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WPIAL girls lacrosse standings through April 10, 2022
Here are the latest WPIAL girls’ lacrosse standings for the 2022 regular season. The top six teams in each section qualify for the district postseason. Only section records are shown. Class 3A Section 1 Bethel Park, 4-0 Mt. Lebanon, 3-0 Upper St. Clair, 3-0 Canon-McMillan, 3-1 Peters Township, 1-2 Baldwin,...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on April 8, 2022: Early season battles for 1st place on softball diamond
Gray and cold and a chance of rain … welcome to another day of WPIAL softball. If the weather holds out, it will be a busy day of section softball action with 55 scheduled games. In Section 4-5A, three teams are tied for first place with 2-0 section records. Two...
Trib 10: Returning state champs top 1st edition of baseball, softball power rankings
As spring tries to power winter into a thing of the past (good luck), district baseball and softball teams are also flexing their muscles and feeling the power three weeks into the 2022 season. The inaugural baseball and softball Trib 10 of 2022 features 11 teams that did not finish...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on April 6, 2022: Matchups of top teams on boys volleyball court
A share of the early lead in WPIAL boys volleyball Section 3-2A is up for grabs Thursday when defending champion Seton LaSalle visits Trinity. Both teams won their section openers Tuesday with the Rebels rolling past Steel Valley while the Hillers won at Bishop Canevin. The two are tied for...
Trib HSSN State Softball Rankings for April 6, 2022
Nearly three weeks into a new season and we lift the curtain on the inaugural Trib HSSN state softball rankings. As a friendly reminder, here were the top-ranked teams in the final top five from 2021 shortly after raising state gold: North Penn in 6A, Lampeter-Strasburg in 5A, Beaver in...
Trib HSSN State Baseball Rankings for April 6, 2022
Spring has sprung as trees and flowers blossom, the mercury is (slowly) rising, and we have the return of the weekly Trib HSSN state baseball rankings. Before we debut the top five in each class here in the early stages of the 2022 season, a reminder of the defending PIAA...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for April 6, 2022: Key softball games scheduled
Weather permitting, Wednesday is lined up and down with WPIAL section softball games still in the early days of the 2022 season. However, it’s not too early to point out some of the key games in each classification. • Section 2-6A, North Allegheny visits Norwin. The Tigers and Knights are...
2022 Trib HSSN Head of the Class: WPIAL boys basketball’s best in each classification
There were a lot of players and coaches who put in plenty of time on the basketball court this season to be the best they could be. While we salute all of those who participated in a memorable 2022 high school boys basketball campaign, we have a special seat in...
2022 Trib HSSN Head of the Class: WPIAL girls basketball’s best in each classification
There were a lot of players and coaches who put in plenty of time on the basketball court this season to be the best they could be. While we salute all of those who participated in a memorable 2022 girls high school basketball campaign, we have a special seat in...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for April 5, 2022: Section boys volleyball matches commence
On the same night section play begins in WPIAL Class 2A boys volleyball, a couple of early-season showdowns highlight Tuesday’s Class 3A section schedule. A share of first place in Section 1-3A and Section 3-3A will be at stake when Peters Township visits Bethel Park and Latrobe hosts Norwin. In...
Mt. Lebanon’s Ashleigh Connor named 2022 TribLive HSSN Girls Basketball Player of the Year
2022 TribLive HSSN Girls Basketball Player of the Year Ashleigh Connor Mt. Lebanon 5-foot-10, Senior, Guard Ashleigh Connor isn’t loud and fiery, nor is she quiet and reserved. You could categorize her leadership skills as kind of goofy. “She knows how to have fun and not take the game too...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for April 4, 2022: Section games on tap in baseball, softball
Last week, five of the 20 WPIAL baseball sections got the early jump on section games. On Monday, teams from the other 15 sections join in on the fun. Of course, as is the case all week long it appears, weather permitting. Of the 20 district sections, only three ended...
