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Trib HSSN softball player of the week for April 27, 2025Video
Trib HSSN softball player of the week – Sydney Sekely School – South Park Class – Junior Position – Pitcher #Earned – A year after helping South Park reach the WPIAL Class 3A softball championship game (losing to Mohawk), junior pitcher Sydney Sekely has the Eagles flying high again as...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for April 28, 2025: Section 1-5A teams battle for title
Some WPIAL baseball teams are down to one, while others still have two section series remaining in the regular season. The stretch run to the 2025 campaign is underway as teams battle for section championships, playoff positioning and postseason berths. A year after four teams tied for the Section 1-5A...
This week on Trib HSSN for week of April 28, 2025
We not only slide from April to May this week, we also go head first into the spring sports stretch run with action on the diamonds, the stadiums and the hardcourt this week here on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN will have video and audio coverage of...
Trib HSSN baseball player of the week for April 27, 2025Video
Trib HSSN baseball player of the week – Brock Budacki School – New Brighton Class – Senior Position – Catcher, pitcher #Earned – Entering the final two weeks of the WPIAL baseball regular season, New Brighton has the most wins in Section 2-2A thanks to key contributions from underclassmen such...
WPIAL girls lacrosse standings, playoff clinchings through April 27, 2025
Here are the latest WPIAL girls lacrosse standings for the 2025 regular season, along with the latest playoff qualifiers through Sunday. The top six teams in each section in both Class 3A and 2A will qualify for the district postseason. Only section records are shown. #-Clinched section championship *-Clinched playoff...
WPIAL boys lacrosse standings, playoff clinchings through April 27, 2025
Here are the latest WPIAL boys lacrosse standings for the 2025 regular season, along with the latest playoff qualifiers through Sunday. The top four teams in each section in Class 3A and the top six teams in each section in Class 2A will qualify for the district postseason. Only section...
WPIAL baseball playoff clinchings through April 27, 2025
The 2025 WPIAL baseball playoff field is growing and currently sits at 37 teams with a week and a half left in the regular season. The top four teams in each section qualify for the playoffs with all tied teams advancing if they split their head-to-head meetings. Coverage of the...
WPIAL softball playoff clinchings through April 27, 2025
The 2025 WPIAL softball playoff field is taking shape and currently sits at 41 teams with a week and a half left in the regular season. The top four teams in each section qualify for the postseason from Class 5A down. In Class 6A, the top six teams clinch a...
WPIAL boys volleyball playoff clinchings through April 27, 2025
The 2025 WPIAL boys volleyball regular season has two weeks left before the district playoffs, and the postseason field currently sits at nine. The top four teams in sections of seven or more teams and the top three teams in sections of six or less teams qualify for the WPIAL...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on April 25, 2025: 3A softball contenders collide in rematch of slugfest
First place in Section 1-3A WPIAL softball will be up for grabs Friday when Mt. Pleasant hosts Southmoreland at 4 p.m. The host Vikings are 6-2 in the section and 8-5 overall. Mt. Pleasant had won six straight games before back-to-back losses this week to Burrell and Deer Lakes. The...
Trib HSSN baseball team of the week for April 24, 2025Video
Trib HSSN baseball team of the week – Bethel Park Black Hawks Coach: Pat Zehnder (fifth season) Record: Bethel Park is alone in first place in Section 2-5A with a record of 7-3, 11-4 overall. The Black Hawks are one section win away from clinching at least a share of...
Trib HSSN softball team of the week for April 24, 2025Video
Trib HSSN softball team of the week – Jeannette Jayhawks Coach – Tubby Stein (fourth year) Record – Jeannette is all alone in first in Section 3-A with a 6-0 section mark and an overall record of 7-3 with six consecutive wins. #Earned – Jeannette’s week began with a showdown...
WPIAL announces team tennis playoff pairings
Five seasons ago, the second-longest WPIAL team championship streak came to an end. Between 2004-2018, Sewickley Academy dominated the boys tennis courts, winning 15 straight WPIAL Class 2A championships. The following season in 2019, the school decided to move up in classification and the Panthers lost in the opening round...
WPIAL sets pairings for team track championships
When it comes to the WPIAL team track and field championships, three programs have dominated this decade. The North Allegheny girls and Quaker Valley girls are each trying to win a fourth straight WPIAL championship this spring while the Butler boys hope to repeat and make it four district titles...
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania high school baseball rankings for April 23, 2025
It may say mid-April on the calendar, but the top high school baseball teams in Pennsylvania are playing like its late May or early June. You’ll excuse us if the weekly Trib HSSN state baseball rankings this week look a lot like how they looked last week. There were victories...
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania high school softball rankings for April 23, 2025
The eggs have all been collected and the baskets have all been found, now the only treats softball teams from across the state care about are the victories they are looking to stack. Five PIAA softball teams ranked in last week’s Trib HSSN state softball rankings were bumped for now....
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on April 24, 2025: Softball rivalry to write another chapter
One WPIAL softball team is trying to maintain its spot atop the classification while the other school is fighting to get back into the playoffs. They may end up in vastly different places in the standings, but they have the same goal Thursday: Beat your biggest rival. With less than...
Bethel Park gets past Moon for rare 2-game sweep in Section 2-5A baseball
Section 2-5A in WPIAL baseball has become the land of the splits. There have been 15 section series played between the seven teams and 11 of them have ended up with the teams splitting their two-game series. Two of the four sweeps have been handed out by Bethel Park, including...
Trib 10: Baseball power rankings shaken up while softball stays solid
The elite district baseball and softball teams took different courses to the same result this past week with nine of the 10 teams from the latest Trib 10 keeping their spot in the power rankings. Only a few of the top district baseball teams went unscathed this past week, leading...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on April 23, 2025: Section series continue with critical matchups
The mercury throughout the district has risen to the point where the last thing on anybody’s mind is a snowball. However, the North Allegheny baseball team might be feeling like it is caught in a snowball rolling down following a heartbreaking loss to Section 1-6A rival Seneca Valley. The loss...
Seneca Valley rallies past North Allegheny, tightens up section race
The North Allegheny baseball team has been living on the edge this season with six section wins in six games by an average margin of victory of 1.66 runs. On Tuesday, the Tigers fell off that edge in their first Section 1-6A loss of the season. An NA throwing error...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on April 22, 2025: Pine-Richland, Shaler square off with 1st place on line
Six years ago, these two programs were both crowned 2019 WPIAL baseball champions, one in Class 6A and the other in 5A. They are both traditional powers on the diamond, tied for the third most district baseball championships. Now they collide in a much-anticipated Class 5A section series. First place...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for April 21, 2025: Peters Township, Upper St. Clair to clash
While the WPIAL baseball schedule is light on the day after Easter, there is a key contest in a section that is looking like many of the roads in the district nowadays — all jammed. Section 2-5A is the one WPIAL baseball section where brooms appeared to be out and...
Trib HSSN softball player of the week for April 20, 2025Video
Trib HSSN softball player of the week — Danica Trainer School — Mt. Pleasant Class — Sophomore Position — Pitcher, shortstop #Earned — This past week and for most of this season, sophomore pitcher and shortstop Danica Trainer has hit all the right notes in helping the Mt. Pleasant softball...
Trib HSSN baseball player of the week for April 20, 2025Video
Trib HSSN baseball player of the week: Ryan Lafferty School: Plum Class: Junior Position: Center field #Earned: It was a perfect week for the Plum baseball team and outfielder Ryan Lafferty. You don’t have to be a math wizard to know batting 7 for 7 over three games is pretty...
