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3 of PIHL's 5 All-Star Games decided by 1 goal
The PIHL held its 2025 all-star games Sunday at Robert Morris’ Island Sports Center. Dozens of players competed in five games throughout the day: Class 3A Blue 8, Gold 4 — Robert Chiappettas (South Fayette), Cam Lorenzi (Thomas Jefferson) and Carson Verszyla (Pine-Richland) scored twice each, and Marc Joyson (North...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Jan. 27, 2025: Norwin, Upper St. Clair meet in 1st-place clash
Welcome to the stretch run of the WPIAL girls basketball season, the start of the final two weeks of section play. Now the focus just isn’t on the battles for section championships, it is also on securing the needed positioning in a section to secure a district playoff berth. The...
Trib HSSN girls basketball team of the week for Jan. 26, 2025 
Trib HSSN girls basketball team of the week – Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Chargers Coach – Don Eckerle (22nd season) Record – 15-2 overall, 10-0 in Section 1-3A #Earned – The Our Lady of the Sacred Heart girls basketball teams had built a nice lead in Section 1-3A...
Greensburg Salem, Penn-Trafford and Belle Vernon look to advance in wrestling playoffs
It has been six years since Greensburg Salem competed in the WPIAL team wrestling tournament and seven years since the team won a playoff match. But the improved Golden Lions (7-3) are back in the playoffs and will host Knoch (7-3) in a Class 2A preliminary-round match at 7:15 p.m....
WPIAL girls basketball playoff clinchings through Jan. 26, 2025
The stretch run of the 2025 WPIAL girls basketball season is underway as the district postseason field begins to take shape. A change in the playoff format this season has sections with eight or more teams sending the top five teams to the playoffs while sections with seven or less...
WPIAL boys basketball playoff clinchings through Jan. 26, 2025
The stretch run of the 2025 WPIAL boys basketball season begins this week as the district postseason field slowly takes shape. A change in the playoff format this season has sections with eight or more teams sending the top five teams to the playoffs while sections with seven or less...
Trib HSSN girls basketball player of the week for Jan. 26, 2025 
Trib HSSN girls basketball player of the week: Emma Larkin School: Geibel Catholic Class: Junior Height: 5-foot-5 Position: Guard What coach says: “Her leadership and hustle,” Geibel Catholic coach Sara Larkin said when asked what stood out about her daughter’s performance in a big section win over Clairton on Monday....
This week on Trib HSSN for week of Jan. 27, 2025
While the mercury is finally showing signs of life and slowly defrosting the area, district high school basketball fans prepare to twist and bend with the start of the stretch run of the high school hoops regular season this week here on the TribLive High School Sports Network. We have...
PIHL standings through Jan. 26, 2025
Here are the latest 2024-25 Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League standings through Sunday. The point system in the PIHL this year gives three points for a regulation win, two points for an overtime win and one point for an overtime loss. Class 3A Team – Wins – Losses – Overtime Wins-Overtime...
Latrobe's Andy Tatsch gets 3rd Division I football offer
Latrobe junior Andy Tatsch is looking to follow in his brother Alex’s footsteps to Division I football. The wide receiver and defensive back pulled in a scholarship offer this weekend from Buffalo, giving him three FBS offers. The others are from Akron and West Virginia. Alex Tatsch, a linebacker, is...
Quaker Valley wrestlers pick up section wins, place at tournaments
The bitterly cold temperatures in January haven’t curbed the efforts of the athletes in the Quaker Valley wrestling program. After celebrating the new year with a second-place showing at the Ed Driscoll MAC Tournament, the Quakers won section decisions at Avonworth, 51-24, and at home against Carlynton, 54-18. QV also...
100-match winners lead Quaker Valley wrestlers at Allegheny County tournament
Quaker Valley junior Bruce Anderchak has dominated in high school wrestling for the past two-and-a-half years. Case in point: Anderchak joined an exclusive club Jan. 15 at home against Carlynton when he secured his 100th career win as a QV grappler. “Bruce has wrestled for more than two-thirds of his...
Quaker Valley notebook: Former Quakers swimmer lends expertise as coach
Did you know that Matt Kwalick, a Quaker Valley assistant swim coach, competed for the Quakers swim team when he was a high school student? “We are super thrilled to have Matt Kwalick as a new assistant this year,” said Margaret Getty, a senior leader on the QV girls team....
