October 27, 2020 2:48 am
The WPIAL Volleyball tournaments began with preliminary matches on Tuesday. In Wednesday’s first round, defending champion Canon-McMillan rallied from an 0-2 deficit to advance to Saturday’s quarterfinals. Fort Cherry rolled by South Side Area while California outlasted Western Beaver. West Greene and Mapletown were swept out of the 1A bracket. WPIAL Volleyball brackets.
First Round–Wednesday
Class 4A #10 Canon-McMillan over at #7 Penn-Trafford, 3-2
Class 1A #2 Fort Cherry over #15 South Side Beaver, 3-0
Class 1A #8 California over #9 Western Beaver, 3-2
Class 1A #5 Leechburg over #12 West Greene, 3-0
Class 1A #1 Bishop Canevin over #16 Mapletown, 3-0
First Round–Thursday, 7 pm
Class 3A #15 Trinity at #2 Plum
Class 2A #12 Seton-La Salle at #5 Waynesburg
Class 2A #9 Carmichaels at #8 Shenango
Quarterfinals–Saturday, 12 noon
Class 4A #10 Canon-McMillan at #2 Shaler
Class 1A #10 Beaver Co. Christian at #2 Fort Cherry
Class 1A #8 California at #1 Bishop Canevin
October 28, 2020 3:54 am
UNDATED (AP) – Penn State running back Noah Cain will miss the rest of the season with an injury, another blow to the Nittany Lions’ backfield. Penn State coach James Franklin declined to give specifics of Cain’s injury, but the sophomore left Saturday’s game against Indiana early and reportedly was seen on the sideline later with a walking boot on his left foot. The loss of Cain comes about a week after Penn State announced its leading rusher from last season, Journey Brown, could miss the entire season with an unspecified medical condition. Cain ran for 443 yards and eight touchdowns last year. Penn State is trying to avoid a 0-2 start when its hosts No. 3 Ohio State on Saturday night.
October 27, 2020 3:54 am
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) – The Los Angeles Rams rebounded from their Week 6 loss to the San Francisco 49ers by stifling the Chicago Bears. The Rams’ defense allowed just 279 net yards and three points in a 24-10 win over the Bears. Taylor Rapp made an end-zone interception on a pass deflection by Troy Hill. The Rams held Chicago to 182 yards over the first three quarters in building a 24-3 lead. Josh Reynolds and Gerald Everett caught touchdown passes from Jared Goff, who threw for 219 yards. Eddie Jackson returned a fumble eight yards with 7 1/2 minutes remaining for Chicago’s only touchdown. Nick Foles passed for 261 yards for the Bears, who managed just 49 yards on the ground. Both teams are 5-2.
October 27, 2020 3:50 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Longtime NHL defenseman Trevor Daley has retired to take a position in the Pittsburgh Penguins front office. Daley played 16 seasons in the NHL and helped the Penguins to consecutive Stanley Cups in 2016 and 2017. The 37-year-old Daley spent the last three seasons with the Detroit Red Wings. He retires with 89 goals and 220 assists in 1,058 career games. The Penguins acquired Daley in December 2015, and his arrival coincided with a midseason makeover that helped propel the Penguins to the franchise’s fourth and fifth Stanley Cups. Pittsburgh also announced Monday that assistant general manager Jason Karmanos has been fired.
October 26, 2020 3:53 am
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) – The Los Angeles Dodgers are one victory away from their first World Series title in 32 years. Joc Pederson and Max Muncy hit solo homers as the Dodgers beat the Tampa Bay Rays, 4-2 to take a three-games-to-two lead in the World Series. It was Muncy’s third homer and 12th RBI with two out in this postseason. It took L.A. just two batters in taking the lead. Mookie Betts led off the top of the first with a double and scored on Corey Seager’s single. Clay Bellinger’s RBI single made it 2-0 later in the inning. Winning pitcher Clayton Kershaw worked 5 2/3 innings for the Dodgers, allowing two runs and five hits. Kershaw was helped out when Manuel Margot was thrown out attempting to steal home in the fifth inning. The three-time Cy Young Award winner has two of L.A’s three wins in the series. Randy Arozarena delivered an RBI single that got Tampa Bay within 3-2 in the third inning. It was his 27th hit of this postseason, breaking the old mark set by Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval in 2014. Rays starter and loser Tyler Glasnow was reached for four runs over five innings. The Dodgers can wrap up the series on Tuesday.
