Don Rebel stories, Page 37

Currently there are four, soon there will be two. The amount of teams claiming a share of first place in Section 4-5A softball in the WPIAL will be cut in half by the end of Friday. As of now, defending WPIAL champion Trinity (9-4), along with Connellsville (9-5), Thomas Jefferson...

The 2024 WPIAL baseball playoff field is starting to take shape with just over a week remaining 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 2024 WPIAL baseball playoffs...

Mt. Lebanon senior David Shields missed the first few weeks of the season battling mononucleosis, a viral infection that causes a sore throat and fever, often in young adults. While one of the top high school baseball players in the state is just now working back to feeling like himself,...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The Mt. Lebanon baseball teams starts slow, then hits its stride and runs amok in Class 6A. In 2022, the Blue Devils started the season 1-4 and ended up defeating rival Upper St. Clair to win the WPIAL crown. A year ago,...

April began with two weeks of wet, cold and snowy conditions that kept a lot of WPIAL baseball and softball teams indoors. However, you blink in April and the weather can change very quickly. Thus Mother Nature has been kind the last two weeks, allowing for plenty of district teams...

The WPIAL softball playoff field is starting to fill up as the regular season winds down. Coverage of the 2024 WPIAL softball playoffs here on TribHSSN.TribLive.com starts with the brackets being unveiled during the Playoff Pairings Show on Thursday, May 9. The top four teams in each section qualify for...

Midweek features plenty of section softball contests around the WPIAL as the sands of time slide through the remaining days of the regular season. The top four teams in Section 1-3A square off Wednesday. Burrell (6-1, 8-3) is even in the loss column with Avonworth (4-1, 6-3) coming into the...

It was a tough week to be a top-ranked team in the Trib HSSN state softball rankings. Of the six No. 1 teams from last week, half of them took a tumble and are no longer on top. While both Shaler in Class 5A and Everett in 2A dropped to...

With good weather this past week, there were a lot of high school baseball games played across the state, which has led to plenty of changes to the Trib HSSN state baseball rankings. In all, there were 11 teams that fell out of the top 5 in the six classifications,...

The 2024 WPIAL baseball playoff field is now starting to take shape with two weeks remaining 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 2024 WPIAL baseball playoffs can...

The one thing that the section series does in WPIAL baseball is test the mettle of the team that loses the first game, especially late in the season when the stakes are high. Following his team’s first loss of the season Monday, Thomas Jefferson coach Tim Vickers learned something about...

It’s another busy day of section series baseball around the WPIAL, including three key games in Section 2-5A. Coming into Monday’s games, only two games in the standings separated all six teams. Bethel Park (7-4) and South Fayette (5-4) were tied for first place with 4-2 records. Connellsville (6-7) and...

You could say the Section 3-5A game for first place between Shaler and North Hills was indeed a battle as five hit batters was physically taxing for both sides with one player per team being sidelined. You could say the Titans and Indians contest was a wild one, since six...

The grass is getting greener and longer as the games are becoming bigger around the district diamonds with only three weeks left in the regular season starting this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. We have plenty of WPIAL baseball and softball streams, along with district boys and...

As the final full week of April begins, the races for section titles and the chase for playoff spots heat up around the WPIAL baseball and softball diamonds. A year ago in WPIAL Section 3-5A baseball, Shaler and rival North Hills were both 5-1 in the section and tied for...

Trib HSSN baseball team of the week: Pine-Richland Rams Coach: Kurt Wolfe (19th season) Records: Pine-Richland is 8-1 in Section 1-6A, 12-2 overall #Earned: In one of the most impressive weeks since the advent of the section series in WPIAL baseball, Pine-Richland swept its scheduled three-game series and concluded another...

The first of possibly three, maybe even four meetings between two of the top boys volleyball teams in the WPIAL takes place Friday. Defending Class 3A champion Shaler hosts North Allegheny in a battle of unbeaten schools. Both teams are 5-0 and tied for the top spot in Section 2-3A....

The big closet located downstairs of the WPIAL Class 6A baseball mansion contains four brooms and one large rubber band. Four 6A teams hit the diamonds Thursday looking to sweep this week’s three-game section series with only one series going to a rubber game. How will Hempfield (7-1, 11-1) respond...

WPIAL baseball lost another undefeated team earlier this week when Hempfield lost to Canon-McMillan, ending its 11-game win streak. That leaves seven district baseball teams that have not lost this spring with North Allegheny, Thomas Jefferson, Riverside, Waynesburg, Serra Catholic, Carmichaels and Union still undefeated. There is also a magnificent...

In WPIAL Class 6A softball, everybody is looking up at Seneca Valley, which sits in first place in the nine-team classification with a section record of 6-0. The two teams with the best chance to catch the Raiders meet Wednesday when North Allegheny (3-1) hosts defending champion Hempfield (5-1) in...

The first Trib HSSN state softball rankings held up quite nicely with very few changes to the second edition. Only three teams dropped out of the rankings from last week with two of them in Class 2A. Abington Heights in 5A and Bald Eagle and Sharpsville in 2A fell, thus...

Despite the wet weather last week, there were enough games played for some shuffling in the latest edition of the Trib HSSN state baseball rankings. Five teams, one in each class with the exception of Class 5A, lost their spot in the Top 5 including a big drop by North...