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What to watch for in WPIAL sports on May 21, 2021: Class 6A baseball joins the playoff party
Then there was one. After three days of WPIAL baseball first-round and even quarterfinal games throughout five of the classifications, the Class 6A district baseball tournament begins Friday. With only nine playoff teams, there is only one first-round game as Section 2-6A rivals Canon-McMillan and Upper St. Clair square off...
Trib 10 for May 20, 2021: Playoff upsets shake up power rankings
The district playoffs are upon us with the first two rounds being played this week. It’s a time of year when losses end the season. Losses can also bump teams from the weekly power ratings, with no hope of returning to the overall top 10. The postseason climb thus far...
High school roundup for May 20, 2021: North Hills softball knocks off No. 1 Penn-Trafford
Sophia Roncone threw a four-hitter with 13 strikeouts to lead No. 8 North Hills to an upset 6-1 victory over top-seeded Penn-Trafford in a WPIAL Class 5A quarterfinal softball game Thursday, ending the reign of the Warriors, the 2019 PIAA champs. Kassidy Wittig hit a two-run double during a four-run...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for May 20, 2021
High schools Baseball WPIAL playoffs Class 6A First round Friday’s schedule Upper St. Clair (8-9) vs. Canon-McMillan (8-10) at West Mifflin, 4 p.m. Quarterfinals Saturday’s schedule North Allegheny (17-3) vs. Upper St. Clair/Canon-McMillan winner at Shaler, 2:30 p.m.; Mt. Lebanon (11-7) vs. Butler (13-6) at Shaler, noon; Norwin (13-3) vs....
Valley tallies 10 hits; Bailey twirls gem as Vikings earn first-round victory
Whenever the Valley baseball team has needed a win this season, coach Jim Basilone has turned to senior ace John Luke Bailey. Heading into Thursday’s WPIAL Class 3A game against Mohawk, Bailey had produced a 6-1 record with 1.41 ERA in 48 1/3 innings. With the lights shining bright at...
Derry blanks New Brighton to win first baseball playoff game in 17 years
Derry ended a 17-year drought Thursday in the opening round of the WPIAL Class 3A playoffs. And the No. 5 Trojans did it impressively by posting a dominant 10-0 victory over No. 12 New Brighton. Derry (12-4) jumped on the young Lions for five runs in the first inning, kept...
Westmoreland high school baseball playoff capsules: Friday, May 21, 2021
Today’s games Class 5A No.1 Franklin Regional (16-1) vs. 8-Mars (13-6) 7 p.m. at North Allegheny Coaches: Bob Saddler, Franklin Regional; Jason Thompson Mars Winner plays: Winner of 13-Peters Township (9-10)/12-Latrobe (12-8) Monday at a site and time to be determined in the semifinals Players to watch: Louis Kegerreis, Sr.,...
Leechburg softball rolls past Mapletown, advances to WPIAL Class A semifinals
Adjusting her helmet and gripping her bat while on the move from the dugout, Bella Vozar shuffled toward the plate in the bottom of the third inning like she was late for class. The umpire told her to slow down and take her time. “I’m OK,” the Leechburg junior catcher...
Smithnosky pitches top-seeded Mt. Pleasant past Derry, into Class 3A semifinals
Normally, hitting is what jump starts the high-powered Mt. Pleasant softball team. One knock usually leads to many more. But in the Vikings’ playoff opener Thursday under blazing sunshine at Norwin, pitching carried the day. Senior Mary Smithnosky put together a career performance, striking out 14 in a three-hit shutout,...
Southmoreland softball sluggers knock off 2nd-seeded North Catholic
The Southmoreland softball team didn’t waste any time setting the tone for Thursday’s WPIAL Class 3A second-round playoff game. The No. 7 Scotties took a three-run lead in the first inning and held second-seeded North Catholic at bay late in the game to advance with an 11-5 victory at Gateway...
Deer Lakes punches ticket to quarterfinals with come-from-behind win over Yough
When the WPIAL playoff brackets were first released last week, Deer Lakes and Yough were scheduled to play at Latrobe at 4 p.m. on Thursday. Due to the Lancers holding prom on the same night, the game was moved to an earlier time and a location closer to Deer Lakes....
3-run, walk-off homer propels 14th-seeded Fox Chapel softball past Franklin Regional
Fox Chapel’s Brynn Palmer came up in the bottom of the seventh of Thursday’s WPIAL Class 5A quarterfinal against Franklin Regional with the game on the line. The Foxes third baseman/shortstop already had driven in two runs, and with one out, two runners on base and her team down a...
