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Scoring Updates: Beaver vs. Penns Valley Girls, Tuesday March 12, 2019 at 6:00 p.m.
Category: Sports
Link for PIAA Round 2 Girls Playoff Game: Beaver vs. Penns Valley, Tuesday March 12, 2019 at 5:30 p.m..
1230 WBVP and 1460 WMBA’s Bob Barrickman and Tom Hays have the call from DuBois High School of this 2019 PIAA Class 3A Second Round girls high school basketball state playoff game as the Bobcats battle the Rams.
If you can’t tune into the broadcast on 1230 WBVP 1460 WMBA and want to hear the broadcast streaming live over the Trib-Live High School Sports Network click on the logo below at 5:30 p.m. for for the pre-game. Tip-off is scheduled for 6:00 p.m……….
PIAA Second Round Basketball: March 12, 2019
Who will take their next step toward Hershey? Tonight’s coverage takes us to DuBois where the Beaver Lady Bobcats take on Penns Valley out of District 6 for a shot at the state quarterfinals. Coverage begins with pre-game tonight at 5:30 on Beaver County Radio.
“West” games only are listed below; local teams labeled in bold.
GIRLS
5:00pm
[6A] Norwin vs. Northhampton Area (at Cumberland Valley)
6:00pm
[2A] OLSH vs. Allegheny-Clarion Valley (at Armstrong)
[2A] Bishop Canevin vs. Everett (at Hempfield)
[2A] West Middlesex vs. Juniata Valley (at Punxsutawney HS)
[3A] Beaver vs. Penns Valley (at DuBois HS) [WBVP/WMBA]
[3A] Shady Side Academy vs. Central Cambria (at Greensburg-Salem)
[3A] Penn Cambria vs. Delone Catholic (at Mifflin County)
[6A] North Allegheny vs. Upper Dublin (at Chambersburg)
[6A] Abington vs. Cumberland Valley (at Garden Spot)
7:00pm
[3A] Neshannock vs. Avonworth (at Hampton)
[6A] Peters Township vs. Bethel Park (at Canon-McMillan)
7:30pm
[2A] Brentwood vs. Kane (at Punxsutawney HS)
BOYS
6:00pm
[5A] Mars vs. York William Penn (at Hollidaysburg)
[5A] Meadville vs. Muhlenburg (at Bald Eagle)
[1A] Vincentian vs. Elk County Catholic (at Slippery Rock Univ.)
7:30pm
[5A] Moon vs. Archbishop Ryan (at Chambersburg)
[5A] Johnstown vs. Lower Dauphin (at Bald Eagle)
[4A] Quaker Valley vs. Bishop McDevitt (at Hollidaysburg)
[4A] New Castle vs. Grove City (at Slippery Rock Univ.)
[4A] Hickory vs. Huntingdon (at DuBois HS)
[4A] Imhotep Charter vs. Danville Area (at Central Dauphin East)
[1A] Cornell vs. Clarion-Limestone (at Armstrong)
[1A] Monessen vs. Bishop Carroll (at Greensburg-Salem)
[1A] Nazareth Prep vs. Shade (at Hempfield)
Penguins end Bruins’ 19-game point streak in 4-2 win
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jared McCann scored twice, Matt Murray finished with 39 saves and the Pittsburgh Penguins handed the Boston Bruins their first regulation loss since January with a 4-2 victory on Sunday night.
Nick Bjugstad and Jake Guentzel also scored for the Penguins, who survived another late push by the Bruins.
David Krejci picked up his 19th of the season and John Moore got Boston within one when he scored with just over a minute to go. But the Bruins couldn’t complete the comeback, ending their 19-game point streak.
It was the first regulation loss for Krejci and company since Jan. 19 against the New York Rangers.
Jaroslav Halak made 33 stops, but Boston remained winless in Pittsburgh since December 2015.
The Bruins used the franchise’s longest point streak since the 1940-41 season to rise above the muddled portion of the Eastern Conference playoff race. Their six-week stretch included flashes of dominance and a flair for the dramatic. Boston arrived in Pittsburgh coming off a 6-0 homestand, one that culminated with last-minute victories over Florida and Ottawa.
