Matt Shade pitched five shutout innings, striking out five, as Trinity topped McGuffey, 5-3, Wednesday and earned a share of the Section 4-AAA title.
Alex Frey picked up the save for the Hillers (10-4, 11-5), who claimed a share of the section title when West Mifflin and Thomas Jefferson lost.
Scott Graham doubled, while Matt Czulewicz struck out 12 and walked just one in seven innings for the Highlanders (2-12, 2-14).
• Ben Carson doubled twice as California wrapped up the Section 1-A title with an 8-5 victory at Bentworth.
J.D. Hawk and Dom Roach also doubled for California (12-2, 18-2). Matt Hartman, who had three hits, picked up the win, striking out eight.
Lincoln Gibson had a pair of doubles and drove in three, while George Lucy also doubled for the Bearcats. Ryan Anderson took the loss for Bentworth (13-4, 10-4), which tied with Carmichaels for second place in the section.
• Zack Podrasky and Derek McIlvaine had two doubles each as Chartiers-Houston pounded out 15 hits en route to a 15-0, four-inning victory over Avella in Section 2-A.
Jason Paris, Andy Petras and Mark Korowicki, who had four hits, doubled for the playoff-bound Bucs (11-4, 14-4).
Chris Khouri took the loss for Avella (7-8, 8-11).
• Mike Michalsky homered and doubled as Brownsville topped Beth-Center, 10-2, in a Section 2-AA game.
Ryan Butka doubled, while Nate White had three hits for B-C (4-8, 5-11).
Brownsville, which has wrapped up the section title, is 11-1, 12-5.
• Carmichaels finished the Section 1-A schedule by defeating Mapletown 14-4 in five innings.
Ethan Virgili went 4-for-4 with a double and a triple. Tim Voithofer also doubled and tripled for the Mikes (10-4, 11-6), and Marcus Robinson doubled and earned the win.
Joby Lapkowicz had three hits and two RBI and Chuck Gasti, Virgili, Voithofer and Robinson also knocked in two runs.
Charlie Grim doubled and Ashly Menear tripled for the Maples (2-12, 2-14).
• Fort Cherry pounded out three home runs to conclude its season with a 10-5 win over Burgettstown in Section 2-AA.
Mike Zimmerman, Dan Saftner and Josh Snatchko all homered for the Rangers (5-7, 6-9), who scored their 10 runs in the first three innings. Rickey Kelly struck out 10 in the complete-game win.
Nick Tasz hit a two-run homer and Brendon Bongiorni doubled for the Blue Devils (5-7, 7-9).
• Senior Travis Watson pitched his first shutout of the season, blanking host West Greene 9-0 on four hits in a Section 1-A finale.
Watson struck out nine and received support from Mike Mox, who had a triple and drove in three runs for J-M (9-5, 12-7). Noah Pust, Jarrod Moskola and Ryan White doubled for the Rockets. Pust had two RBI.
Buck Raber had a double for West Greene, which finishes the season 0-14 in the section and 2-18 overall.
High school softball
Shaylee Ianno threw her third no-hitter of the season as Peters Township concluded the regular season with a 5-0 non-section victory over South Park.
Ianno struck out 15 and walked none. Kelsey Cunningham doubled and Julie Ann Taylor doubled for PT (13-4).
• Waynesburg completed its regular season by beating Connellsville, 2-0, in a non-section game.
Courtney Orndoff, Nikki Coleman and Emily Bosworth doubled for the Raiders (14-5). Coleman and Molly Henderson each had an RBI and Lauren Minor struck out five for the win.
• Four straight singles in the bottom of the eighth gave Belle Vernon a 1-0 win over Elizabeth Forward in Section 4-AAA. Heather Sellew's second single of the game scored Kayla Nuccetelli.
• Emily Cottle pitched a two-hit shutout and playoff-bound Jefferson-Morgan ended the regular season with an 8-0 win over visiting Geibel in Section 2-A.
Cottle struck out 10 and walked only two as J-M, the third-place team in the section, improved to 9-6 in the league and 10-7 overall. Lindsay Olson and Heather Herbert had big games at the plate for J-M. Each went 3-4 with two RBI. Olson had two doubles. Herbert had a double and a solo home run.
Pony baseball
Tyler Briggs pitched a one-hitter and helped his own cause with a triple as Moore Trucking defeated A&S Landscaping 10-0 in a six-inning game in the Canon-Mac Pony League.
