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Westmoreland high school basketball playoff preview capsules for Feb. 26, 2024
WPIAL basketball playoffs Boys Class 5A Semifinals 3-Shaler (22-2) vs. 2-Franklin Regional (22-2) 8 p.m. Monday at Mt. Lebanon Winner plays: Winner of 4-Thomas Jefferson (21-2)/1-Moon (21-3) in championship 9 p.m. March 1 at Petersen Events Center Coaches: Rob Niederberger, Shaler; Jesse Reed, Franklin Regional Players to watch: Keegan Smetanka,...
A-K Valley high school basketball playoff preview capsules for Feb. 26, 2024
WPIAL basketball playoffs Boys Class 3A Semifinals 1-Deer Lakes (19-4) vs. 4-Neshannock (20-3) 6 p.m. Monday at Fox Chapel Winner plays: Winner of 2-Mohawk (17-7)/11-Burrell (15-7) at 5 p.m. Friday in WPIAL championship at Petersen Events Center Coaches: Albie Fletcher, Deer Lakes; John Corey, Neshannock Players to watch: Billy Schaeffer,...
WPIAL sets schedule for basketball finals at Petersen Events Center
The WPIAL has finalized the championship schedule for the boys and girls basketball playoffs with dates and times for each of the 12 finals. There are three games Thursday, four on Friday and five on Saturday at Petersen Events Center. The first day’s schedule is set with Imani Christian and...
Quaker Valley wrestlers show postseason mettle in section tournament
Quaker Valley coach Austin Heinl was thrilled if not ecstatic with his team’s performance at the WPIAL Class 2A Northern Sectional wrestling tournament. Five QV grapplers advanced to the championship round of the tournament held Feb. 17 at Keystone Oaks. “I am happy with how we did. We had four...
Penn-Trafford swimmer Patton Graziano searching for more gold
Penn-Trafford senior Patton Graziano is the reigning WPIAL Class 3A champion in the 100 freestyle. The senior has his sights on doing better things in 2024. Graziano is competing in two events and two relays in the 2024 WPIAL swimming and diving championships Feb. 29 and March 1 at Pitt’s...
Penn-Trafford notebook: Lineman Zach Tomosovich named to Big 33 roster
Penn-Trafford offensive lineman Zach Tomosovich was one of eight players from the WPIAL selected to play in the 67th Big 33 Football All-Star game May 26 at Cumberland Valley High School. He will be joined on the squad by Aliquippa’s Cam Lindsay and Brandon Banks, Canon-McMillan’s Kaeden Singleton and Geno...
Penn Hills girls show resolve in close loss to top seed
Penn Hills girls basketball coach Robert Cash thought his team deserved better than being seeded 17th in the WPIAL Class 5A playoffs. But the Indians were forced into a preliminary round game against Thomas Jefferson, which they won, 59-43. In the first round of the playoffs, Penn Hills lost 55-48...
Penn Hills boys get glimpse of bright future in playoff loss
Penn Hills senior guard Robby Thomas wanted to find the right mental space for playing against rival Gateway in the first round of the WPIAL Class 5A postseason. The defending WPIAL champion Indians came into this postseason as a younger team that had something to prove. “Honestly, we just needed...
Pine-Richland swimmers hoping for medal haul at WPIAL meet
The most exciting time of the year is nearing for local high school swimmers with the WPIAL championships kicking off and Pine-Richland will be well represented. Defending 100 breaststroke champion Sarah Anne Shaffer leads the way, but Pine-Richland coach Pete Barry believes there’s potential for multiple district medal winners and...
Pine-Richland girls wrestlers take their place in history with WPIAL medals
As the public address announcer at North Allegheny was reading the names of the winners at the inaugural WPIAL girls wrestling tournament, Pine-Richland junior Tiffany Gathers heard a phrase that put the day in perspective. “As they were going through the weights, he kept saying ‘This is the first-ever WPIAL...
Shaler notebook: Junior sets school record at indoor track meet
Hannah Sahr made Shaler indoor track and field history at the TSTCA championships Feb. 17. The junior set a Titans indoor record by finishing the 400 in 1 minute, 1.06 seconds. The previous record stood since 2007. Sahr placed eighth in the race. Of the 17 Shaler athletes who qualified...
Experience helps Shaler boys navigate WPIAL playoff bracket
Whether teams are playing man defense or zone defense doesn’t matter to Shaler senior forward Brandon London. Nor does it matter if the other team wants to play fast or slow. The Titans, who have their top eight rotation players back from last season, have enough experience that they’ve seen...
South Korea native Dawson Lee makes immediate impact with Chartiers Valley swimming
Back in the fall, Chartiers Valley swimming and diving coach Morgan Soulia received a message from an aspiring high school swimmer. It was from a junior named Dawson Lee, who recently had moved nearly 7,000 miles away from home. “I got an email from him and he was like, ‘Hi,...
