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Westmoreland County boys basketball notebook: Norwin ready for rematch
Section rematches in the first round usually are taboo for the WPIAL basketball steering committee. But they bent the rules slightly this year when building the playoff brackets. There are only two eight-team sections in 6A, which limits what the committee can do with matchups. But the WPIAL said it...
Westmoreland County high school basketball playoff preview capsules for Feb. 14, 2025
Boys Class 4A First round 11-Derry (12-9) at 6-Central Valley (18-4) 7 p.m. Friday Winner plays: At No. 3 Beaver (18-4) (time TBD) on Wednesday in quarterfinals Players to watch: Stanley Rajkovich, Derry; Isaiah Jeter, Central Valley Layup lines: Derry finished third in Section 3 behind Belle Vernon and Elizabeth...
Two-time champ Deer Lakes shows its playoff experience in beating Quaker Valley
Deer Lakes is still unbeaten in the WPIAL playoffs under coach Albie Fletcher, a remarkable three-year streak that added another win Friday night. The Lancers’ postseason poise was evident in this one. Seventh-seeded Deer Lakes upped its defensive intensity and scored 21 consecutive points in a decisive run that spanned...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 12, 2025
High schools Basketball WPIAL playoffs Boys Class 6A First round Monday’s schedule Woodland Hills (11-11) at Seneca Valley (11-11), 7 p.m.; North Hills (7-15) at Butler (15-6), 7 p.m.; Norwin (10-11) at Mt. Lebanon (15-7), 7 p.m. Quarterfinals Feb. 20 schedule Woodland Hills/Seneca Valley winner at Upper. St. Clair (20-2),...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Feb. 13, 2025: Let the playoff games begin
Let the games begin! The 2025 Path to the Pete begins Thursday with eight “pigtail” games. The term pigtail was often used by the first WPIAL executive director Charles “Ace” Heberling. Now, they are known as preliminary round games and there will be six boys and two girls contests to...
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania high school girls basketball rankings for Feb. 12, 2025
Only two teams lost their spot in the Trib HSSN girls basketball state rankings this week as we transition from regular season to postseason. On the fall for now were Hollidaysburg from District 6 in Class 5A, replaced by undefeated Penn-Trafford, and DuBois Central Catholic from D-9 in Class A,...
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania high school boys basketball rankings for Feb. 12, 2025
The regular season has come to an end and as teams prepare for their respective district playoffs, there wasn’t much change from last week to this week’s Trib HSSN boys basketball rankings. Two teams from the powerful District 12 slipped out of the Top 5 for now, one from 6A...
Trib10: Ranked teams hold their ground as playoffs begin
There were no drastic falls during the final week of the 2025 WPIAL basketball regular season, but there were some slips here and there in preparation for the Path to the Pete. There were some adjustments as some teams dropped and some rose up in the latest Trib 10 power...
High school roundup for Feb. 12, 2025: Allderdice boys, girls reach City League finals
Lukas Stead and Asher Schwartz scored 12 points apiece as Allderdice defeated Westinghouse, 81-23, in the City League semifinals Wednesday. Matt Kassis added 11 points and Keith Taylor and Trey Schachter had 10 points each for the Dragons (14-9). Jaymeer Wilson and Souljah Cook scored six points each for Westinghouse...
Plum heats up, wins WPIBL boys team championship
Once the Plum boys bowling team hit its stride Wednesday, nothing was getting in its way. After losing their first game of the semifinals, the Mustangs reeled off wins in the next four games to claim the WPIBL boys team championship at AMF Mt. Lebanon. Plum, which finished second in...
Springdale boys return to postseason looking to ‘make some magic’
When Scott Ruppert took over the Springdale boys basketball team three weeks before the season started, the first thing he did was reach out to his players and provide them each with a goal sheet. Every one of his seniors wrote the same goal: make it to the playoffs. “That...
A-K Valley high school basketball playoff preview capsules for Feb. 13, 2025
WPIAL basketball playoffs Girls Class 4A Preliminary round 17-Highlands (6-15) at 16-Yough (11-11) 7 p.m. Thursday Winner plays: At No. 1 Blackhawk (20-2), 7 p.m. on Monday in first round Players to watch: Tyarah Woody, Highlands; Hailey Bock, Yough Layup lines: Highlands made the playoffs despite starting the season 0-8....
Westmoreland County girls basketball notebook: Yough seeks elusive playoff win
Yough’s motivation for the playoffs lies in its drive to improve, a long-standing goal on Cougar Mountain. The girls basketball team is back in the WPIAL postseason, but the question is: Do the Cougars have staying power? Yough has not won a playoff game since 2009. “The girls are very...
