Early agate
ON THIS DATE
May 15
1938 – Stan Musial pitches a two-hitter, and smacks a home run and triple, as Donora High School defeats Monongahela, 4-1.
1958 – Burgettstown Union wins the Section 4 baseball title by defeating Avella 6-2 in a rain-shortened playoff at Washington High School. Ken Kavensky hits a home run for Union.
1967 – Roberto Clemente hits three home runs and drives in seven runs but the Cincinnati Reds beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 8-7 at Crosley Field.
1969 – Washington’s Chuck Eneix sets the WPIAL record for discus and broke the Prexies’ school record in the shot put as he won both events at the WPIAL Track & Field Championships at Mt. Lebanon. Eneix threw the discus 167-5 1/2 to break the 10-year-old WPIAL record. In the shot put, Eneix’s toss of 60-2 is the fourth-best in WPIAL history.
1974 – Waynesburg’s Bob Albert, using a new fiberglass pole he used for only one practice attempt, wins the WPIAL Class B pole vault title by clearing 13-6 1/4. Chartiers-Houston’s Bob Ansetti wins the triple jump with a leap of 43-11.
1986 – Ringgold’s Brad Ferrara wins the 100-meter dash in 10.8 seconds at the WPIAL Class AAA Track & Field Championships in Latrobe.
1997 – Waynesburg’s Mike Kervaski changes his throwing motion and it leads to a gold medal in the discus at the WPIAL Class AAA Track & Field Championships. Kervaski, who wins with a throw of 159-5, is Waynesburg’s first WPIAL discus champion.
1999 – Melissa Brooks strikes out 12 and Ali Ferrari drives in three runs as California University defeats Bloomsburg 4-1 in the NCAA Division II Mid-Atlantic Regional softball championship.
2000 – Rod Brookin, a 1,000-point scorer at Pitt and one of the top 20 all-time scorers in Pennsylvania high school basketball, is hired as the boys basketball coach at Burgettstown.
2001 – Washington’s boys 400-meter relay team of Karlon Nixon, Vontey Johnson, D.J. Vallee and Justin Martinchek set the WPIAL Class AA record with a time of 43.62 at the WPIAL Track & Field Championships. The Prexies’ 1,600-meter relay team of Travis Thomas, Martinchek, Nixon, and Mark Clark also sets the WPIAL record, running 3:26.86.
2001 – Waynesburg’s Jocelyn Lindsay wins her third WPIAL Class AA girls pole vault championship.
2008 – Canon-McMillan’s Zane Zebrasky wins the WPIAL Class AAA javelin title with a throw of 201-8.