Aaron “Oobi” Strader quarterbacked the highest-scoring offense in WPIAL Class 5A last fall.

Trib HSSN baseball player of the week – Logan Plummer

It was a situation that screamed small ball. Instead, Pine-Richland played long ball.

Seneca Valley jumped out to an early lead and held off Pine-Richland, 2-1, to advance to the PIHL Class 3A Penguins Cup final, fueled by relentless pressure and timely saves.

Hempfield returned to the top of the Class 6A softball mountain last spring when the Spartans won their ninth WPIAL championship.

The postseason stage has been the site of many outstanding players taking their games to the next level.

Ava McNaughton felt she made the right decision in eighth grade to play hockey at Bishop Kearney in Irondequoit, N.Y. The Seven Fields native also felt the strain it put on her parents.

An investigation by the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s public corruption section has resulted in charges against a Pine woman who the AG says forged at least four signatures on her election paperwork last year.

It was her last chance to win a grand champion title before she aged out of the Pennsylvania 4-H Horse Show, and Lilly Sauer had a pretty good feeling she and her horse, Woody, had won first place in the bowtie race.

A late Pine-Richland surge wasn’t enough as Sewickley Academy held firm for a 59-53 win in the Edgar Snyder Holiday Hoops Classic at PPG Paints Arena on Monday.