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2021 Trib 10 Boys Basketball All-Stars
This year’s Trib 10 boys basketball all-star team could look a lot like next year’s team. Of the 10 players selected, six are juniors or sophomores. That list includes Laurel Highlands sophomore Rodney Gallagher and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart junior Jake DiMichele, who earned Trib 10 honors for...
2021 Trib 10 Girls Basketball All-Stars
This year’s Trib 10 girls basketball all-star team has an impressive collection of medals. This winter alone, counting both gold and silver medals, these players combined collected eight from the WPIAL and added four more from the PIAA. But for many, this year’s medal wasn’t their first. Chartiers Valley teammates...
Seton LaSalle coaches Mauro Monz, Jason Pinkston suspended 1 year by WPIAL
Seton LaSalle football coach Mauro Monz and assistant Jason Pinkston are suspended from coaching any PIAA-affiliated team for one year, the WPIAL announced Wednesday. Neither had yet to coach a game at Seton. The discipline comes a day after four school districts raised recruiting allegations against Seton LaSalle’s first-year coaching...
Seton LaSalle football coaches face possible suspension following WPIAL hearing
Administrators from four school districts raised recruiting allegations Tuesday against Seton LaSalle’s football coaches during a lengthy closed-door hearing with the WPIAL, a situation unprecedented in recent memory, WPIAL executive director Amy Scheuneman said. The WPIAL intends to notify Seton LaSalle on Wednesday of its decision and any possible discipline....
Chartiers Valley held to 27 points in PIAA championship loss to Cardinal O’HaraVideo
HERSHEY — On film, Cardinal O’Hara looked big, strong and physical to Chartiers Valley coach Tim McConnell, so his Colts weren’t surprised by what they ran into at Giant Center. Yet, nobody could’ve foreseen this. Chartiers Valley — which once scored 100 points in a game this season — tied...
PIAA Class 5A girls basketball championship breakdown: Chartiers Valley vs. Cardinal O’Hara
PIAA Class 5A girls basketball championship Chartiers Valley vs. Cardinal O’Hara 5 p.m. Saturday at Giant Center, Hershey On the air: PCN-TV; WJPA-FM 95.3/HSSN How they got here: WPIAL champion Chartiers Valley defeated District 10 champion Warren, 61-38, in the quarterfinals and District 3 champion Spring Grove, 50-33, in the...
North Allegheny girls celebrate 1st PIAA title, top Spring-Ford in state finalsVideo
HERSHEY — North Allegheny’s Lizzy Groetsch and Paige Morningstar were together at Giant Center four years ago when the Tigers last reached the state finals, and they talked then about someday winning a title. Their day arrived Friday. Groetsch shook off early foul trouble to score a game-high 22 points...
OLSH joins elite list as undefeated PIAA boys basketball champion
HERSHEY — For Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, this was the perfect ending. OLSH junior Jake DiMichele had 21 points, 16 rebounds and five blocks, and senior Dante Spadafora added 15 points as the Chargers defeated Philadelphia’s Constitution, 62-49, in the PIAA Class 2A final Friday at Giant Center....
Mohawk basketball seniors find ‘closure’ despite PIAA championship loss
HERSHEY — The PIAA eliminated its on-court medal ceremonies this winter, so Mohawk basketball coach Mike O’Lare awarded them in the team’s makeshift locker room. The two-time WPIAL champions lost to Philadelphia’s West Catholic, 67-56, in the PIAA Class 3A final Thursday night, but O’Lare made certain his players left...
Neshannock girls fall in PIAA basketball finals, plan return trip to Hershey
HERSHEY — Neshannock’s first visit to the state finals ended with silver medals and a runner-up trophy, but before the Lancers left Giant Center, they were already making plans for a return trip. They have no seniors, so why not? “We decided in the little room over there that we’ll...
Constitution will play OLSH in state finals after negative covid tests
HERSHEY — The Our Lady of the Sacred Heart boys basketball team will have an opponent for the state championships. The game was in question over covid-19 concerns, but the Class 2A final against Constitution will be played as schedule at 2:30 p.m. Friday, PIAA executive director Bob Lombardi said....
PIAA favors full playoff brackets for spring sports ‘if possible’
If the PIAA gets its wish, spring sports will have full state playoff brackets this season rather than the smaller champions-only format used in the fall and winter. “That’s our intention,” PIAA executive director Bob Lombardi said Wednesday, two days before spring teams can start regular-season competition. But the bigger...
