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Bishop Carroll played a great offensive game and went into current Post-Gazette WPIAL A #1 and won 83-81. It was a very exciting game to watch if you like offense; frustrating if you like to watch defense (there was none), Carroll is pretty solid. Martinazzi can shoot it well, D6/LHAC teams who do not make him put it on the floor are definitely in trouble. Lee and another kid (didn't catch his name) are also pretty good players. Vincentian had two kids score around 30pts each, and not much else. BC was hot early and jumped out to something like an 18-2 lead. Vincentian came all the way back and it was back and forth the whole way. It was like one of those nerf hoop games you used to play in your living room or basement.

Gotta love Vincentian's old court...It's undersized and has a restraining line. For those of you who do not know what that is, once you cross half court in under :10, the back court then becomes the opposite foul line. A 3pt shot is almost at "mid court."

Seriously though, Vincentian is good, and so is Carroll and so is Guilfoyle, but Lincoln Park is the clear favorite in WPIAL A, and probably even in PIAA A.

The reason? 6'8" ultra-athletic Elijah Minnie just became eligible to play for LP Friday after numerous appeals to the WPIAL and PIAA, the PIAA finally overturned the WPIAL and is permitting Minnie to play. Incidentially, that same night (Friday) Minnie turned in a triple double in a blowout win over OLSH, something like 12pts, 15reb, and 10 blocks.

Add Minnie to 6'5" junior guard Ryan Skovranko and 6'6" guard/swing Maverick Rowan, coupled with a big bodied 6'4" 230 kid by the name of Cottrill, you have a class A team that teams lihe BC, Vincentian, etc. will not be able to match up with physically and athletically. The reality is that LP is 25 points better than them due to the gigantic gaps in talent, physicality, and athleticism.

But in basketball and a one-and-done format, upsets can happen, so I guess there's always a shot.

Sounds like all three teams are very good. And I would have to agree with you that anything can happen come playoff time. In 2011 SF almost upset Vincentian in a close one (by 5 I believe) and in 2010 SF was beating Lincoln park going into 4th and ended up losing by 9 but game was a lot closer it seemed like. Lincoln park sounds like the team is better this year but that Pratt kid and Watson were both tough.

Titan... the PIAA also overturned their decision. They also had ruled him ineligible. Then there was an appeal with "new evidence." WPIAL still said ineligible. So it then went to PIAA again and this time, a 3-2 vote went in favor of eligibility.

Based on the rules, from looking at it from afar, he probably should be ineligible but I like when they let them play. I think kids should be allowed to go where they want to (rules say otherwise...)

Would like it if LP moved up to AA though.

Funny thing about that game and your write-up is I always got the impression BC was a very good defensive team. Maybe Vincentian so skilled they could do whatever they wanted...

Looks like D7, 5, 9 and 6 could produce some interesting interdistrict play-off games. Class A has some pretty solid teams. Lincoln Park has to be the favorite. Integrating all that talent is difficult to do and keep people happy. Hey whatever happen to the LP point guard from last year's team? Did he go on to the next level and where?