Apr 16, 2018 4 min read

High school baseball

Jack Palmerine hit a walk-off, line-drive single to center field to score Paul Linkowski in the bottom of the 11th inning as Mt. Lebanon defeated Peters Township, 2-1, in a Class 6A Section 3 game.

Linkowski reached on a leadoff single then advanced to third base after a batter was hit by a pitch and a ground out before scoring.

The run represented the first score of the game since the fourth inning when Mt. Lebanon (4-1, 5-5) tied the game at 1-1 on an error committed by the Indians.

Peters Township’s Dax Ploskina opened the scoring when he singled home Kyle Comini in the top of the first, the only run the Indians (2-3, 5-6) would score.

• Nick Ackerman hit a double and home run to lead West Mifflin to a Class 4A Section 3 victory over McGuffey, 10-4.

Ben Visnesky matched Ackerman with two RBI for the Titans (4-1, 7-2).

McGuffey’s Adam Blacharczyk had a double. Adam Townsend hit an inside-the-park home run for the Highlanders (1-4, 3-5) in the seventh inning.

High school lacrosse

Emily Anderson’s six goals led the Peters Township girls lacrosse team to an 18-4 win over Canon-McMillan.

Mackenzie Lehman followed Anderson with three goals. Mara Rayburg, Cassidy King and Hannah Welker all chipped in with two goals apiece.

PT pair win

weekly awards

Two Peters Township High School graduates were honored by the Presidents’ Athletic Conference for their performances throughout the week.

Saint Vincent College junior baseball player Bobby Finn earned Conference Hitter of the Week honors after three home runs in one game against Waynesburg University Saturday.

Finn hit .364 with four home runs, 12 RBI and 21 total bases in six games for the Bearcats.

The home run leader in the conference, Finn had a .955 slugging percentage and .464 on-base percentage last week.

Washington & Jefferson College freshman tennis player Nate Wang was named PAC Men’s Tennis Rookie of the Week.

Wang went a combined 5-1 overall last week to help the Presidents improve to 3-0. He was perfect in singles play with a 3-0 record.

Knetzer, Marchetti honored by PAC

Waynesburg University’s Addy Knetzer was named the PAC Women’s Field Athlete of the Week for her performance at Saturday’s Westminster Invitational.

Knetzer, a Chartiers-Houston graduate, took second in the shot put with a throw measuring 13.59 meters (44-7). She finished in fifth place in the discus with a throw of 38.84 meters (125-9.4). That distance topped any other competitive from a Division III school.

Waynesburg’s Angie Marchetti earned PAC Women’s Track Athlete of the Week after winning the 1,500-meter run with a time of 4:54.19.

She also finished third in the 800-meter run (2:21.32).

Kallos earns

ORLC recognition

Washington & Jefferson women’s lacrosse player Carolina Kallos was named the Ohio River Lacrosse Conference Women’s Lacrosse Defensive Player of the Week.

Kallos had six goals, seven assists, 20 ground balls, 15 draw controls and caused 16 turnovers for the week.

In the NHL

Auston Matthews scored the go-ahead goal in the second period, and Patrick Marleau had a pair of goals, as the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Boston Bruins 4-2 in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference first-round series.

• The New Jersey Devils scored four unanswered goals in the third period to beat the Tampa Bay Lighting, 5-2, in Game 3.

Will Butcher scored on the power play for the Devils just over four minutes into the third period to tie the game at 2-2. Stefan Noesen then scored the game-winning goal more than eight minutes later, narrowing Tampa Bay’s series lead to 2-1.