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Trib HSSN softball team of the week for April 17, 2025Video
Trib HSSN softball team of the week – Pine-Richland Rams Coach: Sam Hartzberg (fourth year) Record: Pine-Richland is tied for third place in Class 6A with a 7-3 section mark and an overall record of 8-3 with four consecutive wins, including two over previously unbeaten Seneca Valley. #Earned: It was...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on April 18, 2025: Clash between softball rivals highlights schedule
It is a very limited high school sports schedule on this Good Friday, but there is one juicy noteworthy softball contest on the district schedule. In WPIAL softball, the top two teams in Section 1-2A meet when Neshannock visits Laurel at 5 p.m.. The Lancers are No. 1 in Class...
Trib HSSN baseball team of the week for April 17, 2025Video
Trib HSSN baseball team of the week – Waynesburg Central Raiders Coach: Perry Cunningham (first season) Record: Waynesburg Central is alone in first place in Section 4-3A with a record of 6-0, 10-1 overall. #Earned: Waynesburg Central has been good enough to qualify for the WPIAL baseball playoffs in each...
High school roundup: Calle Henne hits grand slam, Pine-Richland scores 8 in 7th to stun Seneca Valley
Calle Henne hit the game-tying grand slam and Iliana Aggelou delivered the walk-off RBI single as Pine-Richland scored eight times in the bottom of the seventh inning to defeat Seneca Valley, 9-8, in Section 1-6A softball Thursday. It was the second win over Seneca Valley this season for Pine-Richland (8-3,...
Knoch’s Fennell shines at Butler Invitational track meet
Knoch’s Kara Fennell has tumbled and flipped since she was about 3 years old, a lifelong gymnast whose skills are worthy of medals. Except nowadays those are track and field medals. Fennell bettered her own school record and won the girls pole vault title at the Butler Invitational by clearing...
Penn-Trafford baseball uses extra-base hits to sink Hempfield in nonsection matchup
Oftentimes, Penn-Trafford’s approach is to move baserunners over, create opportunities and scrape runs together, one at a time. The small-ball formula can look clinical when this baseball team does it. It worked out well last spring when the Warriors won a WPIAL championship. The Warriors, though, were in the mood...
Championship coach Mark Stanley of Union hangs up whistle
Following two decades on the sidelines at two Lawrence County schools, one of the most successful coaches in WPIAL boys basketball is hanging up his whistle for good. Union coach Mark Stanley had decided to step away from coaching after finishing his 11th season in his second stint as court...
21 WPIAL, 2 City League girls basketball players earn all-state honors, led by Class A player of the year Iyanna Wade
Twenty-one WPIAL girls basketball players and two from the City League were named to the 2024-25 Pennsylvania sports writers all-state girls basketball team Thursday, including nine first-team honorees. In addition, Clairton senior guard Iyanna Wade was named the Class A Player of the Year, and South Fayette’s Bryan Bennett was...
Mt. Pleasant champion swimmer David Mutter finds new college home
Mt. Pleasant All-American swimmer David Mutter rebooted his recruitment when Alabama pulled his scholarship at the beginning of the year because of SEC- and NCAA-imposed roster cuts. But the standout has a new college target. Mutter, a specialist in the butterfly, committed to St. Bonaventure (N.Y.) and will soon sign...
Veteran coach Daryn Freedman takes Ambridge boys basketball job, likes program’s potential
The standings paint the Ambridge boys as a distressed basketball team: only seven section wins in four years and none this winter. Daryn Freedman says he sees more. “I had gone down there and recruited a couple of players between my years at Penn State (Greater Allegheny) and Point Park,...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for April 16, 2025
High schools Baseball Wednesday’s results Class 6A Section 1 Seneca Valley 6, North Hills 0 Class 5A Section 1 Latrobe 9, Franklin Regional 8 Kiski Area 10, Armstrong 8 Section 2 Peters Township 6, Bethel Park 1 Section 3 Fox Chapel 1, Mars 0 Section 4 Thomas Jefferson 6, Connellsville...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on April 18, 2025: North Allegheny, Canon-McMillan look for sweeps
The brooms are out and ready to be used Thursday for the two WPIAL Class 6A baseball leaders. North Allegheny in Section 1 and Canon-McMillan in Section 2 each have one-game leads in the loss column heading into their section series finales. NA has two wins this week over Central...
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania high school softball rankings for April 16, 2025
A couple of classifications were hit hard by changes from last week’s Trib HSSN state softball rankings while other classes are virtually unchanged. Class 5A and 4A saw two teams exit with two new teams entering the top 5. North Pocono and Upper Dublin in 5A and Elizabeth Forward and...
