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High school scores, summaries and schedules for June 5, 2024
High schools Baseball PIAA playoffs Class 6A Quarterfinals Thursday’s schedule Downingtown East (18-6) vs. LaSalle College (22-3) at Neumann University, 4 p.m.; Hazleton (20-4) vs. Neshaminy (21-3) at DeSales University, noon; Hempfield Landisville (19-5) vs. Erie McDowell (15-7) at Showers Field, 11:30 a.m.; Downingtown West (19-5) vs. Wilson West Lawn...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on June 6, 2024: Survivors of rough 1st round back in action in PIAA quarterfinals
Welcome to quarterfinals Thursday in the PIAA diamond playoffs. WPIAL teams are hoping to rebound after Black Monday. District 7 baseball and softball teams were falling left and right, including four recently crowned WPIAL baseball champions and one softball winner. Combined, the WPIAL baseball teams in the first round were...
Riverview football standout Carlo Buzzatto excited to compete on global stage
Carlo Buzzatto graduates Thursday with the Riverview Class of 2024. It closes one chapter of his life before he makes the transition to St. Francis (Pa.). But before he heads to the Loretto campus and joins the Red Flash football team, he will get the chance to represent the United...
PIAA Class 5A baseball quarterfinals preview: Penn-Trafford vs. Hollidaysburg
PIAA baseball playoffs Class 5A Quarterfinals Penn-Trafford (21-3) vs. Hollidaysburg (15-6) 4 p.m. Thursday at Sargents Field at Point Stadium, Johnstown First round: Penn-Trafford 3, Lower Dauphin 2; Hollidaysburg 4, Franklin Regional 2 Winner plays: Winner of Monsignor Bonner (18-8)/Bethel Park (16-7-1) Monday in semifinals (time, site TBD) Coaches: Lou...
Terrelle Pryor, Dick Hoak, Joe Mucci to enter National High School Football Hall of Fame
A hall of fame enshrinement ceremony this weekend one state over will include three Jeannette football legends. Late coach Joe Mucci and former star quarterbacks Dick Hoak and Terrelle Pryor will be inducted in the National High School Football Hall of Fame during a ceremony Saturday at Umstattd Hall at...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for June 4, 2024
High schools Baseball PIAA playoffs Class 6A Quarterfinals Thursday’s schedule Downingtown East (18-6) vs. LaSalle College (22-3) at Neumann University, 4 p.m.; Hazleton (20-4) vs. Neshaminy (21-3) at DeSales University, noon; Hempfield Landisville (19-5) vs. Erie McDowell (15-7) at Showers Field, 11:30 a.m.; Downingtown West (19-5) vs. Wilson West Lawn...
High school roundup for June 4, 2024: North Allegheny boys lacrosse wins OT thriller
Nick Sichak completed his hat trick with the game winner out of a net-front scramble 48 seconds into overtime to lift WPIAL runner-up North Allegheny to a 9-8 victory over District 3 champ Wilson West Lawn in the PIAA Class 3A boys lacrosse first round Tuesday. Cohen Renninger scored with...
Penn-Trafford baseball team enjoying PIAA playoff ride
The Road Warriors are ready for their next excursion. But is their bus? When Penn-Trafford was preparing to leave Myrtle Beach at the beginning of what has been a historic baseball season, the team bus broke down and the Warriors were left standing by for a ride. What was another...
PIAA releases quarterfinal sites, times for 2024 state softball playoffs
The PIAA has announced sites and times for the the state softball quarterfinals with 10 WPIAL teams still in contention for a title. Thursday’s playoff schedule includes two all-WPIAL matchups in a tripleheader at Gateway. In Class 4A, Chartiers Valley plays Elizabeth Forward at 2 p.m., and Bentworth faces Laurel...
PIAA announces quarterfinal sites, times for 2024 state baseball playoffs
The PIAA has announced sites and times for the next round of the state baseball playoffs with only eight WPIAL teams having survived to reach the quarterfinals. The schedule for Thursday includes an all-WPIAL matchup in Class A: Eden Christian faces Avella at Washington & Jefferson’s Ross Memorial Park in...
Football committee will choose wild card teams under new WPIAL postseason format
The WPIAL has finalized its postseason plans for next football season and on Tuesday revealed a new system for choosing wild card teams. Rather than rely on tiebreaking formulas such as Gardner Points, the WPIAL will empower its football committee to choose those at-large qualifiers. That’s a big change since...
WPIAL releases updated football schedules with Aliquippa returning to 4A
The WPIAL released updated football schedules Tuesday that put defending state champion Aliquippa back in Class 4A for next season, but that move also affected about two dozen other schools. The new schedules were issued after a ruling last month by a Beaver County judge. The WPIAL removed the Quips...
