High School Basketball | February 4, 2012
Playoff pay-off
PINE TWP — Staring at a 14-point deficit midway through the second quarter, Seneca Valley coach Victor Giannotta wanted his team to chip away at Pine-Richland's lead.
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High School Basketball | February 4, 2012
Mars survives red-hot Mason
ADAMS TWP — The game had already seen 12 lead changes.
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High School Basketball | February 4, 2012
Fast start, positive finish
JEFFERSON TWP — The Knoch boys basketball team didn't have the best night at the foul line — until it mattered.
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High School Round Up | February 4, 2012
Summit Academy claims section title, 68-48
The Summit Academy boys basketball team clinched the Section 2-AA championship Friday night after the Knights coasted to a 68-48 win over Laurel.
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High School Basketball | February 4, 2012
Eye of Tornado
BUTLER TWP — He's listed at 6-foot-1 on the roster, probably an exaggeration.
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High School Round Up | February 3, 2012
Freeport stuns Ford City
Jessica Aulicino hit a pair of clutch free throws with four seconds remaining to give Freeport a 39-37 upset win over Ford City Thursday night.
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High School Basketball | February 3, 2012
Mars girls nip Hampton, attain share of 1st place
ADAMS TWP — Mars may have a lot of youth on its girls basketball roster, but the Planets have consistently progressed since the beginning of the season.
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High School Basketball | February 3, 2012
Injuries strike Tornado
ALIQUIPPA — The Butler boys basketball team is eyeing a late-season run for the WPIAL playoffs.
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High School Basketball | February 3, 2012
Raiders score shocker
PINE TWP — Seneca Valley girls basketball coach Rob Lombardo had a plan.
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High School Basketball | February 3, 2012
Butler girls fade at Baldwin
PITTSBURGH — Through three quarters, the Butler girls basketball team had Baldwin right where it wanted.
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High School Round Up | February 2, 2012
Moniteau falls short against C-L, 68-56
Kyle Armagost had 15 points and 11 rebounds and Ethan Pry added 15 points, but the Moniteau boys basketball team dropped a 68-56 decision to KSAC North leader Clarion-Limestone Wednesday.
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High School Basketball | February 2, 2012
Riding the horse
KARNS CITY — Brody Pollock was hot early.
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High School Football | February 2, 2012
Knoch's Kenyon headed to RMU
JEFFERSON TWP — Ky Kenyon, one of the most productive quarterbacks in Knoch history, will continue his academic and football career at Robert Morris University.
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High School Basketball | February 2, 2012
Calling it a career
KARNS CITY — When Karen Davis took over the Union boys basketball program in 2003, it was a bit of a novelty.
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High School Basketball | February 1, 2012
Nate's Night
BUTLER TWP — Jan. 31, 2012 — Nate's night.
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High School Basketball | February 1, 2012
Shaler edges SV in hard-fought OT thriller
JACKSON TWP — Tuesday night's Section 3-AAAA boys basketball clash between Shaler and Seneca Valley was best summed up by Raiders coach Victor Giannotta.
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High School Round Up | February 1, 2012
Knoch boys top Highlands
Austin Miller scored 14 points off the bench, 11 of those coming from the free-throw line in the fourth quarter, to help the Knoch boys basketball team to a 70-56 victory over Highlands in Section 1-AAA action Tuesday.
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High School Basketball | January 31, 2012
Knights pound Warriors
CHERRY TWP — The Union boys basketball team had four days to stew over a loss to Venango Catholic last week.
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High School Basketball | January 31, 2012
Missing link
BUTLER TWP — Having your inside presence on the bench is never a good formula for success.
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High School Round Up | January 31, 2012
Moniteau rolls; Knoch tops Valley
Fontaine Glenn paced the Moniteau girls basketball team by scoring 13 points in a 54-28 defeat of host Union Monday night.
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High School Round Up | January 30, 2012
Damsels rout West Shamokin
Sierra Smith scored 24 points as the Union girls basketball team routed West Shamokin 64-39 Saturday night.
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High School Basketball | January 30, 2012
Hopewell puts away Slippery Rock girls
SLIPPERY ROCK — Hopewell walked off the floor with a win Saturday afternoon, but Slippery Rock made the Vikings work for it.
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Other High School Sports | January 28, 2012
Athletic committee back at Butler
BUTLER TWP — An athletic committee has been formed by the Butler school board “to bolster and get the most out of those programs,” board president Don Pringle said recently.
