By Bill Beckner Jr. Published: Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014, 10:15 p.m. Expecting to get a rematch with Mt. Lebanon, the Fox Chapel girls basketball team was served a surprise opponent for their first WPIAL semifinal appearance since 2009. Seventh-seeded Penn-Trafford stunned perennial power and No. 2 seed Mt. Lebanon, 32-24, holding the Panthers to two...Read More

By Bill Beckner Jr. Published: Friday, Feb. 21, 2014, 10:54 p.m. Fox Chapel had another case of the shakes. Only this time, it wasn’t because of late-game nerves in the WPIAL Class AAAA quarterfinals. As part of a new playoff tradition, the team went out for McDonald’s Shamrock Shakes after their game Friday night, a...Read More

By Bill West Published: Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014, 11:12 p.m. Of the several breakdowns Fox Chapel’s girls basketball team endured in the first half of its WPIAL Class AAAA first-round game against Pine-Richland, coach Meghan Meabon considered the Foxes’ underwhelming rebounding performance the most unacceptable. Meabon held no part of her dissatisfaction back when he...Read More

By Jason Mackey Published: Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014, 8:24 p.m. Bethel Park’s Josh Krafczynski made six 3-pointers and scored a game-high 20 points. Fox Chapel’s Brian Papich threw down a two-handed dunk late in the fourth quarter that put his team in front for the first time since midway through the second quarter. Yet No....Read More

By Brian Graham Published: Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014, 10:36 p.m. Fox Chapel basketball coach Zach Skrinjar led his team to its share of must-win games this season. None will be more important than their date with Bethel Park in the first round of the WPIAL Class AAAA playoffs at North Hills on Friday. The Foxes...Read More