Mt. Lebanon senior David Shields named Gatorade Pa. Baseball Player of the Year
Mt. Lebanon senior David Shields, a talented left-handed pitcher and outfielder, was named Monday as the Gatorade Pennsylvania Baseball Player of the Year. Shields is the first WPIAL player to win the award since Latrobe’s Zach Kokoska and Plum’s Alex Kirilloff won in consecutive years in 2017 and ‘16. A...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for June 3, 2024
High schools Baseball PIAA playoffs Class 6A First round Monday’s results Downingtown East 9, Ephrata 2 LaSalle College 7, Plymouth Whitemarsh 4 Hazleton 1, Central Bucks East 0 Neshaminy 4, Liberty 0 Hempfield Landisville 12, North Penn 2 Erie McDowell 1, Mt. Lebanon 0 Downingtown West 11, Central 1 Wilson...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on June 4, 2024: Shaler, North Allegheny boys volleyball ready for PIAA openers
While the diamond state playoffs kicked off Monday, the PIAA boys volleyball and lacrosse postseasons begin in earnest on Tuesday. The North Allegheny boys volleyball program won four straight PIAA Class 3A championships between 2018-2022 with no season in 2020 due to covid-19 outbreak. However, for the second straight spring,...
Upper St. Clair classmates provide heroics in 3rd PIHL girls championship game
In the third annual PIHL hockey girls division championship game, the Southwest and West teams played a close game to the very end. With 37 seconds left in regulation, Southwest forward Kayla McCarthy scored the game-winning goal and senior Alexa Carney added an empty net goal with eight seconds left...
High school roundup for June 3, 2024: On a tough day for WPIAL champs, Avonworth prevails
Cooper Scharding allowed one run over six innings and Carson Franc had a double and a pair of RBIs to lead WPIAL champ Avonworth to a 6-1 victory over Martinsburg Central (16-8) in a PIAA Class 3A first-round baseball game Monday. John Dolan and Alexander Rowe added two hits and...
Another WPIAL champ falls as Moniteau trips up Seton LaSalle
On Wednesday, Seton LaSalle played a complete game in all facets and blanked Serra Catholic to win a second straight WPIAL Class 2A baseball championship. A day earlier, Moniteau lost a heartbreaker in the District 9 2A title game, falling to Redbank Valley in nine innings. Less than a week...
North Allegheny pins PIAA loss on tough Wilson lefty, not ‘WPIAL hangover’
North Allegheny coach Andrew Heck could’ve blamed his team’s state playoff loss on the dreaded WPIAL hangover, but instead credited the craftiness of a left-hander who threw a one-hitter. Wilson pitcher Matt VanOstenbridge needed only 84 pitches to finish off an efficient 2-0 win over host North Allegheny in the...
Penn-Trafford baseball warms up in time to win PIAA opener
Maybe Penn-Trafford expected a slow start in the PIAA baseball playoffs. A shaky defense that allowed two unearned runs gave that impression early in Monday’s game. But that didn’t keep the WPIAL champion Warriors from winning their state tournament opener. You can keep your WPIAL hangovers. There is only one...
Ligonier Valley softball edged in PIAA 1st round by Forest Hills
SIDMAN — Ligonier Valley’s players and coaches retreated to their dugout after quietly being retired in order in the seventh inning Monday by Forest Hills right-hander Avery Smiach. There was little to say. The Rams’ season was finished following a 3-2 loss to the District 6 champion Rangers in a...
Armstrong’s early offensive outburst too much for Latrobe to overcome in PIAA softball playoffs
Calise Czekanski brings a boombox to the field so she and her Armstrong softball teammates can listen to music and get pumped up before every game. “They love their music, and they love it loud,” Armstrong coach Keith Shaffer said. “I know sometimes it irritates opponents, but our girls certainly...
Franklin Regional’s season ends with loss to Hollidaysburg in PIAA playoffs
HOLLIDAYSBURG — Missed opportunities by one team and timely hitting by the other was the difference in a PIAA Class 5A first-round baseball game Monday. Franklin Regional, the WPIAL third-place team, didn’t take advantage of a couple of scoring opportunities and ended up dropping a 4-2 decision to District 6...
Burrell baseball battles in PIAA 1st round loss to Fairview
The Burrell baseball team went down swinging in the seventh inning of Monday’s PIAA Class 3A first-round game against District 10 champion Fairview at Mercyhurst. Down by seven, the Bucs tallied three runs on three hits in the final inning off of Tigers reliever Aari Fox and had two runners...
Westmoreland County Senior Spotlight: Latrobe’s Jacob Pittman
The track and field season recently came to a close, with the PIAA championships concluding May 25. Latrobe sprinter Jacob Pittman’s season did not end in a state medal, but the Wildcats’ 400-meter relay he was a part of won WPIAL gold after coming into the competition seeded fourth. “We...
