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Trib HSSN Baseball Team of the Week: Keystone Oaks
The Trib HSSN Team of the Week picked up two section wins this past week and left their opponents feeling blanked as we salute the Keystone Oaks Golden Eagles. After splitting their first four games and their first two section contests, Keystone Oaks was looking to shut down Washington and...
Trib HSSN Baseball Player of the Week: Elizabeth Forward’s Jacob Schmidt
Jacob Schmidt School: Elizabeth Forward Class: Junior Elizabeth Forward began this decade with a bang on the diamond, reaching the district postseason in four of the first five years, highlighted by a WPIAL baseball championship in 2011. However, the program has hit a bit of a wall, failing to reach...
WPIAL switches 2 Class A nonconference football matchups
The WPIAL let four Class A football teams flip their Week 9 nonconference opponents to create better matchups. Now, on Oct. 25, Riverview will play at Chartiers-Houston and Sto-Rox hosts Imani Christian. The WPIAL updated the schedule this week. Riverview was initially paired with Sto-Rox while Chartiers-Houston played Imani Christian....
High school sports broadcasts on tap this week on Trib HSSN
Here comes Peter Cottontail, hopping down the bunny trail, hippity, hoppity, Easter and another great week of high school sports coverage is on its way on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has WPIAL baseball and softball section coverage with multiple live and archived video streams. The network...
Franklin Regional’s Nadesan gears up for tennis test at WPIALs
Franklin Regional sophomore Anup Nadesan breezed through the section but will have his work cut out for him at the WPIAL Class AAA boys tennis singles championship tournament starting Monday at the Oxford Athletic Club in Pine. “He sees four or five athletes (who) he would have the toughest challenge...
A-K Valley notebook: Perfect start for Freeport softball
Freeport finished the 2018 regular season as one of only two undefeated softball teams in the WPIAL, and the Yellowjackets are picking up where they left off. Entering Monday, Freeport stood as one of 11 WPIAL softball teams, including three in the Alle-Kiski Valley, with undefeated records. Knoch and Leechburg...
Winless Plum boys volleyball team strives to reach potential
The Plum boys volleyball team held its annual invitational tournament Saturday. For a team that has yet to win a set in section play, the tourney acted as a midseason break, an opportunity to get out of section play and try new things against some of the WPIAL’s top teams....
Alle-Kiski Valley lookahead for Week of April 15, 2019
Monday Baseball: The Section 1-3A race is getting interesting, with five teams — Deer Lakes, Steel Valley, Freeport, Burrell and Valley — competing for four playoff berths. Two games loom large as section leader Deer Lakes (5-4, 4-0) visits Valley (2-6, 2-2), which posted two section wins to get back...
Trib HSSN boys lacrosse, girls lacrosse power rankings for week of April 14, 2019
For the first time, the TribLive High School Sports Network is compiling weekly Power Rankings for boys and girls lacrosse. We run down the Top 5 teams in the WPIAL. These rankings have zero classification boundaries. Here are the first rankings for the 2019 season with overall records. GIRLS LACROSSE...
Trib HSSN boys volleyball power rankings for week of April 14, 2019
For the first time, the TribLive High School Sports Network is compiling weekly Power Rankings for boys volleyball. We run down the Top 5 teams in the WPIAL. These rankings have zero classification boundaries. Here are the first rankings for the 2019 season with overall records. BOYS VOLLEYBALL 1. North...
High school roundup for April 13, 2019: Seneca Valley tops North Allegheny
Josh McLean hit a solo home-run, walked and scored two runs to lead Seneca Valley to a 6-3 win over North Allegheny (5-4, 2-1) in a Section 1-6A baseball game Saturday. After allowing three runs in the top of the fifth, Seneca Valley scored four runs in the bottom of...
A-K Valley notebook: No rest for No. 3 Leechburg softball
What’s a softball team to do after an 18-run victory that requires just three innings to complete? Leechburg decided to practice. It has been that kind of spring for the Blue Devils (6-0, 5-0), ranked No. 3 in the Tribune-Review’s Class A rankings. They outscored their first five opponents by...
High school scores, schedules for April 13, 2019
High Schools Baseball Saturday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Section 1 Seneca Valley 6, North Allegheny 3 Section 2 Norwin 6, Hempfield 5 Class 4A Section 2 Beaver 9, Quaker Valley 3 Section 3 Ringgold at South Park (n) Thomas Jefferson 14, Elizabeth Forward 4 Class 3A Section 2 North Catholic...
