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Spending months and months in quarantine allowed people to try out new hobbies and find different areas of entertainment. Dario Wolfe’s newfound passion was tennis. He spent months learning the game and practicing. A longtime baseball player, he decided last spring to join the Valley boys tennis team instead. “Dario...

Our Lady of the Sacred Heart is back on top of the Class 2A rankings as the Western Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association released its Week 6 WPIAL boys top-10 polls Monday morning. The Chargers defeated No. 5 Ambridge, 3-1, in Section 1 play last week and also toppled No. 4...

The boys basketball all-state teams will be announced one classification per day this week starting with non-PIAA schools. Westtown senior Dereck Lively, who led the prep school near West Chester to the Pennsylvania Independent Schools Athletic Association title this winter, tops this group as the Non-PIAA Player of the Year....

The WPIAL softball playoff field is a bit of a mixed bag. Some sections are caught up and postseason berths are nearly complete while others are lagging behind with a lot of section ball to be played over the next week. Exclusive coverage of the 2022 WPIAL softball playoffs is...

In a game with no clock, time is running out on WPIAL baseball teams outside the playoff bubble. The top four teams in each section qualify for the district postseason and most teams have one, some have two sectional series left on their regular season schedule. Exclusive coverage of the...

Here are the latest WPIAL girls lacrosse standings and playoff clinching’s for the 2022 regular season through May 1. The top six teams in each section qualify for the district postseason. Only section records are shown. #-Clinched section championship *-Clinched playoff berth x-Eliminated from playoff chase Class 3A Section 1...

Last year, Hampton finished in fourth place in Section 2-5A with an overall record of 7-11. It qualified for the playoffs, but it was a short and not so sweet postseason experience as the team lost to West Allegheny in the opening round 14-1. Those struggles are a distant memory,...

High schools Baseball Monday’s schedule Class 6A Section 1 Allderdice at Central Catholic, 3:30 p.m. North Allegheny at Pine-Richland, 4 p.m. Seneca Valley at Butler, 7:30 p.m. Section 2 Canon-McMillan at Baldwin, 4 p.m. Mt. Lebanon at Upper St. Clair, 7 p.m. Norwin at Hempfield, 4:15 p.m. Class 5A Section...

We welcome with open arms the month of May, warmer weather and the stretch run of the 2022 scholastic spring sports season this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. We have video and audio section action from WPIAL baseball and softball as well as district boys volleyball and...

WPIAL defending 2A baseball champion Shenango entered last week looking up in the standings at Riverside, Laurel and Neshannock and fighting for a playoff spot, only a half-game in front of South Side for fourth place in Section 2-2A. While the Wildcats remain in fourth place seven days later, a...

Welcome to May, where the regular season continues to wind down, and the postseason is two weeks away. Most WPIAL baseball teams will close out their sectional series schedule this week. In five of those sections, the top two teams are deadlocked for first place and will meet in a...

Here are the WPIAL boys lacrosse standings and the district playoff clinchings for the season through May 1. The top six teams in each section qualify for the district postseason. Only section records are shown. *-Clinched playoff berth x-Eliminated from playoff chase Class 3A Section 1 *Mt. Lebanon, 6-0 *Peters...

The Butler Invitational is the largest regular season track meet in the district and is often a good judge of who will be a threat at the WPIAL championships. Pine-Richland junior Natalie McLean certainly made her presence known at this year’s meet, which was held April 22-23. McLean won the...

The Gateway Gators have adopted many of the principles of the “Kromka-way.” Will Kromka, a 6-foot-4 senior outside/middle hitter on the Gateway boys volleyball team, led the Gators to a 4-0 section record at the halfway point of their schedule. “As the season plays out, I expect Will to do...

Despite a sometimes-rocky trip through the Section 1-5A schedule this spring, the Plum softball team still was alive for a WPIAL playoff spot as it entered its home stretch of games. “It’s been a progression throughout the season, and the girls have dealt with a lot, from injuries to a...

Sewickley Academy coach Whitney Snyder had not met freshman Severin Harmon before this season. Snyder did not know Harmon and would not have recognized him. And he surely had not seen him in competition on a tennis court. Well, Harmon made a great first impression on the Panthers’ veteran coach....

Quaker Valley’s softball team hopes the 2022 season ends up being a good learning experience. The Quakers are a young club with five freshmen and three sophomores on its 12-player roster. “This year, QV softball has quite a few newcomers,” coach Nicole Olson said, “and we expect to utilize our...

A.J. Brentzel’s stint as Penn-Trafford wrestling coach has ended after three seasons. With a fifth child on the way in the next three months, Brentzel made a difficult decision and resigned as coach. Job responsibilities and family trumped being a coach. “I hate losing him,” Penn-Trafford Athletic Director Kerry Hetrick...

Maura Wade won’t pout in the circle or outside of it. When it comes to Wade’s time with the Penn Hills softball team, she wants to show the Indians aren’t ready to revert to old habits. While Penn Hills isn’t always technically perfect, the Indians are never boring. Through April...

A long day at Slippery Rock University’s high school invitational wasn’t something Penn Hills track coach Lee Zelkowitz was hoping for. While the meet stretched from 9 a.m. until 9:30 p.m., the Indians were able to get a few things from the trip. First, Penn Hills was able to get...

High schools Baseball Saturday’s results Nonsection Avonworth 15, East (N.Y.) 5 Chartiers Valley 5, Carrick 1 Eden Christian 4, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart 1 Fox Chapel 8, North Hills 2 Portage 6, South Allegheny 2 South Allegheny 20, Conemaugh Township 5 South Park 12, Ringgold 0 Lacrosse Saturday’s...

Hunter Newman broke a 1-1 tie with an RBI double in the fourth inning, leading No. 5 Neshannock to a 3-1 nonsection softball victory over No. 3 Ligonier Valley in a matchup of top Class 2A teams. Newman had two doubles, Ali Giordano tripled, and Addy Frye doubled and was...

Spring is upon us. The flowers are blooming, the lawn mowers are humming and Leechburg is in the WPIAL softball playoffs. The Blue Devils clinched their WPIAL record 35th consecutive Class A softball berth Friday with a doubleheader victory over The Ellis School, 15-0 and 12-1. Leechburg is 6-1 in...

Kiski Area sophomore Eliza Miller was a repeat winner at the Westmoreland County Coaches Association meet. She won the 3,200-meter run. But Miller isn’t fond of the long distance run, so she’s switched to running the 1,600 and 800. Miller won the 1,600 on Saturday at the 99th Annual meet,...

For Terry Preece, there was nothing better than growing up in a small town in the 1960s, not far from the big city. Preece excelled in athletics for that small-town school — Oakmont High School — serving as a team captain in football, basketball and track. In football, he set...