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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...
This week on Trib HSSN for week of April 21, 2025
All the eggs have been found (hopefully) and the ears to the solid chocolate bunny have magically disappeared as we hit the second half of section play in various spring sports this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has video and audio coverage of WPIAL baseball,...
WPIAL girls lacrosse standings through April 20, 2025
Here are the latest WPIAL girls lacrosse standings for the 2025 regular season. The top six teams in each section in both Class 3A and 2A will qualify for the district postseason. Only section records are shown. Class 3A – 6 of the 12 Class 3A teams have clinched a...
WPIAL boys lacrosse standings through April 20, 2025
Here are the latest WPIAL boys lacrosse standings for the 2025 season. 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 records are shown. Class 3A Section 1 Mt. Lebanon,...
Trib HSSN softball team of the week for April 17, 2025Video
Trib HSSN softball team of the week – Pine-Richland Rams Coach: Sam Hartzberg (fourth year) Record: Pine-Richland is tied for third place in Class 6A with a 7-3 section mark and an overall record of 8-3 with four consecutive wins, including two over previously unbeaten Seneca Valley. #Earned: It was...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on April 18, 2025: Clash between softball rivals highlights schedule
It is a very limited high school sports schedule on this Good Friday, but there is one juicy noteworthy softball contest on the district schedule. In WPIAL softball, the top two teams in Section 1-2A meet when Neshannock visits Laurel at 5 p.m.. The Lancers are No. 1 in Class...
Trib HSSN baseball team of the week for April 17, 2025Video
Trib HSSN baseball team of the week – Waynesburg Central Raiders Coach: Perry Cunningham (first season) Record: Waynesburg Central is alone in first place in Section 4-3A with a record of 6-0, 10-1 overall. #Earned: Waynesburg Central has been good enough to qualify for the WPIAL baseball playoffs in each...
Championship coach Mark Stanley of Union hangs up whistle
Following two decades on the sidelines at two Lawrence County schools, one of the most successful coaches in WPIAL boys basketball is hanging up his whistle for good. Union coach Mark Stanley had decided to step away from coaching after finishing his 11th season in his second stint as court...
21 WPIAL, 2 City League girls basketball players earn all-state honors, led by Class A player of the year Iyanna Wade
Twenty-one WPIAL girls basketball players and two from the City League were named to the 2024-25 Pennsylvania sports writers all-state girls basketball team Thursday, including nine first-team honorees. In addition, Clairton senior guard Iyanna Wade was named the Class A Player of the Year, and South Fayette’s Bryan Bennett was...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on April 18, 2025: North Allegheny, Canon-McMillan look for sweeps
The brooms are out and ready to be used Thursday for the two WPIAL Class 6A baseball leaders. North Allegheny in Section 1 and Canon-McMillan in Section 2 each have one-game leads in the loss column heading into their section series finales. NA has two wins this week over Central...
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania high school softball rankings for April 16, 2025
A couple of classifications were hit hard by changes from last week’s Trib HSSN state softball rankings while other classes are virtually unchanged. Class 5A and 4A saw two teams exit with two new teams entering the top 5. North Pocono and Upper Dublin in 5A and Elizabeth Forward and...
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania high school baseball rankings for April 16, 2025
As the mercury slowly rises and we head into the second half of April, the top high school baseball teams across the state are starting to lock in and stack victories. In the six classifications, only four teams lost their spot in the weekly Trib HSSN state baseball rankings from...
