Westmoreland lookahead for Week of June 3, 2019
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Sunday, June 2, 2019 | 7:00 PM
Mt. Pleasant’s Rae McNair celebrates her RBI base hit against Yough Monday, April 29, 2019, at Mt. Pleasant Area High School.
MONDAY
Baseball: The PIAA playoffs begin for a pair of county teams. Franklin Regional will open the Class 5A tournament at 4 p.m. against Cathedral Prep in WPIAL territory, at Neshannock in New Castle.
Penn-Trafford, the WPIAL Class 6A runner-up, will take on Wilson at 4 at Wenger Field in Fredericksburg.
Softball: Three area teams open the state playoffs. WPIAL Class 6A champion Hempfield, fresh off its fifth straight district title, faces Chambersburg at 5 p.m. at Seton Hill.
Two other teams will head to University Park to play a doubleheader at Penn State. In Class 4A, Mt. Pleasant takes on Bellefonte at noon, followed by Penn-Trafford and Central Mountain at 2:30 in the 5A first round.
THURSDAY
Baseball, softball: The PIAA quarterfinals will be played in all six classifications across the state.
Bill Beckner Jr. is a TribLive reporter covering local sports in Westmoreland County. He can be reached at bbeckner@triblive.com.
Tags: Franklin Regional, Hempfield, Penn-Trafford
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