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Tough nonsection slate paying off for Greensburg Central Catholic baseball
Going into the season with seven new starters, Greensburg Central Catholic baseball coach Dennis Reist beefed up the schedule with an early run of difficult nonsection opponents and hoped Mother Nature would cooperate. Reist wanted to give his younger players a challenge right off the bat to get them up...
Westmoreland athletes of the week: Penn-Trafford’s Tyler Horvat, Norwin’s Sydney Lokay
Tyler Horvat School: Penn-Trafford Sport: Baseball Year: Senior Claim to fame: Horvat was 3 for 4 with two RBIs and three runs to lead Penn-Trafford (11-1, 4-1) to an 8-1 win over Latrobe in Section 2-6A on April 16. Horvat allowed two hits and struck out nine in six innings....
Knoch softball rolling through competition in Section 3-4A
The Knoch softball team dug itself a sizable hole in its Section 3-4A opener April 2 at Ambridge. The Knights trailed 6-1 after three innings and 9-4 heading to the seventh. But the team rallied in its final at-bat, scoring six runs to claim a dramatic 10-9 victory. Sophomore Bailey...
PIHL players come together to win America’s Showcase tournament
A group of players from the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League came together last week to claim a second straight America’s Showcase tournament. Team Pittsburgh traveled to St. Louis and went 6-0 in the tournament. It averaged nine goals a game and gave up just five overall with three shutouts. It...
Baldwin’s Dorien Ford receives Syracuse, Nebraska offers
The recruiting process continues to pick up for Baldwin’s Dorien Ford. The Highlanders’ sophomore defensive end announced a scholarship offer Tuesday from Syracuse and Wednesday from Nebraska, bringing his total to seven. Blessed to receive an offer from Syracuase University ?@CuseFootball pic.twitter.com/5wz1uZ0ZYm— Dorien Ford (@DorienFord_21) April 23, 2019 Blessed to...
A-K Valley athletes of the week: Burrell’s Elizabeth Clark, Leechburg’s Cameron Curfman
Elizabeth Clark School: Burrell Class: Sophomore Sport: Softball Report card: With one out and Burrell trailing by two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning, Clark sent a 2-1 pitch over the left-field fence for a three-run walk-off homer to lift the Bucs (6-2, 4-1) past Section 1-3A rival...
George Guido: Pennsylvania not only state with public-private sports debate
My goodness! I go on vacation for a week and come back to a major Alle-Kiski Valley upheaval. Kelly Robinson retired as St. Joseph boys basketball coach after 21 seasons. Jerry Concannon stepped down as Springdale girls soccer coach after 12 seasons, and Chuck Debor will no longer be Highlands...
High school roundup for April 22, 2019: Mars blanks No. 4 Shaler
Shane Fox tossed a three-hit shutout and knocked in the lone run of the game as Mars defeated No. 4-ranked Shaler, 1-0, in a Section 2-5A baseball game Monday afternoon. Jon Wetherholt was 2 for 3 with a double and triple for the Fightin’ Planets (8-4, 3-2). Hunter Boyan scattered...
High school scores, schedules for April 22, 2019
High Schools Baseball Monday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Section 3 Upper St. Clair 8, Canon-McMillan 3 Class 5A Section 2 Mars 1, Shaler 0 Section 3 Laurel Highlands 15, Trinity 0 (4 inn.) Class 3A Section 2 Ellwood City at Shady Side Academy, ppd. Section 3 McGuffey 16, Washington 1...
Trib HSSN Softball Team of the Week: Frazier
The Trib HSSN Softball Team of the Week played for WPIAL gold in each of the last two seasons and is positioning itself to make another run this spring — the Frazier Commodores. In 2017, Frazier enjoyed a breakout season that included a section championship and, after three playoff wins,...
Trib HSSN Softball Player of the Week: Connellsville’s Jena Hixson
Jena Hixson School: Connellsville Class: Sophomore In the first seven years of this decade, Connellsville qualified for the WPIAL softball playoffs only once — in 2010. But the Falcons are trying to end the decade with a bang having made the postseason the last two years and sitting a half-game...
Upper St. Clair baseball ends losing skid against Canon-McMillan
What a difference 19 days makes. Three weeks after getting crushed by defending WPIAL and PIAA Class 6A champion Canon-McMillan, Upper St. Clair earned a split of the season series with an 8-3 victory Monday afternoon at Wild Things Park in Washington. The Panthers’ win also ended a six-game losing...
