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Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:09:59 -0500 15 http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/2007design/images/150x30pg_now_logo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12043/1209720-361.stm?cmpid=highschoolsports.xml In a matchup WPIAL girls basketball had not seen in 23 years, it took Seton-LaSalle a little over two minutes to reign supreme in a Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12043/1209774-361.stm?cmpid=highschoolsports.xml Basketball Box Scores Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12042/1209670-361.stm?cmpid=highschoolsports.xml Basketball Playoff Clinchings Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:38:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12042/1209666-361-0.stm?cmpid=highschoolsports.xml Basketball Box Scores Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:26:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12042/1209605-361.stm?cmpid=highschoolsports.xml This victory on the final Friday of the regular season meant more than most. "We beat our rival," Jeannette boys basketball coach Adrian Batts said, "and we beat our section's champs." Orlando Morgan's 3-point play put the Jayhawks ahead in the final minute as Class AA No. 5 Jeannette defeated No. 4 Greensburg Central Catholic, 63-62. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:14:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12042/1209604-361.stm?cmpid=highschoolsports.xml Bryon Clifford and his Clairton classmates have enough football title banners from the past few seasons to fill most of a wall at its gym, nicknamed "The Bears Den." Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:07:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209375-361-0.stm?cmpid=highschoolsports.xml Basketball Box Scores Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:32:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209134-361-0.stm?cmpid=highschoolsports.xml From one year to the next, Summit Academy has a new team ... Summit leads the WPIAL in turnovers, and we're not talking about bad passes or traveling calls on the basketball court. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:05:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209141-361.stm?cmpid=highschoolsports.xml It is only a non-section game that will have no bearing on the seedings for the upcoming WPIAL playoffs. But when Seton-LaSalle visits Oakland Catholic Saturday afternoon, it might be the best girls' contest in the WPIAL this season. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209142-117-0.stm?cmpid=highschoolsports.xml Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209143-361-0.stm?cmpid=highschoolsports.xml A look at the names, numbers and more that make up the WPIAL's and City League's top basketball teams ... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209150-365.stm?cmpid=highschoolsports.xml Mediocre. That seems to be the word used most often to describe this year's football recruiting classes of Pitt and Penn State. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209155-361-0.stm?cmpid=highschoolsports.xml For a squad that began the season young and talented, but lacked seasoning, it's been an up-and-down journey for the Peters Township boys basketball team. But knowing that the end of their regular season is finishing with an "up," the Indians might have the right spices to heat up in the postseason. Coach Gary Goga's Indians are back in the WPIAL playoffs after falling short a season ago. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209159-361-0.stm?cmpid=highschoolsports.xml Danny Savulchak isn't much for small talk. But Savulchak, a 6-foot-4 junior forward on the North Catholic High School boys basketball team, more than makes up for his reticence with a dominating style of play that has opposing coaches and players talking. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209160-361-0.stm?cmpid=highschoolsports.xml If there's one thing the Gateway boys basketball team won't have to worry about come playoff time, it is playing on the road. The Gators have traveled just about every plane, train and automobile path imaginable this season. Besides going west to play St. Vincent-St. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209170-116-0.stm?cmpid=highschoolsports.xml Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209191-361-0.stm?cmpid=highschoolsports.xml PG Basketball Rankings Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209192-361-0.stm?cmpid=highschoolsports.xml Boys Basketball Scoring Leaders Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209193-361-0.stm?cmpid=highschoolsports.xml Girls Basketball Scoring Leaders Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12040/1208877-361-0.stm?cmpid=highschoolsports.xml It is that time of year again. No, it's not the time of year to pack the Christmas decorations away in the attic. That doesn't happen until April. It's time to lend a helping hand to the WPIAL Basketball Steering Committee as it gets ready for the league's version of March Madness. Frantic February, a.k.a. the WPIAL basketball playoffs, will tip-off next week. