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Late score lifts Team Different past Never Fear in NFBD all-star football game
Touchdown celebrations mandatory, 18-minute running clocks and a dee jay set up on the sidelines — it was all fun and football at Cupples Stadium in the South Side Sunday night. Seventy high school football standouts from across Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan played one final high school game. With the...
Trib HSSN Baseball Team of the Week
The Trib HSSN Team of the Week is Shaler, which climbed from the No. 5-seed in Class 5A to win it first WPIAL baseball title in two decades. The Titans open the PIAA playoffs Monday against Lampeter-Strasburg, the fourth-place team from District 3. “All these teams now are championship-caliber teams,”...
TribLive High School Sports Network broadcasts for week of June 3, 2019
With the district playoffs in the rear-view mirror, the final event of the 2018-19 school year begins this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has coverage of the PIAA baseball and softball playoffs starting with first round Monday and quarterfinals Thursday. Plus, The Network has action...
Penn-Trafford baseball seeks storybook ending at PIAAs
Dan Miller gathered his Warriors in right field at Wild Things Park moments after they watched Pine-Richland receive the WPIAL Class 6A championship trophy. The Rams were celebrating, taking photos and dousing coaches with ice water after a 7-2 victory Thursday that clinched the program’s sixth title. It was in...
Trib HSSN Softball Team of the Week for games of May 27-June 1
The Trib HSSN Softball Team of the Week is Elizabeth Forward, a team that did what nobody else could do this season to win the program’s first softball championship. After winning district gold for the first time, it’s on to the PIAA postseason, where the Warriors will face District 9...
Knoch softball embraces underdog role in PIAA playoffs
If there’s one softball team in the PIAA Class 4A bracket flying under the radar, it has to be Knoch. Amid the hoopla that comes with WPIAL softball championship week, the twice-defeated Knights quietly earned the WPIAL’s third seed in the PIAA postseason bracket with their 7-2 win over Thomas...
Listening to coach Kalp is key to Hempfield softball’s success
There is an old saying ‘practice makes perfect.’ It’s something Hempfield softball coach Bob Kalp has preached during more than 40 years of coaching. Who could argue? Kalp’s Spartans have won seven WPIAL titles, including the past five, and they enter the PIAA Class 6A playoffs as the three-time defending...
Freeport baseball hopes unofficial mascot keeps hanging around
After delivering the winning hit in last Wednesday’s 1-0 PIAA-clinching victory over Keystone Oaks in the WPIAL Class 3A third-place game, Freeport junior Bradyn Clark came back to the dugout and rubbed Darlene’s ears for continued good fortune. No, Darlene isn’t human but a two-foot tall plastic Easter bunny, which...
Freeport-Franklin state playoff game holds unique draw for husband, wife
When Tom and Ericca Haynes attend Monday’s PIAA Class 3A first-round baseball game between Franklin and Freeport, they will have familiarity to both sides of the proceedings. As the parents of Franklin’s top pitcher and leading hitter Ian Haynes, they have followed the Knights the past several seasons, including this...
Valparaiso recruits WPIAL with help from former Western Pa. standout
Football coaches at Notre Dame and Ball State have found success recruiting the WPIAL, but now another Indiana school has joined the picture. At least five WPIAL recruits announced offers in the past week from FCS program Valparaiso including three teammates at Thomas Jefferson. TJ quarterback Shane Stump, wide receiver/defensive...
High school scores, schedules for June 1, 2019
High Schools Baseball PIAA Playoffs Class 6A First round Monday’s schedule Neshaminy vs. Hempfield (District 3) at Widener University, 4 p.m.; Hazleton Area vs. Downingtown East at Pittston Field in Hughestown, 4:30 p.m.; Liberty vs. Plymouth Whitemarsh at DeSales University, 4:30 p.m.; La Salle College vs. Souderton at Archbishop Wood,...
High school roundup for June 1, 2019: WPIAL lacrosse teams fall in PIAA quarterfinals
Six WPIAL lacrosse teams advanced to Saturday’s PIAA quarterfinals, but each had its season come to a close. Boys lacrosse Conestoga 13, Pine-Richland 7 — District 1 champion Conestoga eliminated Pine-Richland in the Class AAA quarterfinals at Penn State’s Panzer Stadium. The WPIAL champion Rams finished with a 13-6 record....
Trib HSSN Softball Player of the Week for games of May 27-June 1
The Trib HSSN Softball Player of the Week is Avonworth senior Sarah Helffrich, who stood out on both days of the WPIAL Class 3A championship game. On Wednesday, Helffrich had two doubles and two RBIs with a run scored as Avonworth led Keystone Oaks, 8-0, when the rain came and...
