Apr 25, 2018 5 min read

Pitt tries to renew football serieswith Penn State

Pitt athletic director Heather Lyke doesn’t want the 100th football game between the Panthers and Penn State to be the last.

Lyke said Wednesday that Pitt has sent the Nittany Lions a contract that would renew the series for four years starting in 2026, but has yet to hear from Penn State athletic director Sandy Barbour.

The two schools first played in 1893 and met regularly through the 2000 season. They picked it up after a layoff in 2016, and each team has won on its home field since the series picked up.

Penn State visits Heinz Field Sept. 8 and the Panthers will play at Beaver Stadium in September 2019, the last game in the four-game contract the two sides agreed on in 2011.

High school softball

Marlaina Bozak smacked a go-ahead double in the sixth inning, Bailey Bell scored three times and Trinity rallied for a wild 13-12 victory over visiting Albert Gallatin Wednesday that jumbled the title race in Section 2 of Class 5A.

Trinity (6-3, 9-5) won for the third time in four games and pulled to within a half-game of first-place Albert Gallatin (6-2, 7-2), which has lost two in a row, each by one run. Thomas Jefferson is 5-2 in the section.

The Hillers led 5-2 after two innings, then fell behind 12-5 in the fifth inning. Trinity won by scoring six times in the bottom of the fifth and twice in the sixth.

The game featured 26 hits, including 14 that went for extra bases. Albert Gallatin’s Annalia Paoli hit a pair of two-run homers. Ally Bezjak matched her teammate with four hits. Bozak drove in four runs and was a single shy of hitting for the cycle.

Bozak’s biggest hit was a two-out, two-run double in the bottom of the sixth that scored Bell and Bayleigh McCullough and gave the Hillers the 13-12 lead.

Sloan Altman and Cameron Meier each tripled, and Bell had a double for the Hillers.

• Three different Canon-McMillan hitters smacked home runs in the Big Macs’ 12-2 win over visiting Upper St. Clair in Class 6A Section 1.

Erica Haught, Lindsay Schmidt and Olivia Ulam each hit homers. Haught led the Big Macs with three RBI.

Katelyn Greaves also led the Big Macs offense, going 3-for-3 with two doubles and an RBI.

The Big Macs (5-2, 6-2) put up crooked numbers in four of the five innings, scoring two runs in first, four in the third and fourth innings and two more in the fifth.

Zoe Malone had the only extra-base hit for USC (3-4, 4-7).

Lauren Duke was the winning pitcher, tossing 3 1/3 innings with four strikeouts.

High school baseball

Pinch-hitter Travis Drusbasky’s two-out single in the bottom of the sixth inning Wednesday drove in Anthony Vavasori and gave Section 3-AAAA leader Ringgold a 3-2 victory over Uniontown.

The win was the fifth in a row for Ringgold (8-1, 9-1). The Rams had to fight off a tough Uniontown team that erased an early 2-0 deficit by scoring single runs in the third and fifth innings. In the sixth, Vavasori hit a two-out single and Bob Boyer was hit by a pitch, which set up Drusbasky’s game-winner.

Ringgold scored its first two runs in the second inning on consecutive RBI doubles by Vavasori and Boyer.

Bo Haines pitched two innings in relief to get the win, retiring the last five batters he faced. Haines and starter Chase Angotti scattered 10 hits as Uniontown (4-6, 6-7) left 11 runners on base.

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• renden Gray threw a complete game and Mike Kentzel hit a home run to lead South Park to a 9-2 win over Section 3-4A rival McGuffey.

Gray struck out six and allowed six hits. Kentzel’s two-run shot in the first inning put the Eagles (4-5, 9-6) on top.

Tyler Corcoran also led the South Park offense with a double and three RBI. The lone McGuffey (1-7, 3-9) extra-base hit was a triple by Adam Townsend.

Men’s lacrosse

Washington & Jefferson suffered a 12-5 loss in a road Ohio River Lacrosse Conference matchup Wednesday against Saint Vincent.

Sophomore Ben Ward, a Canon-McMillan graduate, scored W&J’s first three goals as the Presidents forged an early 3-1 lead. Saint Vincent silenced the Presidents’ offense the rest of the first half and led 4-3 at halftime.

Ward scored his fourth goal of the game opening the third quarter, but the Bearcats rattled off eight of the final nine goals, including six in a row. Brendan Tribeck, a Trinity graduate, scored W&J’s final goal. Tribeck assisted on two goals.

Women’s lacrosse

Caroline Kallos tallied 10 points for Washington & Jefferson in a 20-1 win over Waynesburg. The midfielder scored six goals and assisted on four in the Presidents’ Ohio River Lacrosse Conference win.

Alexis Miller also scored six goals, and Sierra Meyer and Katelyn White each scored two goals.

The Yellow Jackets’ lone goal came from Jackie Adler to start the second half.