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WPIAL First Round Basketball: February 20, 2019

It’s a tripleheader tonight on Beaver County Radio! Things get started with action in the 3A girls’ playoffs as Beaver takes on East Allegheny at Peters Township. Coverage on Beaver County Radio begins at 6:00pm. Then the stations split as WBVP brings you the Blackhawk/Derry boys’ game from North Allegheny, while WMBA stays in Peters Township for the Beaver/Uniontown boys’ game. Both games are from the first round of the 4A playoffs, with both tip-offs set for 8:00pm.

Local teams are listed below in boldface.

BOYS

Tuesday’s Scores (All Class 6A)
Butler 57, Connellsville 48
Fox Chapel 58, Seneca Valley 45
Canon-McMillan 61, North Allegheny 59
Peters Township 74, Penn-Trafford 56

8:00pm (All Class 4A)
Beaver vs. Uniontown (at Peters Twp.) [WMBA]
Blackhawk vs. Derry (at North Allegheny) [WBVP]
Ringgold vs. Freeport (at Gateway)
Belle Vernon vs. Highlands (at North Hills)
Knoch vs. South Park (at Fox Chapel)

GIRLS

Tuesday’s Scores
[1A] Quigley Catholic 47, Mapletown 33 [WBVP/WMBA]
[1A] Sewickley Academy 56, California 30
[1A] Avella 38, Aquinas Academy 25
[1A] Vincentian 56, Leechburg 24
[5A] Mars 56, Woodland Hills 50
[5A] Franklin Regional 46, South Fayette 35
[5A] Trinity 55, Penn-Trafford 26
[5A] Thomas Jefferson 79, Plum 36

6:30pm  (All Class 3A)
Beaver vs. East Allegheny (at Peters Twp.) [WBVP/WMBA]
Mohawk vs. Washington (at North Allegheny)
Avonworth vs. Beth-Center (at Gateway)
Ellwood City vs. Carlynton (at North Hills)
Deer Lakes vs. Seton-LaSalle (at Fox Chapel)

W.P.I.A.L. High School Basketball Playoffs Scoreboard, Tuesday February 19, 12019


 

Tuesday, February 19, 2019:

 

                                   Girls  Class 1A First Round Games
Mapletown
Quigley      6:30 p.m.      WBVP/WMBA33		 33
47   Final 
California
Sewickley Academy      6:30 p.m.  		 30
56     Final 
Leechburg 
Vincentian Academy    6:30 p.m.		 0
0     Final
Aquinas Academy
Avella       6:30 p.m. 		25
38 Final 

Scoring Updates: Quigley vs. Mapletown (Girls) Tuesday February 19, 2019


Score will be updated at the end of each quarter.

 First HalfThird Final
Quigley8243647
Mapletown91323
33

CCBC Players of the Game Girls High School Basketball Feb. 19th, 2019

The two teams were neck and neck at the start of the game, with Mapletown just pulling ahead at the end of the first quarter, leading 9-8. Quigley fought back in the second quarter and finished the half 24-13 over Mapletown. Quigley held that lead for the rest of the game, finishing at 47-33 over Mapletown. Quigley will continue on to the Quarter Finals against Greensburg Central Catholic.

CCBC Players of the Game:

Quigley: Clara Stephenson

Mapletown: Kelsi Smith

Link for Quigley vs Mapletown (Girls) on WBVP/WMBA and Trib-Live High School Sports Network

1230 WBVP and 1460 WMBA’s Bob Barrickman and Bruce Frey have the call from West Allegheny High School of this 2019 WPIAL Class 1A First Round high school girls basketball playoff game as the Spartans battle the Maples.

If you can’t tune into the broadcast on 1230 WBVP and want to hear the broadcast streaming live over the Trib-Live High School Sports Network click on the logo below at 6:00 p.m. for for the pre-game. Tip-off is scheduled for 6:30 p.m……….

