WPIAL clinched: Baseball playoff qualifiers and scenarios through May 6, 2025

By: Don Rebel
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 | 10:53 PM

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The 2025 WPIAL baseball playoff field is growing and currently sits at 71 teams with two days left in the regular season.

The top four teams in each section qualify for the playoffs with all tied teams advancing if they split their head-to-head meetings.

Coverage of the 2025 WPIAL baseball playoffs can be seen and heard here on TribHSSN.TribLive.com starting with some bracketology with the Playoff Pairings Show at 3 p.m. Friday.

Here is the latest list of teams that have earned district playoff berths through Tuesday, plus the playoff scenarios for those sections with playoff berths still up in the air.

*Clinched section title

Class 6A

Set with 8 playoff teams. No first round, straight to quarterfinals

Section 1

*North Allegheny Tigers

Seneca Valley Raiders

Butler Golden Tornado

North Hills Indians

Section 2

*Canon-McMillan Big Macs

Norwin Knights

Mt. Lebanon Blue Devils

Hempfield Spartans

Class 5A

14 of at least 16 teams have clinched

Section 1

*Plum Mustangs

Penn-Trafford Warriors

Latrobe Wildcats

Franklin Regional Panthers

Section 2

*Bethel Park Black Hawks

Peters Township Indians

• Upper St. Clair is 5-5, South Fayette and Trinity are 5-6, Moon is 4-7 and Chartiers Valley is 3-7. On Wednesday, Upper St. Clair hosts Chartiers Valley in a doubleheader, South Fayette is home to Peters Township and Trinity travels to Moon.

Section 3

*Shaler Titans

Pine-Richland Rams

Fox Chapel Foxes

Mars Fightin’ Planets

Section 4

*Thomas Jefferson Jaguars

Baldwin Highlanders

Connellsville Falcons

Montour Spartans

Class 4A

Set with 12 playoff teams. There will be four first round byes

Section 1

*Beaver Bobcats

Central Valley Warriors

Blackhawk Cougars

Ambridge Bridgers

Section 2

*West Mifflin Titans

Elizabeth Forward Warriors

Belle Vernon Leopards

Ringgold Rams

Section 3

*Indiana Little Indians

Knoch Knights

Greensburg Salem Golden Lions

Derry Trojans

Class 3A

14 of a possible 17 teams have clinched

Section 1

*Riverside Panthers

Ellwood City Wolverines

Quaker Valley Quakers

Mohawk Warriors

Section 2

*Avonworth Antelopes

South Park Eagles

South Allegheny Gladiators

Shady Side Academy Bulldogs

Section 3

*Mt. Pleasant Vikings

Deer Lakes Lancers

Burrell Buccaneers

• Freeport and Ligonier Valley are 6-4 in the battle for fourth place. In the upcoming section series, Freeport visits Southmoreland (0-10) to finish their suspended game followed by their second game and Ligonier Valley finishes a suspended game then has another full game against Mt. Pleasant (8-2) on Wednesday. Freeport owns the tiebreaker over Ligonier Valley.

Section 4

*Waynesburg Central Raiders

Charleroi Cougars

Seton LaSalle Rebels

• McGuffey (5-5) can clinch with one win in the section series against Seton LaSalle. Keystone Oaks (5-6) can clinch with a win over Washington and one section loss to McGuffey or a split vs. Washington and McGuffey gets swept. McGuffey and Keystone Oaks both qualify if they finish tied for fourth place.

Class 2A

11 of a possible 14 teams have clinched

Section 1

*Burgettstown Blue Devils

Fort Cherry Rangers

California Trojans

• Chartiers-Houston (4-6) needs one win in its section series against California (5-5) to clinch a playoff berth. The Bucs are on the road Wednesday and the Trojans are visitors Thursday. Frazier (4-7) can clinch with a victory at Beth-Center on Wednesday because they split their section series against both California and Chartiers-Houston.

Section 2

*Neshannock Lancers

Shenango Wildcats

Freedom Bulldogs

New Brighton Lions

• Laurel (5-5) needs to sweep a doubleheader against Northgate on Wednesday in order to qualify.

Section 3

*Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Chargers

Riverview Raiders

South Side Rams

Apollo-Ridge Vikings

Class A

12 of a possible 14 teams have clinched

Section 1

*Greensburg Central Catholic Centurions

Jefferson-Morgan Rockets

Carmichaels Mighty Mikes

Avella Eagles

Section 2

*Leechburg Blue Devils

Western Beaver Golden Beavers

Winchester Thurston Bears

Union Scotties

• Rochester (6-7) clinches a playoff berth with a win against visiting Aquinas Academy (4-9) on Wednesday and a Union (7-6) loss to Winchester Thurston (9-4) on Wednesday.

Section 3

*Serra Catholic Eagles

*Eden Christian Academy Warriors

*Bishop Canevin Crusaders

Sewickley Academy Panthers

• Clairton (0-7) can clinch with a sweep orf its section series against Monessen on Wednesday and Thursday and a win over Sewickley Academy.