WPIAL 5-A and 6-A Classifications Sports News
Penn State Behrend senior AJ Nichols was named the AMCC Softball Player of the Week. The Shaler graduate finished the week with a .379 batting average and eight RBIs. She had 11 hits including five doubles and one triple. Nichols had an on-base percentage of .438 for the week, as well as a .621 slugging percentage. Against… More »
The Big 56 Conference is proud to introduce OES Scoreboards (www.oes-scoreboards.com) as our new sponsor. OES has a long history of partnering with schools across North America to help athletic programs bring new levels of excitement and fan engagement to their events. With solutions in pro venues like Lincoln Financial Field (Philadelphia Eagles), Wells Fargo… More »
Looking ahead to the 2018-19 school year, the Big 56 Conference have set their dates on the first-team all-section banquets, that will again be held at the DoubleTree – Monroeville Convention Center. All banquets will begin at 11 a.m. Below is a list of days that each sport banquet will be held. Boys/Girls Soccer and… More »
Congratulations to all the student-athletes, coaches, and athletic departments on a successful year! Below is a review of all the teams that won WPIAL and PIAA championships this past year.
Sophomore Ashley Orischak belted a two-run home run in the bottom of the sixth inning in Tuesday’s Class 6A PIAA Semifinal Game against Nazareth at Norlo Park in Fayetteville and that was all the scoring the Hempfield softball team needed to punch a return ticket to the State Championship Game. The 2-0 win means that the… More »
All season long, the West Allegheny softball team proved they were the team to beat in Class 5A in the WPIAL. And now they have earned the right to represent the WPIAL in the PIAA Championship Game on Thursday at 4 p.m. at Penn State University. The Indians earned the trip to their first state… More »
For the first five innings of its PIAA Quarterfinal Game against Interboro at Carlisle High School, Thomas Jefferson couldn’t muster any runs. The final two innings were a completely different team. The Jaguars scored one in the sixth and three in the seventh to come away with a 4-1 win and set up a rematch… More »
The Two-time defending Class 5A WPIAL Champions West Allegheny continue to steamroll through its opponents in the state playoffs. Albert Gallatin became its latest victim, a 10-3 decision, at Peterswood Park. Seniors Taylor Goldstrohm and Taylor Cummings led the offense surge at the top of the lineup for the Indians. Goldstrohm collected three hits and three RBIs…. More »
With the game tied 1-1 and on a 1-1 count, senior Megan Monzo belted a game-winning home run in the top of the eighth inning to lift WPIAL Class 6A champion Hempfield to a 2-1 win against Baldwin at Latrobe on Thursday. The home run was the first of the season for the senior and sixth… More »
The West Allegheny softball team were use to shortened games this season due to the run-rule. There was no run rule in Thursday’s Class 5A WPIAL Championship Game, but the Indians still came out victorious with a 4-2 decision against Thomas Jefferson at Seton Hill University. Thomas Jefferson jumped out to an early 1-0 lead… More »