June 5, 2025 4:33 am
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Reese Atwood hit a go-ahead, two-run single for Texas in the sixth inning, when Texas Tech ace NiJaree Canady was trying to walk her intentionally and the Longhorns beat the Red Raiders 2-1 in Game 1 of the Women’s College World Series finals on Wednesday night. Teagan Kavan pitched a three-hitter for Texas (54-11), which can secure its first national title with a victory in Game 2 on Thursday night. Texas Tech (53-12) would have to win two straight to claim its first championship in its first WCWS appearance. Canady allowed four hits and struck out seven, but she has lost four of five career starts against Texas, with two of those defeats for the Red Raiders this season and two for her previous school, Stanford. You can hear game two tonight on WJPA 1450AM beginning at 7:45 p.m.
June 4, 2025 4:26 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Lance McCullers Jr. pitched six sparkling innings for his first win since 2022, and Christian Walker and Isaac Paredes hit late home runs as the Houston Astros beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-0. McCullers won a tight duel with Pirates ace Paul Skenes, allowing just two hits and one walk while striking out seven. It was his first win since Sept. 21, 2022, at Tampa Bay. The right-hander missed the past two seasons because of injuries, then was winless in his first five starts this year after being activated from the injured list on May 4. Skenes was nearly as dazzling in defeat, giving up one run and three hits in eight innings. He struck out eight and walked one.
June 4, 2025 4:23 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Nick Gonzales was back in the Pittsburgh Pirates starting lineup on Tuesday night for the first time since breaking his left ankle while hitting a home run on opening day in Miami on March 27. The second baseman was activated from the 60-day injured list before Tuesday’s series opener of a three-game series with the visiting Houston Astros. Gonzales had been sidelined with a non-displaced fracture. The 26-year-old Gonzales played nine rehab games with Triple-A Indianapolis and hit .194. In other roster moves, right-handed reliever Kyle Nicolas was recalled from Triple-A, and infielder/outfielder Nick Solak was designated for assignment.
June 4, 2025 4:28 am
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — The Florida Panthers and Edmonton Oilers seemed to have been on a collision course to meet again in the Stanley Cup Final. A year since Florida won in seven games to capture the first title in franchise history, there’s an aura of inevitability around the rematch. The question is whether the conclusion of this one will be the Panthers becoming back-to-back NHL champions or Oilers captain Connor McDavid finally hoisting the Cup. Game 1 is Wednesday night at Edmonton.
June 2, 2025 1:00 am
The PIAA softball & baseball championship tournaments opened Monday across the Commonwealth, including six Washington & Greene County teams. Chartiers-Houston softball was the ony winner, and needed a seventh-inning grand slam from Ella Richey to advance. The Bucs trailed host Cranberry, 2-0, into the final inning before Richey’s blast saved the day for the WPIAL runner-up. The Bucs return to the state quarterfinals Thursday against District 10 champion Seneca.
Bentworth errors opened the door repeatedly for District 6 champion West Shamokin, the Wolves claiming their first-ever PIAA tournament win with 7 unearned runs. Carmichaels and West Greene softball teams were shutout. The Mikes’ baseball team was eliminated by run-rule at Homer-Center while Peters Township baseball fell in a one-run loss at Lampeter-Strasburg. SItes/times for Thursday’s action are expected to be released Tuesday morning. PIAA Softball Brackets PIAA Baseball Brackets
WJPA Sports Network will have coverage of the Bentworth/West Shamokin game Monday afternoon, starting at 3:45 pm. Our broadcast will be audio only on WJPA-AM (1450) and online Listen Here
Monday, June 2
PIAA First Round
Softball
2A West Shamokin > Bentworth, 11-5
2A Chartiers-Houston > Cranberry, 5-2
1A Berlin-Brothersvalley > Carmichaels, 3-0
1A Cambridge Springs > West Greene, 9-0
Baseball
5A Lampeter-Strasburg > Peters Township, 2-1
1A Homer Center > Carmichaels, 10-0 (5 inn.)
Thursday, June 5
PIAA Quarterfinals
Softball
2A Chartiers-Houston vs. District 10 champion Seneca, site/time to be announced, WJPA-AM (1450) Watch/Listen Here
June 3, 2025 4:25 am
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Cameron Young is among 47 players who earned a spot in the U.S. Open on a long day of qualifiers from coast to coast. Young birdied three of his last four holes to get into a five-man playoff for one spot in Ohio. He birdied the first hole to bump out Rickie Fowler and Max Homa. Homa split with his caddie and wound up going 38 holes carrying his own bag. The qualifier from Atlanta include 17-year-old high school junior Mason Howell, who went 36 holes without a bogey. Matt Vogt, who is a dentist, led the two qualifiers in Washington state.
June 3, 2025 4:27 am
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s run of four straight Women’s College World Series titles ended when Lauren Allred’s walk-off sacrifice fly gave #12 Texas Tech a 3-2 victory in the semifinals. Coach Patty Gasso’s Sooners were down to their last strike in the top of the seventh inning when Abigale Dayton summoned a bit of magic, hitting a tying two-run homer against Red Raiders ace NiJaree Canady. But the Red Raiders responded quickly in the bottom half. Mihyia Davis singled with one out and Hailey Toney followed with a double. Allred hit a fly ball to right field and Sydney Barker’s throw to the plate was wide, allowing Davis to score easily.
Texas Tech will face #6 Texas in the best-of-three WCWS Championship Series starting Wednesday night. WJPA-AM (1450) will carry the Championship series via Westwood One. Pregame is scheduled for 7:45 pm each night.
June 3, 2025 4:27 am
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — Kentucky Derby runner-up and Preakness winner Journalism has opened as the 8-5 favorite in the Belmont Stakes to close out the Triple Crown. Derby winner Sovereignty was set as the second choice at odds of 2-1 on Monday. Baeza, who finished third in Kentucky in early May, opened at 4-1 with Bob Baffert-trained Rodriguez next at 6-1. Journalism drew the No. 7 post in the field of eight horses for the second Belmont at Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York. Sovereignty will leave the starting gate from the No. 2 post.
June 2, 2025 4:29 am
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Manny Machado homered in the first inning and hit a go-ahead sacrifice fly in a four-run seventh for the San Diego Padres, who rallied past the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-4 to take two of three games in their series. Andrew McCutchen hit a two-run shot to tie Roberto Clemente for third place on Pittsburgh’s career list with 240 homers. Adam Frazier also went deep to give the Pirates a 4-1 lead in the fourth. Gavin Sheets slammed face-first into the wall while tracking Frazier’s homer and left the game.
June 2, 2025 4:33 am
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Andrew McCutchen tied Roberto Clemente for third place on the Pittsburgh Pirates’ all-time home run list at 240 with a two-run shot off San Diego’s Randy Vásquez in the third inning. It was the second homer in as many nights and fifth of the season for the 38-year-old McCutchen, who’s in his 17th big league season and 12th with Pittsburgh over two stints. Clemente hit 240 homers from 1955-1972. He was 38 when he was killed on Dec. 31, 1972, in the crash of a plane he chartered to deliver emergency supplies for the survivors of an earthquake in Nicaragua.
