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Carmichaels softball routs Leechburg in Class A quarterfinals
The Carmichaels softball team scored 10 or more runs in 13 of its 16 regular-season games. The Mighty Mikes offense was mighty again Thursday in a WPIAL Class A quarterfinals game against Leechburg at Gateway. The No. 2 seed pounded out 16 hits as eight of the nine in the...
Katie Armstrong’s 16 strikeouts propel Burrell past Mohawk into Class 3A semifinals
Fourth-seeded Burrell’s momentum from the second round carried into the WPIAL Class 3A softball quarterfinals as the Buccaneers defeated No. 5 Mohawk, 5-1, on Thursday at Montour. The Buccaneers were fueled by pitcher Katie Armstrong. Burrell mustered five runs on one hit in the first two innings, plenty for how...
Results for the 2023 WPIAL track and field championships
Boys At Slippery Rock University Class 3A 100 (11.10): 1. Kaevon Gardner, New Castle, 10.70; 2. Austyn Winkleblech, Canon-McMillan, 10.73; 3. William Smith, Woodland Hills, 10.76; 4. Tim Calvetti, Mt. Lebanon, 10.79; 5. Adam Piper, Latrobe, 10.90; 6. Luke Rudolph, Pine-Richland, 10.96; 7. Daniel Batch, Montour, 11.10; 8. Peter Gonzalez,...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on May 18, 2023: Recent champs to meet in 3A baseball
A week of WPIAL playoff and championship spring sports action concludes Thursday with another busy day of baseball, softball, lacrosse and boys volleyball. A defending Class 3A champion will open up against a title winner from two years ago in Class 2A. South Park (14-5) battles Shenango (8-8) in a...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for May 17, 2023
High schools WPIAL Baseball WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Quarterfinals Monday’s schedule Pine-Richland (14-6) vs. Hempfield (11-9); Seneca Valley (16-4) vs. Mt. Lebanon (10-10); North Allegheny (14-6) vs. Norwin (8-11); Canon-McMillan (15-5) vs. Butler (12-8) Class 5A First round Wednesday’s results Fox Chapel 6, Mars 4 Plum 6, Trinity 3 South...
High school roundup for May 17, 2023: Ryan Apaliski whiffs 17 in Hampton win
Ryan Apaliski took a no-hitter into the seventh inning and struck out 17 to lead No. 9 Hampton to a 9-0 victory over No. 8 Ringgold in a WPIAL Class 4A baseball first-round game Wednesday. Erik Weeks tripled and homered, Matthew Erka singled and doubled, and Sean Sullivan drove in...
Canon-McMillan’s Rose Kuchera wins 4 gold medals while crisscrossing WPIAL track championships
Canon-McMillan’s Rose Kuchera was relaxing in the team’s tent when a teammate asked if she was running the 100-meter hurdles. As defending champ, of course she was. The junior’s hectic schedule for the WPIAL track and field championships included the hurdles, the long jump, the triple jump and the 400-meter...
Undefeated Shaler dominates short-handed Franklin Regional
Strike out 16, club a couple of home runs and sell the underdog role, and watch any team sprint forward in a playoff bracket. That sure was the right mix for unbeaten Shaler on Wednesday in the WPIAL Class 5A softball quarterfinals. “Those are the staples,” coach Tom Sorce said...
Belle Vernon uses pitching, defense, timely hits to get past West Mifflin
Good pitching, good defense and timely hits. Those are the keys to victory for Belle Vernon softball coach Tom Rodriguez. The Leopards got all three Wednesday night and used them to advance to the WPIAL Class 4A semifinals thanks to a 2-1 win over No. 5 seed West Mifflin at...
Norwin softball hangs on for nervous win over Canon-McMillan, reaches semifinals
Bailey Snowberger said softball is a game of failure. Her Norwin teammate, Alyssa McCormick, mentioned how the sport hinges on teammates picking each other up. “One day you can go 0 for 4, the next you might go 4 for 4,” said Snowberger, a junior shortstop. “You never know what’s...
Fox Chapel baseball breaks through with playoff win over Mars
The Fox Chapel baseball team has been close in recent years, and after six seasons a breakthrough in the WPIAL postseason happened Wednesday night. And they needed all facets to do so, fittingly enough against a Mars team that has been a thorn in the Foxes’ sides in recent years....
Riverview’s Amberson Bauer, Kiski Area’s Eliza Miller lead WPIAL parade of A-K Valley gold medalists
Riverview senior Amberson Bauer finished fourth in the Class 2A boys WPIAL cross country championships in November. On the podium, he looked up at Eden Christian’s Seth Aiken, who won the title. But on Wednesday at the WPIAL track and field championships at Slippery Rock, it was Aiken up at...
Hempfield’s Liz Tapper collects 2 more titles, 4 others from Westmoreland County win WPIAL gold
When you’re ranked No. 1 in the state, anything less than your best could be considered unacceptable. Hempfield senior Elizabeth Tapper walked away from the WPIAL Class 3A track and field championships Wednesday at Slippery Rock happy that she repeated her titles in the discus and shot put but disappointed...
