March 12, 2022 3:55 am
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -Jaden Ivey scored 17 points and Zach Edey had 15 to lead No. 9 Purdue past Penn State 69-61 in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals. The third-seeded Boilermakers will face seventh-seeded Michigan State in Saturday’s semifinals. Brandon Newman, who had been out of the rotation and hadn’t played since Feb. 10, added 12 points for the Boilermakers. Jalen Pickett scored 16 points and John Harrar had 15 points and 12 rebounds for No. 11 seed Penn State.
March 12, 2022 3:56 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) -Mark Friedman’s first goal in 10 months early in the third period broke open a tie game and Bryan Rust’s 20th goal of the season provided some late cushion as the Pittsburgh Penguins beat Vegas 5-2. Mike Matheson, Jeff Carter and Evan Rodrigues also scored for Pittsburgh. Tristan Jarry stopped 39 shots as the Penguins moved past the New York Rangers and into second place in the Metropolitan Division. Jake Eichel and Alex Pietrangelo scored for Vegas. The Golden Knights have dropped three straight.
March 10, 2022 11:05 pm
It’s Day Two of the State Wrestling Championships in Hershey where some gold medal hopes will be extended, some will be dashed. When the dust settles on the day, the pairings for the AA medal bouts will be set while AAA will be set for semifinals. We’ve got live, start-to-finish coverage on WJPA-AM (1450) or Listen Here! Following is a rundown of the Washington & Greene County wrestlers still active.
AA Quarterfinals Chris Vargo (Bentworth) and Parker Sentipal (Burgettstown) advanced to the semifinals. Tyler Berish (Beth-Center) lost his quarterfinal match but won his first consolation bout and will medal. Vitali Daniels (Bentworth) and Joey Sentipal (Burgettstown) lost quarterfinals and their first consolation bouts and were elminated.
AA Consolations Gaven Suica (Burgettstown) and Kyle McCollum (Beth-Center) won two consolation bouts and will medal. Wash High’s Cameron Carter-Green won a consolation bout, then lost in overtime in the 3rd round and was eliminated.
AAA Quarterfinals Jacob Houpt (Canon-McMillan) joins Waynesburg teammates Mac Church and Rocco Welsh in the AAA semifinals. The Big Macs’ Matthew Furman, Peters Township’s Darius McMillon and the Raiders’ Colton Stoneking lost quarterfinal matches and will wrestle in the 3rd round consolations. Cole Weightman (Belle Vernon), Mac Stout (Mt. Lebanon), Dylan Evans (Chartiers Valley), Ty Watters (West Allegheny) and Thomas Jefferson teammates Maddox Shaw and Brian Finnerty also advanced to Saturday’s semifinals.
AAA Consolations Canon-McMillan: Matthew Furman. Peters Township: Darius McMillon. Trinity: Blake Reihner. Waynesburg: Zander Phatorus, Colton Stoneking, Noah Tustin.
Friday, March 11
2:05 pm AAA Quarterfinals, 2nd/3rd Consolations
7:20 pm AA Semifinals, 4th/5th Consolations
Saturday, March 12
8:50 am AAA Semifinals, 4th/5th Consolations
1:50 pm AA Championship & Consolation Finals (3rd, 5th, 7th)
6:50 pm AAA Championship & Consolation Finals (3rd, 5th, 7th)
March 10, 2022 10:03 pm
The best Pennsylvania wrestlers have gathered at Hershey’s Giant Center for the PIAA Individual Championships this weekend. Washington & Greene Counties have 12 wrestlers starting in the AA field with 13 in the AAA brackets. WJPA-AM (1450) has live, start-to-finish coverage of all the action for both AA & AAA. Listen Here!
AA Preliminaries are in the books. Bentworth (Chris Vargo, Vitali Daniels) & Burgettstown (Parker Sentipal, Joey Sentipal) have two wrestlers each into the quarterfinals along with Beth-Center’s Tyler Berish. Gaven Suica (Burgettstown), Kyle McCollum (Beth-Center) and Cameron Carter-Green (Wash High) are still alive in the consolations after Thursday’s action. Rudy Brown & Joey Baronick (Burgettstown), Bradeon Welsh (Ft. Cherry) and Chase Frameli (Jeff-Morgan) were eliminated.
AAA Preliminaries saw six of the 13 Washington/Greene qualifiers advance to the quarterfinals led by Waynesburg’s Mac Church, Colton Stoneking and Rocco Welsh. Joining the Raiders’ trio, Canon-McMillan’s Jacob Houpt & Matthew Furman and Darius McMillon, Peters Township. Two of the local contingent, Trinity’s Blake Reihner and Waynesburg Zander Phatorus, won pigtail bouts before losing in the first round and have advanced to 2nd Consolations Friday afternoon. Waynesburg’s Noah Tustin won his first round consolation bout while teammate Brody Evans lost twice and was eliminated. Canon-McMillan lost three wrestlers after a pair of losses: Tanner Mizenko, Brandon Dame and Gabriel Stafford.
