High School Basketball: February 5, 2019

GIRLS

Monday’s Scores
[5A] Trinity 60, Lincoln Park 25
[5A] West Allegheny 48, South Fayette 41
[5A] Chartiers Valley 51, Moon 35
[4A] Central Valley 49, Quaker Valley 37
[4A] Blackhawk 72, Ambridge 50
[4A] Keystone Oaks 51, Hopewell 39
[3A] Beaver 66, Freedom 37
[3A] Neshannock 73, Beaver Falls 14
[3A] Avonworth 55, Riverside 23
[3A] Ellwood City 51, Mohawk 36
[2A] South Side Beaver 42, Aliquippa 38
[2A] OLSH 57, Northgate 16
[2A] Laurel 76, New Brighton 16
[1A] Vincentian 54, Quigley Catholic 25
[1A] Eden Christian 60, Cornell 6

6:00pm
[2A] Northgate at New Brighton

6:30pm
[2A] OLSH at Sto-Rox

BOYS

Monday’s Scores
[1A] Nazareth Prep 80, Rochester 26

7:30pm
[5A] Moon at Thomas Jefferson
[5A] Trinity at West Allegheny
[4A] Blackhawk at Quaker Valley (WBVP/WMBA)
[4A] Hopewell at Beaver
[4A] New Castle at Central Valley
[3A] New Brighton at Aliquippa
[3A] Beaver Falls at Riverside
[3A] Ellwood City at Neshannock
[3A] Freedom at Avonworth
[2A] Mohawk at OLSH
[2A] Laurel at Sewickley Academy
[1A] Western Beaver at Rochester
[1A] Quigley Catholic at Cornell

Broadcast pregame is at 7:05.

‘We want seven!’ Huge crowds Cheer Patriots on Super Bowl win

‘We want seven!’ Huge crowds fete Patriots on Super Bowl win
By PHILIP MARCELO, Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of jubilant fans jammed downtown Boston on Tuesday for a parade celebrating the New England Patriots’ sixth Super Bowl title, clamoring for more with cheers of “We want seven!” and “Next year, right here!”
A party atmosphere enveloped the city as fans clad in team garb packed sidewalks in the mild weather and stood on tiptoe for a glimpse of quarterback Tom Brady, coach Bill Belichick and the rest of the team. Red, white and blue confetti rained down.
It’s a familiar feeling in Boston. The parade came just four months after the city feted the Red Sox for their fourth World Series championship in 15 years.
“Getting to see Tom Brady again is always a special day, but the Patriots are amazing. Six-time champs,” fan Lauren Mills said, adding that she still hasn’t had her fill. Her message to Brady: “Go for No. 7. He still has how many fingers left? You know, four more rings to go.”
Fresh from Sunday’s 13-3 victory over the Los Angeles Rams in the Super Bowl in Atlanta, team members and their families took a 2-mile (3-kilometer) swing through the city aboard Boston’s iconic World War II-era amphibious “duck boats.”
Brady held his pigtailed daughter, Vivian, and they waved and grinned at the crowd as players and team owner Robert Kraft took turns holding aloft the Lombardi Trophy. Belichick and his partner, Linda Holliday, beamed, and the storied coach doffed his cap.
Star tight end Rob Gronkowski, who has talked about retiring after this latest NFL title, whooped it up with his brothers and father. He and several other players removed their shirts and spent the second half of the parade cavorting bare-chested.
They waved large signs that read, “We Got Everything” — a twist on the Patriots’ motivational hashtag, “Everything We Got,” that had become a theme this season.
At least one brave Rams fan, wearing one of that team’s blue and yellow jerseys, hung out along the parade route.
Officials expected more than 1 million attendees, and early trains and subways were jammed, overwhelming the Boston area’s transit system with what officials said was record ridership. The weather was unseasonably warm, with temperatures above 50 degrees (10 degrees Celsius) and dazzling sunshine.
Security was tight, and police took away several fans who appeared intoxicated, including one man on a stretcher.
Mayor Marty Walsh warned fans not to throw anything. Errant beer cans slightly damaged the Red Sox World Series trophy last year.
Unlike in past years, no post-parade rally with speeches was planned. Officials didn’t elaborate on why.
Stephen Chhom, of Lynn, Massachusetts, was along the parade route overlooking the Statehouse with his friend Ricky Sok and Sok’s son, Raiyu.
“What made this year special were all the other fans doubting us,” Chhom said, wearing a Julian Edelman jersey. “The record speaks for itself. Tom Brady and the rest of the team prove themselves every single time.”
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Associated Press video journalist Rodrique Ngowi contributed to this report. Follow Philip Marcelo on Twitter at https://twitter.com/philmarcelo .

Familiar Face returning to the Pittsburgh Pirates

File Photo taken in 2016 by Frank Sparks

The Pirates have signed free-agent left-hander Francisco Liriano, MLB Network insider Ken Rosenthal reported Monday, with The Athletic adding that it’s a Minor League deal worth $1.8 million plus incentives if he makes the roster. The Bucs have not commented on the reports. as of yet.