Boston’s run came to an end against a team that seems to be gaining some momentum late in a bumpy and wildly uneven season, at least by Pittsburgh standards. Just 24 hours removed from a draining split with Columbus during a home-and-home series, the Penguins rode the legs of two of their newest acquisitions, a dash of brilliance from Sidney Crosby and Guentzel and another steady performance by Murray to their fifth win in their last seven games.
Bjugstad and McCann have been revelations since their arrival in a trade with Florida on Feb. 1, their presence giving Pittsburgh a jolt of both size and — in the 22-year-old McCann — youth.
Bjugstad needed just 93 seconds to give the Penguins the lead, fighting for position at the far post and redirecting a centering pass from Zach Aston-Reese by Halak for his fifth goal in 18 games with Pittsburgh, matching the total he put up in 32 games with the Panthers earlier this year.
McCann made it 2-0 at 13:54 when he took a lead pass from Teddy Blueger and broke in alone on Halak before deking from his forehand to his backhand. Halak could only stretch out his glove in vain as McCann slipped home Pittsburgh’s 10th short-handed goal of the season.
Krejci got Boston on the board early in the second when the puck emerged from a scrum in front of the Pittsburgh net and ended up on his stick in the left circle. He flipped it over a sprawled Murray for his 19th of the season.
Pittsburgh’s potent power play has been a bit of a mess of late — just as likely to give up a goal as score one — and was a lifeless 0 for 4 until Crosby and Guentzel hooked up for Guentzel’s team-leading 34th of the season with 3:28 to go in the second. Crosby raced into the zone down the left side and sent a perfect cross-ice pass to Guentzel, who quickly went backhand to forehand and lifted it by Halak to restore the two-goal cushion.
Murray, who was spectacular at times in Saturday’s loss to Columbus, made sure the lead stood up. Moore’s blast from the point with 1:01 to play gave the Bruins an outside shot at another dramatic victory, but McCann’s long shot from center ice into the empty net with 21 seconds to go closed it out.
NOTES: Boston D Matt Grzelcyk left in the second period after his right arm was pinned awkwardly against the boards when he got hit by Pittsburgh F Patric Hornqvist. … Penguins D Kris Letang missed his seventh straight game with an upper-body injury. … Both teams went 1 for 5 on the power play. … Pittsburgh C Evgeni Malkin did not score and remains two points shy of 1,000 for his career.
UP NEXT
Bruins: Will face the Blue Jackets for the first time this season on Tuesday in Columbus.
Penguins: Host Washington on Tuesday. Pittsburgh is 2-1 against the reigning Stanley Cup champions this season.
Scoring Updates: Pittsburgh Penguins vs. Boston Bruins, Sunday March 10, 2019 at 7:30 pm.
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AP source: Raiders acquire WR Antonio Brown from Steelers
AP source: Raiders acquire WR Antonio Brown from Steelers
By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer
ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — The Oakland Raiders agreed on a deal Saturday night to acquire prolific but disgruntled receiver Antonio Brown from the Pittsburgh Steelers and will give him the lucrative new contract he wanted.
A person with direct knowledge of the trade told The Associated Press that the Raiders finalized the deal with the Steelers and will give Brown a new three-year contract worth $50.125 million instead of the $38.925 million he was owed by Pittsburgh. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal can’t be completed until the new league year starts Wednesday.
Pro Football Talk first reported the deal and says Pittsburgh will get third and fifth-round draft picks from Oakland.
The trade makes final what became a very messy and very public divorce between Brown and the team that helped turn the sixth-round pick into arguably the greatest wide receiver of his generation.
It also gives the Raiders a high-profile addition for second-year coach Jon Gruden after trading away two of the team’s biggest stars last year in edge rusher Khalil Mack and receiver Amari Cooper.
Oakland got extra first-round picks in those trades but didn’t need to give up any of its four picks in the top 35 in the upcoming draft to acquire Brown, who has topped 100 receptions and 1,200 yards receiving in each of the past six seasons. The Raiders have had only one player reach those marks in a single season in franchise history, with Hall of Famer Tim Brown accomplishing the feat in 1997.
Brown now gives quarterback Derek Carr his biggest offensive weapon since entering the league in 2014 and the Raiders a legitimate star before they move to Las Vegas for the 2020 season.
The Raiders’ top wide receiver last season was Jordy Nelson, who had just 63 catches for 739 yards.
