{"id":59583,"date":"2025-05-27T23:13:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T23:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/59583\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T23:13:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T23:13:15","slug":"westmoreland-high-school-baseball-playoff-preview-capsule-for-may-28-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/59583\/","title":{"rendered":"Westmoreland high school baseball playoff preview capsule for May 28, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By: <a href=\"https:\/\/tribhssn.triblive.com\/author\/bill-beckner-jr\/\" title=\"Posts by Bill Beckner Jr.\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Beckner Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, May 27, 2025  |  5:35 PM<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"photo-id_363990\" class=\"img-fluid figure-img nofotomoto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/8539949_web1_gtr-GCC1-052825.jpg\" alt=\"8539949_web1_gtr-GCC1-052825\" title=\"8539949_web1_gtr-GCC1-052825\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJenn Codeluppi | Mon Valley Independent \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Greensburg Central Catholic\u2019s Jackson McMullen celebrates with teammates after scoring against Serra Catholic in the WPIAL Class A semifinals Friday, May 23, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Class A<\/p>\n<p>Third-place game<\/p>\n<p>Greensburg Central Catholic (18-3) vs. Eden Christian (15-5)<\/p>\n<p>Noon Wednesday at Ross Memorial Park, Washington &amp; Jefferson<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s at stake: Both teams have qualified for the PIAA playoffs. For state seeding purposes, the winner is the third-place team from the WPIAL, while the loser is fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Players to watch: Bobby Smithnosky, Mt. Pleasant; Brady Hull, Eden Christian<\/p>\n<p>Extra bases: Greensburg Central Catholic returns to the PIAA playoffs for the first time since 2018. The Centurions reached the quarterfinals that season. This year, GCC had a 12-game winning streak end in the WPIAL semis when it lost to Serra Catholic, 3-2. The Eagles used a double steal in the bottom of the sixth to take the lead. GCC pitcher Tyler Samide pitched back-to-back abbreviated no-hitters in the first two rounds of the playoffs and did not allow a hit for nine straight innings. Penn State commit Anthony Grippo is one of the better hitters in Class A with a .600-plus batting average. \u2026 Eden Christian reached the WPIAL semis but fell to Carmichaels, 4-3. The Warriors have scored 10 or more runs in 11 games. They finished in a three-way tie for first in Section 3 with Serra Catholic and Bishop Canevin. Hull leads the team with a .577 average, 30 hits, 12 doubles and 35 RBIs. Brett Feldman hits .483 with a team-high 37 runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"credits\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Bill Beckner Jr. is a TribLive reporter covering local sports in Westmoreland County. He can be reached at <a href=\"\u201cmailto:bbeckner@triblive.com\u201d\">bbeckner@triblive.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\nTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/tribhssn.triblive.com\/tag\/greensburg-c-c\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Greensburg C.C.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By: Bill Beckner Jr. Tuesday, May 27, 2025 | 5:35 PM Jenn Codeluppi | Mon Valley Independent Greensburg&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,10746,3263],"class_list":{"0":"post-59583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-greensburg-c-c","10":"tag-high-school-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114582336567278216","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}