Tag: Highlands

Plenty of PIAA playoff factoids as the 2nd round begins Tuesday

March 9, 2020

Like an amateur surfer on a giant wave, six WPIAL Class 5A boys basketball teams got wiped out in the first round of the state playoffs Friday.

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Highlands ready to run in PIAA second-round matchup with Grove City

Throughout its playoff run, opponents have tried to throw Highlands off its game.

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Crise leads Highlands past Harbor Creek in 1st round of PIAA Class 4A playoffs

March 6, 2020

Harbor Creek’s strategy is to keep the score low and pull out a close decision.

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Highlands gets set for PIAA matchup with Harbor Creek

March 5, 2020

Last weekend, the Golden Rams lifted gold at Pitt’s Petersen Events Center, celebrating Highlands’ first WPIAL boys basketball championship since 1995.

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Butler boys, Chartiers Valley girls sit atop HSSN power rankings heading into states

March 4, 2020

Twelve WPIAL basketball champions were crowned last weekend. Four were successful in a golden repeat, or in the case of North Catholic girls, a four-peat.

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Freshman Jimmy Kunst playing big role for WPIAL champion Highlands

The Highlands boys basketball team relied on its trio of seniors this season.

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A-K Valley athletes of the week: Highlands’ Johnny Crise and Fox Chapel’s Sophie Shao

March 3, 2020

Johnny Crise

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George Guido: WPIAL champs prove sports adage true

An old sports cliche states “champions are made while no one is watching.”

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7 WPIAL teams in HSSN boys basketball state rankings as PIAA playoffs loom

March 2, 2020

When comparing the latest Trib HSSN boys basketball state rankings to the girls rankings through the end of the district playoffs, there were fewer changes on the boys side.

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Trib HSSN boys basketball player of the week: Week ending Feb. 29, 2020

March 1, 2020

They have been one of the better WPIAL dynamic duos in recent history.

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