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PIAA Class 3A baseball championship preview: Riverside vs. Camp Hill
This is the sixth season the PIAA has hosted six state championship baseball games. The WPIAL is sending three teams to the state baseball championships at Penn State, including Riverside in Class 3A. The Panthers are the first WPIAL team to be playing for the PIAA 3A crown since South...
PIAA Class 5A baseball championship preview: Shaler vs. Strath Haven
This is the sixth season the PIAA has hosted six state championship baseball games. The WPIAL is sending three teams to the state baseball championships at Penn State, including Shaler in Class 5A. The WPIAL has won three 5A state baseball title games in five years of 5A baseball. Latrobe...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on June 13, 2023: Shaler, Mt. Lebanon try again to earn state final berths
Mother Nature did a great job cooperating through the district baseball and softball postseason and the first two rounds of the state playoffs. That changed on a wet Monday as several statewide baseball and softball games were postponed. They now join PIAA boys volleyball and boys and girls lacrosse semifinals...
Union softball team rallies again to make PIAA finals
The Union softball team is working very hard at earning the nickname the Cardiac Kids. For the fourth game in a row, the Scotties fell behind, then rallied not once but twice in the PIAA Class A semifinals to beat District 6 champion Claysburg-Kimmel, 10-8, in a wild battle of...
Trib HSSN Softball Team of the Week for June 11, 2023
The Shaler softball team has been spending most of this spring savoring perfection. The Titans’ only loss didn’t come until the WPIAL semifinals against Trinity. Did six-year coach Tom Source see this kind of success coming? “We do a fall program, and we knew we had some good kids coming...
Trib HSSN Softball Player of the Week for June 11, 2023
Following a second straight WPIAL Class A softball championship win the previous week, Union did not start the PIAA playoffs as planned. Two walks, a triple, a passed ball and a wild pitch helped Berlin-Brothersvalley jump out to a quick 3-0 lead after a half-inning. “I feel like in the...
Trib HSSN Baseball Team of the Week for June 11, 2023
The new poster boys of ‘Just make it to the playoffs and anything can happen’ are the 2023 Mt. Lebanon and Hopewell baseball teams. The Blue Devils overcame an 0-8 start to win a second straight WPIAL 6A crown and are still alive heading into the PIAA semifinals. The Vikings...
Trib HSSN broadcasts for the week of June 12, 2023
The curtain is about to drop on the 2022-2023 high school sports year, but before it does, our coverage of the state baseball and softball playoffs continue this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Before the spring sports season concludes, Trib HSSN continues our coverage of the PIAA...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on June 12, 2023: Battles of unbeatens for Neshannock softball headlines state semifinals
Halfway through the 2023 PIAA diamond playoffs, only two champions from last spring are alive heading into Semifinals Monday: DuBois Central Catholic baseball and Neshannock softball. Neshannock (22-0) will be involved in the marquee matchup Monday, a battle of undefeated teams, when the WPIAL champion Lancers square off with District...
Trib HSSN Baseball Player of the Week for June 11, 2023
Shaler senior Miguel Hugas was hesitant when he learned he was moving to the United States to go to high school at Shaler. However, he has no regrets now. Nor do his Titans teammates. “At the beginning, I didn’t want to come here. I wanted to play in Venezuela,” Hugas...
Trib HSSN State Softball Rankings for June 10, 2023
As we prepare for the PIAA semifinals Monday, it looks like when it comes to state softball, the southwest may be best. Of the 24 remaining teams, seven are from the WPIAL. Other western districts include District 6 with three teams and Districts 5, 9 and 10 with one team...
Trib HSSN State Baseball Rankings for June 10, 2023
Some classes underwent major changes while others are virtually the same in the latest Trib HSSN baseball rankings as we hit the midway point of the PIAA postseason. Class 4A and 2A saw three district champions ousted from the rankings while only one change was made in 5A and A....
4 WPIAL teams set for PIAA baseball semifinals
In the first five years of the six-classification format, the WPIAL has averaged just over three teams per year participating in the PIAA baseball finals. For the district to keep pace with that average, teams will have to be above average in the state semifinals Monday. The WPIAL is down...
