Tag: Winchester Thurston

Greensburg Salem boys place pair in top 20 at PIAA cross country championships

November 4, 2017

HERSHEY — You don't always have to win to be satisfied with your race result. Greensburg Salem juniors Mark Brown and Cameron Binda didn't win

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WPIAL Boys X-Country – Seneca Valley, Indiana & Winchester Champs

October 27, 2017

Winchester-Thurston and Seneca Valley both repeated as boys’ cross-country team champions on Thursday, while Indiana also claimed gold. Meanwhile, the three individual winners were first-time champions, all of whom finished in the top five in their respective classifications last year. In the annual event held at Coopers Lake Campground in Slippery Rock, Winchester-Thurston displayed complete […]

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Greensburg Salem boys cross country headed to PIAAs

October 26, 2017

Greensburg Salem cross country coach Nathan Snider was both happy and sad Thursday at the WPIAL cross country championships at Cooper's Lake Campground. Glad the

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Third time not a charm as GCC boys lose to Winchester Thurston in boys soccer quarterfinals

October 25, 2017

Greensburg Central Catholic could not solve Winchester Thurston this season. Not in two section games and not in a playoff game. And what really stings

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WPIAL boys soccer quarterfinal preview capsules for Westmoreland County teams

October 24, 2017

Quarterfinals Class 4A No. 3 Franklin Regional (16-2) vs. No. 11 Canon-McMillan (11-6) 8 p.m. Wednesday at Gateway On air: Tribhssn.triblive.com Winner plays: No. 2

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Pittsburgh athletes of the week: Winchester Thurston’s Tristan Forsythe, USC’s Savannah Shaw

September 13, 2017

Tristan Forsythe School: Winchester Thurston Class: Senior Sport: Cross country Claim to fame: Forsythe crossed the finish line first for the second consecutive season in

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Runners enjoy running ‘old’ course at Schenley Park for Red, White & Blue Classic

September 9, 2017

For the past two years Schenley Park's cross country course had to be re-routed because of construction work. With the course now returned to its

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MSA Sports 2017 Girls All-Netters

March 31, 2017

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

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Scholastic Notebook – 03/06/2017

March 6, 2017

It doesn’t take an analytics whiz to figure out that 3-point shooting has become a big part of high school basketball. But if one can deduce anything from the WPIAL championships over the past three days, it is this: While accuracy from 3-point range might be nice, the biggest factor in winning a championship is to hit the boards. Look at the statistics from the 12 boys and girls championships (six in each classification) Thursday through Saturday and rebounding was by far the biggest key and not shooting. Here is what the statistics showed:

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Winchester Thurston Pulls Away From Cornell for Girls 1-A Gold

March 3, 2017

The top-seed Winchester Thurston Bears defeated the #2 Cornell Raiders 52-41 Friday afternoon to take home the first WPIAL girls basketball title in school history.

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