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High school scores, summaries and schedules for April 14, 2021
High schools Baseball Wednesday’s results Class 6A Section 1 Butler 6, Central Catholic 4 Seneca Valley 5, Pine-Richland 0 Section 2 Hempfield 14, Baldwin 4 Mt. Lebanon at Norwin, ppd. Class 5A Section 1 Kiski Area 5, McKeesport 4 Penn-Trafford at Gateway, ppd. Section 2 Armstrong 6, Hampton 5 Section...
High school roundup for April 14, 2021: Mt. Lebanon softball tops Canon Mac in thriller
Elizabeth Kubancek’s third hit of the game was a walkoff two-run double in the bottom of the seventh inning to carry Mt. Lebanon to a 7-6 victory over Canon-McMillan in Section 1-6A softball Wednesday afternoon. Deidre Flaherty doubled and homered and Kate Borza had a double and an RBI for...
What to watch for in high school sports for April 15, 2021: Top 2 teams meet on court
The top two teams in WPIAL Class AAA boys volleyball are set to square off for the first of two meetings in the regular season Thursday. Top-ranked and defending champion North Allegheny hits the road to battle No. 2 Seneca Valley. First place in Section 2-AAA is up for grabs...
South Fayette’s Patterson, North Catholic’s Scheller crowned WPIAL tennis champs
The WPIAL crowned a pair of boys tennis singles champions as South Fayette’s Jacob Patterson outlasted Shady Side Academy’s Colin Gramley for the Class AAA title, and North Catholic’s Nicolás Scheller made quick work of Quaker Valley’s Mike Sirianni. Patterson jumped out to an early lead in what turned into...
A-K Valley softball notebook: Plum breaks out bats in return to action
Plum players had to wait a week to get the bad taste of a 5-0 loss to Section 1-5A rival Franklin Regional out of their mouths. The Mustangs had section games Friday against Woodland Hills (covid) and Monday against Kiski Area (rain) postponed. So Plum was more than ready Wednesday...
Yough softball hitting all the right spots in early going
Yough softball coaches and players often talk about their pitchers “hitting spots.” By design, the concept is meant to produce groundouts, pop flies and strikeouts up and down the opponents’ batting order. It is a staple of coach Art “Dutch” Harvey. When a pitch sign is given, the players listen....
Trib HSSN State Baseball Rankings for April 14, 2021
Only minor changes were made in the second week of the 2021 Trib HSSN state baseball rankings. One team from each class lost its footing and dropped out of the top 5, thus opening the door for six new teams to join the state diamond elite. Out are Souderton, Bethel...
Backed into a corner, Penn-Trafford powers past Connellsville
Penn-Trafford softball coach Denny Little said he didn’t need any motivational speech prior to Wednesday’s first-place showdown with No. 1 Connellsville. His team knew what to do. Junior pitcher Mia Smith pitched her best game of the season and battery mate senior Emma Little went 3 for 4 with a...
Indiana, Chartiers Valley roar into Penguins Cup finals in Class A
It didn’t take long for Indiana to take control Wednesday in its PIHL Class A semifinal matchup with Freeport. The Indians peppered Freeport freshman goaltender Tyler Lang with shots from the first whistle and took a lead six minutes into the game with a goal from Tanner Agnello. They added...
North Allegheny softball makes short work of Hempfield
Call it stunning. Call it uncharacteristic. Hempfield softball coach Bob Kalp is calling it what it was. “A bad, bad day at the office,” Kalp said after his team was flattened Wednesday by visiting North Allegheny, 15-3, in five innings at Robert Kalp Field. No. 3 Hempfield (4-3, 1-2) was...
Pine-Richland fires football coach Eric Kasperowicz 5 months after winning state title
In the span of eight years, Pine-Richland football coach Eric Kasperowicz built the Rams into one of the WPIAL’s best programs with four WPIAL championships and two state titles. Stunningly, that run ended Wednesday. Only five months removed from their latest state championship celebration, the team’s coaches received an email...
Westmoreland softball notebook: Southmoreland returns to winning ways
Southmoreland is off to its best start in five years and could be a challenger to Mt. Pleasant — a section opponent, it just so happens — in Class 3A. The Scotties (5-0), ranked No. 2 behind Mt. Pleasant, had scored at least six runs in every game, including an...
Fox Chapel strikeouts specialist Borkovich exceeding expectations
Mackenzie Borkovich logged most of the pitching innings as a freshman for Fox Chapel in 2019. She hoped to make a jump last year as the Foxes sought a return to the WPIAL playoffs after a one-year hiatus. But the covid-related cancellation of the 2020 season dashed all hopes for...
