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Trib HSSN baseball player of the week: Zach Hare School: Riverside Class: Senior Position: Pitcher, first base #Earned: Many high school coaches want their players and teams to improve as the season goes on, hopefully playing their best ball in the postseason. The success curve has been pretty high for...

Not only is the sixth month of the year underway, but one of the final athletic events on the school calendar begins Monday with the first pitch of the PIAA baseball and softball championships. The Seneca Valley baseball team just captured the program’s fifth WPIAL championship. Now it begins its...

With the WPIAL spring sports postseason in the rear view mirror, the only thing left is two weeks of the PIAA playoffs in those recently concluded sports as we kick off June here on the TribLive High School Sports Network. We have video and audio coverage from several PIAA state...

PIAA baseball playoffs Class 2A First round 7-3 Riverview (15-7) vs. 10-1 Mercyhurst Prep (22-1) 4:30 p.m. Monday at Mercyhurst Winner plays: Winner of 5-1 Tussey Mountain (13-10) and 7-2 Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (15-8) Thursday in quarterfinals (site/time TBD) Players to watch: Zack Kruszewski, Mercyhurst Prep; Johnny...

PIAA baseball playoffs Class A First round Greensburg Central Catholic (18-4) vs. West Middlesex (12-8) 2 p.m. Monday at Slippery Rock University District-finish: Greensburg Central Catholic 7-4; West Middlesex 10-1 Winner plays: Winner of 7-1 Serra Catholic (20-3)/9-2 Clarion (14-6) Thursday in quarterfinals Players to watch: Ian Shipley, Greensburg Central...

Quaker Valley’s track and field teams had a great Memorial Day weekend, carving out memories that will last a lifetime. The Quakers’ track and field program was represented by 16 athletes in 24 events, along with four relay teams, at the PIAA Class 2A meet May 23-24 at Shippensburg University....

Dino Nadarevic entered the PIAA Class 3A track and field championships at Shippensburg confident in his opportunity to bring home PIAA gold. “I knew I was one of the top-seeded people there and had a good chance at winning both events,” he said. “I knew it was my last state...

Gateway’s Logan Memije and Zidaan Hassan again carried the mantle of WPIAL champions into the PIAA Class 3A doubles tournament May 23-24 at the Hershey Racquet Club. And for the second time in as many years, the Gators duo — Hassan a senior and Memije a junior — brought home...

Two of the district’s more dynamic softball players competed at Sewickley Academy this spring. Marie Bigi, a four-year senior starter at catcher, hit .595 in the 2025 regular season with a lofty .929 slugging percentage and .630 on-base percentage. Quincy Sirko, also a four-year starter at pitcher/third base, finished with...

Both Quaker Valley track and field teams won PIAA Class 2A titles at the state championship meet May 24-25 at Shippensburg University. The following is a description of two state title performances from a coach’s perspective. QV coach Jared Jones offered the following: The girls’ story Going into the weekend,...

Quaker Valley’s girls lacrosse team qualified for both the WPIAL and PIAA playoffs this season. The QV girls advanced to the Class 2A state tournament as the district’s third-place team. “The girls are excited for states,” QV coach Laura Peery said before the PIAA playoffs were set to begin June...

High schools Baseball PIAA tournament First round Monday’s schedule Class 6A Ephrata (16-8) at North Penn (19-5), 4 p.m.; Landisville Hempfield (20-1) at Hazleton (17-5), 4:30 p.m.; Neshaminy (14-7) at Parkland (21-5), 4 p.m.; Coatesville (18-6) vs. Monsignor Bonner-Archbishop Prendergast (18-6) at LaSalle College HS, 1 p.m.; Perkiomen Valley (16-8)...

Some teams thrive on the pressures of a big game; those are the ones that usually are lined up on the basepath with gold hanging from their necks. Then there are those who come up short, and either settle for silver or worse and see their season end short of...

The month of May and the district baseball playoffs finished with the winds of change affecting all but one classification when it comes to the weekly Trib HSSN state rankings. Eight teams came up empty in their quest for district gold and at the same time, could not hold on...

When the Penn-Trafford softball team won its only PIAA Class 5A title, it had not won the WPIAL title. The Warriors lost to Connellsville in the WPIAL semifinals and then had to defeat Franklin Regional in the third-place game to qualify for the 2019 state tournament, which they did, 6-2....

Junior Gabby Dusi is changing course for her college tennis career. The Belle Vernon standout, who won back-to-back WPIAL Class 2A singles championships, announced last week she committed to Duquesne. She previously made a verbal pledge to Saint Francis (Pa.), but with SFU dropping from NCAA Division I to Division...

SEATTLE — Cole Young hit a fielder’s choice in the 11th inning in his major league debut for his first RBI, giving the Seattle Mariners a 5-4 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Saturday night. Promoted from Triple-A Tacoma prior to the game, the North Allegheny graduate hit a dribbler...

The Riverview baseball team’s pitching and defense surrendered just six runs over four games in the WPIAL Class 2A baseball tournament. That is a surefire recipe for postseason success. While the Raiders didn’t reach their goal of playing for a WPIAL championship, they were able to parlay three victories in...

Plum junior Owen Proskin took a big-meet understanding into the PIAA Class 3A track and field championships May 23-24 at Shippensburg. Having competed at states last year as a sophomore and also at several prestigious USA Track and Field meets, Proskin was ready to go after it in the 110-...

Sprinter Ryan Schiller came home from Shippensburg with the best Norwin individual finish at the PIAA track championships since 2017. Schiller finished second in the 110-meter hurdles in a time of 14.36 seconds. The Knights had plenty of highlights from the state meet, which celebrated its 100th anniversary, at Seth...

Jack Bertram will have to settle for being the fastest distance runner in North Allegheny history. The Notre Dame-bound senior ran gold medal-worthy times at the PIAA Class 3A track and field championships May 23-24 but met opponents just a little bit faster. “I’m not too disappointed with how the...

Jill Capozzi was unsure if she would ever coach again after stepping away from Sewickley Academy in February. Then one phone call stopped her in her tracks. “I walked away from it without really thinking I was getting back into it at all,” she said. “But that didn’t last long.”...

Carson Kittsley’s consistency at the Penn State White Course last fall was the headliner of a busy sports year at Fox Chapel. The sophomore golfer shot an 8-under par 136 to win the PIAA Class 3A title. Kittsley, who missed the state tournament by a few strokes as a freshman,...

Shady Side Academy fell just short of winning the WPIAL Class 3A championship in boys lacrosse. Mt. Lebanon’s Max Prezioso scored with 34 seconds remaining to lead the Blue Devils to a 12-11 win in the title game May 22. Shady Side Academy had a three-goal lead, 10-7, in the...

Fox Chapel track and field coach Tom Moul said the experience gained at the PIAA Class 3A championships at Shippensburg will serve the program well in the future. The Foxes would have liked to have brought home medals but saw the benefits of having underclassmen get some time at a...