WPIAL 5-A and 6-A Classifications Sports News
The QUAD-A Conference has presented four $500 scholarships to two male and two female student athletes in recognition for their athletic and academic contributions to their school and community. The application criteria involved three main areas including: athletic, academic and extracurricular/community achievements. The awards were announced at the Spring Baseball and Softball banquet on Tuesday… More »
Plum senior Alex Kirilloff has been named a Louisville Slugger Pre-Season All-American for the 2016 season. The staff of Collegiate Baseball America selects the Pre-Season All-American team and Kirilloff is the only player from Pennsylvania on the list. The 6-foot-2, 195 pounder was the WPIAL Class AAAA Player of the Year last season and hit… More »
Facing a familiar foe in the WPIAL championship game, the Pine-Richland Rams topped the North Hills Indians for a 70-53 triumph and first WPIAL title in program history. The Rams used a 12-0 run in the first quarter to pull away from their Section 3-AAAA rival and cruised toward victory. PR had last reached the… More »
Trailing by 13-points entering the fourth quarter, the reigning WPIAL champion Norwin Knights mounted a furious rally to force overtime and defeated the North Allegheny Tigers, 63-57, at the Peterson Events Center on Saturday night. Norwin trailed most of the game and was down by as much as 16 points, but Taylor Sabol’s 3-pointer with… More »
All-Second Team Selections Honorable Mentions Coaches of the Year
Second-Team Selections Honorable Mentions Coaches of the Year
By Don Rebel There have been plenty of memorable moments through the decades from the great Upper St. Clair vs Mount Lebanon rivalry. But perhaps none were stranger than what happened between the two boys basketball teams on the final Friday of section play. In the end both teams were celebrating. The Panthers were thrilled… More »
North Allegheny notched its fourth consecutive outright Section 3-AAAA title on Monday night with a 62-37 blowout of the Seneca Valley Raiders in the Quad-A Conference Girls Basketball Game of the Week. The win was NA’s 10th in a row and 17th consecutive over the Raiders. Having already clinched a playoff spot, Seneca Valley was… More »
By Don Rebel Senior Matt Bilyak only scored four points on Friday, but his layup with under a minute remaining in the fourth quarter proved to be the difference as Pittsburgh Central Catholic edged North Allegheny in a Quad-A Section 3 contest at Alumni Hall in Oakland 47-44. With the score tied 44-44 and the… More »
Seniors Abby Gonzales and Taylor Lake both eclipsed the 1,000 point mark for their careers in a 56-32 triumph over the Butler Golden Tornado on Tuesday night. Gonzales finished with nine points on the night and poured in a 3-pointer early in the second half to hit exactly 1,000 for her career. Lake scored a… More »