May 15, 2023 3 min read

ON THIS DATE

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.