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Trib HSSN Baseball Team of the Week for games of May 13-18
The Trib HSSN Baseball Team of the Week is Waynesburg Central, a team that won its first WPIAL playoff game in eight years with a Class 3A first-round victory last week. The Raiders face top-seeded Freeport on Monday in the Class 3A quarterfinals. As April was winding down, Waynesburg was...
Plum sophomore Kennedie Montue receives 1st Division 1 basketball offer
Plum sophomore Kennedie Montue, the team’s leading scorer two years in a row, announced her first Division 1 basketball offer Sunday from Marshall. The 5-foot-11 forward is a versatile scorer who can play multiple positions. She averaged 18.4 points and 7.1 rebounds last season for Plum, a WPIAL Class 5A...
Western Pa.-connected Colorado State offers WPIAL offensive linemen
Western Pennsylvania football fans probably know Colorado State as the alma mater of former Steelers linebacker Joey Porter. But the school is becoming much more familiar across the region. The Mountain West program recently offered scholarships this week to offensive linemen Kevin Meeder and Josh Kaltenberger of Seneca Valley and...
Latrobe, Derry ready for WPIAL volleyball semifinals
Latrobe and Derry hope to reach Thursday’s WPIAL championship matches. In order to that, both will have to knock off defending champs in their respective classifications in Tuesday’s semifinals. The Wildcats take on North Allegheny in Class 3A, and the Trojans meet Ambridge in a rematch of last year’s Class...
Former Pine-Richland, West A standout Kenny White announces Akron offer
Former Pine-Richland and West Allegheny football standout Kenny White, now a junior college freshman, announced a scholarship offer from Akron. White listed several Division 1 offers while starring in the WPIAL including Iowa State, but this offer from the Zips was his first since enrolling at Garden City (Kan.) Community...
A-K Valley WPIAL baseball playoff capsules: Games of Monday, May 20
WPIAL baseball quarterfinals Monday’s games Class 4A 14-Highlands (11-8) vs. 6-Beaver (11-7) 4:30 p.m. Monday at Pullman Park, Butler Winner plays: Winner of 2-Yough and 7-South Park on Wednesday in semifinals Coaches: Jeff Campbell, Highlands; Noah Medich, Beaver Players to watch: Zac Kuniak, sr., OF, Highlands; Alec Berg, sr., P,...
Alle-Kiski Valley lookahead for week of May 20, 2019
MONDAY Baseball: Two Alle-Kiski Valley baseball teams that pulled WPIAL first-round upsets will play a quarterfinal doubleheader at Pullman Park in Butler. No. 11 St. Joseph, coming off a 10-1 win over No. 6 Monessen in the Class A first round, will play No. 3 Union at 2 p.m. The...
Freeport boys lacrosse going ‘crazy’ in WPIAL Class AA playoffs
The Freeport football team has had its share of success. The soccer and basketball programs are postseason regulars and not enough can be said about the girls volleyball team with its four WPIAL titles and 2017 state championship. While nearly every sport at Freeport was flourishing, one team was laying...
Senior scholar-athletes awarded scholarships from sports hall of fame
Kyah Russell was a standout on the tennis court for the Gateway girls team, and her dedication to the sport was matched by her dedication to academics. She will attend the University of Pittsburgh to pursue a nursing degree. Russell joins Penn-Trafford’s Tyler Horvat, Franklin Regional’s Mason Fishell and East...
High school scores, schedules for May 18, 2019
High Schools Baseball WPIAL Playoffs Class 6A Quarterfinals Tuesday’s schedule Penn-Trafford (16-3) vs. Upper St. Clair (13-6) at West Mifflin, 4 p.m.; North Allegheny (15-5) vs. Shaler (7-13) at Fox Chapel, 4 p.m.; Pine-Richland (15-4) vs. Norwin (14-6) at Boyce Mayview Park in Upper St. Clair, 6:30 p.m.; Bethel Park...
Trib HSSN lacrosse power rankings: For games ending May 18, 2019
The district playoffs are at the midway point with two rounds in the books and two more remaining heading into this week’s Trib HSSN weekly Power Rankings for boys and girls lacrosse. The girls lacrosse semifinals are set for Monday with the finals Thursday. On the boys side, the semifinals...
Trib HSSN volleyball power rankings: For games ending May 20, 2019
We are down to the district Final Four in the Trib HSSN weekly WPIAL boys volleyball Power Rankings. Seneca Valley and Hempfield earn a special tip of the cap as their seasons came to an end with quarterfinals losses, but they remain in the top 10. The top six remain...
