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.
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.
Seventeen wrestlers from three West Hills area high schools will compete at this weekend's WPIAL Tournament, scheduled to begin Friday at Chartiers Valley and Canon-McMillan high schools.
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.
The Moon Area boys and girls swim teams outdistanced the competition over the weekend at the Midwestern Athletic Conference Championship meet held Friday and Saturday at Moon. A total of 13 schools competed in both the girls and boys meets.
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.
Moon Area's Liam Costa won the 160-pound title and Carlynton's Henry Barbisch ruled the 285-pound class at their respective WPIAL sectional tournaments Saturday. Seventeen area wrestlers secured berths in next week's WPIAL Championships.