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Woodland Hills suspends boys basketball coach Matt Furjanic 1 game for social media post
Woodland Hills suspended boys basketball coach Matt Furjanic for one game in response to a social media post last week that criticized game officials. Furjanic confirmed the suspension Thursday after his appeal was denied by the school’s administration. He’ll sit out Friday’s home game against Berlin Brothersvalley. The WPIAL board...
Westmoreland boys basketball notebook: Franklin Regional adds size to its lineup
Franklin Regional has been known to produce good guards under alum and former standout Steve Scorpion. Commanding guards with a handle on the offense who can score and defend. But this year’s team appears to have some size to complement his backcourt. “It’s good to have post guys in this...
Monessen hires West Mifflin assistant to lead football program
Wade Brown was hired Tuesday by the Monessen School Board to fill the vacancy left with the resignation of Shane Swope Jr., just days after the football team forfeited its last game of the season. Monessen athletic director Gina Naccarato said she thinks the program found the right man for...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Jan. 13, 2021
High schools Basketball Boys Wednesday’s results WPIAL Class 3A Section 3 Shady Side Academy 72, East Allegheny 38 Class 2A Section 2 Sto-Rox 60, Burgettstown 39 Section 4 Monessen 65, Jefferson-Morgan 59 Class A Section 2 Avella 65, Geibel 57 Nonsection South Side 70, Brentwood 65 Frazier 66, Yough 45...
High school roundup for Jan. 13, 2021: Brayden Reynolds stars for Chartiers Valley
Brayden Reynolds had a big night, leading Chartiers Valley to a 64-62 overtime victory over Lincoln Park in a battle of Trib HSSN ranked boys basketball teams Wednesday night. Reynolds scored 34 points, including four in overtime, to top the 1,000-point mark for his career. Carter Mastovic added 12 points...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for Jan. 14, 2021: Class 3A showdown in boys basketball
While Thursday is a busy night of girls basketball around the WPIAL, there are only two district boys basketball games scheduled. However, one of them is a nonsection showdown of ranked teams in Class 3A as Washington visits South Allegheny in a game you can hear on Trib HSSN at...
Trib HSSN state boys basketball rankings for Jan. 13, 2021
While basketball is back for most boys basketball teams around the WPIAL, that is not the case around the PIAA. Thus, the Trib HSSN boys state basketball rankings are moving, and will continue to move, like sand in the hourglass. There are nine teams from District 12 among the top...
Trib 10: Chartiers Valley sitting pretty in boys, girls power rankings
The slow progression of the 2020-2021 boys and girls basketball season continues around the WPIAL as some teams try to stay on schedule while others are still trying to tip off. There was some moving up and down of teams on both sides of the weekly Trib HSSN power rankings....
No. 10 Norwin wrestling opens season by upending No. 4 LatrobeVideo
Norwin’s wrestling team made quite a statement Wednesday night in their Class 3A Section 2-B opener. That statement was: “Watch out for us.” The No. 10-ranked Knights won their final four bouts and defeated No. 4 Latrobe, 40-27. Norwin (2-0, 1-0) won eight matches, which included pins from Josh Page...
Hudson resigns after highly successful 2nd stint as Franklin Regional boys soccer coach
Rand Hudson has two loves in his life. His family and soccer. Sooner or later, he knew one was going to take precedence over the other. Finding the right time to make one a priority was his challenge, but he did not want to drag out his decision any longer....
Westmoreland girls basketball notebook: Mt. Pleasant off to unbeaten start
Mt. Pleasant coach Scott Giacobbi is not quite ready to schedule a parade up and down Route 31, but he has enjoyed his team’s quick start. A long season awaits, but the Vikings are 3-0 and tied for first place in Section 3-4A with No. 1 Southmoreland, the team they’ll...
A-K Valley girls basketball notebook: Plum flashes potential with win over Mars
A mix of experience and youthful talent has the Plum girls basketball team hoping to finish at the top of Section 2-5A and break a long playoff win drought. The Mustangs got off to a strong start Tuesday as they dispatched perennial Class 5A playoff qualifier Mars, 59-48. Down by...
Deer Lakes’ Hasley strives to lead improving team
In a high school basketball season like no other, leaders are needed to help guide teams through the uncertainties that remain as schedules continue to evolve. Junior point guard Reese Hasley, a third-year starter and all-star performer, strives to be that leader for her Deer Lakes teammates. “Her freshman year,...