Gruden has always admired Brown from his time as a broadcaster and had nothing but praise for the receiver before the teams played last December.
“He’s the hardest working man, I think, in football,” Gruden said. “Hardest working player I’ve ever seen practice. I’ve seen Jerry Rice, I’ve seen a lot of good ones, but I put Antonio Brown at the top. If there are any young wideouts out there, I’d go watch him practice. You figure out yourself why he’s such a good player.”
Brown was obviously pleased with the development, posting a picture of himself in a Raiders uniform and a video with Carr at a Pro Bowl with the caption “Love at first sight ” on his Twitter account.
Brown is no stranger to drawing headlines for both his prolific on-field production and his off-the-field antics, including livestreaming from the locker room after a playoff win over Kansas City in January 2017 and getting pulled over for doing 100 mph in the northern Pittsburgh suburbs last fall.
The sometimes tumultuous relationship between the only player in NFL history with six straight 100-catch seasons and the franchise that made him the highest-paid player at his position in the spring of 2017 reached a breaking point in late December.
Steelers coach Mike Tomlin benched Brown during the regular-season finale against Cincinnati after the wide receiver went radio silent in the final 48 hours before the game. Brown arrived in a fur coat, hung out for a half and then disappeared from view until well after his teammates had cleaned out their lockers following a 9-6-1 finish that left Pittsburgh on the outside of the playoffs for the first time since 2013.
When Brown did resurface, he began engaging in a series of increasingly antagonistic acts designed to expedite his departure. He went on Instagram with former Steelers linebacker James Harrison during Tomlin’s season wrap-up press conference. He decried quarterback Ben Roethlisberger’s “owner’s mentality” and chastised Tomlin for disciplining him in Week 17, no matter that Tomlin and the rest of the organization had spent years downplaying Brown’s off-the-field eccentricities.
Brown officially requested a trade last month, but not before photo-shopping his familiar No. 84 onto a San Francisco 49ers jersey or using his hyperactive social media feeds to indicate not only his displeasure with the Steelers but also his interest in signing a new deal with whomever should acquire his services.
Even with his benching in the finale, Brown caught 104 passes for 1,297 yards and a franchise-record and NFL-high 15 touchdowns. His last performance in a Pittsburgh uniform might have been one of his best, a 14-reception, 185-yard, two-touchdown masterpiece in a road loss to New Orleans.
A week later, the player who once said he wanted to retire a Steeler didn’t even suit up against the Bengals. Just over two months later, he now finds himself heading to the second act of a career that’s on a Hall of Fame trajectory and the Steelers have a hole at receiver and more than $21 million in dead money on their salary cap.
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AP Sports Writer Will Graves in Pittsburgh contributed to this report
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Scoreboard for PIAA Play-offs Round One, Saturday March 9, 2019
Saturday, March 9, 2019:
| Girls PIAA Class 1A First Round | |
| Vincention Academy Johnsonburg 4:00 p.m. |
46 44 Final |
| Sewickley Academy North Clarion 3:00 p.m. |
44 35 Final |
| Otto-Eldrid Rochester 3:00 p.m. |
44 67 Final |
| St. Josephs Catholic Academy Quigley Catholic 4:30 p.m. |
0 0 Final |
| Kennedy Catholic West Greene 3:00 p.m. |
63 56 Final |
| Avella Berlin Brothers Valley 6:00 p.m. |
0 0 Final |
| Girls PIAA Class 4A First Round | |
| Mc Keesport North Catholic 3:00 p.m. |
42 58 Final |
| Elizabeth Forward Villa Maria Academy 4:30 p.m. |
45 55 Final |
| Quaker Valley Lancaster Catholic 6:30 p.m. |
24 52 Final |
| Keystone Oaks Forest Hills 7:00 p.m. |
32 50 Final |
| Blackhawk Punxsutaweny 7:30 p.m. |
70 46 Final |
