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Chartiers Valley Overcomes Slow Start To Get Past Mars In WPIAL Semifinals
It was looking like deja vu for the Chartiers Valley boys basketball team in the Class 5A WPIAL semifinals again. After losing to Mars each of the past two years, the top-seeded Colts (22-3) fell behind 13-0 to No. 5 Mars (16-4) in the first quarter of the Class 5A semifinals on Wednesday. There was… More »
Newcomer New Castle Dethrones Reigning Class 5A Champion Laurel Highlands
There will be a new WPIAL Class 5A boys basketball champion this year, and it will be a team that wasn’t in the classification last year. No. 2 New Castle (20-2), who competed in Class 4A last year, knocked off No. 3 Laurel Highlands (14-4), 69-60, in the semifinals on Wednesday night. New Castle will… More »
USC Books First Trip to WPIAL Championship since 2005
It was a big hurdle the top-seeded Upper St Clair boys basketball team had to leap over to return to the WPIAL championship for the first time since 2005. Facing No. 5 Butler (12-9), a team they lost to twice in last year’s playoffs, the Panthers (19-1) were able to seek revenge with a 70-62… More »
Top-seed Chartiers Valley Holds Off Gateway
Gateway gave top-seeded Chartiers Valley all they could handle in the boys basketball Class 5A quarterfinals, but the Colts (21-3) were able to prevail, 53-47, over the No. 8 Gators (8-8). The game was tied at half before Chartiers Valley slowly started to build the lead in the second half to the point where the… More »
Carney’s Buzzer Beater Lifts Butler Into Semifinals
Penn-Trafford tied the game with less than 10 seconds left in overtime, but it was enough time for junior Devin Carney to make it down court and threw up an off balanced 3-pointer that found nothing but net to lift No. 5 Butler (12-8) over No. 4 Penn-Trafford (13-6), 58-55. Carney finished with a team-high… More »
Balanced Attack Leads Gateway Over Albert Gallatin
Four players scored in double figures to lift No. 8 Gateway (9-7) over visiting No. 9 Albert Gallatin (10-7), 62-59, in the Class 5A WPIAL First Round on Wednesday. Junior Ryan Greggerson led the charge with 13 points. Freshman Bryson Pavlik had 12 points and junior Will Kromka and sophomore Jayden Carr each had 10… More »
More Late Game Heroics Lifts Latrobe Over Thomas Jefferson
Wednesday’s Class 5A WPIAL First Round win at Thomas Jefferson was Latrobe’s fourth of the season by three points or less. As he has done all season, senior Ryan Sickenberger, was right in the middle of it. Sickenberger’s 3-point play in the final minute of play lifted No. 10 Latrobe (8-6) over No. 7 Thomas… More »
Plum Prevails Against West Allegheny
In a Class 5A boys basketball WPIAL Preliminary Round matchup pitting two teams in the middle of the pack in their sections, No. 15 Plum outlasted No. 18 West Allegheny, 57-53. This was the Mustangs first playoff appearance and win since the 2015-16 season. Plum overcame a five point halftime deficit, outscoring the Indians 21-14… More »
Franklin Regional Avoids Upset With Big Fourth Quarter
Facing an opponent that wouldn’t have qualified for the postseason in a normal season, No. 12 Franklin Regional came alive in the fourth quarter to upend visiting No. 21 Armstrong, 49-43 in the Class 5A WPIAL Preliminary Round. After scoring only three points in the third quarter, the Panthers scored nearly half of their whole… More »