Briefs
Yellow Jackets swept
Concordia, Minn., handed Waynesburg University its first losss of the season, sweeping a doubleheader, 4-0 and 6-3 at the RussMatt Central Florida Invitational Friday.
The opener was a tightly played affair as Concordia (5-6) and Waynesburg (4-2) combined for just 10 hits, seven of which were singles. The Cobbers scored the eventual game-winning run in the top of the third inning. They added an insurance run in the fifth and two more in the seventh.
Junior Ty Wickline was solid on the mound for the Jackets, as he worked six innings of six-hit ball. Only three of his four runs allowed were earned. He walked one batter and struck out two.
Junior Mitch Nordstrom had two of Waynesburg’s four hits, and sophomore catcher John Przybylinski laced a double.
Game 2 again saw Concordia score first, picking up a run in the bottom of the first inning but Waynesburg scored twice in the second to take a 2-1 lead. Sophomore Brenden Kohan hit his first home run as a Yellow Jacket, a two-run blast that also scored sophomore catcher Tyler Reyes.
The Cobbers put up two runs in the fourth and pushed the eventual game-winning score across home plate during a two-run fifth. Waynesburg picked up its final run on an RBI single by sophomore first baseman Justin Buberl in the top of the sixth.
PIAA basketball playoffs
The Burgettstown boys basketball team now knows who it will play in the opening round of the PIAA tournament.
The Blue Devils will play Westinghouse Saturday at Allderdice High School in Pittsburgh at a time to be determined after it defeated Chestnut Ridge, 70-58, in a play-in game Tuesday night.
It’s the first appearance for Burgettstown in the state tournament since 2006.
At The Meadows
Fancytucky parlayed two moves into victory in Tuesday’s co-feature at The Meadows, an $11,500 Filly & Mare Conditioned Trot.
Racing off a layoff of about seven weeks, Fancytucky got away third from post 6 and, under most circumstances, probably would have been satisfied with a covered trip. But when Dan Rawlings saw two of the top contenders break stride, he gunned Fancytucky to the top at the quarter. The 6-year-old daughter of Pinetucky-Beaucoup Amour responded by holding off the Lightning Lane challenge of Saint Beth and downing her by ½ length in 1:57.2. The first-over Rose Run Reanna finished third.
Troy McDougal trains Fancytucky, who extended her career bankroll to $140,103, and owns with James Steuernagel.
Lars Perry became a $100,000 performer in Tuesday’s co-feature, an $11,500 Conditioned Trot, when he shot the Lightning Lane and triumphed in 1:56.2. Jim Pantaleano piloted the 4-year-old Cantab Hall-Southwind Wasabi gelding for trainer Richard Perfido and owner Thomas Mattingly.
Hochuli, Triplette retiring
NFL referees Ed Hochuli and Jeff Triplette are retiring.
One of the replacements will be former back judge Shawn Hochuli, Ed’s son. The other is former side judge Alex Kemp. The two new referees each joined the NFL in 2014.
Ed Hochuli, among the most recognizable of NFL officials because of his muscular build, joined the league in 1990. Triplette came aboard in 1996.
Hochuli, a lawyer by trade, originally was a back judge and moved up to referee in 1992. He worked two Super Bowls and generally was considered among the league’s best officials. Triplette, a restructuring consultant, became a ref in 1999.