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.
June 2, 2025 4:35 am
DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — Scottie Scheffler is the Memorial winner for the second year in a row. The world’s No. 1 player delivered another relentless performance. He shot 70 in the final round and turned a decent duel into another runaway. He wound up winning by four shots over Ben Griffin. That makes Scheffler the first back-to-back winner at Memorial since Tiger Woods. Lately his game has looked a lot more like the tournament host Jack Nicklaus. Scheffler now has won three of his last four tournaments. Rickie Fowler had his first top 10 of the year. That got him into the British Open.
May 31, 2025 11:49 am
SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego closer Robert Suarez got a huge called third strike with the bases loaded to end the eighth inning and the Padres beat Pittsburgh 3-2 on Friday night for their 10th straight victory over the Pirates. After Jason Adam loaded the bases with two outs, Suarez came in and struck out Henry Davis looking on a low pitch that appeared out of the strike zone. Davis tossed his bat and started taking off his wrist guard in anticipation of taking first, then threw up his arms in disgust and tossed his helmet. Andrew McCutchen, representing the tying run, put his hands on his helmet in surprise halfway up the line. Pirates manager Don Kelly was ejected by plate umpire Edwin Jimenez, the third time he’s been ejected in just 20 games as manager. The four-out save was Suarez’s major league-leading 18th. He struck out three.
Padres right-hander Nick Pivetta (6-2) held the Pirates to two runs and six hits while striking out eight and walking none for his first win in five starts. The right-hander cruised through five scoreless, two-hit innings and had a 1-0 lead before allowing two runs with two outs in the sixth. Tommy Pham and Isiah Kiner-Falefa singled to open the inning. Pivetta retired Oneil Cruz and Andrew McCutchen on one pitch apiece before allowing RBI singles by Bryan Reynolds and Spencer Horwitz.
The Padres regained the lead in the bottom of the inning against Mitch Keller (1-7). Fernando Tatis Jr. drew a leadoff walk and raced around to score on Luis Arraez’s opposite-field double into the left-field corner. Arraez advanced on Manny Machado’s fly ball to left and beat second baseman Adam Frazier’s throw home with a headfirst slide on Jackson Merrill’s grounder. San Diego took a 1-0 lead in the fourth. Machado doubled with two outs and came home when Merrill’s single carmoned off the glove of sliding shortstop Kiner-Falefa.
Pirates starter Mitch Keller (1-7) took the hard-luck loss, allowing three runs on just three hits over his six innings.
May 30, 2025 4:56 am
In San Diego Friday Night, the Pittsburgh Pirates fell to the Padres at Petco Park. Mitch Keller pitched six innings and allowed all three, earned runs in the loss. He is now 1-7 on the year. Keller did start strong by retiring the first 11 batters he faced, but then the Padres scored.
The Pirates did score and take the lead two innings later with run scoring singles by Bryan Reynolds and Spencer Horwitz.
San Diego responded and took the lead in the sixth. The Pirates loaded the bases in the top of the eighth, but MLB save leader Robert Suarez got Henry Davis looking on a controversial third strike. Pirates skipper Don Kelly was ejected immediately after the low call. This is the third time Kelly has been removed from a game in his 20 games as the Pirates’ manager.
Andrew McCutcheon moved into ninth place on the Pirates’ all-time hits list. His double to left center field in the top of eighth gives him 1,710 hits in the black and gold. He passes Hall of Famer Arky Vaughan on the list.
Baily Falter, 3-3 with a 3.47 ERA is scheduled to face Dylan Cease tonight at 9:40. The game will be on 1450 AM.
