Christian Hinson scored a game-high 22 points, including five three-point field goals, and Chestnut Ridge pulled away in the fourth quarter for a 69-53 victory over visiting Washington in a Class 3A boys basketball first-round playoff game Wednesday night.

NEW PARIS – Waynesburg didn’t shoot well enough, didn’t play defense well enough and didn’t do a good job of keeping the basketball out of the hands of Chestnut Ridge’s talented and athletic junior forward Belle Bosch.

BETHEL PARK – For the second straight year, the Belle Vernon boys basketball team saw its quest for a WPIAL boys basketball championship come to a heartbreaking end in the Class 4A semifinals as they lost to Montour Saturday afternoon, 64-53, at Bethel Park High School.

After wiping out a double-digit deficit in the 4th quarter, Trinity's girls basketball team gets stung at the buzzer.

McDONALD – For the first time since 1961, the Fort Cherry High School boys basketball team is in the WPIAL semifinals.

IRWIN – Monessen’s run in the WPIAL boys basketball playoffs, as well as its 16-game winning streak, came to an end Friday night in a Class 2A quarterfinal matchup against Greensburg Central Catholic, 61-42, at Norwin High School.

Bishop Canevin stuns West Greene's girls basketball team by overcoming a 13-point deficit in the fourth quarter to win in the WPIAL quarterfinals.

BELLE VERNON – Belle Vernon rolled to a 62-42 WPIAL Class 4A quarterfinal win over Freeport Wednesday night, and the victory sets up a rematch with Montour in the semifinals.

It took two overtimes, but Waynesburg's girls basketball checked off another preseason goal.

The Trinity High School girls basketball team had the mathematics of the game figured out long ago – three points beats two points any night of the week.

One good half helps Wash High overcome a shaky second 16 minutes as the Prexies get an elusive playoff victory.

WAYNESBURG – In NCAA March Madness, it’s believed that matchups between No. 12 seeds and No. 5 seeds are the ones most likely to end in an upset.

McMURRAY – Clearly the Peters Township girls team wanted a third crack at section rival Mt. Lebanon.

Charleroi played its best basketball late in the regular season, winning seven of its final eight to finish in the third place in Class 3A Section 2. The Cougars, however, didn’t have enough offensive firepower left in the first round of the playoffs at laurel.

Trinity doesn’t lose in Hiller Hall.

The Washington High School boys basketball team keeps rolling along.

BELLE VERNON — Belle Vernon's boys basketball team clinched an undefeated Class 4A Section 3 championship Friday night with a 64-56 win over Elizabeth Forward in a hard-fought game that was closer down the stretch than the final score indicated.

West Greene’s Katie Lampe put on an amazing shooting exhibition Thursday night, the kind that might be in the record books for years to come.

McDONALD – Dylan Rogers had to work his tail off to score 15 points against Carlynton.

Addie Cairns scored 13 points and Burgettstown used some torrid free-throw shooting down the stretch to beat host Chartiers-Houston 37-26 and clinch at least a share of the Class 2A Section 3 championship Thursday night.

Davoun Fuse led three Washington players in double figures with 15 points and the Prexies wrapped up the Class 3A Section 4 boys basketball championship with a 56-50 victory Monday over host Waynesburg.

Viva Kreis scored 23 points and made five of Belle Vernon’s season-high 11 three-point field goals as the Leopards outlasted visiting Gateway 67-63 in overtime in non-section girls basketball action Wednesday night.

CHARLEROI – Tayshawn Levy scored 13 of his game-high 31 points in the first quarter and Washington High School’s boys basketball team never looked back in a 67-33 win over Charleroi in a Class 3A Section 4 Tuesday night.

Maddox Truschel tipped in a missed shot by Dylan Rogers at the buzzer to give Fort Cherry a thrilling 43-42 victory over Burgettstown in a Class 2A, Section 2 boys basketball game Tuesday night.

MONESSEN – West Greene moved closer to its sixth straight section title with a 61-43 win at Monessen Monday night as the Pioneers won their 62nd consecutive section game.

Avella moved to within one game of second place in Class A Section 2 with a 65-25 win over Jefferson-Morgan in a girls basketball game Monday night.

Defense and rebounding can overcome many offensive shortcomings on the basketball court.

Chase Henkins scored 26 points and Waynesburg gave its playoff hopes a huge boost with a 49-46 victory over Charleroi in Class 3A Section 4.

This past Thursday, the Trinity girls basketball team remained undefeated in Class 5A Section 3 and had to sweat a little to do so, winning a 37-33 grinder at Thomas Jefferson.

Farrah Reader scored a career-high 20 points and Belle Vernon’s girls basketball team held off a fourth-quarter comeback by visiting Serra Catholic to win 43-42 in non-section play.

Shane Cornali grabbed an offensive rebound and put in a tiebreaking basket with less than 50 seconds remaining to give Fort Cherry a 47-45 victory in a non-section boys basketball game at Jefferson-Morgan Friday night.

Guard Chris Barrish scored a game-high 25 points, including his 1,000th career point, and Carmichaels ended Jefferson-Morgan’s seven-game winning streak, 69-37, in a Class 2A Section 4 game on the Mikes’ home court.

For the Trinity girls basketball team, Tuesday night’s non-section game against McKeesport was a brief sabbatical from dominance.

The Washington boys basketball team is finally back on the court.

McDONALD – Chartiers Valley is to WPIAL girls basketball what UConn is to NCAA women’s basketball.

MONESSEN – Heading into Class 2A Section 4 action Friday night, Carmichaels, Monessen and Jefferson-Morgan sat tied atop the league with identical 2-0 records.