‘Perfect timing’ leads Dave DeGregorio back to North Allegheny as boys basketball coach
When Dave DeGregorio resigned at North Allegheny five years ago to coach his sons, a part of him thought he might return someday, if the timing was right. That well-timed moment arrived Wednesday night when the school board officially rehired him for a second stint as North Allegheny boys basketball...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on May 20, 2021: Unpredictable 5A softball tourney rolls on
Call it Black Tuesday around the WPIAL Class 5A softball playoffs. Half of the first-round games in 5A produced upsets as the bracket was turned upside down. No. 2 Latrobe, No. 3 Plum, No. 4 Shaler and No. 6 West Allegheny were all ousted in the opening round. With the...
Trib HSSN state baseball rankings for May 19, 2021
There was only one change to the latest edition of the 2021 Trib HSSN state baseball rankings in the bottom three classifications, but five teams were out in the top three classifications as the district playoffs begin. Plymouth-Whitemarsh, Cathedral Prep, Red Land, Warren and Bellefonte were all bounced from the...
High school roundup for May 19, 2021: Peters Township baseball shocks South Fayette
Jack Natilli belted a two-run homer in the third inning and Mac Ciocco went 4 for 4 with a run-scoring single in the first to lead No. 13 Peters Township to a 6-4 upset win over No. 4 South Fayette in a WPIAL Class 5A baseball first-round game Wednesday afternoon...
Fantastic 400 finish between Hampton’s Galuska, Butler’s Brown headlines WPIAL Class AAA meet
Hampton sprinter Gage Galuska threw his body forward at the finish line, tumbled into a somersault and stayed on the track waiting for his 400-meter time to show on the scoreboard. He wondered, was that finish enough to beat Guinness Brown? The entire WPIAL has chased after the Butler star...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for May 19, 2021
High schools Baseball WPIAL playoffs Class 6A First round Friday’s schedule Upper St. Clair (8-9) vs. Canon-McMillan (8-10) at West Mifflin, 4 p.m. Quarterfinals Saturday’s schedule North Allegheny (17-3) vs. Upper St. Clair/Canon-McMillan winner at Shaler, 2:30 p.m.; Mt. Lebanon (11-7) vs. Butler (13-6) at Shaler, noon; Norwin (13-3) vs....
Hempfield has 5 champions at WPIAL track meet
It was another solid day for the Hempfield track and field program Wednesday at the WPIAL championships. The Spartans had five champions, five second-place finishes and two thirds. Hempfield coach Ron Colland said he was more than pleased with his team’s performance. Winning two titles each were senior throwers Dan...
2021 WPIAL Class AAA track and field championships top 8 results
Track and field Boys Wednesday’s results WPIAL championships At Slippery Rock University Class 3A 100 (11.10): 1. Guinness Brown, Butler, 10.88; 2. Tyler Yurich, Seneca Valley, 10.96; 3. Myles Walker, Central Valley, 11.07; 4. Jacob Porter, North Allegheny, 11.22; 5. Ryan Sickenberger, Latrobe, 11.27; 6. Nate Kirk, Mt. Lebanon, 11.28;...
Highlands baseball continues hot streak, edges Belle Vernon in 1st round
Highlands has been playing some of its best baseball in recent weeks, so heading in to its WPIAL Class 4A first-round game Wednesday against Belle Vernon, coach Jeff Campbell said his team just needed to do one thing. Believe. So the sixth-seeded Golden Rams dug deep and earned a 3-0...
Latrobe gets out to big lead, holds off Plum rally to win baseball playoff opener
The Plum baseball team thought it had one more comeback in it. But Latrobe, up by seven runs after two innings, was able to hold on for an 8-7 victory in a WPIAL Class 5A first-round game Wednesday at Norwin High School. The Wildcats broke out with seven runs and...
Penn-Trafford’s MacIntosh keeps Connellsville guessing in Class 5A baseball win
Penn-Trafford pitcher Joe MacIntosh tossed a three-hitter as the Warriors eliminated Connellsville with a 2-0 win in their WPIAL Class 5A playoff opener Wednesday at Norwin. “It was a complete performance — offense, defense, and more importantly, pitching,” Penn-Trafford coach Dan Miller said. “We talked all year that pitching wins...
Canon-McMillan dethrones 5-time defending WPIAL softball champ Hempfield
The longest WPIAL softball championship streak has ended. Hempfield no longer has that sixth sense. Canon-McMillan scored two runs in the top of the sixth inning and held on to beat Hempfield, 2-1, in a Class 6A quarterfinals softball game Wednesday at West Mifflin. “I haven’t had a whole lot...
Yough softball team scores winning run on error in 8th inning to top Freeport
Freshman Makayla Spoonhoward made the turn for home, hit the deck and did a rollover. The Yough freshman slid safely across the plate after an error on a pick-off attempt in the bottom of the eighth Wednesday to bring an abrupt ending to a WPIAL softball playoff game that couldn’t...
