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This week on Trib HSSN for the week of May 25, 2026
On Memorial Day, we always take time to remember those men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice so that we can enjoy our many freedoms. After Monday’s celebration, 12 champions in district baseball and softball will be crowned this week here on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib...
Trib HSSN diamond team of the week for May 24, 2026
Trib HSSN diamond team of the week – Butler Golden Tornado baseball Coach – Josh Forbes (sixth year) Record – Butler won the Section 1-6A championship with a 10-2 record, two games in front of runner-up North Allegheny. The Golden Tornado are 19-3 overall this season. #Earned – These are...
Trib HSSN softball player of the week for May 24, 2026
Trib HSSN softball player of the week – Irelyn Fisher School – Union Class – Junior Position – Catcher #Earned – One of the top softball programs in the district set a record this past week, thanks in part to a record-setting performances from its outstanding junior catcher. Union sits...
Trib HSSN baseball player of the week for May 24, 2026
Trib HSSN baseball player of the week – Jordan Keller School – Ellwood City Class – Senior Position – Catcher #Earned – Many times, the journey to a title game consists of beating unfamiliar teams from different sections. There are times when teams do see a familiar face, an opponent...
Baldwin boys volleyball enjoys breakthrough season
The Baldwin boys volleyball team have enjoyed the ride in 2026. Baldwin doggedly rose through the ranks to win the Section 1-3A championship, going from unranked status in its division to No. 5 in a vote by the Western Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association. Baldwin soared into the rankings by defeating...
Solid leadership, freshmen surprises spark Chartiers Valley girls track
The last time the Chartiers Valley girls track and field team saw playoff action was 2019. With such a long postseason absence, it was going to take the right mix to get the Colts back into the playoffs, and the 2026 squad found the right mixture. A combination of strong...
Baldwin long jumper, shot putter earn WPIAL medals
Baldwin junior Becca Gruntz sparkled at the WPIAL Class 3A track and field championships May 14 at Slippery Rock University. Gruntz placed third in the girls long jump, finishing third with a distance of 17 feet, 7 inches. She also has competed in the high jump and triple jump events...
Unsung relay team leads Sewickley Academy’s strong showing at WPIAL track meet
Sewickley Academy senior basketball players Caiden Battles, Amare Spencer and Justin Prunzik teamed up with senior soccer standout Chase D’Antonioto to pull off an impressive championship feat. Battles, a 5-foot-8 guard on the Panthers’ WPIAL and PIAA title-winning basketball team, Spencer and Prunzik, both forwards, and D’Antonio won the WPIAL...
Playoff berths become norm for Sewickley Academy baseball
Sewickley Academy has advanced to the WPIAL baseball playoffs in seven of the past nine years. The Panthers qualified for the first round in 2024, 2025 and this season after advancing to the quarterfinals in 2023. Sewickley lost to Carmichaels, 7-4, in this year’s first round to finish 8-10 overall...
Quaker Valley’s Jonah Montagnese steals show at WPIAL meet
Quaker Valley’s Jonah Montagnese dominated as is his custom. A junior running phenom, Montagnese was the star of the show as a four-time titlist at the WPIAL Class 2A track and field championships May 14 at Slippery Rock University. Montagnese finished first in the boys 800-meter (1:56.77), 1,600 (4:17.15) and...
Quaker Valley girls lacrosse team hit stride in 2nd half of season
Nine consecutive regular-season victories propelled the Quaker Valley girls lacrosse team into the WPIAL Class 2A playoffs. QV racked up a 14-2 record in the regular season and received the No. 3 seed for the district tournament. Coincidentally, the Quakers defeated both No. 6 Blackhawk and No. 2 Hampton by...
Sewickley Herald notebook: Seniors helped Sewickley Academy boys lacrosse build from ground up
There are only three seniors on the Sewickley Academy boys lacrosse team who are fourth-year competitors in 2026. Defensive specialists Jack Carlson and Blake Wilmot, also an LSM, and midfielder Luca Peluso have cemented their legacy for the Panthers. “This senior class holds a special place in this program,” coach...
Chartiers Valley girls lacrosse exceeds expectations in playoff season
The end of the 2025 season found the Chartiers Valley girls lacrosse program facing a lot of changes. After a second consecutive season in which the Colts finished second in their section and lost in the Class 2A championship game to Mars, the roster took a major hit. Twelve seniors...
