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Ron Moncrief, 7-time WPIAL champ, excited to take over Mohawk girls basketball program
The Mohawk girls basketball team is replacing one WPIAL championship coach with another. After leading the Warriors to back-to-back WPIAL titles the past two seasons, Mike O’Lare is taking over the boys basketball program at the school. To fill the opening, Mohawk recently announced the hiring of former Vincentian Academy...
North Allegheny rowers fare well at national championship regatta
Several members of the North Allegheny rowing team competed at the Scholastic Rowing Association of America national championship regatta over Memorial Day weekend on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. The Tigers were represented with qualifiers for the girls varsity lightweight double and the girls varsity quad races. Charlotte Bentrim (stroke)...
Softball playoff sites, times set for PIAA quarterfinals
Norwin will host an all-WPIAL doubleheader Thursday in the state softball quarterfinals. The PIAA revealed sits and times for its quarterfinal games. Among them, Class 4A teams Beaver and Elizabeth Forward will play at noon at Norwin, followed by Mt. Pleasant and Avonworth at 2 p.m. All games are Thursday....
PIAA reveals quarterfinal sites, times for state baseball playoffs
PIAA baseball quarterfinalists learned Tuesday where they’re playing next. The North Allegheny and Hempfield baseball teams are both traveling east to the same place for a PIAA quarterfinal doubleheader Thursday in Wingate. All quarterfinals are Thursday. The PIAA also scheduled doubleheaders involving WPIAL teams at Latrobe and Slippery Rock. WPIAL...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on June 8, 2021: WPIAL lacrosse teams seek elusive spot in state finals
History could be made Tuesday in the PIAA lacrosse semifinals. In the 12-year history of the state lacrosse playoffs, no WPIAL has won a PIAA championship. In fact, no District 7 team has even reached the finals. The WPIAL sends one boys and one girls team to the final four...
North Hills softball avoids WPIAL title letdown, blanks Fox Chapel
Even a nearly two-hour rain and lightning delay didn’t deter WPIAL champion North Hills from a strong performance in its PIAA opener. Indians junior righthander Sophia Roncone struck out 13 Fox Chapel batters and yielded only three hits as North Hills blanked the Foxes, 6-0, at North Allegheny High School....
High school scores, summaries and schedules for June 7, 2021
High schools Baseball PIAA playoffs Class 6A First round Monday’s results Central 3, Boyertown 2 Hempfield 7, McDowell 2 La Salle College 14, Hatboro-Horsham 1 Neshaminy 7, Parkland 5 North Allegheny 13, Warwick 4 North Penn 3, Hazleton 1 Spring-Ford 6, Wilson 1 Emmaus 2, Governor Mifflin 1 Quarterfinals Thursday’s...
High school roundup for June 7, 2021: Bethel Park baseball moves on, softball bows out
Evan Holewinski threw a complete game, allowing four hits, to help Bethel Park to a 5-1 victory over District 3 runner-up Northern in a PIAA Class 5A first-round baseball game Monday afternoon. David Kessler and Eric Chalus had two hits apiece and Zack Sackett doubled and drove in three runs....
West Allegheny knocks off WPIAL champ Franklin Regional in 1st round of PIAA playoffs
West Allegheny kept loading the bases against Franklin Regional in the teams’ PIAA first-round playoff game. Sooner or later, it was going to swing momentum in the Indians’ favor. Something was going to give. It did a lot more than that. Jamming the bags not only minimized their plight but...
Furious rally falls short as Leechburg softball falls to DuBois Central Catholic
Things didn’t start out well for the Leechburg softball team in Monday’s PIAA Class A first-round game against DuBois Central Catholic at Heindl Field in DuBois. The District 9 champion Cardinals scored 13 runs over the first two innings and kept the Blue Devils off the scoreboard. Leechburg didn’t fold...
Highlands keeps making history, wins 1st PIAA playoff game
Already in uncharted territory, the Highlands softball team added to its historic season Monday against Clearfield in the first round of the PIAA Class 4A playoffs. The Golden Rams, playing in the first state playoff game in program history, scored runs in the third and fourth, three more in the...
Pine-Richland teen Carson Verszyla goes viral with highlight-reel hockey goal
Carson Verszyla got an early birthday present Monday morning when he saw himself on “SportsCenter.” Verszyla, who turned 13 Monday and is a sixth-grader in the Pine-Richland School District, scored a highlight-reel spin-o-rama goal Sunday that was featured as the top play on ESPN’s “SportsCenter” top 10. “It was honestly...
