The Fox Chapel Area High School basketball program had quite an exciting and record-breaking year filled with an abundance of victories and some pretty remarkable individual achievements. Yet, some of the most dedicated and hardest workers weren’t the athletes on the court, but rather their coaches, Zach Skrinjar for the boys and Meghan Meabon with...Read More

Written by Mike White on Thursday, 13 March 2014 9:16 am. Local awards and all-state teams have yet to be announced, but Fox Chapel girls basketball player Erin Mathias already has picked up a big honor. Mathias was named today as the Gatorade Pennsylvania Player of the Year. Gatorade says the award is for not only...Read More

By Bill West Published: Tuesday, March 11, 2014, 9:24 p.m. Hempfield girls basketball coach Aaron Epps shrugged as he spoke about the 14 points his players scored in the third quarter Tuesday night during their PIAA Class AAAA second-round game at Gateway and noted that his girls led the WPIAL’s largest classification in scoring during...Read More

By Bill Beckner Jr. Published: Tuesday, March 11, 2014, 12:01 a.m. Updated 6 hours ago Tuesday’s games Class AAAA Fox Chapel (20-5) vs. Hempfield (18-9) 6 p.m. Tuesday at Gateway Winner plays: North Allegheny (23-2)/State College (18-7) winner on Friday (time, site TBD). Layup lines: Fox Chapel picked up its first state playoff victory since...Read More

By George Guido Published: Friday, March 7, 2014, 10:39 p.m. ERIE — Near-perfect free-throw shooting by Fox Chapel enabled the Foxes to continue the WPIAL’s mastery over Erie McDowell in the PIAA playoffs. Fox Chapel hit 23 of 26 foul shots, including 14 of 14 in the second half as the Foxes defeated the Trojans,...Read More