Machado, Padres agrees to $300M, 10-year deal

AP source: Machado, Padres agrees to $300M, 10-year deal
By BERNIE WILSON, AP Sports Writer
SAN DIEGO (AP) — All-Star infielder Manny Machado has agreed to a $300 million, 10-year deal with the rebuilding San Diego Padres, the biggest contract ever for a free agent, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the agreement was subject to a successful physical and had not been announced. Machado can opt out after five years and become a free agent again, the person said.
Machado’s deal, if completed, would be the second-largest in baseball history behind Giancarlo Stanton’s $325 million, 13-year deal signed with the Miami Marlins ahead of the 2015 season. Among free agents it tops Alex Rodriguez’s $275 million, 10-year contract with the New York Yankees from 2008-17.
Records may be broken soon. Free agent outfielder Bryce Harper could top Stanton’s deal in coming days or weeks.
Speaking at spring training in Peoria, Arizona, Padres executive chairman Ron Fowler said: “We do not have a deal with any free agent player. We are continuing discussions, and that’s all we have to say.”
Teams draw a distinction between an agreement subject to a physical and a finalized deal.
However, general partner Peter Seidler, without confirming the deal, said: “Ron and I, we love the city of San Diego, we love sports in San Diego, we’re also well aware of the history. There’s never been a championship … We as an organization, we want to completely change that. We want our franchise to win year after year after year. And we’re going to do whatever we can rationally do to make that happen.”
The Padres haven’t had a winning season since 2010 and haven’t been to the playoffs since 2006. They haven’t won a playoff series since the 1998 NLCS against Atlanta.
And they’ve had the city’s big league sports scene to themselves since the NFL’s Chargers moved to the Los Angeles area two seasons ago.
The Padres have been rebuilding mostly with prospects and draft picks, although they are making a stunning move early in spring training for the second straight year after reaching a $144 million, seven-year contract last February with first baseman Eric Hosmer.
Machado is expected to fill the team’s gaping need at third base. He began last year with Baltimore, was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers after the All-Star break and struck out to end the World Series loss to Boston.
With the 26-year-old Machado on board, the next big move for the Padres is expected to be the promotion of shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr., the 20-year-old son of a former big leaguer and the No. 2 overall prospect in baseball.
A four-time All-Star, Machado hit .297 last year and set career bests with 37 homers and 107 RBIs. A four-time All-Star and two-time Gold Glove winner, he has a .282 career average with 175 homers and 513 RBIs in seven big league seasons.
The Chicago White Sox were among the teams that pursued Machado.
“Still in a bit of disbelief. The one thing I can say — I just told Rick (general manager Han) this and I will tell Jerry (owner Reinsdorf) and our coaching staff and players — I feel we put our best foot forward. Jerry, in particular, really stepped up,” he said.
“If the acceptance of the offer that I’m seeing is true, then actually our offer had the opportunity for Manny to surpass that. But in the end we went after the guy and we didn’t get him. We’re disappointed but, hey, we are positioned . the reason why we were going after him in the first place is because we feel we are positioned to do some good things here going forward. We wanted to accelerate that to a large degree and that’s why we made the overture we did,” he said.
Machado also met with the Yankees, a team that had expressed concern over Machado’s remarks about hustling — not hustling, actually — during the playoffs.
After failing to run out a grounder in the NL Championship Series, Machado said: “Obviously I’m not going to change, I’m not the type of player that’s going to be ‘Johnny Hustle’ and run down the line and slide to first base.”
Machado tried to clarify his remarks after the season, saying, “looking back, it doesn’t come across how I meant it.”
Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner took notice of Machado’s initial comments, labeling them “troubling.”
“If we’re interested in any player, to sit down with them face to face and ask him, ‘Where did this come from? What was the context around the entire interview? Was there a point? How do you justify it?'” Steinbrenner said in November.
“Because that ain’t going to sell where we play baseball,” he said.
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AP Baseball Writer Ronald Blum and AP freelance writer Jack Thompson contributed to this report.
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WPIAL First Round Basketball: February 19, 2019

Quigley Catholic takes on Mapletown in their first-round matchup at West Allegheny tonight on Beaver County Radio. Pregame on WBVP, WMBA & TribLive is at 6:00. Local teams are listed below in bold.

