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1956 – Pittsburgh’s Dale Long hits a ninth-inning homer against the Chicago Cubs. It’s Long’s first of eight straight games with a homer.

1956 – Centerville High School’s Robert (Red) Worrell wins two events at the WPIAL Class A Track & Field Championships in Connellsville. Worrell, who also plays on the Wildcats’ baseball team, sets a meet record in winning the shot put with a throw of 53-6. He also sets a record with his winning toss of 145-3 in the discus.

1962 – Stan Musial of St. Louis became the NL career hits leader. The 41-year-old got a ninth inning single for his 3,431st hit and moved past Honus Wagner. The Cardinals beat the Los Angeles Dodgers, 8-1.

1962 – Waynesburg High School’s Loren Dukate wins the 200- and 440-yard dashes at the WPIAL Class B Track & Field Championships at Mt. Lebanon.

1969 – John Bacha, an assistant at Elizabeth Forward High School, is hired as head football coach at Peters Township.

1973 – Secretariat, ridden by Ron Turcotte, rallies from last with a powerful move on the clubhouse turn to win the Preakness Stakes by 2 1/2 lengths over Sham.

1977 – Ringgold’s Jim Bavuso breaks his own meet record by clearing 6-10 3/4 to win the high jump at the WPIAL Class AAA Track & Field Championships. Trinity’s Gene Roach retains his title in the pole vault, clearing 14-1/2, which sets the WPIAL record.

1981 – Pittsburgh’s Jim Bibby gives up a leadoff single to Terry Harper of the Atlanta Braves, then retires the next 27 batters for a 5-0 one-hitter. Bibby also hits two doubles.

1986 – Jim Shoaf resigns after 7 1/2 seasons and more than 100 wins as head girls basketball coach at Washington High School.

1997 – Danielle Penner completes her dominance of the NCAA Division II Softball Championships by scattering six hits, and Chartiers-Houston High School graduate Kerry Novak singles home the winning run in the sixth inning, as California beats Wisconsin-Parkside, 2-1, to win the national championship in Salem, Va. The Vulcans (53-5) are the first national champions in school history and the first Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference softball team to win the national title.

2000 – Jason Kendall drives in five runs and becomes the first Pittsburgh player to hit for the cycle at Three Rivers Stadium, and Kris Benson throws a three-hitter with 11 strikeouts, as the Pirates beat the St. Louis Cardinals 13-1.

2008 – Jenna Phillips’ RBI double in the bottom of the eighth inning scores Jordan Jackson and gives Washington a 3-2 victory over Valley in the WPIAL Class AA softball quarterfinals.