VALLEY SPORTS HISTORY
2014
• The Monessen Middle School softball team moved to 9-2 for the season with a 6-4 victory over Washington.
Dana Vatakis pitched a complete game, striking out 15 and allowing only two hits. Maddie Telegraphis added a double and a triple for the Greyhounds. Monessen resumes play in a doubleheader Monday at California.
• The No. 12 Cal U tennis team was eliminated from the NCAA Tournament with a 5-2 loss to No. 6-ranked St. Leo in the quarterfinals. The Vulcans finished the season 15-3 after advancing to the quarters for the seventh time in eight seasons. The Vulcans avoided a doubles sweep as the duo of senior Lucy Sipkova and junior Lucie Rey ended the year on an 11-match winning streak following an 8-5 victory over Pauline Helgesson and Paula Montoya.
2004
• Sunday – no paper
1994
• Sports editor Jeff Oliver wrote that John Reed is the hottest Cougar on a very hot Charleroi baseball team. The Cougars finished the season with a five-game winning streak, earning the team a spot in the WPIAL playoffs. The Cougars are hitting and pitching better now than at any point in the regular season. Even on a team that is hitting at the .400 level, Reed stands out. Oliver wrote that Reed is “hotter than a tar roof in an Alabama July.” He hit a blistering .617 and led the Cougars in hits (22), RBIs (23), triples (four), and home runs (six). In his last six games, Reed is batting .800 and has five homers.
• The Charleroi Ponderosa opened the Fayette County Baseball League on a winning note Mark Bennett and
Shawn Hisiro drew walks with the bases loaded in the sixth inning to force in the tying and winning runs in Charleroi’s 4-3 victory over the Brownsville Stingers. Charleroi loaded the bases on a walk to Gary Riley and singles by Frank Francia and Tony Mordecki. The Stingers had a 3-2 lead with two runs in the fourth inning on RBI singles by Brian Croftcheck and Dave McDowell. Gary Michalowski, who relieved Denny Eulok in the fifth, took the win. Mike Conte homered in the second inning for Ponderosa’s first run with his brother Christian Conte homering in the third.