GIRLS

Monday’s Scores (All Class 4A)
Quaker Valley 41, Freeport 38
Keystone Oaks 51, Belle Vernon 41
Elizabeth Forward 51, Knoch 42
McKeesport 51, Greensburg Salem 37
Southmoreland 40, Apollo-Ridge 37

6:30pm
[1A] Quigley Catholic vs. Mapletown (at West Allegheny) [WBVP/WMBA]
[1A] Vincentian vs. Leechburg (at Hampton)
[1A] California vs. Sewickley Academy (at Canon-McMillan)
[1A] Avella vs. Aquinas Academy (at Keystone Oaks)
[5A] Plum vs. Thomas Jefferson (at North Allegheny)
[5A] Penn-Trafford vs. Trinity (at Mt. Lebanon)

8:00pm
[5A] South Fayette vs. Franklin Regional (at Keystone Oaks)
[5A] Mars vs. Woodland Hills (at Hampton)

BOYS

Monday’s Scores (All Class 5A)
Woodland Hills 69, West Allegheny 60
Shaler 76, McKeesport 60
Montour 60, Hampton 44
Chartiers Valley 68, Albert Gallatin 51
Franklin Regional 66, Thomas Jefferson 41

8:00pm
[6A] Seneca Valley vs. Fox Chapel (at North Allegheny)
[6A] North Allegheny vs. Canon-McMillan (at West Allegheny)
[6A] Butler vs. Connellsville (at Canon-McMillan)
[6A] Peters Township vs. Penn-Trafford (at Mt. Lebanon)

WPIAL First Round Basketball: February 18, 2019

GIRLS (All Games In Class 4A, First Round)

6:30pm
Quaker Valley vs. Freeport (at North Allegheny)
Apollo-Ridge vs. Southmoreland (at Norwin)
Elizabeth Forward vs. Knoch (at Mt. Lebanon)
Belle Vernon vs. Keystone Oaks (at Peters Twp.)
McKeesport vs. Greensburg Salem (at Fox Chapel)

BOYS (All Games In Class 5A, First Round)

8:00pm
West Allegheny vs. Woodland Hills (at Mt. Lebanon)
Chartiers Valley vs. Albert Gallatin (at Peters Twp.)
Franklin Regional vs. Thomas Jefferson (at Norwin)
Shaler vs. McKeesport (at Fox Chapel)
Montour vs. Hampton (at North Allegheny)

