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2022 WPIAL Class 6A baseball championship preview: Mt. Lebanon vs. Upper St. Clair
WPIAL Class 6A baseball championship 1-Mt. Lebanon (15-7) vs. 7-Upper St. Clair (12-8) 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Wild Things Park, Washington On the air: Trib HSSN (video) Road to the finals Mt. Lebanon — The Blue Devils earned the No. 1 seed thanks to a 9-1 record in Section 2-6A,...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on May 31, 2022: Breaking down the baseball, softball 3rd-place games
Life is about second chances. If you come up short of a goal and can hit the second-chance button, golden memories could lie ahead. That is the hope of 18 district softball and baseball teams coming out of the holiday weekend. While hopes of a WPIAL championship are gone, a...
Trib HSSN softball team of the week: May 30, 2022
The names change, but the Elizabeth Forward softball program just keeps on humming along victory avenue. In the last four years, the Warriors have reached the district finals three times and the state title game once, winning WPIAL gold in 2019. So the fact EF finished 16-2 and once again...
Trib HSSN softball player of the week: May 30, 2022
The way the WPIAL softball postseason schedule set up, with a first-round bye for top seed and defending champion Beaver in the Class 4A playoffs, the Bobcats had 22 days between their season-ending win over Laurel and their quarterfinal opener last Monday against Freeport. “With some of the players coming...
Trib HSSN Baseball Team of the Week: May 29, 2022
There were some highs and some lows for the Upper St. Clair baseball team in the first year with Jeff Donati as head coach. The Panthers finished 5-5 and tied for third place in Section 1-6A and enjoyed a five-game winning streak in April before losing six of their final...
Trib HSSN Baseball Player of the Week: May 29, 2022
After a season opening loss to Archbishop Stepinac of New York, the Montour baseball team ripped off 15 consecutive wins to run away with the Section 2-4A title and firmly place itself as the team to beat in Class 4A. Then, in a span of seven days, the Spartans lost...
This week on Trib HSSN: Week of May 30, 2022
When the first big summer holiday weekend is completed and the picnic baskets have been put away, it will be time to bring out the hardware and celebrate the district diamond championships this week here on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has exclusive video and audio action...
Tim Storino finds right fit in leading Seton LaSalle football
Tim Storino feels at home as the leader of the Seton LaSalle football team. A 17-year coaching veteran, Storino has his sights set on resurrecting a program that has stumbled due to coaching turnover and inconsistent play. Storino was hired in March following a tumultuous 2021 season in which Mauro...
Gateway boys volleyball coach reflects after special season
The Gateway boys volleyball team was on the doorstep of a big victory in a WPIAL Class 2A quarterfinal match against Ambridge on May 19 at North Allegheny. The Gators, champions of Section 2 and the No. 4 seed, led the No. 5 Bridgers, 2-1, in their best-of-five match. Game...
Gateway Sports Hall of Fame plans to honor Class of 2022
Plans are in motion for the Gateway Sports Hall of Fame to resume honoring athletic greats this year. The committee charged with selecting the Class of 2022 tentatively is scheduled to meet this month to finalize the class and also discuss other matters relating to the banquet and induction ceremony...
Quaker Valley athletes shine at WPIAL team, individual track championships
Quaker Valley’s girls track and field team offered cogent proof as to why it was able to claim its first WPIAL title since 2007. The QV girls reeled in medals in 10 events at the WPIAL Class 2A individual championships May 18 at rain-soaked Slippery Rock University. “I am very...
Kiera Mack among Penn Hills softball standouts honored for turnaround season
Kiera Mack helped set the standard for the Penn Hills softball team. During the preseason, Mack talked about her game still being a work in progress. Even when the Indians’ third baseman/outfielder acknowledged improvements made, she had more ideas for how things could get better. “I can always improve with...
Penn Hills notebook: Julian Dugger on college football recruiting radar
Penn Hills sophomore Julian Dugger is receiving plenty of attention on the college football recruiting scene. Dugger received an offer from the University of Massachusetts last week. He announced the offer on his Twitter feed. It has been a busy spring for Dugger, who also has offers from Toledo and...
Pine-Richland notebook: Baseball team stopped by Butler ace
After sharing the Section 1-6A title with North Allegheny, Pine-Richland baseball ran into a buzzsaw in the first round of the WPIAL playoffs. Butler pitcher Madden Clement pitched a three-hit shutout, propelling the Golden Tornado to a 5-0 victory over the Rams on May 23 at Seneca Valley. Clement, the...