Trib HSSN Baseball Player of the Week
The Trib HSSN Baseball Player of the Week is Seton LaSalle junior Daniel Boehme, who put together one of the best offensive performances in WPIAL championship history. Seton LaSalle and Serra Catholic met for the third time this season in the Class 2A final, but the rubber game turned into...
Paul Posluszny, Sean Lee enjoy ‘special’ night at WPIAL Hall of Fame induction
Paul Posluszny and Sean Lee were teammates at Penn State, groomsmen in each other’s weddings and close friends throughout their NFL days. That relationship made Saturday all the more special, they said, as the two star linebackers entered the WPIAL Hall of Fame together in a star-studded 2019 class that...
Apollo-Ridge’s Kent Harkleroad ready to face best in all-star game
Kent Harkleroad soon will put on the helmet and jersey of the Waynesburg football team. But before that, the Apollo-Ridge senior will suit up for one more one more high school game. Harkleroad, a 5-foot-9, 260-pound offensive and defensive lineman, will join his teammates on Team Never Fear against Team...
With school out, Leechburg turns complete focus on PIAA softball playoffs
Kristen Knapp, Aubry Skeel and Kiera Jones left Leechburg on Thursday night as graduates. A few days earlier, they were part of another graduation of sorts with the Blue Devils softball team, who, after falling in the consolation game two years in a row, broke through for a 3-2 victory...
Plenty of reasons to celebrate for NFBD All-Star players
If Hollis Mathis scores an all-star game touchdown Sunday, he might have to call somebody immediately. “I was thinking about tossing a phone underneath the field goal post and maybe doing a Joe Horn tribute,” Mathis said. “Pulling out the phone and maybe recording a video or making a phone...
Derry gives undefeated Meadville run for its money in PIAA loss
John Kerr constantly was looking to stay focused and intense. The 6-foot-6 Derry senior outsider hitter knew a lax effort wasn’t going to work during a PIAA Class AA quarterfinal Saturday at Penn Hills. Undefeated District 10 champion Meadville never planned to take its foot off the gas pedal. The...
Softball sites, times: 4 WPIAL teams headed to Penn State’s Beard Field for PIAA openers
Four WPIAL softball teams will take an early look at the state championship site. Penn-Trafford, Mt. Pleasant, South Park and Union all are scheduled to open the PIAA playoffs Monday with first-round games at Penn State University’s Beard Field, which will host the finals June 13-14. All first-round games are...
High school scores, schedules for May 31, 2019
High Schools Baseball PIAA Playoffs Class 6A First round Monday’s schedule Neshaminy vs. Hempfield (District 3) at Widener University, 4 p.m.; Hazleton Area vs. Downingtown East at Post 781 Legion Field in Mountain Top, 4:30 p.m.; Liberty vs. Plymouth Whitemarsh at DeSales University, 4:30 p.m.; La Salle College vs. Souderton...
WPIAL lacrosse teams set for PIAA quarterfinals
After several weather-related postponements, the PIAA boys and girls lacrosse first rounds concluded Friday. For some teams, including the Mars and Pine-Richland boys and the Oakland Catholic and Shady Side Academy girls, the turnaround is quick to Saturday’s quarterfinals. Mars, the WPIAL boys Class AA champion, will face District 3...
Gateway’s Majocha caps high school career with WPIAL award
Gateway’s Brendan Majocha has proven to be a class act on and off the field. A two-sport standout for the Gators, Majocha recently was named a scholar-athlete scholarship recipient by the WPIAL and was honored May 13 at a banquet at the DoubleTree in Green Tree. “Brendan is the type...
Wolf caps 3-sport Brentwood career with 9 letters
Abby Wolf packs a ton of talent into her 5-foot, 3-inch frame. Wolf, a three-sport senior athlete at Brentwood, didn’t miss a beat whether in the gym for basketball or volleyball, or on the softball diamond. Wolf was “Miss Consistent” for the Spartans in all three sports, reeling nine varsity...
Big 33 Football Classic an ‘amazing experience’ for Thomas Jefferson’s Serapiglia
Perhaps it was only fitting that a four-year starter in the Thomas Jefferson football program capped his high school career at the prestigious Big 33 Football Classic. Tulsa commit Dom Serapiglia participated in the all-star event May 27, competing for Pennsylvania against a team of Maryland all-stars. The Pennsylvania all-stars...
