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WPIAL Clinched for April 27, 2021: Baseball playoff field starting to fill up
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...
Free passes help Mt. Lebanon sweep Baldwin
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...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on April 27, 2021: Perennial softball powers in unusual spot
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...
Trib HSSN Baseball Players of the Week for April 26, 2021
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...
Trib HSSN Softball Player of the Week for April 26, 2021
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...
Middle of lineup lifts West Allegheny past Shaler in section showdown
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...
Trib HSSN baseball team of the week: April 26, 2021
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,...
Trib HSSN What to Watch for: Monday, April 26, 2021
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...
Trib HSSN softball team of the week: April 26, 2021
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...
This week on Trib HSSN: Week of April 26, 2021
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...
WPIAL girls lacrosse standings through April 25, 2021
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...
WPIAL boys lacrosse standings through April 25, 2021
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,...
What to watch for in high school sports on April 24, 2021: It’s West vs. East in state hockey finals
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...
West Mifflin softball uses speed, power to rally past Franklin Regional
The 1970s Pittsburgh Pirates were billed as Lumber and Lightning for their unique combination of power at the plate and speed on the basepaths. Nearly a half-century later, the West Mifflin softball team is having success on the diamond with the same mindset. The Titans hit two home runs, one...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on April 23, 2021: Lacrosse academies do battle
Two of the top district girls lacrosse teams in Class AAA clash Friday for a share of first place in Section 2 in another battle of the academies. Sewickley Academy and Shady Side Academy are both 4-0 in section play, tied for first place with North Allegheny and Fox Chapel....
Trib 10: Softball shakeup in weekly power rankings
The winds of change that had the temps bouncing up and down last week were calm in the Trib 10 baseball rankings, but strong again in the district softball power rankings. Baseball had a couple of teams slide and some move up; however, all 10 teams are still feeling the...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on April 22, 2021: Shenango, Laurel fight for 1st place
Shenango and Laurel are neighboring school districts in Lawrence County. But geography isn’t the only category where these two schools are next to each other. In the WPIAL Section 4-2A softball standings, the Wildcats and Spartans are tied for first place with 5-1 records. Plus, in the latest HSSN softball...
Trib HSSN State Baseball Rankings for April 21, 2021
The 2021 Trib HSSN state baseball rankings continue to be in a state of flux. There were wholesale changes in Class 3A, no change in Class 4A and something in between in the other four classifications. There also was a changing of the guard at the top of the rankings...
Trib HSSN State Softball Rankings for April 20, 2021
As last week went on, the mercury went down, and then it rose back up. The temperatures were a lot like the state softball rankings, where there was plenty of change in the air last week. A total of 11 teams lost their grip on a top 5 spot throughout...
Shaler baseball tops South Fayette on 10th-inning balk
As Shaler and South Fayette’s battled it out for a second straight day, the question became which team would blink first as their Section 3-5A game went into extra innings. It wasn’t a blink, but a twitch that brought home the winning run. Senior Braeden Campbell scored the game-winning run...
What to watch for in high school sports for April 20, 2021: 2 more title games on ice
Franklin Regional enters the PIHL Penguins Cup Class AA championship game Tuesday with a six-game winning streak and having hoisted gold twice in the last four years. However, the Panthers will be the underdogs when they face off against Baldwin at the RMU Island Sports Complex on Neville Island. Baldwin...
Motivated Hopewell baseball tops Ellwood City, shares section leadVideo
In 2019, then-sophomore Roman Gill was a key part of a Hopewell team that reached the WPIAL Class 3A championship game. In fact, he was on the mound trying to save the game for the Vikings when Steel Valley rallied and eventually won, 5-4 in eight innings. Gill says that...
Trib HSSN Baseball Player of the Week for week ending April 18, 2021
California High School senior Payton Conte knows the game of baseball. His father Mike is in his 25th season as head coach at Cal (Pa.). However knowing the game and excelling at it are two different things. Check off both boxes for Payton. “His obvious strengths are his overall natural...
Trib HSSN Softball Player of the Week for week ending April 18, 2021
West Mifflin senior Lauren Yuhas was 8 for 10 in three games last week, with three home runs, eight RBIs and six runs scored. Some would call that outstanding. For one of the top hitters in the WPIAL, Yuhas calls it another week at the office. “Absolutely,” West Mifflin coach...
Trib HSSN What to Watch for: Monday, April 19, 2021
The last time the PIHL crowned a Penguins Cup Class AAA champion, North Allegheny skated away with its first title in six years in 2019. On Monday, North Allegheny has a chance to “defend” its title in the Penguins Cup Class AAA final when it faces off against Mt. Lebanon...
