March 12, 2020 3:43 pm
Following a call with the 30 clubs, and after consultation with the Major League Baseball Players Association, Commissioner Robert D. Manfred Jr. today announced that MLB has decided to suspend Spring Training games and to delay the start of the 2020 regular season by at least two weeks due to the national emergency created by the coronavirus pandemic. This action is being taken in the interests of the safety and well-being of our players, clubs and our millions of loyal fans.
MLB will continue to evaluate ongoing events leading up to the start of the season. Guidance related to daily operations and workouts will be relayed to Clubs in the coming days. As of 4 p.m. ET today, forthcoming Spring Training games have been cancelled, and 2020 World Baseball Classic Qualifier games in Tucson, Ariz., have been postponed indefinitely.
March 11, 2020 10:54 pm
Riley DeRubbo led Trinity with 18 points in a relatively easy win over Great Valley in the 5A girls second round. WPIAL champion Chartiers Valley and Section 1 foe Thomas Jefferson won their games and will meet in the quarterfinals.
The 6A boys second round game between Mt. Lebanon and Cheltenham was postponed due to concerns about COVID-19 exposure in the Cheltenham School District. Thursday morning, the game was again postponed with no re-schedule date yet announced. Sites/times as well as additional news is expected soon from PIAA headquarters.
Click for PIAA Brackets. Here’s the schedule for remaining area teams (all dates/times/sites are tentative):
Thursday, March 12 (winner advances to Saturday quarterfinals)
Boys 6A Mt. Lebanon vs. Cheltenham POSTPONED
Friday, March 13 (winners advance to Monday semifinals)
Girls 6A Bethel Park vs. Plymouth-Whitemarsh, 5:30 pm at Bald Eagle HS, Bellefonte
Girls 6A North Allegheny vs. Nazareth, 7:00 pm at Bald Eagle HS, Bellefonte
Boys 1A Bishop Canevin vs. Berlin-Brothersvalley, 6:00 pm at Hempfield Area HS
Boys 1A Cornell vs. Bishop Carroll, 7:30 pm at Hempfield Area HS
Saturday, March 14 (winners advance to Tuesday’s semifinals)
Girls 5A Trinity vs. Gettysburg
Girls 5A Chartiers Valley vs. Thomas Jefferson
March 11, 2020 3:48 am
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) – Devon Daniels scored 23 points to help North Carolina State beat Pittsburgh 73-58 in Wednesday’s second round of the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament. C.J. Bryce added 13 points and 10 rebounds for the fifth-seeded Wolfpack. Markell Johnson also had 11 assists. N.C. State took over with a run of five straight scoring possessions in the second half. That helped the Wolfpack build a double-digit margin and lead by as many as 20 points late. Xavier Johnson scored 15 points to lead the Panthers. Pittsburgh was the tournament’s No. 13 seed that advanced by beating Wake Forest on Tuesday.
March 10, 2020 3:47 am
UNDATED (AP) – No. 2 Gonzaga survived a scare to beat San Francisco 81-77 in the West Coast Conference tournament semifinals. Joel Ayayi scored 12 of his 14 points in the second half to lead the Bulldogs. Killian Tillie had 19 points and Ryan Woolrdige had 16 points on 7-of-11 shooting to pace Gonzaga, which will play in its 26th WCC final and seeking its 17th championship.
March 10, 2020 3:46 am
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) – Pittsburgh Pirates third base prospect Ke’Bryan Hayes is trying to stay patient while waiting for a call-up to the majors. The 23-year-old is the organization’s top minor-league prospect. His rise through the ranks slowed a bit in 2019 after he struggled a bit at the plate at Triple-A Indianapolis. Hayes spent the offseason working on his swing and is hitting a solid .318 so far during spring training. Hayes is already considered one of the best defensive third basemen in baseball, something he picked up from his father Charlie, who played 14 seasons in the majors and won the 1996 World Series with the New York Yankees.
March 9, 2020 3:45 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Morgan Geekie scored twice and added an assist in his NHL debut and Justin Williams added two third-period goals and the Carolina Hurricanes surged past the Pittsburgh Penguins 6-2. Jake Gardiner added a goal and an assist and Jaccob Slavin also scored for the Hurricanes. Patrick Marleau and Evgeni Malkin scored for Pittsburgh and Tristan Jarry finished with 30 saves but the listless Penguins capped a miserable weekend at home by losing for the second time in 24 hours to teams they’re scrapping with for positioning in the crowded Metropolitan Division.
March 8, 2020 3:18 am
WPIAL wrestlers brought home 50 total medals from the PIAA Wrestling Championships–36 in AAA, 14 in AA. Burgettstown’s Riley Kemper finished fifth, his brother, Shane, sixth. McGuffey’s Garrett Boone placed seventh. Austin Walley (Ellwood City) was the district’s only AA champion. Five others settled for silver medals.
Gerrit Nijenhuis (Canon-McMillan) beat Donovan McMillon (Peters Township) to win the 182-pound championship, the first-ever meeting between two Washington County wrestlers in the finals. The win was the 181st for Nijenhuis, the most all-time among WPIAL wrestlers. Waynesburg’s Wyatt Henson won his championship match while Rocco Welsh finished second. The Raiders’ Mac Church took third, Cole Homet fifth and Luca Augustine sixth. WPIAL AAA wrestlers won six titles, seven more finished second. The League brought home 4 third-place finishers, seven took fourth, two in fifth-place, five in sixth, one seventh and four eighth.
Results and archive Listen links are avilable on our High School Wrestling hub Click Here.
March 6, 2020 3:45 am
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Carter Hart stopped 28 shots and led the Philadelphia Flyers to their eighth straight win, 4-1 over the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday night. Ivan Provorov, Michael Raffl, Nicolas Aube-Kubel and Sean Couturier also scored for the Flyers, who moved into a tie for first place in the Metropolitan Division with the Washington Capitals. The Flyers have scored at least four goals in each game of their winning streak. á Justin Williams scored the only goal for the Hurricanes. The Flyers have 24 wins in 33 home games this season.
March 4, 2020 3:44 am
UNDATED (AP) – Pittsburgh Pirates left fielder Bryan Reynolds would prefer to let his bat do the talking for him. Reynolds hit .314 for Pittsburgh in 2019 on his way to finishing fourth in the NL Rookie of the Year voting. His play was one of the few bright spots for a team that plummeted to last place in the NL Central. Reynolds said weighing his personal success vs. the teams’ struggles was difficult. He believes the Pirates can take a serious step forward in 2020 despite only modest adjustments to the roster.
March 4, 2020 3:42 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Sidney Crosby scored and collected his 800th career assist as the Pittsburgh Penguins ended a six-game losing streak with a 7-3 win over Ottawa. Crosby became the 32nd player in NHL history to reach the 800-assist plateau when he earned the secondary assist on Jason Zucker’s goal 36 seconds into the third period that put the Penguins up 5-1. The 32-year-old Crosby needed just 980 games to get to 800, the sixth-fastest ever. Jayce Hawryluk, Brady Tkachuk and Connor Brown scored for the Senators but Ottawa couldn’t keep pace as the Penguins broke out of a two-week slide in style.
