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USA Today releases “Way-Too-Early” high school football rankings
Football season is still months away, but USA Today released its “Way-Too-Early” high school rankings this week. Defending PIAA Class 6A champion St. Joseph’s Prep was the only Pennsylvania team ranked in the Top 25. The Hawks were ranked No. 21. St. Joseph’s defeated defeated Pine-Richland in the state semifinals...
Union lineman Aaron Gunn adds 2nd Power 5 offer
One of the WPIAL’s smallest schools features one of the WPIAL’s biggest sophomores. Union’s Aaron Gunn, a 6-foot-4, 305-pound lineman, announced his second Power 5 conference offer from West Virginia. The Mountaineers join Kentucky, which offered Gunn his first Division 1 scholarship last summer. He was named as a first-team...
Breaking down the 2019 WPIAL baseball playoffs
Class 6A Favorite: Penn-Trafford has never won a WPIAL baseball title, but the Warriors enter this year’s playoffs as the No. 1 seed. Section 2 champion P-T owns early-season wins over North Allegheny (6-5) and Pine-Richland (13-2). Senior Mario Disso leads with a .351 average. Challengers: Pine-Richland won Section 1...
Upper St. Clair, Oakland Catholic seeded No. 1 for WPIAL girls lacrosse playoffs
Oakland Catholic and Upper St. Clair earned the No. 1 seeds in the WPIAL girls lacrosse brackets revealed Friday. USC claimed the top spot in Class 3A followed by Shady Side Academy, Fox Chapel and Bethel Park. In Class 2A, Quaker Valley was seeded second, Hampton was third and Seton...
Penn-Trafford, West Allegheny among No. 1 seeds in WPIAL baseball playoff brackets
Penn-Trafford, West Allegheny, Greensburg Salem, Freeport, Shenango and California received No. 1 seeds Friday when the WPIAL revealed baseball playoff brackets. Play begins Wednesday and Thursday. The championships are May 28-29 at Wild Things Park in Washington. Class 6A Thursday’s games No. 1 Penn-Trafford – bye No. 8 Upper St....
Butler’s Ethan Morton latest WPIAL basketball recruit headed out of state
The WPIAL doesn’t produce an abundance of major-college men’s basketball recruits, but it has seen its share of three- and four-star prospects in recent years. The latest to pick a college, Butler junior Ethan Morton, committed Thursday night to Purdue. Rivals ranks the 6-foot-5 guard as a four-star recruit. He...
Butler basketball star Ethan Morton commits to Purdue
Rarely does the WPIAL have a basketball star whose recruitment stretches nearly coast to coast. Butler’s Ethan Morton had options nationwide and chose somewhere in the middle. The 6-foot-5 junior guard committed to Purdue on Thursday night, making his college announcement on Twitter. He had nearly two dozen scholarship offers...
North Allegheny, Penn-Trafford earn No. 1 seeds in WPIAL softball playoffs
North Allegheny, Penn-Trafford, Mt. Pleasant, Avonworth, Chartiers-Houston and West Greene received No. 1 seeds Thursday when the WPIAL revealed softball playoff brackets. The playoffs start Tuesday for Class 5A, 3A and A. The other three classifications begin play Wednesday. The championships are May 29-30 at Peterswood Park in Peters Township....
North Allegheny, Mars receive top seeds in WPIAL boys lacrosse playoffs
North Allegheny and Mars received the top seeds Thursday when the WPIAL revealed brackets for the boys lacrosse playoffs. The playoffs begin Monday for Class 3A and Tuesday for Class 2A. The championships are May 24 at Robert Morris. Defending champion Mars earned the top seed in Class 2A followed...
Bishop Canevin hires football coach T.J. Wiley
Former Northgate, Deer Lakes and Penn-Trafford football coach T.J. Wiley is headed to Bishop Canevin. Canevin announced Wiley’s hire Wednesday on Twitter. He replaces Chris Lucas, who left Canevin for West Allegheny after one season as the Crusaders’ head coach. “Of the 14 candidates interviewed and many more considered, Coach...
3rd WPIAL baseball team forfeits after violating pitch-count rule
Two weeks after defeating section-leading Hopewell, Beaver Falls gave the victory back. Beaver Falls became the third WPIAL baseball team to forfeit a victory this season after violating pitch-count rules, the teams announced Tuesday. The PIAA upped the single-game limit to 105 pitches this season but only for the playoffs...
Butler basketball star Ethan Morton will make his college decision this week
Butler basketball star Ethan Morton holds nearly two dozen scholarship offers, having added one after another since Cleveland State gave him his first three summers ago. Now, it’s time to choose. The 6-foot-5 junior will announce his college choice Thursday night from a long list that includes regional schools Pitt,...
