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Fox Chapel, Indiana capture WPIAL boys tennis team titles
Fox Chapel and Indiana joined elite clubs at Wednesday’s WPIAL boys tennis team championships at Oxford Athletic Club in Wexford. The Foxes held off Shady Side Academy, 3-2, to capture the WPIAL Class AAA title. Fox Chapel is the third Class AAA team to win four consecutive titles since competition...
With just 8 teams in playoff field, Class 6A softball tournament to feature familiar matchups
The WPIAL Class 6A softball bracket will be noticeably more compact when the pairings are released Thursday. With the WPIAL going from three sections to two this season, the league took just eight teams to the postseason in its largest classification. There were 13 qualifiers last season and 12 made...
WPIAL boys volleyball playoff clinchings through May 7, 2019
There are two days left in the 2019 WPIAL boys volleyball regular season before the start of the district playoffs. Check out the updated standings at the Trib HSSN website. The Class AA postseason field of 13 is set while 10 Class AAA teams are in and three are hopeful...
WPIAL boys lacrosse standings through May 7, 2019
Here are the final WPIAL boys lacrosse standings for the 2019 season through May 7. The top six teams in each section qualify for the district postseason. Only section records are shown. #-Clinched section championship *-Clinched playoff berth x-Eliminated from playoff chase Class AAA — Set with 12 playoff teams...
Chartiers-Houston routs Bentworth to claim Section 3-2A title
Chartiers-Houston set out to accomplish several small goals this season. The first goal on that list was crossed off Tuesday as the Bucs defeated Bentworth, 12-2, in five innings to clinch the Section 3-2A title outright for the first time since 2015. “We’ve been working really hard in the offseason,”...
WPIAL baseball playoff clinchings through May 7, 2019
On Friday, the WPIAL will unveil the brackets for the 2019 district baseball playoffs. Seventy-one teams have punched their ticket for the Way to Washington, but there are still a few spots to be had as 16 district teams still have hope heading into the final day of section play....
High school scores, schedules for May 7, 2019
High Schools Baseball Tuesday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Section 1 North Allegheny 11, Allderdice 0 (5 inn.) Class 5A Section 2 Shaler 9, Moon 4 South Fayette 9, North Hills 4 Section 3 Albert Gallatin 6, Carrick 5 Trinity 6, Carrick 0 Class 4A Section 3 Ringgold 6, Elizabeth Forward...
Shaler uses small ball to eliminate Moon from playoff contentionVideo
Small ball is alive and well at Shaler. In an era where the bunt has become a lost art and is frowned upon by baseball sabermetrics, Shaler bunted five times, including four times in a span of five batters in a four-run fifth inning during a 9-4 win over Moon....
WPIAL softball playoff clinchings through May 7, 2019
On Thursday, the WPIAL will unveil the brackets for the 2019 district softball playoffs. Seventy-three teams have punched their ticket for the Path to Peterswood with only one more spot, possibly two, up for grabs in Class A. Five classification’s fields are now set with the only question mark being...
WPIAL girls lacrosse standings through May 7, 2019
Here are the latest WPIAL girls lacrosse standings for the 2019 season through May 7. The playoff field is set in Class AA and has one opening left in Class AAA. The winner of Wednesday’s Penn-Trafford vs. Norwin match will clinch the final playoff spot. The top six teams in...
High school roundup for May 7, 2019: South Fayette locks up playoff berth
Richie Dell hit a three-run home run, and Ryan McGuire knocked in two runs to help South Fayette earn a WPIAL playoff berth with an 8-4 victory over North Hills (3-14, 2-8) in a Section 2-5A baseball game Tuesday afternoon. Ryan Kokoski struck out seven batters in four innings to...
Highlands’ Johnny Crise adds Robert Morris football offer to basketball offer
Johnny Crise doubled up on his Robert Morris scholarship opportunities. The Colonials’ football program offered the Highlands junior on Tuesday evening, a year after the school’s basketball program gave him his first offer. Blessed and thankful to have received an offer from Robert Morris University #NoTomorrow pic.twitter.com/S3KUCJvjGf— Johnny Crise (@Crise_20)...
WPIAL team tennis championship matchups set
The WPIAL team tennis championship matchups feature Fox Chapel against Shady Side Academy for the Class AAA title and Quaker Valley taking on Indiana for the Class AA crown. Both matches are Wednesday at the Oxford Athletic Club in Wexford. The Class AA match begins at 11:30 a.m., and the...
