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2017 Boys’ Basketball All-Section Photo Gallery ********** Class 5A Second Team & Honorable Mention Class 6A Second Team & Honorable Mention
Welcome to www.pabig56.com, a new website featuring the schools, teams, and athletes of Class 6-A and 5-A in the WPIAL. For fans familiar with the former Quad-A sports website, you can now visit www.pabig56.com for all the scores, schedules, team pages and championship recaps of the Big 56 Athletic Conferences. Along with coverage of 6-A… 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 »
All-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 »
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 »
Eerily similar to their first meeting on December 18, the Plum Mustangs used a late-game surge to pull away from the Gateway Gators for a 46-34 triumph in a Section 2-AAAA contest on Thursday night. In their duel one month ago, senior Jack Marold sparked a momentum turning run with four 3-pointers en route to… More »
Plum senior James Edwards was honored recently for scoring the 1,000th point of his high school basketball career. Edwards is a two-time 1st Team All-Section honoree and has signed a letter of intent to play at the Air Force Academy next year. Edwards and the Mustangs defeated McKeesport on Tuesday night, 64-53, to improve to… More »
The Penn-Trafford Warriors used a 20-0 run in the second quarter to vault past the Norwin Knights on Wednesday night, 79-54, in a Section 1-AAAA contest. The run was led in part by the shooting of 3-point specialist Sean Stinelli who scored a game-high 27 points and poured in five long-distance treys. For his efforts,… More »