Sports briefs 9/30
Girls soccer
Peters Township remained undefeated with a 3-0 win over visiting Moon in a non-section match Monday night.
The victory improves PT’s record to 9-0-1 and continues an amazing streak. The Indians are undefeated in 47 consecutive regular-season games played at Confluence Financial Partners Stadium. The last team to be PT at home during the regular season was Moon back in 2021.
Adrianna Rigatti got PT off to a fast start by scoring a goal off an assist from Katie Froelich in the game’s first two minutes. Two minutes later, Brynn Busch scored with a helper from Cailin Martin.
Taylor McCullough netted an insurance goal in the 58th minute.
PT goalkeeper Kaylin Hoffman had the clean sheet.
• Laila Kruppa and Raegan Sobczak scored goals as Belle Vernon defeated Bentworth 2-1 in a non-section contest Monday that matched powerhouse teams from different classifications.
Bella Moyer scored the lone goal for Bentworth, which suffered its first loss of the season. The Bearcats are 8-1.
Belle Vernon, which leads Class 3A Section 3, improved to 6-1-3.
• Waynesburg and visiting Keystone Oaks played to a 1-1 tie in Class 2A Section 1 on Monday.
Kolbi Rastoka netted the lone goal for Waynesburg (3-2-2, 6-3-2).
Boys soccer
Isaac McCartney netted two goals and assisted on another to power Waynesburg to a 5-0 victory over Albert Gallatin in non-section action Monday.
Blake Tennant, Dylan keys and Landon Hogue also scored goals for the Raiders, who are 3-5-1.
Golf
Rick Stimmel, propelled by a dominant opening round, turned in a record-setting performance by shooting an 11-under score of 133 in the 95th WPGA Senior Amateur Championship Tuesday at Nemacolin Country Club.
Following a bogey-free first round Monday, Stimmel entered Tuesday’s final round with an eight-stroke advantage, and was never threatened on his way to victory.
With the win, Stimmel became the first player in the 127-year history of the Western Pennsylvania Golf Association to win the WPGA Amateur, WPGA Open and WPGA Senior Amateur Championships in their career.
Auto racing
Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing and co-owner/driver Brad Keselowski said Tuesday that he will leave the team after the season.
Keselowski joined Roush Fenway Racing as a co-owner in 2021 and began driving for the rebranded team the following season. Keselowski, the 2012 Cup Series champion, is in his 17th full season of racing at NASCAR’s top level. He spent the bulk of his career at Team Penske.
• Christian Lundgaard will be replacing six-time IndyCar champion Scott Dixon in the famed No. 9 car for Chip Ganassi Racing.
The team announced that the 25-year-old Lundgaard had signed a multiyear deal. He will join Alex Palou and Kyffin Simpson in a three-car lineup for the 2027 season, which opens March 7 in St. Petersburg.
• Gordon Johncock, a two-time Indianapolis 500 champion and winner of 25 career IndyCar races, has died. He was 90.
Johncock died from natural causes Monday at his home in South Branch, Michigan, a spokesman for the family told the Associated Press.
Johncock competed in one of IndyCar’s golden eras. He raced annually at The Brickyard against the likes of four-time winners A.J. Foyt, Rick Mears and Al Unser, three-time winners Bobby Unser and Johnny Rutherford and 1969 race winner Mario Andretti, among others.
He won the 1976 USAC title in an IndyCar. But he was best known for his Indy 500 wins. His first came in 1973, one of the most tragic months in the history of Indianapolis Motor Speedway. His second came in 1982 when he outdueled Mears to the finish line for what was then the closest winning margin in race history at 0.16 seconds.