After 5 brushes with perfection, Thomas Jefferson bowler bags elusive 300 game
Thomas Jefferson bowler Joey Nix tied the school record five times in practice. Nix eclipsed it during a WPIBL match Jan. 17 against Norwin. The sophomore bowling star rolled the first 300 game in school history at Spins Bowl in West Mifflin, his home alley. “I have worked very hard...
Hockey, volleyball teams headline Baldwin sports hall of fame Class of 2024
The Baldwin Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2024 consisted of one athlete, four coaches and three teams. All distinguished in their own right, the inductees included Maddison Sgattoni, coaches Bob Gneus, Ed Helbig, Bunny Schmidt and Rich Wright, the 1987-88 ice hockey team and the 2014 and 2015 girls...
Baldwin gymnast Abby Rexrode savors 3rd WPIAL gymnastics title, eyes unprecedented 4th
Much like the luminosity displayed by a three-carat diamond, Baldwin junior Abby Rexrode has had a brilliant three-year gymnastics career. And she’s not finished just yet. Rexrode won her third consecutive WPIAL all-around advanced division title in gymnastics Feb. 10 at Moon, taking first place in three of four events....
Sewickley Herald notebook: Quaker Valley swimmers show grit
Quaker Valley’s boys swim team competed with just seven athletes on its roster in 2023-24. “Give some high accolades to these boys. There’s not a lot of them, but they have a lot of grit,” QV coach Mercedes McCarthy said earlier this season. “They are tiny but mighty. Sometimes we...
Hampton cools off Avonworth’s red-hot scorer for spot in WPIAL 4A final
Hampton’s Peter Kramer has faced his share of unorthodox defenses over the years, schemes designed specifically to shut him down as a scorer. Some work, some don’t. That makes Kramer the perfect person to critique the efforts of teammate A.J. Prodente, whose job Saturday was to shadow Avonworth scorer Rowan...
Frazier wrestler Rune Lawrence becomes 32nd 4-time WPIAL champion
When Frazier senior Rune Lawrence began his high school career, his goal was to become a four-time champion. One down, two to go. Lawrence became the 32nd wrestler in WPIAL history to become a four-time champion when he pinned West Greene sophomore Colin Whyte in the 215-pound final at the...
Westmoreland athletes of the week: Norwin’s Josephine Dollman, Franklin Regional’s Brandon Smith
Josephine Dollman School: Norwin Class: Sophomore Sport: Wrestling Claim to fame: Dollman made history last weekend when she became the first girl from Westmoreland County — and her school — to win a WPIAL individual wrestling title. Dollman, who is 20-3 with 18 pins, won the championship with a fall...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 24, 2024
High schools Basketball Boys WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Semifinals Tuesday’s schedule Mt. Lebanon (20-4) vs. Baldwin (17-6) at Bethel Park, 7 p.m.; Central Catholic (15-8) vs. Upper St. Clair (18-5) at Gateway, 8 p.m. Class 5A Semifinals Monday’s schedule Moon (21-3) vs. Thomas Jefferson (21-3) at Peters Township, 8 p.m.;...
WPIAL wrestling roundup for Feb. 24, 2024: Trinity crowns 4 section champs
Trinity crowned a WPIAL-best four section champs at the Class 3A Southern Sectional on Saturday at South Fayette. Dom Canali (121), Blake Reihner (139), Bode Morgan (172) and Robbie Allison (189) were the champs for the Hillers, who sent nine wrestlers through to next weekend’s WPIAL tournament. Bethel Park led...
Cheswick Christian boys edge Pittsburgh Christian Academy for SWCAC title
The Cheswick Christian Academy boys basketball team defeated Pittsburgh Christian Academy, 42-39, on Saturday at a packed Steve Warden Gymnasium to take home its first SWCAC title since 2015. Grant Rochkind, the league MVP, finished with 14 points, 13 rebounds and six assists for Cheswick Christian. The game featured eight...
Defending champion Lincoln Park holds off Uniontown for return trip to WPIAL finals
Uniontown had a couple of good looks at a go-ahead 3-pointer early in the fourth quarter and had possession of the ball down three with only a minute left. The Red Raiders certainly had chances to maybe knock off the reigning champion in a WPIAL semifinal Saturday, but against a...
Seneca Valley, North Allegheny divers continue dominant runs with WPIAL titles
Seneca Valley’s Isaiah Clerkley turned in a dominant performance and Lola Malarky extended North Allegheny’s stranglehold on girls gold at the WPIAL Class 3A diving championships Saturday. Clerkley defended his boys championship with a score of 583.35, the best score in the boys competition since 2019. Fox Chapel’s Jackson Hagler...
