Sep 26, 2023 2 min read

ON THIS DATE

Sept. 27

1968 – Waynesburg High School improves its football record to 3-1 by scoring two touchdowns on trick plays and defeating visiting Fort Cherry 14-7. Halfback Joe Watson, a converted quarterback, flipped both scoring passes to quarterback Jim Burns, one in the second quarter and the other late in the third quarter.

1970 – The Pittsburgh Pirates clinch the National League East Division title with a 2-1 victory over the New York Mets that completes a three-game sweep. Pittsburgh pitchers Dock Ellis and Dave Giusti scatter 10 hits.

1985 – Tom Evosirch runs for one touchdown and passes for another as undefeated Jefferson-Morgan defeats Mon Valley Catholic, 13-3.

1986 – Brendan Folmar passes for 354 yards and four touchdowns as California University rallies for a 28-27 victory at Clarion. The Vulcans score 21 points in less than three minutes during the fourth quarter for their first win over the Golden Eagles in 16 years.

1988 – The United States basketball team loses only the second game in its glorious Olympic basketball history, bowing to the Soviet Union 82-76 in a grudge match that brewed for 16 years.

1991 – Charleroi’s Darrell Harding rushes for 301 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Cougars to a 31-12 victory over visiting Beth-Center in a Century Conference game. Harding ups his career total to 4,198 yards and becomes the ninth player in WPIAL history to reach the 4,000-yard mark.

1998 – Mark McGwire gives baseball a new magic number, hitting two homers to reach No. 70 in the St. Louis Cardinals’ season finale against Montreal. It’s McGwire’s fifth homer in the season-ending, three-game series. McGwire’s 70th and final home run of the season was a line shot over the left-field wall on a first-pitch fastball from Carl Pavano in the seventh.

2011 – Waynesburg High School hires former minor league pitcher and ex-Wild Things pitching coach Kevin Pincavitch as its head baseball coach.