It’s been a rough start to the playoffs for high school basketball teams from the Washington-Greene County area. Seven games, seven losses for the locals. Half of the 14 teams listed on the brackets at the pairings meetings have been eliminated, including girls teams from Burgettstown and Chartiers-Houston, boys teams from California, Charleroi, McGuffey, Wash High and West Greene. Tuesday, three more squads take the floor, Avella and California girls, Peters Township boys. The first round wraps up Wednesday night with Charleroi girls and Ringgold boys games. Two area teams have byes to the quarterfinals. West Greene’s girls team is #2 in Class 1A and is off until Friday. The Trinity girls are the #3 seed in Class 5A and have a bye to Saturday’s second round.
The WPIAL basketball quarterfinals are scheduled for Feb. 20-22 with championship games set for Feb. 27-29 at the Petersen Events Center on the University of Pittsburgh campus. Opening round games for teams from the two-county area are listed below along with WPIAL Bracket links.
Girls WPIAL Brackets — — Boys WPIAL Brackets
Tuesday, Feb. 18–First Round
1A Girls #7 Avella vs. #10 Propel Andrew Street, 6:30 pm at Peters Township WJPA-AM (1450)
1A Girls #12 California vs. #5 Greensburg Central Catholic, 8:00 pm at Peters Township WJPA-AM (1450)
6A Boys #9 Peters Township vs. #8 Hempfield, Class 6A Sweet 16, Tuesday, 8 pm, at Mt. Lebanon WJPA-FM (95.3)
Wednesday, Feb. 19–First Round
3A Girls #10 Charleroi vs. #7 East Allegheny, 6:30 pm at Peters Township WJPA-FM (95.3)
4A Boys #9 Ringgold vs. #8 Ambridge, 8:00 pm at Peters Township WJPA-FM (95.3)
Friday, Feb. 21–Quarterfinals
1A Girls #2 West Greene vs. Avella/Propel Andrew Street winner, site/time to be determined
Saturday, Feb. 22–Quarterfinals
5A Girls #3 Trinity vs. Gateway/Penn-Trafford winners, site/time to be determined