May 12, 2023 9:44 am
Jacob LaDuca stroked a walk-off home run in the bottom of the tenth, giving #1 Washington & Jefferson a 4-3 win over #2 Grove City, putting the defending champions into the Presidents Athletic Conference Baseball championship round. Grove City built a 3-0 lead through five innings before W&J rallied to tie the game. Sam Schuster hit an RBI double off the fence in right, Tyler Horvat lofted a sacrifice fly and Trevor Dean delivered a two-out single in the sixth. W&J got out of trouble in the 9th & 10th innings before LaDuca’s blast made Dante DiMatteo a winner in relief.
Championship round action is set for Saturday, starting at 1 pm at Ross Memorial Park. We’ll have every W&J game in the tournament on WJPA-AM (1450) or Listen Here! The tournament winner advances to the NCAA Division III Regionals. Saturday’s pregame starts at 12:50 pm.
Friday
Game C Wash & Jeff 4, Grove City 3, 10 inn.
Game D St. Vincent 7, Westminster 4 (Titans eliminated)
Game E St. Vincent 13, Grove City 6
Saturday
12:50 pm Game F Wash & Jeff vs. St. Vincent (WJPA-AM (1450) or Listen Here! 12:50 pm)
4 pm IF NECESSARY Game
May 11, 2023 12:01 am
The WPIAL Softball Committee has released the six playoff brackets including eight Washington County and four Greene County squads. Six of those squads are seeded in the top five: Trinity (5A #3), Waynesburg (3A #3), Charleroi (2A #4), Chartiers-Houston (1A #4), Carmichaels (1A #2), West Greene (1A #5). Click for WPIAL Softball Central Baseball brackets will be released Friday afternoon (3 pm). A complete schedule for teams from the two-county area follows.
Monday, May 15
SB 5A #3 Trinity vs. #14 Penn-Trafford, 2 pm at Peterswood Park
Tuesday, May 16
SB 2A #4 Charleroi vs. #13 Steel Valley, 3 pm at West Mifflin
SB 2A #10 Fort Cherry vs. #7 Riverside, 4 pm at Peterswood Park Field #2
SB 2A #12 Bentworth vs. #5 Greens. Central Catholic, 5 pm at West Mifflin
SB 2A #8 Burgettstown vs. Apollo-Ridge, 5:30 pm at Penn-Trafford
SB 3A #15 McGuffey vs. #2 Southmoreland, 2 pm at Waynesburg University
SB 1A #6 Jeff-Morgan vs. #11 Northgate, 2 pm at Peterswood Park Field #1
SB 1A #5 West Greene vs. #12 Monessen, 4 pm at Waynesburg University
SB 3A #3 Waynesburg vs. #14 Valley, 4 pm at Peterswood Park Field #1
Wednesday, May 17
SB 6A #6 Canon-McMillan vs. #3 Norwin, 5 pm at Gateway
Thursday, May 18
SB 1A #4 Chartiers-Houston vs. West Greene/Monessen winner
SB 1A #2 Carmichaels vs. Leechburg/South Side
May 11, 2023 11:00 pm
Top-seeded Washington & Jefferson College pounded out 14 hits on the way to the win over #4 Westminster. The Presidents scored seven of their 8 runs after two outs in four different innings. Tyler Horvat pitched into the eighth for the Presidents, picking up the win, holding the Titans to four runs on eight hits. W&J has won the last three PAC tournaments played. Thursday winners meet Friday at noon, with first-round losers squaring off at 3 pm. The elimination bracket final is Friday night at 6 pm. Championship round action is set for Saturday, starting at 1 pm at Ross Memorial Park. We’ll have every W&J game in the tournament on WJPA-AM (1450) or Listen Here! Friday’s pregame starts at 11:50 am. The tournament winner advances to the NCAA Division III Regionals.
Thursday
Game A Wash & Jeff 8, Westminster 4
Game B Grove City 6, St. Vincent 5
Friday
11:50 am Game C Wash & Jeff vs. Grove City (WJPA-AM (1450) or Listen Here! 11:50 am)
3 pm Game D Westminster vs. St. Vincent (loser eliminated)
6 pm Game E Wash & Jeff / Grove City loser vs. Game D Westminster/St. Vincent winner
Saturday
1 pm Game F Wash & Jeff / Grove City winner vs. Game E winner
4 pm IF NECESSARY Game
May 12, 2023 3:51 am
The Pittsburgh Steelers’ schedule for the 2023 season has been released! The Steelers will open the 2023 season in Pittsburgh, hosting the San Francisco 49ers.