Franklin Regional’s Williams commits to Yale baseball
Franklin Regional’s standout shortstop and top entrepreneur is heading to the Ivy League. Senior Jake Williams will further his playing career at Yale, the Panthers’ baseball team announced Tuesday via Twitter. Williams, who helped create the nonprofit business, mySportResume.com, an online athletic and academic portfolio for aspiring college student-athletes, used...
3rd WPIAL baseball team forfeits after violating pitch-count rule
Two weeks after defeating section-leading Hopewell, Beaver Falls gave the victory back. Beaver Falls became the third WPIAL baseball team to forfeit a victory this season after violating pitch-count rules, the teams announced Tuesday. The PIAA upped the single-game limit to 105 pitches this season but only for the playoffs...
Butler basketball star Ethan Morton will make his college decision this week
Butler basketball star Ethan Morton holds nearly two dozen scholarship offers, having added one after another since Cleveland State gave him his first three summers ago. Now, it’s time to choose. The 6-foot-5 junior will announce his college choice Thursday night from a long list that includes regional schools Pitt,...
GCC softball gets momentum-building win over playoff-bound JeannetteVideo
Greensburg Central Catholic was hoping to take momentum into the WPIAL Class A softball playoffs. To peak at the right time, as the expression goes. A run-ruled victory over rival Jeannette should help do the trick. The Centurions, back in the postseason after a year absence, erupted for six runs...
Alle-Kiski notebook: Playoff fates await Kiski Area, Knoch baseball
It might not be the most ideal situation, but it’s certainly the most dramatic. Kiski Area’s baseball playoff fate will come down to Wednesday as the Cavaliers (8-9, 5-6) host Armstrong in a winner-take-all game for the final Section 1-5A playoff berth. The situation arose after Armstrong (8-8, 4-7) rallied...
A-K Valley athletes of the week: Burrell’s Jack Henderson and Knoch’s Amanda Fischer
Jack Henderson School: Burrell Class: Junior Sport: Baseball Report card: Previously a full-time reliever, Henderson started for the first time last week and earned a win for Class 3A No. 4 Burrell (9-4, 6-4). The right-hander gave up three hits and struck out four over 6 2/3 innings in the...
Jeannette seniors looking for one last run in baseball playoffs
Next week is what Jeannette’s baseball team has been thinking about since last May — the start of the WPIAL playoffs. After a semifinal loss to Vincentian Academy dashed the Jayhawks’ hopes for a repeat Class A title, they wanted to get back to the postseason and compete for another...
From ‘Baby Shark’ to great white, Heilman develops into reliable ace, leader for Freeport
Jarrett Heilman first heard “Baby Shark” in ninth-grade social studies, when teacher Daniel Stell played the children’s song and its accompanying dance over the projector in the classroom. And when he threw a complete game later that afternoon in a junior varsity game against Knoch, a phenomenon was born. “I...
George Guido: Unfamiliar teams in baseball, softball playoffs
When the WPIAL baseball and softball pairings are released later this week, some unfamiliar schools will be bracketed. St. Joseph baseball and Springdale softball will be in the postseason for the first time this millennium, and the players from those teams are cascading toward age 40. It has been so...
Yough softball hosting Frazier in ‘Strikeout Cancer’ event
Last year, the Yough softball team raised $6,000 for a pair of classmates who were stricken with cancer. The students since have recovered and are doing better. Yough’s “Strikeout Cancer” event also is going strong. The annual fundraiser game will be played again Wednesday as the Cougars host nonsection opponent...
Pole vaulters help Hempfield clinch WPIAL track championship
If members of the Hempfield boys track and field team needed any extra motivation to win WPIAL Class AAA team championship, maybe it came in their seeding by the WPIAL committee. Hempfield coach Ron Colland’s team was seeded fourth behind North Allegheny, Seneca Valley and Mt. Lebanon. But Colland knew...
Westmoreland athletes of the week: Belle Vernon’s Hunter Martin, Mt. Pleasant’s Carolyn Alincic
Hunter Martin School: Belle Vernon Sport: Track and field Year: Senior Claim to fame: Martin, a Seton Hill commit, captured four individual titles, and the Leopards won the boys team title at the Scott Frederick Mid Mon Classic on April 29 at Charleroi. Martin placed first in the 110-meter hurdles...
