By: Greg Macafee, Friday, March 5, 2021, TRIB-LIVE The Fox Chapel boys basketball team couldn’t have drawn it up any better. Behind 22 points from junior guard Eli Yofan, all five Fox Chapel starters scored in double digits, and the No. 2 Foxes (20-2) took advantage of an early first-quarter run to knock off No....Read More
March 3, 2021 The past week: Manelis posted a score of 571.75 to win the WPIAL Class 3A diving title for the second consecutive year. Check this out: Manelis, a senior and West Point recruit, is the first diver to win back-to-back titles by more than 100 points since Pine-Richland’s Dominic Giordano in 2012-13 and...Read More
By: Greg Macafee, Saturday, February 27, 2021, TRIB-LIVE When the WPIAL announced seedings for the girls and boys basketball tournaments Feb. 23, both Fox Chapel teams found themselves in unique positions. For the second straight year, the boys were awarded the No. 2 seed after putting together a record of 17-2 through 19 games. Their...Read More
By: Greg Macafee, Saturday, February 20, 2021, TRIB-LIVE The Fox Chapel girls basketball team hasn’t won a playoff game since its last extended playoff run to the WPIAL Class 4A semifinals when it took down Pine-Richland and Norwin. That was seven years ago. Now, after winning seven of their past eight games heading into a Section...Read More
David Manelis is the top boys diver in WPIAL Class 3A, and has been all season, just as he was last year. He was aware of that, although he doesn’t spend a whole lot of time looking up that type of information. But when told he is also ranked first in the state, the humble...Read More