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Trib HSSN State Softball Rankings for June 14, 2022
Twelve softball teams from across the state have punched their tickets for the final destination of the season: Penn State. The PIAA will crown six new champions Thursday and Friday after the two defending champions still alive in the semifinals, North Penn in Class 6A and Beaver in 4A, were...
Trib HSSN Baseball State Rankings for June 14, 2022
The path is complete and the stage is set for the 2022 PIAA baseball championships at Penn State on Thursday and Friday. Only two teams won in the state quarterfinals and semifinals to hold on to their No. 1 spot from last week in the Trib HSSN state baseball rankings....
Norwin grad excited to don orange, green as new Yough athletic director
In his stops along a North Carolina-to-Pennsylvania path through high school sports, Bill Flow has worn a number of hats. He coached boys and girls basketball, football, golf and baseball. His new hat will have a “Y” on it for Yough, where he is set to oversee all sports as...
WPIAL athletes across all sports honored for positive impact on community
Kiski Area athletic director John Peterman knows his school’s student-athletes are energetic competitors on the field and make a difference off the field, both in the classroom and the community. He wasn’t surprised when 21 athletes were nominated in several sports for this year’s Western Pennsylvania Positive Athlete Awards. The...
Freeport boys basketball building chemistry in St. Joseph Summer League
Freeport made the WPIAL Class 4A boys basketball playoffs this past season as the No. 11 seed and upset Uniontown to secure the program’s first playoff victory in 12 years. “It felt really good with that upset against Uniontown,” rising senior Dean Furer said. “That brought a lot of belief...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for June 13, 2022
High schools Baseball PIAA playoffs Class 6A Semifinals Monday’s results Liberty 4, Hazleton 2 Warwick 9, Cumberland Valley 0 Championship Thursday’s schedule Liberty (26-2) vs. Warwick (22-2) at Penn State, 4:30 p.m. Class 5A Semifinals Monday’s results Selinsgrove 2, Archbishop Wood 1 Bethel Park 8, Donegal 5 Championship Friday’s schedule...
WPIAL notebook: Class 4A boys basketball crowded with champions after realignment
Lincoln Park and North Catholic have met in the WPIAL boys basketball finals four times in the past six seasons, but they won’t wait that long to face one another again. The WPIAL board on Monday approved a new section alignment for the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons that has them...
Montour gets past West Mifflin to avenge WPIAL championship game loss
Montour and West Mifflin didn’t need 12 innings this time to decide a baseball playoff game between the two schools. Montour scored two runs in the top of the first inning Monday, and that was enough for senior Dylan Mathiesen as the Spartans defeated the Titans, 2-1, in a PIAA...
Armstrong wins rematch with Penn-Trafford to return to state championship game
Just think, these teams will be in the same section next year. After their WPIAL championship thriller, Armstrong and Penn-Trafford met again in the PIAA Class 5A softball semifinals Monday. The state final-four game didn’t quite live up to the late-inning drama of the last meeting — there was no...
High school roundup for June 13, 2022: Neshannock baseball, softball reach state title game
Giovanni Valentine singled with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth inning to send Neshannock to a 2-1 victory over Burgettstown on Monday, earning a berth in the PIAA Class 2A championship game. Grant Melder led off the ninth with a single, Dom Cubellis followed with a double...
Clearfield softball stuns WPIAL champion Beaver, ending 42-game winning streak
LORETTO – Beaver’s 42-game winning streak and hopes for a second consecutive PIAA Class 4A softball title ended shockingly Monday in a semifinal round game at St. Francis University. District 9 champion Clearfield scored single runs in the sixth and seventh innings, both with two outs, and rallied to stun...
WPIAL approves new basketball sections without addressing public-private concerns
The WPIAL considered some radical ideas such as splitting public and private school basketball teams into separate sections, but ultimately decided that’s a debate for another day. The WPIAL board on Monday accepted the basketball committee’s recommendation to stick with the status quo approach and approved new sections for the...
Valley school board removes interim tag, names Kim Johnson full-time AD
For two months this spring, Kim Johnson balanced her duties as a ninth-grade honors biology and AP biology teacher at Valley High School with newly gained responsibilities as the interim athletic director after the resignation of Muzzy Colosimo in March. Through her work with the spring sports teams and advanced...
