The Trinity girls basketball team’s clash with top-ranked Chartiers Valley Jan 23 is creeping up fast, and it’d be a lot more fun for both sides if each team was unbeaten.
2020 High School Football Preview
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After a winless season that included three forfeits, Monessen turns to a Duquesne native to rebuild the Greyhounds' football program.
Peters Township dominated the upper weights, then strung together three consecutive falls to close the match as the Indians defeated Pittsburgh Central Catholic, 49-21, Wednesday night.
Kody Kuhns scored 23 points and Monessen held off a late rally by host Jefferson-Morgan to edge the Rockets, 65-59, Wednesday night in Class 2A Section 4.
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CANONSBURG – If you looked at it from Trinity’s point of view, you would be happy.
In recent seasons, the Washington High School boys basketball team was known as one that played good defense but had trouble making shots and scoring points.
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Red Hurricane hit 100 in victory over Hillers.
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Clara Paige Miller scored a game-high 21 points and Waynesburg remained undefeated with a 67-45 victory over host Washington in the Class 3A Section 2 opener Monday night.
Kyle Fecho scored 18 points, Michael Dunn had a double-double and Trinity blew open its season opener at Moon by scoring 30 points in the third quarter en route to a 69-27 rout in a Class 5A Section 2 game Friday night.
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Belle Vernon preferred the second start of the high school boys basketball season to the first.
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CHARLEROI – Washington and Charleroi opened the 2020-21 boys basketball season Friday night with the Prexies picking up a 68-45 Section 4-AAA road win.
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When basketball practices resumed across Pennsylvania Jan. 4, there was plenty of huffing and puffing during workouts because of the three-week shutdown ordered by Gov. Tom Wolf and the departments of health and education.
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After 3-week layoff, winter sports seasons set to play it again.
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It’s not the best of circumstances, but Ron Tarquinio sees it as a good first test.
Assured of a playoff berth, Washington begins season Friday at Charleroi.
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Gerrit Nijenhuis is gone, off to Purdue University to continue his academic and wrestling career.
Thirteen area players named to the Pennsylvania Football Coaches Association all-state footyball teams.
His bigger-than-life aura made him a constant presence on football fields across the United States.
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We will remember 2020 as a sports year like no other, for the wrong reasons.
Six area athletes were named to the Pennsylvania Football Writers All-State Team Wednesday.
California's Jaeden Zuzak was named Tuesday morning as one of six running backs on the Pennsylvania Football Writers Class A All-State Team.
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The pressure of earning a playoff berth in basketball was removed Monday by the WPIAL.
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Chad Coss, the head football coach at Waynesburg High School, died Monday.
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Only time can hold down Waynesburg's wrestling team.
West Greene has been one of the area's premier girls basketball teams for the past four years and the Lady Pioneers' remarkable run doesn't look to end any time soon.
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Trinity girls have playoff experience that makes them the team to beat in section.
Mohawk High School, the defending Class 3A champion in the WPIAL, used a quick start to edge West Greene, the Class A runner-up last season, 75-66, Friday night in a season-opening girls basketball game.
BROWNSVILLE -- Rich Tranquill enjoyed his return as a high school boys basketball coach even if his Chartiers-Houston squad came up short in a 35-32 non-section loss at Brownsville on Friday night.
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McGuffey gets season-opening win, plans on being unbeaten for a few weeks.
The Powerade Wrestling Tournament has a new date.
Beth-Center returns three starters from last season but it's a starter from two years ago that may lead to a fruitful year for fourth-year coach Bill Greco's boys basketball team.
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When Mark Druga’s mother died this year, Burgettstown football fans lost more than their No. 1 fan.
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Though the PIAA plans for winter sports to begin as scheduled Friday, the organization approved several changes to postseason tournaments.
A season ago, longtime Charleroi High School boys basketball coach Bill Wiltz led the Cougars to a share of the Section 4-AAA title, the program’s first championship since 2014-15.
On her way to becoming the best player in the history of the Belle Vernon Area girls basketball program, Kaitlyn Slagus was known as a tireless leader and hard worker.
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The growth of the pandemic has led to a proposal by the PIAA board of control to radically change the postseason of wrestling for this year.
Coaches constantly instruct their players to keep their mind in the game. It's possible that may not be stressed anywhere more than inside the South Fayette gymnasium where the boys basketball team practices.
In good times, troubled times or even in down times, the one staple of the Chartiers-Houston High School girls basketball team is tough, tenacious defense.
Versatility and delivering in clutch situations made Indians tight end-linebacker stand out.
A year ago, the Belle Vernon Area boys basketball team was the WPIAL Class 4A runner-up and came up a basket short of making the PIAA quarterfinals.
The Pennsylvania high school football season wrapped up one of the most unique seasons in its history Saturday night with St. Joseph's Prep defeating Central York, 62-13, in the PIAA Class 6A championship game.
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Rams have new coach but little experience as they awsait play in difficult Class 5A section.
Morgan “Bunny” Denson was one of those athletes a fan or opponent could not take their eyes off.
Former state champion at Canon-McMillan takes over Division II program.
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The high school sports seasons in Pennsylvania were brought to a sudden end before they began last spring, and the fall seasons have been played with safer, socially distant guidelines. But what hasn’t changed in high school athletics is the recruiting game.
The effects of the coronavirus has eliminated two local wrestling tournaments and forced a third one to move.
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Shellie Cotton Smith led Charleroi to consecutive PIAA (1999 and 2000) and WPIAL championship appearances and scored 199 career goals.
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Top-seeded Rams too much for PT in WPIAL Class 5A title game.
The WPIAL Class 5A football championship games includes a matchup of workout partners.
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Peters Township multisport athlete is the Observer-Reporter Athlete of the Week
Peters Township’s Kat Wang and Marra Bruce defended their PIAA doubles title.
Usually, when last seen by opponents, Nico Pate is bursting through the line on his was to a big gain.
WEXFORD – They should pass out antacids to the fans attending Peters Township soccer matches.
ALIQUIPPA – Belle Vernon did plenty of good things early in the game and again late, but Aliquippa dominated the middle and that carried the Quips to a 33-25 victory over the Leopards in a WPIAL Class 4A semifinal game Friday night.
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