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What to watch for in WPIAL sports for June 9, 2025: Spots in PIAA finals up for grabs
Six years ago, the West Allegheny and Penn-Trafford softball programs celebrated championships: The Indians won a third straight WPIAL Class 5A crown, and the Warriors captured their first PIAA title. Now the two tradition-rich teams square off to see who will play for a 2025 state championship Friday at Penn...
Trib HSSN softball player of the week for June 8, 2025Video
Trib HSSN softball player of the week: Lauren Howard School: Hempfield Class: Junior Position: Second base #Earned: four days after winning the second WPIAL championship in her three-year high school career, Lauren Howard and her Hempfield teammates went back to work in an effort to win the school’s fifth state...
Westmoreland PIAA softball playoff preview capsules: Games for Monday, June 9, 2025
PIAA softball playoffs Class 6A Semifinals Hempfield (23-1) vs. Nazareth (21-4) 4 p.m. TUESDAY at Norco Park Softball Complex, Fayetteville District-place: Hempfield 7-1; Nazareth 11-2 Winner plays: Winner of 3-3 Central Dauphin (19-3)/1-3 Perkiomen Valley (21-4) in the championship at 4 p.m. Thursday at Nittany Lion Softball Park, Penn State...
After strong finish this season, Gateway flag football looks forward to next spring
Gateway’s girls flag football team stood at 3-3 after a loss to Shaler on April 27. The Gators needed to string some wins together to get into Pittsburgh Girls Flag Football League playoff contention. “We didn’t play many preseason games, so the week we started, a couple of the other...
Quaker Valley junior fills scorebook with 9 RBIs in state playoff game
Quaker Valley third baseman Todd Kagle had the game of his career at the plate in first round of the PIAA Class 3A playoffs. The 6-foot-2, 190-pound junior collected nine RBIs — yes, nine — in leading the Quakers to an impressive 22-6 win on the road June 2 against...
Sewickley Herald notebook: Sewickley Academy honors top senior athletes
Several senior student-athletes at Sewickley Academy were honored May 21 at its spring awards banquet. Severin Harmon (golf, tennis) and Katherine Varghese (soccer, track and field) were named as the Most Outstanding Male and Female Athletes. Cooper D’Antonio (cross country, track and field) landed the Stan Partenheimer Sportsmanship Award while...
Quaker Valley girls lacrosse boasts half-dozen all-section performers
The calculation 2-plus-2-plus-2 equals the sum total of players on the Quaker Valley girls lacrosse team who earned Section 2-A distinction in 2025. Junior midfielders Lucy Roig and senior goalkeeper Emily Reiner were honored as first-team all-section selections. Both girls made all-section last year as well. “Lucy has done a...
Breakthrough season leads Quaker Valley all the way to WPIAL baseball finals
Quaker Valley’s talented baseball team finished as the WPIAL Class 3A runner-up. The Quakers zipped through the district playoffs before losing to No. 1 seed Riverside, 1-0, in the championship game May 28 at EQT Park in Washington. “We were extremely excited at having the opportunity to test ourselves in...
After all-state honor, Sewickley Academy’s Lucas Grimsley working toward big senior year
The Sewickley Academy boys basketball all-state players are named on a commemorative plaque near the entrance of the Events Center gym. The earliest entry was Neil Hoy, who received the honor in 1998. The most recent addition to the listing is Lucas Grimsley, a talented junior guard for the Panthers....
High school scores, summaries and schedules for June 7, 2025
High schools Baseball PIAA tournament Semifinals Monday’s schedule Class 6A Neshaminy (16-7) vs. North Penn (21-5) at Villanova Ballpark, 3 p.m.; Cedar Cliff (19-6) vs. Bethlehem Liberty (22-6) at Wenger Field, Fredericksburg, 4:30 p.m. Class 5A Upper Dublin (16-5) vs. Elizabethtown (16-9) at Muhlenberg, 11 a.m.; Shaler (19-6) vs. Lampeter-Strasburg...
High school roundup for June 7, 2025: Shady Side Academy boys lacrosse rolls on
The last WPIAL lacrosse team standing in the PIAA playoffs is Class 3A district runner-up Shady Side Academy. Seamus Riordan and James Rost had hat tricks as the Bulldogs (14-9) earned 1n 11-8 victory over District 3 champion Manheim Township (16-3) in the quarterfinals Saturday. Shady Side Academy will face...
Bishop Shanahan pulls away, ends season for Mt. Lebanon girls lacrosse
MECHANICSBURG — It started as a back-and-forth, neck-and-neck game, but that’s not the way it ended on Saturday evening between Mt. Lebanon and Bishop Shanahan in the PIAA Class 3A girls lacrosse quarterfinals. It was 0-0, 1-1, 2-2, 4-4 and 5-5, but it was also 11-5, 12-5, 13-5, and eventually,...
