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Trib HSSN Softball Team of the Week: Week ending June 5, 2022
The third time was the charm for the Union softball team. The Scotties had reached the WPIAL Class A championship game in 2019 and 2021, only to lose to West Greene, 17-2 and 11-0. That made the passing of the golden torch on Wednesday that much sweeter after the Scotties...
Trib HSSN Softball Player of the Week: Week ending June 5, 2022
The Armstrong softball team entered the WPIAL 5A championship game calm, cool and collected. They left Lilly Field euphoric, ecstatic and floating on a golden cloud nine. A year after losing in the finals to North Hills at Cal (Pa.), the River Hawks were sky high after an epic 6-5...
Trib HSSN Baseball Player of the Week: Week ending June 5, 2022
Last spring, South Park knocked on the WPIAL Class 3A title door and settled for silver. This season, the Eagles returned to Wild Things Park and kicked down the door. A year after losing a heartbreaker to Hopewell, South Park beat Mohawk, 11-1, to capture the program’s second district baseball...
Trib HSSN Baseball Team of the Week: Week ending June 5, 2022
Enough was enough. Following a breakout 2021 season in which the West Mifflin baseball team won 12 games and a section crown, nobody seemed to remember the Titans coming into the 2022 campaign. “No one in the media gave us a chance,” West Mifflin coach Jeff Kuzma said. “We were...
This week on Trib High School Sports Network: Week of June 6, 2022
The long and winding road is coming to an end as 38 district baseball and softball teams prepare for the final athletic event on the school year this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. We have video and audio coverage for some of those schools Monday with the...
19 WPIAL teams prepare for PIAA softball playoffs
The 2022 PIAA softball playoffs start Monday with 19 WPIAL teams searching for state gold, including recently crowned district winners Seneca Valley, Armstrong, Beaver, Avonworth, Neshannock and Union on the hunt for more treasures. The state playoffs are made up of four rounds with the championships to be played at...
WPIAL baseball teams set to begin PIAA playoffs
With Mt. Lebanon, West Allegheny, West Mifflin, South Park, Serra Catholic and Union celebrating WPIAL baseball titles earned last week, those schools and 13 other district baseball teams open the 2022 PIAA baseball postseason Monday. The state playoffs are made up of four rounds, with the championships to be played...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on June 4, 2022: Mars boys lacrosse looks to keep rolling
Up until last spring, the PIAA lacrosse playoffs were a dry wasteland for WPIAL programs. Very few boys or girls lacrosse teams from District 7 survived the first round, let alone were considered a serious contender for a run at the state title. The sport, still growing on this side...
Trib 10: New team in the top spot after WPIAL baseball finals
The gold has been earned this week by the 2022 WPIAL diamond champions as the district baseball and softball postseason comes to an end. Some quick championship factoids: • Union baseball and Beaver softball are the only two repeat champions. • Union becomes the first school to sweep baseball and...
Trib HSSN Softball State Rankings for June 2, 2022
With a handful of district playoff games remaining throughout the state, attention turns to the pursuit of one of the last championships in the 2021-2022 school year, the PIAA softball crown. The first round is set to begin Monday with many of the Trib HSSN state softball ranked teams below...
Trib HSSN Baseball State Rankings for June 2, 2022
The regular season is over and the district playoffs are complete across the state. Now the fun begins Monday with the start of the 2022 PIAA baseball playoffs. Some classifications were hit hard by the end of the district playoffs, with three teams vacating their precarious position in the Trib...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on May 31, 2022: Breaking down the baseball, softball 3rd-place games
Life is about second chances. If you come up short of a goal and can hit the second-chance button, golden memories could lie ahead. That is the hope of 18 district softball and baseball teams coming out of the holiday weekend. While hopes of a WPIAL championship are gone, a...
