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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...
High school roundup for April 24, 2023: Nick Walker’s walk-off walk pushes Montour past Blackhawk
The aptly named Nick Walker drove in the winning run with a walk-off walk in the bottom of the seventh inning, lifting Montour to a 3-2 victory over Blackhawk in a battle for first place in Section 1-4A. Zac Stern tripled and drove in a run and Jake Robinson gave...
Greensburg Central Catholic prevails over Apollo-Ridge in wild, weather-affected game
When the Apollo-Ridge and Greensburg Central Catholic softball teams met at Apollo-Ridge on April 5, it was a low-scoring Section 2-2A affair won by the Centurions. Monday’s rematch had a lot more scoring. The teams combined for 18 runs over the first two innings amidst chilly conditions and a rain-snow...
Riverview’s Enzo Lio throws shutout in Raiders’ bounceback win vs. Ligonier Valley
The Riverview baseball team ended a string of 13 scoreless innings, sending nine batters to the plate during a four-run fourth that sparked a 7-0 victory Monday at Ligonier Valley. Raiders left-hander Enzo Lio limited the Rams to two hits and one walk while striking out 11 as Riverview (7-3,...
Top-ranked Armstrong routs Latrobe
Latrobe softball players stayed as positive as they could, for as long as they could, still believing they could stage a rally as a cold wind whipped across the field. “We’re not done, yet,” the girls repeated in the dugout. “We got this.” Coach Bob Kovalcin loved his team’s teeth-chattering...
Trib HSSN softball team of the week for April 24, 2023
Neshannock knows what it’s like to be perfect on the softball diamond. The Lancers finished 26-0 last year, winning the program’s first WPIAL championship since 2014 and first PIAA crown since 2012. So the team’s encore to going undefeated in 2022 has been, well, perfect. The Lancers picked up three...
Trib HSSN softball player of the week for April 24, 2023
In her two and a half years of playing high school softball, Elizabeth Forward junior Shelby Telegdy has accomplished a lot, both in the pitcher’s circle and at the plate. However, the one thing that has eluded her thus far is a WPIAL championship. The Warriors reached the final four...
South Fayette’s Maddie Webber, Union coach Rob Nogay lead all-state girls basketball team
South Fayette senior Maddie Webber, a Villanova recruit who led the Lions to a WPIAL title and a PIAA runner-up finish this winter, was named the state’s Class 5A girls basketball player of the year by all-state voters. Webber was one of 21 WPIAL athletes who earned all-state honors Monday...
Westmoreland County Senior Spotlight: Ligonier Valley’s Noah Lawson
After going 9-11 last year in Class 3A, Ligonier Valley’s baseball team dropped to Class 2A following the season. That switch already is paying dividends, leading to a 7-2 start to the season, including a 5-1 mark in Section 3-2A. Ligonier Valley is also coming off of a two-game sweep...
A-K Valley Senior Spotlight: Freeport’s Jack Smetak
A few weeks into baseball season, a lot of teams are still adjusting to facing different teams and shuffling positions around to find the right fit. For Freeport, the team is ready to face adversity head on and compete for the section title. Among the talented players on the roster...
Seneca Valley vaults into top 10 as volleyball coaches association releases latest WPIAL boys rankings
Shaler remained at the top in Class 3A as the Western Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association released its Week 6 rankings Monday morning. Penn-Trafford, North Allegheny, Canon-McMillan, Hempfield and Norwin also stayed strong at Nos. 2 through No. 6, respectively. Seneca Valley was the big mover just one week after falling...
Trib HSSN baseball player of the week for April 23, 2023
These are the best of times for Laurel Highlands senior athletes. The football team enjoyed back-to-back runs to the Class 4A quarterfinals. The basketball team has been a district power, winning WPIAL championships in 2020 and 2022. Even the baseball team has reached the district semifinals two years in a...
Trib HSSN baseball team of the week for April 23, 2023
Kurt Wolfe knows something about championship teams. The veteran Pine-Richland baseball coach was an assistant on the Rams’ 2004 and ‘05 title teams, and has been the head coach for four golden runs in 2006, ‘10, ‘17 and ‘19. There is a lot of baseball still left, especially with two...
This week on Trib HSSN for week of April 24, 2023
The TribLive High School Sports Network concludes the month of April with plenty of WPIAL baseball, softball and boys and girls lacrosse this week. Trib HSSN continues coverage of WPIAL softball and baseball with a busy week of section action from the diamonds. We also have some WPIAL boys and...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for April 24, 2023: North Hills, Shaler to face off in Section 3
The final week of April means section play in WPIAL baseball and softball is winding down. The schedule is loaded with plenty of key games, including the start of a baseball section showdown between two of the top teams in Class 5A. North Hills and Shaler have won two of...
