High School category, Page 96
High school track notebook: ’Tis the season for large invitationals
This is the time of the year to which athletes competing in track and field look forward. It is a weekend when the athletes start measuring themselves against some of the best in the state and WPIAL. There are three big invitationals Friday — at Baldwin, Pine-Richland and Altoona. The...
Westmoreland high school notebook: Thompson adds AD to his duties at Greensburg Central Catholic
John “JT” Thompson has been the football coach at Greensburg Central Catholic for two seasons. He will have additional duties as he prepares for a third. Thompson will take over as athletic director following the retirement of Dan Mahoney. A Rome, N.Y., native who has been a football coach for...
WPIAL’s best track and field performances through May 1, 2025
Here are the top performers in the WPIAL as of May 1: 3A Boys 100: Preston Miller, Latrobe, 10.74; 200: Gavin Skarbek, Seneca Valley, 22.11; 400: Gavin Skarbek, Seneca Valley, 49.12; 800: Kayden Lightner, North Hills, 1:51.29; 1,600: Jack Bertram, North Allegheny, 4:11.76; 3,200: Jack Bertram, North Allegheny, 8:47.76; 110...
Mt. Pleasant swim coach Sandy Felice steps down after remarkable career
Mt. Pleasant is looking for a new swimming coach. That’s because longtime coach Sandy Felice, who led the Vikings boys and girls to Class 2A state titles, has decided to go out on top and hang up her whistle after 40 years. Felice, 68, began coaching in 1979 as a...
Lincoln Park freshman basketball player Damar Johnson recovering after drive-by shooting
Lincoln Park boys basketball coach Mike Bariski said he couldn’t imagine anyone wanting to hurt Damar Johnson, a freshman standout who was shot in the arm Wednesday night in Farrell. “I can’t even understand who wouldn’t like him,” Bariski said. “A kid with braces. Always smiling. Fifteen years old. Come...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on May 1, 2025: North Allegheny, North Hills to settle series
May Day, May Day! That might be the distress signal sent out by WPIAL baseball and softball teams trying to finish section games on a day with a rainy forecast. In district baseball, the finales of a pair of three-game series in Section 1-6A are set for Thursday. Section champion...
WPIAL clinched: Softball playoff qualifiers through April 30, 2025
The WPIAL softball playoff field is taking shape and currently sits at 65 teams with a week left in the regular season. The top four teams in each section qualify for the postseason from Class 5A down. In 6A, the top six teams clinch a WPIAL playoff berth. If there...
WPIAL clinched: Baseball playoff qualifiers through April 30, 2025
The WPIAL baseball playoff field is growing and currently sits at 60 teams with a week left in the regular season. The top four teams in each section qualify for the playoffs with all tied teams advancing if they split their head-to-head meetings. Coverage of the WPIAL baseball playoffs can...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for April 30, 2025
High schools Baseball Wednesday’s results Class 6A Section 1 Seneca Valley 5, Butler 0 North Allegheny 9, North Hills 3 Section 2 Hempfield 12, Woodland Hills 0 Mt. Lebanon 2, Norwin 1 Class 5A Section 2 Moon 6, Upper St. Clair 1 Section 3 Mars 8, West Allegheny 4 Section...
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania high school softball rankings for April 30, 2025
While thoughts and prayers go out to those in the state still recovering from a damaging storm Tuesday, there was a great calm in the state softball rankings as we head into May. A grand total of one team fell out of the weekly Trib HSSN state softball rankings from...
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania high school baseball rankings for April 30, 2025
Only two classifications saw changes last week in the Trib HSSN state baseball rankings as we bid farewell to April. Class 6A saw one change as McDowell bumped Parkland. There was a major shakeup in Class 3A as North East, Philipsburg Osceola and South Park exited, opening the door for...
High school roundup for April 30, 2025: As playoffs near, Seneca Valley’s Lexie Hames gears up with 18K no-hitter
Lexie Hames threw a no-hitter and struck out 18 to lift Seneca Valley to a 5-0 victory over Canon-McMillan in Class 6A softball Wednesday afternoon. In her last outing, Hames threw a one-hitter with 18 strikeouts in a 2-1 win over Hempfield on Monday. Liv Herrem hit a three-run homer,...
