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A-K Valley baseball playoff preview capsules: Games for May 14, 2025
WPIAL baseball playoffs Class 5A First round 9-Latrobe (14-6) vs. 8-Fox Chapel (15-5) 7 p.m. Wednesday at Gateway Winner plays: Winner of 1-Pine-Richland (17-3)/16-Trinity (10-9) in quarterfinals May 20 (time, site TBD) Players to watch: Eli Boring, Latrobe; Jeremy Haigh, Fox Chapel Extra bases: Latrobe finished section play with consecutive...
Westmoreland baseball playoff preview capsules: Games for May 14, 2025
WPIAL baseball playoffs Class 5A First round 6-Penn-Trafford (14-6) vs. 11-Connellsville (13-5) 4 p.m. Wednesday at Norwin Winner plays: Winner of 3-Shaler (13-6)/14-Montour (12-7) in quarterfinals May 20 (time, site TBD) Players to watch: Brayden Stone, Penn-Trafford; Grayden Gillott, Connellsville Extra bases: Penn-Trafford had an eight-game winning streak snapped by...
Westmoreland softball playoff preview capsules: Games for May 14, 2025
WPIAL softball playoffs Class 6A Quarterfinals 6-Norwin (9-11) vs. 3-North Allegheny (12-7) 2 p.m. Wednesday at Fox Chapel Winner plays: 2-Seneca Valley (15-3) in semifinals Players to watch: Diem Wardzinski, Norwin; Sammy Plotsko, North Allegheny Extra bases: Norwin made an unforeseen run to the finals last year as a No....
WPIAL postpones Tuesday’s baseball, softball games; some quarterfinal sites announced
The WPIAL has moved all of Tuesday’s baseball and softball playoff games to Thursday because of rain. The day’s schedule had included first-round games in Class A, 2A and 3A for both sports. Games were rescheduled at the same sites and times. The WPIAL also announced quarterfinal sites and times...
Freeport pole vaulter seeking repeat among A-K Valley athletes set for WPIAL meet
Mackenzie Magness capped her first varsity track and field season last year with a WPIAL Class 2A pole vault championship and a trip to states. She has not slowed down this spring, and the Freeport sophomore who extended her own school record with a top attempt of 12 feet, 3...
WPIAL track preview: Laurel sprinter could make history with ‘quadruple-double’
Record breakers, repeat winners and rain? Here are some storylines to follow when the WPIAL track and field individual championships are held Wednesday at Slippery Rock University. The meet starts at 11 a.m. Again and again and again … and again? Laurel sprinter Tori Atkins can achieve a WPIAL first...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on May 13, 2025: Class 3A volleyball playoffs commence
There are 10 WPIAL first-round boys volleyball playoff matches set for Tuesday where weather is no issue. Class 3A has 14 teams in the bracket with top-seeded North Allegheny and No. 2 Seneca Valley enjoying opening-round byes. Here are the six first-round matches that all begin at 7 p.m. •...
High school roundup for May 12, 2025: North Hills rallies past Baldwin in Class 5A 1st-round thriller
Natalie Anzaldi hit the go-ahead RBI single in the sixth inning to lead No. 4 North Hills to a 4-3 victory over No. 13 Baldwin in a first-round WPIAL Class 5A softball game Monday at North Allegheny. Anzaldi finished 2 for 3 with three RBIs and Emma Culver singled, doubled...
No. 1 Penn-Trafford fends off challenge from scrappy Moon in Class 5A 1st round
Sometimes the littlest play turns out to be the play of the game. Penn-Trafford junior catcher Mackenzie Cox made three such plays Monday in the WPIAL Class 5A first-round game at West Mifflin. Cox laid down a perfectly executed squeeze bunt that ignited a four-run second inning and then made...
Slugger’s 2-run homer propels Chartiers Valley past Plum in Class 5A 1st round
For Lily Duffill, seven was heaven, but eight is great. The Chartiers Valley junior catcher and clean-up hitter crushed a two-out, two-run home run – her eighth of the season – in the top of the third inning of a WPIAL Class 5A first-round matchup with Plum on Monday at...
No. 12 Fox Chapel upsets 5th-seeded Franklin Regional in Class 5A playoffs
The Fox Chapel softball team has been plagued with maddening moments of inconsistency on defense. But when the lights were at their brightest during the first round of the WPIAL Class 5A playoffs Monday at North Allegheny High School, the 12th-seeded Foxes didn’t melt down. Fox Chapel committed only one...
WPIAL delays decision about Moon basketball transfers’ eligibility 
The basketball eligibility of Moon transfers Jackson and Brody Bauman won’t be decided until next month. The WPIAL board on Monday voted to delay a decision until its next meeting. The Bauman brothers transferred from Knoch to Moon after their father, Alan, resigned in April as Knoch boys basketball coach....
A-K Valley WPIAL softball playoff capsules: Games for Tuesday, May 13, 2025
WPIAL softball playoffs Class 3A First round 8-Deer Lakes (7-13) vs. 9-Charleroi (9-8) 5 p.m. Tuesday at Norwin Winner plays: 1-South Park (18-0) in quarterfinals (date. Site and time TBD) Players to watch: Siena Plummer, Deer Lakes; Lyla Brunner, Charleroi Extra bases: Charleroi returns to the WPIAL playoffs in Class...
