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What to watch for in WPIAL sports for April 29, 2024: Pine-Richland, North Allegheny to square off
And then there were two. Two days left in April and there are either two section games remaining or two section series left for WPIAL baseball teams. An A+ goes out to the district schedule makers as eight series begin Monday between the top two teams in a section. Three...
WPIAL baseball playoff clinchings through April 28, 2024
The 2024 WPIAL baseball playoff field is now 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...
WPIAL softball playoff clinchings through April 28, 2024
The WPIAL softball playoff field is starting to fill up as the regular season winds down. Coverage of the 2024 WPIAL softball playoffs on Trib HSSN starts with the brackets being unveiled during the Playoff Pairings Show on May 9. The top four teams in each section qualify for the...
WPIAL boys volleyball playoff clinchings through April 28, 2024
The WPIAL boys volleyball regular season is winding down with two weeks left in the regular season. The top four teams in each section qualify for the district postseason. Here is the latest list of teams that have qualified for the playoffs through Sunday: Class 3A: 5 of at least...
WPIAL clinched: Softball playoff qualifiers through April 26, 2024
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...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on April 26, 2024: 4 teams tied for section softball lead square off
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...
WPIAL clinched: Baseball playoff qualifiers through April 25, 2024
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...
Ace David Shields pitches Mt. Lebanon to sweep of Hempfield, 2-game section lead
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,...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on April 25, 2024: Surging Mt. Lebanon looks to sweep
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,...
Trib 10: Busy schedules shake up baseball, softball power rankings
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...
WPIAL clinched: Softball playoff qualifiers through April 24, 2024
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...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on April 24, 2024: Section contenders square off in 3A softball
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...
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania high school softball rankings for April 23, 2024
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...
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania high school baseball rankings for April 23, 2024
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,...
WPIAL clinched: Baseball playoff qualifiers through April 23, 2024
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...
Thomas Jefferson bounces back from 1st loss with big win over West Mifflin
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...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on April 23, 2024: Class 5A baseball teams battle for section supremacy
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...
Trib HSSN Softball Team of the Week for April 22, 2024Video
Trib HSSN softball team of the week – West Allegheny Indians Coach: Mindi McFate (21st season) Record: 6-0 in Section 3-5A, 13-1 overall #Earned: Not including a six-game trip to the Ripken Experience in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., in late March, West Allegheny had only played two WPIAL opponents in the...
Trib HSSN Softball Player of the Week for April 22, 2024Video
Trib HSSN softball player of the week – Sydney Gonglik School: Bentworth Class: Freshman Position: Pitcher, shortstop #Earned: It might be hard to find a freshman who is having a better overall season then Bentworth ninth grader Sydney Gonglik. Last week in section wins over Washington and Fort Cherry, Gonglik...
North Hills fights back to win section showdown with nemesis Shaler
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...
This week on Trib HSSN for week of April 22, 2024
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...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for April 22, 2024: Shaler, North Hills play for 1st place
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 player of the week for April 21, 2024Video
Trib HSSN baseball player of the week: Gio Lonero School: Seton LaSalle Class: Senior Positions: Pitcher, shortstop What coach says: “With Gio, its business as usual,” Seton LaSalle coach Brad Bestic said of Gio’s success at the plate. “He exudes this confidence that puts him in the headspace that he...
Trib HSSN baseball team of the week for April 21, 2024
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...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on April 19, 2024: WPIAL’s finest clash in boys volleyball
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....