Liriano signed with the Pirates as a free agent prior to the 2013 season, remaining with the club until he was traded to the Blue Jays on Aug. 1, 2016. Liriano made 107 starts in a Bucs uniform, going 41-36 with a 3.67 ERA. Liriano has struggled since leaving Pittsburgh, spending time with the Blue Jays, Astros and Tigers. The 35-year-old spent 2018 with the Tigers, with whom he pitched in 27 games (26 starts) and went 5-12 with a 4.58 ERA. Among all pitchers with at least 100 innings, Liriano posted the fourth-highest walk rate (12.5 percent) and the fourth-lowest strikeout-to-walk ratio (1.51).

Bob Friend, pitched most innings for Pirates, dies at 88

Bob Friend, pitched most innings for Pirates, dies at 88
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bob Friend, who pitched more innings than anyone in Pittsburgh Pirates history, died Sunday. He was 88.
The Pirates said Friend died at his home in Pittsburgh.
Friend holds the Pirates record for innings (3,480 1/3), starts (477) and strikeouts (1,682). The right-hander was an All-Star in three different seasons — in 1960, he made the NL roster for both All-Star games played that summer, and was the starter and winner in the first one.
Friend made his big league debut with two shutout innings for the Pirates against Cincinnati as a 20-year-old on April 28, 1951. He became a fixture in Pittsburgh’s rotation through 1965 and then played one more season, splitting his last year with the New York Yankees and Mets.
Nicknamed “The Warrior” for his remarkable durability, Friend went 197-230 with a 3.58 ERA in 602 games.
In 1955, Friend became the first pitcher to lead his league in ERA, winning the NL title with a 2.83 mark. He topped the majors in innings in 1956-57 and tied Warren Spahn for the big league lead with 22 wins in 1958, finishing third in the Cy Young Award voting.
In 1960, Friend was 18-12 with a 3.00 ERA in helping the Pirates reach the World Series. He was hit hard in two starts and a relief appearance, but Pittsburgh outlasted the Yankees in seven games to win the championship.
That season came during a string of 11 straight years he pitched more than 200 innings — topping 260 in six of them.
After his playing career ended, he was among the founding officers of the Pirates Alumni Association and stayed active as a board member.
Pirates President Frank Coonelly, in a statement, called Friend “truly one of the very best to ever wear the Pirates black and gold.”
Friend is survived by his wife Pat, son Bob and daughter Missy.
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High School Basketball: February 4, 2019

GIRLS

6:30pm
[2A] Laurel at New Brighton

7:00pm
[1A] Vincentian at Quigley Catholic
[1A] Union at Sewickley Academy

7:30pm
[1A] Eden Christian at Cornell
[2A] Aliquippa at South Side Beaver
[2A] OLSH at Northgate
[3A] Freedom at Beaver
[3A] Riverside at Avonworth
[3A] Beaver Falls at Neshannock
[3A] Mohawk at Ellwood City
[4A] Central Valley at Quaker Valley
[4A] Ambridge at Blackhawk
[4A] Keystone Oaks at Hopewell
[5A] Trinity at Lincoln Park
[5A] Chartiers Valley at Moon
[5A] West Allegheny at South Fayette

Hyman, Sparks lift Maple Leafs over Penguins 3-2

TORONTO (AP) — Zach Hyman snapped a tie late in the second period, Garret Sparks made 28 saves and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2 on Saturday night.

Auston Matthews also scored for Toronto, and Travis Dermott had a goal and an assist. Jake Gardiner added two assists.

Sidney Crosby and Teddy Blueger scored for Pittsburgh, which was without Evgeni Malkin for a second straight game because of an upper-body injury. Matt Murray stopped 30 shots.

Both teams were playing their second game in two nights — Toronto lost 3-2 in overtime Friday at Detroit, and Pittsburgh topped Ottawa 5-3 at home.

Toronto, which entered 4-7-1 over its last 12, went ahead with 3:54 left in the second on a slick play by Morgan Rielly and Mitch Marner.

The duo worked a give-and-go in tight quarters along the boards before Rielly fired a shot that rebounded to Hyman, who outmuscled defenseman Kris Letang, kicked the puck to his stick as he fell to the ice and pushed in his ninth goal.

Rielly’s assist was his 52nd point, tying his career high from 2017-18.

The Penguins nearly got that one right back, but Sparks stopped Patric Hornqvist’s deflection and Tanner Pearson with his glove on the rebound.

Patrick Marleau had two chances to give Toronto a two-goal lead in the third, but Murray was there both times, including with the pad on a great solo rush by the veteran winger.

Pittsburgh pulled its goalie with 1:30 left in regulation and had an offensive zone faceoff with 28.4 seconds left when Leafs defenseman Nikita Zaitsev just missed the empty net on a shot that went for icing, but the home side managed to hang on.

