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Gateway’s Jaydon Carr scores next to Kaleb Pryor during their Section 3-5A game against Penn Hills on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022, at Gateway High School.
Gateway upsets No. 3 Mars, earns 1st WPIAL semifinal appearance since 2012
February 24, 2022
Gateway was only a couple of minute away from upsetting No. 3 seed Mars, but for the Gators, those final moments seemed to last forever.

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Latrobe girls basketball players stand for the national anthem, which was sung by Wildcats soccer player Morgan Reilly, before Tuesday night’s WPIAL Class 5A playoff game against Mars.
Latrobe girls battle past scrappy Mars into Class 5A quarterfinals
February 22, 2022
This was a playoff win built on the bedrock of team basketball.

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Jenna Dawson (right) and her Belle Vernon teammates face Quaker Valley in the playoffs Tuesday.
Westmoreland WPIAL basketball playoff capsules for Feb. 22, 2022
February 21, 2022
Tuesday’s games

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North Hills’ Royce Parham dunks against North Allegheny on Jan. 7, 2022, in McCandless.
Breaking down the 2022 WPIAL boys basketball playoff brackets
February 14, 2022
Class 6A

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Mars coach Dana Petruska, with her son Dave, share a laugh during practice of the annual Cager Classic March 21, 2019, at Highlands High School.
Trib HSSN Girls Basketball Team of the Week for Feb. 13, 2022
February 13, 2022
Dana Petruska started her coaching career at Mars in 1986. After the 2005 season, she took over at her alma mater and coached Deer Lakes for nearly a decade before returning to coach the Fightin’ Planets in 2015.

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Mars’ Tasso Sfanos scores past Highlands’ Jimmy Kunst (r) on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022 at Mars High School.
Mars stops Highlands comeback bid, secures section title
February 8, 2022
Because he’s better known as a lacrosse player, the Mars coaching staff didn’t know whether Austin Cote would come out for basketball.

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Kiski Area assistant coach Chuck Tursky (left) works with head coach Chris Heater (right) and assistant coach Matt Kiebler during their 35-31 comeback victory over Cumberland Valley in the opening round of the PIAA Class AAA team wrestling tournament championship at the Giant Center on Thursday Feb. 11, 2016, in Hershey.
WPIAL announces 2022 Hall of Fame class
January 19, 2022
Bob Kalp won more than 400 games as Hempfield’s softball coach, and Chuck Tursky celebrated his 500th career win as Kiski Area’s wrestling coach.

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Mars’ Ryan Ceh fights for a rebound with Highlands’ Caliel Long on Friday, Jan. 14, 2022, at Highlands High School.
Mars boys topple Highlands in battle for 1st place in Section 4-5A
January 14, 2022
Mars senior Zach Schlegel remembers last season’s trip to Highlands that resulted in a 13-point loss that ended the Planets’ streak of eight consecutive section titles.

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Mars head coach Scott Heinauer watches the Planets’ practice on Aug. 9, 2021, at Mars Athletic Complex.
Mars school board set to open job of football coach Scott Heinauer
January 10, 2022
Mars appears ready to open the job of longtime football coach Scott Heinauer to applicants.

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Former Pine-Richland football coach Eric Kasperowicz (center, in black) talks to people during a “Huddle Up for Coach K” rally held in his honor outside of the Pine-Richland School Board’s planning meeting Monday, May 3, 2021. The rally was held to protest the firing of Kasperowicz.
Trib HSSN Top 21 Stories of 2021: Pine-Richland coach Eric Kasperowicz ousted
December 31, 2021
The year 2021 wasn’t one giant leap for mankind, but it was one big step back toward “normalcy” for all of us, especially the high school athletes from around the WPIAL.

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