Ringgold avenges loss to Belle Vernon in Section 2-4A
Two Section 2-4A softball teams who entered the season with different expectations met at Washington Township Park on Monday. Two-time defending Class 4A champion Belle Vernon lost a Division I pitcher in Bailey Parshall (Penn State), who also hit .418 last season, among a handful of others, and has struggled...
Coaches association releases latest WPIAL boys volleyball rankings
The Western Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association released its latest boys team rankings Monday, and two squads in Class AAA moved into the top 10. Canon-McMillan and Upper St. Clair are slotted at No. 9 and No. 10, respectively. They replaced Pine-Richland and Armstrong. The rest of the Class AAA list...
Mars’ Carmody commits to Polynesian Bowl
Mars junior offensive tackle Michael Carmody has committed to play in Hawaii’s Polynesian Bowl high school all-star game. The January 2020 contest will be at Honolulu’s Aloha Stadium, the former site of the NFL Pro Bowl. The 6-foot-6, 295-pound Carmody is listed as a four-star recruit by 247Sports.com. Carmody, who...
Jeannette softball gaining recognition for section success
As a math teacher at Jeannette, Zac Karas deals with numbers on a daily basis. As the school’s softball coach, he is starting to see things add up. “I was unsure how it would all play out this year,” said Karas, the Jayhawks’ sixth-year coach. “We had a lot of...
Deer Lakes baseball ‘learning how to win’ in turnaround
The same result kept happening to Deer Lakes during the early stages of baseball season. A one-run loss to Reading’s Berks Catholic in a season-opening tournament in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Another against Knoch, in walkoff fashion, in the Lancers’ first game back in Pennsylvania. Still another in their next game,...
North Allegheny stays on top of Trib HSSN boys volleyball power rankings
The TribLive High School Sports Network presents the weekly WPIAL boys volleyball Power Rankings. The Network ranks the Top 10 district teams every week in the regular season and into the postseason. These rankings have zero classification boundaries. This week we expand from five to 10. Here are the latest...
Upper St. Clair girls, North Allegheny boys stand atop Trib HSSN lacrosse power rankings
The TribLive High School Sports Network presents the weekly Power Rankings for boys and girls lacrosse. Trib HSSN runs down the Top 10 district teams from each sport every weekend. These rankings have zero classification boundaries. Here are the rankings for the week ending April 18, with overall records and...
High school schedules for April 22, 2019
High Schools Baseball Monday’s schedule WPIAL Class 6A Section 3 Upper St. Clair vs. Canon-McMillan, Wild Things Park, 4 p.m. Class 5A Section 2 Mars at Shaler, 4 p.m. Section 3 Trinity at Laurel Highlands, 4 p.m. Class 3A Section 2 Ellwood City at Shady Side Academy, 4:15 p.m. Section...
Woodland Hills TE Josh Rawlings names Pitt among his ‘Elite 8’
Woodland Hills junior Josh Rawlings, a football recruit with more than two dozen offers, announced Sunday a Top 8 list of favorites that included Pitt. Also among his favorites were East Carolina, Indiana, Iowa State, Minnesota, Syracuse, Vanderbilt and Virginia. However, Rawlings added: “This list is not final. Recruitment still...
Butler’s Ethan Morton draws recognition from USA Today, MaxPreps
Butler basketball star Ethan Morton was named to USA Today’s All-Pennsylvania team — one of two honors the junior received this week. Morton also was recognized by MaxPreps as one of the nation’s top juniors. Joining Morton on the All-Pennsylvania team were Abington’s Eric Dixon, Roman Catholic’s Hakim Hart, Kennedy...
Trib HSSN Baseball Player of the Week: Quaker Valley’s Christian Johnson
Christian Johnston School: Quaker Valley Class: Senior In a five-year period from 2013-17, Quaker Valley baseball was a legitimate contender. While the Quakers did not strike gold in their run, they did reach the WPIAL finals in 2013 and ’15. The program hit a wall last spring, missing the playoffs...
Trib HSSN Baseball Team of the Week: Union
The Trib HSSN Team of the Week, Union, earned two section wins last week to increase its winning streak and hold on first place. After losing two of its first three games, Union has rolled to seven straight wins, including 6-0 in Section 1-A. “The first part of the season,...
A-K Valley H.S. lookahead: Week of April 22-27
Monday Softball It has been nearly two weeks since Riverview played, but the Raiders will give it another try as they visit Serra Catholic in Section 2-2A. The Raiders (4-2, 3-2) trail the second-place Eagles (6-2, 6-1) by two games. Serra won the first matchup 15-9. Baseball St. Joseph began...
