West Hills teams had mixed results Friday night in the opening round of the PIAA Basketball Tournament. Montour boys won against Milton Hershey, 68-49, while Moon Area lost to Greater Johnstown, 60-53, ending its season. In girls Class 3A, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart triumphed over Seneca, 53-44.
Six West Hills area boys and girls basketball teams are set to open play in the PIAA Tournament, with three teams seeing action Friday night and three more entering the fray Saturday.
The Moon Area boys basketball team used a big second half to pull away from Penn-Trafford in the battle for seventh place in the WPIAL Class 5A boys basketball tournament. The OLSH boys and Bishop Canevin girls both came up short in their fifth-place games.
The Montour Spartans' dreams of claiming a WPIAL Class 5A boys basketball tournament championship came to an end Tuesday night with a 47-44 semifinal loss to Chartiers Valley. Bishop Canevin's boys also lost in the semifinals to Aliquippa while OLSH's girls prevailed in a third-place game over Ellwood City.
High school boys: OLSH rebounds from quarterfinal loss to beat Chartiers-Houston in consolation play
High school boys: OLSH rebounds from quarterfinal loss to beat Chartiers-Houston in consolation play
Two days after watching a 15-point lead evaporate in a quarterfinal loss to Jeannette, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart defeated Chartiers-Houston Saturday in the consolation bracket of the WPIAL Class 2A Boys Basketball Tournament.
Greensburg Central Catholic whipped Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Saturday, 41-18, in the semifinals of the WPIAL Class 3A Girls Basketball Tournament at Peters Township.
Nine players from three West Hills area high schools have been chosen to play in one of several all-star football games coming up in May., including one for the prestigious Big 33 matchup.