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High school scores, summaries and schedules for June 1, 2023
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...
WPIAL girls lacrosse all-star teams released
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 outhits Armstrong to win 1st WPIAL softball title
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,...
Hempfield’s Bandieramonte honors memory of late father with WPIAL title-clinching homer
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...
Avonworth beats Southmoreland to repeat as WPIAL 3A softball champs
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 school scores, summaries and schedules for May 31, 2023
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...
High school roundup for May 31, 2023: Montour takes 3rd place in Class 4A baseball
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...
8th-inning homer off Seneca Valley ace lifts Hempfield to WPIAL 6A softball championship
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...
Penn-Trafford earns spot in PIAA baseball playoffs with win over rival Plum
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’s David Shields no-hits North Allegheny in WPIAL Class 6A baseball championship game
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 outslugs Carmichaels to win back-to-back WPIAL Class A softball titles
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...
Undefeated Riverside rallies past Neshannock to win 6th WPIAL baseball championship
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...
Belle Vernon holds off Montour to win WPIAL Class 4A softball title in wild finish
It might have been the wildest finish to a WPIAL softball championship game in years. No. 4 Belle Vernon won its fifth WPIAL title by holding off No. 2 Montour, 8-7, in the Class 4A championship game that featured some shaky baserunning and a chaotic finish Wednesday at PennWest University...
Behind ace Tyler Maddix, Bishop Canevin secures 3rd WPIAL baseball championship
Bishop Canevin’s Tyler Maddix struck out more than 100 batters this season and proved hard to hit on the WPIAL’s biggest stage Wednesday afternoon. The sophomore ace struck out eight batters in leading the No. 6-seeded Crusaders to an 8-5 victory over No. 4 California in the WPIAL Class A...
2023 WPIAL Class 2A softball championship preview: Neshannock vs. Laurel
WPIAL Class 2A softball championship 1-Neshannock (19-0) vs. 2-Laurel (16-2) 4:45 p.m. Thursday at Lilley Field, PennWest University, California On the air: Trib HSSN (video) How they got here: Neshannock had a first-round bye and then defeated No. 8 Burgettstown, 10-0, in the quarterfinals and No. 5 Greensburg Central Catholic,...
2023 WPIAL Class 5A softball championship preview: Armstrong vs. Trinity
WPIAL Class 5A softball championship 1-Armstrong (19-1) vs. 3-Trinity (18-2) 2:30 p.m. Thursday at Lilley Field, PennWest University, California On the air: Trib HSSN (video) How they got here: Armstrong defeated No. 16 Upper St. Clair, 10-0, in the first round, No. 8 Thomas Jefferson, 5-3, in the quarterfinals and...
2023 WPIAL Class 3A softball championship preview: Avonworth vs. Southmoreland
WPIAL Class 3A softball championship 2-Southmoreland (17-2) vs. 1-Avonworth (20-1) Noon Thursday at Lilley Field, PennWest University, California On the air: Trib HSSN (video) How they got here: Southmoreland — Defeated 15-McGuffey 3-1 in first round; Yough 15-14 in quarterfinals; Waynesburg 7-0 in semifinals; Avonworth — Defeated 16-Seton LaSalle 15-4...
‘Smiling snipers’ from Southmoreland eager to take crack at unseating No. 1 Avonworth
The text messages began shortly after the semifinal results came in. Southmoreland junior shortstop Amarah McCutcheon and Avonworth’s junior battery of pitcher Alivia Lantzy and catcher Riley Gray began the jabbing. “We always mess with each other,” said McCutcheon, who plays on the same travel softball team — Steel City...
Belle Vernon, Montour to square off for WPIAL Class 4A softball title
Belle Vernon coach Tom Rodriguez has been to six WPIAL championship games throughout his career. He is 4-1 in those games and knows anything can happen. The Leopards’ game plan against No. 2 seed Montour in the Class 4A final Wednesday afternoon? “We’re going to go with our gut,” Rodriguez...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for May 30, 2023
High schools WPIAL Baseball WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Championship Wednesday’s schedule Mt. Lebanon (12-10) vs. North Allegheny (16-6) at Wild Things Park, 7 p.m. Class 5A Championship Tuesday’s result Shaler 10, Bethel Park 1 Third place Wednesday’s schedule Plum (14-8) vs. Penn-Trafford (14-6) at Washington & Jefferson, 6:30 p.m. Class...
Katie Armstrong strikes out 14 as Burrell blanks Waynesburg in WPIAL Class 3A third-place game
The Burrell softball team used small ball to pick up its first run of Tuesday’s WPIAL Class 3A third-place game against Waynesburg Central at Gateway. Sophomore Brae Jones led off with an infield single, was aggressive in moving to third on a sacrifice bunt from senior Alanna Miller and scored...
High school roundup for May 30, 2023: Freshman powers Shaler softball into state playoffs
Freshman Bria Bosiljevac threw a complete-game three-hitter with 17 strikeouts and hit the tie-breaking solo home run in the fourth inning to lead Shaler to a 2-1 victory over South Fayette in the WPIAL Class 5A softball third-place game Tuesday. Alysa Schaffold doubled and drove in a run for the...
Venezuelan star leads Shaler to dominant win over Bethel Park in WPIAL Class 5A finals
Miguel Hugas sparked a championship celebration in Shaler Township, but the star senior was sure he’d hear from some happy baseball fans in Venezuela too. Hugas struck out eight in a dominant complete game, and top-seeded Shaler provided him more than enough run support to defeat No. 2 Bethel Park,...
Greensburg Central Catholic holds off OLSH to advance to PIAA softball playoffs
In a win-or-go-home scenario Tuesday at Gateway, the Greensburg Central Catholic softball team survived. The Centurions bounced back from last week’s WPIAL Class 2A semifinal loss to No. 1 Neshannock with a 7-6 victory over Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in a battle for third place where only the...
14th-seeded Hopewell completes Cinderella run to WPIAL Class 4A crown with win over Latrobe
Landon Fox was hurting but hunting. The Hopewell senior pitcher injured his lower back in the last playoff game and was feeling pain early in Tuesday’s WPIAL Class 4A championship game. “It was getting pretty bad in the third inning,” Fox said. “But I figured, you only get to the...
