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High school sports scores, schedules for June 15, 2021
High schools Baseball PIAA playoffs Class 6A Finals Friday’s schedule La Salle College vs. North Allegheny at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, Penn State, 4:30 p.m. Class 5A Finals Thursday’s schedule Bethel Park vs. Red Land at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, Penn State, 4:30 p.m. Class 4A Finals Friday’s...
Alle-Kiski Valley Sports Hall of Fame finds home in Tarentum
The Alle-Kiski Valley Sports Hall of Fame has enshrined and celebrated area athletic greats for 50 years, and now the signature plaques and photographs of past inductees have a permanent display in Tarentum. The record of local sports history is housed in a gallery at the renovated G.C. Murphy Building...
Butler tight end Charlie Kreinbucher commits to Akron
The Butler football program has struggled in recent years, but the Golden Tornado has a Division I talent in rising senior Charlie Kreinbucher. The 6-foot-5, 225-pound tight end committed Tuesday to Akron. Kreinbucher chose the Zips over Division I FCS offers from Robert Morris, Bucknell, Elon, Fordham and Lehigh. He...
Ligonier Valley softball team has come a long way under coach Zimmerman
When Mark Zimmerman became the Ligonier Valley softball coach 22 years ago, the program wasn’t very good. And it took Zimmerman almost nine years before the team became a consistent winner in District 6. “The 2008 team got us going,” Zimmerman said. “We won our first Heritage Conference title. They...
WPIAL upholds suspensions of Seton LaSalle football coaches
The WPIAL heard additional evidence about Seton LaSalle’s suspended football coaches during a lengthy hearing Monday but ultimately reached the same decision. As a result, coach Mauro Monz and assistant Jason Pinkston remain suspended for one year. “The board listen to additional testimony and felt that the sanctions provided on...
Shenango shuts out Serra Catholic, advances to 1st PIAA championship gameVideo
Shenango senior Shane Cato led his team with his arm and his bat. Now the Wildcats’ Path to Penn State is complete. Cato pitched six-plus scoreless innings and also doubled in a pair of runs as Shenango earned its first trip to the PIAA Class 2A baseball title game with...
Smerick, River Hawks topple North Hills, advance to PIAA championship game
For Emma Smerick, the softball field at Mars is out of this world. In the WPIAL Class 5A semifinals against Fox Chapel on May 25, Smerick bunted twice for singles and scored the winning run in the bottom of the seventh. Smerick, back at Mars for Monday’s PIAA semifinals against...
High school sports scores, schedules for June 14, 2021
High schools Baseball PIAA playoffs Class 6A Semifinals Monday’s results North Allegheny 3, Spring-Ford 1 La Salle College 2, North Penn 0 Finals Friday’s schedule La Salle College vs. North Allegheny at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, Penn State, 4:30 p.m. Class 5A Semifinals Monday’s results Bethel Park 1, Central...
High school roundup for June 14, 2021: West Greene rolls past DuBois C.C. in PIAA semifinals
For the fourth time in six years, West Greene softball will play for a state title after ousting Dubois Central Catholic, 12-1, in the PIAA Class A semifinals Monday afternoon at Slippery Rock University. Pioneers coach Bill Simms dedicated the victory to his late father Allen Lee, who died Jan....
Ligonier Valley’s historic run continues after beating Union City in PIAA Class 2A semifinal
SLIPPERY ROCK – No no-hitter. No shutout. No problem. It was just another Ligonier Valley softball victory behind another strong pitching performance from Maddie Griffin. The junior allowed two hits, including her second home run of the season, but the Rams’ offense pounded out 12 hits in a 6-1 victory...
Anthony Miller’s 12 Ks lead New Castle to 1st appearance in state baseball finals
Maybe the big-game atmosphere had Anthony Miller feeling ready, seeing hundreds of New Castle fans filter into Neshannock’s baseball field. Maybe it was the fact his Red Hurricanes were one win away from the state finals. Whatever it was, Miller felt fantastic. “He said, ‘Coach, listen, I have it today....
List dominates as Beaver bests Highlands in PIAA Class 4A semifinal
Runs and hits were at a premium when Highlands and Beaver met for the WPIAL Class 4A softball championship June 2. It was shaping up the same way through five innings of Monday’s rematch in the PIAA semifinals at Mars. Bobcats junior pitcher Payton List and her counterpart, Golden Rams...
Mt. Pleasant softball blanks Punxsutawney, advances to PIAA Class 3A title game
LORETTO — This must be what they mean at Mt. Pleasant when they say, “Row, Vikes.” The Mt. Pleasant softball team left no doubt that it belongs in the state championship, flexing its offensive muscles like it did in the WPIAL finals on the way to a dominating, 13-0 win...
