WPIAL 5-A and 6-A Classifications Sports News
For the first time since 2012, the Woodland Hills boys’ basketball team can call themselves section champs. The Wolverines clinched at least a share of the Section 3-6A title on Tuesday with a 66-56 win against Penn Hills. They were also able to split the regular season series with their section rivals in the process…. More »
Penn Hills and Woodland Hills were competing for the Section 3-6A regular season championship on Tuesday, but the hottest team in the section might have been playing in another game. Fox Chapel won its eighth straight game and fourth straight road game on Tuesday with a 75-65 win at Latrobe. The Foxes have also beat… More »
The Chartiers Valley girls’ basketball team will get a better seed in the playoffs than South Fayette in the WPIAL playoffs after defeating the Lions, 57-40, to finish in second place in Section 1-5A. South Fayette finished in third place. The Colts were in control of the entire game as they took a 31-22 lead… More »
With third place in Section 3-6A on the line on Monday night, the Mt. Lebanon girls’ basketball team delivered. The Blue Devils held Upper St. Clair to eight points in the first half to come away with a 44-35 win at home. The Panthers only mustered four points in each of the first two quarters,… More »
Down by two, Butler hit a 3-pointer with eight seconds left in the game to come away with a 36-35 win at Seneca Valley in the Section 1-6A finale. The win gave the Golden Tornado sole possession of second place over the Raiders, who will finish in third place in the section. Seneca Valley had… More »
Senior Terron Taylor‘s jumper with 4.3 seconds left lifted McKeesport to a 53-51 non-section win against Gateway in the Westmoreland Shootout at Seton Hill University on Saturday. Taylor’s bucket saved the Tigers from a collapse after they held a 16-9 lead after the first quarter in a potential Class 5A WPIAL playoff rematch. The Tigers led… More »
Top-ranked North Allegheny trailed by four after three quarters against one of the top teams on the eastern side of the state, but they Lady Tigers persevered with a strong fourth for a 50-46 victory at Spring-Ford on Saturday afternoon. In a back-and-forth ballgame, the Lady Tigers outscored the Rams 13-5 in the final stanza… More »
The Peters Township girls’ basketball team welcomed Cardinal Wuerl North Catholic, the top team in Class 4A to its gymnasium on Saturday, and nearly ended up playing two games. The Indians came away with a 69-66 win over the Trojanettes in a non-section tune-up for the playoffs. It was all Peters Township early on with… More »
It didn’t seem like any team in Class 5A was going to contest the Mars boys basketball team, until Friday night. In its biggest game of the season, Moon was able to stifle its Section 2-5A opponent with a 58-43 win at home. The Tigers handed the Planets their lone section loss of the season… More »
The West Allegheny girls’ basketball team trailed most of the night in essentially what would turn out to be the section championship at South Fayette on Friday night. The Indians trailed 50-41 entering the fourth quarter, but they just needed to have patience. That plan worked out when junior Patience Ashaolu connected on the game-winning 3-pointer… More »