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ON THIS DATE
May 6
1951 – Left-hander Cliff Chambers throws a no-hitter as the Pittsburgh Pirates blank the Boston Braves 3-0 in the second game of a doubleheader. Chambers struggles with his control, walking eight. He was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals a few weeks later.
1964 – Carmichaels High School takes the team title and West Greene’s Doug Crouse sets the meet record by winning the mile run in 4:41 at the Greene County Track Meet.
1968 – Washington High School wins the team title at the Washington County Coaches Association track meet held at Wash High Stadium. Trinity sprinter Mark Bates wins the MVP trophy with victories in the 100- and 440-yard dashes. Washington’s Chuck Eneix wins the shot put and discus, setting school and meet records in the discus with a throw of 154-0 3/4.
1974 – Washington dominates the sprints and relays to win the team title at the 11th Washington County Coaches Track Meet. Wash High’s Steve Hull is named the meet’s Most Valuable Performer by winning the 220- and 440-yard dashes and finishing second in the 100.
1985 – Ringgold’s Pierre Roddy wins the long jump, triple jump and pole vault, and was named Outstanding Athlete, at the Washington County Coaches Track Meet. Washington wins the team title.
1988 – Ringgold sprinter Brad Ferrara wins the 100-meter dash at the Baldwin Invitational in 10.7 seconds.
1988 – Pittsburgh’s Sid Bream hits a three-run walk-off homer in the 12th inning to give the Pirates a 4-1 win over San Diego at Three Rivers Stadium. It caps an emotional day in the Steel City after Mayor Richard Caliguri died in his sleep overnight. Caliguri had been tireless in his efforts to prevent the financially challenged Pirates from moving to another city.
1994 – The Continental Basketball Association announces that Robert Murphy, owner of Quicksilver Golf Club, has purchased the La Crosse (Wis.) Catbirds from Norman L. Gillett Sr. and D.B. Reinhart. Murphy plans to move the team to Pittsburgh for the 1994-95 season.
1994 – Anthony Young wins as a starter for the first time in more than two years as the Chicago Cubs beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 10-1. The win ends Young’s 29-game losing streak as a starter.
2005 – Jeff Hand resigns as football coach at Waynesburg College to take the same job with Presidents’ Athletic Conference rival Westminster.
2011 – Waynesburg wins its first baseball section title since 1999 by defeating host Fort Cherry 10-0 in five innings to cop the Section 2-AA championship.
May 7
1925 – Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop Glenn Wright turns the first unassisted triple play in franchise history against the St. Louis Cardinals. In the ninth inning, Wright catches Jim Bottomley’s line drive, steps on second to double Jimmy Cooney and tags Rogers Hornsby coming from first.
1956 – Bethlehem Joint High School football and baseball head coach Jim Freeman resigns to become head football coach at Ball State University. He guided Bethlehem Joint’s football team to a 25-9-2 record.
1958 – West Greene, under coach Dale Kennedy, wins the team title at the Washington-Greene County Conference track meet in Canonsburg. West Greene has five individual champions. Midway’s Wayne Fullterton wins the 220 and broad jump, and McDonald’s Bill Hyser wins the 440 and ties for first in the high jump.
1973 – The Pittsburgh Pirates become the first team in major league history to score their five runs on five solo homers in a 5-4 win over Los Angeles at Dodger Stadium. Willie Stargell, Dave Cash, Richie Hebner, Manny Sanguillen and Al Oliver homered.
1979 – Derek Hull, with first-place finishes in the 440-yard dash, 120 hurdles, a third in the 220 and a spot on the winning mile relay team, helps Washington High School to the team title at the Washington County track meet.
1984 – Washington wins its third WPIAL team track championship in five years by defeating North Allegheny, 93-57, and Hempfield, 88-62.
1987 – Scott Smith pitches a no-hitter and Charleroi clinches a WPIAL Class AA baseball playoff berth with a 7-0 victory over visiting Monessen.
1988 – The Pittsburgh Gladiators set the Arena Football League scoring record with an 82-26 victory over the New England Steamrollers at the Civic Arena.
1998 – Sparked by wins from Trayor Lesnock in the 1,600 meters (4:34.7) and Will Burgess in the triple jump (40-9 1/2), and a career-best throw of 48-11 1/2 by Justin Gatten in the shot put, the Washington High School boys track team wins the WPIAL Class AA team championship.
2002 – John Luckhardt, who had a 137-37-2 record at Washington & Jefferson and took the Presidents to two NCAA Division III national championship games, comes out of retirement to be head football coach at California University.
2005 – In a lightweight unification bout, Diego Corrales (40-2) gets off the canvas after two 10th-round knockdowns and moments later scores a TKO over Jose Luis Castillo (52-7-1) in a bout heralded as a classic. Corrales cagily buys time after each knockdown by spitting out his mouthpiece, necessitating a delay.
2012 – T.D. Conway tosses a no-hitter as the California baseball team wins its 17th game in a row with a 9-0 Section 1-A victory at Beth-Center. Conway strikes out 11 and is only a first-inning walk away from a perfect game. Patrick Tunney, Matt Bakewell, Jacob Columbus and Josh Luko each have three hits for the Trojans.
2012 – Jefferson-Morgan hires Liam Ryan, who spent the last five years as a coach at Waynesburg, as its head football coach.