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The Beaver Falls boys basketball won a PIAA Class AA title and finished the season as the No. 1 ranked team, according to the (Harrisburg) Patriot-News and Pennlive.com. But the Tigers weren’t the only WPIAL team to finish the season ranked high. Below is the final rankings: CLASS AAAA No. School Rec Pvs 1. Lower [...]

Rosters have been announced for the annual Roundball Classic All-Star games at Geneva College. Two boys games and two girls games pitting the top players in Western Pennsylvania will be played April 20. The Roundball Classic Recognition Dinner is April 18th at the Pittsburgh Marriott North – Cranberry Crossings at 7 p.m., and the Roundball [...]

There will be a WPIAL presence in half of the PIAA championship basketball contested at Giant Center in Hershey Friday and Saturday. Four WPIAL teams qualified for the title games with semifinal wins Tuesday night. The Beaver Falls boys advanced in Class AA. In the girls bracket, South Park (AAA), Bishop Canevin (AA) and Vincentian [...]

Four WPIAL boys basketball teams are still playing heading into Tuesday’s PIAA semifinal round, and those teams are featured prominently in the Pennlive.com/Patriot-News state rankings that were released today. Beaver Falls remains the top-ranked team in Class AA, while New Castle, Montour and Lincoln Park are third in Class AAAA, AAA and A respectively. The [...]

Chartiers Valley will host a PIAA basketball doubleheader Tuesday night for the semifinal round of the tournament. Four WPIAL girls teams will face off, with two advancing to the state finals in Hershey later this week. Below is the schedule for Tuesday’s PIAA semifinals: Boys Class AAAA Chester (27-3) vs. St. Joseph’s Prep (24-5) at [...]

Five boys basketball teams from the WPIAL are still alive in the PIAA playoffs, which will continue Friday and Saturday with quarterfinal matchups. The WPIAL also has nine girls basketball teams still playing, including all four Western Regional semifinalists in Class AA, guaranteeing at least 1 WPIAL team will be in the PIAA finals. Below [...]

Here’s some notes to put a wrap on the 2012-13 high school wrestling season, courtesy of Paul Schofield and Bill West. With the PIAA wrestling season completed, Kiski Area junior Shane Kuhn suddenly has time to sit down and sort through all the emails he’s received in the past few weeks from college coaches — [...]

The PIAA boys and girls basketball tournaments will feature second-round games on Tuesday and Wednesday. The sites and times are listed below. Boys PIAA playoffs Class AAAA Second round Wednesday’s schedule Eastern Region Chester (25-3) vs. Williamsport (23-2) at Martz Hall, Pottsville, 7:30 p.m.; Great Valley (27-3) vs. Parkland (22-7) at William Tennent H.S., Warminster, [...]

By PAUL SCHOFIELD HERSHEY — The WPIAL will have at least three state champions at the PIAA Class AAA Championships today. That’s because there will be all WPIAL finals at 120, 126 and 195 pounds. There are a total of 10 wrestlers from the WPIAL in title bouts. Canon-McMillan has four wrestlers in the finals [...]

Friday’s portion of the PIAA individual wrestling championships started with Class AA quarterfinal-round bouts at the Giant Center in Hershey. Ten of 21 wrestlers from the WPIAL advanced to the semifinals, which begin at 6:30 p.m. tonight. At 106 pounds, Southmoreland sophomore Austin Griffiths lost, 4-2, to Line Mountain sophomore Cameron Newman. Griffiths scored a [...]