Basketball
Trib HSSN girls basketball state rankings for week of March 24, 2019
March 25, 2019
The Road to Hershey is over and the 2018-19 girls high school basketball season is in the books.
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Player of the Week: Lincoln Park’s Isaiah Smith
March 24, 2019
Isaiah Smith
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Team of the Week: Moon
The Trib HSSN Team of the Week suffered heartbreak at the WPIAL finals only to bounce back with five consecutive wins in the PIAA playoffs and earn a state championship, as we salute the Moon Tigers.
Boys basketball rankings for week of March 24, 2019
Moon, Lincoln Park, Imhotep Charter, Kennedy Catholic, Math, Civics & Science and Sankofa Freedom Academy were celebrating at the end of the Road to Hershey.
Recchia hits another winner as East boys best West at Cager Classic
March 23, 2019
Mars senior Andrew Recchia is getting accustomed to winning shots.
Johnson, Sharrow pace East girls to Cager Classic win
The West might be the best, but the beast is still the East.
PIAA Class 3A boys championship breakdown: Lincoln Park vs. Trinity
PIAA Class 3A boys championship
Brentwood girls basketball had history-making season
The reconstruction project continued — and flourished — for the Brentwood girls basketball program.
Valley’s Carter sweeps Cager Classic skills competition
March 22, 2019
It was never a secret Valley senior Nyjewel Carter was one of the top shooters the Vikings had this season; now he can stake his claim as one of the top shooters in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Freeport’s Brown follows in mother’s footsteps with selection to Cager Classic
Jalen Brown paused a moment before describing the impact his mother, Eve VanDyke, has had on his life and his basketball career.
Chartiers Valley girls in search of perfection Saturday in PIAA title game
If they win one more game, they will be known as a perfect team.
North Catholic girls hope defense shines against Bethlehem Catholic
North Catholic’s girls basketball team is known for its offensive production — and rightfully so.
PIAA Class 5A boys championship breakdown: Moon vs. Archbishop Wood
PIAA Class 5A boys basketball championship
PIAA Class 6A girls championship breakdown: Peters Township vs. Garnet Valley
PIAA Class 6A girls basketball championship
WPIAL title escaped Moon’s grasp, but PIAA championship now within reach
Moon faced a crossroads after the WPIAL finals, a moment when its basketball season could have gone many different directions.
It will be mom vs. son as Petruskas face off in Cager Classic All-Star game
March 21, 2019
No one ever picked up an easy win around the Petruska household, and those who were lucky enough to do so know they earned it.
Peters Township’s trip to Hershey was 6 years in the making
When Peters Township girls basketball coach Bert Kendall took over the program in the 2013-14 season, the Indians were coming off a winless campaign in Section 2-4A and only managed to win six games.
Cager Classic All-Star Basketball Game offers final chance for teammates to share court
March 20, 2019
Deer Lakes’ Julia Hollibaugh walked off the floor a few weeks ago after the Lancers’ WPIAL Class 3A quarterfinal loss to South Park with her high school basketball career in limbo.
Moon boys, Peters Township girls stand atop Trib 10 power rankings
Every Wednesday during the 2018-19 WPIAL basketball season, the TribLive High School Sports Network releases Power Rankings during the WPIAL Roundball Report at 6:30 p.m.
Vincentian Academy boys ready for PIAA finals matchup against Sankofa Freedom Academy
When the ball goes up in the air at Hershey’s Giant Center at 2 p.m. Thursday for the start of the PIAA Class A boys championship game, a team from the North Hills and the other from North Philly will add to the state’s already rich sports rivalry between East and West.
