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Plum freshmen Sam Snyder (left) and Antonino Walker (right) look toward coach Mike Supak during a practice on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021.
The Plum wrestling team turns its focus this week from team competition to individual accomplishments with subsection and section tournaments taking center stage throughout the WPIAL.
The Mustangs were slated to wrestle at the Class AAA Section 1B tournament Wednesday which feeds surviving qualifiers to Saturday’s main Section 1 tournament at Kiski Area.
Wednesday subsection matches were to be contested past this week’s deadline.
A number of Plum wrestlers established themselves throughout the team duals and helped the team compile a 9-6 overall record and a 3-2 mark in section matches.
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Beth Shoop of Riverview High School warms up Jan. 16 with teammates at Killer Whales swim club practice at Fox Chapel High School.
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Beth Shoop, of Riverview High School, warms up with teammates at Killer Whales swim club practice on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021, at Fox Chapel High School.
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Riverview senior Beth Shoop swam the 500-yard freestyle in a time of 5 minutes, 31.36 seconds during Fox Chapel’s Jan. 14 meet with Woodland Hills.
She was excited with that time, which was about a half-second faster than her medal-winning eighth-place finish (5:31.96) at last year’s WPIAL Class AA championships at Pitt’s Trees Pool.
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Waynesburg’s Wyatt Henson (top) works against Canon-McMillan’s Tyler Soule at 145 pounds during their match on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, at Waynesburg Centra High School. Waynesburg won, 48-13.
Two more Class AAA wrestling teams pulled out of the WPIAL team postseason, which begins Monday with the section tournaments.
Joining No. 3-ranked Hempfield and No. 4 Franklin Regional are No. 7 Canon-McMillan and No. 7 Butler.
Butler is being replaced by West Allegheny in the Section 3-AAA tournament at Seneca Valley. There will not be a replacement for Canon-McMillan in the Section 4 tournament. Peters Township will receive a bye in the first round.
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Plum sophomore Nicholas Daniels works on his game during a practice Jan. 6, 2021, at Nesbit’s Lanes in Plum.
In response to covid-19 guidelines and protocols for gathering numbers, the Western Regional high school bowling championships this year will be split up over two weekends, the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Bowling League announced Monday.
Regionals will start with the boys singles tournament March 5 and the boys team event March 6 at North Versailles Bowl.
Tournament action will return to North Versailles Bowl with girls singles March 12, and the girls team tournament March 13.
“Splitting up the regionals will help us keep the numbers down while allowing the same amount of bowlers to compete all while keeping the bowlers spread out more than normal,” said Shawn Pilyih, secretary for the WPIBL.