New Castle’s Maria Owens turns triple jump frustration into PIAA long jump gold
SHIPPENSBURG — New Castle senior Maria Owens was upset with herself a day earlier after a 17th-place finish in the triple jump, disappointed largely by a foul on a big jump. “I couldn’t get over it,” she said. But eventually she decided to take that mistake, turn it into motivation...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for May 28, 2022
High schools Baseball WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Championship Tuesday’s schedule Mt. Lebanon (15-7) vs. Upper St. Clair (12-8) at Wild Things Park, 7:30 p.m. Class 5A Championship Wednesday’s schedule Peters Township (21-1) vs. West Allegheny (18-4) at Wild Things Park, 7:30 p.m. Third place Tuesday’s schedule Thomas Jefferson (15-7) vs....
2022 PIAA Track and Field Championships results
Track and field Boys Saturday’s results PIAA championships At Shippensburg University Class 3A 100: 1. Joey Gant, Pennridge, 10.74; 2. Damon Simpson, Wilson, 10.74; 3. Abraham Sloboh, Milton Hershey, 10.86; 4. Damian Simpson, Wilson, 10.91; 5. Justin Cook, Harrisburg, 10.96; 6. Tyler Yurich, Seneca Valley, 11.05; 7. Gabe Lewis, Cedar...
Moon’s Mia Cochran wins unprecedented ‘triple’ at PIAA championships, celebrates team title alone
Moon Area’s Mia Cochran admits the competitor in her likes a challenge, but she hasn’t found many on the track recently. So, she created one. The Arkansas recruit completed a distance “triple” this weekend that’s likely unprecedented, winning the 800-, 1,600- and 3,200-meter titles at the PIAA Class 3A championship...
North Catholic’s Nicolas Scheller wins state tennis title
North Catholic senior Nicolas Scheller won a state tennis championship in emphatic fashion Saturday, sweeping past District 1 champion Toby Frantz of Faith Christian Academy, 6-0, 6-0, in the Class 2A finals in Hershey. Scheller became North Catholic’s first tennis state champion. He’s the first WPIAL player to win a...
George Guido: Deer Lakes softball seeks 3rd WPIAL title
Deer Lakes will try to become the second Alle-Kiski Valley school to win three WPIAL softball titles Wednesday when the Lancers (13-3) face Avonworth (16-4) at noon at Cal (Pa.’s) Lilley Field. The game will be for Class 3A honors. Deer Lakes previously won WPIAL titles in 2012 and ’15....
Westmoreland H.S. athletes of the week: GCC’s Emma Henry, Hempfield’s Peyton Murray
Emma Henry School: Greensburg Central Catholic Sport: Softball Year: Junior Claim to fame: Henry helped lead the Centurions to a 9-6 victory over Springdale in the WPIAL Class A third-place game to give GCC a PIAA playoff spot for the first time since 2012. She doubled, tripled and drove in...
WPIAL runners sweep 3,200-meter races at PIAA championships
SHIPPENSBURG — Eden Christian’s Sean Aiken attempted the 3,200 meters for the first time a couple of months ago, and he really didn’t like running nearly two miles. “I personally don’t enjoy the two-mile,” he said. “I don’t know how many guys actually do, but it definitely had to grow...
Quaker Valley’s Nora Johns defends title in PIAA Class 2A 300 hurdles
SHIPPENSBURG — Quaker Valley’s Nora Johns shocked herself when she won the Class 2A 300-meter hurdles at last year’s PIAA track and field championships. Johns said she continued to shock herself by winning her second consecutive title Saturday at Shippensburg University’s Seth Grove Stadium. The junior edged Bedford sophomore Autumn...
Hempfield’s Tapper wins Class 3A discus for 2nd gold of PIAA track and field championships
SHIPPENSBURG — Now that Hempfield junior Liz Tapper has two PIAA gold medals on her resume, what’s in store next? “I want to repeat and add state records in both events,” Liz Tapper said with a grin on her face. “I was so close this year. I have to fix...
Deer Lakes’ Carson McCoy celebrates another come-from-behind win at PIAA championships
SHIPPENSBURG — Carson McCoy apologized after his latest come-from-behind victory, knowing he’d just ruthlessly dashed the hopes of the same opponent for the third time. But McCoy wasn’t really sorry. The Deer Lakes senior used his strong kick to surge ahead in the final stretch and win the boys 800...
