May 12, 2023 5 min read

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May 13

1952 – Monongahela native Ron Neccai pitches one of the greatest games in baseball history. Playing for the Bristol Twins of the Class D Appalachian League, Neccai throws a no-hitter with 27 strikeouts against the Welch Miners. In his next start, Neccai strikes out 24 batters.

1952 – Third baseman Eddie Kazak of Muse is traded by the St. Louis Cardinals along with Wally Westlake to the Cincinnati Reds for Dick Sisler and Virgil Stallcup.

1957 – A home run by pitcher John Dunn with two outs in the top of the seventh inning gives Burgettstown Union a 5-4 win over Avella in a tiebreaker game for the Section 2 title.

1958 – Stan Musial gets his 3,000th hit with a pinch-hit double off Chicago’s Moe Drabowsky at Wrigley Field. The Cardinals win, 5-3. Musial is the eighth player in major league history with 3,000 or more hits.

1981 – Carmichaels’ Bob Phillips pitches a three-hitter and strikes out 17 to improve his record to 8-1 as the Mikes defeat California, 4-1.

1985 – Terry Dalverny pitches the second no-hitter in Fort Cherry High School baseball history. Dalverny strikes out three as the Rangers defeat Immaculate Conception, 12-0.

1986 – Beth-Center’s Ron Brown wins the triple jump at the WPIAL Class AA Track & Field Championships at Neshannock High School. Brown wins with a school-record leap of 44-9. Washington’s Nikki Holmes wins the girls shot put with a throw of 39-5 1/2.

1992 – Rick Tocchet scores two goals and Tom Barrasso stops 33 shots as the Pittsburgh Penguins defeat the New York Rangers 5-1 to win the Patrick Division playoff series.

2005 – Tiger Woods misses the cut at the Byron Nelson Championship to end his record of 142 consecutive cuts made over the last seven years on the PGA Tour. Needing a par on the 18th hole at Cottonwood Valley, Woods misses a 15-foot putt. He taps in for a bogey and a 2-over 72, leaving him at one over for the tournament.

2013 – Nick Riotto pitches a complete game and strikes out eight, Zach Kenny drives in the winning run with a sixth-inning single and 14th-seeded Trinity upsets third-seeded Hampton 4-3 in the first round of the WPIAL Class AAA playoffs at the Burkett Athletic Complex.

May 14

1950 – Pittsburgh first baseman Johnny Hopp hits two home runs and four singles in six at-bats, leading the Pirates to a 16-9 victory over the Cubs in the second game of a doubleheader at Chicago.

1962 – Washington High School wins the Section 3 baseball championship by defeating Canon-McMillan 11-3. Tom Langfitt hits a grand slam and drives in seven runs.

1965 – West Greene’s Doug Crouse sets the meet record in the mile run at the WPIAL Class B Track & Field Championships at Penn Hills. Crouse runs 4:26.1 to beat the 23-year-old record by seven seconds. He also wins the 880-yard run in 2:01.8.

1971 – Peters Township’s Roy Kulikowski and West Greene’s Arnold Wilson win gold medals at the WPIAL Class B Track & Field Championships at South Park. Kulikowski wins the two-mile run in 9:51.8, and Wilson is first in the high jump with a leap of 6-1.

1981 – Washington’s Orlando Williams sets the WPIAL record in the shot put with a throw of 55-11 1/2 at the Class AAA Boys Championships in Latrobe.

1982 – Pittsburgh’s Lee Lacy, batting in the bottom of the eighth inning against Cincinnati reliever Tom Hume, hits an apparent grand slam. However, in the celebration during his run around the bases, Lacy passes Omar Moreno between first and second bases. Lacy is credited with a single and three runs batted in. Moreno’s run, however, wins the game for the Pirates 8-7.

1985 – Washington’s Tricia Barnes wins the WPIAL Class AA title in the girls 300-meter hurdles, breaking her own school record with a time of 46.4. Teammate Sue Schneck wins the 3,200-meter run.

1987 – Ringgold’s Rae Tartt wins the 100-meter dash at the WPIAL Class AAA Girls Track & Field Championships in a school-record time of 12.2 seconds. Canon-McMillan’s Carmen Woodson wins the 200 meters in a school-record 25.58.

1987 – Buddy Pugh pitches a five-hitter and Beth-Center scores four runs in the second inning for a 4-2 victory over Geibel that gives the Bulldogs the Section 18-AA baseball championship. It’s B-C’s first section title in 10 years.

1989 – Benny Distefano became the first left-handed catcher in a major league game in nine years when he caught the ninth inning of the Pittsburgh Pirates’ 5-2 loss to the Atlanta Braves. Mike Squires caught two games with the Chicago White Sox in 1980 and Dale Long caught two games for the Chicago Cubs in 1958.

1992 – Colin Gratchen’s infield single scores Dave Aller from third base and gives Burgettstown a 6-5 win in nine innings over Fort Cherry. The win clinches a WPIAL Class AA baseball playoff berth for Burgettstown and ends Fort Cherry’s 20-game winning streak over the Blue Devils.

2002 – Waynesburg’s Jocelyn Lindsay wins her fourth girls pole vault championship, and Washington’s Suzanne Montecalvo garners her first gold medal after five silvers by edging Jeannette’s Cherel Brown in a photo finish of the 200-meter dash at the WPIAL Class AA Track & Field Championships In boys competition, Waynesburg’s Derek Mears wins gold in the shot put and javelin, and teammate Nathan Freedman becomes the first male pole vaulter to qualify for the state tournament in four consecutive years.

2008 – Brynne Bashioum strikes out 14 and holds Carmichaels to four hits as Bentworth upsets the Mikes 4-1 in the WPIAL Class A softball playoffs at Finley Middle School.

2013 – Carly Konopka hits a walkoff grand slam to give Peters Township an 8-4 win over Pine-Richland in the WPIAL Class AAAA softball playoffs.

2013 – Kayla Briggs fires and no-hitter with six strikeouts as Chartiers-Houston defeats Our Lady of the Sacred Heart 10-0 in the WPIAL Class AA softball playoffs.