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Final score: North Catholic 51, Rochester 48 North Catholic survived a flurry of Rochester shots in the final few seconds, including missed 3-pointers by Giovanni Ellis and Jasson Adamson on the same possession, to win the WPIAL Class AA boys basketball championship. It’s the second consecutive for North Catholic coach Dave Long, who had quadruple bypass [...]

Rochester continues to show its No. 7 seed was slightly misleading. The Rams (23-2) are trailing top-seeded North Catholic by only four points, 42-38, after three quarters in the WPIAL Class AA boys basketball championship. The Trib’s WPIAL title-winning predictions (made before the playoffs began) have been 75 percent correct, so far. We got off to a rough [...]

Ron Everhart must have liked what he saw. The Duquesne University basketball coach was sitting courtside at Palumbo Center for Friday night’s WPIAL Class AAA championship game. Chartiers Valley’s T.J. McConnell, a Duquesne recruit, scored 34 points to win his first WPIAL title, 63-50, over Hampton. McConnell willed his team to victory. The Dukes could [...]

At halftime, we’re tied 20-20. Chartiers Valley sophomore Wayne Capers started in place of injured teammate Matt Noszka, the team’s second leading scorer, who hurt his knee in the semifinals. Capers, who missed all but the past three games with his own injury, has seven points. Hampton’s Bill Luther has nine points, and Chartiers Valley’s T.J. McConnell [...]

This became closer than most anyone expected. Final score: Sewickley Academy 49, Lincoln Park 48. It provided what has to be considered one of the greatest finishes in WPIAL basketball championship game history. Lincoln Park rallied back during the fourth quarter and took the lead briefly, 48-46, when junior Alex Kross made a 3-pointer with less [...]

Here’s a bold prediction: A father-son/coach-player combination will win a WPIAL basketball title today. OK, not such a bold prediction, since Sewickley Academy is leading, 42-27, after three quarters. Win Palmer is coach at Sewickley Academy. His son, Tyler Palmer, is a senior guard. But Palmer has been through this before with older son Matt, who [...]

Carrington Motley is showing everyone that Sewickley Academy won’t be talentless after Tom Droney heads off to Davidson. Motley, a 6-foot-3 sophomore, has scored a game-high 10 points during the first half of today’s WPIAL Class A boys basketball championship game. Motley does not start but has been the Panthers’ first player off the bench. At halftime: Sewickley Academy [...]

Through one quarter: Sewickley Academy 19, Lincoln Park 12. And the best matchup so far hasn’t been Tom Droney vs. Chaquille Pratt. It has, instead, been the battle between the two big men: Lincoln Park sophomore Devontae Watson (6-foot-9) and Sewickley Academy senior Peter Schramm (6-foot-7). Watson has five points, and Schramm has four. When [...]

Vincentian junior Keturah Vactor scored 20 points, leading the Royals to victory over section rival North Catholic, 57-31, in Friday’s WPIAL Class A girls championship game at Duquesne University’s Palumbo Center. Vincentian (16-7) had lost to North Catholic twice this season and four times last season before this upset of the top-seeded Trojans. Up next: [...]

Westinghouse girls advance to 23rd straight City League title game, while defending City League boys champ Perry falls.