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Gateway notebook: Gators boys basketball remains in hunt in Section 1-5A
The Gateway boys basketball team fell short in its first crack at Section 1-5A leader Uniontown. The Gators were competitive in the Jan. 7 matchup with the Red Raiders, but a 22-12 margin in the second quarter ended up being the difference in the 82-73 Uniontown win. Gateway, which got...
Gateway’s Dino Nadarevic rises to top of state’s shot put rankings after 1st indoor meet
Dino Nadarevic kicked off his 2025 indoor track and field season in the shot put with a pair of meets at Hempfield Area High School. The Gateway senior recorded a top attempt of 56 feet, 11½ inches Dec. 19 and 56-5½ in his return to Hempfield on Jan. 7. He...
Shaler athletes enter school record books at indoor track meet
Shaler co-indoor track and field coach Shawn Ryan knows track during the winter can get monotonous. With a lot of snow in the forecast, it’s had to get much practice time in. Despite the lack of track-related activities, the Titans made a big splash during their first meet of the...
Up-tempo style leads to breakthrough season for Shaler girls
Bayleigh Perez is confident about what happens when the basketball leaves her hands. Shaler’s 5-foot-2 senior point guard enjoys pushing the pace. The Titans prefer to be on the move this season and have seen a spark from their offense. They are 11-2 overall and 5-1 in Section 5A. Shaler...
Injury sidelines Sewickley Academy’s Emma Eannarino
Sewickley Academy sophomore Emma Eannarino was averaging a team-leading 15 points, 4 steals and 5 rebounds per game earlier this season. A 5-foot-4 point guard, Eannarino picked up where her older sister and role model Libby left off at Sewickley. Libby, now a freshman at Vanderbilt, led the Panthers in...
Quaker Valley’s Bruce Anderchak becomes program’s 7th wrestler to reach 100 wins
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...
Small but mighty Quaker Valley swimmers off to fast start
The Quaker Valley boys swim team has just seven competitors, including three from neighboring Sewickley Academy. “Small but mighty” is the mantra for both the boys and girls squads at QV. “When you have a small team, everyone counts,” coach Mercedes McCarthy said. “I like to think we are small...
Behind Thiero’s double-double pace, Quaker Valley girls off to strong start in Section 1-3A
Quaker Valley’s Oumou Thiero has a rich basketball heritage. But she is inspirational both in and away from the gym. For example, the 6-foot-5 junior on the girls basketball team annually travels with her family back to her parent’s hometown of Segou, Mali, with basketball shoes, athletic equipment, food and...
Quaker Valley, Sewickley Academy athletes made 2024 a golden year to remember
On Jan. 1, Trib HSSN published its annual list of athletes who won WPIAL championships in the previous year. Seven Quaker Valley athletes and one at Sewickley Academy were included. At QV, Cecilia Montagnese starting things off in the fall season by taking first place in the girls cross country...
Penn-Trafford’s Brayden Stone makes quick adjustment to position switch
When the Penn-Trafford boys basketball season tipped off, head coach Doug Kelly’s plan was to play senior Brayden Stone at shooting guard. But an injury to Tyler Boss delayed that plan. Stone, a three-year starter, continued to be the Warriors’ point guard for the first month and a half of...
Penn Hills’ Tymere Alston hitting his stride in 400 meters during indoor season
Penn Hills indoor track coach Lee Zelkowitz believes junior Tymere Alston is ready to take a step forward. During the offseason, Alston dedicated a lot of his time to becoming one of the best 400-meter runners in the WPIAL. “He trained hard during the preseason and during the fall months,”...
New Penn Hills baseball coach out to rejuvenate program
Joe Capobianco Jr. kept tabs on the Penn Hills baseball program long after he graduated. Seeing the program slowly decline wasn’t something he ever wanted to see. Capobianco didn’t want to be one of the people standing by and complaining about the program’s current status. This offseason, Capobianco, who is...
Game between reigning state champs Aliquippa, Imani Christian called off after skirmish
A WPIAL boys basketball game between two reigning state champions was cut short Saturday after spectators ran onto the floor during an on-court skirmish. The nonsection contest between Aliquippa and Imani Christian at Allderdice was called off with 4:23 left in the second quarter. Video showed two players fighting for...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Jan. 18, 2025
High schools Basketball Boys Saturday’s results Class 5A Section 4 Montour 81, Mars 64 Class 3A Section 3 Seton LaSalle 64, Shady Side Academy 57 (OT) Hoops for Harmony At York York 55, Woodland Hills 41 The Challenge at Allderdice Aliquippa vs. Imani Christian, ppd. Chartiers Valley 76, Thomas Jefferson...
