Sports briefs
Time changed for West Greene game
The start time of the PIAA basketball playoff games Saturday at Peters Township High School have been changed. The West Greene girls game against Farrell in Class A has been moved from 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. while the Seton-La Salle boys will play Central Cambria at 4 p.m.
College baseball
California swept a doubleheader Monday from West Liberty, 6-2 and 7-6, at Wild Things Park.
The Vulcans (7-2) won the second game in walk-off fashion to extend their winning streak to seven games. West Liberty fell to 2-5.
The Hilltoppers led 6-2 entering the bottom of the seventh before scoring five unearned runs with two outs. Chris Wastchak hit a two-run homer to pull Cal to within 6-4 and after three consecutive walks Bobby Thompson delivered a to-run single and a throwing error by West Libertty allowed the winning run to score.
Carter Krick was the winning pitcher in relief.
Cal won the opening game as winning pitcher Nick Riggle allowed one run over 5 2/3 innings. Kristian Webb drove in two runs.
- Washington & Jefferson had 29 hits over two games and swept a Presidents’ Athletic Conference-opening doubleheader over Bethany, 13-3 and 10-3 at Ross Memorial Park.
In the opener, 12 of W&J’s 16 hits came from four players as Mullen Socha had career highs of four hits and three. Dan Trettel and Mark Merlino each had three hits, with Trettel hitting a homer, triple and double and driving in three runs.
Winning pitcher Bryce Schnatterly improve his record to 16-5 for his career. Matt Heslin had a save with three innings of relief.
In the second game, W&J (2-0, 3-1) did the bulk of its damage in the fourth and fifth innings, scoring nine runs. Trettel had three with two RBI, and Dante Dalesandro was 2-for-3 with a double, three RBI and two runs.
Santino Platt was the winning pitcher.
- Waynesburg improved its record to 4-0 with a doubleheader sweep of Penn State Brandywine, 13-6 and 3-2, in Winter Haven, Fla.
Waynesburg scored the first 12 runs in the opening game. Winning pitcher Noah Lolley threw 6 1/3 innings.
Justin Buberl hits a walk-off RBI single in the second game that kept the Yellow Jackets undefeated.
ESPN hires
new president
The Walt Disney Co. has stayed inside the family to choose consumer products chief James Pitaro as the new ESPN president.
Pitaro replaces John Skipper, who resigned suddenly in December to deal with a substance abuse problem. Pitaro takes over a wide-ranging sports network that is fighting back against cord cutters and is about to launch a new streaming service together with an all-encompassing new app.
Pitaro has been chairman of Disney’s consumer products and interactive media since 2016. Before joining Disney, he helped build Yahoo Sports into a widely used online service.
Disney Chairman Robert Iger said Pitaro forged his career at the intersection of technology, sports and the media.
Pitaro described himself as a “passionate and lifelong sports fan.”
Cromartie retires
after 11 seasons
Veteran cornerback Antonio Cromartie announced his retirement from the NFL on Monday.
The 11-year pro with four franchises posted a message on Instagram saying “after 27 years of playing football, today I say farewell.”
An All-Pro with San Diego in 2007, when he led the league with 10 interceptions, Cromartie was one of the NFL’s best cover cornerbacks for much of his career, making four Pro Bowls. He also scored the longest touchdown in league history, returning a missed field goal by Minnesota for a 109-yard score in 2007.
Cromartie, 33, spent his first four seasons with the Chargers, making the playoffs each year. He then joined the Jets and made the AFC championship game with them in 2010, his first of four straight seasons as a starter in Rex Ryan’s defense.
In the NBA
Jaylen Brown scored 21 points, and the Boston Celtics pounded the Chicago Bulls 105-89 Monday night even though Kyrie Irving sat out because of a sore left knee.
Even without their All-Star guard, the Celtics took control right from the start and led by as many as 37 en route to their fifth win in six games.
Jayson Tatum added 14 points, while Al Horford and Terry Rozier scored 13 apiece for Boston.
- Hassan Whiteside had 24 points and 14 rebounds, Goran Dragic scored 17 and the Miami Heat moved into the No. 7 spot in the Eastern Conference by topping the Phoenix Suns 125-103.