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Beaver shuts out No. 14 Highlands in Class 4A quarterfinals
Monday’s WPIAL playoff game won’t go down as one of the best games Highlands played this season, but the 2019 season will go down in the record books as the best season of the new millennium. Beaver broke open a tight game with a five-run fourth inning, and Bobcats starting...
Big inning propels Knoch softball past upset-minded Greensburg Salem
Greensburg Salem had its sights set on a second consecutive upset in the WPIAL Class 4A softball playoffs. The No. 11 Golden Lions trailed third-seeded Knoch by two runs going into the bottom of the sixth inning. But the Knights sent 11 batters to the plate before any were retired...
Keystone Oaks slugs past No. 3 Burrell in WPIAL quarterfinals
The Burrell softball team won its final 12 games of the regular season, captured the Section 1-3A championship and earned the No. 3 seed for the WPIAL playoffs. However, none of that mattered to Keystone Oaks on Monday in a WPIAL Class 3A quarterfinal matchup at Hampton Community Park. The...
Buddy Valinsky named boys basketball coach at Norwin
Buddy Valinsky said he would have remained at Allderdice had the school joined the WPIAL in boys basketball. Because that wasn’t going to happen, though, he decided to leave the program he built into a perennial power to make inroads to the WPIAL, only in a different way. Valinsky, who...
WPIAL track and field champions earn top seeds for PIAA meet
Several WPIAL track and field champions are top seeds for the two-day PIAA championship meet Friday and Saturday at Shippensburg. The PIAA released the performance lists to its website, and Shady Side Academy’s Melissa Riggins owns the top seed for the girls Class AA 800-meter and 1,600 runs. Joining Riggins...
High school scores, schedules for May 19, 2019
High Schools Baseball WPIAL Playoffs Class 6A Quarterfinals Tuesday’s schedule Penn-Trafford (16-3) vs. Upper St. Clair (13-6) at West Mifflin, 4 p.m.; North Allegheny (15-5) vs. Shaler (7-13) at Fox Chapel, 4 p.m.; Pine-Richland (15-4) vs. Norwin (14-6) at Boyce Mayview Park in Upper St. Clair, 6:30 p.m.; Bethel Park...
TribHSSN Softball Player of the Week for games of May 13-18, 2019
Payton List School: Beaver Class: Freshman The Trib HSSN Softball Player of the Week is Beaver freshman Payton List, whose debut was so good, she rose up to the top of the player of the week list. List helped the Bobcats win in the first round of the WPIAL Class...
Trib HSSN Baseball Player of the Week for games of May 13-18
The Trib HSSN Baseball Player of the Week is Our Lady of the Sacred Heart senior Jeff Zick, who threw a three-hit shutout in the Chargers’ WPIAL Class 2A first-round victory over Riverside. No. 5 OLSH next faces No. 4 Seton LaSalle on Monday in the quarterfinals. “Seton LaSalle is...
TribHSSN Softball Team of the Week for games of May 13-18, 2019
The Trib HSSN Softball Team of the Week is West Allegheny, which won district gold last season and is off and running this postseason after a first-round win. The 7-5 win over Shaler on Thursday lifted the No. 10-seed Indians into the quarterfinals, where they will face the No. 2-seed...
Trib HSSN Baseball Team of the Week for games of May 13-18
The Trib HSSN Baseball Team of the Week is Waynesburg Central, a team that won its first WPIAL playoff game in eight years with a Class 3A first-round victory last week. The Raiders face top-seeded Freeport on Monday in the Class 3A quarterfinals. As April was winding down, Waynesburg was...
Plum sophomore Kennedie Montue receives 1st Division 1 basketball offer
Plum sophomore Kennedie Montue, the team’s leading scorer two years in a row, announced her first Division 1 basketball offer Sunday from Marshall. The 5-foot-11 forward is a versatile scorer who can play multiple positions. She averaged 18.4 points and 7.1 rebounds last season for Plum, a WPIAL Class 5A...
Western Pa.-connected Colorado State offers WPIAL offensive linemen
Western Pennsylvania football fans probably know Colorado State as the alma mater of former Steelers linebacker Joey Porter. But the school is becoming much more familiar across the region. The Mountain West program recently offered scholarships this week to offensive linemen Kevin Meeder and Josh Kaltenberger of Seneca Valley and...
Latrobe, Derry ready for WPIAL volleyball semifinals
Latrobe and Derry hope to reach Thursday’s WPIAL championship matches. In order to that, both will have to knock off defending champs in their respective classifications in Tuesday’s semifinals. The Wildcats take on North Allegheny in Class 3A, and the Trojans meet Ambridge in a rematch of last year’s Class...
