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Championship coach helps Bethel Park baseball navigate tough section
Bethel Park’s Pat Zehnder is one of the more quotable baseball coaches in the area. Want some proof? After senior star Ryan Petras ran home from third on a wild pitch in the bottom of the eighth inning in the Black Hawks’ 5-4 win against Thomas Jefferson in the WPIAL...
Bethel Park notebook: Black Hawks baseball standouts named all-section
The Bethel Park baseball program lost 11 seniors to graduation from this year’s playoff team, including Ryan Petras (IF), Ryan Walsh (P/OF), Joey Levis (P/OF), Jack Bruckner (OF), Noah LeJeune (IF), Dylan Paul (P/IF), Dylan Schumacher (P), Ethan Stanhoff (C/IF) and Owen White (P/IF) and reserves Aaron Hofbauer (OF) and...
Bethel Park football ramps up preparation for next season with 7-on-7 competition
The Bethel Park football team will host a 7-on-7 football camp from 6-8 p.m. July 9 at Black Hawks Stadium. June was a busy time for the Bethel Park gridders as five 7-on-7 camps were on the summer schedule starting June 5 against Thomas Jefferson and wrapping up June 26...
Hempfield lineman picks Harvard for ‘great balance between academics and football’
Despite a number of high-end scholarship offers from Power 4 and Group of 5 schools, Brock Heisler has opted to play college football in the nonscholarship Ivy League. Don’t be too quick to judge the big bruiser from Hempfield. A 4.0 student-athlete, he probably knows something the rest of us...
Head of the Class: The top WPIAL softball players in each classification for 2025
This spring, those sitting at head of the softball class had a clear view of so many individual and team standout performances. The season included the end of some incredible high school softball careers, a return to the front of the class for several prized students and another record breaking...
Head of the Class: The top WPIAL baseball players in each classification for 2025
This spring, pitching seemed to be a notch above offenses around WPIAL baseball. Come postseason time, there were a lot of shutouts, plenty of low scoring games and extra inning marathons dominated by pitching. In fact, in the championship round, there was not one, but two no-hitters thrown, one of...
Antone headlines Kiski Area Sports Hall of Fame inductees
Maddie Antone never slowed down as an athlete at Kiski Area. She earned 12 varsity letters in volleyball, basketball and softball. Antone helped Cavaliers girls volleyball to the section title in 2011 and was a 2012 all-section selection. She scored more than 1,000 points in her Kiski Area basketball career...
Pa. baseball coaches association announces 2025 all-state teams, all-star game rosters
The Pennsylvania State Baseball Coaches Association released all-state teams in all six classifications Thursday with some seniors also chosen for an inaugural all-star game. The East vs. West All-Star Game is noon Sunday at Penn State’s Medlar Field. The PSBCA chose 28 players for the West roster including nine from...
Belle Vernon baseball coach out after 2 strong seasons
The spinning carousel of coaches continues to go round and round at Belle Vernon. Leopards baseball coach Tony Watson was informed early this week that the school board will be opening his job. Watson said he is frustrated and disappointed with the decision, especially with the Leopards coming off two...
‘When, not if’: Timing a factor as PIAA basketball committee votes down shot clock proposal
For some, the debate about adding shot clocks to Pennsylvania high school basketball is more about “when” rather than “if.” The PIAA basketball steering committee met Tuesday and voted down a proposal that would’ve recommended adding the 35-second clocks, but some of the opposition was about the timing rather than...
New coach plans to bring positivity to North Hills girls volleyball
New North Hills girls volleyball coach AnnaLise Shank has been down this road before. North Hills finished without a win last season in section play (0-10) and did not have much sense of positivity in the locker room. Now in comes Shank, who previously took over the volleyball program at...
Head of the Class: The top WPIAL softball coaches in each classification in 2025
This was a golden spring for our Trib HSSN coaches of the year. Three of them enjoyed district championship runs; one led his team to a state title while a pair of coaches from Lawrence County had their brooms in hand as they swept both WPIAL and PIAA softball gold....
