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WPIAL softball rankings: Week ending April 30, 2023
Class 6A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. Seneca Valley, 11-1, 1 2. Norwin, 13-3, 2 3. Hempfield, 12-2, 3 4. North Allegheny, 12-4, 4 5. Mt. Lebanon, 5-8, NR Out: Canon-McMillan (5-9, 5) Class 5A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. Shaler, 14-0, 1 2. Armstrong, 13-1, 2 3. Trinity, 12-1,...
WPIAL baseball rankings: Week ending April 30, 2023
Class 6A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. North Allegheny, 11-3, 1 2. Pine-Richland, 12-5, 2 3. Butler, 9-5, 5 4. Seneca Valley, 12-4, 3 5. Canon-McMillan, 11-4, NR Out: Hempfield (9-7, 4) Class 5A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. Shaler, 12-4, 1 2. Bethel Park, 10-4, 2 3. South Fayette,...
North Allegheny hosting Western Pa. Football Recruiting Day to connect with college coaches
There are dozens of small-college football coaches who recruit Western Pennsylvania, but sometimes a talented WPIAL player can go overlooked in the process. That’s why North Allegheny football coach Art Walker hosts a couple of Western Pa. Football Recruiting Days each year. The event lets high school coaches meet and...
North Hills’ Royce Parham commits to Marquette
North Hills junior Royce Parham, one of the WPIAL’s top college basketball recruits, committed Wednesday to Marquette. The 6-foot-8 forward announced his commitment on Twitter. His other finalists were Pitt, Penn State and Xavier. Rivals.com has rated him as a four-star prospect and ranked him 82nd overall nationally among 2024...
Former North Allegheny basketball coach Dan DeRose files lawsuit against Fox Chapel School District after ’21 altercation
Dan DeRose wants to coach high school basketball again, but the former WPIAL champion said school districts have shied away because of criminal charges he faced two years ago involving Fox Chapel school police. Senior Judge W. Terrence O’Brien of Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas ultimately dismissed those charges...
South Fayette’s Maddie Webber, Union coach Rob Nogay lead all-state girls basketball team
South Fayette senior Maddie Webber, a Villanova recruit who led the Lions to a WPIAL title and a PIAA runner-up finish this winter, was named the state’s Class 5A girls basketball player of the year by all-state voters. Webber was one of 21 WPIAL athletes who earned all-state honors Monday...
WPIAL softball rankings: Week ending April 23, 2023
Class 6A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. Seneca Valley, 9-1, 2 2. Norwin, 11-2, 3 3. Hempfield, 11-2, 1 4. North Allegheny, 10-4, 4 5. Canon-McMillan, 4-7, 5 Out: none Class 5A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. Shaler, 12-0, 1 2. Armstrong, 11-1, 2 3. Trinity, 10-1, 3 4. West...
WPIAL Baseball rankings: Week ending April 23, 2023
Class 6A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. North Allegheny, 9-2, 2 2. Pine-Richland, 11-4, 3 3. Seneca Valley, 11-2, 1 4. Hempfield, 9-4, 4 5. Butler, 6-5, 5 Out: none Class 5A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. Shaler, 10-3, 1 2. Bethel Park, 8-4, 2 3. North Hills, 10-2, 3...
North Allegheny sprinter Khiryn Boyd showing off his speed among WPIAL’s best
After not running track for a year, North Allegheny sprinter Khiryn Boyd was curious about the times being run this spring and how his compared with his competitors. He learned two things: One, you can’t always trust your competitors. And, two, he’s still fast. “I asked a kid before a...
PIAA adds 500 officials, but shortage remains ‘major issue’ for many sports
Statewide efforts to recruit and retain high school game officials are seeing some positive results, said a PIAA administrator who oversees the men and women in stripes. “From Sept. 1 until today, we’re up 500 officials in Pennsylvania,” said PIAA assistant executive director Patrick Gebhart, who spoke Wednesday at the...
WPIAL announces 20 winners of James Collins Scholar-Athlete Award
The WPIAL saw an increased number of applicants for the James Collins Scholar-Athlete Award this year, and Wednesday announced 20 winners from the 162 nominees. The selection committee chose 10 boys and 10 girls. Each receives a $1,000 scholarship. The boys winners were Trinity’s Ty Banco, Waynesburg’s Michael Church, Aquinas...
WPIAL Baseball rankings: Week ending April 16, 2023
Class 6A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. Seneca Valley, 9-0, 1 2. North Allegheny 5-2, 2 3. Pine-Richland, 9-3, 4 4. Hempfield, 7-3, NR 5. Butler, 5-5, 3 Out: Central Catholic (3-5, 5) Class 5A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. Shaler, 9-1, 1 2. Bethel Park, 6-3, 5 3. North...