WPIAL baseball rankings for week of April 14, 2019
Baseball rankings Class 6A 1. Pine-Richland, 8-3, 5 2. Seneca Valley, 7-2, 3 3. Norwin, 6-2, — 4. Penn-Trafford, 9-1, 2 5. North Allegheny, 5-4, — Out: Central Catholic (8-3, 1), Bethel Park (6-2, 4) Class 5A 1. West Allegheny, 8-1, 3 2. Franklin Regional, 7-1, — 3. Gateway, 7-2,...
Oakland Catholic’s Jayla Ellis earns 4 medals, sets record at TSTCA championship
Two first-place medals, two seconds and a meet record caused Oakland Catholic’s Jayla Ellis to smile Saturday, but so did a candid compliment from her coach. George Rudolph has coached track for 47 years including the past 30 at Oakland Catholic. In a career that spans nearly five decades, Rudolph...
Banner day for Hempfield’s Bannon at Lady Spartan and Wildcat InvitationalVideo
Hempfield senior Jared Bannon has his goals set high this season. He wants to be a state hurdles champion. Bannon, who placed second at the state indoor meet, had a great meet Saturday at the Lady Spartan and Latrobe Wildcat Invitational at Memorial Stadium. Bannon won the 110-meter hurdles (14.84...
Serra Catholic baseball strong everywhere in win over BrentwoodVideo
Serra Catholic graduated all of its top pitchers from last year’s section-championship team. While the names have changed, the results have not. Logan Exler pitched five strong innings, and Serra Catholic hammered out 15 hits and flashed leather as well during a complete 11-1 defeat of Brentwood in a battle...
Roundball Classic roundup: Jeannette’s Sharp leads high-scoring Class 3A/2A to victory
It’s not easy representing Jeannette with dozens of great athletes over the years. But A.J. Sharp did it and did it well Saturday during the 15th annual Roundball Classic at Geneva’s Matheny Field House., scoring 18 points for the boys Class 3A/2A team in a 121-114 victory over the Class...
WPIAL softball rankings for week of April 14, 2019
Here’s a look at this week’s WPIAL softball rankings: Softball Class 6A 1. North Allegheny, 8-0, 3 2. Bethel Park, 7-0, 4 3. Baldwin, 7-1, 5 4. Seneca Valley, 7-2, 1 5. Norwin, 6-2, — Out: Canon-McMillan (5-4, 2) Class 5A 1. Penn-Trafford, 7-0, 2 2. Latrobe, 8-1, 1 3....
High school scores, schedules for April 12, 2019
High Schools Baseball Friday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Section 1 Pine-Richland 10, Allderdice 0 (5 inn.) Central Catholic vs. Butler, ppd. North Allegheny at Seneca Valley, ppd. Section 2 Hempfield at Norwin, ppd. Section 3 Bethel Park 7, Mt. Lebanon 4 Peters Township 16, Upper St. Clair 2 Class 5A...
High school roundup for April 12, 2019: Central Catholic takes down Butler
Top-ranked Central Catholic scored three runs in the top of the seventh inning to help secure a 5-2 victory over Butler in a Section 1-6A baseball game Friday night at Kelly Automotive Park. Brian Dzuban had a double and two RBIs, and Conor Deasy and Zach Palmer also had extra-base...
10 teams make debut in Trib HSSN state baseball rankings
There were big changes to the weekly Trib HSSN PIAA baseball rankings with 10 teams falling out of the Top 5 from a week ago. Among those teams vacating their spots in the state rankings were two teams from the WPIAL as both Central Catholic and Moon suffered a pair...
Highlands looking into restarting girls volleyball program
Highlands is setting itself up for a return to the WPIAL in girls volleyball after three seasons away. The district’s school board will vote Monday on a motion that would restart the program in time for the 2019 fall season, athletic director Chuck Debor said. If approved, the Golden Rams...
Gateway softball competing for WPIAL playoff spot
Gateway softball was a member of Section 1-5A last year, going 8-7 and qualifying for the WPIAL playoffs. The Gators are still in Class 5A this spring but have moved into Section 2, tackling the likes of Hampton, Mars, Oakland Catholic, Penn Hills, Plum, Shaler and Woodland Hills. On April...
Gateway softball captains passionate about sport, duties
Their passion is softball. They display it regularly at practice and on the field before, during and after games. That’s just one of the reasons seniors Gionna DeLuca, Jordan Henderson and Mykaila Jackson were named captains of the Gateway softball team this season. Another is they are talented athletes. DeLuca,...
