WPIAL 5-A and 6-A Classifications Sports News
On Easter Sunday, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette released the 43rd edition of the Fab 5. The Big 56 got four of the five players on the girls side! Congrats to South Fayette’s Maddie Webber, North Allegheny’s Jasmine Timmerson, Oakland Catholic’s Alexa Washington and Upper St. Clair’s Riley Kalocay on making the girls Fab 5! By Mike… More »
The Post-Gazette released its All-WPIAL teams and Players of the Year for each classification. Below are the 5A and 6A All-WPIAL teams and players of the year! For a complete boys article, click here. For a complete girls article, click here. BOYS BASKETBALL WPIAL 6A Jonathan Anderson – New Castle – 18.1 ppg Adam Bilinsky… More »
SOFTBALL 6A SECTION 1 Mt. Lebanon 8, Baldwin 4 Kate Borza and Olivia Buckiso each homered and had two RBIs as Mt. Lebanon (1-3, 1-2) got into the win column with a 8-4 win over Baldwin (0-7, 0-4) on Wednesday. Gabby Jaquay hit a home run for Baldwin. Hempfield 9, Butler 1 Emily Griffith homered… More »
Photo Credit: ThompsonFoto12 (Twitter) GIRLS BASKETBALL Terrific 10 Maddie Webber – South Fayette – TribLive HSSN Girls Basketball Player of the Year Alexa Washington – Oakland Catholic Jasmine Timmerson – North Allegheny Rachael Manfredo – McKeesport Rylee Kalocay – Upper St. Clair For complete Terrific 10 article, click here. For Maddie Webber Player of the… More »
Rosters for the Roundball Classic senior all-star basketball games were revealed over the weekend. The Big 56 is very well represented in it! All games are at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, PA. Schedule: Thursday, May 18 – Girls – East vs. West – 6:30 pm Boys – East vs. West… More »
Photo Credit: @Shaler_Baseball (Twitter) BASEBALL 6A SECTION 1 Butler 5, Pine-Richland 4 – 9 innings Liam McElroy hit a walk-off sac fly in the bottom of the ninth inning to give Butler (3-3, 1-1) the 5-4 win over Pine-Richland (6-2, 1-1) on Tuesday afternoon. Seneca Valley 14, Allderdice 0 Owen Yarussi had a great outing… More »
SOFTBALL 6A SECTION 1 Hempfield 2, Canon-McMillan 0 Riley Miller tossed a complete game shutout in the circle, striking out 12 and had two RBIs as Hempfield (5-1, 2-1) won a pitcher’s duel 2-0 on Monday afternoon. Butler 9, Mt. Lebanon 1 Kelsy Ogin struck out 10 in a complete game victory as Butler (1-3,… More »
BASEBALL 6A SECTION 1 Seneca Valley 9, Allderdice 3 Nick Parrotto homered and drove in three runs as Seneca Valley (5-0, 1-0) remained undefeated with a 9-3 section win over Allderdice (1-1, 0-1). Evan Tomasic had two hits for Seneca Valley. Pine-Richland 12, Butler 2 Avery Brown hit a home run for Pine-Richland (6-1, 1-0)… More »
Photo Credit: Will McBride (Twitter) The Post-Gazette named South Fayette head girls basketball coach Bryan Bennett the Post-Gazette 2023 Girls Basketball Coach of the Year! by Mike White When Bryan Bennett applied for the head coach’s job of South Fayette girls basketball team in 2018, he wasn’t optimistic about his chances. For the rest of… More »
Photo Credit: Will McBride (Twitter) GIRLS BASKETBALL TribLive HSSN 6A Player of the Year: Rylee Kalocay, Upper St. Clair Kalocay, only a sophomore, averaged around 20 points per game this season. She led Upper St. Clair to a Section 2-6A title and got them to the WPIAL Championship game where they fell to North Allegheny…. More »