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What to watch for in WPIAL sports for April 21, 2025: Peters Township, Upper St. Clair to clash
While the WPIAL baseball schedule is light on the day after Easter, there is a key contest in a section that is looking like many of the roads in the district nowadays — all jammed. Section 2-5A is the one WPIAL baseball section where brooms appeared to be out and...
Trib HSSN softball player of the week for April 20, 2025Video
Trib HSSN softball player of the week — Danica Trainer School — Mt. Pleasant Class — Sophomore Position — Pitcher, shortstop #Earned — This past week and for most of this season, sophomore pitcher and shortstop Danica Trainer has hit all the right notes in helping the Mt. Pleasant softball...
Trib HSSN baseball player of the week for April 20, 2025Video
Trib HSSN baseball player of the week: Ryan Lafferty School: Plum Class: Junior Position: Center field #Earned: It was a perfect week for the Plum baseball team and outfielder Ryan Lafferty. You don’t have to be a math wizard to know batting 7 for 7 over three games is pretty...
This week on Trib HSSN for week of April 21, 2025
All the eggs have been found (hopefully) and the ears to the solid chocolate bunny have magically disappeared as we hit the second half of section play in various spring sports this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has video and audio coverage of WPIAL baseball,...
WPIAL girls lacrosse standings through April 20, 2025
Here are the latest WPIAL girls lacrosse standings for the 2025 regular season. The top six teams in each section in both Class 3A and 2A will qualify for the district postseason. Only section records are shown. Class 3A – 6 of the 12 Class 3A teams have clinched a...
WPIAL boys lacrosse standings through April 20, 2025
Here are the latest WPIAL boys lacrosse standings for the 2025 season. The top four teams in each section in Class 3A and the top six teams in each section in Class 2A will qualify for the district postseason. Only section records are shown. Class 3A Section 1 Mt. Lebanon,...
Powerful offenses lead Hempfield, Penn-Trafford softball teams to top of their classes
Hempfield and Penn-Trafford played each other in the softball season opener. Who knew it was a preview of two of the best — maybe the best — hitting teams in the WPIAL? Both have been putting the business end of the bat on the ball with crushing regularity, a couple...
Fisher’s Files: Quaker Valley coach says Adou Thiero ‘deserving’ of NBA opportunity
One man who has been carefully following Adou Thiero’s college basketball career is Mike Mastroianni, who coached the Arkansas junior in high school during his stellar career at Quaker Valley. Thiero led the Quakers to a WPIAL Class 4A title in 2021-22 and was named the TribLive HSSN Boys Basketball...
Gateway’s Austin Lockhart chasing school record, WPIAL success in triple jump
Austin Lockhart leapt 43 feet, 3 inches in the triple jump at last year’s WPIAL Class 3A track and field championships at Slippery Rock. It wasn’t his best distance of the season. That was a 44-5 at a regular-season invitational. But his top jump in his WPIAL debut earned him...
Top Sewickley Academy, Quaker Valley players look forward to team tennis playoffs
Severin Harmon has proven to be a top-tier performer in Class 2A throughout his tennis career at Sewickley Academy. The Panthers are competing in Class 3A this season, and Harmon has picked up where he left off in the lower classification. The senior received the No. 2 seed for the...
Fresh off winning Wildcat Invitational, Penn-Trafford boys qualify for WPIAL team playoffs
Penn-Trafford track and field coach Eric Reger knew winning Section 1-3A would be tough, but earning a third consecutive berth in the WPIAL boys team playoffs was a possibility. The Warriors successfully achieved a berth in the postseason by defeating Hempfield, 80-70, to improve to 5-1 in the section. The...
Behind WPIAL singles champion Adam Memije, Gateway tennis seeking more hardware
Adam Memije and Advaita Sircar could meet at some point in the PIAA Class 3A singles tennis tournament May 23-24 in Hershey. Memije, a Gateway senior, and Sircar, a sophomore from North Allegheny, already know a lot about each other. They faced each other in the WPIAL finals for the...
Despite hurdles, Chartiers Valley track teams finding ways to improve
It’s been a challenging season for the Chartiers Valley track and field teams. Like all the other schools in the WPIAL, they have had to deal with the tumultuous early spring weather. “It’s been cold and rainy, and that has had a small effect on how our athletes perform,” said...
