Basketball
This Week on the Trib Live High School Sports Network – 12/27/2017
December 27, 2017
We ring out 2017 with plenty of holiday scholastic action on the hardwood and the mats this week here on the TribLive High School Sports Network. We have some holiday tournament for roundball for both boys and girls high school basketball, plus we hit the mats with tow day coverage of the 2017 POWERade Wrestling […]
WPIAL Alum Q&A – Monica Burns
December 26, 2017
Setting a record at any level of athletics is an impressive feat. Former Hempfield Area standout and current Wheeling Jesuit basketball player Monica Burns, however, established a mark that has never been duplicated at the college or professional level of basketball in the United States. Burns is this week’s feature for the WPIAL Alum Q&A. […]
Trib Live HSSN – Trib Ten Boys and Girls Basketball Power Rankings
December 21, 2017
Every Wednesday during the 2017-2018 WPIAL basketball season, the Trib Live High School Sports Network will release the weekly Power Rankings during the WPIAL Roundball Report at 6:00pm. Then after the show, we will post the Trib Ten online at TribHSSN.TribLive.com These rankings have zero classification boundaries. Here are the ranking for the Week of […]
WPIAL Alum Q&A – Josh Wise
December 18, 2017
As the WPIAL Alum Q&A shifts to winter sports for the next few months, this installment highlights an athlete who excelled in the winter, fall and spring. Josh Wise, a three-sport standout at Washington High School and now a top basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh – Johnstown is this week’s feature. While Wise […]
Trib HSSN Top Five – WPIAL Girls Basketball
Here are the Trib High School Sports Network Top Five WPIAL girls basketball rankings for the Week of December 17th. Class 6-A 1. North Allegheny Tigers 3-0 Last Week #1 2. Bethel Park Black Hawks 3-0 Last Week #3 3. Peters Township Indians 4-0 Last Week #4 4. Penn Hills Indians 1-2 Last Week #2 […]
Trib HSSN Top Five – WPIAL Boys Basketball
Here are the Trib High School Sports Network Top Five WPIAL boys basketball rankings for the Week of December 17th. Class 6-A 1. Butler GOlden Tornado 5-0 Last Week #2 2. Mount Lebanon Blue Devils 4-0 Last Week #4 3. Fox Chapel Foxes 4-0 Last Week #3 4. Pine-Richland Rams 3-1 Last Week #1 5. […]
This Week on the Trib Live High School Sports Network – 12/17/2017
December 17, 2017
May we suggest plenty of high school basketball, wrestling and hockey for your last minute stocking stuffers this week here on the TribLive High School Sports Network. We have plenty of boys and girls high school basketball section action in the WPIAL as well as District 6 and District 9 hoops too. We also hit […]
This Week on the Trib Live High School Sports Network – 12/11/2017
December 11, 2017
With the fall sports season complete and the holidays a few weeks away, our full attention turns to the winter high school sports 2017-2018 season this week here on the TribLive High School Sports Network. We have plenty of boys and girls high school basketball in the WPIAL as well as District 6 and District […]
This Week on the Trib Live High School Sports Network – 12/05/2017
December 5, 2017
The Road to Hershey comes to an end at the same time we open up the high school basketball season this week here on the new TribLive High School Sports Network. We have four PIAA State Championship Football Games from Hershey along with the tip off of the 2017-2018 high school basketball season with 20 […]
2016-2017 MSA Sports Male Athletes of the Year
July 5, 2017
Darius Wise and Austin Butler were both 'Cats in high school, Wise playing for the Beaver Bobcats and Butler for the Latrobe Wildcats. But when it comes to athletes, Wise and Butler are top dogs. Wise and Butler, who both graduated last month, have been selected the MSA Sports Co-Athletes of the Year. The MSA Sports staff selects the athlete of the year from all WPIAL schools. In the days of high school athletes specializing in one sport, Wise and Butler were throwbacks. They were multi-sports athletes - in the same three sports. But it's not just competing in three sports that made them stand out, it's what they achieved in the three sports that made them two of a kind.Scholastic Notebook – 04/21/2017
April 21, 2017
Blackhawk baseball coach Bob Amalia has had talented pitchers before. Only a few years ago he had Brendan McKay, who came close to breaking a national scoreless streak record. But now Amalia is blessed with a stable full of pitchers who are putting up remarkable statistics for an undefeated team. “So far, so good. We’re trying to just go one game at a time,” said Amalia. “But as a staff, this is the best I’ve had.” Blackhawk has a 12-0 record and the Cougars’ statistics make eyes pop: * Blackhawk has allowed only eight runs in 12 games, including six earned runs. * The Cougars have seven shutouts and allowed only one run in four other games. Four of the runs allowed came in one game against New Castle.Scholastic Notebook – 04/08/2017
April 8, 2017
A star hurdler is emerging in girls track and field at Oakland Catholic, but the last time we heard much of her, she was at Penn Hills. Jayla Ellis is a sophomore at Oakland Catholic who has run the 100-meter hurdles in 14.1 seconds this spring. According to WPIAL girls track and field historian Jim Faiella, that is the second-fastest time in the history of the WPIAL. Lindsay Dolan of Center ran 14.1 in 2006. Ellis burst onto the WPIAL track scene a year ago, winning the 100 hurdles as a freshman and finishing fourth in the state. But Ellis attended Penn Hills last year. She transferred to Oakland Catholic for her sophomore year.