Covid changes rearrange Greensburg Salem basketball schedules
Greensburg Salem has not played a girls basketball game since Feb. 8 of last year. That means it will be nearly one calendar year since the Golden Lions faced an opponent for a meaningful competition when they finally take the floor Jan. 23. At least that is the planned date...
WPIAL ‘publicly censures’ Woodland Hills basketball coach Matt Furjanic for tweet
Woodland Hills boys basketball coach Matt Furjanic tweets mostly about presidential politics to his 436 Twitter followers, but the WPIAL found one of his other posts more controversial. The WPIAL board decided Wednesday that Furjanic should be publicly admonished for using social media to question a technical foul called against...
Blistering 32-point quarter carries new-look North Allegheny past Seneca Valley
North Allegheny’s boys basketball team hasn’t reached triple digits in the past five seasons, which isn’t all that surprising since scoring 100 points is rare in the WPIAL. But this year’s team has a chance. “We’re trying to put up as many as we can,” NA senior Greg Habib said....
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Jan. 12, 2021
High schools Basketball Boys Tuesday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Section 1 Butler at North Hills, ppd. North Allegheny 91, Seneca Valley 68 Section 2 Baldwin 56, Canon-McMillan 50 Upper St. Clair 57, Bethel Park 53 Mt. Lebanon 63, Peters Township 43 Section 3 Hempfield 65, Central Catholic 53 Penn-Trafford 63,...
No. 1 Upper St. Clair pulls off gritty win over Bethel ParkVideo
Defense not only wins championships, it never takes a night off. It’s too early for the first one, but Class 6A No. 1 Upper St. Clair remained unbeaten Tuesday thanks in large part to its defense. The Panthers shook off a rough night of shooting and came back to beat...
High school roundup for Jan. 12, 2021: Jackson Juzang hits for 42 for Winchester Thurston
Jackson Juzang poured in 42 points to power Winchester Thurston to an 86-73 boys basketball victory in Section 3-2A Tuesday night. Lance Nicholls added 22 and Henry McCombs 16 for Winchester Thurston (1-1, 1-1). Mark Thomas led Serra Catholic (0-1, 0-1) with 24 points. Elijah Ward had 22. Aliquippa 65,...
Ligonier Valley winter sports teams finally get down to preparing for WPIAL debuts
Ligonier Valley athletes and coaches were getting restless. When the school district shut down sports activities Nov. 18 — yes, that long ago — the Rams were left to their own devices as far as training and working out, all with their anticipated debut in the WPIAL on the horizon....
WPIAL wrestling notebook: Covid protocols shut down Waynesburg
No. 1 Waynesburg got off to a fast start to the season by defeating Chartiers Valley, 65-3, in a Section 4-A match. The Raiders won 12 of 13 bouts highlighted by Wyatt Henson’s 14-4 win over Chartiers Valley’s Dylan Evans at 145 pounds. Henson is a returning Class AAA state...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Jan. 13, 2021: Wrestling rivals collide
Last year, they met in the regular season and again in the team sectionals. On Wednesday, the Washington County rivals square off for the first, but possibly not the last time on a busy night of WPIAL wrestling. After winning their regular season match, Canon-McMillan beat Trinity again in the...
Trib HSSN state girls basketball rankings for Jan. 12, 2021
Now that the four-week stoppage in winter sports has been lifted by the governor, teams around the commonwealth are slowly getting back to game action. There are still plenty of teams in the latest Trib HSSN PIAA girls basketball state rankings that have yet to tip off their season. Thus,...
No. 1 OLSH blows out No. 2 Springdale in battle of top teams
The matchup between WPIAL Class 2A No. 1 Our Lady of the Sacred Heart and No. 2 Springdale on Tuesday was a year in the making. Both teams but together fantastic seasons last year, but Springdale’s was derailed by Winchester Thurston in the WPIAL quarterfinals before OLSH went on to...
Third-ranked Jeannette boys edge Greensburg Central Catholic on late putbackVideo
That Greensburg Central Catholic had played a game and Jeannette had not heading into the teams’ Section 3-2A boys basketball matchup was mostly irrelevant to the coaches. When rivals like these get together, the present tends to upstage the past. “Doesn’t matter,” GCC coach Christian Hyland said. “It’s GCC-Jeannette.” Jeannette...