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania high school baseball rankings for April 16, 2025
As the mercury slowly rises and we head into the second half of April, the top high school baseball teams across the state are starting to lock in and stack victories. In the six classifications, only four teams lost their spot in the weekly Trib HSSN state baseball rankings from...
High school roundup for April 16, 2025: Pair of Fox Chapel pitchers no-hit Mars
Tristan Blum and Franco Pistella combined on a no-hitter, and Jeremy Haigh singled in the game’s only run in the first inning as Fox Chapel defeated Mars, 1-0, in Section 3-5A baseball Wednesday. Blum struck out six in four innings, and Pistella fanned three in three innings for the Foxes...
Clutch plays help Latrobe hold off Franklin Regional in Section 1-5A baseball showdown
Cole Short watched the baseball bounding to third baseman Jack Stynchula while making his way to the first-base bag in the top of the seventh inning Wednesday. He tracked Stynchula’s long throw, which bounced several feet in front him, with runners on first and third. Misplay the short-hop, and Latrobe...
WPIAL elects 2 newcomers to board of directors for 2025-26 school year
The WPIAL board of directors already has two new members for next school year. Moon athletic director Alan Alcalde and Norwin athletic director Mike Burrell earned seats on the WPIAL board in election results announced Wednesday. They secured two of the 10 at-large seats up for election every spring for...
PIAA survey asks: Should high school basketball have a shot clock?
Reset the clock on the shot clock debate. The PIAA will soon send schools a survey asking whether they want a shot clock added to high school basketball. That’ll rekindle a debate that somewhat stalled three years ago after a different PIAA survey showed opinions were evenly split, prompting the...
PIAA administrator cautions WPIAL schools after Justice Department sues Maine over transgender policy
A few hours after the Justice Department said it was suing Maine over its transgender athlete policy, PIAA executive director Bob Lombardi cautioned WPIAL schools to discuss the topic with their solicitors. “The White House is using Title IX and the Civil Rights Act to really make sure that people...
Westmoreland County softball notebook: Penn-Trafford battle-tested by top-flight competition
Penn-Trafford went from unranked to No. 1 in the TribLive HSSN Class 5A top-5 softball rankings after an impressive string of wins. Coach Denny Little doesn’t put much stock in rankings but acknowledges teams will be coming for the Warriors. Penn-Trafford (8-1, 5-0) has beaten defending PIAA champion Thomas Jefferson,...
Former Latrobe catcher brings same passion to coaching ranks at Albert Gallatin
Former Latrobe softball standout Makayla Munchinski has been out of college at Cal (Pa.) for only a short time, but she already has a coaching job. Munchinski is a first-year head coach at Albert Gallatin. The former catcher who played an extra in the streaming series “A League of Their...
WPIAL announces 2025 James Collins Scholar-Athlete Award winners
The WPIAL announced the 20 winners of its annual James Collins Scholar-Athlete Award, with each receiving a $1,000 scholarship. Earning the 10 boys awards were Beaver’s Tyler Biss, Fox Chapel’s Milo Chiu, Fort Cherry’s Shane Cornali, Central Catholic’s Bradley Gompers, Pine-Richland’s Bradan Lenz, Peters Township’s Colton Lusk, South Fayette’s Luke...
Already familiar to the program, Bryer takes over as Belle Vernon football coach
There’s a new — but familiar — man in charge of the Belle Vernon football program after Tuesday night’s school board meeting. Scott Bryer was hired in a unanimous vote, officially making him the leader of the program. “Coach Bryer is no stranger to Leopard Nation,” Belle Vernon athletic director...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for April 15, 2025
High schools Baseball Tuesday’s results Class 6A Section 1 North Allegheny 6, Central Catholic 3 North Hills at Seneca Valley, ppd. Section 2 Canon-McMillan 15, Mt. Lebanon 3 Norwin 4, Woodland Hills 1 Class 5A Section 1 Franklin Regional at Latrobe, ppd. Kiski Area at Armstrong, ppd. Plum 15, Penn...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on April 16, 2025: Thomas Jefferson, Baldwin to slug it out
Last spring, the Thomas Jefferson softball team made an unexpected run to the WPIAL Class 5A finals before falling to Armstrong in the title game. The Jaguars kept their postseason magic going though in the PIAA playoffs and ended up beating Pittston Area to win the 5A state championship. Meanwhile,...
