WPIAL 5-A and 6-A Classifications Sports News
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 »
The North Allegheny girls’ basketball team punched its ticket to the WPIAL championship game for a sixth consecutive season thanks to a 49-36 victory over the Mt. Lebanon Blue Devils on Wednesday night in the WPIAL Class 6A semifinals. The Tigers matched up with the Blue Devils in the semifinals for the third time in… More »
In a low scoring affair, No. 2 Upper St. Clair (15-2) defeated No. 3 Norwin (13-5) in the Class 6A girls basketball WPIAL semifinals on Wednesday. The Panthers scored 12 points in the second quarter, the only quarter that featured either team reaching double figures. That gave USC a 20-15 lead at halftime. Both teams… More »
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 »
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 »
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 »