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Fox Chapel boys lacrosse starting to add offensive punch to solid defense
The Fox Chapel boys lacrosse team can count on its defense keeping every game close. What Foxes coach Jordon Hodder hopes is that the attack has finally found its footing. Fox Chapel scored 19 goals in a win over Norwin on April 21. The Foxes followed that up by grinding...
Addison Ayres to stick with Franklin Regional soccer teammates for senior year
Goalkeeper Addison Ayres considered playing full-time soccer with her Internationals SC team in Akron, Ohio, which would have meant not playing her senior season at Franklin Regional. The Elite Clubs National League team plays higher-level programs, which helps players sharpen their skills for college. But Ayres ultimately opted to stay...
Streak ends: NFL Draft includes no WPIAL players for 1st time since 1993
A WPIAL streak that started more than three decades ago ended quietly Saturday. For the first time in 32 years, no former WPIAL football players were selected in the NFL Draft. The last time that happened was 1993. The streak got started when the San Francisco 49ers picked Ringgold’s Anthony...
Clairton scoring sensation Iyanna Wade to play college ball at Slippery Rock
After one of the best basketball careers in WPIAL history, Clairton’s Iyanna Wade on Friday announced her decision to continue her academic and athletic career at Slippery Rock. Wade, who also held offers from Robert Morris, Lander University, the University of Charleston and Valdosta State, decided on The Rock due...
High school roundup for April 25, 2025: Brady Hull collects 6 RBIs in Eden Christian win
Brady Hull went 4 for 4 with a pair of doubles and six RBIs to lead Class A No. 2 Eden Christian to a 13-3 victory over Quaker Valley in nonsection baseball Friday. Brett Feldman was 4 for 5 with an RBI and Noah Emswiler earned the win for the...
Derry softball team elevates its game to meet competition of higher classification
A jump to WPIAL Class 4A wasn’t something Derry softball could control, but the Trojans knew they had to make a quick adjustment to new opponents, better pitching and deeper lineups. Almost immediately, the girls began to list their goals. Coming up from 3A fit the team’s motif of upping...
WPIAL’s top track and field performances through April 25, 2025
Here are the top performers in WPIAL track and field as of April 25: Class 3A boys 100: Preston Miller, Latrobe, 10.74; 200: Connor Stokes, Elizabeth Forward, 22.13; 400: Gavin Skarbek, Seneca Valley, 49.12; 800: Kayden Lightner, 1:51.29; 1,600: Jack Bertram, North Allegheny, 4:11.76; 3,200: Jack Bertram, 8:47.75; 110 hurdles:...
High school track notebook: WPIAL extends reporting deadline
The WPIAL extended the deadline to report early season results until midnight Friday. The original deadline was Wednesday, but because some coaches had problems recording scores, the WPIAL moved the deadline. WPIAL officials will be putting together heat sheets for the individual track and field championships and releasing them Monday....
Belle Vernon’s Zion Moore to play for top junior college program
Belle Vernon senior Zion Moore, one of the WPIAL’s top basketball players, has committed to Harcum College in suburban Philadelphia. Harcum competes at the highest level of junior college basketball, NJCAA Division I. The team has celebrated five top 10 seasons since the program started in 2005. Last season’s roster...
Knoch softball team starts 9-0 in section
Last year, the Knoch softball team went 10-2 in section play. Their only two losses were to undefeated champion Indiana by scores of 2-0 and 7-0. Senior Grace Hensch said she and the other returning players kept those games in mind because of what the losses meant to their section...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for April 24, 2025
High schools Baseball Thursday’s results Class 6A Section 2 Canon-McMillan 4, Hempfield 3 Mt. Lebanon 13, Woodland Hills 0 North Allegheny 9, Seneca Valley 6 Class 4A Section 1 Blackhawk 11, Ambridge 1 Class 3A Section 1 Riverside 8, Quaker Valley 4 City League Obama Academy 3, Carrick 2 Nonsection...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on April 25, 2025: 3A softball contenders collide in rematch of slugfest
First place in Section 1-3A WPIAL softball will be up for grabs Friday when Mt. Pleasant hosts Southmoreland at 4 p.m. The host Vikings are 6-2 in the section and 8-5 overall. Mt. Pleasant had won six straight games before back-to-back losses this week to Burrell and Deer Lakes. The...
