Published: June 05, 2009 12:09 am      

Local sports briefs 6/5/2009

HOCKEY

Former Chief Boyd named GM

The Johnstown Junior Jets have named former Johnstown Chiefs captain Rick Boyd as the junior A hockey club’s general manager.

A native of Fort St. John, British Columbia, Boyd played 10 seasons of professional hockey in the East Coast Hockey League, International Hockey League and American Hockey League. Boyd began his career in January 1988 with the then-fledgling Johnstown Chiefs team in the former All-American Hockey League.

Boyd played more than 150 games with the Chiefs and twice led the team in penalty minutes.

After his retirement as a player, Boyd served as GM/coach of the Somerset Chill in the Metro Junior Hockey League during the team’s three years of existence. He also managed the team’s facility in Somerset.

In 2004-05, Boyd coached the Pitt-Johnstown club team to a second-place finish in the ACHA finals during the program’s third trip to the national tournament under Boyd. He was named the league’s coach of the year.

Boyd, 45, resides in Richland Township with his wife, Tammy; son Cody; and daughters Tiffani and Calsie.



BASEBALL

Cambria Legion

Portage 12, Nanty Glo 2

PORTAGE – A.J. Maul had three hits and scored three times, and Ryan Scoran had three runs on two hits, including a walk-off triple in the sixth.

Carl Morowski hit a solo homer for Nanty Glo.



St. Michael 7, Patton 6 (8)

ST. MICHAEL – Host St. Michael tied the game in the seventh and won it in the eighth.

Josh Paulson drove in Colin Gdula with two outs in the seventh. In the extra frame, Joe McCall singled and went to third on bunt-and-run by Matt Washko. McCall scored the go-ahead run on an infield error.

McCall, Paulson and Gdula each had two hits for the Saints.

Patton got two hits from Ian Olsavsky and three from Vance Kimberly.



AAABA League

Delweld 4, Principle 3

Delweld took advantage of Eric Nalisnick’s early wildness for a victory in the early game at Point Stadium on Thursday.

Delweld combined singles by J.R. Tenney, George Roberts, Tyler Uphouse and Matt Cornetti, along with two run-scoring wild pitches, an RBI groundout by Drew Westover and a bases-loaded walk to Brett Vescovi to score all its runs in the first.

Tenney had two hits for the victors.



Renegades 2, Roxberry 1

Greg Stewart struck out eight and walked just two in a one-hitter for the Berkley Hills Renegades at Roxbury Park.

After giving up a one-out single to Nate Antone in the first, Stewart held Roxberry Creamery without a hit the rest of the way.

Kyle Bowser provided the Renegades’ offense with a two-run single in the fourth.

Danny Norris and Cory Manarelli each had two hits.



Martella’s 11, Bulldogs 0 (5)

Pat Kohl went 3-for-3 with a double, two runs scored and three RBIs to lead Martella’s to a five-inning victory in the late game at Point Stadium.

Mike LeViseur went 2-for-3 with a double, three runs scored and two RBIs. Evan Gazza drove in three runs for Martella’s.

Bobby Helman and Kohl combined to limit the Bulldog’s to one hit, which was by Kyle Rose.



Late Tuesday

Martella’s 8, Principle 3

Sam Watkins went 2-for-3 with two runs and two RBIs, Evan Gazza added two hits and two RBIs, and Bobby Helman went

2-for-3 with two runs scored for Martella’s Pharmacy.

Landon Wahl (1-0) allowed three runs on six hits and struck out four. Pat Kohl tossed the final 21/3 innings, not allowing a runner and fanning four for Martella’s.



College

Mazey in Super Regional

Former AAABA Tournament standout Randy Mazey will be part of the TCU baseball team headed for the NCAA Division I Super Regional against the top-ranked Texas Longhorns.

The best-of-3 Super Regional begins Saturday night in Austin, Texas. The winner advances to the College World Series in Omaha, Neb.

Mazey, a United High School graduate and former star at Clemson University, is in his third season as an assistant coach with the Horned Frogs. TCU advanced to regional play in each of the previous two years since Mazey’s been on the staff, but this will be the first Super Regional appearance in the Frogs’ baseball history.

TCU advanced by beating Oregon State 5-4 via a ninth-inning rally on Sunday. The Frogs are 37-19.

Mazey has had Division I success as both a head coach and assistant coach. He had a three-year record of 120-66-1 (.644) at East Carolina, including a school-record 51-13 mark in 2004.

He spent four seasons as the recruiting coordinator and pitching coach at Tennessee, where his pitching staffs posted two of the top four strikeout totals in school history and produced six Volunteers hurlers who signed professionally.

At age 27, he was named coach at Charleston Southern University in 1994.

Two years later he led the Buccaneers to their first NCAA Regional appearance and was named Big South Coach of the Year.

After Charleston Southern, he joined Georgia as recruiting coordinator and pitching coach.



FOOTBALL

Area stars join St. Vincent

A handful of local players are among those listed as incoming recruits for St. Vincent coach Bob Colbert.

“We are very pleased with the number of local products this year,” he said.

Among the local recruits are: Domenic DeYulis (Central Cambria), TE; James Haggerty (Greater Johnstown), OL; Neal Nanassy (Laurel Valley), OLB; Jason Reynolds (Bishop Mccort), DB; and Justin Tantlinger (Laurel Valley), WR.



Roethlisberger back at practice

PITTSBURGH – Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has returned to practice a day after he limped off the field following a collision with running back Willie Parker.

Roethlisberger had his left knee wrapped on Thursday in the only sign of the mishap that occurred during the team’s optional offseason workouts.

Roethlisberger apparently did not require treatment following the collision, although he was seen limping out of the Steelers’ practice complex shortly after the workout ended Wednesday.



Steelers open camp on July 31

PITTSBURGH – The Pittsburgh Steelers will open training camp in Latrobe on July 31 and will work out at St. Vincent College through Aug. 20.

The first practice is scheduled for Aug. 1.

Only afternoon practices will be open to the public.

The only evening practice will be Aug. 7 at Latrobe High School’s stadium.

The Steelers will break camp before the second of their four exhibition games, shifting practice to their Pittsburgh training complex following their Aug. 22 game at Washington. Their first preseason game is Aug. 13 at home against Arizona, a rematch of last season’s Super Bowl won by Pittsburgh.

The Steelers open the season Sept. 10 at home against Tennessee.