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.
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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.
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.
MONESSEN – Monessen’s girls basketball team christened Major Corley Court Monday night with a season-opening 61-40 win over Avella in Section 2-A.
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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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.
Assured of a playoff berth, Washington begins season Friday at Charleroi.
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We will remember 2020 as a sports year like no other, for the wrong reasons.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Clarence Edwards realizes that on two nights this winter the conversation around his dinner table could be very interesting. Edwards hopes he’s not the one who will eating crow.
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Rich Tranquill, a teacher in the Chartiers-Houston School District, is hired as the Bucs' boys basketball coach.
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Trinity High School’s Courtney Dahlquist likes playing a fast-paced style of basketball. She also doesn’t mind a fast-paced recruiting process.
Did you know that one of the nation’s most heavily recruited prep basketball players this year attended school in Washington last winter?
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After 10 seasons at Chartiers-Houston, Eugene Briggs is returning to Fort Cherry as the Rangers' boys basketball coach.
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Phil Pergola, the only coach to guide a boys basketball team from Washington County to a PIAA championship in the state’s largest classification, might have coached the final game in his illustrious 55-year career.
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Belle Vernon has turned to one of its own in attempt to get the Leopards past the first round of the WPIAL girls basketball playoffs.
Megan McConnell sees things on a basketball court most players do not. That vision signaled success for Chartiers Valley.
Trinity High School girls basketball player Courtney Dahlquist recently received another Division I offer, from Coastal Carolina University in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
The “When Sports Were Played” for today is from March 7, 1992, when Washington High School’s girls basketball team knocked off talented North Catholic to win the WPIAL Class AAA girls basketball championship.
There is one question that every sports writer in the United States has been asked multiple times over the last two months: What do you write about when there are no sports being played?
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The WPIAL released its section alignments for boys and girls basketball. Here are five observations from some of the shifting that was done.
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Winners, honorees to be recognized at next year's banquet.
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After spending the past five seasons as the Waynesburg High School boys basketball coach, Kirk King has resigned.
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California High School senior Malik Ramsey was named to the Pennsylvania Sportswriters Class 2A Boys Basketball All-State Team.
In today’s “When Sports Were Played,” we go back to March 9, 2018, when Chartiers-Houston’s Alexa Williamson set the record for points in a playoff game by a basketball player from the O-R’s coverage area. On Tuesday, we will revisit the game when local boys player set the WPIAL playoff scor…
For today’s “When Sports Were Played,” we revisit a basketball section tiebreaker game from Feb. 18, 1978. Immaculate Conception’s John Abel tallied what was then a WPIAL postseason record 49 points, but the Comets lost the game to Burgettstown.
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Observer-Reporter Girls Basketball Player of the Year Riley DeRubbo of Trinity was named to the Class 5A all-state team by a panel of sportswriters.
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Bob Miles is back as a head coach, this time at Peters Township.
Two members of the Washington-Greene County Chapter have been elected to the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame it was announced Saturday.
In today’s “When Sports Were Played,” we go back to March 25, 1961, when Fort Cherry became the first school from Washington County to win a PIAA basketball championship. The game was played at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Huddling around the center circle at midcourt as practice concluded at Hiller Hall, the Trinity High School girls basketball team talked about its travel plans to Chambersburg High School for the second round of the state tournament.
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This year's Observer-Reporter Girls Basketball All-District Team.
2020 – Riley DeRubbo, Trinity
The “When Sports Were Played” for today goes back exactly 36 years, to March 31, 1984, when Washington High School won its first boys basketball state championship.
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The PIAA suspended winter sports championships less than 24 hours after the Trinity girls basketball team advanced to the state quarterfinals. The Hillers, like everybody else, are in a holding pattern.
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Belle Vernon sophomore guard Devin Whitlock is the Observer-Reporter Boys Basketball Player of the Year.
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This year's Observer-Reporter Boys Basketball All-District Team.
A missed shot led to the Lions pulling off an upset that netted the state basketball championship.
Nineteen local high school basketball players were chosen to compete in the annual Roundball Classic. The seven-game event is tentatively scheduled for April 24-25 at Geneva College.
“They were the best team I’ve seen this year,” Wilkes-Barre G.A.R. coach John Hopkins said about the 1985-86 Washington Little Presidents.
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Hillers hold Great Valley to just four points in each of the first three quarters on way to PIAA playoff victory.
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Trinity has relied on its athleticism the entire season. It won't be any different in the second round of the state tournament when they play Great Valley.
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After ending a 39-year drought without a state playoff victory last Friday, Belle Vernon is eyeing to make more history against Lancaster Catholic Tuesday night.
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McDONALD – If there was a championship game loss hangover permeating through the Trinity girls basketball program, it was quickly overcome by the time the Hillers tipped off PIAA tourney play Saturday afternoon at South Fayette High School.
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Malia Magestro struck once again, this time for 24 points in another Kennedy Catholic victory over West Greene in the first round of the state tournament.
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West Greene plays Kennedy Catholic in the first round of the state tournament for the second consecutive year.
It had been a long wait for the Belle Vernon High School boys basketball program.
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Four local boys teams advanced to the PIAA boys basketball playoffs that begin later this week. Here is what to know when they tip off in first-round games.
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