Former Pine-Richland, West A standout Kenny White announces Akron offer
Former Pine-Richland and West Allegheny football standout Kenny White, now a junior college freshman, announced a scholarship offer from Akron. White listed several Division 1 offers while starring in the WPIAL including Iowa State, but this offer from the Zips was his first since enrolling at Garden City (Kan.) Community...
A-K Valley WPIAL baseball playoff capsules: Games of Monday, May 20
WPIAL baseball quarterfinals Monday’s games Class 4A 14-Highlands (11-8) vs. 6-Beaver (11-7) 4:30 p.m. Monday at Pullman Park, Butler Winner plays: Winner of 2-Yough and 7-South Park on Wednesday in semifinals Coaches: Jeff Campbell, Highlands; Noah Medich, Beaver Players to watch: Zac Kuniak, sr., OF, Highlands; Alec Berg, sr., P,...
Alle-Kiski Valley lookahead for week of May 20, 2019
MONDAY Baseball: Two Alle-Kiski Valley baseball teams that pulled WPIAL first-round upsets will play a quarterfinal doubleheader at Pullman Park in Butler. No. 11 St. Joseph, coming off a 10-1 win over No. 6 Monessen in the Class A first round, will play No. 3 Union at 2 p.m. The...
Freeport boys lacrosse going ‘crazy’ in WPIAL Class AA playoffs
The Freeport football team has had its share of success. The soccer and basketball programs are postseason regulars and not enough can be said about the girls volleyball team with its four WPIAL titles and 2017 state championship. While nearly every sport at Freeport was flourishing, one team was laying...
Senior scholar-athletes awarded scholarships from sports hall of fame
Kyah Russell was a standout on the tennis court for the Gateway girls team, and her dedication to the sport was matched by her dedication to academics. She will attend the University of Pittsburgh to pursue a nursing degree. Russell joins Penn-Trafford’s Tyler Horvat, Franklin Regional’s Mason Fishell and East...
High school scores, schedules for May 18, 2019
High Schools Baseball WPIAL Playoffs Class 6A Quarterfinals Tuesday’s schedule Penn-Trafford (16-3) vs. Upper St. Clair (13-6) at West Mifflin, 4 p.m.; North Allegheny (15-5) vs. Shaler (7-13) at Fox Chapel, 4 p.m.; Pine-Richland (15-4) vs. Norwin (14-6) at Boyce Mayview Park in Upper St. Clair, 6:30 p.m.; Bethel Park...
Trib HSSN lacrosse power rankings: For games ending May 18, 2019
The district playoffs are at the midway point with two rounds in the books and two more remaining heading into this week’s Trib HSSN weekly Power Rankings for boys and girls lacrosse. The girls lacrosse semifinals are set for Monday with the finals Thursday. On the boys side, the semifinals...
Trib HSSN volleyball power rankings: For games ending May 20, 2019
We are down to the district Final Four in the Trib HSSN weekly WPIAL boys volleyball Power Rankings. Seneca Valley and Hempfield earn a special tip of the cap as their seasons came to an end with quarterfinals losses, but they remain in the top 10. The top six remain...
TribLive High School Sports Network broadcasts for the week of May 20, 2019
The district postseason continues with plenty of action from four spring high school sports only here on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN continues our exclusive coverage of the WPIAL baseball and softball playoffs with quarterfinals and semifinals action with video streams set for more than a dozen...
WPIAL softball playoff capsules: Games of Monday, May 20
Monday’s games Softball Class 5A 2-Plum (15-3) vs. 10-West Allegheny (9-7) 5 p.m. at Hampton Winner plays: Winner of 3-Hampton (16-3) and 6-Franklin Regional (12-7) Wednesday in semifinals Coaches: Phil DiLonardo, Plum; Mindi McFate, West Allegheny Players to watch: Gabby Fischetti, Sr., C, Plum; Megan Pollinger, So., P/INF, West Allegheny...
Highlands baseball uses mix of older, younger players to continue playoff run
As the stress began to build in Highlands’ first postseason appearance in more than a decade and a half, one of the Golden Rams’ most experienced players gave way to one of their youngest. Senior Noah Gillette reached the WPIAL’s pitch limit one batter into the seventh inning, and Highlands...
Kiski Valley rugby teams advance to state championship games
Kiski Valley boys rugby advanced to the Rugby PA Club Division II championship game for the second consecutive season with a 32-5 win over North Penn on Saturday at Penn State Berks. Winners of the 2016 state title, the top-seeded Titans (6-1) will try to win their second when they...
