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Saturday, June 29, 2024 | 1:24 AM
Christina Serafini | TribLive
Canon-McMillan’s Valerie Solorio reacts after defeating Neshaminy’s Grace Nesbitt in the 100-pound final of the PIAA girls wrestling championships on March 9 at the Giant Center in Hershey.
Christopher Horner | TribLive
The undefeated Aliquippa football team celebrates a victory after the PIAA Class 4A championship game against Dallas on Dec. 7, 2023 at Cumberland Valley.
Christopher Horner | TribLive
South Fayette’s captains defeated Armstrong in the Class 5A finals March 2 at the Petersen Events Center to hoist the WPIAL championship trophy.
Butler’s Drew Griffith won the WPIAL Class 3A 1,600-meter run at the WPIAL track and field championships May 15 at Slippery Rock University.
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October 11, 2023
Moon’s Bill Pfeiffer, in his 28th season, became the first WPIAL girls soccer coach to reach 500 career wins, and Pfeiffer and the Tigers then celebrated their third straight PIAA Class 3A championship in November.
December 1, 2023
One-on-one free throws disappeared from high school basketball at the start of last season, along with new PIAA rules that now count fouls by the quarter instead of the half.
December 7, 2023
The Aliquippa football team captured its first undefeated state championship with a 60-14 victory over Dallas in the PIAA 4A finals in Mechanicsburg. The team’s next victory came a few months later in a Beaver County courtroom as they sued over the PIAA’s competitive balancing rules.
December 8, 2024
Westinghouse was heartbroken by a 99-yard drive and last-minute touchdown from Southern Columbia, which extended the Tigers’ winning streak to seven with a 21-20 victory in the PIAA 2A final.
December 9, 2024
Belle Vernon won back-to-back PIAA football titles, defeating Northwestern Lehigh 38-7 in the 3A final.
February 2, 2024
The WPIAL is mourning the death of basketball referee Michael Roebuck, 45, who collapsed during a junior varsity game in Mount Pleasant.
February 29th – March 1st, 2024
Three teammates from the Mount Pleasant swim team, Lilly King (100 freestyle), David Mutter (100 butterfly) and Joseph Gardner (100 breaststroke), broke state records at the PIAA Championships at Bucknell.
February 29th – March 2nd, 2024
This year was a “year of back-to-back championships” for WPIAL basketball, with South Fayette’s girls team winning their third consecutive WPIAL title, while the girls teams from Union and North Catholic and the boys teams from Aliquippa, Imani Christian, Deer Lakes and Lincoln Park all won for the second year in a row.
March 1, 2024
Basketball coach Jonah Burke won a WPIAL title with the Shadyside Academy girls team, but that seemed unlikely after the WPIAL suspended her eight months ago for recruiting allegations. The suspension was lifted by court order.
March 9, 2024
A grassroots movement to sanction girls wrestling paid off when, for the first time, the PIAA crowned a girls state champion alongside the boys at the Giant Center in Hershey, with Canon-McMillan’s Valerie Solorio winning the 100-pound title.
March 9, 2024
Frazier High School senior Rune Lawrence added to an exclusive list of four-time PIAA wrestling champions by winning the Class 2A 215-pound title. Lawrence (33-1) is just the 14th wrestler to win four PIAA titles and the seventh in the WPIAL.
May 24, 2024
Butler senior Drew Griffith thrilled the state championship crowd by breaking the national high school record in the boys’ 1,600 meters, the second time in three months for the Notre Dame freshman after breaking the national indoor two-mile record on March 10 in Boston.
May 24, 2024
Javelin thrower Sophia Mazzoni of Delhi broke the PIAA 2A girls championship record by winning at Shippensburg with a distance of 161 feet, 10 inches.
May 27, 2024
In a rematch of the finals, North Allegheny pitcher David Posey no-hit Mount Lebanon star David Shields in the WPIAL 6A baseball final at Wild Things Park.
June 14, 2024
The Neshannock softball team completed a perfect 19-0 season with a 12-2 win in five innings over South Williamsport in the PIAA 2A final. The state title was junior pitcher Addie Fry’s second, and she also won her third WPIAL title.
Chris Harlan is a TribLive reporter covering sports. He joined the Trib in 2009 after seven years as a reporter at the Beaver County Times. He can be reached at charlan@triblive.com.
