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Bolstered by 5 WPIAL championship teams, Quaker Valley captures Class 4A Trib Cup

Mike Mastroianni was in a no lose situation in this year’s race for the Trib HSSN Cup in Class 4A. He is the athletic director and boys basketball coach at Quaker Valley while he lives in the Montour school district. Those two schools finished first and second, with Mastroianni’s Quakers...
2022 TribLive HSSN Baseball All-Stars

This was a good year around the WPIAL for dominant pitchers and slick-fielding shortstops. North Allegheny’s Cole Young should hear his name called next month during the MLB Draft, but the senior shortstop wasn’t the only impact player around Western Pennsylvania this spring. Among the others, Bethel Park’s Evan Holewinski...
2022 Trib HSSN Head of the Class: Baseball Player and Coach of the Year for each classification

This spring, those sitting at head of the baseball class had a chance to see a lot of thrilling title runs and some great encore performances. Two teams that did not win district titles rebounded to claim state gold. There were two teams that repeated, one as WPIAL champion and...
Trib HSSN Final 2022 State Baseball Rankings

Five new champions and one repeat winner are celebrating 2022 PIAA baseball championships after last week’s finals at Penn State. Bethel Park was the only repeat state champion from 2021. The Black Hawks shut out Selinsgrove in 5A to win the program’s third PIAA title (1988, 2021) and become the...
Trib HSSN Baseball Team of the Week for the week ending June 19, 2022

Perhaps the Montour baseball team should celebrate the programs first PIAA championship at Kennywood Park, because it was an emotional roller coaster of a season for the Spartans. The team won 15 straight after an opening loss, then dropped four straight at the end of the regular season. In the...
7th-inning rally lifts Montour baseball to 1st state championship

UNIVERSITY PARK — This was a scene Montour senior Ryan Gallagher and his teammates had thought about for years, one where they’re together at Penn State celebrating a state baseball championship on the infield grass. But no one could’ve imagined how they got there. With Gallagher on the mound, Montour...
2022 PIAA Class 4A baseball championship preview: Montour vs. Holy Ghost Prep

PIAA Class 4A baseball championship Montour (20-6) vs. Holy Ghost Prep (18-5) 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Medlar Field, Lubrano Park at Penn State Path to Penn State Montour – The WPIAL runners-up defeated District 6 champion Bellefonte in the first round, 13-9, rolled past District 3 champion East Pennsboro, 12-3,...
Montour gets past West Mifflin to avenge WPIAL championship game loss

Montour and West Mifflin didn’t need 12 innings this time to decide a baseball playoff game between the two schools. Montour scored two runs in the top of the first inning Monday, and that was enough for senior Dylan Mathiesen as the Spartans defeated the Titans, 2-1, in a PIAA...
PIAA releases sites, times for baseball semifinals

Five WPIAL teams remain at the midway point of the PIAA baseball postseason. District 7 is guaranteed to have two teams playing for a state championship at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park next week. WPIAL teams are set to meet in Class 4A and 2A state semifinals games. The PIAA...
Sites announced for PIAA baseball quarterfinals

It was a rough start to the PIAA baseball postseason for several WPIAL champions. However, thanks to success from some of the other district teams, it turned out to be more of a split decision. Now, nine teams are moving on to the second round on the Path to Penn...
WPIAL baseball teams set to begin PIAA playoffs

With Mt. Lebanon, West Allegheny, West Mifflin, South Park, Serra Catholic and Union celebrating WPIAL baseball titles earned last week, those schools and 13 other district baseball teams open the 2022 PIAA baseball postseason Monday. The state playoffs are made up of four rounds, with the championships to be played...
West Mifflin gets past Montour in 12 innings in Class 4A WPIAL title marathon

West Mifflin did some unconventional things during the WPIAL Class 4A baseball championship game Tuesday at Wild Things Park in Washington. West Mifflin, at times, had four outfielders and three infielders. It over-shifted and played Montour to pull the ball. It had batters switching to the other batter’s box after...
Katie Armstrong leads Burrell into PIAA softball playoffs for 1st time in 11 years

For the first time in 11 years, the Burrell softball team will be a part of the PIAA playoffs. The Bucs scored three times in the first inning of Tuesday’s WPIAL Class 4A third-place game against Montour at Mars. The lead held up behind the pitching of junior Katie Armstrong...
2022 WPIAL Class 4A baseball championship preview: Montour vs. West Mifflin

WPIAL Class 4A baseball championship 1-Montour (17-5) vs. 2-West Mifflin (17-3) 4:30 p.m. Tuesday at Wild Things Park, Washington On the air: Trib HSSN (video) Road to the finals Montour – The Section 2 champion Spartans received a first-round bye, defeated No. 9 Quaker Valley, 11-2, in the quarterfinals and...
Trib HSSN Baseball Player of the Week: May 29, 2022

After a season opening loss to Archbishop Stepinac of New York, the Montour baseball team ripped off 15 consecutive wins to run away with the Section 2-4A title and firmly place itself as the team to beat in Class 4A. Then, in a span of seven days, the Spartans lost...
Montour climbs back from brink to defeat OLSH in WPIAL Class 2A volleyball finals

Montour boys volleyball coach Colin Vitale was smiling before, during and after the WPIAL Class 2A championship match Thursday night at Robert Morris’ UPMC Events Center. Vitale, appearing relaxed even when his team was on the brink of defeat in the fourth game, was a ball of joy afterwards with...