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A-K Valley Senior Spotlight: Highlands’ Kyan Chambers
Highlands senior high jumper Kyan Chambers wants to leave high school knowing he’s made an impact. One way he’s left his mark is how he’s coached and given pointers to the other jumpers. “That’s Coach Kyan right there,” Highlands track and field coach Mike Foster said. “It’s not just our...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for June 3, 2024: State playoffs commence for spring sports
The district diamond playoffs are in the books as the curtain rises on the PIAA baseball and softball playoffs Monday. While the other five classifications sent either three or four WPIAL teams into the state baseball and softball playoffs, the biggest classification has the smallest amount of qualifiers. The Class...
Trib HSSN softball player of the week for June 2, 2024Video
Trib HSSN softball player of the week: Gabby Perod School: Neshannock Class: Senior Position: Catcher #Earned: While all eyes were on the various pitching matchups at the WPIAL softball championships at Lilley Field at Cal (Pa.), it was a senior catcher who stood out as she added to her golden...
Trib HSSN baseball team of the week for June 2, 2024Video
Trib HSSN baseball team of the week: Avonworth Coaches: Jeff Bywalski (second season) Records: Avonworth finished in second place in Section 2-3A with a record of 8-2, one game behind section winner South Allegheny. The Antelopes are 16-8 overall. #Earned: Avonworth was the No. 7 seed entering the WPIAL baseball...
Trib HSSN softball team of the week for June 2, 2024Video
Trib HSSN softball team of the week: Mohawk Warriors Coach: Hank Pezzuolo (sixth year) Record: Mohawk won the Section 2-3A crown with a 9-1 record. The Warriors are 18-5 heading into the PIAA playoffs and a first-round home game against District 10 runner-up Hickory. #Earned: In a school year in...
Trib HSSN baseball player of the week for June 2, 2024Video
Trib HSSN baseball player of the week: David Posey School: North Allegheny Class: Senior Position: Pitcher, first base #Earned: For a second straight year, a David was crowned king at the WPIAL Class 6A championship game with a no-hitter at his coronation. One year after David Shields of Mt. Lebanon...
This week on Trib HSSN for week of June 3, 2024
All the gold has been handed out in the WPIAL spring sports postseason. Now the attention turns to the final two weeks of the school year with the start of the state playoffs this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Courtesy of the North Allegheny Sports Network and...
Burrell returns to PIAA baseball playoffs for 1st time since 2010
Current Burrell baseball players were 4 years old or younger when the program made its most recent trip to the PIAA playoffs. The year was 2010, and the Bucs, the WPIAL Class 2A runner-up to Beaver Falls, won a first-round contest at Slippery Rock over District 10 Sharpsville. Burrell returns...
Westmoreland County PIAA softball playoff capsules: Games for Monday, June 3, 2024
PIAA softball playoffs Class 5A First round Penn-Trafford (15-6) at Central Mountain (14-5) 4:30 p.m. Monday Winner plays: Winner of Latrobe (11-12)/Armstrong (18-3) Thursday in quarterfinals (time, site TBD) Players to watch: Ella Mains, Penn-Trafford; Cora Myers, Central Mountain Extra bases: Penn-Trafford hits the road for the state tournament after...
Penn-Trafford softball team hopes to follow in footsteps of 2019 state champs
Penn-Trafford senior catcher Mack Keenan remembers watching the team bus follow a fire truck escort back to Harrison City in 2019 after the Lady Warriors softball team won the PIAA championship. The town showed up to greet the state champs. Of course, Keenan was just an impressionable middle schooler then,...
Penn-Trafford, Franklin Regional ready for PIAA baseball playoffs to begin
The Penn-Trafford and Franklin Regional baseball teams have never won a PIAA title. One of them is hoping to break through this year. The PIAA Class 5A playoffs begin Monday, and both are looking for the same prize. The Warriors, who won their first WPIAL title by defeating Bethel Park...
Westmoreland County PIAA baseball playoff capsules: Games for Monday, June 3, 2024
PIAA baseball playoffs Class 5A First round Lower Dauphin (15-9) vs. Penn-Trafford (20-3) 4:30 p.m. Monday at Plum Winner plays: Winner of Franklin Regional (16-8)/Hollidaysburg (14-6) Thursday in quarterfinals Players to watch: Casey Westerberg, Lower Dauphin; Ian Temple, Penn-Trafford Extra bases: The Falcons defeated Palmyra, 3-2, in eight innings to...
