Before the 2017-2018 basketball season began, head coach Zach Skrinjar told a reporter, “We will be undersized and inexperienced at the varsity level.” Even so, when the preseason rankings came out, the Foxes’ were ranked third among all WPIAL Class 6A teams, largely based on their status as the reigning Section 3 champs, three solid...Read More
By: Dave Mackall, Tuesday, February 6, 2018, TRIB-LIVE With the outcome having long been decided, Fox Chapel’s Carson Cohen stepped to the foul line and snuck a glance at the scoreboard at Latrobe, which revealed players’ individual point totals. “I’m going to be a little bit upset about that for a while,” he said, replacing a...Read More
Fans haven’t see them on the court during the Foxes’ varsity basketball team’s journey to the WPIAL 6A playoffs and a fifth-place ranking on the WPIAL leaderboard, but the junior varsity players have had a lot to do with the success of the varsity team. The JV players, who are known as the “scout team,”...Read More
By: Marty Stewart, Monday, January 29, 2018, TRIB-LIVE Behind a combined 62 points from Carson Cohen, Dom McGriff and Ben Kelly, Fox Chapel boys basketball rolled to a 70-47 win over Woodland Hills in a key Section 3-6A game Jan. 23. The Foxes led 37-19 at the half. Cohen scored 24 points, McGriff had 23 and...Read More
from Post-Gazette.com One moment Penn Hills was trying to run out the clock for a victory. The next, Fox Chapel was celebrating a win against the No. 1-ranked team in the WPIAL. The Foxes played tight defense and hit clutch free throws down the stretch to pull out a 61-54 triumph at Penn Hills in...Read More