October 18, 2025 4:26 am
SEATTLE (AP) — Eugenio Suárez hit a go-ahead grand slam after Cal Raleigh’s tying drive in a five-run eighth inning, giving the Seattle Mariners a 6-2 win over the Toronto Blue Jays and a 3-2 AL Championship Series lead. Suárez also homered in the second inning for Seattle’s first run. The Mariners became the first home team to win in the series and moved within a victory of the first World Series trip for a franchise that started play in 1977. Game 6 is at Toronto on Sunday night.
October 18, 2025 4:27 am
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Louisville has pulled off a stunning victory against the second-ranked Miami Hurricanes, winning 24-21 on Friday night. Miller Moss threw two touchdown passes and rushed for another score. Louisville intercepted four of Miami star Carson Beck’s passes, the last with the Hurricanes in field-goal range in the final minute. The Cardinals took an early 14-0 lead and never trailed. They also snapped Miami’s 10-game home winning streak. Louisville’s defense held Miami to just 63 rushing yards. The Cardinals had been 0-18 against Top 10 teams in true road games before this win. This victory could propel Louisville into the AP Top 25 rankings Sunday.
October 17, 2025 4:31 am
CINCINNATI (AP) — Joe Flacco passes for 342 yards and three touchdowns, leading the Cincinnati Bengals to a 33-31 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Bengals snapped a four-game losing streak on Thursday night. Evan McPherson kicks a 36-yard field goal with seven seconds left to secure the win. Flacco, in his second start for Cincinnati, outduels Aaron Rodgers in a rare matchup of starting quarterbacks in their 40s. Ja’Marr Chase shines with 16 receptions for 161 yards and a touchdown. Chase Brown adds 108 rushing yards. The Steelers fall to 4-2 despite Rodgers’ four touchdown passes and Jaylen Warren’s 127 rushing yards.
October 17, 2025 4:33 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Filip Hallander scored his first career goal to give Pittsburgh the lead and the Penguins rallied to beat the Los Angeles Kings 4-2. Hallander, playing in his seventh NHL game, jammed in Rickard Rakell’s rebound at the near post for the short-handed goal at 6:50 of the third period to give Pittsburgh a 3-2 lead. Evgeni Malkin, Connor Dewar and Sidney Crosby also scored, and Arturs Silovs made 30 saves for the Penguins. Warren Foegele and Kevin Fiala scored in the first period to give the Kings a 2-0 lead after one. Anton Forsberg made 22 saves.
October 17, 2025 4:34 am
SEATTLE (AP) — Max Scherzer turned back the clock with a vintage pitching performance and Andrés Giménez homered and drove in four runs as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Seattle Mariners 8-2 to even the American League Championship Series at two games apiece. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit his fifth homer this postseason and the 41-year-old Scherzer allowed two runs in 5 2/3 innings for the Blue Jays, who have outscored the Mariners 21-6 in Seattle after losing the first two games at home. Game 5 in the best-of-seven series is Friday, with Kevin Gausman scheduled to start for Toronto against Game 1 winner Bryce Miller.
October 17, 2025 4:35 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tommy Edman hit a tiebreaking single off hard-throwing rookie Jacob Misiorowski in a two-run sixth inning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Milwaukee Brewers 3-1 to take a 3-0 lead in their NL Championship Series. Los Angeles moved within one win of becoming the first defending champion to reach the World Series since the 2009 Philadelphia Phillies. No team has won consecutive titles since the 1998-2000 New York Yankees took three in a row. Only one Major League Baseball team has overcame a 3-0 postseason deficit, the 2004 Boston Red Sox against the Yankees.