October 26, 2020 3:56 am
UNDATED (AP) – The Pittsburgh Steelers held on to win a battle of the AFC’s last two undefeated teams. Ben Roethlisberger threw two touchdown passes to Diontae Johnson while the Steelers were building a 27-7 lead in a 27-24 win over the Titans in Tennessee. Benny Snell Jr. added a 1-yard TD run, and Ray-Ray McCloud set up a touchdown with a 57-yard punt return. But the Titans scored 17 unanswered points in the second half and were in position to force overtime until Stephen Gostkowski missed wide right from 45 yards with 14 seconds left. The Steelers improved to 6-0 for their best start since 1978, when Pittsburgh won its first seven on the way to the Super Bowl. Ryan Tannehill threw for 220 yards and two TDs for the 5-1 Titans. Pittsburgh is now the NFL’s only unbeaten team following Seattle’s 37-34 overtime loss at Arizona.
October 25, 2020 7:33 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Ian Book passed for 312 yards and three touchdowns — two of them long catch-and-runs to graduate transfer Ben Skowronek — as the Fighting Irish rolled past Pittsburgh 45-3 on Saturday. A week after scuffling its way past Louisville, No. 3 Notre Dame (5-0, 4-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) had no such issues while handling the Panthers (3-4, 2-4) their fourth consecutive loss. Book hit Skowronek for a 34-yard score on Fighting Irish’s first possession and Pitt — playing without injured senior quarterback Kenny Pickett for a second straight week — simply could not keep up.
October 25, 2020 7:31 am
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Indiana coach Tom Allen had grown weary of close calls in big games. On Saturday, Allen went for it — and Michael Penix Jr. made those gambles pay off the Big Ten rivals’ first game of the delayed season. After leading the Hoosiers on a touchdown drive in the final minute of regulation and scoring on a 2-point conversion to force overtime, Penix hooked up with Whop Philyor for 9-yard TD pass in overtime and dove into the pylon for the decisive 2-point conversion to give Indiana a 36-35 victory over No. 8 Penn State — its first win over a Top 10 team in more than 33 years. Indiana snapped the longest streak of consecutive losses to Top 10 foes at 42, a skid that dated to a 31-10 victory at Ohio State on Oct. 10, 1987 — a game the late Earle Bruce dubbed as the darkest day in Buckeyes history. They ended the second-longest active streak of losses to Top 10 opponents in the Football Bowl Subdivision. Only Wake Forest, at 63, had been longer.
October 25, 2020 7:30 am
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Brett Phillips squatted on the field crying, Randy Arozarena sprawled in the dirt pounding his hands on home plate. Tears of joy, smacks of celebration — and a crucial, crazy win for the scrappy Tampa Bay Rays. In one of the wildest World Series finishes ever, the light-hitting Phillips delivered a tying single off Kenley Jansen with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning that turned into the game-ending hit when the Los Angeles Dodgers dropped the ball twice, allowing Arozarena to scramble home and lifting the Rays to an 8-7 victory Saturday night that suddenly evened things at two games each. The Dodgers led 7-6 when center fielder Chris Taylor misplayed Phillips’ ball in right-center for an error and chased it down while Kevin Kiermaier scored the tying run. Arozarena kept charging around third base but stumbled and fell well before reaching home. He was able to get up and score when catcher Will Smith looked up too early and missed the relay throw, letting it squirt toward the backstop while Arozarena dived on top of the plate.
October 24, 2020 3:21 am
The final weekend of the high football regular season is in the books. It’s the end of the line for 13 Washington/Greene teams, a move into the second season for four squads and a few tense hours of waiting for a couple more. The WPIAL will announce this year’s trimmed-down playoff field and match-ups Saturday at 7 pm. Click Here.
Peters Township (5A), McGuffey (2A), California (1A) and Avella (1A) are definitely in. The Indians, Highlanders and Trojans all as conference champions. The Eagles were in a win-and-in situation, beating Carmichaels, 14-7, to finish second in the Tri-County South. Wash High, a 43-6 winner over Frazier, is likely in as the 2A Century Conference runner-up. Carmichaels is one of three 1A third-place teams vying for two wild card spots after losing at Avella.
Bentworth, Beth-Center, Burgettstown, Canon-McMillan, Charleroi, Chartiers-Houston, Fort Cherry, Ringgold and Trinity along with Jeff-Morgan, Mapletown, Waynesburg and West Greene all saw the curtain come down on their seasons. None of the ends came more painfully than it did for Canon-McMillan. The Big Macs topped Norwin but saw Mt. Lebanon beat Seneca Valley, 28-27, in overtime to claim the fourth 6A playoff berth.
