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Trib 10: Slight shift in baseball, softball power rankings
There was little movement in the latest Trib 10 rankings. You can call it shifting; there was only one team out and one school in. That change occurred in the baseball rankings as a tough section series with Shaler dropped North Hills from the power rankings. Joining the Trib 10...
WPIAL softball playoff clinchings through April 26, 2023
The WPIAL softball playoff field is growing with each day of section action. Exclusive coverage of the 2023 WPIAL softball playoffs is only here on TribHSSN.TribLive.com, starting with the brackets being unveiled during the Playoff Pairings Show. The top four teams in each section qualify for the postseason. In Class...
High school roundup for April 26, 2023: Avonworth fends off challenge from Deer Lakes
Rylee Gray singled, doubled, homered and drove in four runs to lead Avonworth to a 14-4 victory over Deer Lakes in a matchup of the top two teams in the Section 1-3A softball standings Wednesday. Abigail Brooks singled, homered and also plated four for the Antelopes (14-1, 8-0). Tira Wakmonski...
Southmoreland close to clinching Section 3 softball title
The Southmoreland softball team all but wrapped up the WPIAL Section 3-3A title Wednesday. The Scotties (6-1 8-2) got a solid pitching performance from junior Madison Brown, and sophomore Makayla Etling collected four hits, including her third home run of the season, in an 11-1 six inning mercy rule game...
Ace Lexie Hames fans 19 as Seneca Valley wins Class 6A showdown with Norwin
Like mother, like daughter? Or something like that. Lexie Hames has picked up where her mother, Marlesse Hames, left off. Or something like that. “She’s 10 times better than me. She’s a better athlete than I was, for sure,” Seneca Valley softball coach Marlesse Hames said of her daughter, sophomore...
A-K Valley athletes hope to contend for medals at WCCA track and field championships
With just three weeks remaining until the WPIAL track and field championships at Slippery Rock, Thursday’s Westmoreland County Coaches Association championships at Latrobe Memorial Stadium serves as somewhat of an opening salvo for Kiski Area, Burrell and Valley in the stretch run of the regular season. A number of individuals...
Make no mistake, Franklin Regional softball team shuts down Latrobe
Backlit by an error-free performance from her defense, senior pitcher Carli Ramchandran put together one of the better outings of her career against a strong lineup. It led to a 4-1 victory over Latrobe that was crisp, sound and necessary for the Franklin Regional softball team. Ramchandran threw a two-hitter...
Favorites from Gateway, underdogs from Chartiers Valley claim WPIAL doubles titles
Super sophomores Adam Memije and Zidaan Hassan of Gateway met little resistance on the first day of the 2023 WPIAL boys doubles championships as the top seeds rolled to three convincing wins, losing only two games in reaching the Class 3A finals. So when the duo did meet a challenge...
Norwin teams, Hempfield throwers among athletes to beat as WCCA meet hits milestone
The Westmoreland County Coaches’ Association is celebrating its 100th boys track and field championship Thursday at Latrobe’s Memorial Stadium. The girls championship didn’t begin until 1980. As part of the celebration, the WCCA has invited all past champions to the event for a social at 5 p.m. and hope they...
Westmoreland County softball notebook: Greensburg Salem battling through injuries
Greensburg Salem had to play two recent softball games with only 11 players because of a rash of injuries. The Golden Lions (6-7, 3-5) have dealt with a concussion, a jaw issue and an upper-body injury as a result of a hit batter, all in recent games. Still, they remained...
Franklin Regional freshman Luke Williams commits to play baseball at Virginia
Luke Williams hits the baseball and makes plays in the field with a maturity beyond his years. His coach, Bobby Saddler, called him “the real deal.” The Franklin Regional shortstop is only a freshman, but he already has his sights on a Division I playing career. Williams announced Wednesday a...
North Hills’ Royce Parham commits to Marquette
North Hills junior Royce Parham, one of the WPIAL’s top college basketball recruits, committed Wednesday to Marquette. The 6-foot-8 forward announced his commitment on Twitter. His other finalists were Pitt, Penn State and Xavier. Rivals.com has rated him as a four-star prospect and ranked him 82nd overall nationally among 2024...
Former North Allegheny basketball coach Dan DeRose files lawsuit against Fox Chapel School District after ’21 altercation
Dan DeRose wants to coach high school basketball again, but the former WPIAL champion said school districts have shied away because of criminal charges he faced two years ago involving Fox Chapel school police. Senior Judge W. Terrence O’Brien of Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas ultimately dismissed those charges...
