Apr 29, 2022 7 min read

High school baseball

Three Carmichaels pitchers combined on a four-hitter, Jacob Fordyce went 3-for-4 and the Mikes won at Charleroi 7-3 in a non-section game.

Liam Lohr, Dylan Rohrer and Trenton Carter combined to pitch Carmichaels to their ninth win in 10 games.

Fordyce and Carter each hit a double for the Mikes. Carter in a pair of runs.

Charleroi slipped to 5-5 overall.

• Jake Wessell hit a two-run homer, Parker Lind pitched a three-hit complete game and Belle Vernon won at Thomas Jefferson 9-2 in a non-section game.

Wessell went 3-for-3, scored three runs and drove in a pair. Lind walked four and struck out three. He allowed two unearned runs.

Belle Vernon improved its record to 4-8. TJ slipped to 10-4.

• Kenneth Rush went 3-for-3 with a triple, doubled and four RBI, powering Avella to a 12-2 win over Mapletown in a five-inning non-section game.

Westley Burchianti had a double and two RBI for Avella (4-7), which has won four of its last five.

Winning pitcher Camden Georgetti threw a three-hitter.

A.J. Vanata homered for Mapletown (3-10), which was playing for the fifth consecutive day.

High school softball

Trinity’s drive to the Class 5A Section 4 championship was slowed Friday when West Allegheny scored five runs in the fifth inning to rally and beat the Hillers, 6-4.

The loss was the first in section for Trinity (9-1, 13-2) and ended the Hillers’ 10-game winning streak. West Allegheny is 8-2 in section and 8-4 overall.

Trinity broke a 1-1 tie by scoring three times in the top of the fifth. The Indians’ Ava Henke hit a tiebreaking triple in the pivotal inning.

Aubrey Police hit two triples, winning pitcher Addy Vicari-Baker had one triple and Emily Nolan doubled for West A.

Five of Trinity’s six hits came from the first two batters in the lineup, Riley Hoy and Amber Morgan. Hoy went 2-for-4 with a double and Morgan had three singles and scored twice.

• Cassidy Dice’s two-out single in the bottom of the seventh inning drove in Lauren Bailey with the winning run as Canon-McMillan edged Bethel Park 6-5 in a Class 6A Section 1.

Bethel Park (5-2, 5-6) led 4-2 going to the bottom of the sixth. Canon-McMillan (4-2, 4-4) scored three times to take the lead, but the Black Hawks tied it with an unearned run in the top of the seventh, setting the stag for Dice’s clutch hit.

Taylor Streigel and Abby Quickel each homered for BP.

Winning pitcher Brooke Perri allowed six hits and struck out four.

• Mapletown swept a Class A Section 2 doubleheader from Monessen, beating the Greyhounds 10-0 and 14-3. Both games went five innings.

Winning pitcher Macie Cree pitched a two-hitter in the opener and struck out six. Taylor Dusenberry smacked a three-run homer in an eight-run third inning for Mapletown (5-3, 8-4). Krista Wilson doubled.

In the second game, Devan Clark threw a four-hitter with five strikeouts and was backed by Mekenzie Reda, who hit two triples and drove in three runs. Cree, Clark and Wilson each had a double.

• Jefferson-Morgan swept a Class A Section 2 doubleheader from Avella, 6-4 and 15-1 in five innings.

The Rockets won the opener by scoring three runs in the fifth and one in the sixth. J-M made the most of four hits, including a double by Payton Farabee. Winning pitcher Kayla Larkin held Avella to five hits.

In the second game, Jefferson-Morgan (3-4, 3-4) led 3-0 before scoring 12 times in the third inning.

Larkin hit a double and was the winning pitcher.

• Mia Falbo twirled a three-hitter and peters Township scored five runs in the fourth inning to beat visiting Elizabeth Forward 7-2 in non-section play.

Falbo struck out 11 but walked nine. One of the three hits by EF was a solo home run by Lauren Vay.

EF’s record fell to 11-2. The Warriors had their eight-game winning streak end.

A double by Sami Bewick was the lone-extra-base hit for Peters Township (5-7). Bewick went 3-for-4. Amber Wilkes scored a pair of runs.

• Charleroi erupted for 15 runs in the top of the fourth inning to beat Beth-Center 20-3 in Class 2A Section 3.

The Cougars (4-2, 4-5) led 5-2 before the big inning.

Winning pitcher Emma Stefanick went 4-for-4 with a double and four RBI. Ella Sypolt hit a home run and drove in three, and McKenna DeUnger and Tylie Perok each had three RBI.

Doriann Hoover tripled for Beth-Center (2-7, 2-7).

• Southmoreland played double or nothing and cooled off Waynesburg’s bats in a 12-0 five-inning victory over the Raiders in Class 3A Section 3.

Southmoreland (6-2, 8-2) hit eight doubles, including two by both Kaylee Doppleheauer and Riley Puckey. Maddie Brown pitched a five-hit shutout.

Hannah Wood had two singles and Paige Jones doubled for Waynesburg (5-3, 7-4).

• Nicole Palmer fired a two-hitter and Class 2A Section 3 leader Frazier scored 10 runs in the fifth inning to beat host Carmichaels, 17-0.

Frazier is 8-0 in section and 10-0 overall.

Palmer struck out eight, did not walk a batter and helped her cause with a double and three RBI. Delaney Warnick homered and drove in three.

Both of the hits by Carmichaels (4-2, 6-3) were singles by Ali Jacobs.

College baseball

California swept a PSAC West doubleheader against Clarion, 11-3 and 8-4, Friday at Wild Things Park.

• Waynesburg scored four runs in the eighth inning to rally and beat Bethany 12-10 in a Presidents’ Athletic Conference game.

College softball

Washington & Jefferson dropped a Presidents’ Athletic Conference doubleheader at Saint Vincent, 4-0 and 3-2, Friday.

Tennis great sentenced to prison

Tennis great Boris Becker was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison on Friday for illicitly transferring large amounts of money and hiding assets after he was declared bankrupt.

The three-time Wimbledon champion was convicted earlier this month on four charges under the Insolvency Act and had faced a maximum sentence of seven years in prison.

Judge Deborah Taylor announced the sentence after hearing arguments from both the prosecutor and Becker’s attorney. She told the former top-ranked player that he’s shown no remorse.

“While I accept your humiliation as part of the proceedings, there has been no humility,” Taylor said.

Becker will have to serve at least 15 months before being eligible for release.

The 54-year-old German was found to have transferred hundreds of thousands of pounds (dollars) after his June 2017 bankruptcy from his business account to other accounts, including those of his ex-wife Barbara and estranged wife Sharlely “Lilly” Becker.

Becker was also convicted of failing to declare a property in Germany and hiding an 825,000 euro ($871,000) bank loan and shares in a tech firm.

The jury at Southwark Crown Court in London acquitted him on 20 other counts, including charges that he failed to hand over his many awards, including two Wimbledon trophies and an Olympic gold medal.

The six-time Grand Slam champion has denied all the charges.

In the NHL

Dryden Hunt scored the go-ahead goal in the third period, Alexandar Georgiev made 34 saves and the New York Rangers downed the Washington Capitals 3-2 in the regular-season finale Friday night.

The Capitals’ loss means the Pittsburgh Penguins take the No. 3 seed in the Metropolitan Division and will play the Rangers, who are in the postseason for the first time since 2017. Washington will go into the playoffs as the East’s second wild card, and will match up with the Florida Panthers.