May 13, 2021 4 min read

ON THIS DATE

May 15

1938 – Stan Musial pitches a two-hitter, and smacks a home run and triple, as Donora High School defeats Monongahela, 4-1.

1958 – Burgettstown Union wins the Section 4 baseball title by defeating Avella 6-2 in a rain-shortened playoff at Washington High School. Ken Kavensky hits a home run for Union.

1967 – Roberto Clemente hits three home runs and drives in seven runs but the Cincinnati Reds beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 8-7 at Crosley Field.

1969 – Washington’s Chuck Eneix sets the WPIAL record for discus and broke the Prexies’ school record in the shot put as he won both events at the WPIAL Track & Field Championships at Mt. Lebanon. Eneix threw the discus 167-5 1/2 to break the 10-year-old WPIAL record. In the shot put, Eneix’s toss of 60-2 is the fourth-best in WPIAL history.

1974 – Waynesburg’s Bob Albert, using a new fiberglass pole he used for only one practice attempt, wins the WPIAL Class B pole vault title by clearing 13-6 1/4. Chartiers-Houston’s Bob Ansetti wins the triple jump with a leap of 43-11.

1986 – Ringgold’s Brad Ferrara wins the 100-meter dash in 10.8 seconds at the WPIAL Class AAA Track & Field Championships in Latrobe.

1997 – Waynesburg’s Mike Kervaski changes his throwing motion and it leads to a gold medal in the discus at the WPIAL Class AAA Track & Field Championships. Kervaski, who wins with a throw of 159-5, is Waynesburg’s first WPIAL discus champion.

1999 – Melissa Brooks strikes out 12 and Ali Ferrari drives in three runs as California University defeats Bloomsburg 4-1 in the NCAA Division II Mid-Atlantic Regional softball championship.

2000 – Rod Brookin, a 1,000-point scorer at Pitt and one of the top 20 all-time scorers in Pennsylvania high school basketball, is hired as the boys basketball coach at Burgettstown.

2001 – Washington’s boys 400-meter relay team of Karlon Nixon, Vontey Johnson, D.J. Vallee and Justin Martinchek set the WPIAL Class AA record with a time of 43.62 at the WPIAL Track & Field Championships. The Prexies’ 1,600-meter relay team of Travis Thomas, Martinchek, Nixon, and Mark Clark also sets the WPIAL record, running 3:26.86.

2001 – Waynesburg’s Jocelyn Lindsay wins her third WPIAL Class AA girls pole vault championship.

2008 – Canon-McMillan’s Zane Zebrasky wins the WPIAL Class AAA javelin title with a throw of 201-8.

May 16

1942 – William C. Evans, superintendent of Braddock Schools, is re-elected president of the WPIAL for the 10th consecutive year.

1952 – Canonsburg High School’s baseball team scores three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning, capped by Bob Seany’s single that scores Carl Thomas, to beat Trinity 5-4. The Hillers’ loss gives the Section 3 baseball title to Washington.

1966 – Trinity’s Jerry Lutes pitches a no-hitter in the Hillers’ 6-0 baseball victory over Peters Township. Lutes strikes out 15 and walks only one.

1978 – Trinity’s Blanca D’hoedt wins the 880-yard, mile and two-mile runs, Gina Piatt wins her third consecutive discus title and Elaine Sobansky edges Piatt to win the shot put as the Hillers win the WPIAL Class AAA Girls track & field championship. The Washington girls place second in Class AA.

1986 – Trinity’s Amanda Burchett is the lone champion from the Washington-Greene area at the WPIAL Class AAA Track & Field Championships in Baldwin. Burchett wins the girls shot put with a throw of 38-4 1/2, winning by almost two feet.

1988 – Andy Lutes, who had belted a fifth-inning home run, doubles home Scott Hinerman and Jay West in the bottom of the eighth inning as Washington defeats Peters Township 8-7 at Colt Field and a clinches a spot in the WPIAL baseball playoffs.

1989 – Randy Kramer pitches a one-hitter in his fourth major-league start, allowing only Ron Oester’s two-out double in the eighth inning, as the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Cincinnati Reds 5-0 at Riverfront Stadium.

1995 – Washington sprinters Aaron Gatten and Laila Brock sweep the titles in the 100- and 200-meter dashes at the WPIAL Class AA Track & Field Championships at South Side Beaver. Brock wins the girls 100 in a meet record time of 12.2 seconds.

1996 – Trinity junior Amanda Burchett wins the WPIAL Class AAA shot put championship with a throw of 38-4 1/2.

2000 – Russ Moore, who led Waynesburg High School to a 23-2 record and one WPIAL Class AA football championship in the last two years, resigns as the Raiders’ head coach.

2002 – Ringgold’s Stephanie Kuhn launches the javelin 140-8 – 17 feet farther than her previous best throw – to win the gold medal at the WPIAL Class AAA Track & Field Championships. Canon-McMillan’s DeNia Matthews wins the 100 and 300 hurdles and Peters Township’s 1,600 relay team sets a school record while winning gold.

2003 – Jeff Long is named athletic director at the University of Pittsburgh. Long most recently served as Oklahoma’s associate athletic director.