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Amanda Johnston

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

North Allegheny Too Much for Baldwin in WPIAL Playoffs, 56-33

NA moves on to the quarterfinals. Baldwin's season is done.

To add your own images from the game, click on "Upload Photos and Videos" above. (Don't hesitate to include photos of the cheerleaders, coaches and fans.) North Allegheny High School's girls basketball team hadn't won a game in 10 days—and hadn't even played in one in eight—but the Tigers quickly shook off that rust against Baldwin High School in a WPIAL AAAA playoffs first-round win on Tuesday night. North Allegheny (20-3 overall) won the game's opening tip at neutral-site North Hills High School, got the ball to sophomore forward Meg Morningstar for the first two points and never trailed on its way to a 56-33 pounding of the lower-seeded Highlanders (11-12 overall). The 6-foot-1 Morningstar, who finished with 11 points, got her own …

Lisa

2:27 pm on Thursday, February 21, 2013

Congratulations, girls, on a good season!   more ›

Friday, February 15, 2013

Baldwin Dominates Latrobe in WPIAL Playoffs, 54-39

The Highlanders move on to face North Allegheny on Tuesday.

To add your own pictures from the game, click on "Upload Photos and Videos" above. (Don't hesitate to include photos of the cheerleaders, coaches and fans.) Baldwin High School didn't look like the lower seed. The Highlanders, forced to play Greater Latrobe High School in a WPIAL AAAA championships play-in game on Tuesday night, dominated the higher-seeded Wildcats at both ends of the floor to move on the tournament's first round with a 54-39 win. Latrobe (9-14 overall) saved its best for first by jumping out to a 4-0 lead in this neutral-site game at Penn-Trafford High School. But Baldwin's size, speed and superior shooting took over immediately, and the Highlanders (11-11 overall) finished the first quarter on a 19-6 run. "That was maybe…

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Robert Edward Healy, III

10:18 pm on Sunday, February 17, 2013

UPDATE: The Baldwin-North Allegheny game is scheduled for 8 p.m. at North Hills High School.   more ›

Friday, February 8, 2013

Baldwin Girls Stun Bethel, Make Playoffs

The Highlanders shine in a do-or-die game.

To add your own pictures from the game, click on "Upload Photos and Videos" above. (Don't hesitate to include photos of the pep band, dance team, coaches and fans.) A late 3-pointer from junior guard Nikki Corcoran may end up being the biggest shot of the season for Baldwin High School's girls basketball team, which stunned visiting Bethel Park High School, 46-38, in a WPIAL AAAA Section 4 game on Friday night. With Baldwin clinging to a 1-point lead with fewer than two minutes left in its regular season and needing a win to make the 2013 WPIAL playoffs, Corcoran calmy stepped back and drained a 3-ball from the left wing to push the Highlanders' lead to two possessions. Bethel Park, which came into the game with just two losses and is …

Billee

10:38 am on Monday, February 11, 2013

Ambition and healthy confidence with honest self discipline is everything...perfection doesn't exist unless the final goal of the game is love. Well done! Congratulations!   more ›

Friday, February 1, 2013

Basketball: Baldwin, Upper St. Clair Battle for Final Playoffs Spot

Senior-less Baldwin controls its own destiny.

It's simple, really: Win, and they're in. That's the formula for the Baldwin High School girls basketball team, which has two section games left this season to earn a spot in the 2013 WPIAL playoffs. Should the Highlanders win both games, they're in the show—no matter what. But maybe that won't be so easy, especially when Baldwin's final two section opponents of the regular season—Mt. Lebanon (18-2 overall) and Bethel Park (17-2 overall) high schools—have a combined 35-4 record. But rest easy, Baldwin fans. The Highlanders could lose one or even both of those games and still make it to the postseason. After Baldwin's 66-44 win over Peters Township High School on Thursday night, Baldwin and Upper St. Clair high schools sit tied for the …

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Robert Edward Healy, III

11:12 pm on Thursday, February 7, 2013

Some good news: Upper St. Clair lost tonight to Mt. Lebanon, 64-47, meaning that, if Baldwin wins tomorrow night at home against Bethel Park, it's in the playoffs. Tipoff is at 6 p.m. The Baldwin-Whitehall Patch will be there!   more ›

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

WATCH: Highlanders Girls Prepare for Hoops Season

There'll be plenty of challenges for Baldwin, but the team seems ready to adapt.

"Speed and defense." If Head Coach Gavin Prosser has been trying to drive something into the brains of his players this preseason, he's certainly getting that done. When asked to identify what might be the calling card of the 2012-13 Baldwin High School girls varsity basketball team, Prosser mentioned "speed and defense," and that was after two of his players answered the same question with the same three words. The Baldwin High girls have added a promising 6-foot freshman center—Carly Lutz—to their young roster this season, but the team will mostly have to rely on smaller players, most of whom have less scoring pedigree than three of the squad's leaders from a season ago. And all of three of those ladies have graduated. Gone from the …

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Robert Edward Healy, III

11:15 pm on Thursday, December 6, 2012

CORRECTION: The girls' season officially starts on Dec. 7 and 8 with a non-section tournament at Indiana Area High School.   more ›

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Them Again: Blue Devils Bounce Baldwin from State Playoffs

But the Highlanders give Mt. Lebanon a scare through three quarters.

