March 13, 2023 3:53 am
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Two people with knowledge of the deal say the Miami Dolphins are acquiring All-Pro cornerback Jalen Ramsey in a trade with the Los Angeles Rams. Los Angeles will get Miami’s third-round pick in the 2023 NFL draft and tight end Hunter Long for Ramsey. Both people spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because neither team had announced the deal. Ramsey had 77 tackles and four interceptions during the Rams’ Super Bowl-winning 2021 season. Last season, he had a career-high 88 tackles and four interceptions.
March 11, 2023 1:56 am
The PIAA Wrestling Championships is Pennsylvania’s most-popular high school championship event, and WJPA Radio brought home the excitement as we have for over 70 years. When Class 2A started Thursday morning, the brackets included 14 wrestlers from Washington & Greene Counties. A dozen more from the two-county area were in the Class 3A brackets that opened up Thursday afternoon. Thanks for Mark Uriah who called his 40th consecutive PIAA tournament. He was joined by Greg Warnock and Greg Smith in the booth. PIAA Wrestling Homepage
Class 2A
Bentworth
Chris Vargo (127) 2nd place
Vitali Daniels (215) 4th place
Burgettstown
Joey Baronick (285) 6th place
Fort Cherry
Braedon Welsh (172) 4th place
Class 3A
Canon-McMillan
Andrew Binni (127) 2nd place
Matthew Furman (172) 2nd place
Trinity
Blake Reihner (139) 5th place
Ty Banco (285) 6th place
Waynesburg
Mac Church (145) 2nd place
Rocco Welsh (172) champion
Brody Evans (189) 3rd place
Eli Makel (215) 4th place
Chartiers Valley
Brady Joling (121) 4th place
Dylan Evans (160) champion
Thomas Jefferson
Maddox Shaw (133) 2nd place
West Allegheny
Nico Taddy (145) 7th place
Ty Watters (152) champion
Shawn Tayler (160) 2nd place
March 11, 2023 1:20 am
The PIAA Basketball playoffs tipped off Friday night with a pair of wins by Washington County teams. Burgettstown girls rallied from a 12-point first quarter deficit to down District 6 runner-up United in overtime. Kaitlyn Nease led the Blue Devils with 18 points. Eden Rush had 15, including a pair of three-pointers in the fourth quarter. Jillian Frazier had 11 for the winners. Peters Township boys advanced by outlasting Milton Hershey School. The Indians led by five after one, were tied at the break, up five again after three, and pushed the margin to seven in the final minute of the game. Brendan McCullough (21), Mickey Vaccarello (14) and Nate Miller (10) all reached double figures for Peters Township. Chartiers-Houston and Waynesburg girls teams both lost and were eliminated. PIAA Brackets
Trinity scored just four points over the final 11 minutes of the first half and never recovered, losing to Cathedral Prep. Senior Eden Williamson led Trinity with 12 points in her final game.
Friday, March 10, First Round (winners to Tuesday)
2A Girls Burgettstown 57, United 52 OT
2A Girls Homer Center 43, Chartiers-Houston 20
3A Girls Mercyhurst Prep 73, Waynesburg 35
5A Boys Peters Township 60, Milton Hershey 53
Saturday, March 11, First Round (winners to Wednesday)
5A Girls Cathedral Prep 48, Trinity 30
Tuesday, March 14, Second Round (sites/times to be determined) (winners to Friday)
5A Boys 7-2 Peters Township vs. 3-7 Lampeter-Strasburg, 5:15 pm at Altoona WJPA-AM (1450) Listen Here
2A Girls 7-3 Burgettstown vs. 10-1 Kennedy Catholic, 6:45 pm at New Castle WJPA-FM (95.3) Listen Here
March 12, 2023 7:57 am
CHICAGO (AP) — Jalen Pickett scored 28 points, Seth Lundy had 16 and Penn State beat No. 19 Indiana 77-73 to advance to the Big Ten Tournament championship. Andrew Funk added nine points as 10th-seeded Penn State won for the eighth time in nine games. The Nittany Lions went 8 for 23 from 3-point range, compared to 2 for 14 for the Hoosiers. Next up for Penn State is top-seeded Purdue, which stopped Ohio State’s surprising run with an 80-66 victory in the first semifinal.
