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Baldwin baseball team showed potent offense
The Baldwin baseball team was an offensive juggernaut this spring. Baldwin hit .305 for the season with 16 home runs and 25 doubles. The Highlanders finished 10-10 overall. “The calling card for this team was its offense,” coach Steve Bucci said. “We had a really solid season. We didn’t qualify...
Westmoreland softball playoff capsules: Games of Monday, May 23, 2022
Class 4A quarterfinals 5-Montour (13-4) vs. 4-Yough (13-3) 3 p.m. at West Mifflin Winner plays: Winner of 8-Freeport (10-6) vs. 1-Beaver (16-0) on Wednesday in semifinals Players to watch: Mia Arndt, Montour; McKenzie Pritts, Yough Extra bases: Montour held off Knoch in the first round 11-9. The Spartans trailed 9-7...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for May 21, 2022
High schools Baseball WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Quarterfinals Monday’s schedule Mt. Lebanon (13-7) vs. Seneca Valley (14-7) at West Mifflin, 4 p.m.; Norwin (10-8) vs. Central Catholic (10-9) at Plum, 4 p.m.; North Allegheny (14-5) vs. Upper St. Clair (10-8) at Shaler, 4:30 p.m.; Pine-Richland (11-9) vs. Butler (13-5) at...
A-K Valley Hall of Fame honors 10 inductees
Bob White was a three-year football standout at Freeport who went on to star at Penn State and captain the 1986 Nittany Lions to the national championship. Through his on-field successes, he said he always understood there were so many people who helped guide him. “When I find myself in...
Quaker Valley tennis falls in state semifinals
WPIAL champion Quaker Valley saw its bid for a PIAA Class 2A team tennis title end in the state semifinals Saturday in Hershey. The Quakers lost to eventual state champ Masterman, 3-2. For Quaker Valley, Will Sirianni defeated Daniel Li, 6-4, 6-0, at No. 2 singles and Henry Veeck and...
Westmoreland notebook: Jeannette continues to honor the late Tre Cunningham
Tre Cunningham’s name and legacy carries on at Jeannette. The late three-sport star, who was killed in a motorcycle accident in the summer of 2020, was honored through a high school boys’ basketball tournament last year at Jeannette. Last week, the Jeannette Educational Foundation presented the Tre Cunningham Memorial Basketball...
Westmoreland athletes of the week: GCC’s Corinn Brewer, Penn-Trafford’s Andrew Kessler
Corinn Brewer School: Greensburg Central Catholic Year: Senior Claim to fame: Brewer continues to prove she is one of the elite track and field athletes in the WPIAL. The Notre Dame commit won the pole vault at the WPIAL Class 2A championships at Slippery Rock, while also finishing second in...
George Guido: Alle-Kiski Valley softball teams down to Final 4
And then there were four. We started with 17 baseball and softball teams from the Alle-Kiski Valley to begin the WPIAL playoffs last Tuesday: six baseball and 11 softball. At the end of the week, we were down to four, all in softball. Burrell and Freeport will be active Monday...
A-K Valley athletes of the week: Freeport’s Sydney Selker, Apollo-Ridge’s Greg Klingensmith
Sydney Selker School: Freeport Class: Sophomore Sport: Softball Report card: Selker threw a complete game, allowing one run on five hits against Central Valley in the first round of the WPIAL playoffs on Wednesday. Selker batted .483 and hit seven home runs while driving in 27 runs during the regular...
Norwin notebook: Baseball team finishes strong to earn playoff berth
The Norwin baseball team rallied to earn a WPIAL Class 6A playoff spot and a decent seed in the bracket. The fourth-seeded Knights (10-8) were scheduled to take on No. 5 Central Catholic (10-9) in the quarterfinals of the eight-team bracket May 23. The Knights were 4-6 at one point...
North Hills pitcher Sophia Roncone picks up bat, becomes doubly dangerous
Sophia Roncone has been one of the most electric pitchers in WPIAL Class 5A softball for the last couple of years. This season, however, she gave opponents two reasons to worry about her. Roncone went 10-2 in the circle during the regular season with 116 strikeouts and 48 walks. The...
Led by emerging talents, North Hills boys lacrosse team on the rise
Just two years on the job and Alex Mueser is seeing some very enjoyable progress. Mueser, a former Saint Vincent and Vincentian Academy standout, took over a building North Hills boys lacrosse program before last season. It took a year, but the Indians were able to put together a solid...
