PIAA considers expanding basketball playoffs across classes
Harrisburg AP reports proposed changes would nearly triple eligible teams for the PIAA basketball tournament. New plan allocates Class A 32 teams, Class B 32, Class C 30 with district quotas guiding qualifications. Semifinals to be centralized at Farm Show and Hershey arenas, finals at Farm Show, with a consolation game and selective seeding to avoid early top teams clashing.
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Crotty Ferrando Finishes Third in Weekend Tourney
The Crotty-Ferrando softball team finished third in a 16-team double elimination event at Wildcat Park Ludlow. They lost their first game to Auto Dealers then progressed to the semifinals before losing to Ashland 14-8. Ashland later won the tournament.
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Butler Native Edinboro Swim Coach Named
Edinboro State College selects Ed Erdos of Butler as the first swimming coach. A 1966 Slippery Rock graduate, he has coached at Midpark High School in Berea, Ohio for four years. The Fighting Scots will compete in the newly finished McComb Fieldhouse Natatorium.
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Ex Pirates Hero Lifts Cardinals To Sweep In Pittsburgh
Dominican slugger Alou blasted a three run homer in the eighth as St. Louis rallied from a 4-4 tie to defeat the Pirates 6-4 at Three Rivers Stadium. The win pulled the Cardinals within four games of first place Pittsburgh as San Francisco, Montreal, Cincinnati, Houston, and San Diego also won in NL action. Alou’s blast followed hits by Simmons and Hague, part of a five run eighth inning rally that vaulted the Cards past their former teammates.
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Vida Blue’s 22nd Win Sparks A’s at Yankee Stadium
Vida Blue, the AL Cy Young front runner, led Oakland to a 6-4 win over the Yankees in New York on Blue Day. He drove in a run with a bunt and scored the decisive eighth inning run as Oakland stretched its lead amid a 45,343 crowd. The day also featured Detroit beating Minnesota 7-5 and Perry absorbing his 14th loss as a series of other AL games unfolded.
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