Briggs lost his no-hitter on a sixth-inning single but finished with eight strikeouts.
Logan McAnany also tripled for Moore Trucking (4-1) and Freedom Ammons smacked a double. A&S's record fell to 3-2.
• Dick's Sporting Goods defeated Steel City Harley Davidson, 17-6, in a Canon-Mac game.
Winning pitcher Doug Perino went 3-for-4 with a double, triple and seven RBI. Robert Semulka went 3-for-3 for Dick's (2-2). Nick Coyle tripled for Steel City.
• Albert's Meats downed Elk's, 16-6 in a five-inning Washington Pony game.
Jimmy Janovich and Jamar Dates doubled and Brandon Lesko had four hits for Albert's (4-1). Brandon Robertson homered for Elk's (5-1).
• Nathan Jackson went 3-for-4 with a triple and winning pitcher Zach Gonzalez struck out five batters as Avella beat Burgettstown No. 2, 18-4, in a Greater Route 50 Pony game.
Joey Yamber and Luke Liggett each had a triple for Avella (1-4). Jesse VanGelder doubled for Burgettstown.
Boys lacrosse
Peters Township's Jason Powell scored four goals, but it wasn't enough as Upper St. Clair edged the Indians, 8-7, in a high school lacrosse match.
Andy Grech had two goals and one assist for PT (6-6). Goalie Michael Moretti made 18 saves.
Cal's Rohan, Conte top PSAC baseball team
A league-high 10 California University players were selected to the PSAC West Division all-star baseball team, including Lee Rohan, who was named Athlete of the Year.
Mike Conte, who led Cal to a school-record 36 wins, including his 300th career victory, was named Coach of the Year.
Rohan was selected to the first-team along with Drew Aniceti, Chris Doerschner, Chris Novia, Jeremy Potter and Ryan Kemerer.
Rohan was second in the PSAC with a .406 average. He led the Vulcans in doubles (11), on-base percentage (.452), runs (44) and stolen bases (25). He is the second straight Vulcan to be named Western baseball Player of the Year and fifth in the last seven years.
Dustin Woodring, Alex Lefcakis, Andrew Rafalski and Nick Schreiber were named to the second-team.
FC hires Midgley
Brad Midgley was hired as the Fort Cherry boys basketball coach, replacing Eugene Briggs.
Midgley was an assistant to Danny Holzer at Upper St. Clair and played at Canevin High and Duquesne University. The Rangers went 4-20 (2-12 in Section 3-AA) last season.
Cal tennis in Elite Eight
Freshman Olga Alekseeva rallied after losing the first set to win in a third-set tiebreaker to lift California to a 5-4 victory over South Carolina-Upstate in the third round of the 2007 NCAA Division II Women's Tennis Championships in Altamonte Fla.
The victory lifts Cal (28-1) into Thursday's 1 p.m. Elite Eight match against West Florida (21-6), which posted a 5-1 victory over Abilene Christian.
Cal, which shut out 10-straight opponents and 23 of 29, was surprised in the doubles competition when Inga Chilingaryan and Yumi Matsuto, ranked among the top 10 in the nation all year, suffered an 8-6 setback.
The other two Vulcan doubles teams posted wins, sending Cal into singles action with a 2-1 lead. Lisa Santoro and Helena VanEysendeyk had an 8-5 victory and the No. 3 team of Katie Anderson and Nina Reiswich was an 8-3 winner.
USC-Upstate had a win at No. 4 singles to even the score at 2-2. VanEysendeyk and Reiswich followed with straight-set wins at No. 3 and No. 5 singles, giving the Vulcans a 4-2 margin.
USC-Upstate battled back again, upsetting Cal's top two singles players, to tie at 4-4. That left the match in the hands of Alekseeva, who dropped the first set 6-3, but responded with a second-set win by the same margin. The Vulcan newcomer, who joined the team after the semester break, won with a 7-6 tiebreak victory in the third set.
ECAC tourney change
The format for the 2007 ECAC Division III Southern Softball Tournament has been changed and La Roche College will now host Saturday. W&J, the No. 3 seed, will take on sixth-seeded Kean (N.J.) in a first-round elimination game at noon.
Correction
Bentworth High School triple jumper Amy Prosser was misidentified in a story in Wednesday's edition. Prosser qualified for the WPIAL Class AA Championships.