Chartiers Valley looking for bats to come alive for playoff push
Five days after Chartiers Valley stopped a three-game losing streak with an 11-5 win that saw the team’s bats come alive against Section 2-5A opponent Peters Township, the Colts dropped an important section game against Moon on April 14. The manner in which they lost, a passed ball in the...
Maddox Shaw, Bode Marlow leave championships legacy with Thomas Jefferson wrestling
One holds the school record for career wins. The other set the team mark for victories in a season. Together, Thomas Jefferson seniors Maddox Shaw and Bode Marlow proved to be an indominable force throughout their stellar high school wrestling careers. “Both are phenomenal student-athletes who have modeled for the...
South Hills sports notebook: Baldwin’s Ramil Islamov celebrated after setting school record
The Baldwin wrestling program experienced history this season. Ramil Islamov capped a brilliant four-year career at Baldwin with a 47-3 overall mark, giving him a school record 148-24 career mark. Not only did the 145-pound senior break the record for career wins, he shattered it. The only other grapplers in...
Baldwin softball off to strong start by getting ‘1% better each day’
The Baldwin softball team has displayed steady growth in each of coach Ron Santillo’s first three years at the helm. “The credit all goes to the girls and the hard work they put in over the last three years,” Santillo said. “They really push one another in the offseason. “The...
First-year coach helping young Quaker Valley softball players develop through fundamentals
Quaker Valley Middle School softball coach Steve Waffensmith might have a unique name, but he has a one-size-fits-all approach to coaching the sport. Particularly at the middle school level. “I’d like to think that my main focus is trying to get fundamental softball being played on the field, but it...
High school roundup for April 19, 2025: Penn-Trafford picks up win over North Allegheny
Dom Delio threw five scoreless innings, allowing one hit and striking out four, to lead Penn-Trafford to a 9-1 win over North Allegheny in nonsection baseball Saturday. Logan Matrisch and Johnny Lovre drove in two runs apiece and Ethan Septak and Brandon Kane each had an RBI for the Warriors...
Ken Hi’s Frederick stood out as football player, longtime coach; joins A-K Valley Sports Hall of Fame
Don Frederick spent more than a half century in sports, first as a star football player, then as a long-time coach. Looking back, Frederick said it was the people he met along the way who made the journey so special for him. “The relationships that I built were unbelievable,” the...
WPIAL softball rankings: Week ending April 20, 2025
Class 6A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. Hempfield, 12-0, 1 2. Pine-Richland, 10-3, 3 3. Seneca Valley, 8-2, 2 4. Canon-McMillan, 8-6, 5 5. North Allegheny, 5-6, 4 Out: none Class 5A 1. Penn-Trafford, 10-1, 1 2. Franklin Regional, 10-3, 4 3. Shaler, 8-3, 2 4. North Hills, 10-3, NR...
Westmoreland high school notebook: More Division I offers for Hempfield’s Heisler
The recruiting process is coming in waves for Brock Heisler. The junior from Hempfield is lining up a Division I college football career and has plenty of options when it comes to his future destination. But he is handling the endeavor with poise. “I always knew I wanted to play...
WPIAL baseball rankings: Week ending April 20, 2025
Class 6A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. North Allegheny, 8-2, 1 2. Seneca Valley, 7-4, 3 3. Norwin, 8-6, NR 4. Canon-McMillan, 10-4, 2 5. Butler, 7-4, 4 Out: Central Catholic (5-7, 5) Class 5A 1. Pine-Richland, 11-1, 1 2. Shaler, 8-3, 2 3. Plum, 10-2, NR 4. Fox Chapel,...
North Allegheny’s lone softball seniors form dynamic duo
North Allegheny’s Sammy Plotsko and McKenna Rowlands hit it off right away as sixth graders at Ingomar Middle School. And the hits kept coming. The only seniors on NA’s 24-player roster, the best friends are leaders of a young Tigers team and are treasuring their final softball season together. “We...
Franklin Regional notebook: Panthers standouts make college decisions
Franklin Regional soccer player Addison Ayres committed to play at Division III Allegheny College. Ayres is a junior goalkeeper. She was an all-section pick last season when she made 107 saves and posted seven shutouts in 17 games. She made 22 saves in a 3-2 loss to Montour in the...
