WPIAL 5-A and 6-A Classifications Sports News
The PIAA has released all matchups, sites and times for the first round of the PIAA Basketball Championships. For a complete list of all brackets, click here. Here are the Big 56 teams in the state playoffs: 6A Boys Basketball 3-7 Wilson (19-9) vs. 7-1 Central Catholic (16-9) at Gateway on Saturday, 3:30 pm 10-1… More »
BOYS BASKETBALL 5A CHAMPIONSHIP Penn Hills 70, Peters Township 65 Penn Hills (21-3) trailed at the half but 5A’s top defense woke up in the second half holding Peters Township (22-4) to nine points in the third quarter and hit free throws late for a 70-65 win to capture their sixth WPIAL Championship and first… More »
BOYS BASKETBALL 5A BOYS WPIAL CHAMPIONSHIP #2 Penn Hills (20-3) vs. #1 Peters Township (22-3) – 9 pm – Petersen Event Center – TribLive HSSN, KDKA & WJPA Penn Hills Penn Hills is in search of their sixth WPIAL Championship, their last coming in 2018. They have won 17 of their last 18 games. They… More »
Photo Credit: Will McBride BOYS BASKETBALL 5A BOYS SEMIFINALS Penn Hills 67, North Hills 51 Penn Hills’ (20-3) Lamire Redman connected on five three-pointers giving the North Hills (19-6) defense another thing to worry and Penn Hills defense continued to flex their muscles as they came away with the 67-51 win in the WPIAL Semifinals… More »
Photo Credit: Will McBride BOYS BASKETBALL 5A BOYS SEMIFINALS #3 North Hills (19-5) vs. #2 Penn Hills (19-3) – 12:00 pm – at Peters Township – TribLive HSSN North Hills has defeated Kiski Area (76-71) and Fox Chapel (67-62) to get to the WPIAL 5A Semifinals. This is North Hills’ second consecutive season in the… More »
Photo Credit: North Allegheny Sports Network GIRLS BASKETBALL 6A GIRLS QUARTERFINALS Mt. Lebanon 47, Chartiers Valley 46 Payton Collins hit a free throw with .4 seconds left in the game and 4th-seeded Mt. Lebanon (17-6) came back from 16 down in the fourth quarter to defeat 5th-seeded Chartiers Valley (12-10) 47-46 at Mt. Lebanon High… More »
Photo Credit: North Allegheny Sports Network GIRLS BASKETBALL 6A GIRLS QUARTERFINALS #6 Chartiers Valley (12-9) at #3 Mt. Lebanon (16-6) – 6 pm – TribLive HSSN Chartiers Valley finished the regular season as the third-place finisher in Section 2-6A. They average 51.5 points per game (5th in 6A) and allow 49.9 points per game (6th… More »
Photo Credit: Will McBride BOYS BASKETBALL 5A BOYS QUARTERFINALS Peters Township 68, South Fayette 60 Top-seeded Peters Township (20-3) had four players in double figures as they were able to handle 8th-seeded South Fayette (14-10) 68-60 on Wednesday night at Bethel Park High School. Peters Township got off to a great start on the offensive… More »
BOYS BASKETBALL 5A BOYS QUARTERFINALS #8 South Fayette (14-9) vs. #1 Peters Township (20-3) – at Bethel Park – 7 pm – WJPA South Fayette is coming off of a thrilling 34-33 victory in the WPIAL First Round over Shaler. Elijah Hill hit the go-ahead free throw with eight seconds remaining to come away with… More »
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