Friday, March 11
8:50 am AA Quarterfinals, 2nd/3rd Consolations
2:05 pm AAA Quarterfinals, 2nd/3rd Consolations
7:20 pm AA Semifinals, 4th/5th Consolations
Saturday, March 12
8:50 am AAA Semifinals, 4th/5th Consolations
1:50 pm AA Championship & Consolation Finals (3rd, 5th, 7th)
6:50 pm AAA Championship & Consolation Finals (3rd, 5th, 7th)
March 10, 2022 10:47 pm
Washington County sent a dozen teams into the WPIAL playoffs. Four of them reach the PIAA tournaments. After the opening rounds, ONE remains, the Fort Cherry boys. The Rangers (24-3) held off an upset-minded West Middlesex team to reach Saturday’s second round and a match up with District 6 champion Portage (27-1). The site and time for that Saturday game will be released early Thursday. Wash High boys were in a tight game until it slipped away midway through the fourth as the Little Prexies were eliminated by Chestnut Ridge, their first-ever state playoff win. Trinity girls led by seven with under 3 1/2 minutes to play but couldn’t make it stand, losing to District 3 titlist Gettysburg. Oddly enough, the two schools were set to play a PIAA quarterfinal game two years ago when games were paused, then cancelled by the COVID pandemic. West Greene girls lost their first round game on the road and were eliminated. Click for PIAA brackets
PIAA Basketball Second Round
Friday, March 11
6A Girls Mt. Lebanon vs. Bethel Park at Peters Township, 7:15 pm — WJPA-FM (95.3) or Listen Here
Saturday, March 12
2A Boys Fort Cherry vs. Portage at Norwin, 4:15 pm — WJPA-FM (95.3) or Listen Here
5A Girls Chartiers Valley vs. Hollidaysburg at Norwin, 5:45 pm— WJPA-FM (95.3) or Listen Here
March 11, 2022 3:51 am
NEW YORK (AP) – There will be a Major League Baseball season. Players have voted to accept management’s latest offer for a new labor deal, paving the way to end a 99-day lockout and salvage a 162-game regular season. Owners were unanimous in their approval of the package, which still needs ratification by all players. MLB sent the players an offer Thursday and gave them until 3 p.m. to accept in order to play a full season. The agreement calls for the luxury tax threshold to rise from $210 million last year to $230 million this season and gradually to $242 million in 2026. The minimum salary will increase from $570,500 to about $700,000 this year, with $20,000 annual increases. A new $50 million bonus pool was established for players not yet eligible for arbitration, a way to boost salaries for young stars. The agreement will allow training camps to open this week in Florida and Arizona, more than three weeks after they were scheduled to on Feb. 16. Opening day is being planned for April 7, a little more than a week behind the original date on March 31.
March 11, 2022 3:52 am
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Sam Sessoms scored 18 points and No. 11 seed Penn State rallied from an 11-point deficit in the second half to beat sixth-seeded Ohio State 71-68 in the second round of the Big Ten tournament. The Nittany Lions ended a four-game skid against Ohio State and advanced to the quarterfinals for the first time since 2018, where they will face No. 3 seed and ninth-ranked Purdue. Penn State (14-16) used a 14-3 run for their first lead of the game, 56-54, with about six minutes to play. It was a two-possession game inside the final minute until Jamari Wheeler hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer for Ohio State (19-11).
March 10, 2022 3:56 pm
NEW YORK (AP) – Players have voted to accept Major League Baseball’s latest offer for a new labor deal, paving the way to end a 99-day lockout and salvage a 162-game regular season. The union’s executive board approved the agreement in a 26-12 vote, pending ratification by all players, a person familiar with the balloting said, speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because no announcement was authorized. MLB sent the players an offer Thursday and gave them until 3 p.m. to accept in order to play a full season. The deal was still pending approval by MLB’s owners.
March 10, 2022 3:46 am
NEW YORK (AP) – Major League Baseball has chopped off another week of the upcoming season with the lockout in its 98th day. The decision means the season won’t begin until April 14 at the earliest and comes after differences narrowed on the three most contentious economic items under discussion. Management Wednesday gave the union a new option that would allow an agreement to be cut short after the 2024 season, leading to even more bargaining. MLB continues to press for its long-held goal of an international amateur draft. Players have repeatedly rejected the proposal since it was made on July 28.
March 10, 2022 3:44 am
UNDATED (AP) – A person with direct knowledge of the situation tells the Associated Press the Washington Commanders have agreed to acquire Carson Wentz from the Indianapolis Colts. The deal cannot be finalized until the start of the new league year next week. A different person with direct knowledge of the move tells the AP that Washington is getting the 47th pick in the draft along with Wentz and sending Indianapolis Nos. 42 and 73 this year and a 2023 conditional third-rounder that can become a second based on Wentz’s playing time. Wentz has three years remaining on his contract. The 2016 second overall pick of the Philadelphia Eagles spent just one season with Indianapolis.