Jake Muzzin made his home debut for the Leafs after Monday’s trade with the Los Angeles Kings for two prospects and a 2019 first-round draft pick. The big defenseman got cheers during player introductions and had the crowd at Scotiabank Arena buzzing six minutes in when he laid out Penguins forward Jake Guentzel with a big hit along the boards.

Notes: Former Leafs D Ian Turnbull was honored with Toronto’s J.P. Bickell Memorial Cup by the team’s board of directors. The nod came 42 years to the day after Turnbull scored five goals in a game on Feb. 2, 1977 — an NHL record for a blue-liner that still stands.

UP NEXT

Pittsburgh Hosts Carolina on Tuesday night.

Toronto: Hosts Anaheim on Monday night.

Guentzel, Rust each score twice, Penguins beat Senators 5-3

Guentzel, Rust each score twice, Penguins beat Senators 5-3

By DAN SCIFO, Associated Press
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Nick Bjugstad and Jared McCann will always remember their first game with the Pittsburgh Penguins and the whirlwind day surrounding their debuts.
The newly-acquired Bjugstad and McCann made it to the arena minutes before puck drop, and new teammates Bryan Rust and Jake Guentzel each scored twice to help the Penguins beat the Ottawa Senators 5-3 on Friday night.
“Showing up at game time was interesting and might have been better for us because there wasn’t much thinking,” Bjugstad said. “It was pretty surreal. We showed up to the rink and just played. I have dreams every once in awhile where I’m late to a game and that’s kind of what it felt like, but luckily it ended up well, so it was good.”
Teddy Blueger got his first NHL goal and Casey DeSmith stopped 37 shots as the Penguins won their second straight after losing four of their previous five.
Bjugstad contributed in his first game with the Penguins hours after he was acquired from Florida, getting an assist on Rust’s first goal. He also won the offensive zone faceoff and provided a screen in front on Rust’s second goal.
“They told us to keep it simple and that’s kind of what we did,” Bjugstad said.
Bobby Ryan and Mikkel Boedker both scored power-play goals, and Matt Duchene scored on a breakaway for the Senators, who rallied to make it a one-goal game after falling behind, 4-1. Anders Nilsson stopped 35 shots as Ottawa, playing for the first time since Jan. 22, lost its third straight.
“I think we knew they were going to press because they knew we were coming off eight days,” Ryan said. “They got the lead and kind of just stuck to their guns, putting pucks to the net and doing things to wear guys out.”
Earlier in the day, the Penguins acquired forwards Bjugstad and Jared McCann from the Panthers for forwards Derick Brassard, Riley Sheahan and three 2019 draft picks. The deal gives the Penguins an influx of youth in the 26-year-old Bjugstad and the 22-year-old McCann as they make another playoff push.
Bjugstad scored five goals and 12 points in 32 games with the Panthers, while McCann had eight goals and 18 points in 46 games with Florida. Both are signed through the 2020 season, with Bjugstad’s deal expiring the following year.
“We felt like they could fit into our lineup and play certain roles that could help us become a better team,” Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said. “I thought they had strong games under difficult circumstances.”
Bjugstad and McCann both took the morning skate with the Panthers, and boarded a plane to Pittsburgh when they learned of the trade.
“We’ll always remember sitting on the plane, wondering if we were going to make it,” Bjugstad said. “We got to a point where we were like “alright, we better start doing something,” so we did a few groin stretches in the plane. There wasn’t much room, but that was about all we could do.”
Bjugstad and McCann received a police escort and arrived at the arena minutes before faceoff, still with their Florida Panther equipment bags as they hurried to join their teammates on the ice. They first appeared on the bench prior to the start of the national anthem.
“Usually I have my coffee and do some stretches, but I didn’t have any of that,” Bjugstad said. “We got here, threw our gear on and ran out for the anthem.”
With Evgeni Malkin out of the lineup, Bjugstad centered the second line, while McCann was the third-line center. Malkin, who recorded his 600th NHL assist on Wednesday, will also miss Saturday’s game at Toronto with an upper-body injury.
Bjugstad played a role on two of the first four goals as Pittsburgh held a three-goal lead in the third period. Both Bjugstad and McCann will be happy to have additional time to prepare Saturday against Toronto.
“You can’t make this up,” Bjugstad said. “It was good to get the win most importantly, but I think I’ll remember this one for the rest of my life.”
NOTES: Ottawa’s Colin White returned after missing five games with a shoulder injury. … Sidney Crosby is three games from tying Hall of Fame owner Mario Lemieux’s franchise record of 915 games played. … Guentzel has seven goals in his last eight games. … Phil Kessel is two points from becoming the 17th American-born player to reach 800 points. … Ottawa’s Mark Stone recorded his 300th NHL point.
UP NEXT
Senators: Host Detroit on Saturday.
Penguins: Visit Toronto on Saturday.
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