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WPIAL bracketology: Don Rebel, Chris Harlan forecast 2024 baseball playoff pairings
The 2024 WPIAL baseball playoff field is set with 77 teams, including all six defending champions: Mt. Lebanon, Shaler, Hopewell, Riverside, Seton LaSalle and Bishop Canevin. The postseason begins next week and concludes with six title games May 28-29 at Wild Things Park in Washington. The brackets will be announced...
Class 5A features deep bracket for WPIAL softball playoffs
The Class 5A bracket was a hot topic of the WPIAL softball pairings show Thursday afternoon on TribLive HSSN. The conversation included who could have been placed in which positions near the top and where the others in the deep 16-team bracket fell. Plum, the third-place team from Section 1...
Hempfield softball ‘proud’ to receive No. 1 seed as WPIAL releases brackets
Hempfield has won eight WPIAL softball championships. During five of those title runs, the Spartans opened the playoffs as a No. 1 seed. Now they will try to make it six. Defending champion Hempfield (18-1) was awarded the top seed in Class 6A when the pairings were announced Thursday. A...
Breaking down the 2024 WPIAL softball playoffs
WPIAL softball playoffs breakdown Class 6A Favorite: Defending champion Hempfield is chock full of offensive threats — nine returning starters — as the Spartans chase a ninth WPIAL title. They split with Seneca Valley, but won the second meeting convincingly, 15-2 in five innings. Big-game pitcher Riley Miller is a...
Mars, Mt. Lebanon, Shady Side Academy earn No. 1 seeds in 2024 WPIAL lacrosse playoffs
Defending champion Mars, which swept the WPIAL Class 2A lacrosse titles a year ago, will start this season’s playoffs as the No. 1 seed in the boys and girls tournaments. The Mars boys are seven-time defending WPIAL champions, and the girls have won two titles in the past three years....
Mt. Pleasant baseball roars into playoffs on 9-game winning streak
As a winning streak began to stretch out like salt water taffy from a preseason trip to Myrtle Beach, Mt. Pleasant baseball coach Chris Firmstone became less surprised. Three straight section sweeps and a nonsection win took the streak to seven — but it was not a lucky seven. “We...
WPIAL reveals brackets for 2024 softball playoffs
Four defending champions are favored to repeat in the upcoming WPIAL softball playoffs. Reigning champions Hempfield in Class 6A, Avonworth in 3A, Neshannock in 2A and Union in A were among the six teams that received No. 1 seeds when the WPIAL revealed playoff brackets Thursday. The two other top...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for May 8, 2024
High schools Baseball Wednesday’s results Nonsection Ambridge 3, New Castle 1 Baldwin at Thomas Jefferson, ppd. Bentworth 4, Avella 1 Bethel Park 10, Chartiers Valley 0 Bishop Canevin 10, Greensburg Central Catholic 5 Connellsville 5, Baldwin 3 Highlands 17, Springdale 1 Indiana 4, Obama Academy 2 North Allegheny 4, Shaler...
High school roundup for May 8, 2024: Woodland Hills baseball ends 58-game losing streak
DeVaughn Earl-Hayden pitched a complete game with 11 strikeouts as Woodland Hills ended a 58-game losing streak with a 6-4 victory over Steel Valley (4-12) in nonsection baseball Wednesday. The Wolverines’ last victory was March 26, 2021, a 6-1 win over Carrick. Nate Scott had a triple and an RBI,...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on May 9, 2024: Softball playoff pairings to be unveiled on Trib HSSN
The WPIAL offices will be buzzing over the next couple of days with spring bracketology galore. On Thursday, the steering committees will meet to put together the brackets for the district softball playoffs as well as the boys and girls lacrosse tournaments. We will run down the brackets for the...
WPIAL clinched: Boys volleyball playoff qualifiers through May 8, 2024
The WPIAL boys volleyball regular season has one night left as the district playoff field sits at 24 with two possible additions Thursday. The top four teams in each section qualify for the district postseason. Here is the latest list of teams that have qualified for the playoffs through Wednesday....
Alle-Kiski Valley high school notebook: Apollo-Ridge pursues girls basketball coach
Apollo-Ridge School District and its athletics department are continuing the process that will lead to the hiring of a new girls basketball coach. Athletic director John Skiba confirmed Wednesday that those hoping to apply for the open position can send resumes to skibaj@apolloridge.com by May 31. Jeff Zelonka, an Apollo-Ridge...