WPIAL approves spring championship sites, adopts split schedule for individual track meet
The WPIAL individual track and field championships will be run midweek this spring and have a split schedule, with Class 2A starting first and 3A later in the day. Those were among the changes approved Wednesday when the WPIAL board finalized championship sites for spring sports, a list that features...
WPIAL rules Birch brothers ineligible after transfer from Jeannette to Gateway
Two high-profile transfers now are in limbo. The WPIAL board voted Wednesday to deny athletic eligibility to brothers Brett and Brad Birch, football standouts who transferred last month from Jeannette to Gateway. The WPIAL’s decision was based solely on paperwork, executive director Amy Scheuneman said, after Jeannette administrators flagged the...
Greater Latrobe picks assistant to serve as next athletic director
Greater Latrobe looked within to find the district’s next athletic director. The school board Tuesday promoted Zachary Heide, the assistant athletic director, to take over the department’s top post beginning July 1. His new salary was set at $65,000. Heide, who served in the district in various capacities for about...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for April 13, 2021
High schools Baseball Tuesday’s results Class 6A Section 1 Pine-Richland 9, Seneca Valley 1 North Allegheny 11, Allderdice 1 Central Catholic 7, Butler 4 Section 2 Norwin 2, Mt. Lebanon 1 Hempfield 5, Baldwin 2 Upper St. Clair 5, Canon-McMillan 0 Class 5A Section 1 Franklin Regional 13, Latrobe 3...
High school roundup for April 13, 2021: Penn-Trafford outlasts Gateway in 12 innings
Peyton Bigler drew a walkoff bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the 12th inning to give Penn-Trafford a 3-2 Section 1-5A baseball victory over Gateway on Tuesday. Nolan Marasti pitched eight innings of scoreless relief for Penn-Trafford (2-3, 1-2). Angelo Ross had three hits for Gateway (3-2, 2-1). Apollo Ridge...
What to watch for in high school sports for April 14, 2021: PIHL semifinalists hit the ice
The PIHL Penguins Cup semifinals continue Wednesday with the final four Class A teams hitting the ice at the RMU Island Sports Complex on Neville Island. It is the only set of semifinals in this year’s Penguins Cup chase that features four division champions. In the first game, Southeast Division...
Trib HSSN State Softball Rankings for April 13, 2021
There were big changes in two classifications from the first edition to the second week of the 2021 Trib HSSN state softball rankings. Three teams were bumped out of the state elite in both Class 6A and Class 3A. While there were minimal changes in the other four classifications, only...
West Allegheny handles South Fayette in early season 5A baseball showdown
Top-ranked West Allegheny used clutch hits on offense and a strong performance on the mound to hand South Fayette its first loss of the season. Behind Auburn recruit Gavin Miller, the Indians held off the Lions, 7-3, Tuesday afternoon in the first of back-to-back games between the No. 1 and...
Goalies steal the show as Franklin Regional, Baldwin make Penguins Cup finals
Sometimes goaltenders just steal games. Franklin Regional senior Gunner Fulton did just that Tuesday in the PIHL Class AA semifinals against Montour. Fulton, who allowed four goals, made numerous key saves down the stretch as Franklin Regional defeated Montour, 5-4, at Alpha Ice Complex. The victory put the Panthers in...
Controversial call, hot hitting help Franklin Regional baseball rout Latrobe
Franklin Regional was as delighted as Latrobe was dejected after a controversial call in the bottom of the fourth inning Tuesday seemed to flip momentum sharply in the Panthers’ favor and sent them on their way to a 13-3, five-inning victory in the second game of the teams’ Section 1-5A...
Butler’s Devin Carney adds scholarship offer from Duquesne basketball
If Butler’s Devin Carney wants to stay home for college, he now has another Division I option. The 6-foot-1 junior announced an offer Monday from the Duquesne men’s basketball team. The Dukes are the fourth offer he has shared on Twitter. Carney announced an offer from Robert Morris coach Andy...
North Allegheny, Mt. Lebanon move on to Penguins Cup finals in Class AAA
Connor Chi’s second goal of the game 30 seconds into overtime gave No. 4 North Allegheny a 4-3 win over Peters Township in the first of two PIHL Class AAA semifinal matchups at the RMU Island Sports Center on Neville Island on Monday night. Chi, who also connected on a...
