VALLEY SPORTS HISTORY

2014

• The California baseball team is about to face something new for them – a southpaw with a wicked fastball. The Trojans will square off against District 9 runnerup Cranberry and lefty fastballer Dylan Cyphert, a Penn State recruit, whose fastball has been clocked at 90 miles per hour. Coach Nick Damico knows Cyphert will present a challenge to his team, “From what we’ve picked up, he has a really good two-seamed fastball and we haven’t seen a lefty that throws that hard. We need to simulate that somehow in practice.”

• May has been an awesome month for Joey School, a 28 year-old race driver from Charleroi. He has won two of the four feature events in the highly competitive open-wheeled modified division at Motordrome Speedway. The two wins were the first of his racing career and put him second in the point’s race. His toughest competitors were his uncle, Tom Smith and Dustin Blank, who finished second in both of School’s wins. School got his start in racing early as a member of the pit crew for some of his family members. He has been able to defeat some much more experienced drivers by managing to stay focused and driving with a bold style.

2004

• Memorial Day — no paper

1994

• The Charleroi American Legion team beat California, 11-1. Mike Peltz hammered in five runs with a triple, double and single, while Brad DeiCas belted a three-run homer in a six-run ninth inning. Matt Mudry went the distance for Charleroi scattering eight hits with eight strikeouts and just one walk.

• Cal U junior Don Bakewell became the university’s first All-American in track and field since 1985. The Brownsville graduate garnered the honor by finishing seventh in the javelin at the NCAA Division II Championships.