Trib 10: Power-ranked teams building momentum as playoffs approach
Once again, the power teams in WPIAL softball finished strong. Last week, there was only one change in the softball power rankings. This week, outside of one team moving up two spots and another falling two spots, the Trib 10 remains the same. A strong field is set to begin...
North Allegheny returns to top in WPIAL Class 3A team tennis; Sewickley Academy wins 25th title
North Allegheny dethroned defending champion Gateway, 3-2, on Wednesday, winning its first WPIAL Class 3A boys tennis team title since 2009. The doubles teams got things going early as North Allegheny’s Shi Telang and Sri Thirumala landed the first punch, defeating Gateway’s Matthew Bonds and Zane Almoukamal. The brother tandem...
‘Last Chance’ to qualify for WPIAL track and field championships
With the WPIAL track and field championships set for Wednesday at Slippery Rock University, athletes have one last opportunity to qualify. There are at least three “Last Chance meets” that will be held over the next two days. Norwin and Pine-Richland will host two events Thursday, and West Mifflin will...
WPIAL bracketology: Don Rebel, Chris Harlan forecast the 2024 softball playoff pairings
The 2024 WPIAL softball playoff field is set with 76 teams, including all six defending champions ready to begin playing for gold. The postseason begins next week and concludes with six title games May 29-30 at Lilley Field at Cal (Pa.). The brackets will be announced at 2 p.m. Thursday...
Top Western Pa. quarterbacks set to show skills at 4th Willie Thrower camp
More than 50 quarterbacks from the WPIAL and throughout Western Pennsylvania and Ohio will get a chance to show their stuff at the fourth annual Willie Thrower Memorial Award Foundation Quarterback Camp on Saturday at Valley High School. “With this camp, you not only are seeing the great number of...
Hempfield, Seneca Valley softball teams downplay importance of No. 1 seed for WPIALs
Neither coach seemed too concerned about it, but they also did not discount the value of getting the top seed. It’s only a number, they consented. Hempfield’s Tina Madison and Marlesse Hames of Seneca Valley basically agreed there isn’t much difference between the Nos. 1 and 2 seeds in the...
After 41 years in coaching, Jim Nesser steps down at Yough
Though he has won section, WPIAL and PIAA boys basketball championships, Jim Nesser is quick to point out he also has guided teams through rough patches, covering both ends of the spectrum in a coaching career that spans four decades. “I have been to the top, and I have been...
Top PIAA track & field performances as of May 8, 2024
Here are the top running times, throwing distance and jumping distances in Pennsylvania this season. Also included are the top three WPIAL and City League athletes and their rankings in the state. WPIAL/City League best Boys (Times and distance are what have been reported to PennTrackXC MileSplit by May 8.)...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for May 7, 2024
High schools Baseball Tuesday’s results Class 5A Section 1 Gateway 6, Penn Hills 0 Franklin Regional 1, Penn-Trafford 0 Plum 10, Fox Chapel 4 Class 3A Section 1 Neshannock 1, Quaker Valley 0 Riverside 9, Mohawk 4 Shenango 11, Ellwood City 9 Section 3 East Allegheny 2, Freeport 1 Derry...
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania High School Softball Rankings for May 7, 2024
The first full week of May included an impressive display for the top softball teams in the state with very little movement from last week in the latest Trib HSSN state softball rankings. It was not a perfect week, but the losses were few and far between and only caused...
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania High School Baseball Rankings for May 7, 2024
As the regular season winds down and the district playoffs are just around the corner, the elite high school baseball teams across try to keep stacking wins and remain a part of the Trib HSSN state baseball rankings discussions. A total of seven teams fell out of the state Top...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on May 8, 2024: Team tennis titles to be decided
Four district boys tennis teams will be playing Wednesday for the love of gold. In Class 3A, the top two seeds collide in the championship match in a battle of black and gold as defending champion and No. 2 seed Gateway takes on top seed North Allegheny. Both teams survived...
High school roundup for May 7, 2024: East Allegheny clinches playoff spot with walk-off win
Ryan Rupert hit a walk-off sacrifice fly in the bottom of the seventh inning as East Allegheny clinched a Section 3-3A baseball playoff spot with a 2-1 win over Freeport on the last day of section play. Winning pitcher Michael Cahill struck out 14 and Joe Connors went 2 for...
