WPIAL 5-A and 6-A Classifications Sports News
Jimmy Malone continued his strong start to the 2018 season, tossing eight shutout innings in a 5-0 victory over Castleton Saturday afternoon for Saint Vincent College. The sophomore southpaw recorded six strikeouts and issued just one walk in the victory. Malone scattered four hits and limited the Spartans to a .179 batting average. The Connellsville graduate… More »
Christian Aldrich hit .538 (7 for 13) in a pair of non-conference doubleheader splits for Thiel College last week. He totaled four doubles and a pair of home runs while driving in eight runs and scoring five. He finished the week with a .563 on-base percentage. In Sunday’s split at No. 18 Baldwin Wallace University, Aldrich… More »
Bryce Schnatterly went 2-0 with a 2.57 ERA in his two starts last week. The senior righty totaled 14.0 innings and allowed four runs on 12 hits with three walks and a 1.07 WHIP. His week was highlighted by a complete game win against Oberlin College in Saturday’s 5-1 victory. It was Schnatterly’s third career complete… More »
Brandon Rossier hit .516 (16 of 31) during Westminster’s nine-game schedule at the RussMatt Invitational last week. He finished with four doubles, a triple, 13 RBI and six runs scored. He also swiped three bags while posting a .556 on-base percentage. Rossier’s two-out, three-run double in the bottom of the eighth inning lifted the Titans to… More »
CHICAGO (May 30, 2017) — In its 32nd year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company, today announced Zach Kokoska of Greater Latrobe Senior High School as its 2016-17 Gatorade Pennsylvania Baseball Player of the Year. Kokoska is the first Gatorade Pennsylvania Baseball Player of the Year to be chosen from… More »
The Big 56 Conference is proud to announce that the Washington Wild Things have signed on as the official sponsor of the Big 56 and the conference’s Spring Sports All-Section Banquet on Thursday, May 25. The Wild Things are a minor league baseball team in Washington, PA. The Wild Things are celebrating their 15th season… More »
2017 Baseball All-Section Photo Gallery ********** Class 6A Second Team & Honorable Mention Class 5A Second Team & Honorable Mention
Welcome to www.pabig56.com, a new website featuring the schools, teams, and athletes of Class 6-A and 5-A in the WPIAL. For fans familiar with the former Quad-A sports website, you can now visit www.pabig56.com for all the scores, schedules, team pages and championship recaps of the Big 56 Athletic Conferences. Along with coverage of 6-A… More »
For only the second time this season, the Plum Mustangs suffered defeat. Unfortunately for Plum, both heart-breaking losses came with a title at stake as the most recent of those defeats occurred on Thursday afternoon to Boyertown in the PIAA Class AAAA championship game at Penn State’s Medlar Field. Boyertown’s 4-1 win prevented the Mustangs… More »
On Wednesday night at CONSOL Energy Park in Washington, Norwin did something no one else had done all season, beat the Plum Mustangs. The Knights knocked off the previously unbeaten Mustangs, 7-3, to win their first WPIAL title since 1960. The 14th-seeded Knights used a five-run first inning to stun the top-seeded Mustangs. Jonathan Pingree… More »