March 12, 2023 7:56 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Sidney Crosby scored a power-play goal and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Philadelphia Flyers 5-1 on Saturday. Pittsburgh led 2-1 until Jason Zucker’s goal at 14:24 of the third period. Zucker, who redirected a Marcus Pettersson shot between Carter Hart’s pads, has 10 goals in the last 12 games. Rickard Rakell and Mikael Granlund also scored. Jake Guentzel added an empty net goal. Casey DeSmith stopped 31 shots for the Penguins, who have won six of their last eight games. Kieffer Bellows scored for the Flyers, who lost their third straight. Carter Hart made 27 saves.
March 10, 2023 3:21 am
The PIAA Wrestling Championships is Pennsylvania’s most-popular high school championship event, and WJPA Radio has brought home the excitement for over 70 years. When Class 2A started Thursday morning, the brackets included 14 wrestlers from Washington & Greene Counties. A dozen more from the two-county area were in the Class 3A brackets that opened up Thursday afternoon. This eight-session tournament runs through the finals on Saturday with all the action live on WJPA-AM (1450) and online. Mark Uriah is calling the action for the 40th consecutive year. He’s joined by Greg Warnock and Greg Smith in the booth. PIAA Wrestling Homepage
Friday morning was rough for area Class 2A wrestlers with only Chris Vargo, Bentworth and Braedon Welsh, Ft. Cherry advancing to the semifinals. Vitali Daniels (Bentworth) lost in the quarterfinals but won his 3rd Round consolation bout and clinched a PIAA medal. Joey Baronick (Burgettstown) won a pair of consolation bouts to clinch a state medal. The other three Burgettstown wrestlers were eliminated: Joey Sentipal lost in the quarterfinals, and again in 3rd Round consolations. Gaven Suica won his 2nd Round consy bout before losing in the next round, one win shy of earning a medal. Parker Sentipal lost in the 2nd Round consolations and was eliminated, along with Tyler Berish (Beth-Center), Lucas Barr (McGuffey) and Jorden Williams (Chartiers-Houston). Class 2A wrestlers return to the mats Friday evening for semifinals and two more consolation rounds.
Friday evening’s Class 2A session set the pairings for the medal bouts. Christ Vargo will wrest for the 127-pound championship, looking to become Bentworth’s third PIAA champion. Bearcat teammate Vitali Daniels will wrestle for third place in the 215 pound bracket. Fort Cherry’s Braedon Welsh goes for third at 172 pounds while Burgettstown’s Joey Baronick will take the mat, shooting for fifth place at 285 pounds.
Friday afternoon saw six Class 3A wrestlers from the two-county area reach the semifinals: Canon-McMillan’s Andrew Binni & Matthew Furman, Trinity’s Blake Reihner & Ty Banco and Waynesburg’s Mac Church and Rocco Welsh. Two other Waynesburg wrestlers have clinched medals with Brody Evans and Eli Makel reaching 4th Round consolations. Four other area wrestlers are also in the semifinals: Dylan Evans (Chartiers Valley), Maddox Shaw (Thomas Jefferson) and West Allegheny teammates Ty Watters & Shawn Taylor.
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Saturday, March 11
8:50 am 3A Semifinals, 4th/5th Consolations
1:50 pm 2A Championship & Consolation Finals (1st-8th place)
6:50 pm 3A Championship & Consolation Finals (1st-8th place)
March 11, 2023 3:40 am
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia Flyers have fired general manager Chuck Fletcher and promoted franchise great Danny Briere to the interim job. Fletcher was fired a week after he failed to make any major moves at the trade deadline. The Flyers made the playoffs once in his 4 1/2 years on the job and are 24-30-11 this season. Fletcher also was president of hockey operations. The Flyers said they will separate the general manager and president roles.
