Six West Hills area boys and girls basketball teams will look to make their mark in the PIAA Tournament, with three teams tipping off Friday and the other three Saturday.
In boys Class 5A action, Montour – the third-place team from the WPIAL (District 7) — will host Milton Hershey at 6 p.m. Friday, while Moon Area, which finished seventh in the WPIAL Tournament, travels to meet Greater Johnstown at 7 p.m.
Friday’s remaining game that involves a West Hills team will find Our Lady of the Sacred Heart’s girls team battling Seneca in a Class 3A matchup at 7 p.m. at Sewickley Academy.
Saturday’s slate of local games includes Bishop Canevin’s boys team – the fourth-place finisher in the WPIAL Class 3A tournament – traveling to meet Bishop Guilfoyle at 5 p.m. in Altoona.
Also on Saturday, OLSH’s boys team treks to New Bethlehem to play Redbank in a Class 2A clash, and Bishop Canevin’s girls team visits DuBois Central Catholic in a Class 1A matchup.
Both games are scheduled to start at 1 p.m.
Montour was the top-seeded team in the WPIAL Class 5A tournament but was upset by eventual champion Chartiers Valley. The Spartans, who had been ranked No. 1 in the state and won 17 straight games at one point, enter the PIAA Tournament with a 24-2 record.
Chartiers Valley is the only Pennsylvania team to beat Montour all season. Milton Hershey, the seventh-place team in District 3, is 17-9.
Moon takes a 19-7 mark into its game against Greater Johnstown, which won the District 6 title with a 24-1 record.
OLSH’s girls team, 22-4 on the season, wound up in third place in the WPIAL Tournament while Seneca (17-6) was the runner-up in District 10 behind unbeaten Northwestern.
Bishop Canevin’s boys team ended up in fourth place in the WPIAL tournament and will look to improve upon its 15-10 record. Bishop Guilfoyle wound up losing in the District 6 championship game to Forest Hills and is 22-4.
The Chargers’ boys squad wound up seventh in the WPIAL tournament and opens play in the PIAA Tournament with a 19-7 record. Redbank, the District 9 champion, is 20-5.
The Bishop Canevin girls will have a rugged test, as the Crusaders must play the District 9 champion, DuBois Central Catholic.
Bishop Canevin, the sixth-place team in the WPIAL, is 13-11 entering tournament play while DuBois Central Catholic is 24-2.
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