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What to watch for in WPIAL sports on June 13, 2022: Breaking down the road to the state finals for 12 baseball, softball teams
Get ready for Semifinals Monday in the PIAA softball and baseball postseasons. The WPIAL has seven softball and five baseball teams one win from playing for a state championship later this week at Penn State. So how do those numbers compare to District 7 teams reaching the final four since...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for June 11, 2022: Mars, North Allegheny chasing PIAA titles
Welcome to Championship Saturday in three spring sports state postseasons. The PIAA will host the 2022 boys volleyball championships at Penn State, as well as the boys and girls lacrosse finals at West Chester East High School. The WPIAL has two teams playing for state crowns Saturday. Kings of the...
7 WPIAL teams set for PIAA softball semifinals
After a strong start in the opening round of the PIAA softball postseason, the wins kept coming for WPIAL teams in the quarterfinals. Seven teams from District 7 have reached the state softball final four. Outside of Class A, every classification has a WPIAL softball team into the semifinals, including...
PIAA releases sites, times for baseball semifinals
Five WPIAL teams remain at the midway point of the PIAA baseball postseason. District 7 is guaranteed to have two teams playing for a state championship at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park next week. WPIAL teams are set to meet in Class 4A and 2A state semifinals games. The PIAA...
Trib HSSN State Softball Rankings for June 8, 2022
The goal of ending the school year with a PIAA softball championship is still alive for 48 schools across the state, including the 30 listed below. However, a dozen teams from last week’s Trib HSSN state softball ranking hit the point of no return with season-ending losses in the opening...
Trib HSSN Baseball State Rankings for June 8, 2022
It only took one round of the 2022 PIAA baseball playoffs to shuffle the Top 5 deck. There were a few changes in the highest and mid-classifications, with a massive switch in the two lowest classes in the weekly Trib HSSN state baseball rankings. During the regular season and even...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on June 9, 2022: 21 baseball, softball teams alive in state title hunt
Welcome to Quarterfinals Thursday in the PIAA baseball and softball playoffs. WPIAL teams hit the midway point of the state diamond postseason with 12 softball and nine baseball teams still playing on the Path to Penn State. In the opening round Monday, district softball teams were a combined 12-7 with...
12 WPIAL softball teams advance to PIAA quarterfinals
While opening day of the PIAA baseball playoffs was a mixed bag for district teams, the WPIAL softball qualifiers got a chance to strut their stuff in the first round. The WPIAL was a strong 12-7 in opening round games Monday, with all six new district champions winning and moving...
Sites announced for PIAA baseball quarterfinals
It was a rough start to the PIAA baseball postseason for several WPIAL champions. However, thanks to success from some of the other district teams, it turned out to be more of a split decision. Now, nine teams are moving on to the second round on the Path to Penn...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on June 7, 2022: Mars carries banner for WPIAL lacrosse
Welcome to Semifinals Tuesday in both the PIAA boys volleyball and lacrosse state playoffs. Much is quiet on the western front, though, as only two WPIAL teams remain to fight in the final four. There are no district teams left in the PIAA girls lacrosse playoffs. In fact, only five...
What to watch for in the WPIAL: Monday, June 6, 2022
And down the stretch they come. Nineteen baseball and 19 softball teams from the WPIAL will be among the squads ready to travel on the Path to Penn State as the PIAA playoffs begin Monday. A dozen of the 38 WPIAL teams are flashing freshly minted gold as they prepare...
Trib HSSN Softball Team of the Week: Week ending June 5, 2022
The third time was the charm for the Union softball team. The Scotties had reached the WPIAL Class A championship game in 2019 and 2021, only to lose to West Greene, 17-2 and 11-0. That made the passing of the golden torch on Wednesday that much sweeter after the Scotties...
