Don Rebel stories, Page 33

This is the seventh season of the PIAA hosting six state softball championships and the 13th season the state has held the finals at Nittany Lion Softball Park at Penn State. The WPIAL is sending four teams to the state softball championships in Happy Valley, including Carmichaels in Class A....

This is the seventh season of the PIAA hosting six state softball championships and the 13th season the state has held the finals at Nittany Lion Softball Park at Penn State. The WPIAL is sending four teams to the state softball championships in Happy Valley, including Thomas Jefferson in Class...

Welcome to semifinals Tuesday in the PIAA lacrosse and boys volleyball playoffs. In the first 11 years of the PIAA lacrosse playoffs, no WPIAL team played in a state championship match. Thanks to the Mars boys lacrosse program, that has changed post-pandemic. The Fightin’ Planets have reached the PIAA Class...

WPIAL champion Chartiers-Houston was in total control of its PIAA Class A semifinal against rival Carmichaels. Until it wasn’t. The Mighty Mikes took advantage of an uncharacteristic defensive meltdown by the Buccaneers to tie the game and then got a walk-off double by sophomore Carys McConnell in the bottom of...

Welcome to semifinals Monday in the PIAA baseball and softball playoffs. Nine WPIAL teams — six softball and three baseball — are still alive heading into the state final four. How does that compare with recent years? The answer is not favorably for District 7. In 2021, there were a...

And then there were two. The final two broadcasts to wrap up the school year take place on the PIAA softball diamonds this week here on the TribLive High School Sports Network. We thank all of our loyal supporters and high school sports fans in Southwestern Pennsylvania and beyond for...

The PIAA boys volleyball and boys and girls lacrosse playoffs have reached the final four, which is how many WPIAL teams remain in the three tournaments. After being the lone survivors of the first round, the two WPIAL champions in boys volleyball — Shaler in 3A and Mars in 2A...

The PIAA softball playoffs have reached the final four with two rounds in the books that caused many changes to the weekly Trib HSSN state softball rankings. There are 13 softball teams that were not ranked in the state Top 5 last week that have earned their spot in the...

The district champions that were all ranked in last week’s edition of the Trib HSSN state baseball rankings suffered from championship hangovers as many lost in the first two rounds of the PIAA playoffs. There are 15 new teams in this week’s state Top 5 that are still in the...

Welcome to quarterfinals Saturday in the PIAA lacrosse and volleyball playoffs. Since the 2021 PIAA lacrosse postseason, WPIAL teams have averaged three first-round victories a year in both the boys and girls state playoffs. The girls District 7 teams kept that trend going with three opening-round wins Tuesday in the...

It has been a rough first two rounds of the state playoffs for WPIAL baseball and softball teams. The district has only three baseball and six softball teams left midway through the path to Penn State. WPIAL 3A champion Avonworth takes over the top spot in the baseball power rankings,...

When Eden Christian Academy coach Mark Feldman named his starting pitcher for the PIAA Class A baseball quarterfinals, he threw a curve at Avella. Then Warriors sophomore Brady Hull spent most of the afternoon baffling Eagles hitter with his nasty curve. Hull struck out 11 Avella batters, seven caught looking...

The first round of the PIAA boys volleyball and boys and girls lacrosse playoffs Tuesday delivered some surprises involving WPIAL teams. In boys volleyball, perennial state power North Allegheny, winners of four straight state championships between 2018-2022, lost in the opening round for a second straight year. The Tigers fell...

Welcome to quarterfinals Thursday in the PIAA diamond playoffs. WPIAL teams are hoping to rebound after Black Monday. District 7 baseball and softball teams were falling left and right, including four recently crowned WPIAL baseball champions and one softball winner. Combined, the WPIAL baseball teams in the first round were...

While the diamond state playoffs kicked off Monday, the PIAA boys volleyball and lacrosse postseasons begin in earnest on Tuesday. The North Allegheny boys volleyball program won four straight PIAA Class 3A championships between 2018-2022 with no season in 2020 due to covid-19 outbreak. However, for the second straight spring,...

On Wednesday, Seton LaSalle played a complete game in all facets and blanked Serra Catholic to win a second straight WPIAL Class 2A baseball championship. A day earlier, Moniteau lost a heartbreaker in the District 9 2A title game, falling to Redbank Valley in nine innings. Less than a week...

The district diamond playoffs are in the books as the curtain rises on the PIAA baseball and softball playoffs Monday. While the other five classifications sent either three or four WPIAL teams into the state baseball and softball playoffs, the biggest classification has the smallest amount of qualifiers. The Class...

All the gold has been handed out in the WPIAL spring sports postseason. Now the attention turns to the final two weeks of the school year with the start of the state playoffs this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Courtesy of the North Allegheny Sports Network and...