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Byline: Michael Howes On a Friday afternoon this month, five wrestling mats covered the gym floor at Northeast High in Pasadena, Maryland, the setting for a day-long tournament called 'Who's [...]

Byline: Don Rebel Dec. 1Here are the latest 2024-25 Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League standings through Sunday. The point system in the PIHL this year gives three points for a regulation [...]

Byline: Don Rebel Nov. 28Realignment really did a job on the district's smallest classification in boys basketball. This class isn't just small, it's minuscule. Two-time defending district and state champion [...]

Byline: Don Rebel Oct. 27Here are the latest 2024-25 Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League standings through Sunday. The new point system in the PIHL this year gives three points for a [...]

Byline: Chris Harlan Oct. 19Carlynton football hasn't had many chances to celebrate in recent years, a harsh reality that coach John Tortorea doesn't hide from his players. In fact, the [...]

Byline: Don Rebel Oct. 15The elite teams across the state in high school football continued to flex their muscles for a second straight week, flirting with perfection. The teams from [...]

Byline: Chris Harlan Sep. 21There could be a lot of football talk in the South Hills this fall, maybe while eating sandwiches stuffed with French fries and coleslaw. 'The Primanti's [...]

Byline: Don Rebel Sep. 4A band of storms that hit parts of the district last Friday resurfaced the term 'no contest' on the tongues of many in Week 1 of [...]

Byline: Giustino Racchini Aug. 8Fresh of a trip to the NCAA Division II quarterfinals last season, Slippery Rock was tabbed the preseason favorite in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference West [...]

The elite Baccalaureate high school, housed in a former pocketbook factory in Queens, is known for its college-level courses. And now its undefeated softball team. Housed in a former pocketbook [...]

Byline: Don Rebel May 24The top softball teams across the state are taking care of business in the district playoffs with the win-and-advance mentality with just over a week left [...]

Byline: Don Rebel Apr. 24April began with two weeks of wet, cold and snowy conditions that kept a lot of WPIAL baseball and softball teams indoors. However, you blink in [...]

Byline: Don Rebel Apr. 16Despite the wet weather last week, there were enough games played for some shuffling in the latest edition of the Trib HSSN state baseball rankings. Five [...]

Byline: Don Rebel Nov. 8This week, we hit the midway point of the WPIAL football playoffs. For Class 6A and 5A, it's the middle week of a three-week battle for [...]

Byline: Don Rebel Jun. 19There were a lot of silver linings at the end of the district baseball and softball season. Seven WPIAL teams reached the PIAA finals at Penn [...]

Jun. 17High schools Baseball PIAA championships Class 6A Championship Saturday's schedule Father Judge (17-1) vs. Mt. Lebanon (16-10) at Penn State, 4:30 p.m. Class 4A Championship Saturday's schedule Bellefonte (19-5) [...]

Jun. 15High schools Baseball PIAA championships Class 6A Championship Friday's schedule Father Judge (17-1) vs. Mt. Lebanon (16-10) at Penn State, 4:30 p.m. Class 5A Championship Thursday's schedule Strath Haven [...]

May 22High schools WPIAL Baseball WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Quarterfinals Monday's results Pine-Richland 14, Hempfield 12 Mt. Lebanon 2, Seneca Valley 1 North Allegheny 3, Norwin 0 Butler 3, Canon-McMillan [...]

Byline: Don Rebel May 3Sometimes, building the Trib 10 rankings puzzle is like pulling teeth, while other times, the pieces all fall into place. Both were the case this week, [...]

Byline: Don Rebel Jan. 11Three new teams have been added to the elite 30 girls basketball teams across the state otherwise known as the weekly Trib HSSN state rankings. Wyomissing [...]

Byline: Don Rebel Jan. 11There was very little movement in the second edition of the Trib HSSN boys basketball state rankings for the 2023 season. Two classifications are the exact [...]

Jan. 7High schools WPIAL Basketball Boys Friday's schedule Class 6A Section 1 New Castle 71, Butler 60 North Allegheny 57, Pine-Richland 40 Seneca Valley 63, Central Catholic 54 Section 2 [...]

Jan. 5High schools WPIAL Basketball Boys Wednesday's results Class 3A Section 3 Ligonier Valley at Apollo-Ridge, ppd. Class A Section 2 West Greene 58, California 54 Section 3 Imani Christian [...]

