WJPA Sports

For the third straight year, a pitcher threw a no-hitter in a WPIAL baseball championship game. Unfortunately, Serra Catholic’s Tyler Skaggs crafted the No-No at the expense of Carmichaels in the 1A title game Wednesday afternoon. The Mikes managed only five base-runners against the Eagles’ right-hander, including two walks, a pair of hit-batters and a strike out/wild pitch.

Softball championship action at PennWest-California was postponed as the 6A-5A-4A title games could not be played. The League has moved those game to Norwin (6A) and North Allegheny (5A-4A). The original Thursday championship schedule at Lilley Field will be used for the 3A-2A-1A games including Chartiers-Houston and Carmichaels. Washington & Greene County will send six teams into the state playoffs. Softball teams from Bentworth, Carmichaels, Chartiers-Houston & West Greene have clinched. Carmichaels and Peters Township baseball teams are also heading for states.  WPIAL Softball Brackets  WPIAL Baseball Brackets

Thursday, May 29
Softball Championships at Lilley Field (PennWest-California)
2:00 pm 2A #2 Chartiers-Houston vs. #1 Neshannock, WJPA-AM (1450) Watch/Listen Here
4:30 pm 1A #2 Carmichaels vs. #1 Union

Tuesday, May 27
Baseball Third Place
5A #4 Bethel Park > #7 Peters Township, 17-2

Softball Third Place
2A #11 Riverside > #12 Bentworth, 4-3
1A #3 West Greene > #5 Jeff-Morgan, 4-3

Wednesday, May 28
Baseball Championship at EQT Park
1A #1 Serra Catholic > #6 Carmichaels, 9-0

PHOENIX (AP) — Paul Skenes pitched shutout ball into the seventh inning, Oneil Cruz hit a two-run homer and the Pittsburgh Pirates romped past the Arizona Diamondbacks 10-1. Skenes allowed four hits, struck out seven and walked none in 6 2/3 innings. He snapped a three-game losing streak with his first win in six starts since April 25 at Dodger Stadium. The reigning NL Rookie of the Year has not permitted more than six hits in any of his 35 starts, a major league record to begin a career. Pittsburgh took two of three from skidding Arizona for its second road series win this season.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Carter Verhaeghe broke a tie off a feed from Aleksander Barkov with 7:39 left and the defending champion Florida Panthers advanced to their third straight Stanley Cup Final, beating the Carolina Hurricanes 5-3 on Wednesday night in Game 5. The Panthers beat the Hurricanes in the Eastern Conference final for the second time in three seasons. The Panthers will face the winner of the Western final between Dallas and Edmonton, with the Oilers up 3-1 to put them within a win of a rematch with Florida for the Cup. Sam Bennett added an empty-net goal with 54 seconds left by skating down a loose puck straight out of the penalty box after Florida had held up against a critical late power play for the Hurricanes.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 34 points, and the Oklahoma City Thunder routed the Minnesota Timberwolves 124-94 to win the Western Conference finals series 4-1 and advance to the NBA Finals for the first time since 2012. Chet Holmgren had 22 points, seven rebounds and three blocks and Jalen Williams added 19 points and eight rebounds for the Thunder. Oklahoma City will play the Indiana Pacers or New York Knicks in the finals. Indiana leads the Eastern Conference finals series 3-1 with Game 5 to be played in New York City on Thursday.