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Unbeaten Ligonier Valley softball quite comfortable in new surroundings of WPIAL
Excuse Ligonier Valley if it needs a GPS to navigate its way through through the WPIAL. The softball team, like many programs at the school, is new to District 7, having played for decades in the Heritage Conference of bordering District 6. “We have to look up all these schools,”...
Neil Walker hopes Pine-Richland avoids ‘huge black eye’ from football coach controversy
Retiring pro baseball player Neil Walker, one of Pine-Richland’s most famous alums, hopes the controversial ouster of the school’s football coach doesn’t become “a huge black eye” for the community. The 2004 Pine-Richland graduate spoke Wednesday with reporters and discussed plans to retire after 12 MLB seasons with the Pirates,...
Chief: No allegations of improper behavior in Pine-Richland football probe reported to police
Despite a long-standing practice of conferring with police when allegations are made about improper behavior by students, none of the incidents that led to last week’s firing of championship-winning Pine-Richland football coach Eric Kasperowicz were reported to authorities, according to the chief of the Northern Regional Police Department. Pine-Richland school...
Murrysville girls mind the goal for 16U national championship contendersVideo
Two Murrysville teens will be protecting the net when the Steel City Selects 16U girls’ ice hockey team heads to Denver for the Chipotle-USA Hockey Tier II National Championships at the end of the month. For the team’s starting goaltender, Abby Manzewitsch, 16, it will be the third time in...
High school roundup for April 20, 2021: Montour’s Mia Arndt hits for cycle
Mia Arndt hit for the cycle to lead Montour to an 11-1 Section 3-4A softball victory over Hopewell (2-7, 0-6) on Tuesday. Giacinta Labrie went 3 for 4 with three RBIs and Angelina LaMarca tripled and drove in a pair for the Spartans (5-3, 4-2). Softball Armstrong 6, Indiana 5...
Trib HSSN State Softball Rankings for April 20, 2021
As last week went on, the mercury went down, and then it rose back up. The temperatures were a lot like the state softball rankings, where there was plenty of change in the air last week. A total of 11 teams lost their grip on a top 5 spot throughout...
High school scores, schedules for April 20, 2021
High schools Baseball Tuesday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Section 1 Butler 5, Pine-Richland 1 North Allegheny 8, Central Catholic 3 Seneca Valley 12, Allderdice 2 Section 2 Hempfield at Mt. Lebanon, ppd. Norwin 5, Canon-McMillan 4 Upper St. Clair 14, Baldwin 1 Class 5A Section 1 Franklin Regional 7, McKeesport...
Goalie calls his shot as Baldwin blanks Franklin Regional for Pens Cup Class AA title
Baldwin junior goaltender Ed Nowicki told his coach after a semifinal win that he’d get a shutout in the finals. Nowicki lived up to his prediction. He made 29 saves and Baldwin defeated Franklin Regional, 2-0, in the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League Class AA Penguins Cup championship game at Robert...
Shaler baseball tops South Fayette on 10th-inning balk
As Shaler and South Fayette’s battled it out for a second straight day, the question became which team would blink first as their Section 3-5A game went into extra innings. It wasn’t a blink, but a twitch that brought home the winning run. Senior Braeden Campbell scored the game-winning run...
Penn-Trafford softball earns dramatic win over LatrobeVideo
Down to its final strike, the Penn-Trafford softball team rallied to finally touch up — and rough up — Latrobe pitcher Jordan Tallman and keep its section winning streak intact. Trailing by a run, the top-ranked Warriors came to life in the top of the seventh as sophomore Kylee Piconi...
Pine-Richland: Kasperowicz let go following investigation into ‘allegations of inappropriate student conduct’Video
Pine-Richland’s school board president did not release any details about a three-month long investigation into allegations of misbehavior in the high school football program during a news conference Tuesday. He said at the conclusion of the district’s probe “neither the administration nor any member of the nine-member school board” could...
Kiski Area hires alum Corey Smith as new boys basketball coach
Corey Smith is coming home, and he couldn’t be happier. “It’s a great day to be a Cavalier,” Smith said. Smith, who attended Kiski Area from 1999-2002 and played for the Cavaliers as a sophomore, junior and senior, was named Kiski Area’s new boys basketball coach Monday night. The Cavaliers...
High school roundup for April 19, 2021: Blackhawk baseball wins wild one to stay unbeaten
Anthony Malagise gave up a three-run homer to Matt Luchovick in the top of the seventh, but got his revenge in the bottom of the inning, hitting an RBI single and scoring on a wild pitch to lead Blackhawk to a 6-5 win over Montour in Section 2-4A baseball Monday....
