VALLEY SPORTS HISTORY
2014
• Sunday—no paper
2004
• The baseball season didn’t end well for Yough. Eight errors and some poor base running added up to an 11-1 loss to Washington in five innings at California University’s Roadman Park in a WPIAL Class A first-round playoff contest. Washington capitalized on four Yough errors in the third inning with four hits to score seven runs and break open a 3-0 game. Yough managed only three hits off Dominick Waters and John Baker. The Cougars scored their lone run in the fourth when Dan Fiore doubled after Adam Portik singled.
• A freshman isn’t supposed to be on the mound during an important playoff game, but don’t tell California baseball coach Dan Hartman that. Zack Jenney went 5 2/3 innings as the Trojans downed Serra Catholic, 7-3, in an opening-round Class A matchup. Hartman said, “Zack has great composure and never gets shook. Lefties are golden in my book. When he’s on, he’s tough to hit. He threw 120 pitches and just ran out of gas.” Thanks to three hits, four straight walks, two errors and one wild pitch, the Trojans tallied a 4-0 lead before Jeney took the mound. Hartman said, “We capitalized early, they seemed jittery and we got some cheap runs.”
1994
• Charleroi held Frazier’s powerful lineup to just one hit, but still lost, 2-1, in a battle of WPIAL Class AA playoff-bound teams. Frazier won the pitchers’ duel when Charleroi reliever Chris Hega produced four walks in the fifth inning to drive home the winning run to snap a 1-1 tie. The Cougars used four pitchers: Mike Kootsouradis, John Reed, Hega and Dan Wetherald.
The only hit the four pitchers gave up was an infield single off the bat of the Commodores’ Joel Shaff1er.
