Despite missing some key contributors due to the PONY League playoffs, Belle Vernon’s Junior Legion team put up a valiant effort in a 13-9 loss to a strong Trafford Post 331 squad on Thursday. Belle V...

Through four games of the Steel City Summer Girls Basketball League, Marie Slagus Howard Hanna Simon stands alone as the only unbeaten squad. Their fourth victory of the season was not an easy one Wed...

The Centurions basketball team will be in Class 3A due to the PIAA’s competitive balance rule. The WPIAL must amend its girls basketball section alignment for next season to move Greensburg Central Ca...

Howard Hanna matched its win total from last season in the opening week of the summer. AMD Industries and Slagus Howard Hanna went head-to-head during the second night of Steel City Summer Basketball ...

The PIAA is taking its legal battle with Aliquippa to Commonwealth Court, hoping to undo a Beaver County judge’s ruling that says the Quips can play football in Class 4A next season. Common Pleas Judg...

When her playing career ended, Jenna Lusby often played pickup to satisfy her basketball needs. That is what hoop junkies and gym rats do. (Lusby is fine with those labels because they suit her.) One ...

Local schools will have new alignments and opponents over the next two years. The WPIAL officially released its new winter sports classifications for the 2024-25 and 2025-26 seasons Tuesday, shuffling...

Makayla Canty sank a pair of 3-pointers in overtime as the defending champions overcame a 14-point halftime deficit. AMD Industries has long been the team to beat in the Steel City Summer Basketball L...

“Uncharacteristic” EF held to just five hits in a 4-0 loss to District 11 champion Eagles in state title game. After an impressive season that was highlighted by a WPIAL championship and a strong appe...

Taylor Karpac’s walk-off single in the bottom of the 8th gave TJ a 2-1 win in the Class 5A title game. The Thomas Jefferson softball team has been through a lot over the past 13 months. Days after end...

EF will face Blue Mountain for the Class 4A state championship today at 1:30 p.m. The Elizabeth Forward softball team is past the point they reached last season, and now it’s time for this group of Wa...

Thomas Jefferson’s softball team has spent the entire postseason defying the odds, and they’re now just one game away from claiming a state championship today. After earning the No. 10 seed in the WPI...

Head coach Harry Rutherford made mental conditioning and classroom work a priority this season. Elizabeth Forward softball’s Shelby Telegdy admits last season’s WPIAL semifinal against rival Belle Ver...

Yough on Tuesday night promoted junior varsity coach Will “Boo” Sherbondy to head varsity boys basketball coach. Sherbondy, a Yough alum, was a longtime assistant to Jim Nesser, who resigned after six...

Shelby Telegdy continued her dominance in the circle as she struck out 9 in EF’s semifinal win. Elizabeth Forward has dominated its opposition throughout the season, and Archbishop Wood became the lat...

By Trib Total Media Thomas Jefferson will play for the Class 5A softball state championship after rallying from a 6-0 deficit to stun Central Mountain. Morgan Aliesky hit the go-ahead two-run single i...

The longtime Mon Valley high school basketball coach died Saturday at 78. The dean of all Mon Valley coaches is gone. Phil Pergola, whose basketball coaching career spanned more than 50 years and six ...

SA head coach received some words of encouragement from Serra Catholic coach Brian Dzurenda. South Allegheny coach Gib Pohodich wanted another shot at Riverside in the state tournament after losing to...

With a spot in the final four on the line, EF will spar with the Colts at 2 p.m. at Gateway. For the third time in three seasons, Elizabeth Forward will face off against Chartiers Valley in a softball...

Nothing like some déjà vu in the PIAA softball postseason. Bentworth will continue their historic 2024 season today in the Class 2A state quarterfinals against a familiar foe, Laurel. The Bearcats def...