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 hockey team secured a dramatic 3-2 overtime victory against North Hills in the Penguins Cup playoffs, thanks to Landon Watson's penalty shot goal. This win advances them to their first Penguins Cup semifinal contest, which will take place Wednesday, March 12, against Avonworth.
Six boys and two girls from West Hills area schools qualified for the PIAA Wrestling Championships March 6-8 by virtue of their performances at various regional tournaments that concluded Saturday. Two girls -- Kristen Walzer of Montour and Haley Smarsh of Moon -- both came home with gold medals.
Two West Hills area competitors -- Moon Area's Madison Puthoff and Cornell's Noah Pickett each collected a pair of two-five individual finishes at the WPIAL Swimming and Diving Championships, which concluded Friday at the University of Pittsburgh.
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 Bishop Canevin girls basketball team edged Serra Catholic, 54-50, Monday night in WPIAL Class 1A consolation bracket play to earn a berth in the PIAA tournament. Moon Area's boys team, meanwhile, lost 62-53 to Greater Latrobe in a Class 5A WPIAL consolation bracket game.