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Monday, 08 March 2010 20:01 |
Butler Golden Tornado wrestler Cole Baxter will compete in the PIAA championships beginning Thursday (March 11) in Hershey. Baxter is the Southwest region number two seed and will wrestle the Northeast region number two seed Josh Popple from Coughlin high school. Baxter was the runner-up in last weekend's WPIAL championships in the 171 pound division. He is currently 36-1 this season. Popple is 33-5. Both are high school juniors.
Grove City wrestler Wes Phipps, a sophomore, is the Northwest region's number two seed. Phipps is 33-2 this season, and will face the Southeast region number two seed. |
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Monday, 08 March 2010 19:19 |
Two different hits could cause suspensions in two different sports that were broadcast on the Butler County Radio Network Sunday. Pittsburgh Penguins Matt Cooke's hit on Boston Bruins star Mark Savard knocked Savard out on the ice and out of the game. Although Pens head coach Dan Bylsma said Cooke's hit was not intentional, and no penalty was called, the NHL is meeting this week regarding such hits.
Carl Edwards was knocked out of the NASCAR Sprint Cup race early in Atlanta Sunday after tangling with Brad Keselowski. He later returned more than a hundred laps down, and wrecked Keselowski with five laps to go in the race. Keselowski's car flipped violently upside down into the wall. He was running in the top 10 at the time. Edwards was parked for the remaing laps by NASCAR and was called to a meeting with NASCAR officials after the race and admitted he did it intentionally. Further sanctions could be announced Tuesday afternoon.
On Monday night's "Fast Talk" program on WBUT, former driver Kyle Petty called for NASCAR to suspend Edwards for a race. Petty said Edwards move was foolish, pre-meditated and uncalled for on a track where speeds reach over 190 miles per hour. NASCAR officials announced a hands-off policy for this season, saying drivers would police themselves, but may be forced to act due to safety concerns from this incident. |
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Monday, 08 March 2010 19:00 |
The Pittsburgh Pirates played a pair of 'split squad' games Monday afternoon, and dropped both contests. The Bucs lost their second game of the early pre-season to the New York Yankees Monday afternoon, this time 6-0. Pirate starter Paul Maholm allowed two runs on three hits and two walks. Maholm had one strikeout in his first two-inning outing of the spring. The Buccos managed only one hit against the Yanks. Steve Pearce singled in the fifth inning. The Pirates and Yankees meet again Tuesday afternoon. C C Sabathia will make his second start of the pre-season for New York. The Pirates counter with Charlie Morton.
In the second split-squad game Tampa Bay edged the Pirates 4-3 in 10-innings. The game featured Pirates' prospects Pedro Alvarez and Jose Tabata, who combined for the Bucs first run. Tabata tripled to right field, and Alvarez followed with an rbi-single. Alvarez also had a triple in the seventh, and scored on Brian Friday's home run.
Another Pirate prospect, Brad Lincoln made his second appearance of the spring, and the 24-year-old right-hander allowed one run on two hits and three walks while striking out one in two innings. Lincoln is considered the organization's best pitching prospect and has an outside chance at earning the fifth spot in the rotation if he has a stellar spring. |
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Monday, 08 March 2010 18:45 |
The Pittsburgh Steelers were very active signing free agents Monday. The Steelers also signed the pair of free agent players who visited Monday. The most surprising was safety Ryan Clark inking a four-year $14 million deal. Both players are special team stand-outs and have signed three-year deals. Safety Will Allen, a 4th round draft pick in 2004 from Ohio State, and a six-year pro, was Tampa Bay's special team captain in 2008. He missed most of the Buccaneers season in 2009 due to injury. The Steelers also signed wide receiver Arnaz Battle, who played seven seasons with the San Francisco 49ers. Last season he was their primary punt returner. Battle was a sixth-round draft pick out of Notre Dame in 2003.
The Steelers may not be finished either. Reportedly former wide receiver Antwaan Randle-El will visit today and may sign a contract to return. Randle-El was released by Washington last week. The Steelers also have reached an agreement with offensive lineman Jonathon Scott. Scott started eight games with Buffalo last season. |
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Monday, 08 March 2010 09:13 |
The Pittsburgh Penguins won the final two games prior to a lengthy road-trip over the weekend.
