By George Guido Published: Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014, 11:12 p.m. Fox Chapel realized how proficient Penn-Trafford was with its outside shooting going into Tuesday’s WPIAL Class AAAA semifinal game. With so many good shooters, stopping the Warriors was another matter. Penn-Trafford hit seven 3-pointers and eight 2-point field goals en route to a 44-43 overtime...Read More
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