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 11:57:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12040/1209165-361.stm?cmpid=highschoolsports.xml Basketball Box Scores Thu, 9 Feb 2012 11:28:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12040/1209068-361.stm?cmpid=highschoolsports.xml Brentwood High School officials have not found any credence to charges by Monessen's boys basketball team that Brentwood students and players used racial slurs toward Monessen in a game Friday. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 07:53:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12040/1208827-361-0.stm?cmpid=highschoolsports.xml When he was playing point guard at Point Park University, Gavin Prosser was running the top scoring offense in the nation. Now that he is running the girls basketball team at Baldwin High School, Prosser is bringing the same basic concepts from his playing days at Point Park to his first head coaching stint at his other alma mater. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12040/1208829-361-0.stm?cmpid=highschoolsports.xml Designations and labels are impressive and easy to come by when discussing the Monessen High School boys basketball team. Defending WPIAL champions. Undefeated section champions. No. 2-ranked team in Class AA, according to the Post-Gazette. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12040/1208830-361-0.stm?cmpid=highschoolsports.xml For Clairton, a slow start to the season is nothing new ... neither is a red-hot finish. The Bears (11-6, 8-1) opened the season 3-5, but have won eight of nine since then. They'll go into Friday's game against Serra Catholic with a chance at their first section title since 2009 -- well, at least a share of the title. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12040/1208835-361-0.stm?cmpid=highschoolsports.xml Last June, Karly Mellinger found herself playing basketball in the University of North Carolina's famous Dean E. Smith Center, aka "The Dean Dome." She was attending Carolina's Finest Team Camp with her Greensburg Central Catholic teammates, and the Centurions were battling a quality team from Arizona. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12040/1208837-361-0.stm?cmpid=highschoolsports.xml Entering the season, Woodland Hills coach Mike Decker figured that senior guard Jeremy McMunn would be his team's second-leading scorer. And why not? Behind ultra-athletic big man Shakim Alonzo, McMunn was certainly the Wolverines' biggest scoring threat. He averaged 11.2 points per game last season and looked set to lead a much-improved Woodland Hills squad in Decker's second season. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12040/1208841-361-0.stm?cmpid=highschoolsports.xml Central Catholic basketball coach Chuck Crummie has seen plenty of talented players at the boys-only Catholic school on Fifth Avenue in his 32 years as the Vikings coach. He's most pleased with the progress shown by Lincoln Davis, a 6-foot-2 senior guard from Penn Hills, since his freshman year. "When he was a freshman, he didn't understand the need to play hard," Crummie said. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12040/1208868-361-0.stm?cmpid=highschoolsports.xml A nine-game winning streak to start the season was followed by consecutive Section 2-AAA losses for the Hopewell girls' basketball team. A 9-0 Hopewell team was beaten at home, 68-64, by talented New Castle. Four nights later, the Vikings were blown out, 56-38, at Blackhawk. "That first loss to New Castle really took the wind out of our sails," Hopewell coach Jeff Homziak said. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12040/1208870-361-0.stm?cmpid=highschoolsports.xml Trey Hosack admits he is trying to make up for lost time ... and a not-so-wise decision. Hosack did not play basketball last season for Lincoln Park in Midland. That's because the WPIAL Board of Control ruled him ineligible for athletics when he transferred to Ambridge. The decision was upheld by the PIAA. There went his junior season. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12040/1208873-361-0.stm?cmpid=highschoolsports.xml Justin Gentile remembers that 12 months ago when South Side Beaver High School was playing out the end of the 2010-11 boys basketball season, there were few fond memories. And maybe fewer fans were in the stands. There was little in the way of production on the court to excite spectators. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12040/1208875-361-0.stm?cmpid=highschoolsports.xml With a young team struggling out of the gate and sitting at 0-5 on Dec. 20, outsiders might have told the Mars Area girls' basketball team to start looking forward to next season. The 15 players on the roster and three coaches were not about to consider this a rebuilding year, however, so instead of looking toward next season, they looked toward next year -- as in 2012. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12040/1208879-361-0.stm?cmpid=highschoolsports.xml Not unlike his team, it is easy for Pine-Richland's Andy Andrle to get lost among the Section 3-AAAA boys basketball crowd. WPIAL Class AAAA's No. 1-ranked team -- Shaler Area -- plays in that section. . The Titans have a Penn State basketball recruit -- Geno Thorpe -- and a Pitt football recruit -- J.P. Holtz -- in their starting lineup. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500