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Hampton girls lacrosse looking for new scorers to step forward
The Hampton girls lacrosse team will try to fill the shoes of one All-American with the hands and feet of many. “Megan Cook is irreplaceable,” coach Kelsey (Viets) Burke said of her graduated record-breaking star midfielder. “I don’t know if we will have one person score 60 goals. But I...
Hampton boys lacrosse team features new look
The Hampton Athletic Hall of Fame inducted Andy DeMichiei this past summer for his exploits on the lacrosse field. This spring, the 26-year-old will look to make his impact from the sidelines. DeMichiei, a former All-American with the Talbots, is entering his first season as coach at his alma mater....
‘Maximum depth’ helps Fox Chapel tackle boys tennis season
Fox Chapel is off to its typically strong start in boys tennis. The Foxes were 5-0 headed into a week-long spring break for the school district. Fox Chapel won four consecutive WPIAL team titles from 2016-19. Then the pandemic year of 2020 came along and the season was wiped out....
Armstrong’s Olsen winner of 2nd Willie Thrower Award as top QB in Southwestern Pennsylvania
Cadin Olsen stood tall, literally and figuratively, among a wide-ranging crop of talented quarterbacks in the WPIAL and City League. The 6-foot-5 junior was a running and passing threat for Armstrong during the 2021 season, and the standout helped the River Hawks to an 8-4 overall record, a 5-2 mark...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for April 8, 2022
High school Baseball WPIAL Friday’s results Class 4A Section 2 Montour 6, Quaker Valley 4 Class 2A Section 3 Eden Christian at Northgate, ppd. Nonsection Butler 10, Gateway 0 Freeport 7, Kiski Area 2 Laurel Highlands 8, Trinity 6 Mars 3, North Catholic 2 Mt. Pleasant 11, Armstrong 1 North...
High school roundup for April 8, 2022: Walker’s triple sparks Montour
Nick Walker tripled home three runs to lead Montour to a 6-4 victory over Quaker Valley in Section 2-4A baseball Friday. Mason Sike picked up the win for the Spartans and Dylan Mathiesen recorded a save. Cole Fleck and Matt Luchovick doubled for Montour (6-1, 4-0). Zeke Hendricks had a...
Greensburg Salem sprinter Cody Rubrecht looking to build off win
Greensburg Salem junior Cody Rubrecht hadn’t competed in track before this season. Covid-19 prevented him from running his freshman season, and an ankle injury from football during his sophomore season sidelined him last year. But Rubrecht, a standout wide receiver on the Golden Lions football team, is making up for...
Strong showing for Kiski Area at Lady Spartan/Wildcat Invitational
The Kiski Area track and field team didn’t have any first-place finishers Friday at the annual Lady Spartan/Wildcat Invitational, but the Cavaliers did have numerous athletes earn medals. The Kiski Area girls 3,200-meter relay team of Julia Snider, Lily Murphy, Ellie Hecker and Eliza Miller placed second to Hempfield with...
Kim Johnson named Valley’s interim athletic director
Kim Johnson has spent the past 30 years teaching the students of the New Kensington-Arnold School District. Whether it was about the intricacies of biology or proper technique in the backstroke, she has made an impact on countless students who have passed through the halls of Valley High School. For...
Trinity hires former Chartiers Valley football coach Dan Knause
After working five years to build up his alma mater’s football program, coach Dan Knause will take on a new project elsewhere. The former Chartiers Valley coach was hired Thursday night as assistant high school principal and football coach at Trinity, a program that seeks its first playoff win since...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for April 7, 2022
High school Baseball WPIAL Thursday’s results Class 4A Section 2 Montour at Quaker Valley, ppd. Class 3A Section 2 Ambridge 10, Steel Valley 0 South Park 3, Avonworth 2 Section 4 Charleroi 6, McGuffey 4 Class 2A Section 1 Washington at Beth-Center, ppd. Section 4 Fort Cherry at Brentwood, ppd....
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on April 8, 2022: Early season battles for 1st place on softball diamond
Gray and cold and a chance of rain … welcome to another day of WPIAL softball. If the weather holds out, it will be a busy day of section softball action with 55 scheduled games. In Section 4-5A, three teams are tied for first place with 2-0 section records. Two...
