High School category, Page 59

Put the ball in play. It sounds simple enough, and Norwin believes it is the key to overtaking Seneca Valley in the WPIAL 6A semifinals. The Knights (10-11) will take on No. 2 seed Seneca Valley (15-3) and ace flamethrower Lexie Hames at 4 p.m. Tuesday at Fox Chapel for...

WPIAL baseball playoffs Class 3A Quarterfinals 1-Riverside (14-2) vs. 8-Burrell (13-8) 7 p.m. Tuesday at North Allegheny Winner plays: Winner of 4-Waynesburg Central (16-3)/5-South Park (13-6) on Wednesday in semifinals (time, site TBD) Players to watch: Christian Lucarelli, Riverside; Ryan Wass, Burrell Extra bases: The Panthers were WPIAL runners-up last...

WPIAL softball playoffs Class 6A Semifinals 6-Norwin (10-11) vs. 2-Seneca Valley (15-3) 4 p.m. Tuesday at Fox Chapel Winner plays: Winner of 4-Canon-McMillan (12-8)/1-Hempfield (19-1) in championship May 28-29 at Lilley Field, Cal (Pa.) Players to watch: Abbie Telli, Norwin; Lexie Hames, Seneca Valley Extra bases: Norwin upset No. 3...

WPIAL baseball playoffs Class A Quarterfinals 5-Greensburg Central Catholic (18-2) vs. 4-Bishop Canevin (11-6) 4 p.m. Tuesday at West Mifflin Winner plays: Winner of 1-Serra Catholic (17-3)/8-Jefferson-Morgan (14-3) on Wednesday in the semifinals (time, site TBD) Players to watch: Anthony Grippo, Greensburg Central Catholic; Jackson Maddix, Bishop Canevin Extra bases:...

The start of the second week of the WPIAL postseason marks a busy few days filled with district quarterfinal and semifinal action. It also finally marks the start of the Class 6A baseball playoffs. With only eight teams qualifying for the postseason in the highest classification, all four quarterfinals will...

High schools Baseball WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Quarterfinals Monday’s schedule Hempfield (8-12) vs. North Allegheny (14-6) at Boyce Mayview Park, 7 p.m.; Butler (11-8) vs. Norwin (12-8) at North Allegheny, 4 p.m.; North Hills (7-12) vs. Canon-McMillan (14-6) at Boyce Mayview Park, 4 p.m.; Mt. Lebanon (8-12) vs Seneca Valley...

The West All-Stars swept two games at the Pennsylvania Scholastic Football Coaches Association East-West football all-star games Sunday at Cumberland Valley’s Chapman Field. In the small school game, the West defeated the East, 14-0. Carson Nagle (Bald Eagle Area) threw a 1-yard touchdown pass to Hamilton Gates (Bishop Guilfoyle) and...

The 2025 WPIAL spring sports postseason continues with quarterfinal and semifinal action throughout the week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN will have video and audio coverage of the second week of the WPIAL baseball, softball, boys lacrosse and boys volleyball playoffs. Plus the Rebel Yell podcasts...

WPIAL Class 6A Quarterfinals 4-Norwin (12-8) vs. 5-Butler (12-8) 4 p.m. Monday at North Allegheny, Wexford Winner plays: Winner of North Allegheny/Hempfield on Tuesday in the semifinals Players to watch: Brayden Wardzinski, Norwin; Boden Lenyk, Butler. Extra bases: Wardzinski is 5-0 for Norwin. Senior Nate Silberman is committed to play...

When Upper St. Clair flag football coach Ryan Huzjak got the program started, he was hoping to one day bring a championship to the school. On Sunday, Huzjak was able to fulfill that goal. The Panthers shut out two-time defending champion Moon, 12-0, in the fourth annual girls High School...

If Warren Schaeffer can achieve his dream, so can anybody from Greensburg Central Catholic. The former Centurions star’s meteoric rise in the Colorado Rockies’ coaching ranks has caught the attention of the current team just in time for the WPIAL Class A playoffs. Schaeffer, who helped lead GCC to a...

Dino Nadarevic had already claimed one WPIAL title last Wednesday at the Class 3A track and field championships before he went for more. With a gold medal in the shot put already placed around his neck, Nadarevic, a Gateway senior, smashed the school record in the discus and dominated the...

Eden Christian Academy received a first-round bye as the No. 2 seed in the WPIAL Class A baseball playoffs. “We’re excited to be in the tournament,” Eden coach Mark Feldman said succinctly. “Our lineup will be finalized the day of our game.” The Warriors weren’t scheduled to play their first...

Sewickley Academy’s softball team was assigned the No. 4 seed for the WPIAL Class A playoffs. The top three seeds went Union, Carmichaels and West Greene. “We are very excited and honored to have earned the four seed,” Sewickley coach Bob Sirko said. “I am happy the girls have been...

The Sewickley Academy girls lacrosse team had a busy final week of the regular season, playing four games in five days. The Panthers went 3-1, which included an impressive 7-5 upset victory against Moon and an exciting 9-7 win against North Hills during which sophomore midfielder Emma Eannarino scored her...

Thanks to a 10-2 record and third-place finish in Section 2, the Sewickley Academy boys lacrosse team received the No. 5 seed for the WPIAL Class 2A playoffs. The Panthers posted an 8-2 record in section play to end up behind only Mars (10-0) and Hampton (9-1). “We are extremely...

Both Quaker Valley track and field teams won WPIAL championships in Class 2A again this season. And it never was a close call for either squad. “I am just blown away by our teams,” QV coach Jared Jones said. “They are such a great group of kids. It is so...

Since the spring of 2022, only one team has won the girls championship at the WPIAL Class 2A team track and field finals. The Quaker Valley girls defeated North Catholic (101-49), Carlynton (97-53) and Laurel (97-53) in the championship meet May 6 at Peters Township Middle School, giving the Quakers...

Tom Eshenbaugh has a strong background in business leadership. He hopes to utilize that knowledge to help restore the Quaker Valley football program to the land of respectability. Eshenbaugh, 45, recently was named head coach of the QV varsity football team. Along with his business ties in the private sector,...

Quaker Valley’s baseball team shook off a few late-season losses with a four-game winning streak resulting in a 12-6 overall record. As a result, the Quakers received the No. 7 seed for the WPIAL Class 3A playoffs and a first-round game with No. 10 Ligonier Valley. “It is always difficult...

History repeated itself for Penn-Trafford senior Logan Kerstetter. For the second consecutive season, Kerstetter went into the WPIAL Class 3A track and field championship May 14 at Slippery Rock’s Mihalik-Thompson Stadium as an underdog in the javelin. And for the second consecutive season, Kerstetter won the title. He was one...

When Nick Turowski plays golf, he likes to play fast. He said he’s slowed down a bit in college by taking his time walking up to his ball. “I don’t like to wait around,” Turowski said after tying for third May 13 at the U.S. Open local qualifier at Quicksilver...

It’s never an easy task to find a new coach. Even more so when the person being replaced has been a coach and a pillar of a sporting community for 30 years. Such was the case for the Pine-Richland High School swim team and its feeder program, Pine-Richland Aquatics (PRA)....