It’s a whole new ballgame when coaches switch from baseball to softball
It was like a strange but lucid dream. The field was closing in. The dimensions were shrinking. The fence was so close, he felt like he could reach out and touch it. And that high-pitched yelling in the dugout: What was that all about? Tommy Quealy wasn’t hallucinating. He was...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for April 25, 2023
High schools WPIAL Baseball Tuesday’s results Class 6A Section 1 Butler 10, Allderdice 0 Seneca Valley 9, North Allegheny 0 Section 2 Canon-McMillan 6, Baldwin 5 Norwin 5, Central Catholic 4 Mt. Lebanon 3, Hempfield 0 Class 5A Section 1 Franklin Regional 6, Armstrong 0 Plum 14, Gateway 7 Penn-Trafford...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on April 26, 2023: Top seed could be on the line in 6A softball
Norwin (10-1, 12-2) has five Section 1-6A games left while defending champion Seneca Valley (9-1, 10-1) has six remaining entering a busy day of WPIAL softball. While the Knights and Raiders are tied for first place with one section loss each, Hempfield is a game behind them, and North Allegheny...
WPIAL baseball playoff clinchings through April 25, 2023
The 2023 WPIAL baseball playoff field is starting to take shape in each of the six classifications. The top four teams in each section qualify for the playoffs. Exclusive coverage of the 2023 WPIAL baseball playoffs is only here on TribHSSN.TribLive.com starting with the unveiling of the brackets in the...
High school roundup for April 25, 2023: Seneca Valley stings North Allegheny
Mike Delduca and Hunter Troiano each had two hits and two RBIs to lead Seneca Valley to a 9-0 victory over North Allegheny to split the first two games of a Section 1-6A baseball series Tuesday night. Winning pitcher Zach Tkatch struck out six in 6⅓ innings for the Raiders...
Shaler puts best foot forward in section sweep of North Hills
Heading into this week’s Section 3-5A series showdown between neighbors Shaler and North Hills who were tied for first place with 5-1 records, there appeared to be little separating these two recent district champions. However, after back-to-back wins by a combined score of 21-0, the Titans and Indians appear to...
Penn-Trafford gets needed sweep, improves playoff position
If the Penn-Trafford baseball team had any hope of making the WPIAL Class 5A playoffs this season, a sweep of last-place Penn Hills was mandatory. The Warriors split three previous two-game series in Section 1. After holding on to defeat Penn Hills on Monday, the Warriors weren’t about to split...
Yough gets balanced offense, stellar pitching in rout of Mt. Pleasant
A day after scoring four runs in the top of the fifth of a come-from-behind win over Mt. Pleasant, the Yough baseball team made sure another comeback wasn’t needed in a Section 4-3A matchup Tuesday afternoon. The Cougars had 14 hits and featured six players with multi-hit performances in an...
Kiski Area dedicates track to former coach William Halli
William “Bill” Halli and Richard Dilts are together again. The former football coaching colleagues at Kiski Area who later served together in athletic administration at the school now have their names forever linked at the football stadium. On Tuesday, Kiski Area honored Halli with a ceremony renaming the track at...
Class 2A bracket filled with upsets at WPIAL doubles championships
In Class 3A, things went according to plan, but in Class 2A, the seeds were thrown right out the window at the WPIAL doubles championships Tuesday. The top two seeds – No. 1 Adam Memije and Zidaan Hassan of Gateway and No. 2 Deniz Finkel and Ian Kuchera of Allderdice...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for April 24, 2023
High schools WPIAL Baseball Monday’s results Class 6A Section 1 Butler 6, Allderdice 4 North Allegheny 7, Seneca Valley 0 Section 2 Canon-McMillan 8, Baldwin 0 Mt. Lebanon 6, Hempfield 0 Central Catholic 6, Norwin 1 Class 5A Section 1 Franklin Regional 4, Armstrong 0 Penn-Trafford 7, Penn Hills 6...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Tuesday, April 25, 2023: 4-way section title battle heats up in 2A softball
One of the best races for a WPIAL softball section championship continues to be in Section 3-2A, where the top four teams have been bunched together since the section opener. One game in the loss column continues to separate Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (8-2 overall), Burgettstown (8-4) and...
