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Senior duo helps young players, leads Riverview girls to another playoff season
The Riverview girls basketball team had made the WPIAL playoffs seven straight years heading into the 2024-25 season, tied for the longest streak in the A-K Valley. After making the jump to Class 2A, the Raiders were looking to make it eight straight postseason appearances. Through the first eight games,...
Norwin notebook: Knights track and field teams win indoor titles
The Norwin boys and girls indoor track and field teams are champions for the first time. Both won titles at the Tri-State Track and Field Coaches Association championships at the Edinboro Bubble. Ryan Schiller won the 60-meter dash in 8.14 seconds, Luke Simpson was first in the mile in 4...
NA girls basketball looks ahead after rough season
On paper, the North Allegheny girls basketball team had its worst season in 37 years. On the court, it was a different story. “I think there are other ways to win outside of the wins and losses on paper,” said first-year coach Gabby Baldasare, whose Tigers (9-14) lost to top-seeded...
North Allegheny junior divers make ripples at WPIAL championships
North Allegheny’s latest WPIAL champion divers took different paths to the top. Junior Ethan Maravich is a converted swimmer who picked up diving two years ago because the boys team needed help on the boards. Junior Maggie Lapina is a former standout gymnast who started diving 18 months ago after...
Fox Chapel’s D’Angelo Hamilton earns spot at PIAA West Region tournament
Fox Chapel wrestling coach Michael Frank said before the WPIAL Class 3A championships that he wasn’t sure how he felt about the PIAA adding a West Regional this season. All WPIAL wrestlers would now have an extra step to qualifying for the state tournament. The Foxes had one wrestler break...
Indoor season sets Fox Chapel track up for strong spring
The Fox Chapel indoor track team didn’t send any athletes to the state indoor track championships this season, but Foxes coach Tom Moul was pleased with the dedication of his roster. Michael Costello came to the Tri-State Track Coaches Association meet at Edinboro following a 3 1/2 hour drive following...
Coach remains positive after winless season for Gateway girls
Building a team is a process that takes time. For Gateway girls basketball coach Curtis Williams, the process included some growing pains this past year. Faced with fielding a very young team, Williams had a tall task assigned to him: Guide a group of inexperienced girls, many of whom were...
Sewickley Academy playoff run stops just short of WPIAL finals
Sewickley Academy’s boys basketball team rolled through the first two rounds of the WPIAL Class 2A playoffs, defeating No. 15 Bentworth and No. 7 Chartiers-Houston. The second-seeded Panthers faced a more formidable opponent — No. 3 Jeannette — in the semifinal round and lost a 45-24 decision Feb. 24 at...
Penn-Trafford grad Carlee Valenta qualifies for NCAA rifle championship
Carlee Valenta, a 2024 Penn-Trafford graduate qualified for the NCAA Division I rifle championship, set for March 14-15, at Kentucky. The freshman at the University of Texas-El Paso set two school records. She is the first Miner since 2012 to compete in the championship. Valenta has had an outstanding season,...
Southmoreland’s Murphy continues to rise in WPIAL girls wrestling
A year ago, Southmoreland’s Zoey Murphy came away with silver at the WPIAL girls individual wrestling championships after being pinned by Plum’s Alaina Claassen in the 235-pound final. After an offseason during which she developed her skills, Murphy came into the WPIAL championships Feb. 15 at North Allegheny ready to...
Fort Cherry’s Welsh earns only gold for WPIAL at Class 2A wrestling regionals
ALTOONA — The WPIAL nearly was shut out Saturday in the championship matches of the PIAA Class 2A Southwestern Regional wrestling tournament at Altoona High School. Fort Cherry’s Braedon Welsh made sure there was a winner. Down to the final two weight classes — PIAA Districts 5 and 6 dominated...
Seeds finalized for WPIAL boys basketball teams in PIAA playoffs
The Path to the Pete is complete with six WPIAL boys basketball champions crowned the last three days at Pitt’s Petersen Events Center. Upper St. Clair became the first boys 6A team to repeat as District 7 champs and the only squad to win back-to-back this season. Three schools ended...
High school roundup for March 1, 2025: Allderdice girls advance to PIAA 1st round
Bailey White scored 23 points and City League champion Allderdice rolled to a 64-48 victory over Erie in the PIAA Class 6A District 8-10 subregional final Saturday. Peyton Lynch scored 16 points and Seena Teshome added 10 for the Dragons (20-5), who will meet WPIAL third-place finisher Canon-McMillan in the...
