PITTSBURGH – According to the old sports adage, it’s harder to defend a championship than it is to win one for the first time.The South Fayette girls basketball team, however, made winning a second straight WPIAL 5A championship look easy.Ava Leroux and Maddie Webber combined for 33 points ...
Only one thing was unusual about Sylvia Roy’s championship 50-yard freestyle race during the WPIAL Class AAA finals.“My turn was a little bit wonky. A weird angle,” Roy said. “That would be the only thing I would have changed.”While that imperfect flip turn during the two-lap race ...
PITTSBURGH — It took Peters Township’s boys basketball program 14 years to return to the WPIAL finals. Unfortunately for coach Joe Urmann’s squad, the Indians will need to wait at least one more year to bring home WPIAL gold.The top-seeded Indians battled tooth and nail with the ...
After winning quarterfinal games, Upper St. Clair (15-9) and Mt. Lebanon (16-8) dropped their semifinal contests and dropped into a consolation battle to determine the final District VII berth in the PIAA boys’ basketball tournament.USC won the rubber match with Lebo and secured the berth ...
McMURRAY – With all-state senior forward Maddie Webber on the perimeter, stellar senior center Ava Leroux in the pivot and a talented cast of role players, the South Fayette girls basketball has enough offensive firepower to overwhelm most opponents. Yes, the Lions’ offense is ...
Those were not tears of joy in the Upper St. Clair locker room after the Lady Panthers defeated Mt. Lebanon, 58-33, to advance to the WPIAL finals for the third year in a row.They was genuine sadness because USC had to compete for a basketball championship without one of their beloved ...
