The WPIAL Class AAAA girls basketball first-round playoff game between Canon-McMillan and Fox Chapel on Feb. 17 turned out to be a historic one for the Big Macs and a season-ending one for the Foxes.
Cheyenne Trest’s layup with 7 seconds left helped lift Canon-McMillan to a 51-49 win at Baldwin High School. Trest led all scorers with 27 points. It was the Big Macs’ first playoff win in program history.
The Foxes entered the fourth quarter with a 38-35 lead but could not hold off the Big Macs. Kayla Slovenec, who topped 1,000 career points in the Foxes’ final regular-season game, led coach Jennifer O’Shea’s team with 11 points.
“We played so hard, and it was disappointing to come up short at the end,” O’Shea said. “Trest is a really good player and she came up big all game, especially at the end. We had been winning the entire second half.”
Fox Chapel finished the season 13-9 after the first-round loss.