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Trinity Christian girls’ track team attending first-ever team playoffs today

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The small-but-skilled Trinity Christian track teams have had another good regular season and now they’re ready for playoffs. Head coach Dave Jones noted that the girls’ team was attending its first team-semifinal meet. The Falcons’ girls will compete alongside the boys at Freeport today (the boys’ team is headed to the playoffs for the third time in four years).

“Most of our girls are ninth and 10th graders,” said Jones. “We don’t have a lot of talent but they really work hard.” Likewise, the Trinity Christian girls look to have a returning roster for 2014 and 2015. With the hard work ethic and team mentality, the Falcons’ girls team will be tough to beat in the coming years.

As for the boys, the Falcons recorded notable accomplishments at last Saturday’s (April 27) South Fayette Invitational. Alex Vaughn ran a 50.11-second 400-meter dash for second place. The time set the Trinity Christian school record in the event.

But between Vaughn and James Chandler, the record has been broken/reset six times this season. Chandler was nursing a slight muscle pull on Saturday. Jones suspected Chandler would be able to compete again at this Friday’s Pine-Richland Invitational.

Jones added that Vaughn placed fourth in the 200 on Saturday, and that freshman Tyler Carter placed in both hurdle races and held down the long jump event for Trinity Christian.

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Trinity Christian track team scrimmaged itself last Thursday, due to bad weather

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Trinity Christian’s track team, like many, had to cancel a multi-team scrimmage last week due to bad weather. So, the Falcons got together and competed against themselves. With many of the athletes being new, young competitors, they needed a chance to see some competition before the South Hills Classic this weekend.

Head Coach and athletic director Dave Jones noted that there were a few others who were helping the Trinity Christian track cause: Plum and Woodland Hills.  Trinity Christian is located in a residential area off of Greensburg Pike, very close to Woodland Hills High School. Likewise, the Falcons held their intersquad scrimmage at Woodland Hills’ track.

“We have close relationship with Plum and Woodland Hills,” said Jones. Jones speculated that some Plum and Woodland Hills athletes would even join Trinity Christian in their preseason competition.

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Trinity Christian basketball players are taking their speed to track, AAU

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“We probably have about three players playing AAU,” said Trinity Christian head coach Paul Walendziewicz, about where the Falcons hoopers are right now.  “A lot of them are doing track,” he added.

Consistent high-scorer John Wallace is actually a skilled high-jumper for the Trinity Christian track team.

“So we’re hoping our players develop though their spring sports,” Walendziewicz explained. “We’ll pick up with our summer program. We like to go about three days a week … hopefully we can scrimmage some local high school teams.”

Some Trinity players actually elect to attend skills camps in the summer. Wallace went to Wooster College for one last summer.

The Falcons will return some great, younger players in 2013-14. Sophomore TyReque Calloway and freshmen Jonathan Murphy, DJ Fitzgerald and Tyler Carter made great impacts for Trinity Christian in 2012-13- a playoff year. These four will return for 2013-13 with experience as well as playoff-motivated drive.

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Trinity Christian basketball team mowed through section to get to playoffs

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The Falcons are doing what every basketball team wants to do this time of year: peaking.

In fact, they’re not even “peaking,” because the word implies an impending downslope. Trinity Christian is on an upswing that led the team to playoffs.

Trinity Christian bested Wilkinsburg, St. Joseph, and Leechburg over the last couple of weeks. By February 1, they’d tied St. Joseph’s second-place record in Section 4-A.

The wins the Falcons got at the end of section play were definitive. Over Wilkinsburg, Trinity Christian won 72-53. Over Leechburg, Trinity Christian won 68-42. Senior guard/forward John Wallace scored his 1,000th career point in the game.

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