Westmoreland County high school basketball playoff preview capsules for Feb. 13, 2025
Boys Class 5A Preliminary round 17-Indiana (10-12) at 16-Franklin Regional (11-11) 7 p.m. Thursday Winner plays: At No. 1 Montour (21-1), 7 p.m. Tuesday in first round Players to watch: Aaron Webb, Indiana; Connor Crossey, Franklin Regional Layup lines: Indiana finished fourth in Section 2 behind Kiski Area, Penn Hills...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 11, 2025
High schools Basketball WPIAL playoffs Boys Class 6A First round Monday’s schedule Woodland Hills (11-11) at Seneca Valley (11-11), 7 p.m.; North Hills (7-15) at Butler (15-6), 7 p.m.; Norwin (10-11) at Mt. Lebanon (15-7), 7 p.m. Quarterfinals Feb. 20 schedule Woodland Hills/Seneca Valley winner at Upper. St. Clair (20-2),...
High school roundup for Feb. 11, 2025: Peters Township rallies to knock off Mt. Lebanon
John Ripepi scored the game-winning goals with 3:22 left in the regulation to lift Peters Township to a 4-3 victory over first-place Mt. Lebanon in PIHL Class 3A hockey Tuesday night. Blacke Evancic and Luca Maietta also scored in the third period as Peters Township (6-10-2) came back from 3-1...
Latrobe promotes assistant to replace departing athletic director
A former Wildcat wide receiver and safety and a member of the Latrobe Class of 2016 is moving up as the district’s athletic director beginning Wednesday. The school board on Tuesday promoted Tyler Gustafson, who is in his fourth year serving as assistant athletic director. He succeeds Zac Heide, who...
High school wrestling notebook: Postseason heats up with individual tournaments
High school wrestling across the commonwealth makes a big with switch this weekend with the start of the individual tournaments. Instead of wrestling for their team and teammates, which they’ve done for the past 10 weeks, wrestlers compete for themselves. The ultimate goal for many is to wrestle March 8...
Burrell wrestler Stewart continues steady progress
LOWER BURRELL — Bella Stewart is seeded fifth at 124 pounds for Saturday’s WPIAL girls wrestling individual championships at North Allegheny High School. Burrell’s lone senior and team captain has fared well to the tune of a 24-9 record. She hopes to make waves in her WPIAL tournament debut. “I...
Woodland Hills claims school’s 7th WPIAL team rifle title
Led by two shooters with perfect scores, Woodland Hills claimed its first WPIAL team rifle championship since 2016 on Tuesday at the Dormont-Mt. Lebanon Sportsmen’s Club in Canonsburg. Avery Thomas and Shamira Pennell had perfect scores of 100-10x for the Wolverines. All eight scoring players for Woodland Hills hit the...
Trib HSSN high school wrestling rankings for Feb. 11, 2025
Team rankings Class 3A Team (Record), Last week 1. Connellsville (15-3), 2 2. Franklin Regional (19-2), 1 3. Norwin (16-3), 3 4. Thomas Jefferson (12-2), 4 5. Bethel Park (12-2), 5 6. North Allegheny (15-3), 6 7. Kiski Area (14-5), 7 8. Latrobe (10-6), 8 9. Fox Chapel (11-4), 9...
WPIAL breaks unwritten rule about 1st-round rematches in basketball playoffs
Some WPIAL basketball teams won’t need to scout their playoff opponent much. Avoiding section rematches in the first round was an unwritten rule the WPIAL historically tried to follow, but this season the basketball steering committee at times moved away from that idea. The philosophical change was most obvious in...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 10, 2025
High schools Basketball Boys Monday’s results Nonsection Albert Gallatin at Connellsville, (n) Apollo-Ridge 72, St. Joseph 46 Armstrong 51, Valley 37 Baldwin 66, Elizabeth Forward 55 Beaver Falls 70, Rochester 39 Blackhawk 76, New Brighton 49 Central Valley 63, Northgate 61 (OT) Clairton 100, Portersville Christian 50 Derry 61, Southmoreland...
High school roundup for Feb. 10, 2025: Clairton’s Iyanna Wade hits 3,000-point mark
Iyanna Wade scored 32 points to become the fourth girls basketball player in WPIAL history to reach the 3,000-point mark, leading Clairton to a 48-25 victory over Ellis School in nonsection girls basketball Monday night. Wade (3,021) joins Monessen’s Gina Naccarato (3,364) and Charel Allen (3,110) and East Allegheny’s Brooke...
Penn-Trafford gets past Latrobe in matchup of top teams in PIHL Class 2A
Brock Bienemann scored two goals and goaltender Tyler Funk made 33 saves as Penn-Trafford defeated Latrobe, 3-1, in a PIHL Class 2A battle Monday at Palmer Imaging Arena in Delmont. The victory gives the second-place Warriors (14-3-1) 45 points, while the Wildcats (13-3) are in fourth with 39 points. Fox...


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