March 11, 2023 3:47 am
Former England captain Gary Lineker has been temporarily removed from his role as presenter of the BBC’s flagship soccer highlights show in the wake of his criticism of the British government’s new asylum policy. The BBC says the long-running “Match of the Day” program will now be aired on Saturday “without studio presentation or punditry.” That decision was taken after a slew of Lineker’s colleagues announced they wouldn’t appear on the show without him. Lineker has compared British lawmakers’ language about migrants to that used in Nazi Germany. The BBC considers Lineker posting such views on social media as a breach of its guidelines.
March 9, 2023 2:21 am
The PIAA Wrestling Championships is Pennsylvania’s most-popular high school championship event, and WJPA Radio has brought home the excitement for over 70 years. Class 2A started Thursday morning, including 14 wrestlers from Washington & Greene Counties. A dozen more from the two-county area are in the Class 3A brackets that opened up Thursday afternoon. This eight-session tournament runs through the finals on Saturday with all the action live on WJPA-AM (1450) and online. Mark Uriah is calling the action for the 40th consecutive year. He’s joined by Greg Warnock and Greg Smith in the booth. PIAA Wrestling Homepage
Thursday’s 2A preliminaries saw Burgettstown keep all four qualifiers alive but only Joey Sentipal reached the quarterfinals. Bentworth’s Chris Vargo and Vitali Daniels will wrestle in the quarterfinals Friday, along with Braedon Welsh of Ft. Cherry. Beth-Center, Chartiers-Houston and McGuffey each have one wrestler still alive in the consolation brackets. Three other Washington County qualifiers were eliminated while Jeff-Morgan’s Chase Frameli forfeited both of his scheduled bouts, dealing with a knee injury.
Burrell is leading the rest of the WPIAL 2A schools with four wrestlers still alive, two in the quarterfinals. Frazier and Central Valley have two quarterfinalists alive, one each for Indiana and Laurel. Mt. Pleasant and Quaker Valley have two consolation wrestlers while Carlynton, Greensburg Salem, Hopewell, Keystone Oaks and Montour have one each.
Not to be outdone, Class 3A wrestlers from the two-county area put on quite a show. Nine of the 12 qualifiers have reached the quarterfinals, including four from Waynesburg (Mac Church, Rocco Welsh, Brody Evans and Eli Makel), all three Canon-McMillan wrestlers (Tanner Mizenko, Andrew Binni and Matthew Furman) and both Trinity qualifiers (Blake Reihner and Ty Banco). Only one of the 21 qualifiers from Washington/Greene/southern Allegheny/Mon Valley area has been eliminated. Waynesburg’s Nate Jones lost twice in Thursday’s action. In addition to the nine quarterfinalists, Chris Cibrone (Peters Township) and Jake Conroy (Ringgold) are still alive in 2nd Round Consolations.
PIAA Wrestling Championships WJPA-AM (1450) Listen Here!
Friday, March 10
8:50 am 2A Quarterfinals, 2nd/3rd Consolations
2:05 pm 3A Quarterfinals, 2nd/3rd Consolations
7:20 pm 2A Semifinals, 4th/5th Consolations
Saturday, March 11
8:50 am 3A Semifinals, 4th/5th Consolations
1:50 pm 2A Championship & Consolation Finals (1st-8th place)
6:50 pm 3A Championship & Consolation Finals (1st-8th place)
March 10, 2023 3:54 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Brock Nelson scored on a breakaway in overtime and the New York Islanders rallied to defeat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-3. Nelson beat Tristan Jarry to the blocker side at 2:13 of the extra period as the Islanders swept the season series against Pittsburgh for the first time in franchise history. Anders Lee had two goals and Hudson Fasching also scored for the Islanders, who scored twice in the final 5:29 of regulation to force overtime. Ilya Sorokin stopped 33 shots and assisted on the winning goal for New York. Jake Guentzel, Jason Zucker and Josh Archibald scored for Pittsburgh. Tristan Jarry made 24 saves for the Penguins.
