Both the Montour and Bishop Canevin boys basketball teams kept their WPIAL title hopes alive with victories in the tournament quarterfinals Friday night. Montour beat Latrobe, 60-52, and the Crusaders topped Keystone Oaks, 67-58.
Chartiers Valley used a strong defensive effort to defeat Moon, 51-44, Friday night in the quarterfinals of the WPIAL Class 5A boys basketball tournament. The victorious Colts now move on to play Montour in one of two semifinal games Monday.
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart watched a 15-point lead evaporate in a 55-50 loss to Jeannette Thursday night in the WPIAL Class 2A quarterfinals at Fox Chapel. In girls Class 1A action, Bishop Canevin fell 38-16 to Union.
High school basketball: Moon, Bishop Canevin pass first WPIAL Tournament tests; Carlynton eliminated
High school basketball: Moon, Bishop Canevin pass first WPIAL Tournament tests; Carlynton eliminated
Both Moon Area and Bishop Canevin opened play in the WPIAL boys basketball tournament with victories to advance to Friday's quarterfinals. Carlynton, meanwhile, saw its season come to an end.
Top seed Montour had no trouble in its opening-round game of the WPIAL Class 5A boys tournament Tuesday night, pounding Franklin Regional, 70-42, behind 24 points and 10 rebounds from Ama Sow.
Tiernan McCullough scored 32 points to spark Our Lady of the Sacred Heart past Clairton, 64-37, in the opening round of the WPIAL boys Class 2A basketball tournament Monday night. In girls Class 1A tournament action, Bishop Canevin whipped Springdale, 45-12.
Montour's Ama Sow has come a long way on the basketball court – and an even longer way off the court. Now he leads the top-seeded Spartans into the WPIAL Tournament, with their first game scheduled for Tuesday at home against Franklin Regional.