Trib HSSN baseball team of the week for April 24, 2025 
Trib HSSN baseball team of the week – Bethel Park Black Hawks Coach: Pat Zehnder (fifth season) Record: Bethel Park is alone in first place in Section 2-5A with a record of 7-3, 11-4 overall. The Black Hawks are one section win away from clinching at least a share of...
After staring at Knoch, Allegheny, Nick Reiser set to join A-K Valley Sports Hall of Fame
Nick Reiser credits the success he had on the football field to being a “highly competitive individual.” Reiser has a pretty good idea of where he picked up that inner drive to be the best. “I grew up as the youngest of eight kids in a competitive household,” the 1993...
High school roundup for April 24, 2025: Connellsville hands 1st loss to Indiana
Jett Dunaway gave up one run on three hits and struck out a pair in a complete-game victory to give Connellsville a 10-1 nonsection baseball win, handing Indiana its first loss of the season. Grayden Gillott, Matthew Firestone and Noah Zawisian each knocked in two runs for the Falcons (9-5)....
Trib HSSN softball team of the week for April 24, 2025 
Trib HSSN softball team of the week – Jeannette Jayhawks Coach – Tubby Stein (fourth year) Record – Jeannette is all alone in first in Section 3-A with a 6-0 section mark and an overall record of 7-3 with six consecutive wins. #Earned – Jeannette’s week began with a showdown...
Kiski Area’s Devito soars to county win in high jump with 5-5 effort
Kiski Area’s Gianna Devito was happy with her performance at the Westmoreland County Coaches’ Association Track and Field Championships on Thursday at Latrobe’s Memorial Stadium. For the second time this week, Devito cleared 5 feet, 5 inches and won the high jump. She also competed in the triple jump and...
Hempfield gets revenge against Norwin
Hempfield waited 11 months and two days for this opportunity. Nearly one year of stewing over a semifinal loss that, in the Spartans’ eyes, cost them another WPIAL softball championship. Norwin upset mighty Hempfield to advance to the final for the first time, sending the No. 1 seed home shocked...
WPIAL announces team tennis playoff pairings
Five seasons ago, the second-longest WPIAL team championship streak came to an end. Between 2004-2018, Sewickley Academy dominated the boys tennis courts, winning 15 straight WPIAL Class 2A championships. The following season in 2019, the school decided to move up in classification and the Panthers lost in the opening round...
WPIAL sets pairings for team track championships
When it comes to the WPIAL team track and field championships, three programs have dominated this decade. The North Allegheny girls and Quaker Valley girls are each trying to win a fourth straight WPIAL championship this spring while the Butler boys hope to repeat and make it four district titles...
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania high school baseball rankings for April 23, 2025
It may say mid-April on the calendar, but the top high school baseball teams in Pennsylvania are playing like its late May or early June. You’ll excuse us if the weekly Trib HSSN state baseball rankings this week look a lot like how they looked last week. There were victories...
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania high school softball rankings for April 23, 2025
The eggs have all been collected and the baskets have all been found, now the only treats softball teams from across the state care about are the victories they are looking to stack. Five PIAA softball teams ranked in last week’s Trib HSSN state softball rankings were bumped for now....
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on April 24, 2025: Softball rivalry to write another chapter
One WPIAL softball team is trying to maintain its spot atop the classification while the other school is fighting to get back into the playoffs. They may end up in vastly different places in the standings, but they have the same goal Thursday: Beat your biggest rival. With less than...
Hot-hitting North Allegheny uses 7-run inning to take section series from rival Seneca Valley
JJ Mancuso offered up a simple explanation for how North Allegheny suddenly scored 17 runs in two days, snapping a string of light-hitting losses. Sometimes, it’s not too complicated. “We swung the bats much better, obviously,” said Mancuso, who fueled a seven-run rally with two hits in one inning as...
Bethel Park gets past Moon for rare 2-game sweep in Section 2-5A baseball
Section 2-5A in WPIAL baseball has become the land of the splits. There have been 15 section series played between the seven teams and 11 of them have ended up with the teams splitting their two-game series. Two of the four sweeps have been handed out by Bethel Park, including...


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