Trib 10: Returning state champs top 1st edition of baseball, softball power rankings
As spring tries to power winter into a thing of the past (good luck), district baseball and softball teams are also flexing their muscles and feeling the power three weeks into the 2022 season. The inaugural baseball and softball Trib 10 of 2022 features 11 teams that did not finish...
High school roundup for April 7, 2022: Lafferty boys lead South Park to sweep of Avonworth
Austin Lafferty tripled and Drew Lafferty drove in a pair of runs to lead South Park to a 3-2 victory Avonworth, competing a two-game Section 2-3A baseball sweep Thursday night. Brandon Clifford gave up two runs and struck out nine in six innings to earn the win for the Eagles...
Apollo-Ridge slugger off to scorching start
Knocking in 13 runs would be a relatively good statistic for most high school baseball players in Western Pennsylvania … for a season. Brandon Butler needed just two games to reach that mark in what could be a special 2022 campaign for the junior shortstop and his Apollo-Ridge teammates. Butler...
Piper provides perfect pitching performance for Ligonier Valley softball
Cheyenne Piper arrived at the ballpark Wednesday ready to play. She didn’t know, however, she would be pitching. Just perfect, she thought. Perfect, indeed. The sophomore from Ligonier Valley tossed a perfect game as the Rams blanked visiting Punxsutawney, 7-0, at Donaldson Softball Field. Not bad for her first start....
Westmoreland baseball notebook: 2-game series well liked
Coaches and players seem to like the WPIAL’s home-and-home, two-game series that occur on back-to-back days. Especially the teams that bounce back after a loss in Game One. Franklin Regional and Penn-Trafford split their Section 1-5A opening series, with Franklin Regional rebounding from a 4-3 loss with a 5-0 win....
Franklin Regional baseball revamps rotation in repeat bid
By and large, Franklin Regional had gaps to fill on its WPIAL Class 5A championship baseball team. But coach Bobby Saddler did not think it would take long for replacements to emerge, particularly in the pitching rotation. He was right. The search for quality pitching in Murrysville is over —...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for April 6, 2022
High school Baseball WPIAL Wednesday’s results Class 4A Section 1 Knoch 9, Highlands 8 Section 3 Ringgold 11, Laurel Highlands 1 Class 3A Section 1 Hopewell 5, Mohawk 3 Class 2A Section 1 Washington 12, Beth-Center 11 Bentworth at Frazier, ppd. Section 3 Shady Side Academy at Jeannette, ppd. Thursday’s...
High school roundup for April 6, 2022: Knoch rallies for extra-inning win
Angelo DeLeonardis hit an RBI single and Eli Sutton followed with a run-scoring double in the top of the eighth as Knoch rallied for a 9-8 victory over Highlands in Section 1-4A baseball Thursday. Highlands loaded the bases with no outs in the bottom of the eightht, but Jacob Stallsmith...
New proposal would give WPIAL wrestling 5 state qualifiers in Class 3A
When the PIAA meets May 18, a major change in wrestling will need to be approved. The PIAA wrestling steering committee reconvened Tuesday and, after hours of discussions, approved a format that will decide which area gets more qualifiers for the PIAA individual championships. Regions will receive additional qualifiers based...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on April 6, 2022: Matchups of top teams on boys volleyball court
A share of the early lead in WPIAL boys volleyball Section 3-2A is up for grabs Thursday when defending champion Seton LaSalle visits Trinity. Both teams won their section openers Tuesday with the Rebels rolling past Steel Valley while the Hillers won at Bishop Canevin. The two are tied for...
Trib HSSN State Softball Rankings for April 6, 2022
Nearly three weeks into a new season and we lift the curtain on the inaugural Trib HSSN state softball rankings. As a friendly reminder, here were the top-ranked teams in the final top five from 2021 shortly after raising state gold: North Penn in 6A, Lampeter-Strasburg in 5A, Beaver in...
Trib HSSN State Baseball Rankings for April 6, 2022
Spring has sprung as trees and flowers blossom, the mercury is (slowly) rising, and we have the return of the weekly Trib HSSN state baseball rankings. Before we debut the top five in each class here in the early stages of the 2022 season, a reminder of the defending PIAA...
Burrell’s Armstrong guides young, determined squad
Katie Armstrong’s freshman softball season was over before it got a chance to get going. The now-Burrell junior was in the running for varsity starting time in the pitcher’s circle with Kylie Karns, a freshman pitcher this spring at Mt. Aloysius, and things went well in her scrimmage debut against...
