High School category, Page 297
Penn Hills notebook: Bowler throws 201 game at regional championships
Logan Kennedy was Penn Hills’ top finisher at the Western Pennsylvania regional high school bowling championships. Kennedy placed 47th by bowling an 871 series. Kennedy finished with a high game of 201 at the event. East Allegheny’s JJ Bingham won the championship match after coming into the step-ladder finals as...
WPIAL swimmers claim 6 more golds to wrap up successful PIAA Class 2A meet
WPIAL swimmers brought home six more PIAA Class 2A state championships Saturday evening to cap a highly successful two-day meet at Bucknell University. North Catholic junior Luke Lamb won his second individual crown in as many days with a victory in the boys 100-yard backstroke, while Mt. Pleasant junior Joseph...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for March 16, 2024
High schools Baseball Saturday’s results Nonsection Greensburg Central Catholic 4, Southmoreland 3 Greensburg Salem 3, Ligonier Valley 2 Latrobe 1, Connellsville 0 Mercyhurst Prep 4, OLSH 3 Mercyhurst Prep 14, Serra Catholic 1 OLSH 15, St. Joseph 2 Peters Township 14, Quaker Valley 4 Serra Catholic 13, St. Joseph 0...
High school roundup for March 16, 2024: McKeesport rolls into PIAA semifinals
Rachael Manfredo scored 22 points to lead McKeesport to a 57-35 victory over Armstrong in the PIAA Class 5A girls basketball quarterfinals Saturday. Brooke Evans added 10 points for McKeesport (24-4) while Emma Paul paced Armstrong (23-6) with 15 points. McKeesport will play Cathedral Prep in Tuesday’s semifinals. Cathedral Prep...
Knoch’s Giona Lavorini wins duel for gold at PIAA Class 2A swim meet
Knoch junior Giona Lavorini bested rival Peyton Scott, a junior from Indiana, for the WPIAL Class 2A title March 1 at Pitt’s Trees Pool. Scott then got the better of Lavorini at a YMCA district meet last weekend. But Lavorini was back on top Saturday evening in the finals of...
Mt. Pleasant girls repeat as PIAA Class 2A team swimming champions
The Mt. Pleasant girls 400-yard freestyle relay of Lainey Brown, Maddie Barrick, Riley Shinsky and Lily King took fifth (3 minutes, 36.90 seconds) in the championship heat Friday night at Kinney Natatorium at Bucknell University. The 28 points the relay earned capped another strong day for the Lady Vikings and...
Deer Lakes’ long run of playoff success ends with loss to Franklin
SHARON — Time was dwindling away and the deficit was large, but Deer Lakes decided to ramp up its pressure one more time in Saturday’s state playoff loss. The Lancers defense forced a half-dozen turnovers in the closing minutes of a PIAA Class 3A quarterfinal, but the climb was too...
A-K Valley HOF inductee Scott Higgins left mark at Riverview, Westminster
Scott Higgins is no stranger to Sports Hall of Fame inductions. He was in attendance when teammates such as Jay Kumar and coaches Chuck Wagner, Jack Schmitt and Bob Rukavina were selected for the A-K Valley Sports Hall of Fame. So he was surprised when board member Freddy Soilis called...
Plum girls finish 3rd at state team bowling championships
The Plum girls came away with a third-place finish to lead the WPIBL contingent at the Pennsylvania High School Bowling team championships Saturday in Lancaster. Mareana Pilyih led the way in qualifying for the Mustangs with a 238 game and a 628 series. Plum, seeded second after qualifying, lost to...
Upper St. Clair rally falls short in PIAA quarterfinal loss to Central York
ALTOONA — The youthful Upper St. Clair boys basketball team made it to the quarterfinals of the PIAA Class 6A tournament. Once there, the Panthers showed up 16 minutes too late. “It’s a sad moment,” USC senior point guard Christian Ito said as he emerged from the visitors locker room...
Westmoreland athletes of the week: Greensburg Central Catholic’s Jayla Peterson, Greensburg Salem’s Tristan Gonzales
Jayla Peterson School: Greensburg Central Catholic Class: Sophomore Sport: Basketball Claim to fame: Peterson scored a playoff career-high 14 points to help WPIAL champion GCC hold off a comeback from West Middlesex and advance with a 54-45 win in the PIAA Class 2A second round. Peterson, one of the team’s...
Franklin Regional prepares for grudge match with Moon at PIAAs
Just press play, Jesse. As of Friday night, Franklin Regional boys basketball coach Jesse Reed had yet to watch the film of his team’s 53-48 loss to Moon in the WPIAL Class 5A championship game. It was too gut-wrenching a setback to relive. “Now, I guess I have to,” Reed...