The Pens topped the Boston Bruins Sunday 2-1, and defeated Dallas 6-3 Saturday. The Penguins now lead the New Jersey Devils by five points in the Atlantic Division with 16 regular-season games remaining, and will travel to face the Devils Friday night. The Pens open their five-game road trip in Carolina Thursday. |
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 05:03 |
In the NHL, Sidney Crosby had two goals and the Pittsburgh Penguins scored the final five goals in a 6-3 victory over the Dallas Stars on Saturday for their third consecutive win since Olympic break ended. Pittsburgh improved to 39-22-4 on the season with a 20-10-3 mark at Mellon Arena. The Penguins are three points ahead of New Jersey for the Atlantic Division lead. The Pens play host to the Boston Bruins this afternoon. Face-off is at 3pm on AM 680 WISR.
In major league baseball, Ryan Church hit a two-run homer in the first inning and Andrew McCutchen went 2-for-2 with a steal and a run scored as the Pittsburgh Pirates tied the Philadelphia Phillies, 3-3, in 10 innings on Saturday. Pittsburgh plays host to the Twins at McKechnie Field today with first pitch scheduled for 1:05pm. Ross Ohlendorf will make the start for the Pirates. He will throw the first two innings, after having pitched just one frame in his Grapefruit League debut. Virgil Vasquez is also expected to make an appearance, which will be his first since surrendering a three-run, walk-off homer to the Yankees on Wednesday.
In the NFL, police say they probably won't have anything new to say until tomorrow concerning the latest sexual assault accusations against Pittsburgh Steelers star quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. Charges still have yet to be filed against Roethlisberger, just several months after allegations surfaced of him assaulting a hotel worker at a casino Harrah's Hotel and Casino in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. No charges have been filed in that incident. Roethlisberger is accused of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old coed at Georgia College and State University early Friday morning after a night of partying in the college town of Milledgeville, about 80 miles southeast of Atlanta.
Today in auto racing, Dale Earnhardt Jr. will be on the pole for the first time in nearly two years today for NASCAR's Sprint Cup Kobalt Tools 500 race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, giving the popular, second-generation driver another reason to believe that he's left behind the most dismal season of his career. Kyle Busch will start from the outside of the front row, beating out Juan Pablo Montoya and Mark Martin. Jeff Gordon was fifth, giving Hendrick Motorsports three of the top five spots. You can hear all the action from Atlanta coming up after the noon news on AM 1050 WBUT.
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Saturday, 06 March 2010 23:59 |
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The Slippery Rock high school Girls basketball team captured the District 10 crown Saturday 59-40 over Sharon. Mercyhurst Prep defeated Franklin in the consolation game 50-42, and they will join Slippery Rock and Sharon as the District 10 representatives in the PIAA playoffs. |
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Saturday, 06 March 2010 23:46 |
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Butler Golden Tornado wrestler Cole Baxter finished second in the WPIAL Individual wrestling Championships Saturday. Baxter, a junior competing in the 171 pound division, lost the title match 3-2 to senior Tyler Wilps of Chartiers Valley. Both wrestlers entered the final match Saturday night undefeated for the season. Baxter, now 36-1, will advance to the PIAA tournament. Butler's Mike Crawford reached the semiifinals before losing to Sam Lombardo of Canon-MacMillan the eventual runner-up in the 140 pound division. |
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Friday, 05 March 2010 08:10 |
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Six local wrestlers remain in the hunt for a WPIAL individual title. Heading into quarterfinal round matches Friday are: Butler's Mike Crawford, Eric Tuck, Chris White and Cole Baxter who upped his record to 34-0 Thursday. Also Seneca Valley's Nate Cully and Knoch's Grayson Hixon wrestle in the quarterfinals. |
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Friday, 05 March 2010 08:07 |
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The Grove City Men's basketball travel to Wooster Friday night in the opening round of the NCAA Division III playoffs. Game time is 8pm. The Wolverines enter the game with a 19-8 record. Wooster is 23-5. |
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