PIAA basketball opening weekend roundup: Fight dominates the headlines, Wade moves into second on WPIAL scoring list, Fields hits 1,000 points

Clairton senior guard Iyanna Wade heads to the bench at the end of a PIAA first-round playoff game Saturday in Clairton. Saint Joseph's Academy picked up a 61-46 win.

The PIAA playoffs started this weekend. Much of the talk surrounding the opening of the state tournament, sadly, was taken up by the brawl at the Meadville-Uniontown boys basketball game Friday night at Meadville. The PIAA executive director Bob Lombardi told Chris Harlan of the Tribune Review and Tom Reisenweber of the Erie Times-News that no decision would be made on discipline until Monday.

The game was stopped with Meadville ahead in the fourth quarter. 

Wade moves into second-place on WPIAL's all-time scoring list
Clairton senior Iyanna Wade scored 24 points to finish her career with 3,119 points. That put the Bears senior guard in second place on the WPIAL's all-time scoring list.

Fields reaches 2,000 points
Kennedy Catholic's Layke Fields reached 2,000 career points during a win over Fort Cherry.

Canon-McMillan picks up first-ever PIAA playoff win
The Big Macs' girls basketball team were able to make a couple of key plays in the final minute to slide by Allderdice on Friday night to win their first-ever state playoff game in Class 6A. Canon-McMillan grabbed a 48-44 victory.

Josh Rizzo is the editor and publisher of Pittsburgh Preps and Colleges.
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