North Allegheny volleyball standouts savor time in elite program
The North Allegheny boys volleyball team is taking on Central Dauphin for the 2021 PIAA championship. The team’s adrenaline is rushing and the players are about to cement their legacy as champions. With the team about to clinch the victory, coach Dan Shall calls a timeout. “We were up 24-16...
Franklin Regional softball already looking ahead to 2023
It wasn’t the way the Franklin Regional softball team wanted to end the 2022 season after a promising start. But losing a starting pitcher with two games left in the season is tough to overcome. That’s what happened to the Panthers when junior pitcher Carli Ramchandran sustained a broken right...
Catcher Bella Henzler ends Hampton career with flourish
The Hampton softball team will return almost everyone from this year’s WPIAL Class 5A playoff qualifier, but one loss is going to sting. Senior catcher Bella Henzler played her final high school game in the Talbots’ 11-5 loss to top-seeded Armstrong on May 17 at Mars in the opening round...
Busy Matt DeMatteo ready to represent Hampton in Big 33
Memorial Day weekend should be a memorable one for Matt DeMatteo. And a very eventful one. The Hampton senior will compete in the PIAA Class 3A track and field championships May 27-28 at Shippensburg University before heading to Harrisburg to play for Team Pennsylvania in the prestigious Big 33 All-Star...
Fox Chapel tennis team celebrates win over rival in WPIAL finals, PIAA 1st-round victory
Many WPIAL championship teams suffer a letdown in their first PIAA tournament game. Not Fox Chapel’s boys tennis team, however. The Foxes, after a convincing, 5-0 victory over Shady Side Academy in the WPIAL Class 3A finals May 11, won their PIAA opener over City League champion Carrick by the...
Fox Chapel baseball, softball teams fall in opening round
It was a tough day on the diamond as the Fox Chapel baseball and softball teams were ousted in the opening round of the WPIAL playoffs on May 17. The baseball team fell to West Allegheny, 1-0, in the Class 5A first round. Vinnie Reiber got the only two Foxes’...
Fox Chapel boys lacrosse says goodbye to large senior class
Too many injuries and too many close losses. That’s the 2022 Fox Chapel boys lacrosse season in a nutshell. The Foxes finished 3-5 in section play, 8-7 overall. “It’s nice to have a winning season, that’s definitely a positive,” said Kevin Devinney, Fox Chapel’s fifth-year coach. “I think overall, though,...
Q and A with former Chartiers Valley basketball coach Tim McConnell
The district basketball world was stunned earlier this month when one of the most decorated coaches in WPIAL history decided to make a change and leave the school he had been at for nearly three decades. Tim McConnell resigned from his job as Chartiers Valley girls basketball coach to take...
Chartiers Valley boys tennis team scratches out playoff spot
For the second straight spring, the Chartiers Valley boys tennis team finished fourth in rugged Section 4-3A. “We had a pretty good season,” Colts coach Bobby Mack said. “We are in a tough section, and for us to make it in the playoffs is great.” The Colts lost to North...
Bethel Park senior makes impact during inaugural Western Pa. girls high school hockey season
Bethel Park’s Cameran Evans is making the most of her chances in the inaugural season of the PIHL girls division. Evans, a senior forward, was the leading scorer for the Southwest team in games played through mid-May with seven goals and three assists. “Cam is a very skilled hockey player,”...
Bethel Park baseball, softball teams strive to reach programs’ high standards
The Bethel Park baseball team had a tough act to follow. The Black Hawks entered 2022 season as the reigning PIAA Class 5A champions who also finished as the WPIAL runners-up. Bethel Park won the Section 4-5A title with a 10-0 record in 2021 and racked up a 22-4 overall...
High school sports scores, schedules for May 20, 2022
High schools Baseball WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Quarterfinals Monday’s schedule Mt. Lebanon (13-7) vs. Seneca Valley (14-7) at West Mifflin, 4 p.m.; Norwin (10-8) vs. Central Catholic (10-9) at Plum, 4 p.m.; North Allegheny (14-5) vs. Upper St. Clair (10-8) at Shaler, 4:30 p.m.; Pine-Richland (11-9) vs. Butler (13-5) at...
5 WPIAL teams in Trib HSSN state baseball rankings for May 20, 2022
With two weeks left before the start of the PIAA postseason, the days of losing and hoping to cling to a spot in the Trib HSSN state baseball rankings are done. Get bumped from the district postseason early enough and title hopes, along with a place among the state elite,...
