The last PIAA tournament game will be the final one for Vincentian, which will be closed at the end of the school year.Puppetry Of The Penis – The Best Bits Tour Live!Īfter conquering over 35 countries in two dickades, Australia’s greatest theatrical export brings you a collection of all of their ‘Best Bits’!Ĭonceived initially in male sporting change rooms, the show has since found favour with both men and women alike. Plenty of attention will be focused on the second game as Vincentian Academy tries to keep its legacy going when the Royals face Allegheny-Clarion Valley from Foxburg at 7:30 p.m. Mars will take on Elizabethtown, a mere 221 miles from New Kensington, at 6 p.m. Valley High School also will be hosting a PIAA opening-round doubleheader Friday. contest against Westmont Hilltop from the Johnstown area. The WPIAL champion Trojans boys will be at Kiski Area for a 3 p.m. North Catholic, however, can focus on getting its teams to a single site. Saturday at Kiski Area High School.Īt least the Yellowjackets will have about 10 miles to go, while North Catholic has a 32-mile trip from its Cranberry Township campus. In another Friday game, Riverview’s girls will play Everett in the PIAA 2A playoffs at 6:30 at Pitt-Johnstown.įreeport’s girls have a tough task facing 20-time WPIAL champion North Catholic in the PIAA opener at 1:30 p.m. game Friday at Kiski Area, WPIAL Class A runner-up Cornell squares off against Saltsburg, a school next-door to the Kiski Area School District.īefore Saltsburg moved out of the WPIAL to PIAA District 6 in 1980, the Trojans were in a local WPIAL section against St. Jimmy Kunst, Wahkeem Roman, Antoine McDaniel and Carter Leri have exceeded 100 points for the Golden Rams, who are averaging 72.2 points. Highlands has seven players who have scored more than 100 points on the season, something not often seen on the high school level. While Highlands is led by Johnny Crise, Korry Myers and Luke Cochran, it’s interesting to note the Golden Rams are getting scoring from more than the big three. Starting in the second round, the PIAA looks at more neutral sites, depending on where facilities are available.
The PIAA tries to get the higher-ranked team to play closer to home when feasible. 3 team out of District 10 and have to travel 137 miles from its campus amid Erie’s grape country.
Harbor Creek is located just east of Erie. Highlands is 7-7 all-time in the PIAA playoffs. The Golden Rams will face Harbor Creek at 7:30 p.m. The ink barely was dry on the PIAA Class 4A brackets before WPIAL champion Highlands’ game was switched to Kiski Area from Fox Chapel. Friday at Sewickley Academy, and Obama Academy will face Penn Hills in the boys 5A opener at 7 at Brashear High School. In Class 6A girls, North Allegheny will take on Manheim Township at 6 p.m. Groetsch and Snead will be in action close to home Friday in their respective teams’ PIAA openers. I can recall talking with Dave DeVenzio when his brother, Dick, the late Springdale/ Ambridge/Duke University basketball great, was getting inducted into the WPIAL Hall of Fame.ĭave, five years younger than Dick, would go to the Springdale gym several hours before game time and retrieve balls shot by Dick in a mostly-darkened gym, figuring that making shots in a lighted facility would be easier than hitting in the dark. Snead scored 19 points in the City League title game as Obama ended Allderdice’s six-year stranglehold on the boys basketball crown.
in Pittsburgh’s Sheraden section last summer and shooting at a darkened playground while most of the city slept. In the case of Obama Academy’s Sean Snead, he talked about waking up at 4 a.m. to practice her shooting before heading to class. Lizzy Groetsch of North Allegheny, moments after her winning shot in overtime lifted the Tigers to their third WPIAL title in four seasons, talked about getting an understanding custodian to unlock the gymnasium doors for her at 5:30 a.m. That notion was confirmed during the recent high school basketball district playoffs. An old sports cliche states “champions are made while no one is watching.”
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