Clutch outing from pitcher Carson Franc delivers section title to Avonworth
An 0.68 ERA is proof that Avonworth pitcher Carson Franc has had other great outings, but his coach called this one his best yet. “Under the circumstances, you have to,” Antelopes coach Jeff Bywalski said. In a battle for the section title, Franc tempted batters to chase high fastballs while...
Moon lands big win over Upper St. Clair to boost playoff hopes
Falling into last place with one week left in the regular season is not a good recipe for a postseason run. However, on Wednesday night, it was one small step for Moon’s chances of playing meaningful baseball next week and one giant leap for the Tigers’ playoff hopes. The Tigers...
Burrell holds off Deer Lakes in 2-day, 25-run thriller
Phones blared emergency signals in unison as Tuesday’s destructive storm approached Charles A. Huston Middle School in Lower Burrell. On the baseball diamond, host Burrell had just taken the lead against Deer Lakes in the bottom of the fourth inning when the storm hit. With one out, the Bucs stopped...
Hempfield softball rebounds with mercy-rule win over Pine-Richland
Fresh off a career milestone and a tight loss, Riley Miller made sure Hempfield softball bounced back on senior day. The senior ace, who reached 500 strikeouts in her previous outing — a 2-1 loss to rival and No. 2 Seneca Valley — helped the top-ranked Spartans return to form...
Westmoreland County high school softball notebook: Hempfield pitcher joins elite K club
Riley Miller has proven she is one of the better pitchers to come through one of the state’s great softball programs at Hempfield. The senior has joined an elite group of aces in the Spartans’ record book. Miller, a Kent State commit, reached 500 career strikeouts this week, becoming just...
Norwin lineman finds new Division I home after Saint Francis’ move to D3
Norwin’s Colin Bruno was one of the first to decommit from Saint Francis when the university announced plans to move from NCAA Division I to Division III. He took the news hard because, at the time, it was life changing. The football lineman went from blessed and humbled to stunned...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for April 29, 2025
High schools Baseball Tuesday’s results Class 6A Section 1 Butler at Seneca Valley, ppd. North Hills at North Allegheny, ppd. Section 2 Hempfield 10, Woodland Hills 0 Norwin 7, Mt. Lebanon 4 Class 5A Section 1 Plum 7, Franklin Regional 2 Penn-Trafford 7, Kiski Area 4 Latrobe 5, Armstrong 4...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on April 29, 2025: Defending WPIAL champs look to lock up section
We hit the midweek, which coincides with the final day of the fourth month of the year, hoping to say “adieu” to the April showers. It will be another busy day of district softball section games highlighted by a battle for first place in Section 2-4A when Elizabeth Forward visits...
Trib 10: New teams take top spots in baseball, softball power rankings
There has been a shakeup at the top of the power rankings as we are down to one week remaining in the WPIAL baseball and softball regular season. Pine-Richland falling to Shaler last week in district baseball and Hempfield losing for the first time in a softball showdown against Seneca...
High school roundup for April 29, 2025: Plum completes section series sweep
Max Vollmer tripled twice and drove in five runs to lead Plum to a 7-2 victory over Franklin Regional on Tuesday, competing a two-game series sweep in Section 1-5A baseball. Dan Macioce had a double and an RBI for the Mustangs (14-2, 9-1). Anthony Mitchell had a double and two...
Norwin baseball team blows past Mt. Lebanon for 9th straight win
With gusty winds whipping out to center all afternoon, any baseball hit deep had a chance of leaving the park Tuesday at Norwin. A harmless-looking fly ball suddenly had jets. Even Ben Geissler managed to get ahold of one. “Normally, I like singles,” the Norwin senior first baseman said. “I...
WPIAL postpones team track semifinals to Wednesday
The WPIAL has postponed the team track and field semifinals to Wednesday because of unfavorable weather Tuesday. Sites and times remain the same. The winner from each semifinal site advances to the WPIAL team finals May 6 at West Mifflin. The North Allegheny girls (Class 3A) and Quaker Valley girls...
Westmoreland County high school baseball notebook: Ligonier Valley thriving in tight games
Jason Bush didn’t think it could get much better after he watched his Ligonier Valley baseball team score twice in the bottom of the seventh inning last week to walk off Burrell, 3-2. But that was only the beginning. The Rams (6-7) have shown a propensity for late-game thrills. They...
