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Fort Cherry scored four times over the first two innings on the way to a 4-1 win over Riverview, putting the Rangers into the WPIAL baseball finals for the first time since their 1986 championship run. Ryan Huey got the win, allowing just one run and three hits over 6.2 innings. The left-hander also drove in one run and scored another for The Fort who will take on Neshannock next week with the 2A title on the line. The Rangers also clinched a berth in the PIAA tournament.

Canon-McMillan trailed 4-0 before getting the bats going, then scored three times in the bottom of the seventh but stranded the potential game-tying run as the Big Macs were eliminated. North Allegheny scored the eventual winning run in the top of the seventh when a two-out flyball was lost in the stadium lights.

Softball semifinals take center stage Thursday. Chartiers-Houston & Bentworth meet in the 2A semis, Carmichaels & West Greene in a 1A semi with Jeff-Morgan playing top seed Union in the other.  We’ll have the CHHS/Bentworth game for you on WJPA-AM (1450), online and we’re producing the NFHS Video as well (subscription required under WPIAL agreements).  Watch/Listen Here 

Wednesday, May 20–Baseball Semifinals — WPIAL Baseball Brackets 
2A #1 Fort Cherry > #4 Riverview, 4-1  Watch/Listen Here
6A #3 North Allegheny > #2 Canon-McMillan, 4-3  Watch/Listen Here

Thursday, May 21–Softball Semifinals — WPIAL Softball Brackets
3:45 pm 2A #2 Chartiers-Houston vs. #3 Bentworth at Pleasant Valley, WJPA-AM (1450)  Watch/Listen Here
3:45 pm 1A #5 Jeff-Morgan vs. #1 Union (live on GreeneSports.net)
5:45pm 1A #2 Carmichaels #3 West Greene at Pleasant Valley (live on GreeneSports.net)

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Spencer Horwitz homered, Konnor Griffin had four singles, and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the St. Louis Cardinals 7-0 on Wednesday night to snap a four-game losing streak. Carmen Mlodzinski (4-3) allowed four hits and a walk in five innings to improve to 3-0 with a 1.75 ERA in 11 career appearances against the Cardinals. Yohan Ramírez, Evan Sisk, Justin Lawrence and Dennis Santana each pitched a scoreless inning of relief for Pittsburgh, which gave up five hits. The Pirates led 3-0 when they scored four runs in the eighth inning off Cardinals reliever Matt Svanson. Bryan Reynolds had a two-run double in the inning. The Cardinals’ Alec Burleson hit a one-out single off Ramírez in the sixth inning, Jordan Walker was hit by a pitch and Nolan Gorman walked to load the bases. However, Ramírez struck out Masyn Winn and retired César Prieto on a fly to deep right field that forced Jake Mangum to make a sliding catch on the warning track. Michael McGreevy (3-3) allowed three runs on 10 hits in five-plus innings to snap a streak of four consecutive starts where he allowed two runs in 24 innings.