WPIAL baseball: Seneca Valley’s ‘grip and rip’ attitude pays off with win over Mt. Lebanon in quarterfinals
The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
Seneca Valley’s Mason Durst (20) catches the ball in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
The Seneca Valley baseball team storm the diamond inn celebration as they defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
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The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
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The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
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The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
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The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
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The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
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The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
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The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
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The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
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The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
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The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
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The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
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Seneca Valley’s Mason Durst (20) catches the ball in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
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The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
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The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
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The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
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The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
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The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
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The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
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The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
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The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
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The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
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The Seneca Valley baseball team defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
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The Seneca Valley baseball team storm the diamond inn celebration as they defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game on Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
WEXFORD — Rather than let one half-inning undo it, Seneca Valley went with the flow.
Not long after, junior Mason Fisher’s two-out, sixth-inning bloop single dropped in shallow center field Monday night, scoring courtesy runner Quin Carney and giving the third-seeded Raiders the deciding run in a 4-3 win over No. 6 Mt. Lebanon at North Allegheny High School.
The Blue Devils (8-13) had leveled the scoreboard at three runs apiece in the top of the sixth.
“What’s there to get nervous about?” Seneca Valley coach Eric Semega said. “I’m going to be honest, I’ve been around long enough. It’s a game. ... What are you gonna do? Put pressure on them?”
The Seneca Valley baseball team storm the diamond in celebration as they defeated Mt. Lebanon 4-3 in a WPIAL Class 6A first-round baseball game Monday, May 19, 2025, at North Allegheny High School. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
The Raiders (15-6) advance to the WPIAL Class 6A semifinals to take on No. 2 Canon-McMillan at Upper St. Clair High School at 4 p.m. Tuesday.
“We see two outs,” Fisher said. “I mean, honestly, there’s no nerves. Just go up there and do your thing and just be comfortable and see what happens.”
“You just go up and you grip and rip and what happens, happens,” Semega said. “If it’s not meant to be, what are you going to do? Cry about it?”
Seneca Valley reliever Luis Torrenegra finished things off by fanning a pair and inducing a groundout to second base. He only needed nine pitches to do so.
“We’re always riding off of anything,” Fisher said. “No matter what, even if they go up five there, it doesn’t matter. We’re still in there keeping the morale up and just wanted to come back out and do more.”
Mt. Lebanon 000 012 0 — 3 4 1
Seneca Valley 012 001 x — 4 8 1
WP: Luis Torrenegra 1.2 IP (2K, 1BB). LP: Chase Smith 1IP (2K, 0BB).
Mt. Lebanon (8-13): Graham Keen 1B, Dane Barber R, Chase Smith 1B RBI, Sam Wetzel R, Ben Kraemer HR 1B 2RBI R.
Seneca Valley (15-6): Mason Fisher 2-1B RBI R, Danny Drennan 3B 1B RBI R, Micah Olayer 1B, Ryan Rebholz 2-1B, Quin Carney R, Owen Voelp 1B