Westmoreland County high school notebook: Franklin Regional baseball standout Luke Williams reopens recruitment
Luke Williams is hitting reset on his college baseball recruiting. The rising senior shortstop at Franklin Regional committed to Virginia when he was a freshman and has remained loyal to the Cavaliers. But a coaching change has disrupted his plans. Williams opened his recruitment and is looking for a new...
North Allegheny boys right ship, get past Penn-Trafford in PIAA Class 3A volleyball quarterfinals
North Allegheny boys volleyball coach Dan Long said he didn’t want the Tigers to look at themselves as a finished product Saturday. A surprising result during the second set of a 3-1 win over Penn-Trafford during a PIAA Class 3A quarterfinal at AHN Arena provided some clarity on why they...
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania high school softball rankings for June 7, 2025
There were some tweaks and small changes in five of the six classifications through the quarterfinals of the PIAA softball playoffs, and then there was Class 5A. All five teams from last week’s post-district playoffs Trib HSSN state softball rankings were bounced in either the opening round or the second...
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania high school baseball rankings for June 7, 2025
From last week to this week, two rounds of the PIAA baseball playoffs were played. The results left the weekly Trib HSSN state rankings almost unrecognizable in four of the six classifications. Only the teams ranked in the Class 3A and 2A Top 5 from last week tasted success in...
Mt. Lebanon boys lacrosse runs into roadblock in state power Radnor in PIAA quarters
MECHANICSBURG — The Radnor Raptors of Wayne in Delaware County are 5-0 all-time in PIAA boys lacrosse championship games, and that program was the challenge facing Mt. Lebanon on Saturday afternoon. As the goals racked up early and often in the first quarter, Mt. Lebanon coach Mike Ermer said he...
Pitt adds 4-star 2026 recruit Reston Lehman from Peters Township
The Pitt football 2026 class continues to build as the offseason recruiting heats up for coach Pat Narduzzi. Reston Lehman, a four-star prospect, announced via X earlier today his intentions to sign with Pitt for the 2026 class. Lehman (6-foot-4, 220 pounds) out of Peters Township, chose the Panthers over...
Allentown Central Catholic fends off Mars in PIAA boys lacrosse quarterfinals
MECHANICSBURG — As Allentown Central Catholic started to pull away in Saturday’s PIAA Class 2A boys lacrosse quarterfinal matchup, the Mars Fightin’ Planets maintained hope. First, it was 8-6, the first two-goal lead for either team, with 5:40 to go in the third quarter. Then it was 9-7, 10-7 and...
Hempfield softball team appreciates challenge of close calls
Hempfield has scored 205 runs this softball season and allowed 23. The Spartans have been an offensive machine, sending runners through the turnstiles with the rapidity of a marathon finish line. They have 10-runned their opponents 11 times. So what’s up with these tight games in the playoffs? The team...
Knee injury no match for former Norwin softball standout’s grit, love of the game
Hours after surgery to repair a torn medial patellafemoral ligament and meniscus in her knee May 20, Bailey Snowberger was dugout-side watching her high school alma mater play in the WPIAL softball semifinals. The Maine freshman shortstop didn’t want to miss Norwin going against Seneca Valley in a rematch of...
Norwin notebook: Softball senior headed to all-star game
It will be one more go-round for Norwin senior Rachel Minteer. The first baseman was selected to play in the Western Pennsylvania Softball All-Star Game at 7 p.m. June 24 at Plum. Minteer will play for Team Black against Team Gold in the eight-inning game meant for seniors. It will...
North Allegheny boys lacrosse team holds heads high after gutsy PIAA loss
Trailing District 3 champion Manheim Township by six goals in the fourth quarter of its PIAA Class 3A boys lacrosse playoff opener, North Allegheny could have taken its lumps and called it a season. But the Tigers had some bite left. North Allegheny scored five unanswered goals to cut the...
North Allegheny players shift focus to summer ball earlier than expected
Summer started too early this year for the North Allegheny baseball team. An opening-round playoff exit left the defending WPIAL Class 6A champion Tigers looking ahead to a long offseason with early June travel ball practices replacing meaningful postseason games. “It was a rough finish to our season,” sophomore first...
Prep school gets Franklin Regional grad ready to tackle college football
There is a reason they call it prep school. Owen Sinclair knows that better than anyone at this point. The former Franklin Regional standout linebacker spent a year at The Kiski School in Saltsburg to enhance his skills and build his resume for college football. The opportunity gave him a...