Plum girls win rematch with Hempfield, take 3rd straight regional team bowling title
In a rematch of last month’s WPIBL finals, Plum defeated Hempfield in three games to win the girls team title at the Western PA Regional Bowling Championships on Saturday. Hempfield won the first game of the finals, 172-149, before the Mustangs roared back with victories in the final two games...
A-K Valley athletes of the week: Freeport’s Kira Schrecongost; Fox Chapel’s Owen Howell
Kira Schrecongost School: Freeport Class: Senior Sport: Swimming Claim to fame: Schrecongost took gold in the 100-yard butterfly in 54.85 seconds, setting a school record at the WPIAL Class 2A championships this week. The win gave her a title in the event three out of her four years. She was...
Oakland Catholic outduels Blackhawk in tense Class 4A championship game
The Oakland Catholic Eagles defeated the Blackhawk Cougars, 52-50, in the Class 4A finals Saturday at Petersen Events Center, taking home their seventh WPIAL title and first since 2006. The Cougars trailed 39-32 halfway through the third quarter. Nevertheless, Blackhawk battled back and took the lead early in the fourth...
Westmoreland County high school notebook: Norwin celebrates indoor track titles
The Norwin boys and girls indoor track and field teams are champions for the first time. Both won titles at the Tri-State Track & Field Coaches Association Championships last weekend at the Edinboro Bubble. Ryan Schiller won the 60-meter dash in 8.14 seconds, Luke Simpson was first in the mile...
Greensburg Central Catholic girls ready to lace ’em up in state tournament
A reporter asked some Greensburg Central Catholic girls basketball players in a postgame news conference if the shoes they wore in the WPIAL championship were new. The entire team wore aqua-green Nike high-tops at Petersen Events Center on Thursday night when they celebrated their second straight title. “No, we’ve had...
South Allegheny stuns 2-time defending champion Aliquippa to win 1st WPIAL title
Josh Jackowski wanted to roll the dice. The rest of the South Allegheny boys basketball team came to a similar conclusion. When the Gladiators pressed, they were able to force a bad pass from Aliquippa’s Marques Council. Jackowski picked up the loose ball and scored on a layup with 29...
Hempfield’s Kapusta, Belle Vernon’s Brown keep rolling, 49 from WPIAL qualify for 3A states
So far, so good for Hempfield junior Nico Kapusta. Even though he missed most of the regular season with a left elbow injury he suffered during a preseason tournament, which made him doubtful to compete, Kapusta healed faster than expected. Now he has his eye on winning a PIAA Class...
Kiski Area’s Golding earns another girls wrestling regional title as WPIAL fares well
All the usual suspects were at the PIAA girls regional championships Saturday at North Allegheny High School. Ava Golding of Kiski Area, Plum’s Safia Davis and Alaina Claassen, Southmoreland’s Zoey Murphy and a contingent of 10 Canon-McMillan wrestlers were present and eager for the action to start. But there was...
Chartiers Valley beats Peters Township to cap breakthrough season with WPIAL title
Chartiers Valley went from being a basketball program in turmoil to a WPIAL champion in a little over a year. Led by first-year coach Corey Dotchin and prolific senior scorer Jayden Davis, fourth-seeded Chartiers Valley finished off its turnaround Saturday night by defeating No. 6 Peters Township, 73-66, in the...
Defending champion Upper St. Clair rolls past New Castle to claim 5th WPIAL title 
Upper St. Clair stared down an opponent tied for the most WPIAL championships in district history and didn’t flinch. The top-seeded Panthers used their height advantage, physical defense and rebounding, plus timely outside shooting to defend their Class 6A boys basketball title Friday night with a 65-43 victory over No....
Butler bowler wins regional title
Butler’s Greg Wilbert got past Thomas Jefferson’s Dylan Roberts, 226-221, in a final match that came down to the last frame at the Western PA Regional High School Bowling Championships on Friday. Wilbert defeated top qualifier JJ Bingham of East Allegheny in the semifinals, 245-239, and Roberts topped Thomas Jefferson...
Derry, Burrell send 4 to semifinals at PIAA Class 2A Southwest Regional
Derry and Burrell each have four wrestlers in the semifinals and five others alive in the consolation bracket, leading the WPIAL contingent on the first day of the PIAA Class 2A Southwestern Regional on Friday in Altoona. Anthony Mucci (133), Mason Horwat (152), Ewan Olson (160) and Brady Brown (189)...


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