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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...
Top Sewickley Academy, Quaker Valley players look forward to team tennis playoffs
Severin Harmon has proven to be a top-tier performer in Class 2A throughout his tennis career at Sewickley Academy. The Panthers are competing in Class 3A this season, and Harmon has picked up where he left off in the lower classification. The senior received the No. 2 seed for the...
Fresh off winning Wildcat Invitational, Penn-Trafford boys qualify for WPIAL team playoffs
Penn-Trafford track and field coach Eric Reger knew winning Section 1-3A would be tough, but earning a third consecutive berth in the WPIAL boys team playoffs was a possibility. The Warriors successfully achieved a berth in the postseason by defeating Hempfield, 80-70, to improve to 5-1 in the section. The...
Behind WPIAL singles champion Adam Memije, Gateway tennis seeking more hardware
Adam Memije and Advaita Sircar could meet at some point in the PIAA Class 3A singles tennis tournament May 23-24 in Hershey. Memije, a Gateway senior, and Sircar, a sophomore from North Allegheny, already know a lot about each other. They faced each other in the WPIAL finals for the...
Despite hurdles, Chartiers Valley track teams finding ways to improve
It’s been a challenging season for the Chartiers Valley track and field teams. Like all the other schools in the WPIAL, they have had to deal with the tumultuous early spring weather. “It’s been cold and rainy, and that has had a small effect on how our athletes perform,” said...
Chartiers Valley looking for bats to come alive for playoff push
Five days after Chartiers Valley stopped a three-game losing streak with an 11-5 win that saw the team’s bats come alive against Section 2-5A opponent Peters Township, the Colts dropped an important section game against Moon on April 14. The manner in which they lost, a passed ball in the...
Maddox Shaw, Bode Marlow leave championships legacy with Thomas Jefferson wrestling
One holds the school record for career wins. The other set the team mark for victories in a season. Together, Thomas Jefferson seniors Maddox Shaw and Bode Marlow proved to be an indominable force throughout their stellar high school wrestling careers. “Both are phenomenal student-athletes who have modeled for the...
