For five innings Thursday, Thomas Jefferson looked poised to return to the WPIAL Class 5A championship game behind another strong pitching performance from Aubrey Shaffer and a timely offensive breakt...

BeeGraphix entered the Steel City Summer Basketball League as the defending champion, and Coach Larry Cash’s team still looks like the one to beat in 2026. The champs used their size and hit big shots...

Brayden Kollar’s RBI single in the bottom of the sixth was the deciding run in EF’s semifinal win. Elizabeth Forward erased a tworun deficit with a clutch fifth inning and then leaned on timely defens...

Greensburg Central Catholic’s baseball playoff game was given a noon start Wednesday to accommodate the school’s graduation later in the day. Several Centurions will try to add championship rings to t...

For the second time in three seasons, the Elizabeth Forward and Hampton softball teams will face off in a big WPIAL Class 4A softball game. This time, the Warriors and Talbots are vying for a spot in ...

When it comes to high school softball this late in the postseason, a team needs a dependable X-factor. Bentworth doesn’t have to look too far to find its X-factor, as junior hurler Sydney Gonglik can ...

Four reigning WPIAL champions will be changing classifications as the WPIAL announced its section alignments for the next two school years Tuesday. Sewickley Academy, the Class 2A champ that ignited t...

Senior pitcher Julia Varhola isn’t a regular in the Hempfield batting order, but she is always ready to dig in and hit. “We’ll see her hitting in practice, and she’ll drive one and give me that look, ...

Whether they were in the batter’s box or in the field, North Hills looked almost unstoppable Tuesday afternoon. The 11th-seeded Indians put together a complete performance, grabbing an early lead and ...

After Charleroi took the lead in the top of the 7th, the Antelopes scored twice in their final at-bat. A four-pitch walk with the bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh inning sent Avonworth to the...

Tim Vickers is retiring as a teacher in the Steel Valley School District, and he and his wife have already purchased a home in Florida where they will move this summer. His high school coaching career...

Aubrey Shaffer continued her dominant postseason run Tuesday, firing her second straight three-hit shutout and striking out 12 as No. 2 Thomas Jefferson rolled past No. 10 Plum, 8-0, in the WPIAL Clas...

Elizabeth Forward scored seven runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to move on to the semifinals. After Derry hit its second home run of the game in the top of the sixth inning to reclaim the lead a...

The Steel City Summer Basketball League started the 2026 season with a pair of the league’s new coaches in action. Serra Catholic head coach Mike Voit picked up his first win as his Cedarbrook team pi...

For the third time this season, Elizabeth Forward and West Mifflin found themselves in a tightly-contested battle Monday afternoon at Norwin. With EF’s JB Crovak and WMs Jackson Fite dialed in, both s...

The Steel City Summer Basketball League is bringing together one of its deepest and most diverse fields yet this summer, with 69 players from 27 different school districts set to compete across six te...

Serra Catholic continued its late-season surge Monday, rolling past Aquinas Academy 13-3 in five innings in the WPIAL Class 1A quarterfinals for its fifth straight victory. The Eagles (13-6) erupted f...

Last week, Charleroi snapped a playoff drought that stretched more than three decades with a 4-2 victory over Mt. Pleasant in the opening round of the WPIAL Class 3A playoffs. Now, the Cougars will tr...

Fort Cherry had two 5-run innings in its 11-7 quarterfinal win over section rival California. Even though California had been outscored 21-7 by Section 1-2A rival Fort Cherry during the regular , the ...

The Class 1A teams took similar paths to reach the WPIAL quarterfinals. Two of Class 1A’s hottest softball teams will meet tonight when Serra Catholic and Jefferson-Morgan square off in the WPIAL quar...