May 20, 2021 2 min read

ON THIS DATE

May 21

1951 – Don Smith pitches a three-hit shutout as Trinity blanks Burgettstown 2-0 in a WPIAL baseball playoff game at Wash High.

1959 – Canonsburg Joint High School hires former Steubenville College coach Hank Kuzma as its new head basketball coach.

1959 – Formation of Washington’s first slow-pitch softball league, the Ten Mile Valley League, is announced. It will be an eight-team league.

1966 – Beth-Center’s Pete Zaharoff, the defending state champion in the pole vault, breaks his own WPIAL record by clearing 13-8 3/4 at the WPIAL Championships in Baldwin. The previous record was 13-6.

1968 – The Pittsburgh Penguins acquire Jean Pronovost and John Arbour from the Boston Bruins for cash.

1970 – North Texas State’s Bill Schmidt of Muse wins the javelin competition and sets the meet record with a throw of 280-7 at the California Relays in Modesto.

1972 – Canon-McMillan clinches the Section 3 baseball title with an 8-1 win over Avella. Winning pitcher Chuck Yesenchak has three hits and drives in three runs.

1982 – Ringgold, in its second year of girls varsity softball, advances in the WPIAL Class AAA playoffs with a 5-0 victory over Elizabeth Forward in a game played in Perryopolis. Stacy Bores pitches a two-hit shutout.

1986 – Jeff Jento steals home with one out in the sixth inning to break a tie and give Jefferson-Morgan a 3-2 victory over Charleroi in the WPIAL Class AA baseball playoffs at Ringgold High School.

1987 – Charleroi manages only four hits but takes advantage of nine Fort Cherry errors to defeat the Rangers 13-6 in the WPIAL Class AA baseball quarterfinals. The playoff contest is played at Veterans Memorial Field, Charleroi’s home field.

1987 – Joe Haering, former defensive coordinator of the Pittsburgh Maulers of the defunct United States Football League, is named head coach of the Pittsburgh Gladiators of the new Arena Football League.

1993 – Bill Everly pitches 8 1/3 no-hit innings and lays down a squeeze bunt that scores Chris Whipkey in the 12th inning as Carmichaels defeats Charleroi 3-2 in a WPIAL Class AA baseball playoff game played on the Cougars’ home field.

1991 – McGuffey hires John Brown, formerly of St. Francis High School in Pittsburgh, to be the Highlanders’ girls basketball coach. Brown led St. Francis to the WPIAL Class A championship two months earlier but the school closes after the 1990-91 school year because of dwindling enrollment.