LATROBE -- Drake Long allowed only two runners and Nick Ricco's solo home run provided all the offense Long needed as Carmichaels opened the WPIAL Class AA baseball playoffs Tuesday night with a 12-0 victory over Apollo-Ridge at Greater Latrobe High School.
Carmichaels School District

Carmichaels Area School District
225 North Vine St. Carmichaels, PA 15320
Carmichaels Area Elementary Center
Carmichaels Junior/Senior High School
Carmichaels Borough and Cumberland Township
Ronald Ferek, Kenneth Ganocy, Dr. Richard Krause, Lewis May, Edmond McIntire, Thomas Ricco, Pete Shlosky, Jason Voithofer, Cheryl Voytek
School board meetings Voting sessions are held at 7 p.m. the third Thursday of the month in the high school library.
Superintendent:
John Menhart
Amy Todd
Davis and Davis Attorneys at Law, 724-437-2799, Uniontown
Sports
Laurel Highlands will have plenty of time to prepare for its WPIAL baseball playoffs opener.
James Domer doubled and singled twice to help visiting Connellsville defeat Ringgold, 3-1, in non-section baseball action on Thursday.
West Greene was made the No. 1 seed as expected as the Lady Pioneers seek a sixth consecutive WPIAL Class A softball championship.
Delaney Warnick drove in six runs with a home run and two singles as Frazier cruised past host Bentworth, 12-2 in six innings, to clinch sole possession of the Section 3-AA softball title on Tuesday.
Laurel Highlannds rode a couple late home runs to a 7-6 comeback win over visiting Uniontown in Section 2-AAAA softball action on Monday.
Charleroi combined one hit, four walks and four errors into a 4-0 victory over visiting Carmichaels Thursday afternoon in Section 3-AA action.
Uniontown had come close in the last seven years but a WPIAL baseball playoff berth had eluded them since 2014.
The Carmichaels softball team swept a Section 3-AA doubleheader from California on Tuesday with 16-2 and 10-0 victories.
Laurel Highlands beat Elizabeth Forward, 6-3 in nine innings, and Uniontown held off Ringgold, 3-2, in a pair of key Section 3-AAAA baseball games on Monday.
Christian Thomas and Austin Grego both had three hits, including a double, and an RBI as Uniontown trounced visiting Mount Pleasant, 11-1, in non-section baseball action on Friday.
Emma Augustine threw a three-inning no-hitter, blasted a home run and had three RBIs as host Yough rolled past visiting Uniontown, 15-0, in Section 2-AAAA softball action on Friday.
Noah Martin pounded out three hits, including a double and a grand slam, as Bentworth kept its grip on second place in Section 1-AA with a 10-6 win at Frazier in Thursday baseball action.
Kylee Goodman led an 18-hit attack with three doubles and a single as host Waynesburg Central snapped South Allegheny’s eight-game winning streak with a 14-9 victory in Section 3-AAA softball action Wednesday.
Nick Pegg rang up two hits, three runs, an RBI and two stolen bases to help host Albert Gallatin upend previously unbeaten Peters Township, 7-6, in Section 4-AAAAA baseball action on Monday.
Rodney Gallagher, a 6-foot junior guard who averaged 18.6 points per game, has been named the Herald-Standard All-Area Boys Basketball Team Player of the Year for the second year in a row.
CARMICHAELS -- Both starting pitchers in Monday's Section 1-AA game were making their first high school start, and both were named Aydan/Aidan.
Three of the most successful girls basketball teams in the area had an all-star guard running the show during the 2021-22 season.
Carmichaels scored all the runs it needed in the bottom of the first inning Friday for an 8-0 victory against visiting Bentworth in Section 1-AA action.
PERRYOPOLIS --The Lady Commodores' Nicole Palmer tossed another gem Friday afternoon, allowing just one hit in Frazier's 3-0 victory against Carmichaels in a key Section 3-AA softball game.