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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...
Trib HSSN Baseball Team of the Week: May 29, 2022
There were some highs and some lows for the Upper St. Clair baseball team in the first year with Jeff Donati as head coach. The Panthers finished 5-5 and tied for third place in Section 1-6A and enjoyed a five-game winning streak in April before losing six of their final...
Trib HSSN Baseball Player of the Week: May 29, 2022
After a season opening loss to Archbishop Stepinac of New York, the Montour baseball team ripped off 15 consecutive wins to run away with the Section 2-4A title and firmly place itself as the team to beat in Class 4A. Then, in a span of seven days, the Spartans lost...
This week on Trib HSSN: Week of May 30, 2022
When the first big summer holiday weekend is completed and the picnic baskets have been put away, it will be time to bring out the hardware and celebrate the district diamond championships this week here on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has exclusive video and audio action...
Trib 10: Power rankings shuffled with WPIAL baseball, softball championships on horizon
Three rounds are in the books with one golden game remaining in the 2022 district baseball and softball playoffs. With plenty of head-to-head battles in the WPIAL quarterfinals and semifinals, change was bound to happen in the Trib 10 power rankings. Four baseball and three softball teams saw their hopes...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on March 26, 2022: Mars lacrosse hunts another title
Last spring, Mars became the most decorated boys lacrosse program in WPIAL history with a fifth consecutive Class 2A championship. On Thursday, the Fightin’ Planets hope to start a second hand of title rings. Top-seeded Mars faces Quaker Valley in the WPIAL 2A boys lacrosse championship at 8 p.m. at...
Trib HSSN State Baseball Rankings for May 25, 2022
There was little movement in this week’s Trib HSSN state baseball rankings as the district playoffs move into the final week. Only three teams were knocked out, opening the door for three new teams, including a return to the state top 5 for both South Park in 3A and Halifax...
Trib HSSN State Softball Rankings for May 25, 2022
As we head to the holiday weekend, all is quiet on the elite state softball front. As the district playoffs continue across the commonwealth, byes and very few upsets have led to almost identical Trib HSSN state softball rankings. Only Abington Heights in Class 5A lost its footing and dropped...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for May 25, 2022: Boys volleyball, lacrosse titles up for grabs
The district gold starts to flow Wednesday with two WPIAL boys volleyball and three district lacrosse title matches. In boys volleyball, could there be a changing of the guard in Class 3A? North Allegheny has completely dominated the 3A landscape with 21 WPIAL boys volleyball championships, four straight crowns and...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on May 24, 2022: Softball rivalry writes another chapter
Some of the best rivalries in sports were born from postseason clashes. Steelers vs. Raiders in the ’70s and 49ers vs. Cowboys in the ’90s are two examples. Perhaps a budding district rivalry is blooming in softball as Armstrong and North Hills prepare to face each other for the third...
Trib HSSN Softball Player of the Week for May 23, 2022
Veteran high school teams that have a roster of players who have had a taste of the sweet and bitter of the postseason sometimes need to bring their emotions down a level to remain focused on the task at hand. The flip side of that is a young and inexperienced...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for May 23, 2022: Rematches set for baseball playoffs
Welcome to Semifinals Monday in the 2022 WPIAL baseball playoffs. Unless your team is in classes 6A or 4A, then it’s Welcome to Quarterfinals Monday. Whether it’s the second or third round, the recurring theme is rematches. Of the 16 scheduled games, 11 are matchups between teams that faced each...
Trib HSSN Baseball Team of the Week: May 22, 2022
The funny thing about momentum in sports: It doesn’t always carry over from the regular season to the postseason. However, having it heading into the playoffs can’t hurt. The Thomas Jefferson baseball team concluded Section 4-5A play with two losses to Bethel Park. The Jaguars regrouped and picked up three...
Trib HSSN Softball Team of the Week: May 22, 2022
If championships were determined on paper, rankings and all of the statistic and sabermetrics you could discover would determine which teams win the gold. Plus, we would miss three weeks of postseason action filled with great efforts, raw emotion and terrific teamwork. Plus the occasional stunner. Eyebrows were raised Wednesday...
This week on Trib HSSN for Week of May 22, 2022
It’s a big week of setting up diamond title games while crowning some district spring sports champions this week here on the TribLive High School Sports Network. We have exclusive video and audio action of the WPIAL baseball and softball quarterfinals and semifinals games. HSSN also has semifinals coverage and...
Trib HSSN Baseball Player of the Week: May 22, 2022
There are two things you can say about the Mohawk baseball team. First, it is a program on the rise, having improved from an 11-win one-and-done playoff team last season to a 15-win team that has reached the WPIAL Class 3A semifinals this spring. “We had a strong season last...
Q and A with former Chartiers Valley basketball coach Tim McConnell
The district basketball world was stunned earlier this month when one of the most decorated coaches in WPIAL history decided to make a change and leave the school he had been at for nearly three decades. Tim McConnell resigned from his job as Chartiers Valley girls basketball coach to take...
Chartiers Valley boys tennis team scratches out playoff spot
For the second straight spring, the Chartiers Valley boys tennis team finished fourth in rugged Section 4-3A. “We had a pretty good season,” Colts coach Bobby Mack said. “We are in a tough section, and for us to make it in the playoffs is great.” The Colts lost to North...
5 WPIAL teams in Trib HSSN state baseball rankings for May 20, 2022
With two weeks left before the start of the PIAA postseason, the days of losing and hoping to cling to a spot in the Trib HSSN state baseball rankings are done. Get bumped from the district postseason early enough and title hopes, along with a place among the state elite,...
Beaver, Frazier lead WPIAL teams in Trib HSSN state softball rankings for May 20, 2022
If they haven’t already, the districts that make up the PIAA are holding their softball playoffs to determine district crowns and state softball qualifiers. Now, one misstep could cost teams the season. Five teams suffered losses that dropped them from this week’s Trib HSSN state softball rankings with time running...
