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Pitt, Penn State offer Chartiers Valley’s Lamont Payne after pressure-packed sophomore year
On one side of the field, Chartiers Valley had a senior three-year starter at cornerback. On the other side was sophomore Lamont Payne. So, Payne knew he’d be tested. “Starting as a sophomore is kind of a big deal,” he said. “There’s a lot of pressure on you.” In that...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for April 12, 2021
Baseball Monday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Section 1 North Allegheny 19, Allderdice 2 Butler at Central Catholic, ppd. Pine-Richland at Seneca Valley, ppd. Section 2 Canon-McMillan 6, Upper St. Clair 4 Baldwin at Hempfield, ppd. Mt. Lebanon at Norwin, ppd. Class 5A Section 1 Franklin Regional 14, Latrobe 1 Gateway...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on April 13, 2021: Class 5A baseball powers to square off
The race for the top spot in Section 3-5A is looking like a three-team dandy of a chase. The top three teams are a combined 13-2 overall. Shaler, the 2019 Class 5A champion, was last week’s HSSN Baseball Team of the Week. The Titans are 2-0, 4-1 overall. The other...
Trib HSSN Baseball Player of the Week for April 12, 2021: Keystone Oaks’ Jake Slazinski
Welcome to the Year of the Jake. Last week, Jake Walker was the Trib HSSN Baseball Player of the Week. This week, after a couple of big games in the section openers for Keystone Oaks, Jake Slazinski takes the honors. “Jake’s strength is his versatility,” Keystone Oaks coach Nick Kamberis...
Trib HSSN Baseball Team of the Week for April 12, 2021: Shaler
When looking at a new high school season, there is a tendency to peek at the previous year’s champions and see what they have coming back for the new campaign. But what happens when there was no last season? Fair or not, many of the 2019 champions were labeled teams...
High school roundup for April 12, 2021: Held hitless for 6 innings, Plum baseball tops Mars
Held without a hit for six innings, Plum scored four runs on four hits in the top of the seventh inning to defeat Mars, 5-4, in Section 2-5A baseball Monday afternoon. Colton Lowman hit a sacrifice fly to give Plum a 2-1 lead, and Nate McMasters delivered a two-run single...
Canon-McMillan baseball gets past Upper St. Clair in a wild one
Canon-McMillan pulled out a wild victory over Upper St. Clair on Monday afternoon, thanks in part to a wild pitch. A bases-loaded wild pitch scored the tying and go-ahead run in the bottom of the sixth inning, giving the Big Macs a 6-4 win over the visiting Panthers. Trailing 4-3...
Knoch senior tosses 4-inning no-hitter to secure first section win of season
Knoch senior Brayden Hageter got more than enough run support Monday at Pullman Park as the Knights took on Section 1-4A opponent Burrell for the first time this season. But, as it turned out, he needed only one. Hageter was one walk away from throwing a four-inning perfect game and...
WPIAL tennis season heats up for A-K Valley trio, Section 3-AA teams
The Alle-Kiski Valley will be well-represented Tuesday at the WPIAL Class AA singles championships as Highlands senior Gabe Norris and Valley sophomore Nicholas Bussard and senior Thomas Albert will take to the court at Shady Side Academy. For the 10th-seeded Norris, the No. 1 singles player for the Golden Rams,...
Former Central Catholic goalie Kris Mayotte named hockey coach at Colorado College
While the NCAA men’s hockey season concluded Saturday night at PPG Paints Arena with Massachusetts defeating St. Cloud State, some schools started preparations for the 2021-22 season. The coaching carousel has stopped for Colorado College with the announcement of Pittsburgh native Kris Mayotte as the new head coach of the...
Fundraiser for former Franklin Regional soccer coach Kurt Landsberg at $29,000 and counting
Local avid soccer enthusiast and former coach Kurt Landsberg is battling Glioblastoma, an aggressive type of cancer in his brain. The longtime Franklin Regional girls assistant, who also coached at Highlands and with the Allegheny Force FC, is now the focus of a community fundraiser aimed to help with medical...
Ambridge takes over as Class AA No. 1 in latest WPIAL volleyball coaches rankings
The Western Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association released its Week 3 boys volleyball rankings Monday morning, and for the second week in a row, there is a new team at the top of Class AA. Ambridge, on the strength of a 3-2 win over rival North Catholic in a Section 1-AA...