Led by a natural hat trick from Tanner Agnello, Indiana captures 1st Penguins Cup crown
If the waiting is indeed the hardest part, consider the hard part over for the Indiana Little Indians. Paced by a second-period hat trick from Tanner Agnello, Indiana won its first Penguins Cup title, capturing the PIHL Class A championship with a 3-2 victory over Chartiers Valley at the Robert...
North Allegheny tops Mt. Lebanon, celebrates back-to-back Penguins Cup titlesVideo
North Allegheny goalie Josh Bailey didn’t mince words Monday night. The second period, when he was peppered with 20 shots and the puck stayed trapped inside NA’s blue line, was bad. “Terrible,” he said. “It was terrible.” Yet, Bailey was very good. Against a Mt. Lebanon attack determined to test...
Goalie Riley Mastowski makes 53 saves to deliver 1st PIHL title to Neshannock
Two years ago, by a 5-1 score, Ringgold won a PIHL title over Neshannock in the Lancers’ first season of varsity hockey. This time, it was same score, different outcome. Neshannock flipped the script to capture its first hockey championship with the 5-1 victory over Ringgold in the Class B...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for April 19, 2021
Baseball Monday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Section 1 Butler 5, Pine-Richland 4 North Allegheny 8, Central Catholic 1 Seneca Valley 12, Allderdice 0 Section 2 Norwin 10, Canon-McMillan 0 Hempfield 6, Mt. Lebanon 3 Baldwin 6, Upper St. Clair 5 Class 5A Section 1 Penn-Trafford 8, Kiski Area 0 Franklin...
What to watch for in high school sports for April 20, 2021: 2 more title games on ice
Franklin Regional enters the PIHL Penguins Cup Class AA championship game Tuesday with a six-game winning streak and having hoisted gold twice in the last four years. However, the Panthers will be the underdogs when they face off against Baldwin at the RMU Island Sports Complex on Neville Island. Baldwin...
Motivated Hopewell baseball tops Ellwood City, shares section leadVideo
In 2019, then-sophomore Roman Gill was a key part of a Hopewell team that reached the WPIAL Class 3A championship game. In fact, he was on the mound trying to save the game for the Vikings when Steel Valley rallied and eventually won, 5-4 in eight innings. Gill says that...
Trib HSSN Baseball Player of the Week for week ending April 18, 2021
California High School senior Payton Conte knows the game of baseball. His father Mike is in his 25th season as head coach at Cal (Pa.). However knowing the game and excelling at it are two different things. Check off both boxes for Payton. “His obvious strengths are his overall natural...
Trib HSSN Softball Player of the Week for week ending April 18, 2021
West Mifflin senior Lauren Yuhas was 8 for 10 in three games last week, with three home runs, eight RBIs and six runs scored. Some would call that outstanding. For one of the top hitters in the WPIAL, Yuhas calls it another week at the office. “Absolutely,” West Mifflin coach...
Mike Brown officially named Hempfield football coach
When Mike Brown interviewed for the Hempfield football coaching position, he told the school board he wasn’t the fastest or strongest player. He was just a person who played with energy, passion and had a great work ethic. He was convincing enough to be hired, replacing Rich Bowen, who resigned...
WPIAL grants eligibility to pair of football players
The WPIAL granted eligibility to Central Catholic’s Jayden Thrift and McKeesport’s Jake Miller, two football players who switched schools this winter. Each took part in separate eligibility hearings Monday at the WPIAL office in Green Tree. Thrift, a freshman, transferred from Norwin. Miller, a junior, came from Plum. Thrift was...
Seton Hill recruit Orr leads McGuffey past Southmoreland
McGuffey broke into the TribHSSN Class 3A baseball rankings Sunday at No. 5. And with the way the Highlanders played Monday, they’d like to continue ascending the ladder. McGuffey pounded out 12 hits and was issued 14 free bases (11 walks, three hit batters) and defeated Southmoreland, 15-2, in five...
Talbots top Fox Chapel in extra innings to earn key section victory
Redemption was the name of the game Monday night at Hampton High School as the Talbots topped Section 2-5A opponent Fox Chapel, 4-3. With the Talbots (5-5, 5-2) down by one in the bottom of the seventh inning, senior Brock Mattiuz hit a fly ball to the infield and rounded...