7 WPIAL softball teams advance to PIAA semifinals
WPIAL teams are guaranteed to be represented at the PIAA softball championships next week at Penn State in both Class 5A and 4A. Two District 7 teams go head-to-head in the state semifinals Monday in those two classifications. The WPIAL has one team left in Class 6A, 2A and A....
Trib 10: As playoff field dwindles, undefeated WPIAL teams power on
The field of teams from the WPIAL still hunting state gold continues to shrink. In 2021, District 7 sent a record five baseball and five softball teams to Penn State. Last spring, the WPIAL had three baseball and four softball teams qualify for the PIAA state championship games. Now, midway...
Shaler uses long ball to turn tables on Trinity, move on to PIAA semifinals
What a difference two weeks makes. When Trinity faced Shaler 15 days ago in the WPIAL 5A semifinals, the Hillers jumped on top and watched the Titans battle back to tie before winning the game in eight innings. On Thursday in the PIAA quarterfinals, it was Shaler that jumped on...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on June 7, 2023: 21 baseball, softball teams venture into state quarterfinals
The WPIAL sent a total of 37 baseball and softball teams to the PIAA postseason. The District 7 baseball teams were a combined 9-10 in the first round while the softball squads were a sparkling 12-6 in state openers. Now it’s time for quarterfinals Thursday in the PIAA diamond playoffs....
PIAA quarterfinal matchups set for 11 WPIAL softball teams
The three biggest classifications produced perfection for WPIAL teams in the opening round of the 2023 PIAA softball playoffs. The three lower classes, not so much. WPIAL softball teams in Class 6A, 5A and 4A were a combined 7-0 on Monday in the first round of the state playoffs. It...
9 WPIAL baseball teams learn sites, times for PIAA quarterfinal matchups
The first round of the 2023 PIAA baseball playoffs produced a mixed bag for WPIAL teams. The big bags were dominant as Class 6A and 5A teams from District 7 were a combined 5-0. Teams in the other four classifications were a combined 4-10. Four WPIAL champions — Mt. Lebanon...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on June 6, 2023: State playoffs begin in volleyball, lacrosse
Baseball and softball aren’t the only spring sports winding down with the start of the PIAA postseason. Boys volleyball and boys and girls lacrosse begin their state playoffs Tuesday. In Class 3A boys volleyball, North Allegheny has won four straight state championships. The last time the Tigers did not win...
Neshannock softball runs record winning streak to 47 with first-round PIAA victory
For having just made history, it seemed like business as usual for the Neshannock softball team after a 9-0 shutout of visiting Penns Valley on Monday in a PIAA Class 2A first-round playoff game. That’s probably because the Lancers have been in the business of nothing but winning these last...
Trib HSSN Baseball Player of the Week for June 4, 2023Video
When a fly ball in shallow center field popped out of the glove of Mt. Lebanon second baseman Brett Hamel in the sixth inning, Blue Devils sophomore David Shields did not know if his no-hitter in the WPIAL Class 6A baseball championship game was still intact or not. Even when...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for June 5, 2023: PIAA baseball, softball playoffs commence
The WPIAL and the other 11 district baseball and softball playoffs are in the books. All of the winners, along with some of the runners-up and consolation survivors will now turn their full attention to the PIAA diamond postseason over the next two weeks, starting Monday. Baseball Two WPIAL baseball...
Trib HSSN softball team of the week for June 4, 2023Video
The golden history of Hempfield softball is important to second-year coach and former Spartans player Tina Madison. It is so important, she begins each season with a PowerPoint presentation on the accomplishments of the program. “I have a whole presentation on it I give the girls,” Madison said. “It’s my...
Trib HSSN softball player of the week for June 4, 2023Video
The Avonworth softball team has won back-to-back WPIAL Class 3A championships and begins defense of its PIAA state crown Monday. In the center of all this success is junior Alivia Lantzy. Last spring in the WPIAL finals, Lantzy allowed three hits and three walks while striking out eight in the...
