May 6, 2021 3 min read

ON THIS DATE

May 7

1925 – Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop Glenn Wright turns the first unassisted triple play in franchise history against the St. Louis Cardinals. In the ninth inning, Wright catches Jim Bottomley’s line drive, steps on second to double Jimmy Cooney and tags Rogers Hornsby coming from first.

1956 – Bethlehem Joint High School football and baseball head coach Jim Freeman resigns to become head football coach at Ball State University. He guided Bethlehem Joint’s football team to a 25-9-2 record.

1958 – West Greene, under coach Dale Kennedy, wins the team title at the Washington-Greene County Conference track meet in Canonsburg. West Greene has five individual champions. Midway’s Wayne Fullterton wins the 220 and broad jump, and McDonald’s Bill Hyser wins the 440 and ties for first in the high jump.

1979 – Derek Hull, with first-place finishes in the 440-yard dash, 120 hurdles, a third in the 220 and a spot on the winning mile relay team, helps Washington High School to the team title at the Washington County track meet.

1984 – Washington wins its third WPIAL team track championship in five years by defeating North Allegheny, 93-57, and Hempfield, 88-62.

1987 – Scott Smith pitches a no-hitter and Charleroi clinches a WPIAL Class AA baseball playoff berth with a 7-0 victory over visiting Monessen.

1988 – The Pittsburgh Gladiators set the Arena Football League scoring record with an 82-26 victory over the New England Steamrollers at the Civic Arena.

1998 – Sparked by wins from Trayor Lesnock in the 1,600 meters (4:34.7) and Will Burgess in the triple jump (40-9 1/2), and a career-best throw of 48-11 1/2 by Justin Gatten in the shot put, the Washington High School boys track team wins the WPIAL Class AA team championship.

2002 – John Luckhardt, who had a 137-37-2 record at Washington & Jefferson and took the Presidents to two NCAA Division III national championship games, comes out of retirement to be head football coach at California University.

2005 – In a lightweight unification bout, Diego Corrales (40-2) gets off the canvas after two 10th-round knockdowns and moments later scores a TKO over Jose Luis Castillo (52-7-1) in a bout heralded as a classic. Corrales cagily buys time after each knockdown by spitting out his mouthpiece, necessitating a delay.

2012 – T.D. Conway tosses a no-hitter as the California baseball team wins its 17th game in a row with a 9-0 Section 1-A victory at Beth-Center. Conway strikes out 11 and is only a first-inning walk away from a perfect game. Patrick Tunney, Matt Bakewell, Jacob Columbus and Josh Luko each have three hits for the Trojans.