Short-handed Upper St. Clair falls in state semifinals to ReadingVideo
ALTOONA — There was no short-handed win for Upper St. Clair this time, no sequel to the team’s six-man celebration from a few days ago. But there was no quit either. Upper St. Clair used seven players Tuesday night — one more than last game — and welcomed back coach...
WPIAL to investigate recruiting allegations against Seton LaSalle football
The WPIAL has scheduled a hearing to address recruiting allegations raised by other schools against Seton LaSalle’s football coaching staff. The hearing is scheduled for March 30. The WPIAL board has discussed the specifics of the allegations only in executive session. Seton LaSalle hired Mauro Monz as football coach in...
Foul trouble dooms Lincoln Park in PIAA semifinal loss to Hickory
Twenty-eight times Lincoln Park was whistled for a foul Monday night, yet it wasn’t so much how they fouled but rather who. Hickory senior Peyton Mele went 12 for 13 from the line in the second half and scored a game-high 38 points as the District 10 champion defeated host...
Short-handed Upper St. Clair wins PIAA quarterfinal with 6 players, volunteer coachVideo
Screenwriters might not turn the “Upper St. Clair Six” into a movie, but their improbable story has every element for a covid-era drama about high school basketball. Only six players were available after team-wide covid-19 testing and they asked a 20-year-old volunteer coach to lead them, yet somehow the short-handed...
New Castle loses late lead, falls to Cathedral Prep in overtime
For New Castle, the fourth quarter ticked away too slowly and overtime went by too fast. The Red Hurricanes lost a seven-point lead late in regulation, and in overtime saw their potential tying basket waved off after the buzzer Friday night as Erie’s Cathedral Prep won 52-50 in the PIAA...
Winning basketball titles runs in Lincoln Park freshman Brandin Cummings’ family
Comparisons to older brother Nelly are harder to shake than any lockdown defender, and Lincoln Park freshman Brandin Cummings just added another item in common. “Different personality. Different length. Different kind of player,” coach Mike Bariski said. “But here’s the similarity: Both were really good as freshmen.” And both won...
Dan DeRose makes ‘tough decision,’ resigns as North Allegheny boys basketball coach
Calling it “a very tough decision,” Dan DeRose resigned Wednesday night after one season as boys basketball coach at North Allegheny. “I really need to step back and evaluate some things,” he said, “because I’m going through some personal and some family issues that I need to deal with.” DeRose...
Covid-19 concerns won’t keep Upper St. Clair boys out of PIAA basketball playoffs
Upper St. Clair’s boys basketball team has at least six healthy players, so the Panthers will compete Saturday in the PIAA playoffs as scheduled. The school was awaiting results from team-wide covid-19 tests after a case was discovered Sunday, two days after Upper St. Clair won the WPIAL Class 6A...
Lincoln Park tops North Catholic, avenges last season’s WPIAL championship loss
Dakari Bradford never forgot the emotions he saw in Lincoln Park’s locker room last winter, especially the sadness from the seniors playing their final WPIAL championship. “It was a heart-breaker,” he said. To keep that from happening again, the senior scored nine of his 19 points in the fourth quarter...
Upper St. Clair boys basketball quarantines after covid case, state playoffs in question
Three days after winning a WPIAL title, Upper St. Clair’s boys basketball season could be in jeopardy. The team shut down activities after learning Sunday of a covid-19 case, USC athletic director Kevin Deitrick said. The Panthers are scheduled to face either Altoona or Erie in the state playoffs Saturday....
WPIAL notebook: League won’t face financial loss from winter sports
The WPIAL lost around $28,000 by holding its swimming championships with no spectators, but the league expects to break even once all winter sport revenues are counted. “There won’t be a financial windfall and there won’t be a financial deficit,” WPIAL executive director Amy Scheuneman told the WPIAL board Monday....
WPIAL Class 4A boys basketball championship breakdown: North Catholic vs. Lincoln Park
WPIAL Class 4A boys basketball championship No. 5 North Catholic vs. No. 2 Lincoln Park 8 p.m. Monday at North Allegheny On the air: 1230 AM, 99.3 FM, 1460 AM; TribHSSN.TribLive.com (video stream) Winner plays: Lincoln Park or North Catholic will host District 9 champion Clearfield on Friday in the...
New Castle tops Chartiers Valley for record 14th WPIAL basketball title
New Castle’s Sheldon Cox wasn’t the senior who had everyone’s attention entering Saturday night. But by the time Cox threw down two dunks in the final seconds, all eyes were on him and his record-setting Red Hurricanes. Cox scored 19 of his game-high 24 points in the second half and...