Trib HSSN softball team of the week: May 30, 2022
The names change, but the Elizabeth Forward softball program just keeps on humming along victory avenue. In the last four years, the Warriors have reached the district finals three times and the state title game once, winning WPIAL gold in 2019. So the fact EF finished 16-2 and once again...
Trib HSSN softball player of the week: May 30, 2022
The way the WPIAL softball postseason schedule set up, with a first-round bye for top seed and defending champion Beaver in the Class 4A playoffs, the Bobcats had 22 days between their season-ending win over Laurel and their quarterfinal opener last Monday against Freeport. “With some of the players coming...
Trib HSSN Baseball Team of the Week: May 29, 2022
There were some highs and some lows for the Upper St. Clair baseball team in the first year with Jeff Donati as head coach. The Panthers finished 5-5 and tied for third place in Section 1-6A and enjoyed a five-game winning streak in April before losing six of their final...
Trib HSSN Baseball Player of the Week: May 29, 2022
After a season opening loss to Archbishop Stepinac of New York, the Montour baseball team ripped off 15 consecutive wins to run away with the Section 2-4A title and firmly place itself as the team to beat in Class 4A. Then, in a span of seven days, the Spartans lost...
This week on Trib HSSN: Week of May 30, 2022
When the first big summer holiday weekend is completed and the picnic baskets have been put away, it will be time to bring out the hardware and celebrate the district diamond championships this week here on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has exclusive video and audio action...
Trib 10: Power rankings shuffled with WPIAL baseball, softball championships on horizon
Three rounds are in the books with one golden game remaining in the 2022 district baseball and softball playoffs. With plenty of head-to-head battles in the WPIAL quarterfinals and semifinals, change was bound to happen in the Trib 10 power rankings. Four baseball and three softball teams saw their hopes...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on March 26, 2022: Mars lacrosse hunts another title
Last spring, Mars became the most decorated boys lacrosse program in WPIAL history with a fifth consecutive Class 2A championship. On Thursday, the Fightin’ Planets hope to start a second hand of title rings. Top-seeded Mars faces Quaker Valley in the WPIAL 2A boys lacrosse championship at 8 p.m. at...
Trib HSSN State Baseball Rankings for May 25, 2022
There was little movement in this week’s Trib HSSN state baseball rankings as the district playoffs move into the final week. Only three teams were knocked out, opening the door for three new teams, including a return to the state top 5 for both South Park in 3A and Halifax...
Trib HSSN State Softball Rankings for May 25, 2022
As we head to the holiday weekend, all is quiet on the elite state softball front. As the district playoffs continue across the commonwealth, byes and very few upsets have led to almost identical Trib HSSN state softball rankings. Only Abington Heights in Class 5A lost its footing and dropped...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for May 25, 2022: Boys volleyball, lacrosse titles up for grabs
The district gold starts to flow Wednesday with two WPIAL boys volleyball and three district lacrosse title matches. In boys volleyball, could there be a changing of the guard in Class 3A? North Allegheny has completely dominated the 3A landscape with 21 WPIAL boys volleyball championships, four straight crowns and...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on May 24, 2022: Softball rivalry writes another chapter
Some of the best rivalries in sports were born from postseason clashes. Steelers vs. Raiders in the ’70s and 49ers vs. Cowboys in the ’90s are two examples. Perhaps a budding district rivalry is blooming in softball as Armstrong and North Hills prepare to face each other for the third...
Trib HSSN Softball Player of the Week for May 23, 2022
Veteran high school teams that have a roster of players who have had a taste of the sweet and bitter of the postseason sometimes need to bring their emotions down a level to remain focused on the task at hand. The flip side of that is a young and inexperienced...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for May 23, 2022: Rematches set for baseball playoffs
Welcome to Semifinals Monday in the 2022 WPIAL baseball playoffs. Unless your team is in classes 6A or 4A, then it’s Welcome to Quarterfinals Monday. Whether it’s the second or third round, the recurring theme is rematches. Of the 16 scheduled games, 11 are matchups between teams that faced each...
