On this date
Nov. 7
1942 – President E.A. Lucas announces that the Washington Redbirds minor league baseball team’s board of directors voted to leave the Penn State League and the team’s affiliation with the St. Louis Cardinals will not be renewed. In the Redbirds’ last season, the team reported deficits in finances as its attendance dropped to 17,486 for the season, down from 70,944 in 1939.
1950 – Branch Rickey agrees to a five-year contract to be general manager and executive vice president of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1952 – Washington High School completes its first undefeated regular season in football since 1931 by defeating Donora 38-0 at Wash High Stadium. Frank Bonus runs for two touchdowns, including a 74-yarder in the first quarter.
1958 – Waynesburg defeats California 20-0 to complete the Raiders’ first undefeated and untied regular season.
1958 – Angelo Ferrari scores on touchdown runs of 45, 30 and 30 yards as Avella defeats visiting Weirton Madonna 27-0 for the Eagles’ second consecutive undefeated regular season.
1952 – Cumberland Township scores four second-half touchdowns and defeats Glassport 41-12 to finish the regular season undefeated. Larry Krutko scores three touchdowns and kicks four extra points.
1975 – Kevin Bailey and Barry Stotka each score two touchdowns as Beth-Center defeats Peters Township, 34-13, in the first round of the WPIAL Class AA playoffs at South Park.
1981 – Otto Birkhead rushes for a season-high 160 yards, including a 24-yard touchdown, and Waynesburg College sacks Cal State quarterback Chuck Colborn six times as the Yellow Jackets edge the Vulcans, 7-3, at College Field.
1984 – Senior forward Kory Sensky scores three goals and Trinity defeats Erie Prep, 3-0, on a muddy field at Fairview High School in the first round of the PIAA soccer playoffs.
1985 – The Pittsburgh Pirates hire Syd Thrift as their new general manager. The 53-year-old Thrift, a real estate agent in Fairfax, Va., has been out of baseball for nearly a decade. Thrift, a Pirate scouting supervisor from 1957 to 1968, headed the Kansas City Royals’ now-defunct Baseball Academy from 1969 until 1972 then headed the Oakland A’s minor league operations until he left baseball and entered the real estate business in 1976.
1986 – B.J. McClay kicks a 20-yard field goal with 5:21 remaining to give Trinity a 10-7 victory over visiting Derry in the first round of the WPIAL Class AAA playoffs. It’s the first playoff win in Trinity’s football history.
1987 – Pat Aigner passes for 229 yards and two touchdowns as Washington & Jefferson defeats John Carroll 24-3 to cap its first undefeated and untied regular season since 1921.
1988 – The Pittsburgh Pirates hire Larry Doughty as their general manager.
1993 – Chip Sheffield runs for 177 yards and three touchdowns, and Waynesburg College stops a two-point conversion with less than two minutes left, as the Yellow Jackets upset previously undefeated Frostburg State 24-22.
1998 – Peters Township’s Sarah Riske wins her second straight PIAA girls tennis championship by defeating Kristen Nowicki of Greensburg Salem, 6-0, 6-4, in the finals.
2003 – The most successful season for a Washington County volleyball team ends as Beth-Center loses matches to Conneaut Lake and Reading Central Catholic in pool play at the PIAA Class A Championships at Shippensburg.