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High School Basketball | January 28, 2012
Defense shines for SV
ROSS TWP — Victor Giannotta wanted a better defensive effort this time around.
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High School Basketball | January 28, 2012
Ram tough
PINE TWP — Not even Pine-Richland expected this.
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High School Basketball | January 28, 2012
Dynamic in defeat
JEFFERSON TWP — No matter how many times Hampton threatened to pull away, Knoch refused to back down.
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High School Round Up | January 28, 2012
Armagost triple-double lifts Moniteau
Kyle Armagost recorded a triple-double with 24 points, 15 rebounds and 10 assists as the Moniteau boys basketball team shook off a sluggish start in a 69-53 win over Keystone Friday night.
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Other High School Sports | January 28, 2012
Mars' Heakins signs tender with NAHL
ADAMS TWP — Austin Heakins comes from a baseball family.
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High School Basketball | January 28, 2012
O'Donnell Butler's go-to player
PINE TWP — It's 90 minutes before game time and Mackenzie O'Donnell is taking a nap.
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High School Round Up | January 27, 2012
Knoch, Freeport win big
Knoch's girls basketball team featured four players scoring in double figures — led by 12 apiece from Kate Miller and Brooke Armahizer — as the Knights picked up a 60-41 section victory at Highlands Thursday night.
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High School Basketball | January 27, 2012
Too many obstacles
PINE TWP — The Butler girls basketball team ran into a perfect storm of misfortune.
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High School Basketball | January 27, 2012
Raiders survive
ROSS TWP — Seneca Valley coach Rob Lombardo talks quite a bit to his team about time.
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High School Basketball | January 26, 2012
Finding a way
CHERRY TWP — It looked more like an MMA cage match than a high school basketball game.
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High School Wrestling | January 26, 2012
From sub to standout
BUTLER TWP — Learning the craft of wrestling is generally done over a period of years.
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High School Wrestling | January 26, 2012
Butler wrestlers drop title bout
WEXFORD — North Allegheny's reign is over. Butler's frustration moves on.
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High School Basketball | January 26, 2012
13-0 run sends Knoch past Freeport
JEFFERSON TWP — There were quite a few swings of momentum in Knoch's game against Freeport Wednesday.
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High School Round Up | January 26, 2012
KC boys nip Cranberry, 68-66
Despite not having its leading scorer in Tucker Preston (13.1 per game), Karns City's boys basketball team outlasted visiting Cranberry 68-66 Wednesday night.
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High School Basketball | January 25, 2012
Thorpe too much for Tornado in 69-52 loss
BUTLER TWP — With 3:49 remaining, Geno Thorpe headed to the bench with his fourth foul.
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High School Basketball | January 25, 2012
Miller Time
JEFFERSON TWP — Trailing 34-33 with a little more than two minutes left to play, the Knoch boys basketball team needed a spark.
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High School Basketball | January 25, 2012
Hampton routs Mars
HAMPTON TWP — From the opening tip, it just wasn't a good night for the Mars boys basketball team.
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High School Round Up | January 25, 2012
Slippery Rock downs Eagles
Dan Bertozzi netted 20 points to lead the Slippery Rock boys basketball team to a 55-45 victory over Grove City Monday.
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High School Basketball | January 24, 2012
BIG MAC
O'Donnell pours in career-high 29 as Butler nabs crucial section win
BUTLER TWP — Seeing Shaler's lack of size, Butler coach Dorothea Epps wanted to exploit that weakness.
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High School Basketball | January 24, 2012
HANGING TOUGH
New Castle edges SV with late trey
JACKSON TWP — There are victories on the scoreboard and there are moral victories.
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High School Round Up | January 24, 2012
Damsels drop Redbank Valley
Sierra Smith buried four 3-pointers on the way to 19 points as the Union girls basketball team pulled away from Redbank Valley for a 55-42 Keystone Shortway Athletic Conference win Monday night.
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High School Round Up | January 23, 2012
SR's France nabs 1st place
Slippery Rock High junior swimmer Zack France posted a first-place time of 5 minutes, 16.22 seconds in the boys 500-yard freestyle at the Iroquois Invitational Saturday in Erie.
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High School Basketball | January 23, 2012
Indians top Rockets
SLIPPERY ROCK — Indiana never led by very much. But it led by enough.
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