September 25, 2022 7:48 am
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Sean Clifford completed 22 of 34 passes for 217 yards with four total touchdowns and No. 14 Penn State beat Central Michigan 33-14. Tight end Brenton Strange caught two touchdowns, Mitchell Tinsley caught one, and Clifford and Kaytron Allen added touchdown runs for the Nittany Lions. Penn State forced four turnovers and remained undefeated. Clifford completed 22 of 34 passes for 217 yards with three touchdowns. He ran for 23 yards and another score. Clifford marched his offense down the field and hit Tinsley over the middle from 5 yards out to start the scoring.
September 25, 2022 7:47 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Johan Oviedo tied his career high with seven strikeouts in seven innings, and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Chicago Cubs 6-0 to snap an eight-game losing streak. Oviedo (4-2) retired the final 16 batters he faced, allowing just three hits on 82 pitches without issuing a walk. The right-hander went at least seven innings for the first time this season and second time in 24 career starts. The Pirates (56-96) ended Chicago’s four-game winning streak, and now must win at least seven of their final 10 games to avoid reaching 100 losses for the 10th time. Wade Miley (1-2) gave up one hit over the next three innings before leaving with left oblique tightness in the fifth.
September 24, 2022 2:15 am
Burgettstown built a 14-0 lead at the half and made it stand up as the Blue Devils downed Chartiers-Houston to pick up their first Black Hills Conference win, the second straight conference loss for the Bucs. After four non-conference games, Wash High sprinted out of the gate in its Century Conference opener, scoring the first nine times it had the ball to roll past Brentwood. McGuffey also won in the Century Conference. Charleroi and Canon-McMillan picked up non-conference wins, Charleroi getting its first win of the year. Peters Township and Trinity both led early but each suffered their first conference loss of the season. Ringgold’s loss to Connellsville is the Rams’ 10th straight. West Greene beat Bentworth to snap a 5-game losing skid.
5A Allegheny Six
Upper St. Clair 17, Peters Township 10
4A Big Seven
McKeesport 35, Trinity 6
Connellsville 20, Ringgold 6
2A Century
Wash High 62, Brentwood 7
McGuffey 63, Waynesburg 20
1A Black Hills
Burgettstown 14, Chartiers-Houston 8
OLSH 40, Ft. Cherry 24
Avella vs. Bishop Canevin at Dormont (Saturday, 7 pm)
1A Tri-County South
West Greene 49, Bentworth 33
Jeff-Morgan 28, Beth-Center 14
Monessen 28, California 20
Mapletown 42, Carmichaels 0
Non-Conference
Canon-McMillan 21, South Fayette 17
Charleroi 24, Jeannette 20
September 24, 2022 3:53 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) – St. Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols has hit his 700th career homer, becoming the fourth player to reach the milestone in major league history. Pujols connected his second home run of the game, a three-run drive against Los Angeles Dodgers reliever Phil Bickford in the fourth inning. The ball landed in the first few rows of the left-field pavilion, the same location homer No. 699 – a two-run shot – landed in the third inning off left-hander Andrew Heaney. Pujols has driven in all five of the Cardinals runs and they lead the Dodgers 5-0.
September 24, 2022 3:52 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Esteban Quiroz hit a go-ahead single in the eighth, his second in three innings, and the Chicago Cubs beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-5 for their fourth straight win. Quiroz lined a two-out hit off Yohan Ramirez (1-1) to left in the eighth, driving in Jared Young. Two innings earlier, he chopped an infield single to cap a three-run sixth for the Cubs, who have won eight of 11. The Pirates (55-96) have lost eight straight, and must win at least eight of their final 11 to avoid reaching 100 losses for the 10th time.
September 24, 2022 3:48 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Pitt football coach Pat Narduzzi will face his alma mater when the 24th-ranked Panthers host Rhode Island on Saturday. Narduzzi played linebacker for the Rams in the late 1980s and later served as an assistant coach for the program. Narduzzi says he knew he wanted to be a coach in college. He jokes that he was one of the few players who had a film projector in his dorm room to go over game tape. Pitt is 2-1 after a decisive road win last week at Western Michigan. The Rams are also 2-1 after a loss to Delaware a week ago.
September 23, 2022 3:51 am
CLEVELAND (AP) — Mitch Trubisky promised he’d be more aggressive and was, testing Cleveland’s secondary with some long throws and moving Pittsburgh’s offense effectively in the first half. Now he’s got to put a complete game together. Trubisky showed some signs of breaking out of an early season funk before bogging down after halftime as the Steelers lost 29-17 to the Cleveland Browns on Thursday night. For 30 minutes, Trubisky looked good. He moved well in the pocket, stretched the field with some deep balls and had the Steelers (1-2) leading by a point at half and looking to hand the Browns (2-1) their second loss in four days However, Pittsburgh managed just 54 yards on its first three possessions in the second half. “We’re getting there, just not where it needs to be,” said Trubisky, who finished 20 of 32 for 207 yards. “We didn’t hit on the plays we needed to in the second half. Scoring three points in the second half isn’t going to do it for us.” Trubisky didn’t make any major mistakes, showed some nice mobility on rollouts, most of them to the right and away from Browns star defensive end Myles Garrett, and ran for a score in the first half to put the Steelers ahead 14-13. He was good, just not good enough to win.
September 23, 2022 3:51 am
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) – J.T. Daniels threw for 203 yards and a touchdown to lead West Virginia to a 33-10 win over Virginia Tech. CJ Donaldson rushed for 106 yards and West Virginia (2-2) got a strong performance from its defense to win its second straight game after losing the first two. The Mountaineers, who beat Virginia Tech for the second consecutive season, scored on five straight possessions spanning the first and second half. Daniels’ 24-yard touchdown pass to Sam James with 11 seconds left in the first half gave the Mountaineers a 13-7 lead, and they never trailed again.
September 23, 2022 3:54 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Rookie Hayden Wesneski had an immaculate inning in his second major league start to lead the Chicago Cubs to a 3-2 victory over the skidding Pittsburgh Pirates. Wesneski (2-1) gave up two runs and five hits in 6 1/3 innings while striking out six and walking two in sending Pittsburgh to its seventh straight loss. It was his fourth appearance in the majors. Acquired from the New York Yankees at the trade deadline, Wesneski had an immaculate inning in the fifth when he struck out the side on nine pitches. The Cubs have a three-game winning streak.
September 22, 2022 3:46 am
NEW YORK (AP) – Aaron Judge disappointed fans by staying stuck at 60 homers but doubled twice and scored on Oswaldo Cabrera’s first-inning grand slam that started the New York Yankees to a 14-2 rout of the Pittsburgh Pirates. A day after hitting home run No. 60 to spark a stunning five-run, ninth-inning rally capped by Giancarlo Stanton’s game-ending slam, Judge doubled on the first pitch to him in the first and fifth innings. Judge leads the AL in average, home runs and RBIs, in position to become the first Triple Crown winner in a decade. Cabrera and Gleyber Torres (pictured) had five RBIs each.