Trib HSSN WPIAL softball rankings: Week ending April 16, 2023
Class 6A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. Hempfield, 9-1 3 2. Seneca Valley, 7-1, 1 3. Norwin, 8-2, 4 4. North Allegheny, 8-3, 2 5. Canon-McMillan, 3-5, NR Out: Pine-Richland (2-8, 5) Class 5A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. Shaler, 9-0, 1 2. Armstrong, 8-1, 2 3. Trinity, 8-1, 3...
500-game winner Dana Petruska retires as Mars basketball coach, cites ‘some parent situations’
Mars girls basketball coach Dana Petruska is retiring after 37 years and more than 500 wins, in part because there were too many wannabe coaches in the stands. Petruska said this was a frustrating winter for various reasons, some being nobody’s fault. The team lost a top player to a...
Deep North Allegheny girls track and field team takes aim at defending WPIAL title
Recent history says the North Allegheny girls have a good chance to repeat as WPIAL team track champions later this spring. Consider, in the past 30 years, no Class 3A girls champion has won the title only once. Teams tend to win it again and again. For instance, the Butler...
South Park promotes longtime assistant to football coach
South Park’s new football coach is already very familiar with the program. Longtime assistant Brian Abbey, who won a state championship with the Eagles as a player, was promoted to head coach, the school announced Friday. A 2001 graduate, Abbey returned to his alma mater as an assistant in 2004...
Moon finds replacement for retiring athletic director Ron Ledbetter
Moon has hired a new athletic director to replace Ron Ledbetter, who is retiring this summer after a 33-year career as an educator. The school on Thursday announced the hire of current Beaver athletic director Alan Alcalde. Alcalde, who spent four years at Beaver, starts June 1. “Moon has a...
Butler basketball standout Braylon Littlejohn commits to Miami (Ohio) — for football
When Butler’s Braylon Littlejohn committed to Miami (Ohio) on Tuesday, folks weren’t asking him about his choice of schools, but rather his choice of sports. The 6-foot-1, 170-pound junior will play defensive back for the RedHawks football team. “Everyone was texting me, ‘You committed for football?’” Littlejohn said. “I don’t...
WPIAL softball rankings: Week ending April 9, 2023
Class 6A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. Seneca Valley, 5-0, 1 2. North Allegheny, 7-2, 2 3. Hempfield, 6-1, 3 4. Norwin, 6-2, 5 5. Pine-Richland, 2-5, NR Out: Mt. Lebanon (2-3, 4) Class 5A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. Shaler, 7-0, 2 2. Armstrong, 5-1, 3 3. Trinity, 6-1,...
WPIAL baseball rankings: Week ending April 9, 2023
Class 6A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. Seneca Valley, 7-0, 3 2. North Allegheny, 3-1, 4 3. Butler, 4-3, 5 4. Pine-Richland, 6-3, 2 5. Central Catholic, 3-4, 1 Out: none Class 5A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. Shaler, 7-1, 4 2. South Fayette, 7-1, 1 3. Franklin Regional, 7-1,...
Behind family atmosphere, North Allegheny softball team aims to return to WPIAL final
The North Allegheny softball players were individually asked by their coaches to pick one word to describe the program. It wasn’t a serious task, just a light-hearted word-association game. When a majority chose “family,” that certainly made coach Morgan Vescovi smile. “That’s so important for how much time these girls...
Belle Vernon star Quinton Martin picks Penn State
Penn State landed its first WPIAL running back recruit since Miles Sanders when Belle Vernon’s Quinton Martin committed to the Nittany Lions. Martin, a 6-foot-2, 200-pound junior, announced his decision Friday on Twitter. He chose Penn State from a list of college offers that included both Pitt and West Virginia,...
2023 TribLive HSSN Boys Basketball All-Stars
Scoring 1,000 points in a high school career remains an impressive feat in WPIAL basketball, but remarkably, the league saw its first 3,000-point scorer this winter. Combined, the 10 members of the TribLive Terrific 10 accounted for nearly 15,000 career points and they’re not done yet. The list includes five...
Lincoln Park’s Meleek Thomas named 2023 TribLive HSSN Boys Basketball Player of the Year
2023 Boys Basketball Player of the Year Meleek Thomas Lincoln Park 6-4, sophomore, guard When Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari visited a Lincoln Park practice this winter, he stressed the importance of having a good floater. “He said to shoot a right-hand floater and a left-hand floater,” sophomore Meleek Thomas...
2023 TribLive HSSN Girls Basketball All-Stars
South Fayette won a second consecutive WPIAL girls basketball title this winter, North Allegheny won its third in four years and North Catholic won its sixth since 2017. Those powerhouse teams and more are represented here in the TribLive HSSN girls basketball all-stars for 2023. Terrific 10 Maddie Webber South...