Sally Ackerman returns to St. Joseph, this time in a new role
Sally Ackerman coached the girls basketball team at St. Joseph for five years from 2013-14 to 2017-18. The Spartans advanced to the WPIAL postseason four times, the PIAA playoffs once and compiled a 71-48 record during that span. Ackerman, also the girls JV coach at St. Joseph from 2010-13, has...
Westmoreland County Senior Spotlight: Norwin’s Aaron Schmook
Aaron Schmook ended his high school athletic career by earning a medal at the PIAA track and field championships. He finished eighth in the javelin. He also played linebacker for the Knights, averaging 6.6 tackles. Schmook recently announced he accepted a scholarship to Kent State. While his season didn’t end...
A-K Valley senior spotlight: Burrell’s Isabella Leger
Isabella Leger spent her four years at Burrell running for the cross country team and the track and field team. When Leger wanted to join the teams, her parents thought she was joking because she had severe asthma. Nonetheless, she stayed persistent in the sport and, after her sophomore year,...
Thomas Jefferson’s Jordan Mayer commits to Wisconsin
About two months after restarting his recruiting process, Thomas Jefferson’s Jordan Mayer committed Sunday to Wisconsin. The 6-foot-5, 230-pound tight end and defensive end is a senior in the fall. His commitment to the Badgers followed a decision in April to decommit from Boston College, his original college choice. Rivals...
High school sports schedule for June 13, 2022
High schools Baseball PIAA playoffs Class 6A Semifinals Monday’s schedule Hazleton (22-1) vs. Liberty (25-2) at Creekview Park, Stroudsburg, 4 p.m.; Warwick (21-2) vs. Cumberland Valley (18-6) at Wenger Field, Fredericksburg, 6:30 p.m. Class 5A Semifinals Monday’s schedule Selinsgrove (22-2) vs. Archbishop Wood (20-4) at Walter Stump Stadium, Pine Grove,...
Trib HSSN Softball Team of the Week: Week ending June 12, 2022
On April 27, the Seneca Valley softball team lost a third straight game, dropping its record to 5-6. Since then, the high-flying Raiders have been unstoppable. Seneca Valley has won 10 straight games, including a WPIAL championship and a pair of PIAA postseason victories. So what changed? “This is my...
Trib HSSN Softball Player of the Week: Week ending June 12, 2022
The Laurel softball machine is used to playing in June. You have to go back to 2017 to find the last time a Spartans season ended before the PIAA postseason. However, in the last three seasons, Laurel entered the state playoffs as WPIAL champion. That run ended a few weeks...
Trib HSSN Baseball Team of the Week: Week ending June 12, 2022
Every team in every sport sets goals at the start of the season. Some of the top programs run dry on ink from checking them off as the season winds down. For other, well, there’s wait until next year. The Burgettstown baseball program has done a lot of waiting, now...
Trib HSSN Baseball Player of the Week: Week ending June 12, 2022
The calendar has turned to June. It’s time for the Black Hawks to stretch their wings and fly high across the state, gathering baseball victories in their travels. A year after losing a heartbreaker in the WPIAL title game, only to regroup and go on to win a PIAA championship,...
Deer Lakes softball reflects on impressive season
Deer Lakes softball coach Rick Cerra saw the pieces for a strong season and postseason run come together back in September, six months before preseason practices began. “Things were really falling into place, and we were really looking forward to having this team on the field,” Cerra said. His expectations...
Penn-Trafford softball notebook: Warriors have shot at redemption
The beauty of the state softball playoffs for many WPIAL teams lies in the chance for redemption. Lose to someone in the WPIAL championship; beat them in the PIAA tournament. Erase the past and advance at the same time. Penn-Trafford (20-3) gets another shot at Armstrong (22-4), the team that...
PIAA Class 5A softball semifinals capsule: Penn-Trafford vs. Armstrong
Monday’s game Penn-Trafford (20-3) vs. Armstrong (22-4) 2 p.m. at Mars Centennial School field, Mars Winner plays: Winner of 2-1 Pittston Area (23-0) vs. 1-2 Oxford (10-5) in championship, 4 p.m. Thursday at Penn State Coaches: Denny Little, Penn-Trafford; Doug Flanders, Armstrong Players to watch: Cam Ponko, Fr., 3B, Penn-Trafford;...