PIAA will sponsor high school girls wrestling after unanimous approval
Advocates for high school girls wrestling in Pennsylvania had their collective arms raised Wednesday. The PIAA board of directors voted unanimously to sponsor girls wrestling as a sport, starting next winter. Members of SanctionPA have been working toward official sponsorship for the past three years, and after reaching the benchmark...
Westmoreland WPIAL softball playoff capsules: Games for Thursday, May 18, 2023
WPIAL softball playoffs Class 3A Quarterfinals 7-Yough (10-4) vs. 2-Southmoreland (15-2) 3 p.m. Thursday at Norwin Winner plays: Winner of 11-Ligonier Valley (9-7)/3-Waynesburg (15-3) in semifinals (date, time, site TBD) Players to watch: Mikaela Etling, Southmoreland; Adoria Waldier, Yough Extra bases: Yough rallied to get past Ellwood City in the...
Westmoreland WPIAL baseball playoff capsules: Games for Thursday, May 18, 2023
WPIAL baseball playoffs Class 3A First round 18-Derry (8-10) vs. 2-Avonworth (15-5) 4 p.m. Thursday at Plum Winner plays: Winner of 7-South Park (14-5)/10-Shenango (8-8) in quarterfinals (time, date, site TBD) Players to watch: Antonion Hauser, Derry; Mason Metz, Avonworth Extra bases: Metz, a catcher, led the Antelopes with a...
A-K Valley WPIAL softball playoff capsules: Games for Thursday, May 18, 2023
WPIAL softball playoffs Class 3A Quarterfinals 4-Burrell (12-5) vs. 5-Mohawk (12-4) 5 p.m. Thursday at Montour Winner plays: Winner of 1-Avonworth (18-1)/8-Central Valley (10-8) in semifinals (site/date/time TBD) Players to watch: Pyper Ferres, Burrell; Lydia Cole, Mohawk Extra bases: The Bucs took down perennial power Mt. Pleasant, 4-1, in the...
A-K Valley WPIAL baseball playoff capsules: Games for Thursday, May 18, 2023
WPIAL baseball playoffs Class 3A First round 1-Riverside (17-0) vs. 16-Valley (11-10) 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Seneca Valley Winner plays: Winner of 8-Freeport (14-5)/9-South Allegheny (12-7) in quarterfinals (time, date, site TBD) Players to watch: Ashton Schlosser, Riverside; Jacob Staraniec, Valley Extra bases: Behind 55th-year coach Dan Oliastro — the...
5 things to watch at WPIAL track and field championships
The WPIAL might be known best for its football hall of famers, but don’t overlook the league’s track and field pedigree. Consider, in the past week, Knoch graduate Jordan Geist won his fourth Pac-12 shot put title at Arizona, and North Allegheny grad Ayden Owens-Delerme at Arkansas won an SEC...
Known for high-flying dunks, Penn Hills’ Daemar Kelly now leaping over high jump bars
Anyone who saw Daemar Kelly finish an alley-oop this winter knows the Penn Hills senior can almost fly. In a gym, on a wood floor, with a basketball in his hands, few around the WPIAL jump higher than him. Yet lately he’s raised the bar — literally. Kelly joined the...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for May 16, 2023
High schools WPIAL Baseball WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Quarterfinals Monday’s schedule Pine-Richland (14-6) vs. Hempfield (11-9); Seneca Valley (16-4) vs. Mt. Lebanon (10-10); North Allegheny (14-6) vs. Norwin (8-11); Canon-McMillan (15-5) vs. Butler (12-8) Class 5A First round Wednesday’s schedule Shaler (16-4) bye; Fox Chapel (12-8) vs. Mars (9-9) at...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on May 17, 2023: 1st-round baseball games ready to go
Whether your spring sports love is baseball, softball, lacrosse or track and field, there is a little bit of everything going on Wednesday around the WPIAL. The first round of the 2023 WPIAL baseball playoffs kicks off in Class 5A and 4A. In 5A last year, West Allegheny and Peters...
High school roundup for May 16, 2023: Avonworth makes statement with bats in Class 3A opener
Top-seeded Avonworth played long ball in the first round of the WPIAL Class 3A softball playoffs, hitting three homers in a 15-4 win over No. 16 Seton Lasalle in five innings Tuesday. Leah Kuban went 3 for 4 with a homer and three RBIs, Rylee Gray doubled, homered and drove...
Ligonier Valley softball rallies to upset Hopewell
For five-plus innings, it was an old-fashioned pitchers’ duel that seemed to set the game back to a time when the circle was 40 feet away from home plate instead of 43. A time when hits were sparse and foul tips were an accomplishment. But when offense finally showed up...
Derry’s bats come alive in Class 3A win over Mt. Pleasant
First-year Derry coach Doug Kelly avoided getting drenched with water after his first WPIAL playoff win. He said his players made it too obvious what they were trying to do. His players showed Mt. Pleasant they could obviously hit. Derry (8-10) pounded out 19 hits off four Mt. Pleasant pitchers...
