Local roundup
Waynesburg girls shut out Albert Gallatin First-half goals by Carly Loughman and Abby Toothman were all goalie Miatta Toothman and the Waynesburg’s Lady Raider defense needed as the visitors opened the season with a road 2-0 non-section victory over Albert Gallatin in girls soccer action Saturday.
The Lady Raiders host Chartiers Valley Tuesday in a non-section match.
Cross-country
Gateway Invitational – Laurel Highlands took to the Boyce Park course with the boys finishing 14th out of 16 teams while the Fillies finished 13th overall.
Cassie Wallace was the first runner home, finishing 54th in 23:33. She was followed by Mindy Elias (70th, 25:05), Torie Nickman (83rd, 27:19), Casey Conn (84th, 27:26) and Lauren Molchan (85th, 27:35).
Donnie Means crossed the finish line first, placing 65th with a time of 19:22. Ryan Thorn (73rd, 19:38) was next for the Mustangs, followed by Anthony Howard (88th, 22:36), Matt Rosso (89th, 22:38) and Bryan Shaffer (92nd, 23:08).
Boys soccer
North Catholic 6, Brownsville 3; Charleroi 1, Brownsville 0 – John Marcolini scored two goals in the first game against North Catholic in the Belle Vernon tournament, and North Catholic found the back of the net four times in the second half to overtake Brownsville for the win.
Marc Mammarella scored Brownsville’s first goal on a Brandon Granato assist. Mammarella assisted on Marcolini’s first goal.
In the second game, Charleroi’s Colton Ramsdale scored the lone goal for the win over Brownsville.
The Falcons (0-2) play at 1 p.m. today against the loser of this morning’s game between Geibel Catholic and Albert Gallatin.
Men’s soccer
Shippensburg 3, California (Pa.) 2 – Sophomore John Pazehoski and junior Emedin Sabic each scored their first goals of the season but couldn’t rally Cal’s men’s soccer team (1-3, 0-2 PSAC) in Saturday’s PSAC loss to at Shippensburg (2-2, 1-1 PSAC).
The Raiders opened the scoring in the fourth minute, but Pazehoski evened the match in the 36th minute when he stole the ball from the keeper and tallied an unassisted goal.
Shippensburg’s Brad Jandl broke the game open when he scored twice in a three-minute span midway through the second half.
Sabic cut the Raiders’ lead in half in the 74th minute, but the defending PSAC regular-season champions couldn’t get the equalizer despite outshooting the hosts by a 24-12 margin.
Cal freshman Phil Micken registered five saves while allowing one goal in his first collegiate start.
Sophomore Eric Greaves played the second half between the pipes for the Vulcans, registering one save.
The Vulcans play their first home PSAC match of the season Wednesday in the nightcap of a televised twinbill at Roadman Park. The Cal men face Bloomsburg at 4 p.m. after the Vulcan women challenge Edinboro (2 p.m.).
Women’s soccer
Mansfield 2, California (Pa.) 0 – Mansfield’s Lindi Reiser and Anita Valerio scored unassisted goals in the final seven minutes of the match to lift the Mountaineers (2-0-1) to a non-league women’s soccer victory over California Saturday.
The teams played evenly throughout that match with the host Mountaineers holding a 20-18 shooting advantage, and each team had two corner kicks.
Michelle Ewig fired five shots during the match to lead the Vulcans.
The hosts broke into the scoring column with Reiser’s goal at 83:11, and Valero added an insurance goal at 86:26.
California sophomore keeper Hannah Speigle registered 12 saves in Cal’s goal while Mansfield goalie Julie Miller denied 13 shots to gain the shutout victory.
Cal returns to action at home Wednesday with a PSAC West battle against Edinboro. The 2 p.m. start will be televised by CUTV as the first half of the soccer twin bill. Cal’s men host Bloomsburg in the nightcap of the doubleheader.
College baseball
CCAC South 10, Penn State-Fayette 6; CCAC South 6, Penn State-Fayette 4 – CCAC South put together two explosive innings to hand Penn State-Fayette a doubleheader loss at Hutchinson Field Saturday.
CCAC posted seven of its 10 runs in the sixth inning of the first game and four of its six runs in the third inning of the second game to tame the Roaring Lions.
The highlight offensively for Fayette was a Bobby Fulton’s two-run double in the second. He totaled three hits as he added two singles.
Joe Barry picked up his first victory on the mound with one strikeout, one walk and one hit in the last three innings of action.
Josh Null went on record as the losing pitcher. He worked five and one-third inning, allowed six runs, six hits and four strikeouts.
In the nightcap, Justin Coffman doubled and singled for the Roaring Lions, but CCAC South emerged victorious for it’s fourth victory of the season.
Chris McCulloch (1-0) worked the first three and two-thirds innings. He allowed three runs (all earned), four hits, two strikeouts and four walks.
Kevin Abraham got the save.
Ryan Caringola (0-1) was the losing pitcher. He went two and two-thirds innings with six runs, six hits. He struck out one and walked two.
The Roaring Lions (2-3) are back in action today at home against Carnegie-Mellon starting at noon.