By Liam Belan lbelan@yourmvi.com It hasn’t been pretty, but when it’s win or go home in the WPIAL playoffs, McKeesport surely doesn’t care how testy its 50-41 win over No. 7 Indiana was Friday night. ...

By ADAM BREWER MVI Sports The Serra Catholic boys’ basketball team knew they were facing a tall task Friday night at North Allegheny High School, as they had to contend against the defending Class 2A ...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com Playoff games are typically decided by which team can make timely plays, and it was Thomas Jefferson that used a strong offensive performance to hold off Kiski Area Th...

By Adam Brewer For the MVI Sometimes in the playoffs, teams just face a bad matchup. Coming off one of its best offensive games of the season in a first-round victory over Leechburg, the Monessen girl...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com Serra Catholic could be playing its best basketball of the season at just the right time as the No. 3 Eagles dominated #11 Winchester Thurston during a 67-42 Class 2A ...

By ADAM BREWER MVI Sports The No. 4 Monessen boys’ basketball team played solid defense in the first sixteen minutes of action in their WPIAL Class 1-A Quarterfinal matchup with No. 5 Union. But the S...

By the Mon Valley Independent The Gladiators (17-7) were knocked off by a strong Hampton squad, 69-40, Wednesday night as senior Michael Michalski eclipsed the 1,000-point mark for his career. He led ...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com It was 11 days between games for the Serra Catholic boys team, and early on, it looked like it.   But the Eagles were able to get rolling in the second quarter and...

By Liam Belan lbelan@yourmvi.com Typically, playoff matchups between two seeds and fifteen seeds are expected to be lopsided victories, but No. 2 McKeesport was given all it could handle from No. 15 H...

By MICHAEL LOVE Trib Total Media As the favorite with home-court advantage for its WPIAL Class 4A first-round game against No. 11 Belle Vernon, the Knoch girls basketball team had designs on sending t...

By Liam Belan lbelan@yourmvi.com Monessen head coach Janine Vertacnik wanted to start postseason play off with a bang, and the No. 5 Greyhounds did just that with an overwhelming 63-15 home victory ov...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com The wait is over for local fall sports teams as the WPIAL announced its new alignments for the 2024 and 2025 seasons after approval from the WPIAL Board of Directo...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com The WPIAL has scheduled a slate of quarterfinal doubleheaders for Wednesday in the next round of the basketball playoffs. The classifications in action are 4A boys...

By Liam Belan lbelan@yourmvi.com With both teams neck and neck entering halftime, No. 10 Belle Vernon and No. 7 South Allegheny went to the locker room with belief that it could move on to the second ...

By ADAM BREWER MVI Sports The Monessen boys’ basketball team was making its 43rd consecutive trip to the playoffs Friday night. And Coach Dan Bosnic knew that there are no easy games in the postseason...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com Serra Catholic had no issues ending No. 14-seed Brentwood’s season Friday night, dialing long distance early and often en route to an easy 59-23 victory in a WPIAL...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com The No. 3-seed Serra Catholic girls basketball team gets their WPIAL championship hunt underway tonight when they host No. 14 Brentwood for a 7 p.m. start in a Cla...

By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports If you listen to Belle Vernon coach Joe Salvino and South Allegheny coach Tony DiCenzo talk about their WPIAL Class 4A playoff game, it sounds like they drew up their game pl...

By Liam Belan lbelan@yourmvi.com When Elizabeth Forward and Ringgold took to their home ice at cfsbank Event Center Thursday night looking to get a big win over a rival, it was the Rams that dominated...

By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports In the storied history of Ringgold athletics, there have been some amazing athletes to come along. Among them are Joe Montana, Ulice Payne, Ken Griffey Sr. and many others. H...