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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...
Trib HSSN girls basketball team of the week for Feb. 10, 2025Video
Trib HSSN girls basketball team of the week – South Fayette Lions Coach: Bryan Bennett (eighth season) Record: 12-0 in Section 3-5A, 21-1 overall #Earned: South Fayette has been on a mission all season long. Only two other teams in this century have captured four straight WPIAL girls basketball championships...
Trib HSSN girls basketball player of the week for Feb. 10, 2025Video
Trib HSSN girls basketball player of the week – Kylie Fruehstorfer School: Union Class: Senior Height: 5-foot-5 Position: Point guard #Earned: As a sophomore and junior, Kylie Fruehstorfer was a part of back-to-back WPIAL Class A titles for Union. Now as a senior, she’s trying to lead the way for...
Breaking down the 2025 WPIAL boys basketball playoff brackets
Breaking down the 2025 WPIAL boys basketball playoffs Class 6A Favorite: Defending WPIAL champion Upper St. Clair has some impressive size that’s tough to match, starting with 6-foot-10 senior Tyler Robbins (16 ppg), a Miami (Ohio) recruit. His sophomore brother Ryan Robbins is 6-7, and senior Kaamil Jackson is 6-6....
Greensburg CC, Jeannette boys could meet in Class 2A final as WPIAL releases brackets
Greensburg Central Catholic and Jeannette are on opposite sides of the bracket in boys Class 2A, leaving the door open for a third meeting between the county rivals, but it would have to happen in the WPIAL boys basketball finals. The Penn-Trafford girls, meanwhile, despite going undefeated in the regular...
Breaking down the 2025 WPIAL girls basketball playoff brackets
Breaking down the 2025 WPIAL girls basketball playoffs Class 6A Favorite: Norwin has won back-to-back WPIAL titles before (2015, ’16) and the Knights will take another shot as the top seed, the same position they were in a season ago. A late-season win over Upper St. Clair went a long...
Deer Lakes boys seek WPIAL 3-peat when basketball playoffs get underway
The Kansas City Chiefs went after a Super Bowl championship three-peat Sunday in New Orleans. But the Philadelphia Eagles put a wrench in those plans with a dominating performance. The Deer Lakes boys are about to begin their own three-peat quest as they prepare for the WPIAL Class 4A basketball...
No time to waste for 3-time champion South Fayette as WPIAL reveals basketball playoff brackets
South Fayette girls basketball coach Bryan Bennett was surprised by what he saw when the WPIAL released playoff brackets Monday. His three-time defending champions were favored to win again as the No. 1 seed in Class 5A. Sure, that could’ve surprised somebody, but that wasn’t what surprised him. Bennett was...
Westmoreland County Senior Spotlight: Mt. Pleasant’s Seth Painter
Mt. Pleasant’s swimming program, both boys and girls, long has been regarded as one of the best in Class 2A, if not the entire WPIAL. The Westmoreland County Coaches’ Association championship Jan. 24-25 was another example of that, as the Vikings boys and girls won team titles. A key contributor...
A-K Valley Senior Spotlight: Kiski Area’s Paige Kunkle
When asked where her medals were from the WPIAL championships last year, when the Kiski Area girls swim team was Class 2A champion, senior Paige Kunkle wasn’t sure. “I honestly don’t know,” she said. It’s not the actual medals that are most meaningful to Kunkle. It’s the memories of how...
High school sports schedule for Feb. 10, 2025
High schools Basketball Boys Monday’s schedule Nonsection Albert Gallatin at Connellsville, 6 p.m. Ambridge at Seton LaSalle, 7:30 p.m. Armstrong at Valley, 7 p.m. Avonworth at Fox Chapel, 7 p.m. Bentworth at West Greene, 5:30 p.m. Bishop Canevin at New Castle, 7:30 p.m. Brownsville at Jefferson-Morgan, 7 p.m. Canon-McMillan at...
Westmoreland high school notebook: Franklin Regional seniors bond together
Senior night was special for a group of girls who are having a special season. Few saw coming this year’s run to a section championship by the Franklin Regional girls basketball team — the program’s first section title since 1979 — except for maybe the five seniors on the team....
Penn-Trafford girls basketball team conjures memories of 1973
The Penn-Trafford girls basketball team made history Saturday. Sort of. With a thrilling 59-57 win over Upper St. Clair, the Lady Warriors capped a perfect 22-0 regular season, the No. 3-ranked team in WPIAL Class 5A going on the road to knock off the No. 2 team in 6A. The...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for Feb. 10, 2025: Basketball playoff pairings to be revealed
Welcome to the Christmas Day for district high school basketball fans with everybody’s favorite present under the tree set to be unwrapped Monday afternoon, the gift of the WPIAL basketball bracketology. There are 85 boys teams and 84 girls teams preparing for the second season. Now they will find out...
This week on Trib HSSN for week of Feb. 10, 2025
Let the games begin! This is a special week celebrated by lovers all around. Sure, Valentine’s Day is Friday, but I speak for the round ball lovers as we prepare for the start of the 2025 WPIAL basketball playoffs this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. We get...
PIHL standings, playoff clinchings through Feb. 9, 2025
Here are the latest 2024-25 Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League standings through Sunday, along with the latest playoff qualifiers. 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. *- indicates clinched a...
Sewickley Academy swimmers find success alongside Quaker Valley teammates
Marcus Zhan is one of a handful of Sewickley Academy students competing in the collaborative swim program at Quaker Valley this season. Zhan, a junior, is joined by his younger brother Augustin, a freshman, along with another freshman, Yourin Li, on the QV boys team. The older Zhan sibling specializes...
