Don Rebel stories, Page 117

Twice this season, the Bishop Canevin hockey team enjoyed three-game winning streaks. The Crusaders won their first three games of the season and won their final two regular season games along with a quarterfinal playoff victory for another three-game win streak. However, a fourth consecutive win and a trip to...

Perhaps driven by covid-19 protocols, the WPIAL baseball steering committee is trying something new this spring. You could call it a weekly section series. Instead of playing each section opponent once in the first half of the regular season, then again in the second half, district teams are now playing...

It was one of the longest WPIAL baseball championship games in history. The 2017 Class A title game was tied between rivals Jeannette and Greensburg Central Catholic, 3-3, after seven innings. The game remained tied after eight, nine, 10 and 11 innings before the Jayhawks scored four runs in the...

Two old rivals will meet in a rare nonsection baseball game to conclude the month of April on Friday afternoon. In 2019, Thomas Jefferson wrapped up the regular season with a home win over rival West Mifflin. The Jaguars then lost in the first round of the WPIAL Class 4A...

Three district baseball and softball teams lost their power grip and went slip sliding away from the latest Trib 10 rankings. Seneca Valley and Serra Catholic baseball lost their spot with a couple of losses while it only took one loss by Ligonier Valley to fall out of the softball...

Will four team track and field district title streaks continue in May, or will the lost 2020 season lead to new champions being crowned next month? Hempfield boys in Class AAA and South Park girls in Class AA are looking to win a second straight championship. The Riverside boys in...

The year 2019 was a historic postseason in WPIAL boys team tennis. Fox Chapel won a fourth straight district championship in Class AAA, tying Upper St. Clair (twice) for the second most consecutive WPIAL Class AAA team tennis crowns, trailing only Mt. Lebanon. The Blue Devils won five straight titles...

Two years ago, Bethel Park won the boys volleyball Section 1-AAA title and advanced all the way to the WPIAL finals before falling to North Allegheny, 3-0. Also two years ago, Peters Township tied for fourth place in the same section with Upper St. Clair but lost the tiebreaker and...

There were more changes to the 2021 Trib HSSN state baseball rankings this week, just not as many as last week. Four of the six classifications saw two teams drop out and two new entries to the state top 5. Class 6A and 2A kept a clean slate with no...

The regular season is winding down in WPIAL softball as teams are down to a week and a half of section games remaining. Much like high school baseball, some teams are now in catch-up mode due to covid-related issues while at least one program, Sto-Rox softball, has shut down for...

Could it be a passing-of-the-torch type of moment when three-time defending Class 5A district softball champion West Allegheny hosts Chartiers Valley? The Colts-Indians matchup is one of several big softball games on the Wednesday schedule around the WPIAL. West Allegheny is 6-1 in Section 4-5A, 9-2 overall, has won six...

Following a week of many changes, the HSSN state rankings have settled into a nice groove in the final week of April. Last week was likes a Chutes and Ladder game with teams sliding out of the rankings and others climbing up into the state Top 5. This past week,...

Most WPIAL baseball teams are now down to one more week of section series games. However, in these unique times, some teams are now in catch-up mode due to covid-related shutdowns. The district is expected to decide early next week the makeup of the 2021 WPIAL baseball playoffs. Whether the...

Tuesday was a beautiful day in Southwestern Pennsylvania to get out and run, jog or walk around a nearby park. The Mt. Lebanon baseball team chose the last of those three choices. The Blue Devils converted four walks and four hit batters into seven runs and held on to beat...

Baldwin and Canon-McMillan have been the two dominant programs in WPIAL softball’s highest classification for over a decade. On Tuesday, the teams meet in Canonsburg, and for the first time in a long time, a regular season matchup between the Highlanders and Big Macs isn’t for first place in the...

Back in the mid-1960s, the Patty Duke Show was a TV show based on the adventures of two identical cousins who looked alike and acted alike, both played by actress Patty Duke. The 2021 South Park baseball team has their own version of identical cousins. No Drew and Austin Lafferty...

There is nothing lucky about coming to bat 19 times in a week and reaching base 18 times. That is the mark of a good hitter, a very good hitter. That is what Chartiers-Houston senior Bella Hess produced in four games last week. Based on her season to date, Hess...

Luke Lambert hit a two-run homer, and Devan Zirwas broke a 2-2 tie with a sixth-inning triple then scored what proved to be the game-winning run as West Allegheny held on to defeat host Shaler, 5-4, Monday afternoon. The victory puts the Indians in sole possession of first place in...

The WPIAL baseball head coaching list consists of many new faces this season. Even some rich, traditionally strong programs built around longtime managers have new head coaches, including Hopewell. Morgan Singletary is enjoying success in his first year as head coach after being an assistant for a few years. “Overall,...

The final series between the big three in Section 3-5A baseball is set for Monday and Tuesday of this week. If you are keeping score at home, through the first two weeks, it is even-steven. Two weeks ago, West Allegheny and South Fayette split their two head-to-head games with each...

On May 16, 2019, Montour couldn’t wait to get back to work preparing for a new season after a 7-4 loss in the first round of the WPIAL Class 5A softball playoffs. “It’s been a tough year and a half because of losing last season to the pandemic,” Montour coach...

We close out the fourth month of 2021 with plenty of spring sports this week here on the TribLive High School Sports Network. We turn the page on April with key WPIAL section baseball, softball, boys volleyball and boys and girls lacrosse with video and audio coverage from across the...

Here are the latest WPIAL girls lacrosse standings for the 2021 season through Sunday, April 25. The top six teams in each section qualified for the district postseason. Only section records are shown. #-Clinched section championship *-Clinched playoff berth x-Eliminated from playoff chase Class AAA Section 1 Bethel Park, 6-0...

Here are the latest WPIAL boys lacrosse standings for the 2021 season through Sunday, April 25. The top six teams in each section will qualify for the district postseason. Only section records are shown. #-Clinched section championship *-Clinched playoff berth x-Eliminated from playoff chase Class AAA Section 1 Bethel Park,...

It has been 10 long years since the three Penguins Cup champions swept the state titles. In 2011, Upper St. Clair in AAA, Bishop Canevin in AA and Mars in A won the Pennsylvania Cup state hockey championships, marking the fifth time in 11 years that the Penguins Cup winners...