Denny Hamlin cruises to 2nd Daytona 500 victory in 4 years

Denny Hamlin cruises to 2nd Daytona 500 victory in 4 years
By JENNA FRYER, AP Auto Racing Writer
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Denny Hamlin came to the Daytona 500 determined to honor his late car owner with a victory.
He delivered with a storybook tribute for Joe Gibbs Racing.
Hamlin won NASCAR’s biggest race for the second time in four years Sunday, leading JGR in a 1-2-3 sweep of the podium in overtime. The race and the season have been dedicated to J.D. Gibbs, Joe Gibbs’ eldest son who died last month after battling a degenerative neurological disease.
J.D. Gibbs helped his father start the race team, ran it while Joe Gibbs was coaching the Washington Redskins, was a tire changer on the team’s first Daytona 500 victory and the one who discovered Hamlin during a test session at Hickory Motor Speedway in North Carolina. Hamlin was hired to drive the No. 11 — the number J.D. Gibbs used when he played football — and J.D. Gibbs’ name is on the Toyota.
When Hamlin stopped his car along the frontstretch to collect the checkered flag, he immediately credited J.D. Gibbs.
“The whole family, they did so much for me over the course of my career, and this one is for J.D,” Hamlin said. “We are desperately going to miss him the rest of our lies. His legacy still lives on through Joe Gibbs Racing and proud to do this for them.”
Hamlin was met in victory lane by the entire Gibbs family, including J.D.’s widow and four sons.
“He meant a lot to me and it’s hard for me not getting choked up because I’ve been choked up about 100 times about it,” Hamlin said. “Just to have Melissa (Gibbs) and all the kids here, it’s just crazy.”
Joe Gibbs, the Hall of Fame NFL coach with three Super Bowl victories, ranked the tribute win to his son first in his career accomplishments.
“It is the most emotional and biggest win I’ve ever had in my life, in anything,” Gibbs said. “It was the most important night in my occupational life. I know J.D. and everybody in my family was emotional.”
Kyle Busch and Erik Jones finished second and third as JGR became the second team in NASCAR history to sweep the Daytona 500 podium. Hendrick Motorsports did it in 1997 with Jeff Gordon, Terry Labonte and Ricky Craven.
Busch, now winless in 14 Daytona 500s, was initially openly disappointed in falling short.
“He’s got two, I’ve got none, and that’s just the way it goes sometimes,” Busch said.
But he reiterated the JGR and Toyota goal of working together to win the race and noted he didn’t have much of a shot at beating Hamlin because the field had been decimated by a flurry of late accidents.
“Was trying to make sure one of us gets to victory lane, first and foremost,” Busch said. “There wasn’t enough cars out there running at the end. I don’t know how it would have played out.”
The Cup Series slogged through three uninspiring exhibition races during Speedweeks to cause concern over a potentially disappointing main event. Jim France, who took over as chairman of NASCAR last August, used the pre-race driver meeting to ask the drivers to liven up the activity. Hamlin and Chase Elliott were the rare drivers to use the bottom lane in the exhibition races while the rest of the field ran single-file along the top.
“I hope a few of you drivers out there will get down on the bottom with Denny and Chase and put on a good show today,” France told the field.
The drivers obeyed and delivered an action-packed and wreck-filled running of “The Great American Race.”
There was an accident on pit road, a 21-car crash, 12 cautions and five wrecks in the final 20 laps of regulation. The race was stopped twice for cleanup totaling nearly 40 minutes in the final stretch. During the second red-flag, one of NASCAR’s track-drying trucks broke down while cleaning oil off the racing surface.
Hamlin and Busch alternated as the leaders during the handful of late restarts, and the final rush to the checkered flag was a push to hold off Ford driver and reigning NASCAR champion Joey Logano. The Ford camp went 1-2-3 in both of Thursday’s qualifying races and was favored to win the Daytona 500.
Logano, who started his career at JGR, settled for fourth and also took a moment to honor J.D. Gibbs.
“I’m not a Gibbs driver but for what J.D. has done for my career is the reason why I’m sitting here today,” Logano said. “As bad as I want to win it, it is pretty cool to think that the first race after his passing, to see those guys one, two, three, it just says he’s up there watching and maybe gave (those) guys a little extra boost there at the end.”
Michael McDowell was fifth in a Ford but aggravated Logano by not working with him in the two-lap overtime sprint to the finish.
“I just told him that my team doesn’t pay me to push Joey Logano to a win,” McDowell said.
Ty Dillon was sixth in the highest-finishing Chevrolet.
The race featured eight drivers making their Daytona 500 debuts and rookie Ryan Preece, a short track racer from New England, was best in class with an eighth-place finish. Ross Chastain, the eighth-generation watermelon farmer who lost his main ride for this year when the FBI raided his sponsor right before Christmas, finished 10th,
Jamie McMurray, the 2010 winner, led six laps and was in the mix until he was collected in one of the late accidents. He finished 22nd in his final race before retirement.
William Byron and Alex Bowman were the youngest front row in race history but had little to show for it after the race. Bowman finished 11th and Byron, the pole-sitter, was 21st.
Hamlin last year suffered through his first winless season in the Cup Series and made a crew chief change during the offseason. When he won the 500 in 2016 it was his debut race with crew chief Mike Wheeler, and this victory came in his first race with Chris Gabehart.
Hamlin’s first Daytona 500 victory was in a photo finish against Martin Truex Jr. and the celebration was a blur. This one, he said, he will enjoy.
“I think I was so dumbfounded about everything that happened the first time with the photo finish and everything,” Hamlin said. “This one lets me soak it in a little bit more. I’m going to have a terrible hangover tomorrow, but I’m going to enjoy it the rest of my life.”
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