After slow start, Gateway wrestlers rally at Allegheny County tournament
Gateway wrestling coach Ryan Sula said he didn’t see a lot of good things early on during the two-day Allegheny County tournament Jan. 17 and 18 at Fox Chapel High School. “I thought we got out to a slow start in the first round or two and didn’t wrestle very...
Chartiers Valley wrestlers hitting their stride at right time
When speaking about his wrestlers and the season they’ve been having, Chartiers Valley coach Bill Evans brought up a quote he recently read: “Your culture is not words on a website or posted on the wall. It’s how your people feel on Sunday night.” The quote references how the members...
Chartiers Valley’s Domi Crowley vaulting to new heights
For someone who spends a lot of time in the air, Chartiers Valley senior pole vaulter Domi Crowley is very grounded. That’s because the humbling nature of his sport and the training involved. Crowley is training in a Monroeville warehouse with Danny Smith, one of several coaches he seeks guidance...
Behind 4 Allegheny County champions, Thomas Jefferson wrestling focused on WPIAL team postseason
Thomas Jefferson wrestlers Bode Marlow, Maddox Shaw and Shepard Turk made team history last season as all three won WPIAL championships. Can the three seniors do it again? “We have a balanced team this year with a lot of guys coming up from ninth grade and returning 10th graders,” TJ...
Buzzer-beater boosts Thomas Jefferson boys
His 11th rebound in the game was his most important. Thomas Jefferson junior Nick Trklja grabbed an errant shot inside the paint and scored the game-winning basket at the buzzer to lift his team to a thrilling 73-71 Section 3-5A win Jan. 17 at Peters Township. Near-pandemonium followed as Trklja’s...
South Hills Record notebook: Thomas Jefferson football fills trophy case with postseason honors
A tip of the cap (or is it helmet?) goes out to Thomas Jefferson football coach Bill Cherpak for being named Trib HSSN football coach of the year in Class 4A. Cherpak and his staff guided the Jaguars to a WPIAL 4A title, PIAA semifinal-round appearance, 10-0 regular-season record, the...
Baldwin boys celebrate signature win, milestone for Nate Wesling
It could be considered the basketball game of the year at Baldwin. Trib HSSN Class 5A No. 4 Baldwin met Class 3A No. 1 South Allegheny in a nonsection clash Jan. 16 on the Highlanders’ home court. Two WPIAL hoops heavyweights. Baldwin, previously ranked No. 1 in 5A, prevailed with...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Jan. 25, 2025
High schools Basketball Boys Saturday’s results Class 6A Section 2 Imani Christian 59, Norwin 58 Class 5A Section 2 Kiski Area 79, Indiana 61 Section 4 Blackhawk 73, West Allegheny 60 Class 2A Section 4 South Side 68, Rochester 46 PBC Hall of Fame Classic At Ambridge Ambridge 65, Beaver...
High school roundup for Jan. 25, 2025: Baldwin battles to beat North Hills in 2OT
Caden Cherico scored 22 points to lead Baldwin to a 61-58 victory over North Hills in double overtime at the PBC Hall of Fame Classic at North Hills on Saturday. Nate Wesling added 16 and Max Marzina had 10 for the Highlanders (16-1). Evan Golvash had a steal and layup...
Comeback bid comes up short as Norwin falls to Bishop Guilfoyle at Seton Hill
While their comeback was exciting, the end result left the Norwin girls basketball team wanting more. Norwin surged from 16 points down with a madcap third quarter, but couldn’t complete the rally in a 53-50 loss to Bishop Guilfoyle in the opening game of the Shootout at Seton Hill on...
Belle Vernon hits glass to beat Knoch in matchup of Class 4A contenders
Belle Vernon missed its share of shots after halftime Saturday, but somehow those misses kept finding their way into the basket. The Leopards were focused on the offensive glass and sparked a fourth-quarter run with a string of putback baskets to defeat Knoch, 54-50, in the Pittsburgh Basketball Club Hall...
WPIAL boys basketball rankings: Week ending Jan. 26, 2024
Class 6A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. Upper St. Clair, 17-1, 1 2. Seneca Valley, 11-7, 2 3. Central Catholic, 10-6, 4 4. Imani Christian, 9-6, 5 5. Fox Chapel, 13-4, NR Out: New Castle (13-3, 3) Class 5A 1. Montour, 14-1, 1 2. Baldwin, 15-1, 3 3. Chartiers Valley,...


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