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Hampton track won WPIAL and PIAA gold medals in May with a relay team that got a late start and a miler who had a great finish. The girls 3,200 relay team of Kevyn Fish, Ava Vitiello, Teresa Grimm and Kathleen Milon, who ran together only twice prior to the...

Things looked bleak for the Hampton baseball team at midseason. A 10-6 nonsection loss at Montour on April 20 dropped the Talbots to 3-8 overall, and they had lost three consecutive Section 4-4A games to fall to 2-4. “It was not doing the little things,” senior ace left-haander Ryan Apaliski...

High schools Baseball PIAA championships First round Monday’s schedule Class 6A Central Bucks West (19-6) vs. Wilson (17-7) at Villanova Ballpark, 4 p.m.; Plymouth-Whitemarsh (16-8) at Father Judge (14-1), 4 p.m.; North Penn (19-5) at Hazleton (18-4), 4:30 p.m.; Liberty (19-4) vs. Avon Grove (17-7) at DeSales University, 7:15 p.m.;...

Belle Vernon senior Alexa Daniels had quite an eventful WPIAL Class 4A softball championship game Wednesday. It began with a fastball to the foot and ended by jumping into teammate Ava Zubovic’s pool with her uniform on. In between, she took a glove to the face, a fastball to the...

There was more at stake than a WPIAL championship for the Hempfield softball team. When the Spartans topped Seneca Valley, 2-1, in extra inning to win their eighth district title Wednesday at Cal (Pa.) and become the league’s lone representative in the PIAA Class 6A playoffs, they also earned a...

Damian Davies said it was time to step away as head coach of the Leechburg boys basketball team but said he leaves with many positive moments from the four seasons of his second stint with the program. Davies said he made the decision a couple of weeks ago, ending the...

Avonworth and Neshannock repeated as WPIAL softball champions this week, but now they’ll try to win back-to-back state titles as well. The state playoffs start Monday. WPIAL 3A champion Avonworth opens the PIAA tournament with a first-round game against Fort LeBoeuf at North Allegheny. Neshannock, the 2A champion, will host...

The six WPIAL baseball champions will start the state tournament close to home, but nobody will be closer than Riverside. The Class 3A champion Panthers have a home game Monday in the first round of the PIAA playoffs. Riverside hosts Tyrone at 3 p.m. All first-round games are Monday. WPIAL...

Perfection not only brings the gold, it brings a room with a powerful view as we present the district championship edition of the Trib 10. There was only one team change in both the baseball and softball power rankings this week as WPIAL Class A baseball champion Bishop Canevin debuts,...

The late, great David Bowie once crooned about “changes,” which we have plenty of on the latest edition of the Trib HSSN baseball rankings before the start of the PIAA baseball playoffs. The end of the district playoffs prompted most of the moves as some ranked teams found the semifinal...

The larger classifications were hit hard by the district semifinals and finals, prompting plenty of changes in Class 6A, 5A and 4A in this week’s Trib HSSN state softball rankings. Those three classes had three changes each, including new No. 1 teams in 5A and 4A. The three lower classes...

A former Jeannette running back will be part of a new football hall of fame. He will represent the high school on a national level. The late John “ShowBoat” Crowell, a backfield standout for the Jayhawks in the 1930s, will be inducted into the National High School Football Hall of...

Neshannock’s dizzying 46th consecutive softball victory Thursday turned out to be such a special one. And, oh, don’t the Lancers know it. Earning back-to-back WPIAL championships with a 12-2 rout of crosstown rival Laurel in the Class 2A final at PennWest California’s Lilley Field was enough to set off a...

High schools WPIAL Softball WPIAL playoffs Thursday’s results Class 5A Championship Trinity 11, Armstrong 7 Class 3A Championship Avonworth 5, Southmoreland 1 Class 2A Championship Neshannock 12, Laurel 2 All schedules are subject to change. To report scores or schedule changes, email ptrsports@triblive.com. Visit TribHSSN.triblive.com/scores for results, stats, standings and...

Fox Chapel’s Sydney Schutzman and Mt. Lebanon’s Addie Murdoch in Class 3A and Hampton’s Emi DiLiberto in Class 2A were unanimous selections to the All-WPIAL girls lacrosse teams released Wednesday. The selections for All-WPIAL in both Class 3A and Class 2A as well as the four all-section teams are based...

Trinity found the right formula to defeat one of the best hitting teams in the WPIAL: outhit them. That’s what the Hillers did Thursday in the WPIAL Class 5A championship game at Cal (Pa.)’s Lilley Field. Trinity (19-2) won its first softball title by outhitting and outscoring No. 1 Armstrong,...

The softball sailed high and true, carrying deep into the night sky until gravity finally took over. It clanked off the left-field bleachers some 240 feet from home plate. Mia Bandieramonte had hit home runs before, but none quite like the one she sent out of Cal (Pa.)’s Lilley Field...

Southmoreland had a sendoff at school Thursday morning for the WPIAL 3A softball championship. Applause and support from teachers and students followed the team to the bus. But Avonworth — annoying, thorn-in-their-side Avonworth — sent the Scotties home with another postseason loss. Despite a positive start, the Scotties stumbled defensively...

High schools WPIAL Baseball WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Championship Wednesday’s result Mt. Lebanon 4, North Allegheny 0 Class 5A Third place Wednesday’s result Penn-Trafford 3, Plum 1 Class 4A Third place Wednesday’s result Montour 8, Indiana 6 Class 3A Championship Wednesday’s result Riverside 6, Neshannock 1 Class A Championship Wednesday’s...

Cole Fleck hit the go-ahead two-run double in the bottom of the sixth inning as top-seeded Montour defeated Indiana, 8-6, in the WPIAL Class 4A baseball third-place game Wednesday. David Gallagher pitched two perfect innings of relief with four strikeouts to earn the win for the Spartans (20-4). Jake Robinson...

Hempfield brought in a pitching machine recently to simulate the speed of Seneca Valley pitcher Lexie Hames. The Spartans had it cranked up to 70-plus mph. Mia Bandieramonte was up to speed. The senior designated player and No. 9 hitter turned on a Hames pitch and launched it over the...

The first two meetings between baseball section rivals Plum and Penn-Trafford were close and low-scoring. Each won on their home field. The rubber matchup between the Mustangs and Warriors on Wednesday at Washington & Jefferson’s Ross Memorial Park was expected to be a similar type of contest, and it was....

Mt. Lebanon has a knack for no-hitters in WPIAL championship games. Sophomore left-hander David Shields had heard tales about the team’s last one, thrown in 2002 by Chris Koutsavlis, who nowadays runs the Blue Devils’ offseason pitching program. Twenty-one years later, exactly to the date, Shields matched the feat. The...

Union softball coach Doug Fisher wasn’t about to dwell on the unpleasant elements of his team’s 10-8 victory over Carmichaels, giving the Scotties their second consecutive WPIAL Class A championship. Instead, he wanted to savor the end result. Top-seeded Union (17-3) overcame an early four-run deficit, sidestepped six errors and...

Riverside rallied from a one-run deficit to score the tying run in the fifth inning and five more in the sixth, giving the Panthers a 6-1 victory over Neshannock in the WPIAL Class 3A baseball championship game Wednesday at Wild Things Park. The win is the sixth district crown for...