High school roundup for Jan. 18, 2025: Montour boys take care of Mars
Colton Straight scored 24 points and Ama Sow followed with 23 to lead Montour to an 81-64 victory over Mars in Section 4-5A boys basketball Saturday. Kaleb Platz added 16 points and teammate A.J. Alston chipped in 12 for the Spartans (12-1, 7-0). Will Wilson scored 18 points while Austin...
4-time champ Bode Marlow, Thomas Jefferson make statement at Allegheny County tournament
Thomas Jefferson senior Bode Marlow joined an elite group by winning his fourth Allegheny County Wrestling title Saturday at Fox Chapel And while adding his name to that exclusive fraternity was nice, he wanted to let WPIAL teams from outside the county know to be wary of the Jaguars. “I...
WPIAL girls basketball rankings: Week ending Jan. 19, 2025
Class 6A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. Upper St. Clair, 12-2, 1 2. Seneca Valley, 10-4, 2 3. Norwin, 8-5, 3 4. Canon-McMillan, 8-6, NR 5. Mt. Lebanon, 8-7, 4 Out: Butler (8-6, 5) Class 5A 1. Peters Township, 13-2, 1 2. South Fayette, 13-1, 2 3. Penn-Trafford, 15-0, 3...
WPIAL boys basketball rankings: Week ending Jan. 19, 2024
Class 6A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. Upper St. Clair, 15-1, 1 2. Seneca Valley, 10-6, 5 3. New Castle, 12-2, 2 4. Central Catholic, 9-5, 3 5. Imani Christian, 8-5, 4 Out: none Class 5A 1. Montour, 11-1, 1 2. Chartiers Valley, 13-1, 2 3. Baldwin, 13-1, 4 4....
Hempfield bowlers dominate WCCA tournament; Valley’s Diehm wins boys title
For the second year in a row, the Hempfield bowling team took three of the four championships handed out at the Westmoreland County Coaches Association championships Saturday at Hillview Lanes in Greensburg. Junior Ashley Bensur rolled a three-game score of 606 to secure the girls individual title after finishing fourth...
Westmoreland high school notebook: WCCA scholarship winners announced
The Westmoreland County Coaches Association announced its scholarship winners for 2024. Each year, the WCCA scholarship committee receives and reviews applications of seniors from county high schools and then determines the winners. Three graduates received $2,000, and five others were awarded $1,500. The $2,000 winners were: • Mikaela Shine of...
Norwin distance runner to run at St. Francis (Pa.), joining his sister on the track and field team
Proximity to home and quality of education were driving factors for Thomas Gaydos in the college recruiting process. The Norwin senior distance runner’s plan of action was precise, and it led him up the mountain to Loretto, where he committed to run track and cross country at St. Francis (Pa.)...
Plum bowlers maintain momentum after winning Saint Vincent’s Bearcat Challenge
The Plum boys and girls bowling teams swept past the competition to win last year’s Saint Vincent College Bearcat Challenge. The Mustangs were the hunted Jan. 5 in their return to the tournament at Hillview Lanes in Greensburg. But the bowlers for both Plum teams would not be denied a...
Junior forward ramps up game, gets North Hills hockey into playoff contention
As Jonathan Trosky goes, so does the North Hills hockey team. Trosky, a junior forward, is off to a blistering goal-scoring pace in the 2024-25 season, racking up 21 goals in the first 13 games of the year. It’s happened, in large part, because of an expanded commitment to his...
Back-to-back section wins spark optimism for North Hills boys in 2nd half of season
The North Hills boys basketball team’s overall record at the midway point may not look pretty, but plenty of opportunities lie ahead to change that. And the Indians may be on the right path to taking advantage of them. Entering a Jan. 10 rivalry game against section foe North Allegheny,...
North Allegheny’s Leah Skweres breaks through as 1st-year starter
As a 5-foot fifth-grader, North Allegheny’s Leah Skweres never even considered playing basketball. Then it kind of grew on her. “I really just didn’t pay attention to it as a sport,” she said. “In sixth grade, I shot up height-wise. I went from being 5-foot in fifth grade to 5-6...
