WPIAL 5-A and 6-A Classifications Sports News
By: Steve Brodzinski – Pittsburgh Basketball Report New Castle, Hampton, Kiski Area, North Allegheny, Bethel Park, and city league champion Allderdice, will be representing the WPIAL in the Class Quad A PIAA Playoffs, and once again, we get to beat up on each other, before meeting with the powers from the east. In 2010, I… More »
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The New Castle Red Hurricanes continued their historic run in the WPIAL with a 55-49 triumph over Hampton in the Class AAAA Championship game on Saturday night at the A.J. Palumbo Center. Before another capacity crowd, the Red Hurricanes defeated Hampton for the third time this season and for the third consecutive year in a… More »
by Patrick McKay There was a packed house, sold out crowd on hand at North Allegheny this evening for the WPIAL semifinal match-up between the top seeded Red Hurricanes of New Castle and the 13th seeded Cavaliers of Kiski. In fact many were turned away as there was standing room only and one of the… More »
In the WPIAL semifinals on Wednesday night, the Hampton Talbots topped the North Allegheny Tigers by a final of 61-53 from Chartiers Valley High School. It’s the second straight year the Talbots have defeated the Tigers in the semifinals, which pits Hampton against New Castle in a WPIAL final for the third year in a… More »
By: Steve Brodzinski – Pittsburgh Basketball Report #1 New Castle vs. #13 Kiski Area Star Watch: Malik Hooker (New Castle) – The Ohio State football commit became an internet sensation, shortly after his alley-oop dunk right on a Bethel Park defender went viral after New Castle’s quarterfinal victory. A 1000 point scorer, Hooker led… More »
by Patrick McKay Three teams from Section 3 return to the WPIAL Semi-Finals for the second consecutive season and prove deserving of their top 3 positions in the seeding. #1 New Castle, #2 Hampton and #3 North Allegheny all held the same three spots last season and made the semi’s with Hampton falling to New… More »
Third-seeded North Allegheny opened the second half with a 21-0 run en route to an 82-59 triumph over the sixth-seeded Hempfield Spartans in the WPIAL Class AAAA quarterfinals. The Tigers led 36-27 at the half and busted the game wide open with the devastating third quarter run. North Allegheny’s strengths, the full court press and… More »
By: Steve Brodzinski – Pittsburgh Basketball Report The first round of the Class AAAA playoffs are in the books, and while both a #12 and #13 seed moved on to the second round, there were no real “upsets”. Teams have taken care of business, as eight teams have advanced to the quarterfinal round. Let’s… More »
North Allegheny shook off a cold first half with 50 percent shooting in the second half and ran away from the Norwin Knights in the opening round of the WPIAL playoffs, 66-36, from Fox Chapel High School on Wednesday night. The Tigers connected on only 9 of 30 shot attempts in the first 16 minutes,… More »