High School category, Page 46

There was little movement in the final Trib 10 power rankings of the season. In baseball, two teams swept WPIAL and PIAA gold, and it is Indiana in 4A that remains on top, edging out 3A winner Riverside. Shaler and Freedom finish No. 3 and 4 after winning WPIAL championships...

Trib HSSN softball team of the week – Neshannock Lancers Coach – Jackie Lash (seventh year) Record – Neshannock literally won everything this spring. The Lancers captured the Section 1-2A crown with a record of 12-0, finishing two games ahead of second-place Laurel. Neshannock captured a fourth straight WPIAL championship...

Central Catholic edge rusher Ashton Blatt committed to North Carolina on Saturday, giving a verbal to first-year coach Bill Belichick. Blatt (6-4, 230), a three-star recruit according to 247 Sports, is the 38th-ranked edge rusher in the country and 13st-best player in Pennsylvania. He chose the Tar Heels over offers...

STATE COLLEGE — North Allegheny faced a determined Cumberland Valley team Saturday that was not going to go away without a state title. The Eagles swept the Tigers with game scores of 25-21, 25-21 and 25-12 to win the PIAA Class 3A championship at Rec Hall on the campus of...

Jaymier Austin began showing up on the college football recruiting radar last summer when three Division I programs — Purdue, Youngstown State and Marshall — offered him scholarships. The rising senior at Franklin Regional continues to garner interest, with eight total offers on the table for the 6-foot-4, 180-pound wide...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Giuliana Youngo might have played her last softball game Friday night. The Penn-Trafford senior right fielder, though, probably will be back at Penn State’s Beard Field, the site of the Warriors’ 2-0 win over Greencastle-Antrim in the PIAA Class 5A championship. She has enrolled at Penn State....

High schools Baseball PIAA tournament Championships Friday’s results At Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, Penn State Class 6A Cedar Cliff 1, North Penn 0 Class 4A Indiana 5, Montoursville 4 Class 2A Faith Christian 13, Freedom 1 Lacrosse PIAA tournament Championships Saturday’s schedule At Panzer Stadium, Penn State Boys Class...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn-Trafford has won two PIAA softball championships without ever winning a WPIAL title, and that is just fine with coach Denny Little. “Sometimes you have to eat your dessert first,” Little said Friday night after the Warriors captured their second state title in six years with a...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Indiana built some breathing room early in Friday’s PIAA Class 4A baseball championship game against District 4 titlist Montoursville at Penn State’s Medlar Field at Lubrano Park. But when a four-run lead was whittled down to one, and the Warriors loaded the bases with no outs in...

Seventeen WPIAL girls lacrosse players and one coach were recognized by USA Lacrosse this week with postseason honors. Eight were named all-American, eight were academic all-Americans and Hempfield senior Heather Harshman was named the Jackie Pitts award winner, which recognizes players who go above and beyond in service to their...

UNIVERSITY PARK - It was not the start Freedom hoped for Friday morning in the PIAA Class 2A baseball championship game against District 1 champion Faith Christian at Penn State’s Medlar Field at Lubrano Park. The Lions collected three hits and took advantage of a pair of Bulldogs errors in...

All throughout the postseason, Union softball has been the home team. When the Scotties finally got the chance to bat first and set the tone of the game, they took advantage. Union scored six runs in the first and six more in the sixth inning to defeat Northeast Bradford, 12-2,...

High schools Baseball PIAA tournament Championships At Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, Penn State Class 6A Friday’s schedule North Penn (22-5) vs. Cedar Cliff (20-6), 4:30 p.m. Class 5A Thursday’s results Upper Dublin 8, Shaler 2 Class 4A Friday’s schedule Montoursville (20-4) vs. Indiana (25-1), 1:30 p.m. Class 3A Thursday’s...

UNIVERSITY PARK — In the PIAA Class 5A finals two years ago, the Shaler baseball team made an epic comeback from down five runs to stun Strath Haven and claim the program’s second state championship. The Titans hoped for some similar magic Thursday evening after they dug themselves a six-run...

Fox Chapel’s Harran Zureikat, the No. 1-ranked kicker in the country by Kohl’s Kicking Camps, made a verbal commitment Thursday to Georgia. The five-star rising senior chose the Bulldogs of the Southeastern Conference over offers from Pitt, Penn State, Akron, Boston College and Maryland. He received the offer from Georgia...

UNIVERSITY PARK - Riverside baseball is on top of the PIAA mountain once again. The Panthers weathered a late-inning storm from District 4 champion Mount Carmel in Thursday’s Class 3A baseball championship game at Penn State’s Medlar Field at Lubrano Park. Riverside played small ball and pushed across two runs...

For two decades, the PIAA has crowned a state champion in Class 4A. The first 4A state champion was Penn Manor from District 3 in 2005. Since then, five teams from District 7 have won state championships in Class 4A. Seneca Valley was the first to do it in 2007....

The PIAA has been deciding a champion in Class 2A baseball for more than 45 years. The first 2A baseball state champion was West Perry from District 3 in 1979. WPIAL teams have captured 12 PIAA 2A crowns with Riverside leading the way with four. Others from District 7 to...

There have been 25 PIAA Class A softball champions crowned since Minersville from District 11 won the inaugural classification championship in 1999. The first WPIAL team to win a PIAA Class A title was Vincentian Academy in 2008. Since then, District 7 teams have won three state crowns with Chartiers-Houston...

STATE COLLEGE – For the third time since 2021, Eden Christian Academy fell short of hoisting its first PIAA baseball championship trophy after falling to Southern Fulton, 14-3, on Thursday at Penn State’s Medlar Field at Lubrano Park. The Warriors (19-6) had one goal in mind — finishing the job...

While the opponent was the same as a year prior, Neshannock softball faced a challenge they had not seen often during this season — a deficit. But the same as a year ago, a big inning for the Lancers broke open the game en route to a Neshannock championship. Neshannock’s...

Class 5A Penn-Trafford (23-3) vs. Greencastle-Antrim (22-3) 4 p.m. Friday at Beard Field at Nittany Lion Softball Park, Penn State District-place: Penn-Trafford 7-2; Greencastle-Antrim 3-3 PIAA titles: Penn-Trafford 1 (2019); Greencastle-Antrim 1 (2009) Road to State College: Penn-Trafford — Defeated 6-1 Central Mountain, (3-2), 3-1 Red Land (6-5) and 7-3...

Former Penn-Trafford outfielder Brooke Cleland recalls catching the final out at Beard Field and squeezing her glove around the softball. It was like time stopped for a millisecond. Then, in a rush of emotion and noise unlike anything she and her teammates had ever experienced, it became official: The Warriors...

Central Catholic linebacker Colsen Gatten, one of the top players in WPIAL football’s Class of ‘26, will play his college ball at Duke. The 6-foot-1½, 220-pound rising senior announced his commitment Wednesday on social media. Gatten had 51 tackles and three interceptions for the WPIAL Class 6A champs last season....