High School category, Page 129
Mimi Thiero makes big impact during productive season for Quaker Valley girls
Mimi Thiero ended her junior basketball season at Quaker Valley with some spectacular credentials. Thiero scored 578 points and grabbed 413 rebounds, giving her 1,248 points and 915 rebounds for her three-year career. A 6-foot-5 guard/forward, Thiero averaged 23.1 ppg and 16.5 rpg this season. In the QV girls’ WPIAL...
Quaker Valley boys pleased with progress during playoff season
The Quaker Valley boys basketball team took a 15-7 record and No. 10 seed into the WPIAL Class 4A playoffs. But the Quakers, the fourth-place representative out of Section 2, were forced to make a quick exit, losing to No. 7 Deer Lakes, 83-58, in the first round. QV coach...
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,...
Zach Feldman emerges as game changer for Penn-Trafford boys
When Penn-Trafford boys basketball coach Doug Kelly was watching junior forward Zach Feldman play in the summer, he did not realize how athletic the 6-foot-4 forward was. But Kelly knew he had a player to run his offense through. Feldman, who also is an outstanding baseball player, has continued to...
On the mat: Female wrestling continues to grow at all levels
Wrestle. Like. A. Girl. Those four words inspire females dressed in the signature singlet to grapple and take down opponents, just like their male counterparts. In the past two years, the sport has grown by the largest percentage of mainstream high school sports including football, basketball, baseball, hockey and soccer...
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...
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...
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...
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...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for March 1, 2025
High schools Basketball WPIAL playoffs Boys Class 5A Finals Saturday’s result Chartiers Valley 73, Peters Township 66 Class 3A Finals Saturday’s result South Allegheny 37, Aliquippa 35 PIAA Class 4A District 8-9 subregional Saturday’s result Clearfield 68, Obama Academy 60 Girls Class 6A Finals Saturday’s result Upper St. Clair 45,...
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...
Seeds set for WPIAL girls basketball teams headed to state tournament
The Path to the Pete is complete with six WPIAL girls basketball championship games from Pitt’s Petersen Events Center in the books. Union captured a third straight Class A title and Greensburg Central Catholic won a second straight district crown. The other four teams — Upper St. Clair in 6A,...
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...
Upper St. Clair battles past Norwin to win 1st WPIAL girls basketball title since ’08
Upper St. Clair finally broke through to win another championship, for Pete’s sake. Coach Pete Serio, denied titles in two of the last three years as the Panthers were stricken by injuries to star players — most recently Rylee Kalocay — was able to celebrate with his team after a...
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...
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...
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...
Westmoreland County athletes of the week: Hempfield’s Ashley Bensur and Hempfield’s Nico Kapusta
The Westmoreland County Athletes of the Week is presented by Smail Kia. Look for the tags and look for the savings at Smail Kia in Greensburg. Ashley Bensur School: Hempfield Class: Junior Sport: Bowling Claim to fame: Bensur reached the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Bowling League finals for the second time...
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...
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...
Aliquippa girls fight off Neshannock comeback to win 1st WPIAL title since 1990
The Path to the Pete was free and easy for the second-seeded Aliquippa Quips, who entered Saturday’s WPIAL Class 2A girls basketball championship game seeking their first title since winning four in a row from 1987-1990. After a bit of a bumpy start, Aliquippa took the lead and didn’t hand...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 28, 2025
High schools Basketball WPIAL playoffs Boys Class 6A Finals Friday’s results Upper. St. Clair 65, New Castle 43 Class 5A Finals Saturday’s schedule Chartiers Valley (22-3) vs. Peters Township (18-7) at Petersen Events Center, 7 p.m. Class 3A Finals Saturday’s schedule Aliquippa (20-4) vs. South Allegheny (22-3) at Petersen Events...
Defending champion Upper St. Clair rolls past New Castle to claim 5th WPIAL titleVideo
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...