A-K Valley baseball playoff preview capsules: Games for May 13, 2025
WPIAL baseball playoffs Class 3A First round 9-Charleroi (10-6) vs. 8-Burrell (12-8) 3 p.m. Tuesday at Gateway Winner plays: Winner of 1-Riverside (13-2)/winner of 16-Shady Side Academy (7-13)/17-McGuffey (10-9) in quarterfinals May 19 (time, site TBD) Players to watch: Jacob Gelder, Charleroi; Brayden Mell, Burrell Extra bases: Charleroi was the...
Westmoreland WPIAL softball playoff capsules: Games for Tuesday, May 13, 2025
WPIAL softball playoffs Class 3A First round 5-Mt. Pleasant (11-5) vs. 12-Keystone Oaks (8-8) 5 p.m. Tuesday at Waynesburg University Winner plays: 4-Avonworth (14-4) in quarterfinals Players to watch: Gia Stanek, Mt. Pleasant; Kennadi Smith, Keystone Oaks Extra bases: Mt. Pleasant, led by first-year coach Paul Reho, won the Section...
Westmoreland baseball playoff preview capsules: Games for May 13, 2025
WPIAL baseball playoffs Class 3A First round 12-Mt. Pleasant (12-6) vs. 5-South Park (12-6) 4 p.m. Tuesday at Gateway Winner plays: Winner of 4-Waynesburg (15-3)/13-Freeport (13-6) in quarterfinals May 19 (time, site TBD) Players to watch: Cole Chatfield, Mt. Pleasant; Cooper Hochendoner, South Park Extra bases: Mt. Pleasant was part...
Derry walks it off against Greensburg Salem in Class 4A softball playoff opener
John DePalma’s message to his girls before Derry took the field for the WPIAL softball playoffs was simple. “It’s just softball,” the coach said. But there is softball, and there is playoff softball, and Derry still is relatively new to the latter. After all, the Trojans had only one playoff...
High school sports schedules for May 12, 2025
High schools Baseball WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Quarterfinals May 19 schedule Times, sites TBA Hempfield (8-12) vs. North Allegheny (14-6); Butler (11-8) vs. Norwin (12-8); North Hills (7-12) vs. Canon-McMillan (14-6); Mt. Lebanon (8-12) vs Seneca Valley (14-6) Class 5A First round Wednesday’s schedule Trinity (10-9) vs. Pine-Richland (17-3) at...
This week on Trib HSSN for week of May 12, 2025
The 2025 WPIAL spring sports postseason begins with preliminary round, first round and quarterfinal action throughout the week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN will have video and audio coverage of the start of the WPIAL baseball, softball, boys and girls lacrosse and boys volleyball playoffs. Plus...
Trib HSSN softball player of the week for May 11, 2025 
Trib HSSN softball player of the week: Gianna Ferrieri School: Seton LaSalle Class: Senior Position: First base, pitcher #Earned: Ferrieri often admits people mispronounce her last name. It is pronounced Fer-rare-ee, but people often call her Ferrari, like the car. Although it might be understandable because her play this past...
Trib HSSN baseball player of the week for May 11, 2025 
Trib HSSN baseball player of the week: Tyler Skaggs School: Serra Catholic Class: Senior Position: Pitcher, second baseman #Earned: The more the merrier for Tyler Skaggs and his Serra Catholic teammates this past week as they played four games in four days to close out the regular season by outscoring...
A-K Valley softball playoff preview capsules: Games for May 12, 2025
WPIAL softball playoffs Class 5A First round 9-Chartiers Valley (11-6) vs. 8-Plum (14-5) 3 p.m. Monday at West Mifflin Winner plays: Winner of 1-Penn-Trafford (17-2)/16-Moon (8-9) in quarterfinals Players to watch: Lily Duffill, Chartiers Valley; Danielle Pici, Plum Extra bases: Chartiers Valley tied for second in Section 3 with a...
Sewickley Academy guard rewarded with all-state nod
Six players were named second-team all-state for the 2024-25 season in Class 2A boys basketball. Lucas Grimsley, a 6-foot-4 junior guard at Sewickley Academy, was one of the chosen few in a statewide vote of media members. “Lucas is a very good 3-point shooter but also has the ability to...
Hard-hitting Eden Christian, Sewickley Academy get set for WPIAL baseball playoffs
Eden Christian Academy and Sewickley Academy clinched berths in the WPIAL baseball playoffs in Section 3-A this season. Eden Christian, Serra Catholic and Bishop Canevin tied for the top spot in the section with 8-2 records while Sewickley finished in fourth place. “We have focused all year on one pitch...
‘The kind of player I want on my team’: Quaker Valley senior eager to play college hockey
Emily Reiner has engineered quite a career as a student-athlete at Quaker Valley. And she has mapped out a unique blueprint for college. A senior and fourth-year starting goalkeeper on QV’s girls lacrosse team, Reiner also is a standout hockey player. As such, she has committed to continuing her career...


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