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Beaver used 15 hits, nine walks and five Blackhawk errors to overwhelm its section rival, 13-2, Wednesday night in the WPIAL Class 4A baseball championship at Wild Things Park. Second-seeded Blackhawk (16-5) won 3-2 when the teams met three weeks ago, a win that earned the Cougars the section title,...

WPIAL Class 4A baseball championship No. 4 Blackhawk (16-4) vs. No. 6 Beaver (13-7) 5 p.m. Wednesday at Wild Things Park, Washington Coaches: Bob Amalia, Blackhawk; Noah Medich, Beaver Players to watch: Ray Knallay, CF, Jr., Blackhawk; Vinny Mastrangelo, C, Sr., Beaver WPIAL titles: Blackhawk 3 (2017, ’12, ’04), Beaver...

The weekly Trib HSSN PIAA baseball rankings looked more like the changing of the guards at Buckingham Palace after a busy week of district postseason play this past week. Thirteen baseball teams dropped out of the state Top 5 with at least two changes in all six classifications. The two...

This past week’s quarterfinals and semifinals shuffled the deck with major changes in the Trib HSSN Power Rankings. Six baseball teams and five softball teams saw their district championship hopes comes to an end, as well as their times in the power rankings. This week, Trib HSSN ranks the 12...

The WPIAL baseball championship games, as well as the third-place consolation matchups, have been finalized with dates, times and locations. 6A Championship: Penn-Trafford vs. Pine-Richland, May 29, Wild Things Park, Washington, 7:30 p.m. Third-Place Consolation: North Allegheny vs. Bethel Park, May 28, Washington & Jefferson College, 7 p.m. 5A Championship:...

With the score tied at 3-3 and the bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh inning, Blackhawk baseball coach Bob Amalia offered some words of advice to junior infielder Marco Borello before he left the dugout. “I just said, ‘Don’t be anxious. Hit your pitch, and we’ll go from...

Greensburg Salem and New Castle still need to decide their WPIAL baseball quarterfinal, but the victor already knows its destination. The WPIAL on Tuesday released the sites and times for Wednesday’s baseball semifinal games in all classifications. That includes a Class 4A semifinal matchup between the winner of No. 1...

WPIAL baseball playoffs Monday’s games WPIAL Class 4A Quarterfinals 1-Greensburg Salem (14-2) vs. 9-New Castle (9-9) 4 p.m. at Fox Chapel Winner plays: Winner of 4-Blackhawk (14-4) and 12-Mt. Pleasant (10-8) in semifinals Coaches: Bill Wisniewski, Greensburg Salem; Bill Cook, New Castle Players to watch: Matt Wicker, Sr., P, Greensburg...

Postseason power rankings saw very little change in baseball but a big sweep of Class 6A teams kicked to the curb in this week’s Trib HSSN Power Rankings. With the first round of the WPIAL playoffs in the books, both West Allegheny baseball and Mt. Pleasant softball remain on top...