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Pine-Richland puts pressure on Shaler, wins opener of key section series
The foul poles on Pine-Richland’s baseball field stand 360 feet from home plate — deeper than those at PNC Park — so there’s a lot of outfield grass to cover. The Rams might call it their home-field advantage. “The biggest thing is just putting the ball in play and putting...
Matchups set for WPIAL boys tennis doubles finals
Third-seeded Landon Harclerode and Tyler Quinn of Valley won a three-set semifinal Tuesday and will play for a WPIAL Class 2A doubles championship Wednesday afternoon at Bethel Park. Harclerode and Quinn defeated No.7 Gabe Nettleton and Michael Dubetsky of Indiana, 4-6, 6-1, 6-2, and will face top-seeded Jonah Jasek and...
Seneca Valley rallies past North Allegheny, tightens up section race
The North Allegheny baseball team has been living on the edge this season with six section wins in six games by an average margin of victory of 1.66 runs. On Tuesday, the Tigers fell off that edge in their first Section 1-6A loss of the season. An NA throwing error...
Greensburg Salem plays near-perfect game in section win over Derry
Greensburg Salem moved into a second-place tie with Knoch in Section 3-4A on Tuesday by playing an almost-perfect game. The Golden Lions took advantage of seven Derry errors, played flawless defense, got timely hitting and solid pitching in an 8-0 victory in Game 1 of their two-game baseball series. Game...
Bria Bosiljevac gets plenty of run support as Shaler rolls past Plum
The Shaler softball team had allowed just two runs over its first six Section 1-5A games. Plum got one of those runs in a loss to the Titans on April 4. The Mustangs tried to solve Shaler starter Bria Bosiljevac and gain a measure of revenge for the setback at...
Leechburg’s Mason Bertino contributes to 2nd no-hitter this month in win vs. Winchester Thurston
Two pitchers combined for a no-hitter, and Leechburg’s baseball team moved into sole possession of first place in its WPIAL section with a ninth consecutive victory on Tuesday, 9-3 against visiting Winchester Thurston. Yet, Blue Devils coach Heath Shimer wasn’t exactly smiling. An abundance of missteps — errors, walks, even...
No. 2 Franklin Regional softball overcomes sluggish start, finishes sweep of Latrobe
Chloe Lancaster threw 27 pitches in the first inning Tuesday and gave up two runs in the second. It had the makings of a long afternoon. The situation even prompted movement in the Franklin Regional bullpen, which caught Lancaster’s attention. But the Panthers ace didn’t panic or get flustered. “I...
Westmoreland County baseball notebook: Penn-Trafford bolsters resume with nonsection slate
Penn-Trafford is in the thick of the Section 1-5A race, but its nonsection baseball schedule has been beneficial. The Warriors (7-5, 4-2) own three wins over Class 6A teams in Norwin, Hempfield and North Allegheny. The third win is the most impressive because North Allegheny was ranked No. 1 when...
Pine-Richland hires former college assistant, top WPIAL scorer as boys basketball coach
Steve McNees, a former college assistant who ranks among the WPIAL’s all-time leading scorers, was hired Monday as Pine-Richland’s boys basketball coach. McNees, a 2006 Shenango graduate, scored 2,192 points in his high school career and played college basketball at Akron under Keith Dambrot. McNees later served as an assistant...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for April 21, 2025
High schools Baseball Monday’s results Class 5A Section 2 Peters Township 3, Upper St. Clair 1 Class A Section 2 Rochester at St. Joseph, ppd. City League Obama Academy at Westinghouse, ppd. Perry Traditional Academy at Carrick, ppd. Nonsection Fox Chapel 4, North Allegheny 1 Hundred (WV) at Mapletown, ppd....
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on April 22, 2025: Pine-Richland, Shaler square off with 1st place on line
Six years ago, these two programs were both crowned 2019 WPIAL baseball champions, one in Class 6A and the other in 5A. They are both traditional powers on the diamond, tied for the third most district baseball championships. Now they collide in a much-anticipated Class 5A section series. First place...
High school roundup for April 21, 2025: Keara Mangieri belts 3 homers in New Castle win
Pitt recruit Keara Mangieri went 4 for 4 with three home runs and six RBIs to lead New Castle to a 14-3 win over Moniteau in nonsection softball Monday. Aliyah Stalczynski tripled and drove in two runs and Olivia Hood and Zoe Shields also homered for New Castle (6-7). Lexi...