Here is the Steelers 2023 schedule:
Sunday, Sept. 10, 1 pm, San Francisco 49ers at Steelers
Monday, Sept. 18, 8;15 pm, Cleveland Browns at Steelers
Sunday, Sept. 24, 8:20 pm, Steelers at Las Vegas Raiders
Sunday, Oct. 1, 1 pm, Steelers at Houston Texans
Sunday, Oct. 8, 1 pm, Baltimore Ravens at Steelers
Sunday, Oct. 15 Bye Week
Sunday, Oct. 22, 4:05 pm, Steelers at Los Angeles Rams
Sunday, Oct. 29, 1 pm, Jacksonville Jaguars at Steelers
Thursday, Nov. 2, 8:15 pm, Tennessee Titans at Steelers
Sunday, Nov. 12, 1 pm, Green Bay Packers at Steelers
Sunday, Nov. 19, 1 pm, Steelers at Cleveland Browns
Sunday, Nov. 26, 1 pm, Steelers at Cincinnati Bengals
Sunday, Dec. 3, 1 pm, Arizona Cardinals at Steelers
Thursday, Dec. 7, 8:15 pm, New England Patriots at Steelers
Week 16 (date/time TBD) Steelers at Indianapolis Colts
Saturday, Dec. 23, 4:30 pm, Cincinnati Bengals at Steelers
Sunday, Dec. 31, 4:05 pm, Steelers at Seattle Seahawks
Week 18 (date/time TBO) Steelers at Baltimore Ravens
May 11, 2023 12:05 am
Waynesburg got a walk-off single in the bottom of the seventh inning to beat McGuffey, 4-3. That eliminates the Highlanders from the playoff chase. Washington County has qualified 11 baseball teams and eight in softball. Greene County is sending two baseball, four softball teams to the post-season. The WPIAL Softball brackets will be released Thursday on a TribHSSN broadcast Watch Here. Baseball brackets will be posted Friday afternoon with first-round action expected to get underway on Monday.
Baseball
Clinched: Avella, Bentworth, Burgettstown, California, Canon-McMillan, Charleroi, Chartiers-Houston, Ft. Cherry, Peters Township, Ringgold, Trinity, Carmichaels, Waynesburg
Softball
Clinched: Bentworth, Burgettstown, Canon-McMillan, Charleroi, Chartiers-Houston, Ft. Cherry, McGuffey, Trinity, Carmichaels, Jeff-Morgan, Waynesburg, West Greene
May 11, 2023 3:52 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jurickson Profar hit a tiebreaking RBI single in the top of the seventh inning to lift Colorado by Pittsburgh 4-3. Less than 24 hours after homering twice in a 10-1 rout, Profar gave the Rockies their eighth win in 10 games by lacing a Robert Stephenson pitch into left field to score Austin Wynns. Alan Trejo had two hits and an RBI for Colorado. Randal Grichuk added a run-scoring double as the Rockies earned their third straight series win. Andrew McCutchen went 3 for 3 and hit his seventh home run of the season for Pittsburgh. The Pirates have dropped 9 of 10.
May 10, 2023 12:01 am
Bentworth rolled past Beth-Center, clinching the final 2A softball playoff berth. Waynesburg baseball split with Mt. Pleasant, each clinching a 3A playoff spot, leaving McGuffey needing to win at Waynesburg Thursday to qualify. We’ll have that game Thursday afternoon on WJPA-AM (1450) or Listen Here!
Wednesday’s scores
Softball
6A Canon-McMillan 2, Baldwin 0
3A Waynesburg 9, McGuffey 3
2A Bentworth 19, Beth-Center 0
1A West Greene 12, California 2
Baseball
3A Mt. Pleasant 8, Waynesburg 1, game 1
3A Waynesburg 5, Mt. Pleasant 4, game 2
2A Burgettstown 8, Frazier 0
2A Burgettstown 18, Wash High 5
1A Ft. Cherry 13, Mapletown 3
1A California 4, West Greene 1
May 9, 2023 3:50 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jurickson Profar had his first multihomer game in four years, Connor Seabold got his first major league win and the Colorado Rockies routed Pittsburgh 10-1, sending the Pirates to their eighth loss in nine games. Profar hit a go-ahead solo homer on a slider from Luis Ortiz in the second and followed Ryan McMahon’s two-run triple with a two-run drive off Duane Underwood Jr. that capped a five-run seventh and built a 9-1 lead. Seabold allowed one run, three hits and three walks in five innings. He had been 0-4 in his big league career with Boston and Colorado.
May 10, 2023 3:52 am
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Automatic balls and strikes could soon be coming to the major leagues. Much like the players themselves, the robo-umps are working their way up through the minors with the goal being promoted to the show. The goal is to eliminate the individual and sometimes inconsistent strike zones that vary from umpire to umpire, and with it the possibility that a game can turn on a bad ball/strike call. Disappearing with that are the complaints that an umpire’s strike zone was too wide or a pitcher was getting squeezed, followed by the helmet-slamming, dirt-kicking dustups that are practically as old as the sport itself.
May 9, 2023 5:28 pm
(ABC) – Joe Kapp, the hard-nosed quarterback who routinely ran into tacklers instead of away from them while leading the Minnesota Vikings to their first Super Bowl and California to its last Rose Bowl, has died. He was 85. Cal confirmed that Kapp died on Monday. He had suffered from Alzheimer’s disease for the last 15 years and was residing in an assisted living facility, his son J.J. Kapp said. The family made plans to send his brain to UC San Francisco researchers for study of the potential connection between his dementia and hits he took to the head with his punishing playing style. After a stellar collegiate career at Cal that was capped by an appearance in the 1959 Rose Bowl, Kapp went on to star in Canada before making it to the NFL. He took over for Fran Tarkenton in Minnesota and led the Vikings to a Super Bowl appearance in the 1969 season before losing to Kansas City.
