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The first round of the WPIAL Basketball playoffs wrapped up Tuesday night with nearly half of the original 24 Washington/Greene County squads in action. Burgettstown, Chartiers-Houston and Fort Cherry girls all won and advanced to Friday’s quarterfinals. Ringgold boys pulled off the biggest upset of the opening rounds, winning at #2 Lincoln Park. Wash High battled back from a 13-point first half deficit to lead by one with a minute to play before Southmoreland hit 6-of-8 free throws to eliminate the Little Prexies. Action turns from first round to quarterfinals Wednesday, including three games we’ll have for you: Serra Catholic at Avella in the 1A Boys bracket, plus both games on the left side of the 5A Girls pairings–Trinity vs. South Fayette and Peters Township taking on Baldwin. Through the tournament, our audio coverage is available free on-air and online. Video coverage for WPIAL/PIAA playoff games is accessible through the NFHS Network. We will produce the video for all of our broadcasts through at least Wednesday’s quarterfinals. Here’s a daily schedule of games for Washington/Greene County teams. WPIAL Brackets

First Round
Tuesday, Feb. 17
2A Girls #3 Chartiers-Houston > #14 South Side Beaver, 70-16 Watch/Listen
2A Girls #4 Fort Cherry > #13 Riverview, 55-24 Watch/Listen
2A Girls #7 Burgettstown > #10 Jeannette, 39-35
2A Girls #9 Laurel > #8 California, 41-21
2A Girls #6 Aliquippa > #11 Beth-Center, 43-34
2A Girls #2 Winchester Thurston > #15 Bentworth, 67-13
3A Boys #7 Seton-La Salle > #10 Charleroi, 82-52
3A Boys #5 Southmoreland . #12 Wash High, 63-58 Watch/Listen
3A Boys #1 Mohawk > #16 Waynesburg, 74-49
5A Boys #10 Hampton > #7 Peters Township, 50-45
5A Boys #15 Ringgold > #2 Lincoln Park, 79-77

Quarterfinals
Wednesday, Feb. 18
3A Girls #7 Waynesburg vs. #2 Beaver Falls, 6:00 pm at Peters Township
1A Boys #6 Serra Catholic at #3 Avella, 6:45 pm, WJPA-AM (95.3) Watch/Listen
5A Girls #12 Peters Township vs. #4 Baldwin at Bethel Park, 7:15 pm, WJPA-FM (95.3) Watch/Listen
5A Girls #9 Trinity vs. #1 South Fayette at Peters Township, 7:15 pm, WJPA.com Watch/Listen

Thursday, Feb. 19
6A Girls #9 Mt. Lebanon at #1 Canon-McMillan, 5:45 pm, WJPA-AM (1450) Watch/Listen
2A Boys #6 Jeff-Morgan vs. #3 Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, 7:30 pm at Peters Township
1A Girls #6 West Greene at #3 Union, 7 pm

Friday, Feb. 20 (sites/times to be announced)
5A Boys #15 Ringgold vs. #10 Hampton
2A Girls #3 Chartiers-Houston vs. #6 Aliquippa
2A Girls #4 Fort Cherry vs. #5 Rochester
2A Girls #7 Burgettstown vs. #2 Winchester Thurston

After 20 years as an athletic director, the last 15 at Peters Township, Brian Geyer has agreed to become associate executive director at the WPIAL.  Geyer has been president of the WPIAL Board of Directors and a member of the PIAA Board. He will leave those positions effective at the end of February. Under Geyer’s leadership, Peters Township has won a PIAA girls basketball championship, multiple WPIAL titles and has hosted numerous championship and playoff events at the newly-constructed AHN Arena. The League’s associate position has been vacant since mid-December when Vince Sortino succeeded Scott Seltzer as Executive Director. Justin Pyles, assistant athletic director at Peters Township, will oversee the day-to-day operations when Geyer departs at the end of the month. The District will then name a permanent successor (photo courtesy WPIAL)

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Tony Clark has resigned as head of the Major League Baseball Players Association, the union announced said, as a possible salary cap fight looms during a federal investigation of its finances. Clark was asked to resign by the eight-man executive subcommittee of the players’ association after an investigation by the union’s outside counsel discovered evidence that Clark had an inappropriate relationship with his sister-in-law, a union employee since 2023, a person familiar with the union’s deliberations told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because that was not announced.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The immediate future of Tiger Woods is in the boardroom instead of the golf course. Woods still won’t rule out returning to the Masters. All he says is that playing the first major of the year isn’t off the table. But he is coming off a year in which he didn’t compete in a single tournament for the first time in his career. He had disk replacement surgery in October. Most of his time is occupied in the PGA Tour boardroom as head of the committee reshaping the schedule. Also on hold is being Ryder Cup captain.