High School category, Page 96

Makayla Etling’s second home run of the game was a go-ahead two-run blast as Southmoreland scored eight runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to defeat Latrobe, 12-11, in nonsection softball Thursday. Taryn Hollis went 3 for 3 with a double and two RBIs, Riley Puckey singled and doubled...

Take this crop of boys basketball teams — Greensburg Central Catholic, Jeannette, Northgate, Sewickley Academy and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart — and line them up. The five WPIAL teams all made the PIAA Class 2A quarterfinals. And most of them have played each other at some point this...

High schools Baseball Wednesday’s results Jackie Robinson Baseball At Vero Beach, Fla. Penn-Trafford 4, Riverdale Ridge (CO) 3 Ripken Experience At Myrtle Beach, S.C. Bethel Park 13, Putnam Science Academy 2 Nonsection Avella 5, Western Beaver 1 Beaver 12, Armstrong 5 Blackhawk 8, Chartiers Valley 4 Brashear 18, Sto-Rox 6...

Last season, one of the craziest section races in WPIAL baseball history ended in a four-way tie for the crown. Fox Chapel, Franklin Regional, Penn-Trafford and Plum all finished with 9-3 records and tied for first place in Section 1-5A. Now two of those four teams collide in a nonsection...

While there are two more Trib HSSN state rankings to come this basketball season, the five teams in each classification have been finalized. The order may or may not change heading into the state finals and then following the PIAA title games, but the final five are set in each...

The top girls basketball teams from last week’s Trib HSSN state rankings teams fared pretty well in the PIAA quarterfinals. Only five teams lost their spot in the top 5, but at this time of year, they have lost it for good following a season-ending loss. It was a 50-50...

Breck Hemphill went 3 for 4 with two doubles and two RBIs to lead Pine-Richland baseball to an 11-5 victory over North Allegheny in a nonsection matchup of former section rivals Wednesday. Benjamin Husted went 2 for 2 with a double and Anthony Mengine had a double and three RBIs...

The teams don’t share a section anymore, but Valley’s Dante Taliani said he and his teammates get just as excited for any baseball game with Burrell. “This is a backyard brawl,” said Taliani, who doubled twice and drove in four runs Wednesday as Valley defeated rival Burrell, 13-3, for a...

The 28th annual Cager Classic, featuring senior basketball players from Allegheny, Armstrong, Butler and Westmoreland counties, will be held at Highlands High School. Practice is April 3, the skills competition April 4 and the games — 5:30 p.m. for the girls and 7:30 p.m. for the boys — April 5....

Mike Morascyzk would have liked to lift the PIHL’s varsity Division 2 Penguins Cup championship trophy Tuesday night at UPMC Lemieux Complex. While the Buccaneers were denied making program history when Morgantown (W.Va.) picked up a 5-1 win, Burrell was comforted by having an opportunity to play in the first...

Standouts Toryn Fulton and Ciara Camacho are finally seniors — it seems like they have been in the Panthers lineup for much longer than four years — so that means one more season of bashing softballs to the gaps and over fences. The pair of Division I recruits will look...

It is not often that a WPIAL softball team can say it has two Division I-level pitchers on the same staff. Opponents might get to see both of them in the same game. Hempfield features a high-level duo in senior Riley Miller and junior Julia Varhola, who bring a combination...

Chantz Watkins can relate to the Burrell hockey team’s feelings following a 5-1 loss to Morgantown in the Penguins Cup Tuesday night at the UPMC Lemieux Complex. Watkins, a Buccaneers assistant coach, was on the ice for Burrell’s Division 2 Pens Cup loss to Neshannock the year before. Losing to...

High schools Baseball Tuesday’s results Jackie Robinson Baseball At Vero Beach, Fla. Brighton (CO) 13, Penn-Trafford 8 Ripken Experience At Myrtle Beach, S.C. Putnam Science 3, South Allegheny 1 Nonsection Ambridge 13, Bishop Canevin 0 Armstrong 6, Freeport 0 Beaver 11, Chartiers Valley 4 Belle Vernon 14, McGuffey 0 Carlynton...

They are two of the baseball powers in the WPIAL and have been throughout this century. Combined, North Allegheny and Pine-Richland have produced 13 district championships, including four in the last eight years. It was eight years ago when the two met in the first WPIAL Class 6A baseball championship...

The WPIAL has enjoyed great success through three rounds of the PIAA postseason and the Trib 10 teams are a big reason why. In the first four years of the six classification era between 2017-2021, a total of nine WPIAL boys basketball teams reached the state championship game. Over the...

Seneca Valley star Lexie Hames was at it again Tuesday, throwing a complete-game one-hitter with 20 strikeouts and going 3 for 5 with two home runs and four RBIs at the plate to lead the Raiders to a 12-1 win over Armstrong in nonsection softball. Bella Gross also homered and...

Tucker Cullen sat in the locker room Monday night at UPMC Lemieux Complex bawling next to Fox Chapel senior forward Dom Casile. Cullen, a sophomore, wanted to help Casile be a part of the first Foxes team to lift the PIHL’s Class 2A Penguins Cup. Cathedral Prep forward Ethan Cuningham...

Latrobe freshman Natalia Scekeres found out only minutes before her first varsity softball game she would be leading off. She took it in stride and embraced the opportunity, and the Wildcats followed her lead. “I wasn’t nervous,” the up-and-coming shortstop said. “We know we can hit. If our bats come...

One Westmoreland County baseball team was in midseason form for spring training. Franklin Regional opened the season with a three-game sweep at the Jackie Robinson Sports Complex in Vero Beach, Fla. The Panthers (3-0) defeated Wissahickon, 7-2, in the first game as Jonah Willochell pitched five strong innings. Liam Bernadowski...

With 2:39 left in the second period, Austin Dzadovsky chased down his miss behind the back of the net. After he recovered the puck, he snuck it in behind Mars’ goalie Adam Goul for his record-tying fifth goal of the game. “I was just going out to play,” Dzadovsky said,...

High schools Baseball Monday’s results Baseball City At St. Petersburg, Fla. St. Petersburg 11, South Fayette 6 Jackie Robinson Baseball At Vero Beach, Fla. Brighton (CO) 11, West Mifflin 7 Franklin Regional 10, D’Evelyn (CO) 7 Mt. Pleasant 10, D’Evelyn (CO) 5 Ripken Experience At Myrtle Beach, S.C. Governor Mifflin...

Four more area high school hockey teams take center stage as they play for the chance to raise the Penguins Cup and Division 2 trophy Tuesday. The 2025 PIHL high school hockey concludes with the Class 2A and Division 2 titles decided at the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex in Cranberry...

Seneca Valley’s Marshall Hewitt and his late-game heroics earned the Raiders a 3-2 victory over South Fayette in three overtimes Monday night and the program’s second PIHL Class 3A Penguins Cup title. After 38 minutes and 31 seconds of overtime, Hewitt corralled the puck and skated to the center point,...