WPIAL 5-A and 6-A Classifications Sports News
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 »
Plum senior Alex Kirilloff has been named a Louisville Slugger Pre-Season All-American for the 2016 season. The staff of Collegiate Baseball America selects the Pre-Season All-American team and Kirilloff is the only player from Pennsylvania on the list. The 6-foot-2, 195 pounder was the WPIAL Class AAAA Player of the Year last season and hit… More »
By Mike Azadian For the first time in school history the Pittsburgh Central Catholic Vikings won a WPIAL baseball championship by defeating the Norwin Knights by a score of 2-0. The only other time the Vikings had been to the championship was 1979. It took 36 years to add a baseball trophy to the storied… More »
Quad AAAA Sports is proud to announce a strategic partnership with Dynamite Sports. Company president, Rick Wire, stated “I am honored and blessed to be an integral part of Quad AAAA Sports and am looking forward to helping to grow the organization that is committed to helping student-athletes, parents, coaches and administrators throughout western PA”. … More »
All-Section Baseball Photo Gallery Second Team All-Section Honorable Mention All-Section
by Matt Shetler A No. 16 seed beating a No. 1 seed is one of the rarest things in sports, so rare that it has never happened in the NCAA Tournament. Don’t tell the kids from Seneca Valley that though as they not only took down No. 1 seed Hempfield, but Shaler, Pine-Richland and eventually… More »
Quad-A Baseball All-Section Photo Gallery Second Team and Honorable Mentions
The last time North Allegheny played the Seneca Valley Raiders, the Tigers earned a thrilling 10 inning win in the quarterfinal round of the PIAA playoffs. In their first meeting of 2014, these section foes needed extra frames again to determine a winner and once more North Allegheny came out on top with a 6-1… More »
There’s a saying that chicks dig the long. Early in the spring of 2014, the chicks are hitting the long ball. Softballs have been flying over fences with great frequency in the first few weeks of the season and there have been some impressive team and individual performances. In our preview article, Quad A Sports… More »