Seneca Valley

North Allegheny again finishes atop Class 6A Trib Cup standings

North Allegheny winning the Trib HSSN Cup comes as no surprise. The fact that it was closer than usual made things interesting in the 6A chase. A strong athletic season at Mt. Lebanon kept it close, but in the end, NA still won comfortably to keep intact its two-decade streak...
2022 Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star Team: Seneca Valley’s Luke Lawson

Editor’s note: The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized July 15 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. When Luke Lawson was a freshman, his older brother Gabe led Seneca...
2022 TribLive HSSN Softball All-Stars

In WPIAL softball, there’s no requirement for underclassmen to wait their turn. Just take a look at this year’s champions. Many of them relied on freshmen and sophomores in key roles on their journey to the WPIAL or state finals. Among them, Neshannock freshman pitcher Addy Frye led the Lancers...
2022 Trib HSSN Head of the Class: Softball Player and Coach of the Year for each classification

This spring, those sitting at head of the softball class had a clear view of so many individual and team standout performances. A perfect season, two schools winning both district and state gold, two schools winning their first WPIAL championships and one school closing the book on a historic title...
Spring-Ford quiets Seneca Valley bats in PIAA Class 6A title game

UNIVERSITY PARK — Jules Scogna said she was having some back issues coming into Friday’s Class 6A state softball final at Penn State. The Spring-Ford senior pitcher showed no ill effects in the circle, and she seemed just fine lifting the trophy. Scogna, a Boston University commit, tossed a two-hit...
2022 PIAA Class 6A softball championship preview: Seneca Valley vs. Spring-Ford

PIAA Class 6A softball championship Spring-Ford (23-2) vs. Seneca Valley (16-6) 4 p.m. Friday at Beard Field, Penn State Road to the finals Spring-Ford – After losing to eventual champ North Penn in the semifinals and Haverford in the third-place game in the District 1 tournament, Spring-Ford came alive in...
Trib HSSN Softball Team of the Week: Week ending June 12, 2022

On April 27, the Seneca Valley softball team lost a third straight game, dropping its record to 5-6. Since then, the high-flying Raiders have been unstoppable. Seneca Valley has won 10 straight games, including a WPIAL championship and a pair of PIAA postseason victories. So what changed? “This is my...
7 WPIAL teams set for PIAA softball semifinals

After a strong start in the opening round of the PIAA softball postseason, the wins kept coming for WPIAL teams in the quarterfinals. Seven teams from District 7 have reached the state softball final four. Outside of Class A, every classification has a WPIAL softball team into the semifinals, including...
12 WPIAL softball teams advance to PIAA quarterfinals

While opening day of the PIAA baseball playoffs was a mixed bag for district teams, the WPIAL softball qualifiers got a chance to strut their stuff in the first round. The WPIAL was a strong 12-7 in opening round games Monday, with all six new district champions winning and moving...
19 WPIAL teams prepare for PIAA softball playoffs

The 2022 PIAA softball playoffs start Monday with 19 WPIAL teams searching for state gold, including recently crowned district winners Seneca Valley, Armstrong, Beaver, Avonworth, Neshannock and Union on the hunt for more treasures. The state playoffs are made up of four rounds with the championships to be played at...
Seneca Valley blasts past North Allegheny to win 1st WPIAL softball title since ’99

Seneca Valley started partying like it was 1999 — and 1992, for that matter. The fourth-seeded Raiders upended No. 7 North Allegheny, 9-5, to win their first WPIAL softball championship since ‘99, and third overall, on Wednesday at Lilley Field at Cal (Pa.). Freshman Lexie Hames and senior first baseman...
2022 WPIAL Class 6A softball championship preview: Seneca Valley vs. North Allegheny

WPIAL Class 6A softball championship 4-Seneca Valley (12-6) vs. 7-North Allegheny (13-9) 2:15 p.m. Wednesday at Lilley Field, Cal (Pa.) On the air: Trib HSSN (Video) Road to the finals Seneca Valley — Sitting with a 6-6 overall record at the end of April, the Raiders hit the gas pedal...
In classic battle of evenly matched rivals, North Allegheny tops Seneca Valley to win 5th straight volleyball crown

At first glance, moments after North Allegheny outlasted Seneca Valley in their marathon WPIAL Class 3A boys volleyball championship match Wednesday night at Robert Morris’ UPMC Events Center for its fifth consecutive title, nobody flinched. If ever there was a competition where essentially nobody was a loser, this was it....
‘Underdog’ Seneca Valley rolls past Hempfield into Class 6A WPIAL finals

As Hempfield was making lineup changes late in the game, Seneca Valley players passed the time with a quick round of Rock-Paper-Scissors. The game went around the horn. Other players danced to music in between innings. It’s all fun and games these days for the Raiders, and they wouldn’t have...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for May 25, 2022: Boys volleyball, lacrosse titles up for grabs

The district gold starts to flow Wednesday with two WPIAL boys volleyball and three district lacrosse title matches. In boys volleyball, could there be a changing of the guard in Class 3A? North Allegheny has completely dominated the 3A landscape with 21 WPIAL boys volleyball championships, four straight crowns and...
No. 1 Mt. Lebanon breaks ‘curse’ with quarterfinal win over Seneca Valley

A seventh-inning curveball glanced off Mt. Lebanon catcher Paul Connolly’s mitt and rolled away, causing a moment of panic since there was a runner on third and a one-run lead. Coach Patt McCloskey immediately wondered if West Mifflin’s baseball field was cursed, at least for his Blue Devils, who were...