African basketball standout Deng Mu grateful for year spent on court, in classroom at Brentwood
Deng Mu’s journey in becoming a member of the Brentwood boys basketball team was a long one. The 6-foot-7 senior forward is originally from South Sudan. He came to the United States from Uganda last August. The distance to Pittsburgh from Kampala, the capital and Uganda’s largest city, is 7,382...
Westmoreland County high school notebook: Greensburg CC girls stay in 3A after realignment
The WPIAL basketball alignment is out for the next two-year cycle, and the Greensburg Central Catholic girls have once again been impacted by the PIAA competitive balance formula. GCC, the PIAA 3A champion this season, has Class A enrollment but was forced to play in 3A the last two years...
Mt. Pleasant softball heeds 2nd-year coach’s call for attention to detail en route to WPIAL finals
For all the recent softball success at Mt. Pleasant, Paul Reho insisted something was missing when he took over as varsity coach two years ago. He wanted to tighten the reins. “Just looking for more attention to detail, more discipline,” Reho said after No. 3 Mt. Pleasant needed eight innings...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for May 23, 2026
High schools Baseball WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Championship Wednesday’s schedule Butler (19-3) vs. North Allegheny (14-7) at EQT Park, 4 p.m. Class 5A Championship Wednesday’s schedule Upper St. Clair (13-8) vs. South Fayette (14-9) at EQT Park, 7 p.m. Third place Wednesday’s schedule Montour (17-6) vs Thomas Jefferson (18-5) at...
North Allegheny ends historic boys tennis season with PIAA singles, doubles championships
North Allegheny wrapped up what has to be the greatest boys tennis season in WPIAL history on Saturday with not one but two championship performances. Advaita Sircar won the Class 3A singles title and Ashwin Sudhakar and Matt Kampi won the Class 3A doubles crown at the Hershey Racquet Club....
Jefferson-Morgan’s Deakyn DeHoet reigns as state’s fastest sprinter
Heading into the season, winning a WPIAL title was not on Deakyn DeHoet’s radar. Fast forward to Saturday, and DeHoet won two PIAA titles while simultaneously becoming the fastest runner in the state. DeHoet continued his meteoric rise by winning gold medals in the Class 2A 100- and 200-meter dashes...
Quaker Valley distance ace Jonah Montagnese adds PIAA 3,200 gold to trophy case
Quaker Valley distance standout Jonah Montagnese came into the PIAA Class 2A 3,200-meter run as the top seed by a wide margin. And by the end of the race, Montagnese found himself in a similar spot. A junior, Montagnese followed up Friday’s triumph in the 1,600 by taking top honors...
Trib 10: WPIAL baseball, softball playoffs not kind to teams in power rankings
The district playoffs have not been kind to the power-ranked teams from the end of the regular season. Six were knocked out in the last two rounds of the WPIAL baseball playoffs and four are gone from the Trib 10 from the quarterfinals and semifinals in softball. This brings us...
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania high school softball rankings for May 23, 2026
The start of the district softball playoffs did not wreak havoc on state teams like the baseball postseason did. Only six teams lost their spot in the Trib HSSN Top 5 a little over a week before the start of the PIAA softball playoffs. The top-ranked teams remained the same...
North Catholic’s Logan Schade caps 1st and only track season by winning PIAA title in 400
Logan Schade won a state track championship Saturday. Not bad for a teen who was competing in the sport for the first time this spring. Schade, a senior at North Catholic, turned out to be a quick study, and in the final race of his brief career picked up a...
Franklin Regional’s Jamie Kociela wins PIAA gold to lead Westmoreland medalists
SHIPPENSBURG — Conditions were not ideal for the final day of the PIAA Class 3A track and field championships Saturday. The athletes were greeted with steady rain and unusually chilly temperatures in the low 50s. Everything was held as planned except for the pole vault and high jump, which were...
Freeport’s Mackenzie Magness fights adversity, controversy to claim PIAA silver
Mackenzie Magness’s visit to the PIAA track and field championships last season ended with her winning a gold medal in the pole vault. Her return trip Saturday ended in controversy. Magness, a junior at Freeport, had another successful performance by finishing as the Class 2A girls runner-up, but she fought...