WPIAL to finalize spring championship sites, plans return to familiar venues
The WPIAL will finalize its championship sites for spring sports when the board meets Wednesday. High school venues were used for fall and winter championships as the pandemic forced tight limits on gathering sizes, but spring sports are expected to return to many familiar sites including Wild Things Park in...
PIAA basketball committee wants state semifinals on weekend, not weekday
The state basketball tournament might begin a few days earlier next winter, if the PIAA basketball committee gets its wish. The committee met March 31 and unanimously recommended starting the 2022 tournament on a Tuesday and Wednesday rather than a Friday and Saturday. The intended benefit was to have the...
Trib HSSN What to Watch for: Monday, April 12, 2021
Over the past 10 seasons, there have been two dominant WPIAL baseball teams in the sport’s highest classification that have played in eight district title games, winning six Class AAAA or 6A championships. Pine-Richland and Seneca Valley. The Rams won in 2010, 2017 and 2019. The Raiders won three championships...
Trib HSSN Softball Team of the Week for week ending April 11, 2021
In the 25 years between 1976 and 2000, the North Hills softball program won five WPIAL championships. The Indians still are searching for a sixth crown. A lot has happened to the program since just missing the Class 6A playoffs in 2019. North Hills now is playing in Class 5A...
Trib HSSN Softball Player of the Week for week ending April 11, 2021
In 2019, sophomore Kailey Larcinese of Elizabeth Forward was a dominant pitcher. She finished with a 19-5 record, a 1.02 ERA of 1.02 and an 0.85 WHIP. She struck out 202 in 151 innings. Opposing hitters had a feeble .169 batting average against her. Nearly half of her wins (nine)...
WPIAL girls lacrosse standings through April 11, 2021
Here are the latest WPIAL girls lacrosse standings for the 2021 season through Sunday, Apr. 11. The top six teams in each section qualify for the district postseason. Only section records are shown. #-Clinched section championship *-Clinched playoff berth x-Eliminated from playoffs Class AAA Section 1 Mt. Lebanon, 2-0 Upper...
High school schedules for April 12, 2021
High schools Baseball Monday’s schedule WPIAL Class 6A Section 1 Butler at Central Catholic, 4 p.m. North Allegheny at Allderdice, 3:30 p.m. Pine-Richland at Seneca Valley, 4 p.m. Section 2 Baldwin at Hempfield, 4:15 p.m. Mt. Lebanon at Norwin, 4 p.m. Upper St. Clair at Canon-McMillan, 4 p.m. Class 5A...
WPIAL boys lacrosse standings through April 11, 2021
Here are the latest WPIAL boys lacrosse standings for the 2021 season through Sunday, Apr. 11. The top six teams in each section qualify for the district postseason. Only section records are shown. #-Clinched section championship *-Clinched playoff berth x-Eliminated from playoffs Class AAA Section 1 Bethel Park, 2-0 Canon-McMillan,...
TribLive High School Sports Network broadcasts: Week of April 12, 2021
We drop the puck on our postseason hockey coverage with four days of final four games this week here on the TribLive High School Sports Network. We have the PIHL Penguins Cup semifinals in Class AAA, AA, A and Class B to decide which teams will play for hockey gold...
Valley baseball field gets ‘complete overhaul’ during pandemic canceled season
The coronavirus pandemic might have stopped the Valley baseball team from playing last season, but head coach Jim Basilone and assistant coach Brad Wood took advantage of the downtime in a big way and gave the Vikings’ home field a makeover. Over the course of the past year and a...
Penn-Trafford boys tennis off to solid start in Section 1
Considering the circumstances with the coronavirus, Megan Satira’s first official year as Penn-Trafford’s boys tennis coach has gone better than expected. The Warriors (4-1) entered the week in second place in Section 1-AAA behind Franklin Regional after a 5-0 loss to the Panthers April 6. Satira, who has coached the...
Penn-Trafford notebook: Warriors fall to Baldwin in PIHL Penguins Cup playoffs
Penn-Trafford saw its hockey season end last week with a quarterfinal-round loss in the PIHL Penguins Cup playoffs. The Warriors dropped a 4-1 decision to Baldwin. After Carson Kress gave the Highlanders a 1-0 lead in the second period, the Warriors evened the score with an even strength goal by...
North Allegheny’s talented lineup, rotation aims to ‘prove something’
In a way, pitcher Kyle Demi personifies North Allegheny’s mindset this season. He’s a big right-hander with a fastball that can reach 90 mph, but most folks around the WPIAL haven’t seen him throw it. On paper, he’s an ace. Yet, before this season, the 6-foot-2, 205-pound senior never had...
