The WPIAL doesn't select MVPs in championship games or all-tournament team. We've advocated for years the WPIAL should select an all-tournament team from players in the championship games.

But, just because the WPIAL won't do it doesn't mean we have to go along. So, here are our five-person, all-tournament teams. Remember, to be considered for an all-tourney team a player had to be in one of the championship games this past weekend at the Palumbo Center.

Here is the boys' squad:

• Terrelle Pryor, 6-6 senior, Jeannette. The 39-point, 24-rebound and 10 blocked shot monster game against Beaver Falls will go down in WPIAL championship game lore. He also gets our MVP award. No one else was even close.

• Antoine Childs, 6-5, senior, Blackhawk. He had 22 points, 20 in the first half, and eight rebounds in the Cougars' 68-55 victory against Hopewell in the Class AAA final.

• T.J. Heatherington, 5-9, junior, Serra Catholic. A quick playmaker, he scored 28 points and connected on 10 of 14 field-goal attempts in 76-61 win against Wilkinsburg in Class A final. He also made both of his 3-point attempts.

• Todd Thomas, 6-3, junior, Beaver Falls. Thomas was the second-best player on the floor after Pryor in the Class AA final. He finished with 25 points, 6 rebounds and a couple of blocks.

• Matt McKenna, 6-2, senior, Central Catholic. McKenna made the biggest shot in the long history of Central Catholic basketball -- a 3-pointer in the waning seconds to beat Moon in the Class AAAA title game. For me, that qualifies for a spot on the all-finals squad.

And now, the girls' team:

• Alex Gensler, 5-11, senior, Upper St. Clair. She is the MVP. A Duquesne recruit, she was tremendous in her team's Class AAAA victory against Peters Township. Gensler scored 24 points on 10 of 15 shooting from the field and, simply put, Peters Township didn't have an answer for her either on the perimeter on when she went to the bucket. Gensler sealed the MVP with her play on defense, as she stepped in the passing lane countless times, cause havoc for the Indians' guards who had trouble mounting any sort of offensive continuity.

• Renee Brown, 5-10, senior, Mount Alvernia. Brown makes a strong case to be MVP, but garnering a spot on our all-tournament team is a huge honor, nonetheless. She had a career high 34 points and also had 11 rebounds in the Lions' double overtime victory against Monessen. Her two tying free throws with 6.5 seconds left in regulation were huge.

• Nicole Doria, 5-5, junior, South Park. Talk about a second-half, huh? Doria, a junior, scored all of her game-high 19 points in the second half to lead the Eagles to a 10-point victory against Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. .

• Laurel Hansen, 6-2, junior, Hampton. OK, so it isn't every day a girl with just 8 points should make the all-tournament team, but Hansen was so much of a force on the boards and on defense that she was a no-brainer. She pulled down 15 rebounds and propelled the Talbots to victory against a speedy West Mifflin team.

• Christina Chukwuedo, 5-7, senior, Monessen. In the loss against Mount Alvernia, this guard was marvelous. She scored 22 points and she might have been a little too unselfish at times. If she wanted to force the issue, Chukwuedo probably could have gotten to the bucket even more, as she is rocket-like with her first step.

Got a call on Tuesday from the subject of last week's search committee, former Quaker Valley stalwart Keith Starr, who went on to play at Pitt. A 1972 graduate of Quaker Valley, he was a starter on Pitt's 1973-74 team that won 22 consecutive games.

These days, he's living in Henderson Nev., with his wife, Dina, and four children ranging in age from 12-19 -- two of whom are their own and the other two Starr explained that he "took in."

Starr is a State Farm Insurance agent and has been an assistant boys' basketball coach at Foothill High School the past eight seasons and, when the girls' head coaching job came open prior to this year, he decided to pull double-duty and accept that job.

Starr said he still keeps up with many of his old friends from Pittsburgh, including former Steeler Franco Harris, and came back to town for Pitt's homecoming this past autumn.

Now to this week's subject -- here is an all-points bulletin for former North Hills standout boys' player Mike Yoest.

He is one of just two North Hills graduates to ever play in a Division I basketball game (joining Tim White of Appalachian State).

Yoest, a 1987 North Hills graduate, went on to play at West Virginia. Yoest, who averaged more than 20 points per game for the Indians during his senior year, was inducted into the North Hills High School Sports Hall of Fame in 2002.

So now it is up to you, the readers, to inform me as to what Mr. Yoest has been up to.

Please send your e-mail responses by Monday morning.