Byline: Don Rebel Jan. 5Last year proved that when it comes to high school basketball, it's not the size of the school but how much gold it won that matters. [...]

Byline: Chris Harlan Nov. 23There's a new No. 1 team in Class 2A. Previously undefeated Lakeland of District 2 saw its state title hopes end Friday with a 42-15 loss [...]

Byline: Don Rebel Nov. 7Here are the latest PIHL high school hockey standings through Nov. 6. Class 3A Team Wins Losses Overtime/Shootout Loss = Total Points North Allegheny, 5-1-0 = [...]

Byline: Don Rebel Oct. 17While the high school football regular season winds down to its final two weeks, bracketology is in the air when it comes to WPIAL boys and [...]

Byline: Don Rebel Sep. 21As tidal waves of surprises crashed down on the heads of WPIAL top-ranked teams in Week 2, the rest of the elite teams in the state [...]

Byline: Don Rebel Sep. 15Week 3 and the start of conference play. It's like opening up that first Christmas catalog as a kid and going to town on the wish [...]

Byline: Don Rebel Sep. 15For the first time this high school football season, a weekend of district gridiron action kicks off on Thursday. It will be a busy two days [...]

Byline: Don Rebel May 2Here are the latest WPIAL girls lacrosse standings and playoff clinching's for the 2022 regular season through May 1. The top six teams in each section [...]

Byline: Don Rebel May 2WPIAL defending 2A baseball champion Shenango entered last week looking up in the standings at Riverside, Laurel and Neshannock and fighting for a playoff spot, only [...]

Byline: Don Rebel May 2We welcome with open arms the month of May, warmer weather and the stretch run of the 2022 scholastic spring sports season this week on the [...]

Byline: Don Rebel May 2Welcome to May, where the regular season continues to wind down, and the postseason is two weeks away. Most WPIAL baseball teams will close out their [...]

Byline: Don Rebel Apr. 22Following a wet week and assuming the fields are playable, it will be a busy Friday on the diamonds in both WPIAL softball and baseball. One [...]

Byline: Don Rebel Feb. 1When last week began, the Freeport boys basketball team was in fourth place in Section 1-4A. The Yellowjackets were looking up at North Catholic, Burrell and [...]

Byline: Chris Harlan Jan. 22North Allegheny athletic director Bob Bozzuto has a forward-thinking mindset when it comes to football conference realignment. The ink barely has dried on WPIAL plans for [...]

Byline: Chris Harlan Dec. 21The WPIAL's largest football classification just keeps getting smaller. WPIAL Class 6A had eight teams this fall, but that number is likely shrinking to five before [...]

Byline: Don Rebel Nov. 29Here are the latest PIHL high school hockey standings through Sunday: Team, Wins Losses Overtime/Shootout Loss = Total Points Class 3A North Allegheny, 8-1-0 = 16 [...]

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- The athletic program at the California School for the Deaf, Riverside, has suffered its share of humiliations and harassment over the years. There was the time that [...]

Byline: Chris Harlan Nov. 13Hampton's offense was the one posting incredible rushing totals all season, but Thomas Jefferson still knows a little about running the football, too. The Jaguars proved [...]

Byline: Chris Harlan Oct. 30For the second year in a row, football coaches won't crowd into a Green Tree ballroom to see the WPIAL playoff brackets announced. Instead, the brackets [...]

Byline: Bill Hartlep Oct. 21Here are four WPIAL high school football players to watch in Week 8: Bobbie Boyd Jr. McKeesport, Jr., RB Boyd (5-9, 163) ran for 173 yards [...]

Byline: Don Rebel Oct. 6The calendar turning from September to October wasn't the only big change last week. Several teams found out that it's not always easy being No. 1. [...]

GRAND ISLE, La. -- Ida was not yet a hurricane when high school coaches across southern Louisiana began preparing for what had become all too familiar, even inevitable. Coach Denny [...]

With college athletes now allowed to profit from their name, image and likeness, high school athletes are also looking to cash in. Quarterback Quinn Ewers of Southlake, Texas, was expected [...]

Byline: Chris Harlan Jul. 23As Josh Jenkins walked into Kennywood Park, passing the merry-go-round and the Sky Rocket, the Sto-Rox quarterback marveled at just how much life has improved in [...]

Byline: Don Rebel Jun. 22New Castle finished the regular season 10-9 overall with its longest winning streak being two victories in a row, twice. One wild and crazy month later [...]