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by: Don Rebel

CLASS 6A CONTENDERS FACE TESTS AT NORWIN

The third day of the new year could be newsworthy both in and outside of the gym.

While the forecast calls for snow in the area, we are calling for a showdown in Class 6A girls hoops Friday.

Upper St. Clair faces its first stiff challenge in Section 2-6A when it visits Norwin at 6 pm.

The Panthers and Knights are tied for first place with Mt. Lebanon in the six-team section after both won their section openers before the holidays.

USC is 6-2 overall and has won three straight games by margins of 22, 22 and 21 points over Canon-McMillan, Bethel Park and Franklin Regional.

Norwin began the season with three wins in four games but has lost three of its last four including two in a row to fall to 4-4 for the season.

Both teams lost on consecutive days to District 1 power Perkiomen Valley in mid-December.

In Section 2-6A boys basketball, six of the eight teams begin 2025 with records of .500 or better.

Two of them meet in the second game of a 6A doubleheader at Norwin when the Knights host Mt. Lebanon.

The Blue Devils are 1-1 in the section and 5-3 overall after winning two of three games in the Seahawk Classic at Hilton Head, SC.

The host Knights are 5-5 overall and looking to improve to .500 in the section where they are currently 1-2.

Norwin also finished with two wins in its last three games in 2024.

Both games can be seen on Trib HSSN.

CROWDED AT THE TOP

As section play resumes following the holiday break in WPIAL boys basketball, things might start to thin out at the top of Section 1-5A.

Then again, maybe not.

Uniontown (8-3) is all alone in first place with a 3-0 section record.

Then the traffic jam begins with four teams a game behind with 2-1 section marks.

Latrobe (10-1), Albert Gallatin (7-3), Gateway (4-4) and McKeesport (4-6) are prepared to shuffle the standings following each night of section play.

On Friday, Uniontown hosts McKeesport on HSSN while Gateway makes the trek to Albert Gallatin.

Latrobe visits a Penn-Trafford (4-4) team that is just outside the crowded bubble for second place with a 1-2 section record.