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North Allegheny set for PIAA boys volleyball finals
Two WPIAL boys volleyball champions reached the PIAA semifinals, but only one is moving on to play for state gold. North Allegheny knocked out Central York in four games to reach the PIAA Class 3A title match for the first time in three years. Meanwhile Shaler’s two-year run of playing...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for June 10, 2025
High schools Baseball PIAA tournament Class 6A Championship Friday’s schedule North Penn (22-5) vs. Cedar Cliff (20-6) at Penn State, 4:30 p.m. Class 5A Championship Thursday’s schedule Upper Dublin (17-5) vs. Shaler (20-6) at Penn State, 4:30 p.m. Class 4A Semifinals Tuesday’s result Indiana 6, East Pennsboro 5 Championship Friday’s...
Seneca Valley pitcher Lexie Hames named Gatorade player of year
Seneca Valley star pitcher Lexie Hames was named the Gatorade Pennsylvania Softball Player of the Year for the second straight season. Hames, a Clemson commit, led the Raiders to a WPIAL 6A runner-up finish, their fourth consecutive finals appearance. The two-time WPIAL champion went 17-3 with a 0.49 ERA, a...
Penn-Trafford softball step-sisters chase state title together
Penn-Trafford senior softball players Kylie Anthony and Cam Ponko have made tweaks to their swings this season. Anthony has embraced “sighting,” a timing approach that she and her teammates learned from former Warriors standout Emma Little. Ponko is focused more on “slugging,” which also shortens the swing and gets the...
Down to its last strike, Nazareth stuns Hempfield with 6-run rally in state semifinals
SHIPPENSBURG — Hempfield suffered a heartbreaking end to its highly successful season in the PIAA Class 6A softball semifinals Tuesday. Down to their last strike in the top of the seventh, the Nazareth Blue Eagles put together a dramatic six-run rally to pull out a 6-4 decision. Nazareth will play...
Riverside wins another duel with South Park to reach Class 3A state finals
When Riverside defeated South Park 1-0 in 12 innings in the WPIAL Class 3A semifinals, the Eagles hoped for another opportunity to face the Panthers in the PIAA playoffs, while Riverside expected the possibility of another game between the two teams. Opportunity and possibility became reality Tuesday afternoon at Seneca...
Indiana wins longest baseball playoff game in PIAA history
Indiana won the longest baseball game in PIAA playoff history Tuesday, scoring the decisive run on a walk-off walk by Caden Force in the bottom of the 17th inning of a 6-5 victory over East Pennsboro in the PIAA Class 4A semifinals. The game was suspended tied 5-5 after 13...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for June 9, 2025
High schools Baseball PIAA tournament Class 6A Semifinals Monday’s results North Penn 1, Neshaminy 0 Cedar Cliff 3, Bethlehem Liberty 2 Championship Friday’s schedule North Penn (22-5) vs. Cedar Cliff (20-6) at Penn State, 4:30 p.m. Class 5A Semifinals Monday’s results Upper Dublin 1, Elizabethtown 0 Shaler 2, Lampeter-Strasburg 0...
Shady Side Academy boys lacrosse in state semifinals for 1st time
Prior to this spring, the Shady Side Academy boys lacrosse program had reached the PIAA quarterfinals three times. The Bulldogs lost all three — by one goal, one goal and three goals. However, the program made history Saturday when it stunned District 3 champion Manheim Township to win and advance...
Pair of WPIAL teams still alive in hunt for PIAA boys volleyball titles
In the 2012 PIAA boys volleyball championships, Chambersburg defeated Pennridge in the Class 3A finals and Bethlehem Catholic knocked off York Suburban in the 2A title match. That was the last year the PIAA boys volleyball finals were contested without a WPIAL representative. Heading into the 2025 PIAA boys volleyball...
High school roundup for June 9, 2025: Freedom, Eden Christian baseball, Neshannock, Union softball make state finals
Freedom came into the WPIAL Class 2A baseball playoffs as a No. 8 seed. Four weeks and eight wins later, the Bulldogs will be playing for a state title. Boden Hilliard threw a three-hit shutout with 10 strikeouts and one walk to lead Freedom to a 2-0 victory over District...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on June 10, 2025: North Allegheny, Shaler set for boys volleyball state semifinals
From 2011-2022, the North Allegheny boys volleyball program reached the PIAA championship match in every season but three. The Tigers did not qualify for the 2012, 2015 and 2016 Class 3A state finals. The Tigers also missed out the last two years but are one victory away from returning to...
Penn-Trafford earns trip to Penn State with win over West Allegheny
Penn-Trafford softball coach Denny Little was under the weather Sunday night and was not sure he would be able to make his team’s PIAA Class 5A semifinal against West Allegheny on Monday. The perfect prescription was an all-around solid effort by the Warriors that left the Indians feeling ill. Penn-Trafford...
