With a five-inch height advantage, there really was only one strategy Upper St. Clair needed to employ to beat Baldwin and capture a WPIAL basketball title. Get the ball inside to that 6-foot-9 asset. Once the Panthers did that, Tyler Robbins just dominated the Highlanders. The junior big man ...
There will be no WPIAL championship appearance for either the Peters Township (22-2) or the Chartiers Valley (16-7) girls basketball teams, but South Fayette (17-8) overcame all odds and advanced to the Class 5A championship game for the third consecutive year. While North Allegheny and Norwin ...
Baldwin needed a boost in confidence and Mt. Lebanon obliged. As a result, the Highlanders came from behind to beat the Blue Devils, 54-52, and advanced to the WPIAL Class 6A boys championship game to face Upper St. Clair (19-5) at 7 p.m. March 2 at the Petersen Events Center. “We let a ...
After Christian Ito almost single handedly took down Butler, 78-71, in a quarterfinal basketball playoff game on Feb. 23, Upper St. Clair students chanted, “best player in the WPIAL.” They would get no argument from Panther floor boss Dan Holzer. “He is one of the better players in ...
Shaun Davis lived for this moment. The senior scored the game-winning hoop as time expired in Bethel Park’s upset victory, 34-32, against South Fayette in the first-round of the WPIAL Class 5A boys’ basketball playoffs. “Everybody dreams of a buzzer beater in the playoffs,” Davis ...
Natalie Wetzel can do it all on a basketball court. This winter alone, the Peters Township junior averages 17.1 points, 8.5 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game while converting 49.8 percent of her two-point baskets and 38.1 percent of her 3-point shots. “You can run out of superlatives to ...