High school sports schedules for Monday, June 14, 2021
High schools Baseball PIAA playoffs Semifinals Monday’s schedule Class 6A North Allegheny vs. Spring-Ford at PeoplesBank Park, York, 4 p.m.; North Penn vs. La Salle College at Bears Stadium, Boyerstown, 4 p.m. Class 5A Bethel Park vs. Central Mountain at PNG Field, Altoona, 3 p.m.; Red Land vs. Manheim Central...
Trib HSSN Baseball Player of the Week: June 14, 2021
In most games, Bethel Park’s Eric Chalus is one of two, maybe three seniors in the starting lineup. While 2022 looks bright, Chalus has made sure the future is now for the Black Hawks. Thanks to his outstanding pitching and strong stick in the batter’s box, the Kent State recruit...
Trib HSSN Baseball Team of the Week: June 14, 2021
For the second season in a row, the Serra Catholic baseball team had its hopes of a WPIAL championship crushed in a one-sided loss to Seton LaSalle. However, like in 2019, the Eagles are flying high in the state playoffs, a journey that actually began in the WPIAL Class 2A...
Trib HSSN Softball Player of the Week: June 14, 2021
What a year for the Beaver softball team. The Bobcats have already won a WPIAL championship and are now two wins away from adding state gold to their diamond treasures. At the top of the list of reasons the Bobcats are district champions and are still playing in mid-June is...
Trib HSSN Softball Team of the Week: June 14, 2021
If it is an unwritten rule that teams that finish in third place in their section, four games behind the section champion, aren’t still playing in mid-June, then the exception to that rule is the 2021 Canon-McMillan softball team. The Big Macs entered the district playoffs with a 7-9 overall...
PIAA baseball, softball semifinals part of what to watch in WPIAL sports Monday, June 14, 2021
Monday is the final stop on the Path to Penn State. The PIAA baseball and softball semifinals are scheduled for Monday with six of the games to be seen or heard on Trib HSSN. The WPIAL has seven baseball teams and eight softball teams playing in the final four. District...
This week on Trib HSSN for week of June 14, 2021
There is a golden light at the end of the tunnel as the high school baseball and softball season concludes this week, putting an end to the 2020-21 high school sports season on the TribLive High School Sports Network. We have coverage of the semifinals and possibly the state championship...
Hard-hitting Highlands gets rematch with WPIAL champ Beaver in PIAA Class 4A semifinals
Jess Cekada was mobbed by her Highlands teammates as the junior shortstop crossed home plate after hitting a two-run homer in the bottom of the sixth inning of Thursday’s PIAA Class 4A quarterfinal game against Bishop McDevitt under the lights at Central Cambria High School. An inning earlier, senior second...
Mt. Pleasant seeks to regain focus in time for PIAA semifinal against Punxsutawney
The best softball teams usually are the most self-critical at this time of year. The way aluminum-pinging Mt. Pleasant has been playing, a slightly off-kilter day can raise some concerns and make coaches and players reevaluate some things. That is what occurred Friday when Mt. Pleasant (19-3) won its PIAA...
Mt. Pleasant’s Puskar delays National Guard for semifinal game
It’s all about the red, white and blue for Lexi Puskar. For one more game, Lexi Puskar will wave the Mt. Pleasant flag and its colors. After that, it’s all about the Stars and Stripes. Puskar, a senior softball player at Mt. Pleasant, delayed her departure to the Army National...
A-K Valley PIAA playoff preview capsules for June 14, 2021
Class 4A Semifinals Highlands (18-5-1) vs. Beaver (19-0) 2 p.m. Monday at Mars Coaches: Jen Koprivinikar, Highlands; Amy Haggart, Beaver Winner plays: Winner of 11-1 Bethlehem Catholic (16-8)/2-1 Tunkhannock (22-2) Thursday at 1:30 p.m. in the finals at Beard Field, Penn State University. Players to watch: Jess Cekada, Jr., SS,...
Westmoreland PIAA playoff preview capsules for June 14, 2021
PIAA softball playoffs Class 2A Semifinals Ligonier Valley (21-2) vs. Union City (20-1) 2:30 p.m. Monday at Slippery Rock University Coaches: Mark Zimmerman, Ligonier Valley; Jerry VanZandt, Union City Players to watch: Ruby Wallace, So., Ligonier Valley; Cyaira Zielinski, Sr., Union City Winner plays: Winner of Line Mountain/Williams Valley (21-4)...
