May 8, 2026 7:00 am
The WPIAL has released the 2026 Baseball Championship playoff brackets, including 10 Washington/Greene County teams. Fort Cherry (2A) is the top seed and has a bye to the quarterfinals. First-round action for local teams is slated to begin Monday with 1A, 2A and 4A action, including Avella, Burgettstown, California and Ringgold. We will determine our broadcast schedule shortly. Following is a daily schedule of the WPIAL Baseball playoffs. WPIAL Baseball Brackets
First Round Bye: 2A #1 Fort Cherry
Monday, May 11–First Round
4:00 pm 2A #8 California vs. #9 Freedom at Joe Maize Field, Peterswood Park
4:00 pm 1A #6 Avella vs. #11 Aquinas Academy at Burkett Complex, Robinson Township
4:00 pm 1A #8 Carmichaels vs. #9 Sewickley Academy at W&J’s Ross Memorial Park
6:30 pm 1A #7 Jeff-Morgan vs. #10 Union at W&J’s Ross Memorial Park
6:30 pm 4A #11 Ringgold vs. #6 Hopewell at Joe Maize Field, Peterswood Park
6:30 pm 2A #12 Burgettstown vs. #5 Laurel at Burkett Complex, Robinson Township
Tuesday, May 12–First Round
4:00 pm 3A #9 Charleroi vs. #8 Mt. Pleasant at W&J’s Ross Memorial Park
6:30 pm 3A #16 Waynesburg vs. #1 Avonworth at W&J’s Ross Memorial Park
Monday, May 18–Quarterfinals
4:00 pm 6A #2 Canon-McMillan vs. #7 Seneca Valley at Boyce-Mayview Park, Upper St. Clair
May 8, 2026 7:00 am
The WPIAL has released the 2026 Softball Championship playoff brackets, including 12 Washington/Greene County teams. Chartiers-Houston (2A) and Carmichaels (1A) are the highest seeded teams from the two-county area. Carmichaels and West Greene (1A) received first-round byes and will be joined in the quarterfinals by Canon-McMillan (6A). First-round action for local teams is slated to begin Tuesday when the #4 Big Macs play #5 Mt. Lebanon and #7 Trinity (5A) takes on #10 Plum. Four Washington County 2A teams will descend on Trinity Middle School Thursday for back to back games. Baseball brackets are due to be released Friday afternoon. We will determine our broadcast schedule once we have those pairings. Following is a daily schedule of the WPIAL Softball playoffs. WPIAL Softball Brackets
First Round Byes: 1A #2 Carmichaels, 1A #3 West Greene
Tuesday, May 12
5A 1st Round #7 Trinity vs. #10 Plum, 5:00 pm at Gateway High School
6A Quarterfinals #4 Canon-McMillan vs. #5 Mt. Lebanon, 6:00 pm at Pleasant Valley Elementary (Peters Township)
Thursday, May 14
3A 1st Round #5 McGuffey vs. #12 Hopewell, 3:00 pm at Montour
3A 1st Round #11 Charleroi vs #6 Burrell, 3:00 pm at Norwin
1A 1st Round #5 Jeff-Morgan vs. #12 Leechburg, 3:00 pm at Gateway
2A 1st Round #3 Bentworth vs. #14 Burgettstown, 5:00 pm at Trinity Middle School (time change)
1A 1st Round #11 Beth-Center vs. #6 South Side Area, 4:30 pm at North Strabane Intermediate School
2A 1st Round #2 Chartiers-Houston vs. #15 Wash High, 7:00 pm at Trinity Middle School (time change)
May 9, 2026 12:14 pm
Here’s your chance to own a little bit of sports history. The Pittsburgh Steelers are selling seats from Acrisure Stadium. The team has partnered with MeiGray, and will authenticate stadium seats. The offering comes as crews remove 22,000 seats from the upper level before the 2026 season. The seats will be decommissioned and refurbished. The Steelers say this reduces waste and gives fans an opportunity to own a piece of sports history. Those interested can go the MeiGray website and purchase single seats, pairs, and seat backs and bottoms. Prices begin at $149 and go up to $599. Some of the higher-end seats will be signed by “Select Steelers Legends.”
