Softball
2025 WPIAL bracketology: Don Rebel, Chris Harlan forecast the softball playoff pairings
May 8, 2025
The 2025 WPIAL softball playoff field is set with 76 teams, including all six teams that won district gold a year ago.
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on May 8, 2025: Watch Softball Playoff Pairings Show on Trib HSSN
Welcome to Bracketology Thursday.
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania high school softball rankings for May 8, 2025
Three teams in the smaller classifications lost their spot in the weekly Trib HSSN state softball rankings from a week ago as the top teams get sharp in preparing for the upcoming district playoffs.
High school roundup for May 7, 2025: Pine-Richland snags share of section title
Jon Edgerly and Logan Plummer each singled and doubled as Pine-Richland pounded out 12 hits in a 12-2 Section 3-5A baseball victory over New Castle on Wednesday.
WPIAL clinched: Softball playoff field finalized with 76 teams
May 7, 2025
The 2025 WPIAL softball playoff field is set with 76 teams punching their tickets for the upcoming district playoffs.
Hempfield softball blanks top-ranked Seneca Valley, earns split of season series
Hempfield has produced an impressive list of softball pitchers, a fact that doesn’t elude current Spartans ace Riley Miller.
Trib 10: Teams make moves ahead of WPIAL baseball, softball playoffs
Once again, the elite teams in district softball stacked the wins leading to little change in the final regular season Trib 10 rankings.
Westmoreland County high school softball notebook: More than a dozen teams headed to playoffs
The WPIAL will announce seedings and pairings for the softball playoffs Thursday afternoon.
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on May 7, 2025: Playoff spots coming down to the wire in Section 2-5A baseball
May 6, 2025
One of the tightest races this spring in WPIAL baseball comes down to the next-to-last day of the regular season.
High school roundup for May 6, 2025: Plum baseball clinches outright section title with 1-hit shutout
Michael Tedrick threw a one-hit shutout with four strikeouts to propel Plum to a 3-0 victory over Latrobe on Tuesday, clinching sole possession of the Section 1-5A baseball title.
WPIAL clinched: Softball playoff qualifiers and scenarios through May 6, 2025
The 2025 WPIAL softball playoff field is nearly set with 73 teams having qualified and four possible playoff berths still up for grabs with one day left in the regular season.
WPIAL clinched: Softball playoff qualifiers and scenarios through May 5, 2025
May 5, 2025
The 2025 WPIAL softball playoff field is nearly set with currently 71 teams having qualified and four possible playoff berths still up for grabs with two days left in the regular season.
High school roundup for May 5, 2025: Shaler quiets New Castle’s bats
Haley Machajewski homered and knocked in two runs to lead Shaler to a 3-1 victory over New Castle in Section 1-5A softball Monday.
WPIAL clinched: Softball qualifiers, playoff picture through May 4, 2025
May 4, 2025
The 2025 WPIAL softball playoff field is taking shape and sits at 69 teams with a week left in the regular season.
Trib HSSN softball player of the week for May 4, 2025
Trib HSSN softball player of the week — Emersyn Jones
This week on Trib HSSN for week of May 5, 2025
We end the spring sports regular season on a wet note as section play wraps up and the postseason begins with a little bracketology later this week here on the TribLive High School Sports Network.
High school roundup for May 2, 2025: Plum walks off New Castle in 11-homer slugfest
May 2, 2025
Danielle Pici hit a walk-off two-run homer in the bottom of the eighth to lift Plum to a 12-10 win over New Castle in a Section 1-5A softball slugfest Friday.
Jeannette’s Grace Stein records 2nd straight no-hitter, eclipses 500 career K’s in win vs. Leechburg
Calling it “a really good accomplishment,” Jeannette right-hander Grace Stein tossed her second consecutive no-hitter Friday and sixth of her career while reaching 500 career strikeouts as the third-ranked Jayhawks beat visiting Leechburg, 10-0, in a WPIAL Section 3-A softball game reduced to six innings by a 10-run rule.
Freshman Jorjah Ostrosky sparks Hempfield to victory over Norwin in varsity debut
A freshman got a WPIAL call-up and looked like a grizzled veteran in her varsity debut.