Fort Cherry takes care of business vs. Jeannette, reaches PIAA semis
Emotions ran high during some tense moments Saturday in a PIAA Class 2A boys basketball quarterfinal, but Fort Cherry didn’t get caught up in the commotion. The Rangers were too immersed in their long-awaited run through the state tournament. Fort Cherry advanced to the semifinals for the first time since...
Hampton’s Gabby Elk takes 2nd at PIAA Class 2A diving championships
LEWISBURG — Hampton sophomore Gabby Elk sat in fifth place after the second round of dives Saturday afternoon at the PIAA Class 2A championships at Bucknell University’s Kinney Natatorium. But she made a final push over the final three dives, scoring 121.40 points to move to second in the final...
PIAA announces sites for WPIAL boys basketball title game rematches in state semifinals
There will be at least two WPIAL boys basketball teams playing for state gold in Hershey following Friday’s PIAA quarterfinals results. WPIAL title game rematches are set for Monday in the PIAA semifinals in Class 5 and 4A after Moon, Franklin Regional, Lincoln Park and Hampton all picked up third...
A-K Valley athletes of the week: Kiski Area’s Ava Golding, Highlands’ Kooper Price
Ava Golding Class: Sophomore School: Kiski Area Sport: Wrestling Report card: Kiski Area sophomore Ava Golding finished third at the first PIAA girls wrestling championships March 9 after beating Western Wayne’s Sara Shook, 19-2, in the bronze medal match. The 136-pound grappler also won WPIAL and West Regional titles and...
Greensburg Central Catholic girls learn site, time for PIAA semifinals
There will be no state gold for the WPIAL in girls 6A and 3A as three district teams came up short in the quarterfinals on Friday in the 2024 PIAA girls basketball state playoffs. WPIAL champion Norwin in 6A and district winner Shady Side Academy and runner-up Avonworth in 3A...
5 WPIAL swimmers, 2 relays to go for PIAA Class 2A gold as top seeds after Day 2 prelims
LEWISBURG — Day 2 of the PIAA Class 2A swimming championship Saturday morning at Bucknell University brought more fast times from WPIAL swimmers, and they will be well-featured in this evening’s championship heats in the 100-yard freestyle, 500 free, 100 backstroke, 100 breaststroke and 400 free relay. Girls Mt. Pleasant...
North Allegheny notebook: Tigers hockey team advances to PIHL finals
North Allegheny used three first-period goals to defeat No. 3-seeded Seneca Valley, 4-2, in the PIHL Class 3A Penguins Cup semifinals March 11, at Robert Morris’ Island Sports Center. No. 2 North Allegheny got first-period tallies at 3:15 from Ed Scherer, 11:59 from Luke Walkauskas and 16:12 from Gianni Lochiatto....
Timing right for Pine-Richland boys volleyball to take step forward
As a young team of freshmen and sophomores, the Pine-Richland boys volleyball team took their lumps last season. Now, a year older and more seasoned, they are looking to earn respect in WPIAL circles. “Our guys are excited to show what they can do because they knew that last year...
Pine-Richland’s Vaughn Spencer finally slays injury bug to win state wrestling title
The morning of his state championship wrestling match, Vaughn Spencer was sitting in his hotel room, rubbing Icy Hot on his knee. During his semifinal match the previous day, he got his knee twisted before finishing off a pin of Owen J. Roberts’ Sam Gautreau. It was almost fitting that...
‘Plethora of arms’ makes North Allegheny baseball a team to reckon with
Some WPIAL baseball teams scramble to find enough pitching to cover their innings, but North Allegheny coach Andrew Heck has a much different dilemma. He’s hoping to find enough innings for all of his pitchers. The Tigers entered this spring with a pitching staff heavy in talented arms — a...
Hampton boys tennis looks to take another step
The tennis courts at Hampton Community Park are scheduled to undergo a major renovation this summer, but in the meantime, the Hampton boys team has some work of its own to do. The Talbots return six of their seven top players from last year’s 8-8 team, which reached the WPIAL...
Hampton notebook: Aquinas Academy girls team misses out on trip to basketball finals
The Aquinas Academy girls basketball team weathered injuries and illness for much of the season, but the Crusaders fought through it. “I didn’t think it affected us that much,” coach Chris Lebakken said, “until it did.” Outscored 21-7 in the third quarter, Aquinas fell to St. Joseph, 65-56, in the...
Fox Chapel notebook: Basketball playoff run ends in PIAA 2nd round
The Fox Chapel boys basketball team came within 16 minutes of a trip to the PIAA Class 5A quarterfinals. The Foxes’ offense just couldn’t produce enough down the stretch to hold off Bethel Park. Fox Chapel, which beat Bethel Park in a fifth-place WPIAL consolation match in late February, ended...
