WPIAL 5-A and 6-A Classifications Sports News
The Chartiers Valley girls basketball team won the state championship in 2019. After the postseason was cut short last year due to COVID-19, the Colts (25-3) will have a chance to defend that title after cruising to a 50-33 win against District 3 champion, Spring Grove, in the Class 5A semifinals on Tuesday at Bald… More »
The North Allegheny girls’ basketball team punched its ticket to the PIAA Class 6A championship for the second time in program history, and first time since 2017, with a convincing 66-40 win over Cumberland Valley on Monday night. In the PIAA semifinal matchup with the Eagles, the Tigers earned a mercy-rule win for the third… More »
With only six players available and led by a volunteer coach due to COVID-19, the Upper St. Clair boys basketball team showed the grittiest effort of the season, coming away with a 62-57 win against District 10 champion, Erie High School, in the Class 6A PIAA Quarterfinals. The Panthers (21-1) held a 26-24 lead at… More »
The Chartiers Valley girls basketball team continued their dominant run with a convincing 61-38 win against District 10 champion, Warren, on Saturday in the Class 5A PIAA Quarterfinals. The host Colts (24-3) are the defending state champions from two years ago and is fresh off a WPIAL title. A 13-0 run in the third quarter… More »
By Jared Barton It didn’t take long for North Allegheny to assert its dominance in the PIAA playoffs, as the Tigers beat the McDowell Trojans 60-30 at North Allegheny High School Friday night. NA took the early lead and never looked back, as the Tigers scored the first 13 points of the game before the… More »
Earlier this season, Trinity ended Chartiers Valley’s state record 64-game win streak. Ever since that game, the Colts were hoping for an opportunity for payback. They got exactly that on Monday night as No. 2 Chartiers Valley (23-3) defeated No. 1 Trinity (21-2), 62-40, at Peters Township’s AHN Arena. After the game was tied 3-3… More »
Saturday’s Class 5A boys basketball WPIAL Championship Game at North Allegheny was the third meeting of the season between No. 1 Chartiers Valley (22-4) and No. 2 New Castle (21-2). In all three games, the winning team won by double digits. New Castle took the rubber match and won their 14th WPIAL title with a… More »
In convincing fashion, the North Allegheny girls’ basketball team won its fourth WPIAL Class 6A championship in five years with a 70-36 triumph over the Upper St. Clair Panthers on Saturday night at AHN Arena. The victory was not only NA’s second consecutive WPIAL title but also marked the second time in four years that… More »
It’s been 16 years since the Upper St. Clair boys basketball team has claimed the WPIAL title, but that all changed on Friday night when the top-seeded Panthers (20-1) held off No. 6 Pine-Richland (14-6), 56-53, at Peters Township’s AHN Arena in the Class 6A Championship Game. The Panthers held a seven point lead with… More »
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