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by: Don Rebel

SECTION SERIES CONTINUE WITH CRITICAL MATCHUPS

The mercury throughout the district has risen to the point where the last thing on anybody’s mind is a snowball.

However, the North Allegheny baseball team might be feeling like it is caught in a snowball rolling down following a heartbreaking loss to Section 1-6A rival Seneca Valley.

The loss was the Tigers’ third straight and has dropped their overall record to 8-5 and their lead over the Raiders in the section to only one game.

After Wednesday evening, that lead will either be back to two games and the losing skid will be history for NA, or their old on first place will be gone and the snowball will be rolling faster.

North Allegheny (6-1) had a 1-0 lead over Seneca Valley (5-2) in the bottom of the sixth inning Tuesday when an error led to four unearned runs and the Tigers lost, 4-1.

Now NA will host the Raiders in the second game at 7 p.m. in a contest heard here on Trib HSSN.

The third and final game of the section series will be back at Seneca Valley at 4 p.m. tomorrow.

The other three Class 6A baseball section series will also continue with the middle game on Wednesday.

In Section 1, Butler (4-3) will try to make it two straight when it hosts Central Catholic (2-8).

In Section 2-6A, first-place Canon-McMillan (7-3) heads east to battle Hempfield (3-4) as the Big Macs try to make it two in a row against the Spartans following a convincing win Tuesday, 9-1.

Woodland Hills (0-6) heads south to face Mt. Lebanon (4-3) at 4:15 p.m.

MIDWEEK CLEAN UP

A key WPIAL baseball section series between teams ranked in the Trib HSSN Top 5 will conclude Wednesday.

One top-ranked team will have a broom in hand while another tries to avoid being swept.

In Class 5A, No. 1 Pine-Richland held serve at home Tuesday by rolling past No. 2 Shaler, 9-1.