officials and team members all agreed individual goals were more important to shoot for because of the pandemic. So the team...
Hampton boys head into WPIAL swim championships with great expectations
It’s official. The WPIAL swim finals will take place March 6-7. Hampton’s boys swim team has the dates circled on its calendar. “Everything is gearing up for us to have a great showing at WPIALs,” coach Morgan Zweygardt said. “Now that the date has been confirmed, the boys are even...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Feb. 12, 2021: Boys basketball champs to meet
Last year at this time, both Highlands and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart were planning to begin their postseason journey that led them to a pot of district basketball gold. Before they begin to defend those championships in another couple of weeks, they will clash in a standout nonsection...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 12, 2021
High schools Basketball Boys Friday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Section 1 North Hills 60, North Allegheny 41 Pine-Richland 79, Seneca Valley 59 Section 2 Peters Township 51, Canon-McMillan 45 Upper St. Clair 68, Bethel Park 58 Baldwin at Bethel Park, ppd. Mt. Lebanon at Upper St. Clair, ppd. Section 3...
High school roundup for Feb. 12, 2021: North Allegheny wins battle of girls basketball titans
Jasmine Timmerson scored 18 points and freshman Kellie McConnell had all 11 of her points in the second half to lead North Allegheny to a 61-59 victory over Chartiers Valley in a clash of top WPIAL girls basketball programs Friday night. Lizzy Groetsch scored 13 points and Emma Fischer hit...
Peters Township opens new facility with sloppy win over Canon-McMillan
Everything was awesome for the much-anticipated opening of AHN Arena at the new Peters Township High School. Everything that is, except the play on the Indians’ play. “They found some ways to make some winning plays down the stretch,” Peters Township coach Joe Urmann said. “I’ll just leave it at...
Gateway goes on 2nd-half run in rout of Franklin Regional
Gateway turned a tight battle into a rout in a hurry Friday night, overwhelming section co-leader Franklin Regional with a big third-quarter run en route to a 61-28 Section 3-5A boys basketball victory at home, the Gators’ fourth win in five games. A 24-0 run in the second half buried...
Penn-Trafford boys hold off Norwin charge
For a several-minute stretch late in the first half, Penn-Trafford looked nearly unstoppable. The Warriors ran off 14 straight points to take a 14-point lead over Norwin. Their guards were slashing to the rim, 3-pointers were falling, and they had established a post presence. But the plot thickened in the...
Brayden Reynolds scores 42; No. 2 Chartiers Valley tops No. 1 New Castle
Chartiers Valley’s Brayden Reynolds says his Colts weren’t themselves last month when they hosted New Castle and maybe focused too much on the hype. They saw Friday’s rematch as a chance to show who they really are. “We wanted to come out and make a statement,” said Reynolds, who shook...
Fox Chapel beats Central Catholic, runs win streak to 10 games
A strong second quarter by Eli Yofan, one of the WPIAL’s leading scorers, propelled Fox Chapel to a key Section 3-6A home victory over Central Catholic. It was the 10th consecutive victory for the Foxes, now 7-1 in the section and 12-2 overall. Central Catholic fell to 9-5, 3-4. Yofan...
Leechburg tops St. Joseph in another high-scoring Section 3-1A matchup
Anytime Leechburg’s Dylan Cook and St. Joseph’s Andrew Sullivan step onto the court, expect a high-scoring effort. When the teams faced off earlier this year, Cook scored 36 points and Sullivan 32, but the Blue Devils came away with a six-point victory as the two teams combined for 178 points....
Burgettstown, Seneca Valley look to challenge favorites Burrell, Waynesburg for WPIAL wrestling titles
The Burrell and Waynesburg wrestling teams will aim to defend their WPIAL titles Saturday afternoon at Canon-McMillan. No. 1-seeded Burrell (11-1) will look to capture its 15th straight WPIAL title when the Bucs take on No. 2 Burgettstown (13-0) for the second straight season in the Class 2A championship match...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 11, 2021
High schools Basketball Boys Thursday’s results WPIAL Class 4A Section 1 Burrell 70, Derry 49 Section 2 Blackhawk 52, Beaver 49 Class 3A Section 3 Shady Side Academy 67, Ligonier Valley 57 Steel Valley at East Allegheny, ppd. Class 2A Section 2 Fort Cherry 64, Northgate 29 Nonconference Perry 34,...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Feb. 12, 2021: Girls basketball titans to clash
Did you ever think about being a WPIAL promoter where you could make this team face that team in a dream matchup? That dream becomes reality Friday when defending Class 6A girls basketball champion North Allegheny battles two-time defending 5A champion Chartiers Valley. The Colts are one of the favorites...
High school roundup for Feb. 12, 2021: Warner comes through for Sewickley Academy girls
Bre Warner scored five of her eight points in the fourth quarter, leading No. 5 Sewickley Academy to a 29-21 victory over No. 4 OLSH in a Section 1-2A showdown between ranked girls basketball teams Thursday night. Kamryn Lightcap led Sewickley Academy (9-4, 6-2) with nine points. The Panthers held...
Norwin girls get past rival Penn-Trafford in defensive struggle
Sometimes, rival teams become so enamored with getting defensive stops, they forget to score. So went the story Thursday night in North Huntingdon when Penn-Trafford and Norwin met for the second time this season in girls basketball Section 1-6A. Nobody said rivalry games have to be pretty, but Norwin will...
A-K Valley boys basketball notebook: No cupcakes on Springdale schedule
In order to be one of the best teams in the WPIAL, you have to play against the best teams in the WPIAL. Over the past week, the Class 2A No. 2 Springdale Dynamos have faced off with two of the best. Last Friday, the Dynamos (9-5, 4-2) met Class...
