Mar 25, 2024 4 min read

Avella scored two runs in the second inning, and starting pitcher Bryce Wright and reliever Brian Martos made sure they were enough as the Eagles won their Class A Section 1 opener, 3-1, over visiting West Greene on Monday.

Wright struck out eight over five innings and Martos earned a save with two scoreless innings of relief.

The Eagles (1-0, 2-0) took a 2-1 lead in the second, getting RBI singles by Brayden Fuller and Cam Ullom.

West Greene’s Hayden Hamilton threw a complete-game five-hitter and allowed only one earned run.

* Dom Colarusso scored from first base on a double to right field by Robbie Wilson-Jones in the bottom of the eighth inning, giving Carmichaels a 7-6 victory over Jefferson-Morgan in the Class A Section 1 opener.

Jefferson-Morgan (0-1, 2-1) led 6-0 in the third inning but Carmichaels (1-0, 2-0) forced extra innings by scoring five times in the bottom of the fifth.

Wilson-Jones was the winning pitcher with four innings of shutout relief.

Liam Lohr and Bryadon Andrews doubled for Carmichaels, which was held to four hits by two J-M pitchers.

The Rockets’ Deakyn Dehoet had a big game, going 4-for-4 with two runs and two RBI and a double. Drew Adams and John Woodward also doubled.

* Waynesburg used two big innings to win at Greensburg Salem 10-3 in the Class 3A Section 4 opener.

The Raiders (1-0, 2-0) scored four times in the top of the first inning and fives in the fourth.

Winning pitcher Ty Groves took a shutout into the seventh. He allowed three hits over 6⅔ innings.

Waynesburg’s Austin Surber had the game’s only extra-base hit, a double. Derek Turcheck drove in three runs.

* Jackson Nopwaskey drove in three runs and struck out 11 over six innings, and reliever Ethan Varesko pitched out of a jam in the seventh inning as Beth-Center defeated Frazier 6-2 in the Class 2A Section 1 opener.

Beth-Center (1-0, 2-1) led 5-0 entering the seventh but Frazier (0-1, 0-1) scored twice and had runners on second and third with one out. Varesko was brought in to pitch and ended the game with two strikeouts.

Nopwaskey allowed only one hit.

* South Fayette pitcher Ethan Rose had a memorable game but the Lions were unable to come away with a victory.

Rose threw a complete game no-hitter but St. Viator (Ill.) defeated South Fayette 2-1 in St. Petersburg, Fla.

Rose struck out 10 and walked two. South Fayette committed four errors. St. Viator took a 1-0 lead in the third inning, scoring an unearned run, taking advantage of two errors. South Fayette tied the score in the fifth, but St. Viator got another run without a hit in the sixth. An error put the go-ahead run on base, the runner moved up on defensive indifference, went to third on a groundout and scored on a passed ball.

* California’s Caden Monticelli threw a three-inning no-hitter and California scored 14 runs in the first inning en route to a 16-0 thumping of Mapletown in Class A Section 1.

Monticelli struck out eight and walked two. At the plate, he went 3-for-3 with a double and three RBI. Chase Cicchitto and Kaden Weston also doubled for the Trojans.

Mapletown pitchers issued eight walks and hit three batters in two innings.

* Carlynton took advantage of nine walks and five errors by Monessen to beat the Greyhounds 11-1 in five innings in a Class A Section 3 game.

Winning pitcher Dylan Sunderland threw a four-hitter and struck out 10.

Christian Williamson doubled for Monessen.

* Washington scored three runs in the sixth to break open a tie game and hung on for a 6-3 victory in Class 2A Section 1.

The Prexies’ Caleb Patton singled to center field to lead off the sixth. He moved to second on a ground out and third on a wild pitch before scoring on an error. Tyler Roberts and Wayne Sparks-Gatling scored the second and third runs on errors.

Sparks-Gatling was the winning pitcher, striking out nine and walking one in six innings.

Lucas Burt led off the bottom of the sixth with a home run to cut the Bearcats’ deficit to 5-3.

Iain Callan had two hits, including a double, for Washington (1-0, 2-1).

Benjamin Hays doubled for the Bearcats (0-1, 0-2).

* Brogan Meighen pitched a five-hit shutout in leading McGuffey to a 6-0 victory over Southmoreland in Class 3A Section 4.

Meighen had nine strikeouts and one walk. He helped his own cause with a single and RBI.

McGuffey (1-0, 1-1) scored the only run it would need in the fourth on Evan Seibert’s RBI double. Cameron Dames also doubled for McGuffey and Lincoln Johnson tripled.