This afternoon’s PIT @ CIN game (Saturday, March 30th) has been postponed. It will be made up as a split doubleheader on Monday, May 27th as follows
Game 1 – 1:10pm ET (the game was originally scheduled at 2:10pm ET on May 27th and has been moved to 1:10pm ET to accommodate the split DH) Airtime is 12:45
Game 2 – 7:10pm ET (rescheduled game) Airtime is 6:45 Beaver County Radio
With the grass becoming greener, men and women of all ages will be hitting the links across America. One particular golfer, 9-year-old Michael Quallich of Whitehall, is an up-and-coming star who will be competing in the PGA Drive, Chip & Putt Championship at Augusta on April 7. He joined Matt Drzik & Greg Benedetti on the Saturday Sports Slam on March 30 to talk about his feelings about going to Augusta, the amount of practice he puts into each week, and how he got into the sport in the first place.
If you’d like to hear the interview, click below!
Part 1
Part 2
[Photo Courtesy: Quallich Family & Schuyler Easterling]
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pekka Rinne stopped 42 shots to lead the Nashville Predators to a 3-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Friday night.
Rinne was 63 seconds from his fifth shutout of the season when Nick Bjugstad scored for Pittsburgh.
It was the second game in eight days between the teams and a rematch of the 2017 Stanley Cup Final, won by Pittsburgh in six games.
Viktor Arvidsson’s 32nd goal of the season – a power-play goal – set a career high and also was the 100th of his NHL career. Craig Smith and P.K. Subban also scored for the Predators, who moved into a first-place tie in the Central Division. Nashville, which clinched its fifth straight playoff berth Monday, has won five of seven after losing four of its previous six.
Matt Murray made 23 saves for the Penguins, whose three-game winning streak ended. Pittsburgh, which had a chance to tie the New York Islanders for second in the Metropolitan Division, came in having won 10 of 15 games and earned points in 14 of 16.
Rinne won for the first time in Pittsburgh and defeated the Penguins for just the second time in 10 career regular-season starts. In six previous career starts in Pittsburgh, including the playoffs, Rinne was 0-6-0 with a 5.14 goals-against average and a .822 save percentage. He allowed three goals or more in every other appearance in Pittsburgh.
Rinne allowed 12 goals and made just 34 saves during three 2017 Stanley Cup Final in Pittsburgh. He was strong on Friday, stopping 22 first-period shots. Rinne has eight wins and one shutout in his last 13 starts total. The 2018 Vezina Trophy winner recorded his 27th win of the season.
Pittsburgh outshot Nashville 22-11 in the first period, but the Predators held a 1-0 lead through 20 minutes thanks to Rinne. It was the fourth time this season the Penguins recorded 20 or more shots in a period.
Smith scored the lone goal of the period for Nashville when he deflected Matt Irwin’s point shot behind Murray.
Arvidsson scored a power-play goal from inside the top of the left circle at 17:36 of the second period to put Nashville in front by two goals. Ryan Johansen had an assist on the goal to become the second player in team history to record a 50-assist season.
NOTES: Nashville won at Pittsburgh for the first time since Feb. 1, 2015. … D Olli Maatta returned to the lineup for Pittsburgh after missing 21 games with an upper-body injury. … F Evgeni Malkin (upper body), D Kris Letang (upper body) and D Chad Ruhwedel skated on Friday morning, but did not play against Nashville. … Nashville recalled G Troy Grosenick on an emergency basis from Milwaukee of the American Hockey League because of an illness to G Juuse Saros. … Smith joins Filip Forsberg as the only players in Predators history to record five 20-goal seasons. Pittsburgh’s Jake Guentzel played in his 200th NHL game.
UP NEXT
Predators: Host Columbus on Saturday.
Penguins: Welcome Carolina on Sunday.
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Economy borough officials have addressed Penn Energy’s proposal to frack. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has more. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…
TODAY IS NATIONAL VIETNAM WAR VETERANS DAY…AND SPECIAL CEREMONIES WILL BE HELD IN MOON TOWNSHIP AND BEAVER TODAY, HONORING THOSE VETS. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS MORE. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…
Pennsylvania’s first law of 2019 expands the list of crimes that would result in a convicted public official or government employee being stripped of their public pension. Gov. Tom Wolf signed the bill Thursday. Its passage was spurred by the case of a former Democratic state senator who was able to keep his $246,000-a-year pension after a 2012 guilty plea to a federal conspiracy charge for using Senate staff to work on political campaigns.
The first Emerson Poll of 2019 in Pennsylvania shows former Vice President Joe Biden with a strong lead in the Democratic primary with 39% support. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is in second with 20%, followed by Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren with 11%, and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg with 6%.
State Rep. Jim Marshall (R-Beaver/Butler) has announced that a grant has been approved to assist with road and sidewalk repair in Midland Borough. In an interview with Beaver County Radio newsman Pat Septak, Marshall says Midland Borough was approved to receive a $650,000 state grant to assist with road resurfacing and sidewalk restoration…
Marshall says the funding will support Midland Borough’s plans to restore sidewalks and resurface roadways in Midland Heights and other areas of the borough…
Marshall says he was getting complaints from constituents regarding the poor conditions of the borough’s roads and sidewalks…
Marshall says he’s hopeful that construction will begin soon…
The funding comes from the Commonwealth Financing Authority’s Multimodal Transportation Fund, which provides grants to encourage economic development and provide safe, reliable transportation for Pennsylvania residents.
A recent poll suggests a majority of Pennsylvanians support legalizing recreational marijuana. The Franklin-And-Marshall College poll out yesterday says it found 59-percent of registered voters are okay with legalizing pot in PA. That number is up 36-percent from a May 2006 poll that had only 22-percent in favor. The polling data found voters who identified as independent or Democrat were more likely to be in support compared to Republicans. The support declined with the age of the respondent.