Trib HSSN Softball Player of the Week: Week ending June 5, 2022
The Armstrong softball team entered the WPIAL 5A championship game calm, cool and collected. They left Lilly Field euphoric, ecstatic and floating on a golden cloud nine. A year after losing in the finals to North Hills at Cal (Pa.), the River Hawks were sky high after an epic 6-5...
Trib HSSN Baseball Player of the Week: Week ending June 5, 2022
Last spring, South Park knocked on the WPIAL Class 3A title door and settled for silver. This season, the Eagles returned to Wild Things Park and kicked down the door. A year after losing a heartbreaker to Hopewell, South Park beat Mohawk, 11-1, to capture the program’s second district baseball...
Trib HSSN Baseball Team of the Week: Week ending June 5, 2022
Enough was enough. Following a breakout 2021 season in which the West Mifflin baseball team won 12 games and a section crown, nobody seemed to remember the Titans coming into the 2022 campaign. “No one in the media gave us a chance,” West Mifflin coach Jeff Kuzma said. “We were...
This week on Trib High School Sports Network: Week of June 6, 2022
The long and winding road is coming to an end as 38 district baseball and softball teams prepare for the final athletic event on the school year this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. We have video and audio coverage for some of those schools Monday with the...
19 WPIAL teams prepare for PIAA softball playoffs
The 2022 PIAA softball playoffs start Monday with 19 WPIAL teams searching for state gold, including recently crowned district winners Seneca Valley, Armstrong, Beaver, Avonworth, Neshannock and Union on the hunt for more treasures. The state playoffs are made up of four rounds with the championships to be played at...
WPIAL baseball teams set to begin PIAA playoffs
With Mt. Lebanon, West Allegheny, West Mifflin, South Park, Serra Catholic and Union celebrating WPIAL baseball titles earned last week, those schools and 13 other district baseball teams open the 2022 PIAA baseball postseason Monday. The state playoffs are made up of four rounds, with the championships to be played...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on June 4, 2022: Mars boys lacrosse looks to keep rolling
Up until last spring, the PIAA lacrosse playoffs were a dry wasteland for WPIAL programs. Very few boys or girls lacrosse teams from District 7 survived the first round, let alone were considered a serious contender for a run at the state title. The sport, still growing on this side...
Trib 10: New team in the top spot after WPIAL baseball finals
The gold has been earned this week by the 2022 WPIAL diamond champions as the district baseball and softball postseason comes to an end. Some quick championship factoids: • Union baseball and Beaver softball are the only two repeat champions. • Union becomes the first school to sweep baseball and...
Trib HSSN Softball State Rankings for June 2, 2022
With a handful of district playoff games remaining throughout the state, attention turns to the pursuit of one of the last championships in the 2021-2022 school year, the PIAA softball crown. The first round is set to begin Monday with many of the Trib HSSN state softball ranked teams below...
Trib HSSN Baseball State Rankings for June 2, 2022
The regular season is over and the district playoffs are complete across the state. Now the fun begins Monday with the start of the 2022 PIAA baseball playoffs. Some classifications were hit hard by the end of the district playoffs, with three teams vacating their precarious position in the Trib...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on May 31, 2022: Breaking down the baseball, softball 3rd-place games
Life is about second chances. If you come up short of a goal and can hit the second-chance button, golden memories could lie ahead. That is the hope of 18 district softball and baseball teams coming out of the holiday weekend. While hopes of a WPIAL championship are gone, a...
Trib HSSN softball team of the week: May 30, 2022
The names change, but the Elizabeth Forward softball program just keeps on humming along victory avenue. In the last four years, the Warriors have reached the district finals three times and the state title game once, winning WPIAL gold in 2019. So the fact EF finished 16-2 and once again...
Trib HSSN softball player of the week: May 30, 2022
The way the WPIAL softball postseason schedule set up, with a first-round bye for top seed and defending champion Beaver in the Class 4A playoffs, the Bobcats had 22 days between their season-ending win over Laurel and their quarterfinal opener last Monday against Freeport. “With some of the players coming...