TribLive High School Sports Network broadcasts for the week of May 20, 2019
The district postseason continues with plenty of action from four spring high school sports only here on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN continues our exclusive coverage of the WPIAL baseball and softball playoffs with quarterfinals and semifinals action with video streams set for more than a dozen...
WPIAL softball playoff capsules: Games of Monday, May 20
Monday’s games Softball Class 5A 2-Plum (15-3) vs. 10-West Allegheny (9-7) 5 p.m. at Hampton Winner plays: Winner of 3-Hampton (16-3) and 6-Franklin Regional (12-7) Wednesday in semifinals Coaches: Phil DiLonardo, Plum; Mindi McFate, West Allegheny Players to watch: Gabby Fischetti, Sr., C, Plum; Megan Pollinger, So., P/INF, West Allegheny...
Highlands baseball uses mix of older, younger players to continue playoff run
As the stress began to build in Highlands’ first postseason appearance in more than a decade and a half, one of the Golden Rams’ most experienced players gave way to one of their youngest. Senior Noah Gillette reached the WPIAL’s pitch limit one batter into the seventh inning, and Highlands...
Kiski Valley rugby teams advance to state championship games
Kiski Valley boys rugby advanced to the Rugby PA Club Division II championship game for the second consecutive season with a 32-5 win over North Penn on Saturday at Penn State Berks. Winners of the 2016 state title, the top-seeded Titans (6-1) will try to win their second when they...
Ligonier Valley softball energized after ‘long cold wait’ for this year’s playoffs
With laser-like focus and precision, the Ligonier Valley softball team did exactly what they set out to do in the Heritage Conference this season — beat everybody. A conference title was all part of the plan. Sure, there was some celebration. But for a team driven by the pain of...
Former North Catholic linebacker Nikhai Hill-Green includes Pitt among Top 5 schools
Former North Catholic linebacker Nikhai Hill-Green, who ranked among the WPIAL’s top college recruits before transferring out of state, announced a Top 5 list Friday that included Pitt and four Big Ten schools. Along with the Panthers, Hill-Green narrowed his list to Wisconsin, Michigan, Purdue and Indiana. The 6-foot-2, 205-pound...
High school scores, schedules for May 17, 2019
High Schools Baseball WPIAL Playoffs Class 6A Quarterfinals Tuesday’s schedule Penn-Trafford (16-3) vs. Upper St. Clair (13-6) at West Mifflin, 4 p.m.; North Allegheny (15-5) vs. Shaler (7-13) at Fox Chapel, 4 p.m.; Pine-Richland (15-4) vs. Norwin (14-6) at Boyce Mayview Park in Upper St. Clair, 6:30 p.m.; Bethel Park...
Playoffs heat up for teams in Trib 10 baseball, softball power rankings
Postseason power rankings saw very little change in baseball but a big sweep of Class 6A teams kicked to the curb in this week’s Trib HSSN Power Rankings. With the first round of the WPIAL playoffs in the books, both West Allegheny baseball and Mt. Pleasant softball remain on top...
Little movement atop Trib HSSN state softball rankings
The start of the district playoffs was a slow one as many of the top teams enjoyed first-round byes this week, leading to only a handful of changes in the Trib HSSN state softball rankings. The only top team to fall from No. 1 was North Penn in Class 6A....
New No. 1 team in Class 3A in Trib HSSN state baseball rankings
Most of the teams in the weekly Trib HSSN PIAA baseball rankings survived the conclusion of the regular season and start of the district postseason this past week. The only change at the top of any of the six classifications happened in Class 3A where Montoursville lost twice and tumbled...
Injury doesn’t slow down Derry’s Justin Huss in WPIAL gold medal runVideo
Justin Huss will be one of Derry’s top running backs in the fall. He would have been this past season if it wasn’t for a broken left leg that required surgery to implant a plate and screws. Huss missed the first four games and returned in Week 4 against North...
Gateway trio qualifies for state track championships
Shelly Jones said she was happy with her performance at Thursday’s WPIAL Class AA championship finals at Slippery Rock. The Gateway senior, who had been dealing with an ankle sprain leading up the to meet, earned her best-ever WPIAL finish with a throw of 39 feet, 1 inch in the...
Gateway softball falls short in Class 5A opening round
Gateway won four of its final five regular-season games to clinch a WPIAL softball playoff berth for the second year in a row. The Gators, seeded No. 12, were hoping to carry that momentum into their first-round Class 5A playoff game May 16 against No. 5 Trinity. The contest was...
