Basketball
Decade’s best WPIAL finals: Girls basketball No. 5
February 17, 2020
There were a lot of changes to the WPIAL basketball championships over the last 10 years.
Trib HSSN boys basketball player of the week: Week ending Feb. 15, 2020
It was a big week for the Shenango boys basketball team. It began with a stunning win to end the regular season, then concluded with a big victory to open the postseason.
WPIAL boys 6A, girls 5A and A headline Day 4 of first-round basketball
Last year, Peters Township knocked off Penn-Trafford in a Class 6A boys basketball first-round playoff game before losing an upset bid to Pine-Richland in heartbreaking fashion at the buzzer, 66-64, in the district quarterfinals.
West Allegheny, last team into WPIAL boys playoff field, shocks McKeesport
The WPIAL playoffs apparently don’t follow a last-in, first-out policy.
OLSH new No. 1 in 2A with few other changes in latest HSSN PIAA boys basketball rankings
Only one team dropped from this week’s Trib HSSN boys basketball state rankings as the transition from regular season to postseason is made.
St. Ledger’s last-second layup lifts South Fayette over Franklin Regional
As South Fayette brought the basketball up the floor in the closing seconds, its season on the line and elimination perhaps one unlucky bounce away, the Lions had an air of calmness about them.
Indiana girls clean glass, knock off shorthanded McKeesport
All season long, the McKeesport girls basketball team wreaked havoc on the glass thanks to the play of Jhayla Bray.
Trib HSSN boys basketball team of the week: Week ending Feb. 15, 2020
Neshannock finished in fourth place in Section 1-3A and seeded No. 9 for the WPIAL playoffs, which meant a first-round game against Section 4-3A co-champion and perennial power Washington.
Reynolds makes clutch plays as Shaler boys beat Gateway
Late in the fourth quarter of Monday’s WPIAL Class 5A first-round game, seventh-seeded Shaler Area’s 14-point halftime lead was gone, erased by upset-minded, 10th-seeded Gateway.
High school roundup for Feb. 17, 2020: Laurel Highlands handles Hampton
Thanks to a first-round victory Monday night, Laurel Highlands will find itself in an intriguing WPIAL boys basketball quarterfinals matchup on Friday.
Knoch girls use defense, free-throw shooting to hold down New Castle
It wasn’t easy for the Knoch girls basketball team in its WPIAL Class 4A first-round game against New Castle on Monday at Fox Chapel.
Freeport comes up big in 4th, holds off Belle Vernon
After three hotly-contested quarters, Freeport was looking for players to come up big in the fourth quarter.
A-K Valley basketball playoff preview capsules: Games for Feb. 18, 2020
Tuesday’s games
Westmoreland County basketball playoff preview capsules: Games for Feb. 18, 2020
Boys
Chartiers Valley sophomore Aislin Malcolm receives Princeton offer
Chartiers Valley sophomore Aislin Malcolm, who hasn’t lost a game in two seasons, announced a college basketball offer Sunday from Princeton.
WPIAL Girls Basketball Team of the Week: Week ending Feb. 15
February 16, 2020
With a Jan. 13 loss to defending WPIAL Class 2A champion Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, the South Side girls basketball team dropped to 7-5 overall.
WPIAL Girls Basketball Player of the Week — Week ending Feb. 15
There were only 34 WPIAL girls basketball games played last week: 30 on the final night of the regular season and four playoff games Friday.
Trib HSSN girls basketball state rankings for Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020
Last week around the PIAA was a lot like the classic movie “All Quiet on the Western Front,” except you could add on the Central Front and the Eastern Front.
Trib HSSN broadcasts for Week of Feb. 17-23
The Path to the Pete continues with more opening-round and second-round WPIAL basketball postseason play this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network.
WPIAL basketball playoffs continue Monday with first-round games
West Allegheny scrambled last season to make the WPIAL Class 5A boys basketball playoffs and was seeded No. 13 in a 13-team playoff field.