Gateway’s Dino Nadarevic caps season with PIAA shot put medal
Last year, Dino Nadarevic didn’t make the WPIAL championship meet as he was starting out throwing the shot put and discus in his first season with the Gateway track and field team. It’s been a whole new ballgame for Nadarevic this spring, and this season of firsts concluded May 24-25...
Gateway boys tennis concludes season with PIAA singles, doubles medals
In a way, it was déjà vu for Gateway in the PIAA Class 3A doubles tournament at the Hershey Racquet Club. Last year, the Gators team of Zidaan Hassan and Adam Memije made it to the semifinals where the duo fell to the twin-brother combination of Aidan and Tyler Mahaffey...
Quaker Valley brings back medals from state track meet
One Quaker Valley relay team placed third at the PIAA Class 2A track and field championships; another secured seventh. The QV boys 3,200-meter relay team, consisting of juniors Clark LaLomia and Jackson Pethel, freshman Jonah Montagnese and sophomore River Capek, clicked for a time of 8:01.1 to take third place....
Tennis season to remember for Sewickley Academy, Quaker Valley builds to WPIAL finals matchup
The Sewickley Academy boys tennis team had its season-long goal of a WPIAL playoff run firmly entrenched. Sewickley looked to make it two in a row in 2024 as the Panthers were the defending champions in Class 2A. Sewickley and Quaker Valley advanced to the WPIAL championship round off their...
Relay team’s scratch keeps Penn Hills hurdler from claiming state medal
Penn Hills senior hurdler Achan Green did what he needed to do. After attending the prom Thursday night, Green’s dad drove him to the PIAA Class 3A state track meet at Shippensburg University on the Friday before Memorial Day. While Green grabbed the last qualifying spot in the finals of...
Coach proud of Penn Hills fitness team’s 2nd-place finish at nationals
Bob Martini can’t properly condense the words needed to describe how he feels about the Penn Hills fitness team this year. The Indians set a goal of being national champions at the Marine Physical Fitness National Champions in Little Rock, Ark. Penn Hills didn’t quite reach the top, but Martini...
Trib 10: Baseball, softball power rankings look different after WPIAL title games
The curtain has come down on the 2024 WPIAL diamond playoffs as six baseball and six softball teams are wearing the golden crown. Those six teams are saluted by sitting in the first six seats of the post-district playoff power rankings. Riverside sat atop the baseball rankings for the entire...
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania High School Softball Rankings for June 1, 2024
The deck has been shuffled among the top softball teams across the state as we prepare for the PIAA playoffs with a champions-only edition of the Trib HSSN state softball rankings. Twelve teams came up empty of their district championship hopes and have been bounced from this week’s Top 5....
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania High School Baseball Rankings for June 1, 2024
There are a plethora of changes to the weekly Trib HSSN state baseball rankings with the district playoffs in the books and the state postseason starting Monday. Eleven teams dropped out from a week ago as losses in the district semifinals and championship game cost them a spot in the...
Season turns out unforgettable for Bailey Snowberger, Norwin softball team
Leadoff hitter Bailey Snowberger doubled to open the WPIAL 6A softball championship Friday at Cal (Pa.). After she scored the game’s first run, a teammate said, “congratulations” as Snowberger returned to the dugout. “I’m like, what do you mean?” Snowberger said. “I didn’t know what she was talking about.” The...
Return to state playoffs a learning experience for Latrobe softball
There were a lot of empty seats on the Latrobe softball team bus Tuesday after the Wildcats lost to Penn-Trafford in the WPIAL Class 5A third-place game at Gateway. The reason was several players decided to drive home with family instead of going home with the team. But the Wildcats...
Westmoreland County high school notebook: Southmoreland star picks Pitt-Greensburg
Ty Keffer has been a dynamic, three-sport athlete at Southmoreland. He has lit up the scoreboard in basketball, pulled in leaping catches in football and struck out numerous batters in baseball. But the athletic Keffer’s top sport is basketball, and he has decided to extend his playing career at a...
Westmoreland County high school athletes of the week: Penn-Trafford’s Cam Ponko, Hempfield’s Peyton Murray
Cam Ponko School: Penn-Trafford Class: Junior Sport: Softball Claim to fame: Ponko helped the Warriors clinch third place in WPIAL Class 5A as she went 2 for 3 with two RBIs in a 4-1 victory over Latrobe in the consolation game. A third baseman, Ponko is slashing .500/.549/.968 with nine...