October 16, 2025 1:20 am
The WPIAL Soccer playoff brackets have been released. Those match-ups include nine boys teams from Washington County, along with five local girls squads plus Waynesburg. Peters Township, Canon-McMillan, Ringgold, Bentworth and Chartiers-Houston have teams in both boys and girls. Trinity, McGuffey, Charleroi and Beth-Center boys, along with the Waynesburg girls also made the field. Peters Township is #1 seed on both 4A brackets. Canon-McMillan boys are #8 in the 4A bracket. The defending champion Bentworth boys are #1 in their bracket while the Bearcats’ girls team is #2. WPIAL Soccer Brackets
Thursday, Oct. 16, Preliminary Round
3A Boys #16 Belle Vernon > #17 Ringgold, 2-1
Saturday, Oct. 18, First Round
10:00 am 1A Boys #13 Chartiers-Houston vs. #4 Beaver Co. Christian — at Peters Township
12:00 noon 1A Boys #8 Beth-Center vs. #9 Eden Christian — at West Allegheny
12:30 pm 3A Boys #11 Trinity at #6 Chartiers Valley
2:00 pm 1A Boys #1 Bentworth vs. #16 Brentwood — at Peters Township
Monday, Oct. 20, First Round
6:30 pm 4A Girls #9 Latrobe at #8 Canon-McMillan
6:30 pm 2A Boys #9 Beaver Area at #8 Charleroi
6:30 pm 2A Boys #13 McGuffey at #4 Avonworth
Tuesday, Oct. 21, First Round
6:00 pm 1A Girls #13 Chartiers-Houston at #4 Springdale
6:00 pm 1A Girls #2 Bentworth vs. #15 Freedom — at Peters Township
6:00 pm 1A Girls #11 Waynesburg vs. #6 Winchester Thurston — at Norwin
6:30 pm 2A Girls #15 Ringgold at #15 Freeport
6:30 pm 4A Boys #12 Hempfield at #5 Canon-McMillan
First Round Byes
4A Girls #1 Peters Township to Thursday, Oct. 23 HOME vs. Canon-McMillan / Latrobe winner
4A Boys #1 Peters Township to Saturday, Oct. 25 HOME vs. North Allegheny / Central Catholic winner
October 16, 2025 2:41 am
PIAA announced Wednesday afternoon that Dr. Bob Lombardi will retire at the end of the year. Mark Byers will succeed him as Executive Director. Lombardi joined the PIAA executive staff in 1988 and has been the Executive Director since 2012, following the retirement of Brad Cashman. The East Stroudsburg University graduate turns 70 in mid-November and said he is looking forward to time with family. In its release, the Association highlighted a number of accomplishments during Lombardi’s tenure including becoming the nation’s 4th largest state by way of student athlete participation, expansion in the number of classifications in ten sports, the addition of additional opportunities for girls through Competitive Spirit, Flag Football and Wrestling, the implementation of the Competition Formula and transfer rules, and the integration of Unified Special Olympics championships in Bocce and Track & Field. (Photo PIAA web)
October 16, 2025 4:27 am
Joe Flacco and Aaron Rodgers are set to face off in a rare matchup of 40-year-old quarterbacks. Thursday night’s game between the Steelers and Bengals marks only the third time this has happened in the regular season. Flacco, recently traded to Cincinnati, will play against Rodgers, who has led the Steelers to a 4-1 start. Rodgers has excelled with quick passes, while Flacco has quickly connected with Bengals receivers Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins. The Bengals hope to end a four-game losing streak, and the Steelers aim to overcome their Thursday night road woes.
October 16, 2025 4:24 am
SEATTLE (AP) — Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and George Springer woke up Toronto’s offense as the Blue Jays hit five home runs to rebound from an early deficit, routing the Seattle Mariners 13-4 and closing to 2-1 in the AL Championship Series. Julio Rodríguez’s two-run, first-inning homer off Shane Bieber put Seattle ahead and stirred thoughts of a possible sweep, but Andrés Giménez sparked the comeback with a tying, two-run homer in a five-run third against George Kirby. Springer, Guerrero, Alejandro Kirk and Addison Barger went deep as the Blue Jays totaled 2,004 feet of homers among 18 hits.