This week on Trib High School Sports Network: Week of April 4, 2022
Section play is in full force in all of the spring sports this week. Weather permitting, Trib HSSN will have video and audio coverage of WPIAL baseball and softball. Weather is not a factor in our coverage of WPIAL boys volleyball and WPIAL boys and girls lacrosse. Plus, we continue...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on April 1, 2022: Title rematch in boys volleyball
While Class 2A teams in WPIAL boys volleyball will have to wait until next week to begin their section schedule, the first full week of the new season ends with a gem of a nonsection match. It’s a rematch of the 2021 WPIAL 2A championship match as Seton LaSalle visits...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on March 31, 2022: Section clashes on softball diamond
The final day of March could mark the final day district softball and baseball teams play under warm conditions for a while. With a chance of rain, temperatures are expected to be near 70 degrees before we hit a patch of steady temps in the low to mid 50s. There...
Trib 10: State champs top final WPIAL basketball power rankings
Nine WPIAL basketball teams, the most in PIAA postseason hoops history, participated in the 2022 state championships in Hershey last weekend. There were plenty of district silver linings as New Castle, Quaker Valley and Aliquippa boys teams along with Mt. Lebanon, Chartiers Valley and Freedom girls squads left he Giant...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on March 30, 2022: With sun shining, let’s play 2
After a frigid start to the 2022 district baseball season, temperatures near 70 degrees with no precipitation will be welcomed before the mercury dips again later in the week. Teams will be scurrying to find playable fields to either get the first week of section games in or play a...
Trib HSSN final boys basketball state rankings for 2021-22
The 2022 PIAA boys basketball championships are in the books with five new state champions and one perfect repeat performance. Our Lady of the Sacred Heart defeated Constitution for a second straight year to win back-to-back PIAA Class 2A titles. The Chargers became only the second school in the 102...
Trib HSSN final girls basketball state rankings for 2021-22
As it turns out, three twos equal one. It’s not some new mathematical discovery. It’s the results from the Giant Center in Hershey as three top-ranked and three No. 2-ranked teams ended up winning state gold in the PIAA girls basketball championships last weekend. The lone WPIAL girls team to...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on March 29, 2022: Bundle up for baseball, softball
It will be another hit-or-miss day weather-wise for WPIAL baseball and softball Tuesday. No precipitation is expected and we might even see some sun, but put the long johns on if you are playing or watching as temps will be in the 40s. There are a total of 43 baseball...
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Player of the Week for March 28, 2022
There are 220 miles on the trip from Hershey to Green Tree, a trek that lasts nearly four hours. However, for the new PIAA Class A boys basketball champions, the trip could have lasted another four hours and none of the Bishop Canevin traveling party would have cared. “It was...
What to watch in high school sports on March 28, 2022: Baseball revs up
Most WPIAL baseball teams will get a week of nonsection play in this week before starting their “section series” schedule next week. However, there are five sections that have a bloated seven teams. For those sections, there is no warm-up. Section play for those teams begins this week. The sections...
Trib HSSN Girls Basketball Player of the Week: March 27, 2022
Last season, Neshannnock celebrated a second WPIAL girls basketball championship in three years after beating Serra Catholic in the Class 2A finals. But it wasn’t that win that sparked the young Lancers in 2022. Neshannock reached the PIAA Class 2A finals a year ago and lost 54-43 to Mount Carmel....
This week on Trib HSSN: March 28-April 2, 2022
With the winter sports season in the rearview mirror, the road straight ahead is filled with spring sports here on the TribLive High School Sports Network. We have the diamond debuts of WPIAL baseball and softball along with coverage of WPIAL boys volleyball and WPIAL boys and girls lacrosse. Plus,...
Senior class celebrates special career with Chartiers Valley girls basketball
Their roles may have changed over the four years they have been at Chartiers Valley, but their goals for gold and their success rate in victories will make them one of the most successful groups in WPIAL basketball history. This group of six senior Colts has won four straight section...