| Girls PIAA Class 5A First Round | |
| General Mc Clain Chartiers Valley 3:00 p.m. |
24 59 Final |
| Trinity Thomas Jefferson 6:00 p.m. |
44 50 Final |
| Obama Academy Slippery Rock 3:00 p.m. |
0 0 Final |
| Penn Hills Hollidaysbug 4:00 p.m. |
42 25 Final |
| Boys PIAA Class 2A First Round | |
| Penn Manor Serra Catholic 4:30 p.m. |
44 79 Final |
| West Middlesex OLSH 3:00 p.m. |
43 62 Final |
| Shenango Farrell 4:00 p.m. |
47 74 Final |
| Bishop Guilfoyle Sto-Rox 5:30 p.m. |
100 64 Final |
| Ridgway Sewickley Academy 5:30 p.m. |
60 51 Final |
| Coudersport South Side 7:00 p.m. |
0 0 Final |
| Boys PIAA Class 3A First Round | |
| Deer Lakes Brookville 6:00 p.m. |
56 52 Final |
| Bellwood-Antis Lincoln Park 4:30 p.m. WBVP/WMBA |
55
73 Final |
| Forest Hills North Catholic 4:30 p.m. |
64 51 Final |
| Sharpsville Seton La Salle 6:00 p.m. |
57 67 Final |
| Aliquippa Fairview 6:00 p.m. |
66 56 Final |
| Washington Sharon 5:30 p.m. |
49 63 Final |
| Beaver Falls Ligonier Valley 6:00 p.m. |
84 68 Final |
| Boys PIAA Class 6A First Round | |
| Fox Chapel Kennedy Catholic 7:00 p.m. |
28 55 Final |
| Chambersburg Butler 5:00 p.m. |
42 56 Final |
| Allderdice Cannon Mc Millian 3:00 p.m. |
61 58 Final |
| Manheim Twp. 6:00 p.m. Mount Lebanon |
0 0 Final |
| Pine-Richland Wilson 4:30 p.m. |
89 64 Final |
Atkinson scores twice to lift Blue Jackets over Penguins
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Cam Atkinson had two goals, Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 28 shots and the Columbus Blue Jackets broke an eight-game losing streak against the Pittsburgh Penguins with a 4-1 victory Saturday night.
Boone Jenner and Oliver Bjorkstrand also scored for the Blue Jackets. They had lost four of their last six — including a 3-0 loss to the Penguins on Thursday night — and desperately needed a win to stay in the mix for an Eastern Conference wild-card playoff spot. Columbus started the day two points below the wild-card line.
Zach Aston-Reese scored for Pittsburgh in the second period and Matt Murray, starting his seventh straight game, had 29 saves.
Bobrovsky, who was a healthy scratch Thursday, bounced back with an exceptional game against the Penguins, who were 4-0-2 in their last six and started the day in third place in the Metropolitan Division.
Jenner went into the box for slashing 20 seconds into the game, then made up for it by taking a feed from Josh Anderson on a rush and beating Murray to give the Blue Jackets the lead 2:31 into the game.
Atkinson scored a short-handed goal early in the second when Pittsburgh’s Phil Kessel went sprawling and the Columbus winger found himself with a loose puck and an open net. He snapped it in over Murray for his team-leading 37th goal of the season.
Pittsburgh pulled it back to a one-goal game at 6:39 of the second when Zach Aston-Reese took Evgeni Malkin’s pass on the doorstep and beat Bobrovsky.
Bjorkstrand tapped in the insurance goal off a short pass from Ryan Dzingel with 3:01 left, and Atkinson got his 38th of the season when he added an empty-netter at the 1:49 mark.
NOTES: Kessel played in 314th straight game for Pittsburgh, the second-longest streak in franchise history. Craig Adams holds the record with 319. … Anderson got his 100th career NHL point. … Atkinson has 12 career short-handed goal, two short of the franchise record. … Columbus last beat Pittsburgh in the regular season on Feb. 17, 2017 (2-1 in overtime). … Malkin has a nine-game points streak against the Blue Jackets. … Columbus is 27-5-2 this season when scoring the first goal.
UP NEXT
Pittsburgh: At Boston on Sunday night.
Columbus: At New York Islanders on Monday night.
Scoring Updates: Pittsburgh Penguins vs. Columbus Blue Jackets, Saturday March 9, 2019 at 7:00 pm.
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CCBC Players of the Game Saturday March 9, 2019
Saturday, March 9, 2019:
| WMBA /WBVP (Girls)
Rochester – Alexis Robinson |
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| WBVP/WMBA (Boys)
Lincoln Park – Isaiah Smith |