WPIAL sets baseball, softball, lacrosse sections for 2019 season

By: HSSN Staff
Thursday, April 19, 2018 | 4:12 PM

Every WPIAL baseball and softball section will have at least one new team next season in the updated spring sports alignments approved by the WPIAL board of directors.

Among the changes for 2019, the WPIAL reduced the number of lacrosse sections to two per classification. Each lacrosse team will play every opponent in its section just once, creating an eight- or nine-game section schedule.

In softball, Class 6A will shrink from 19 to 16 teams, so the WPIAL reduced the number of sections from three to two. In the reduction, Fox Chapel, Hempfield and Norwin will be shifted to a section that includes Butler, North Allegheny, North Hills, Pine-Richland and Seneca Valley.

The other 6A section will have Baldwin, Bethel Park, Brashear, Canon-McMillan, Mt. Lebanon, Peters Township, Allderdice and Upper St. Clair.

In baseball, Class 2A will increase from 24 teams to 29, so the WPIAL added a fourth section.

The updated section alignments are available here:

Baseball

Softball

Boys lacrosse

Girls lacrosse

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— Chris Harlan (@CHarlan_Trib) April 18, 2018

Chris Harlan is a Tribune-Review staff writer. Reach him at charlan@tribweb.com or via Twitter @CHarlan_Trib.

Tags: Allderdice, Baldwin, Bethel Park, Brashear, Butler, Canon-McMillan, Fox Chapel, Hempfield Area, Mt. lebanon, North Allegheny, North Hills, Norwin, Peters Township, Pine-Richland, Seneca Valley, Upper St. Clair