May 9, 2026 4:10 am
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Rafael Devers homered to back six strong innings from Robbie Ray, and the San Francisco Giants beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-2 on Friday night. The only run allowed by Ray (3-4) came in the second when Marcell Ozuna led off with his 300th career homer to put Pittsburgh up 1-0. Devers homered for the fourth time this season, connecting against Carmen Mlodzinski (2-3) leading off the bottom half to tie it. It was just the 24th home run for San Francisco this year. The left-hander yielded four hits and four walks while striking out seven. Caleb Kilian gave up a run in the ninth but retired pinch-hitter Ryan O’Hearn on a groundout with runners on second and third to close it out. Devers singled in the fifth and scored on a two-out single by Heliot Ramos to give the Giants a 2-1 lead. Willy Adames led off the seventh with a single against Justin Lawrence and went to third on Ramos’ double. Drew Gilbert singled to make it 3-1 before Jesús Rodríguez was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Evan Sisk gave up a two-run single to Luis Arraez that made it 5-1. Mlodzinski permitted two runs and seven hits in six innings. Lawrence was charged with three runs and failed to get an out. The Giants began the day with the fewest homers in the majors, the fewest runs (115), and the fewest stolen bases (10).
May 8, 2026 4:25 am
PHOENIX (AP) — Brandon Lowe had three hits, including his 10th homer, and Joey Bart also went deep to back Mitch Keller, and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 4-2. Keller (4-1) went six-plus innings, retiring 10 straight between Corbin Carroll’s solo home run in the third and Ildemaro Vargas’ single leading off the seventh. He gave up four hits and two runs, walked two and struck out four. Gregory Soto retired the side in order the ninth for his third save. Arizona starter Zac Gallen (1-3) pitched six innings, allowing six hits and four runs, walking two and fanning five.
May 8, 2026 4:26 am
The NCAA will expand its March Madness tournaments by eight teams each next season. It will add more early-round games in the first week without altering the overall format. The new 76-team brackets for men and women will feature 12 games involving 24 teams. The winners will join the main 64-team bracket starting Thursday for men and Friday for women. Most new slots are expected to go to power conference teams.
May 7, 2026 4:25 am
PHOENIX (AP) — Paul Skenes struck out the side in the eighth inning, throwing a nasty splitter past Gabriel Moreno on his 97th and final pitch of the evening before smacking his glove in approval as he walked back to the dugout. The defending National League Cy Young winner is starting to heat up. The 23-year-old right-hander threw eight innings of two-hit ball on Wednesday night, leading the Pirates to a 1-0 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks in a stellar performance that was among the best of his career. It was the second time in the past three outings that Skenes has been at his best. He took a perfect game into the seventh inning of a 6-0 win over the Milwaukee Brewers on April 24.
May 7, 2026 4:28 am
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Bowen Byram and Ryan McLeod scored on consecutive power-play opportunities in reviving Buffalo’s anemic special-teams unit, and the Sabres defeated the Montreal Canadiens 4-2 in Game 1 of their second-round playoff series. Josh Doan and Jordan Greenway also scored for Buffalo making its first second-round appearance since 2007, and first overall in 15 years. Nick Suzuki and Kirby Dach scored for Montreal, which appeared slow to find its legs three days after defeating Tampa Bay in Game 7 of its first-round series. Jakub Dobes finished with 12 saves. Buffalo hosts Game 2 on Friday night.
May 7, 2026 4:29 am
Kentucky Derby winner Golden Tempo will not run in the Preakness Stakes next weekend. Trainer Cherie DeVaux announced the plan to skip the Preakness and set sights on the Belmont Stakes on June 6 at Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York. Golden Tempo is the third Derby winner in the past five years not to be entered in the Preakness. For various reasons, it is the sixth time in eight years the Preakness will happen with no chance of a Triple Crown on the line. American Pharoah in 2015 and Justify in 2018 are the only horses to sweep all three races over the past four decades.
May 6, 2026 6:25 pm
According to ESPN, Kentucky Derby winner Golden Tempo will not run in the Preakness Stakes next weekend, trainer Cherie DeVaux announced Wednesday. DeVaux and owners decided to skip the Preakness and set their sights on the Belmont Stakes on June 6 at Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York. DeVaux, the first woman to train a Derby winner, is from Saratoga Springs, which is hosting the Belmont for a third and final time this year.