WPIAL Hall of Fame Class of 2017
The newest class of the WPIAL Hall of Fame includes a current NFL player, a former NFL head coach and a high school coach who sent almost a dozen players to the NFL. The 2017 class was announced by the WPIAL at a news conference Thursday at the Heinz History Center. This is the 10th anniversary of the Hall of Fame. The inductees with NFL ties are: Terrelle Pryor, who played for the Cleveland Browns last year and has signed with the Washington Redskins; former New York Jets head coach Joe Walton; former Woodland Hills coach George Novak, who sent 11 players to the NFL.
MSA Sports 2017 Boys All-Netters
March 31, 2017
The MSA boys All Netters team is in guarded condition this year. Of the 10 players selected to the All Netters team, eight are guards and another is a guard-forward. The team also is Ram tough. Two plays from WPIAL Class 6A champion Pine-Richland Rams are on the team. The All Netters team is picked by the MSA Sports staff and is made up of the top 10 players in the WPIAL. A handful of the players on the first and second teams are headed to Division I colleges and one is headed to a major college for football. Here is a look at the MSA Sports All Netters team as well as the Player of the Year: FIRST TEAM: PLAYER OF THE YEAR
MSA Sports 2017 Girls All-Netters
There are more than 8,000 reasons to like the players on the first team of this year’s MSA All Netters girls all-star team. That’s how many points the five players have scored in their careers. The All Netters team is selected by the MSA Sports staff and takes into consideration all players in the WPIAL. This year’s first team consists of three seniors and two juniors, and the three seniors are all headed to Division I colleges. And all five were big scorers. One of the seniors is among the top 10 scorers in WPIAL history. Here is a look at the first- and second-team selections on the All Netters team, as well as the Player of the Year. FIRST TEAM: PLAYER OF THE YEAR
WPIAL Coaches Corner – Jeff Ackermann
March 27, 2017
In this feature titled “Coach’s Corner”, I will be interviewing a different coach every week and asking them questions about their personal life and about coaching. Hopefully their answers will not only shed some light on how they coach their respective teams, but also allow readers to get to know the men behind the fields/courts.This Week on the MSA Sports Network – 03/27/2017
It's all about the transition. We make the transition of broadcasting winter sports to spring sports as march transitions into April this week here on the MSA Sports Network. We begin our spring scholastic sports coverage with a handful of WPIAL baseball games, a WPIAL softball contest and a WPIAL boys volleyball match, plus one more winter sports event with the Quigley Classic girls and boys high school basketball games ALL here at MSAsports.net Monday, March 27th: WPIAL High School Baseball - Bishop Canevin vs West Allegheny at 4:30pm on MSAsports.net Tuesday, March 28th: No Broadcast Wednesday, March 29th:2017 PIAA BOYS BASKETBALL STATE PLAYOFFS Results
March 26, 2017
While the east claimed four of the six state titles, it was once again District 12 that flexed its boys basketball muscles. The district made up of public and private schools in the Philadelphia area, won three PIAA boys basketball championships by a combined score of 242-150. The two exceptions from the west were WPIAL 2-A champion Sewickley Academy and District 10 1-A champ Kennedy Catholic. While the Sewickley Academy Panthers brought home state gold, it was the runner-up silver basketball that Pine-Richland in 6-A and Lincoln Park in 3-A brought back from Hershey. Here are ALL of the final results from the 2017 PIAA Boys Basketball Playoffs. All results with (MSA) after them are games you can hear anytime you want archived here on The Network.2017 PIAA GIRLS BASKETBALL STATE PLAYOFFS Results
When it comes to girls high school basketball in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the East is the Beast. It was a clean 6-0 sweep for teams from the eastern side of the state in the state championships. Among those from the west that had to settle for the runner-up silver trophy were North Allegheny in 6-A, Trinity in 5-A and Bishop Canevin in 3-A. Here are ALL of the final scores from the 2017 PIAA Girls Basketball Playoffs. All results with (MSA) after them are games you can hear anytime you want archived here on The Network. 2017 PIAA CLASS 6-A GIRLS BASKETBALL STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME: Boyertown Bears 46 - NORTH ALLEGHENY TIGERS 35 (MSA)
