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Seanna Riggle tripled in a pair of runs putting Chartiers-Houston up 5-0 in the third, and Taryne Drilak held Montrose to one run on six hits while fanning 10 as the Bucs reached the state softball semifinals for a third consecutive year with a run-rule win over the Meteors. Drilak also drove in three runs in the win, sending CHHS to a 12th all-time final four.  Chartiers-Houston will play District 1 champion Bristol Monday somewhere in the center of the state.  Thursday was not as kind as both Bentworth softball and Fort Cherry baseball lost late.  Everett scored a pair of runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to down Bentworth. The Bearcats scored twice in the first and didn’t get another hit in the game. Fort Cherry baseball’s best season in 40 years ended when Mercyhurst Prep plated eight runs in the bottom of the sixth, blowing open a one-run game.  Watch/Listen Here

Thursday, June 4
PIAA Baseball Quarterfinals Baseball Brackets
2A Mercyhurst Prep > Fort Cherry, 14-5  Watch/Listen Here

PIAA Softball Qurterfinals Softball Brackets
2A Chartiers-Houston > Montrose, 13-1 (6 inn.)  Watch/Listen Here
2A Everett > Bentworth, 3-2  Watch/Listen Here

HOUSTON (AP) — Ryan O’Hearn homered and drove in three runs to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 5-1 win over the Houston Astros. O’Hearn hit an RBI single in the first inning and his two-run homer in the sixth made it 4-0. Pittsburgh’s Jared Jones allowed four hits and walked two in five scoreless innings. Carmen Mlodzinski permitted four hits and a run the rest of the way to get his first save. Isaac Paredes hit a solo homer in the sixth inning for the Astros to become the fourth Mexican-born player in the MLB history to reach 100 home runs.

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge will be sidelined indefinitely with a stress fracture of one of his ribs, the team announced Thursday night. The three-time AL MVP was out of the lineup earlier in the day for a third straight game and the Yankees were awaiting clarity about what they said was a bone bruise in one of the slugger’s right ribs that is causing right shoulder pain. The team later announced Judge was diagnosed with a stress fracture of the first rib on his right side and will need to rest and have limited activity. He will be re-evaluated after having additional imaging in about four to six weeks. The Yankees said Judge is expected to return “at some point this season.”

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Seth Jarvis scored on a power play in overtime after Carolina erased a deficit in regulation only to gave up a late tying goal, and the Hurricanes beat the Vegas Golden Knights 4-3 in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final on Thursday night to tie the series. Jarvis’ heroics 3:56 into OT came after a thrilling third period that included four goals being scored and another getting called off because of goaltender interference. Game 3 is Saturday in Las Vegas. There is now a guarantee the series will return to Raleigh for a Game 5 next week.