Seneca Valley’s Lexie Hames nearly untouchable in shutout vs. Norwin
After losing to Pine-Richland twice in a five-day span, Seneca Valley went into its next softball game with some pent-up frustrations. Ace pitcher Lexie Hames and the third-ranked Lady Raiders took it out on Norwin. Hames was on her game in a big way, striking out 19, including the final...
With postseason approaching, volleyball coaches association releases latest WPIAL boys rankings
WPIAL boys volleyball is just three weeks away from the start of the playoff tournaments, and teams in both Class 3A and Class 2A continue to position themselves for runs to the postseason. They also are making moves throughout the weekly Western Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association top-10 polls, which were...
Westmoreland high school athletes of the week for April 19, 2025: Hempfield’s Allie DeMatt and Mt. Pleasant’s Gage Sowers
Allie DeMatt School: Hempfield Class: Senior Sport: Track and field Claim to fame: DeMatt, a Bucknell commit, recorded three top-three finishes at the 33rd Lady Spartan/22nd Wildcat Invitational at Latrobe. She won the triple jump with a mark of 35 feet, 7 inches, placed second in the long jump (17-3)...
High school sports schedules for April 21, 2025
High schools Baseball Monday’s schedule Class 5A Section 2 Upper St. Clair at Peters Township, 7 p.m. Class A Section 2 Rochester at St. Joseph, 4 p.m. City League Obama Academy at Westinghouse, 3:30 p.m. Perry Traditional Academy at Carrick, 3:30 p.m. Nonsection Hundred (W.Va.) at Mapletown, 5 p.m. North...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for April 21, 2025: Peters Township, Upper St. Clair to clash
While the WPIAL baseball schedule is light on the day after Easter, there is a key contest in a section that is looking like many of the roads in the district nowadays — all jammed. Section 2-5A is the one WPIAL baseball section where brooms appeared to be out and...
Trib HSSN softball player of the week for April 20, 2025Video
Trib HSSN softball player of the week — Danica Trainer School — Mt. Pleasant Class — Sophomore Position — Pitcher, shortstop #Earned — This past week and for most of this season, sophomore pitcher and shortstop Danica Trainer has hit all the right notes in helping the Mt. Pleasant softball...
Trib HSSN baseball player of the week for April 20, 2025Video
Trib HSSN baseball player of the week: Ryan Lafferty School: Plum Class: Junior Position: Center field #Earned: It was a perfect week for the Plum baseball team and outfielder Ryan Lafferty. You don’t have to be a math wizard to know batting 7 for 7 over three games is pretty...
This week on Trib HSSN for week of April 21, 2025
All the eggs have been found (hopefully) and the ears to the solid chocolate bunny have magically disappeared as we hit the second half of section play in various spring sports this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has video and audio coverage of WPIAL baseball,...
WPIAL girls lacrosse standings through April 20, 2025
Here are the latest WPIAL girls lacrosse standings for the 2025 regular season. The top six teams in each section in both Class 3A and 2A will qualify for the district postseason. Only section records are shown. Class 3A – 6 of the 12 Class 3A teams have clinched a...
WPIAL boys lacrosse standings through April 20, 2025
Here are the latest WPIAL boys lacrosse standings for the 2025 season. The top four teams in each section in Class 3A and the top six teams in each section in Class 2A will qualify for the district postseason. Only section records are shown. Class 3A Section 1 Mt. Lebanon,...
Powerful offenses lead Hempfield, Penn-Trafford softball teams to top of their classes
Hempfield and Penn-Trafford played each other in the softball season opener. Who knew it was a preview of two of the best — maybe the best — hitting teams in the WPIAL? Both have been putting the business end of the bat on the ball with crushing regularity, a couple...
Fisher’s Files: Quaker Valley coach says Adou Thiero ‘deserving’ of NBA opportunity
One man who has been carefully following Adou Thiero’s college basketball career is Mike Mastroianni, who coached the Arkansas junior in high school during his stellar career at Quaker Valley. Thiero led the Quakers to a WPIAL Class 4A title in 2021-22 and was named the TribLive HSSN Boys Basketball...
Gateway’s Austin Lockhart chasing school record, WPIAL success in triple jump
Austin Lockhart leapt 43 feet, 3 inches in the triple jump at last year’s WPIAL Class 3A track and field championships at Slippery Rock. It wasn’t his best distance of the season. That was a 44-5 at a regular-season invitational. But his top jump in his WPIAL debut earned him...