Mt. Pleasant softball overcomes adversity, defeats Bald Eagle Area
Some teams would have collapsed if faced with adversity before a big game. Mt. Pleasant used it as a rallying cry. When Vikings senior third baseman Haylie Brunson dislocated her finger on her throwing hand in pregame warm-ups, it stunned her teammates and forced her coach, also her dad, Chris...
West Greene softball fights off pesky Shade to advance in PIAA playoffs
In opening-round PIAA playoff games following its previous four WPIAL championships, the West Greene softball team has cruised into the state quarterfinals by a combined score of 40-5. So few people outside of District 5 runner-up Shade gave the Panthers much chance against the 2017 and 2018 Class A state...
Riverview baseball falls to Kennedy Catholic in PIAA 1st round
The Riverview baseball team hadn’t been to the PIAA playoffs in 14 years, but when the Raiders took the field for their PIAA first-round matchup against District 10 champion Kennedy Catholic on Monday, they looked right at home. Luke Migely walked to start the game and then came around on...
Ligonier Valley holds off Sharpsville to advance to PIAA quarterfinals
The Ligonier Valley softball team is moving on in the PIAA Class 2A tournament after another special performance from junior pitcher Maddie Griffin. In a pitchers’ duel with Sharpsville’s Breanna Hanley, Griffin allowed only two runs and three hits while striking out nine as the Rams (20-2) earned a 3-2...
Hempfield baseball bounces back from WPIAL finals loss to win state playoff opener
ERIE – After an early morning departure from Hempfield Area High School and a long trip to Erie, pitcher Phil Fox wasn’t going to waste time against McDowell. The standout pitcher consistently threw three pitches for strikes and worked ahead in the count to throw five shutout innings. Christian Zilli...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for June 7, 2021: Baseball, softball teams start PIAA playoffs
A total of 38 WPIAL baseball and softball teams hit the ground running for state gold as the Path to Penn State begins Monday. Weather permitting, the first round of the PIAA baseball and softball playoffs begin throughout the state. The 12 newly crowned WPIAL champions will play somewhere inside...
Trib HSSN Softball Player of the Week: June 7, 2021
It was a championship performance for the ages. Bethel Park junior catcher Sandra Soltes had three hits, two home runs including a grand slam, three runs and eight RBIs in the Black Hawks’ 9-2 win over Canon-McMillan to win the WPIAL Class 6A softball crown. “My performance to me has...
Trib HSSN Softball Team of the Week: June 7, 2021
Every once in a while, the stars align and a special group of young athletes comes up through the program to make good teams great and great teams champions. The sign of a strong program is when that special group comes and goes, yet the titles keep coming. Take as...
High school sports scores, schedule for June 6, 2021
High schools Baseball PIAA playoffs First round Monday’s schedule Class 6A Neshaminy vs. Parkland at Methacton, 4 p.m.; Hazleton vs. North Penn at Mountain Top, 4:30 p.m.; Emmaus vs. Governor Mifflin at DeSales University, 7 p.m.; La Salle College vs. Hatboro-Horsham at Archbishop Wood, 5 p.m.; Wilson vs. Spring-Ford at...
This week on Trib HSSN: Week of June 7, 2021
The district gold rush has come to an end. Now, with two weeks left in the season, the focus turns to the chase for state gold on the TribLive High School Sports Network. We have coverage of the first round and quarterfinals of the PIAA baseball and softball playoffs as...
Trib HSSN Baseball Team of the Week: June 7, 2021
Shenango had a fantastic regular season, winning 16 of 18 games, including the final 14 while outdistancing the rest of a tough Section 2-2A by two games. They were the No. 2 seed in the WPIAL Class 2A playoffs and beat Northgate, Neshannock and Carmichaels on the road to the...
Trib HSSN Baseball Player of the Week: June 7, 2021
Billy Cook was sitting in unfamiliar territory last week. He was calling the shots as New Castle head coach in a WPIAL baseball championship game. Turns out he had the best seat in the house to watch history play out at Wild Things Park in Washington. Senior pitcher Rocco Bernadina...
Hempfield baseball’s PIAA journey begins in Erie against McDowell
Tim Buzzard and his Hempfield Area baseball team are starting to get used to extended seasons. This is the third time in eight seasons the Spartans have qualified for the PIAA playoffs, and their hope the journey takes them two more weeks and ends with a trip to State College....
