Addy Frey held Chartiers-Houston to just one run and four hits, leading Neshannock to a fourth consecutive WPIAL 2A softball championship. The Lancers scored an unearned run in the first, then added two in the third, three in the fourth and a final run in the fifth. Ella Richey tripled to open the Bucs’ sixth inning and scored on a throwing error, the only run for Chartiers-Houston.
Union and Carmichaels played 5 1/2 innings without a run and just one hit. Two outs in the Union sixth inning, the Scotties strung together a double, a single and a two run home run to win a third WPIAL title in the past four years. Carmichaels was held without a baseball, one day after the Mikes’ baseball team was on the wrong end of a no-hitter in the WPIAL final.
PIAA playoffs begin Monday with sites & times expected Saturday afternoon. Washington & Greene County will send six teams into the state playoffs. Softball teams from Bentworth, Carmichaels, Chartiers-Houston & West Greene have clinched. Carmichaels and Peters Township baseball teams are also heading for states. WPIAL Softball Brackets WPIAL Baseball Brackets
Thursday, May 29
Softball Championships at Lilley Field (PennWest-California)
2A #1 Neshannock > #2 Chartiers-Houston, 7-1
1A #1 Union > #2 Carmichaels, 3-0
Tuesday, May 27
Baseball Third Place
5A #4 Bethel Park > #7 Peters Township, 17-2
Softball Third Place
2A #11 Riverside > #12 Bentworth, 4-3
1A #3 West Greene > #5 Jeff-Morgan, 4-3
Wednesday, May 28
Baseball Championship at EQT Park
1A #1 Serra Catholic > #6 Carmichaels, 9-0
Monday, June 2
PIAA First Round (sites/times to be announced)
Baseball
5A Peters Township at District 3 champion Lampeter-Strasburg
1A Carmichaels at District 6 champion Homer Center
Softball
2A Chartiers-Houston at District 9 champion Cranberry
2A Bentworth at District 6 champion West Shamokin
1A Carmichaels at District 5 champion Berlin-Brothersvalley/Fannett-Metal
1A West Greene at District 10 champion Cambridge Springs