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May 29

1986 – Fort Cherry High School scores eight runs over the first two innings and defeats Ford City 8-5 to win the WPIAL Class AA baseball championship at Butler’s Pullman Park.

1991 – Zane Smith throws the Pittsburgh Pirates’ second one-hitter in three days in a 6-0 victory over the host St. Louis Cardinals.

1995 – Dave Stockton shoots 4-under par 32 on the back nine in the final round to finish at 8-under 208 and edge Isao Aoki by one shot and win the Senior Tour’s Quicksilver Classic.

1996 – Houston’s Jeff Bagwell hits two home runs, including an upper-deck shot off Pittsburgh’s Danny Darwin, as the Astros beat the Pirates 7-4. Bagwell joins Willie Stargell as the only players to hit multiple upper-deck homers at Three Rivers Stadium.

1997 – Winning pitcher Nikki Gasti drives in Tara Metcalf and Tiffany Zuspan with a fourth-inning double to give Carmichaels the lead, and the Mikes go on to defeat Burgettstown 8-6 in the WPIAL Class A softball championship game at California University. It’s the first WPIAL championship for any Carmichaels team since the Mikes’ 1962 football squad.

1997 – Washington, which began its postseaosn playing in the preliminary round, completes an improbable run to the WPIAL Class AA baseball championship with a 5-4 win over Canevin at Pullman Park in Butler.

1997 – Carmichaels outslugs Burgettstown 8-6 in the Class AA finals to win its first WPIAL softball championship.

1999 – Waynesburg senior Josh Roscoe wins the Class AA discus at the PIAA Track & Field Championships in Shippensburg. Roscoe’s winning throw is 162-4.

2002 – Phil Kojack pitches eight shutout innings and Adam Rittenhouse drives in two runs as the Canton Coyotes spoil the Washington Wild Things’ debut in the Frontier League, 3-0, before 3,212 at Falconi Field.

May 30

1932 – Waynesburg College’s George Willis breaks the conference record in winning the 880-yard run at the Tri-State Conference Championships at Reeves Stadium Beaver Falls. Willis’ winning time of 2:00.6 stood as the Waynesburg school record for more than 40 years.

1959 – Bob Moore of the Frazier-Simplex Rifle Club sets a world any-sight record with a perfect 200-20x in a match in Kittanning.

1970 – The Pittsburgh Steelers trade linebacker Ray May and a draft pick to the Baltimore Colts for running back Preston Pearson.

1986 – Barry Bonds makes his major league debut with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Bonds goes 0-for-5 as the Pirates lose to the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-4 in 11 innings.

1986 – Ringgold High School promotes assistant coach Joe Ravasio to head football coach.

1987 – Trinity’s Bob Truby, a four-time state wrestling champion, is named the Observer-Reporter’s Athlete of the Year.

1996 – Pinch-runner Misty Wilson scores from third base on a ground ball hit by Nikki Gasti in the bottom of the seventh inning to give Carmichaels a 1-0 victory over Center in the WPIAL Class AA softball semifinals at Burgettstown.

1998 – Larry Nelson shoots a final-round 74 and wins the Pittsburgh Senior Classic by five strokes over Bob Duval at Sewickley Heights.