North Catholic basketball teammates add offers just before recruiting shutdown
A week-long recruiting shutdown starts Monday for NCAA women’s basketball coaches, but North Catholic teammates Tess Myers and Kylee Lewandowski each pulled in an offer just before the deadline. Myers announced an offer Saturday from Temple, and Lewandowski added Fairfield on Friday. They rank among the WPIAL’s top juniors. A...
Texas A&M targets linemen from WPIAL, City LeagueVideo
With NFL first-round picks Myles Garrett, Mike Evans and Von Miller all recent Aggies, Texas A&M football coaches can make a strong nationwide pitch to recruits. This week, Jimbo Fisher’s staff dipped into Western Pennsylvania to offer a pair of defensive linemen. Westinghouse junior Dayon Hayes and Central Catholic sophomore...
Public school advocates plan another ‘athletic equity’ summit
Public school advocates are planning another statewide summit this summer to further their campaign to create separate PIAA playoffs. In an email Sunday to supporters, the Pennsylvania Athletics Equity Committee announced that it will hold a summit July 30 at a site to be determined. The group organized the PA...
Notre Dame offers another Carmody — this time for footballVideo
Could Notre Dame recruit two Carmody brothers? Mars junior Michael Carmody announced a football scholarship offer Sunday from the Fighting Irish, the same school that landed his basketball-playing brother Robby last year. Carmody also added offers this week from Iowa and Stanford, giving him scholarship from all five Power 5...
East-West game gives 16 WPIAL football players 1 last go-round
May isn’t typical football season in Western Pennsylvania, but it is for 68 seniors from across the state who will gather Sunday in Altoona. Rather than spend their spring weekends relaxing in the sun or getting ready for graduation, they have chosen to take part in the PSFCA East-West all-star...
WPIAL baseball rankings for week of May 5, 2019
Here are this week’s Trib HSSN baseball rankings: Baseball Class 6A Team, record, previous 1. Penn-Trafford, 14-2, 1 2. Pine-Richland, 13-3, 2 3. North Allegheny, 12-5, 5 4. Peters Township, 11-5, — 5. Bethel Park, 12-3, 4 Out: Seneca Valley (9-5, 3) Class 5A 1. West Allegheny, 15-2, 1 2....
Pirates notebook: Interleague play has been kind to Bucs
The Pittsburgh Pirates have called the National League home for more than a century, but recent interleague results might make them want switch leagues. “We’ve been really good the last couple years (against the American League),” said manager Clint Hurdle, whose team entered Friday with a 16-4 record at home...
Pitch-count confusion forces another WPIAL baseball team to forfeit
The PIAA’s new pitch-count rule forced another WPIAL baseball team to forfeit. Chartiers Valley notified the WPIAL that its April 17 victory over Trinity must be forfeited because its player threw more pitches than allowed, CV athletic director Angie Potthoff said. The loss leaves the Colts (3-10, 3-5) in fifth...
Central Catholic’s A.J. Beatty adds 40th offer, sets date to announce favorites
A.J. Beatty’s scholarship total has climbed for weeks, but the Central Catholic junior will start narrowing his options soon. The 6-foot-5, 255-pound defensive end revealed this week that he’ll announce a list of “top schools” on June 1. In the meantime, Beatty continues to add Division I schools. He collected...
Central Catholic’s Elliot Donald adds West Virginia, Syracuse offers
Elliot Donald’s uncle ranks among Pitt’s all-time greats, but that didn’t stop West Virginia from recruiting him. The Central Catholic sophomore announced offers this week from West Virginia and Syracuse, raising his scholarship total to 14. The 6-foot-2, 230-pound defensive tackle ranks among the WPIAL’s top recruits in the 2021...
Nebraska football makes recruiting push into Western Pennsylvania
Nebraska’s football roster lists 75 players from the Cornhusker State and a number of others from the midwest, but coach Scott Frost’s staff is making a push in Pennsylvania. Four WPIAL standouts announced offers this week from Nebraska: Aliquippa junior Zuriah Fisher, Baldwin sophomore Dorien Ford, Gateway sophomore Derrick Davis...
WPIAL baseball rankings for week of April 28, 2019
Here’s a look at this week’s Trib HSSN WPIAL baseball rankings: Baseball rankings Class 6A 1. Penn-Trafford, 12-1, 1 2. Pine-Richland, 10-3, 2 3. Seneca Valley, 9-3, 3 4. Bethel Park, 10-2, 4 5. North Allegheny, 9-5, 5 Out: none Class 5A 1. West Allegheny, 12-2, 1 2. Franklin Regional,...
Latrobe’s Williams leaves home track as big winner at WCCA meet
Latrobe sprinter Zakharee Williams always has considered himself a strong finisher. So, making his final appearance on his home track, the senior won four events Saturday and earned MVP honors at the Westmoreland County Coaches Association championship meet. Williams won individual medals in the boys 100 and 400 meters, and...