Colby Weber shuts down Lampeter-Strasburg, sends Shaler back to PIAA championship game
CRESSON — Colby Weber and the Shaler baseball team are headed to another state championship game — their second in three seasons. Two years after winning a Class 5A title, the WPIAL champs, behind Weber’s three-hitter with nine strikeouts and no walks, earned another trip to Penn State by ousting...
PIAA semifinals involving 1 softball, 2 baseball teams from WPIAL postponed to Tuesday
A showdown between WPIAL Class 3A baseball powers and the next game for the WPIAL Class 6A softball champs will have to wait a day. Two PIAA playoff games were postponed Monday due to ominous weather forecasts and/or field conditions worsened by recent rains. The Class 3A baseball semifinal between...
High school sports schedule for June 9, 2025
High schools Baseball PIAA tournament Semifinals Monday’s schedule Class 6A Neshaminy (16-7) vs. North Penn (21-5) at Villanova Ballpark, 3 p.m.; Cedar Cliff (19-6) vs. Bethlehem Liberty (22-6) at Wenger Field, Fredericksburg, 4:30 p.m. Class 5A Upper Dublin (16-5) vs. Elizabethtown (16-9) at Muhlenberg, 11 a.m.; Shaler (19-6) vs. Lampeter-Strasburg...
This week on Trib HSSN for week of June 9, 2025
It’s the final countdown with a light at the end of the tunnel marking the end to the 2024-2025 high school sports season. The final week of action includes the semifinals and championships in four PIAA spring sports this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. For the final...
Trib HSSN baseball player of the week for June 8, 2025Video
Trib HSSN baseball player of the week – Greg Minnick School: Indiana Class: Senior Position: Pitcher #Earned: Minnick took the mound against Elizabeth Forward in the WPIAL Class 4A baseball championship game looking for personal redemption. In the 2024 district title game, he started and pitched four innings, allowing four...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for June 9, 2025: Spots in PIAA finals up for grabs
Six years ago, the West Allegheny and Penn-Trafford softball programs celebrated championships: The Indians won a third straight WPIAL Class 5A crown, and the Warriors captured their first PIAA title. Now the two tradition-rich teams square off to see who will play for a 2025 state championship Friday at Penn...
Trib HSSN softball player of the week for June 8, 2025Video
Trib HSSN softball player of the week: Lauren Howard School: Hempfield Class: Junior Position: Second base #Earned: four days after winning the second WPIAL championship in her three-year high school career, Lauren Howard and her Hempfield teammates went back to work in an effort to win the school’s fifth state...
Westmoreland PIAA softball playoff preview capsules: Games for Monday, June 9, 2025
PIAA softball playoffs Class 6A Semifinals Hempfield (23-1) vs. Nazareth (21-4) 4 p.m. TUESDAY at Norco Park Softball Complex, Fayetteville District-place: Hempfield 7-1; Nazareth 11-2 Winner plays: Winner of 3-3 Central Dauphin (19-3)/1-3 Perkiomen Valley (21-4) in the championship at 4 p.m. Thursday at Nittany Lion Softball Park, Penn State...
After strong finish this season, Gateway flag football looks forward to next spring
Gateway’s girls flag football team stood at 3-3 after a loss to Shaler on April 27. The Gators needed to string some wins together to get into Pittsburgh Girls Flag Football League playoff contention. “We didn’t play many preseason games, so the week we started, a couple of the other...
Quaker Valley junior fills scorebook with 9 RBIs in state playoff game
Quaker Valley third baseman Todd Kagle had the game of his career at the plate in first round of the PIAA Class 3A playoffs. The 6-foot-2, 190-pound junior collected nine RBIs — yes, nine — in leading the Quakers to an impressive 22-6 win on the road June 2 against...
Sewickley Herald notebook: Sewickley Academy honors top senior athletes
Several senior student-athletes at Sewickley Academy were honored May 21 at its spring awards banquet. Severin Harmon (golf, tennis) and Katherine Varghese (soccer, track and field) were named as the Most Outstanding Male and Female Athletes. Cooper D’Antonio (cross country, track and field) landed the Stan Partenheimer Sportsmanship Award while...
Quaker Valley girls lacrosse boasts half-dozen all-section performers
The calculation 2-plus-2-plus-2 equals the sum total of players on the Quaker Valley girls lacrosse team who earned Section 2-A distinction in 2025. Junior midfielders Lucy Roig and senior goalkeeper Emily Reiner were honored as first-team all-section selections. Both girls made all-section last year as well. “Lucy has done a...