Head of the Class: The top WPIAL baseball coaches in each classification for 2025
Five WPIAL teams made it through the first three rounds of the PIAA playoffs to finish the Path to Penn State and play in the state championship games in their respective classifications. Only two of the five district teams returned home with gold, but that was two more than the...
Mars receiver Gabe Hein commits to Sacred Heart
Mars rising senior Gabe Hein announced a verbal commitment to Sacred Heart on Wednesday morning via his X account. The 6-foot, 170-pound wide receiver played alongside his older brother, Liam Hein, at wideout last season. Liam graduated and will be wrestling at Point Park for the upcoming school year. Hein...
Aliquippa QB Marques Council Jr. commits to Yale
Aliquippa quarterback Marques Council Jr. is headed to the Ivy League. The 6-foot-2, 191-pound rising senior announced his commitment to Yale via social media Monday night. Council completed 81 of 169 passes (47.93%) for 1,477 yards, 16 touchdowns and three interceptions last season. He also had 36 carries for 115...
Pitt football announces 19 newcomers, including 2 WPIAL walk-ons
With the season opener 75 days away, Pitt announced 19 additions to the football roster Monday. The list includes seven freshman from the early signing period in December, three specialists plus Latrobe defensive back John Wetzel — who committed this year — three transfers and five freshman walk-ons. Two WPIAL...
State champion Penn-Trafford softball team plans youth camp
After Penn-Trafford won the PIAA softball championship Friday at Penn State, Warriors coach Denny Little had his players take photos with some younger fans celebrating from the bleachers at Beard Field. He said it would be nice to make it a tradition. The next generation of girls will have a...
Always improving Kiski Area wrestler Cooper Roscosky headed to University of Buffalo
Cooper Roscosky doesn’t wait long to hear what Kiski Area wrestling coach Chris Heater has to say about how a practice went. What Heater appreciates is that Roscosky is more interested in the feedback than the manner it is delivered. “On a daily basis, he would want to know what...
Trib HSSN softball player of the week for June 16, 2025Video
Trib HSSN softball player of the week – Kylie Anthony School – Penn-Trafford Class – Senior Position – Shortstop #Earned – While Anthony went hitless in the PIAA Class 5A championship game, she was rock solid on defense in helping Penn-Trafford win a second PIAA championship in the last six...
Trib HSSN baseball player of the week for June 16, 2025
Trib HSSN baseball player of the week – Tim Birch School – Indiana Class – Senior Position – Outfielder #Earned – Indiana leaned heavily on its pitching depth on the road to sweeping both district and state gold this season. Senior Greg Minnick was the Trib HSSN Player of the...
Penn-Trafford, Neshannock, Union complete season atop Trib HSSN state softball rankings
It turned out to be a banner state softball postseason for WPIAL teams. Six PIAA champions were crowned, and half of them returned to District 7 with gold. Penn-Trafford in 5A, Neshannock in 2A and Union in Class A are celebrating state championships. The others were spread out among three...
Indiana, Riverside finish season atop Trib HSSN state baseball rankings
The baseball diamond crown will be shared in 2025 as two districts were able to boast of double state champions. The WPIAL sent five teams to Penn State, but only two came home with gold — Indiana in 4A and Riverside again in 3A. District 1 in suburban Philadelphia also...
Gateway bowlers compete at high school nationals after strong season
In 2024, the Gateway boys bowling team finished fourth overall at the state championships. At the time, the players and coaches didn’t know there was a national championship tournament or that they had qualified for it based on making the state tournament. This year, however, the Gators were keenly aware...
Shaler baseball, softball, boys volleyball teams share success at WPIAL, PIAA level
Tom Sorce is happy for the Shaler Area sports community. The Titans softball coach did wish he was worried less about the chores around the house and more about what his colleagues in other sports were. The Shaler softball team joined the boys volleyball and baseball teams in capturing WPIAL...
Sewickley Herald notebook: Sewickley Academy lacrosse players earn all-section honors
A total of 14 Sewickley Academy athletes were named all-section in lacrosse in 2025. On the boys side, Section 2-2A all-stars included Jake Donesec, Max Soderstrom, Eli Gargani and Eli Stephan on the second team and Luca Peluso, Briggs Jamison and Jack and Matthew Bruno as honorable mention selections. For...
