WPIAL 5-A and 6-A Classifications Sports News
Amirah Moore, a Moon graduate, averaged 17.5 points, 3.0 assists, 2.5 rebounds and 2.0 steals in a pair of league wins last week for Washington & Jefferson College. She shot 59.1 percent (13 of 22) from the floor and 81.8 percent (9 of 11) from the free-throw line. Moore posted a career-high 25 points in Wednesday’s… More »
Senior Terron Taylor‘s jumper with 4.3 seconds left lifted McKeesport to a 53-51 non-section win against Gateway in the Westmoreland Shootout at Seton Hill University on Saturday. Taylor’s bucket saved the Tigers from a collapse after they held a 16-9 lead after the first quarter in a potential Class 5A WPIAL playoff rematch. The Tigers led… More »
Top-ranked North Allegheny trailed by four after three quarters against one of the top teams on the eastern side of the state, but they Lady Tigers persevered with a strong fourth for a 50-46 victory at Spring-Ford on Saturday afternoon. In a back-and-forth ballgame, the Lady Tigers outscored the Rams 13-5 in the final stanza… More »
The Peters Township girls’ basketball team welcomed Cardinal Wuerl North Catholic, the top team in Class 4A to its gymnasium on Saturday, and nearly ended up playing two games. The Indians came away with a 69-66 win over the Trojanettes in a non-section tune-up for the playoffs. It was all Peters Township early on with… More »
It didn’t seem like any team in Class 5A was going to contest the Mars boys basketball team, until Friday night. In its biggest game of the season, Moon was able to stifle its Section 2-5A opponent with a 58-43 win at home. The Tigers handed the Planets their lone section loss of the season… More »
The West Allegheny girls’ basketball team trailed most of the night in essentially what would turn out to be the section championship at South Fayette on Friday night. The Indians trailed 50-41 entering the fourth quarter, but they just needed to have patience. That plan worked out when junior Patience Ashaolu connected on the game-winning 3-pointer… More »
It came down to the end of the season, but the Peters Township girls’ basketball team was able to clinch the section title in Section 3-6A. The Indians did so with a 60-54 win at home against a Mt. Lebanon team that gave Peters Township its lone section loss of the season. Peters Township blew… More »
The Seneca Valley girls’ basketball team solidified its spot in the Class 6A WPIAL playoffs on Thursday night with a 43-42 overtime win at Shaler. The Raiders are now tied for second place with Butler, while Shaler is still fighting for a playoff spot, a game behind Pine-Richland for the final spot with a game… More »
The Gateway girls’ basketball team fended off a comeback attempt by Oakland Catholic to pick up a 37-35 Section 2-5A win and take control of second place in the section with one game remaining. The Gators have now split the season series with the Eagles, who are in third place in the section. Both teams… More »
The Mars girls’ basketball team won its sixth straight game on Thursday by continuing to play stellar defense, defeating Armstrong on the road, 43-33. This was the third straight game the Planets held their opponents to under 35 points. Mars jumped out to an early 13-5 lead in the first quarter that they held on… More »