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Welcome to 2025 spring sports postseason where this week, the WPIAL baseball, softball, boys volleyball and lacrosse playoffs all begin. On Monday, it is only softball, girls lacrosse and two baseball preliminary games on the postseason center stage. The WPIAL has always tried to avoid having teams from the same...

The 2025 WPIAL spring sports postseason begins with preliminary round, first round and quarterfinal action throughout the week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN will have video and audio coverage of the start of the WPIAL baseball, softball, boys and girls lacrosse and boys volleyball playoffs. Plus...

WPIAL softball playoffs Class 5A First round 1-Penn-Trafford (17-2) vs. 16-Moon (7-8) 5 p.m. Monday at West Mifflin Winner plays: Winner of 8-Plum (14-5)/9-Chartiers Valley (11-6) in quarterfinals Players to watch: Cam Ponko, Penn-Trafford; Katie Demarco, Moon Extra bases: Penn-Trafford is one of the hottest teams in the playoffs, winning...

WPIAL softball playoffs Class 5A First round 9-Chartiers Valley (11-6) vs. 8-Plum (14-5) 3 p.m. Monday at West Mifflin Winner plays: Winner of 1-Penn-Trafford (17-2)/16-Moon (8-9) in quarterfinals Players to watch: Lily Duffill, Chartiers Valley; Danielle Pici, Plum Extra bases: Chartiers Valley tied for second in Section 3 with a...

Six players were named second-team all-state for the 2024-25 season in Class 2A boys basketball. Lucas Grimsley, a 6-foot-4 junior guard at Sewickley Academy, was one of the chosen few in a statewide vote of media members. “Lucas is a very good 3-point shooter but also has the ability to...

Eden Christian Academy and Sewickley Academy clinched berths in the WPIAL baseball playoffs in Section 3-A this season. Eden Christian, Serra Catholic and Bishop Canevin tied for the top spot in the section with 8-2 records while Sewickley finished in fourth place. “We have focused all year on one pitch...

A couple of postponements created a busy scenario for the final week of the regular season for the Gateway boys volleyball team. Four matches in four days, starting with a crucial Section 4 clash with Central Catholic and continuing with matches against Plum, Penn Hills and Fox Chapel, decided the...

The North Allegheny and Gateway boys tennis teams expected to play a close match down to the wire when they met to decide the WPIAL Class 3A title for a third year in a row. Each team scored 3-2 victories the previous two seasons, Gateway claiming gold in 2023 and...

The Quaker Valley girls flag football team won its first “Bridge Beam” trophy May 4 by defeating Ambridge, 19-0, at Chuck Knox Stadium. The winner of the Quaker Valley-Ambridge game receives the Bridge Beam. Mia Duckstein, Natalie Minnock and Ella Palmer scored touchdowns for the Quakers. QV also lost 25-0...

Sewickley Academy’s Herlynn Niepa enjoyed her time May 1 at the inaugural Bobby Mo Don’t Run Slow track and field invitational hosted by Robert Morris. Niepa, a junior, won the girls high jump event by clearing a height of 5 feet, 1.5 inches. “It was a great experience, and I’m...

The Sewickley Academy softball team has been a force since the start of the 2025 season, and the Panthers are looking to maintain that status in the WPIAL Class A playoffs. “Our team has become a tight-knit group,” Sewickley coach Bob Sirko said. “We emphasized playing to a standard, and...

Emily Reiner has engineered quite a career as a student-athlete at Quaker Valley. And she has mapped out a unique blueprint for college. A senior and fourth-year starting goalkeeper on QV’s girls lacrosse team, Reiner also is a standout hockey player. As such, she has committed to continuing her career...

The Quaker Valley track and field teams stormed past the opposition April 30 in the semifinals of the WPIAL Class 2A team playoffs at Shenango. The QV girls ran past Winchester Thurston, 81-68, Brownsville, 119-30, and South Side, 135-15, to advance to the WPIAL finals to face North Catholic, Carlynton...

Quaker Valley was hoping to ride its late-season momentum to a strong showing in the WPIAL Class 3A baseball playoffs. With one game remaining, QV held onto third place at 5-4 in Section 1-3A behind Riverside (9-1) and Ellwood City (8-2) and ahead of Mohawk (5-5). “The coaches and I...

High schools Baseball Saturday’s results Butler 6, Kiski Area 1 WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Quarterfinals May 19 schedule Times, sites TBA Hempfield (8-12) vs. North Allegheny (14-6); Butler (11-8) vs. Norwin (12-8); North Hills (7-12) vs. Canon-McMillan (14-6); Mt. Lebanon (8-12) vs Seneca Valley (14-6) Class 5A First round Wednesday’s...

Riley Miller School: Hempfield Class: Senior Sport: Softball Claim to fame: Miller, a Kent State commit who has more than 500 career strikeouts, led No. 2-ranked Hempfield (19-1, 15-1 Class 6A) to a crisp, 1-0 victory over No. 1 Seneca Valley and the program’s 32nd section championship. The right-hander allowed...

Uniontown’s new football coach is Tim Bukowski, who was the lead man at Southmoreland for three seasons before resigning in December. He replaces Keith Jeffries, who stepped down after four seasons and a 15-20 record. Bukowski spent seven seasons overall with Southmoreland, four as an assistant, and helped the Scotties...

Mackenzie Marotta School: Plum Class: Junior Sport: Softball Claim to fame: As Plum (14-5, 8-4) took on Burrell on Monday, Marotta had a hit and two RBIs. On Tuesday, she pitched the Mustangs to a 10-0 win over Deer Lakes. She threw five no-hit innings and struck out five while...

When Tom Giotto learned the Alle-Kiski Valley Sports Hall of Fame would be inducting the 1971 Kiski Area football team, he started calling his former teammates. One of the players on that WPIAL Class AAA championship squad responded to the news with a bit of exasperation. “He said: ‘What took...

Jaden Wall has the same routine every Saturday morning. He heads down to Valley High School to lift weights to get ready for football season. When Wall saw the Willie Thrower Award Foundation Quarterback Camp was going on Saturday morning, he took the opportunity to do a different type of...

North Allegheny is known for its distance runners, but some of the Tigers’ most valuable athletes only travel about 8 feet. The throwers for the North Allegheny track and field team, while not as acclaimed as the school’s decorated runners, are a key reason the Tigers went undefeated in Section...