Call it destiny. Well, maybe a curse. Baldwin High School, which has appeared in the girls state (PIAA) basketball playoffs in three out of the past four years—and won at least one state playoffs game every time—have always drawn Mt. Lebanon High School later in the bracket. And each time, Mt. Lebanon—the three-time defending state champion—has ended Baldwin's season. Such was the case again on Tuesday night in the second round of the PIAA tournament at Duquesne University's A.J. Palumbo Center, where the Blue Devils, WPIAL champions in three out of the past four years, improved to 25-3 for the season with a 45-32 win over Baldwin. The Highlanders finish the 2011-12 campaign at 19-8. The game was played much closer than the final score …

Common Sense

9:10 am on Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Great Season Girls and Coach Prosser! Let's hope that a section and WPIAL Championship is in the future!   more ›

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Oakland Catholic's Pressure, 3-Pointers Stymie Baldwin

Eagles advance to WPIAL girls basketball title game; Highlanders await state playoffs.

Baldwin vs. Oakland Catholic at North Allegheny had a similar feel this season as it did a year ago. Same opponent, same place, same result. For the second straight season on Tuesday, Oakland Catholic High School eliminated Baldwin High School from the WPIAL girls basketball playoffs (at neutral-site North Allegheny High School). But this year's 58-41 loss feels a little different. For one, this was a WPIAL AAAA semifinal, and Baldwin High has already clinched a spot in the PIAA (state) playoffs—something that it didn't do with its quarterfinal loss to the Eagles a year ago. For another, the Highlanders generally like the way that they're playing right now. "We're much more of a team and determined this year," Baldwin's sophomore guard …

Common Sense

5:11 pm on Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Tough loss for the Lady Highlanders and Coach Prosser. Congrats on a good run in the WPIAL Playoffs and hopefully a few state wins are in the future!   more ›

Friday, February 24, 2012

UPDATE: February Madness: Baldwin Girls in WPIAL Semifinals

Highlanders beat Shaler Area High School, 39-28, on Friday night.

UPDATE: Time and place are set: BALDWIN HIGH SCHOOL's VARSITY GIRLS BASKETBALL team will play Oakland Catholic High School at 6 p.m. on Tuesday (at neutral-site North Allegheny High School) in the WPIAL semifinals. (Tickets cost $6 each.) Baldwin High School's varsity girls basketball team turned the lights out on Shaler Area High School's WPIAL title dreams on Friday night—literally. After a power outage delayed Friday's WPIAL AAAA playoffs game at neutral-site Fox Chapel Area High School for 41 minutes midway through the third quarter, Baldwin High finished the game on a 16-6 run to win, 39-28, and advance to the WPIAL's "final four," which starts Tuesday with a semifinals game against Oakland Catholic High School. The Highlanders (17-6…

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Robert Edward Healy, III

2:44 pm on Monday, February 27, 2012

UPDATE: Time and place are set: BALDWIN HIGH SCHOOL's VARSITY GIRLS BASKETBALL team will play Oakland Catholic High School at 6 p.m. on Tuesday (at neutral-site North Allegheny High School) in the WPIAL semifinals! (Tickets cost $6 each.)   more ›

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Baldwin Girls Outlast Upper St. Clair, 54-52

Highlanders win in overtime behind 17 points, 14 rebounds from Anna Lauterbach.

Basketball is about size and speed, otherwise known as Anna Lauterbach and Taylor Wentzel, respectively. Lauterbach scored a team-high 17 points—most from within a few feet of the basket—and Wentzel added a darting-and-diving 10 to lead Baldwin High School to a 54-52 overtime win against visiting Upper St. Clair High School in varsity section play on Monday night. It was a win that Lauterbach, a 6-foot-2 senior forward/center, had to enjoy from the bench for the last 1 minute, 38 seconds of overtime, as a physical game eventually led to her fouling out. She still managed to pull down an impressive 14 rebounds before watching Wentzel, a 5-foot-6 senior point guard, sink two free throws with 17 seconds left for the game's final lead. "She's …

Friday, December 9, 2011

VIDEO: New Coach Gavin Prosser Previews Highlanders Girls Hoops

Prosser, a 2003 Baldwin High School alum, is in his first season as a high school coach.

The Baldwin High School varsity girls basketball team has compiled an average record of 18-7 over the past four seasons, including three consecutive WPIAL playoffs appearances, a WPIAL championship game berth and two trips to the PIAA playoffs. But the team's newest head coach, Baldwin High alum Gavin Prosser '03, has a career head coaching record of 0-0. As with the boys team at Baldwin, the Highlanders girls will play under a new head coach during the 2011-12 season, a coach that is leading a varsity basketball team for the first time. Though, Prosser is not without some pedigree. He was an all-WPIAL point guard as a player for the Highlanders, scoring over 1,200 career points and leaving the school as its second all-time leading male …

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