WPPA / T-102 SPORTS / Saturday

LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL

Williams Valley 12, Nativity 0
Tri Valley 8, Tamaqua 4
Marian 8, Mahanoy Area 0
Minersville 6, Lourdes 1
Bethlehem Catholic 3, Pottsville 1

TODAY

North Schuylkill @ Bloomsburg, 11 a.m.
Upper Dauphin @ Tamaqua, Noon
St. John Neumann @ Lourdes, Noon
MMI @ Panther Valley, 1 p.m.

LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL

Pine Grove 4, Tri Valley 1
Minersville 11, Lourdes 0
Marian 6, Mahanoy Area 5
North Schuylkill 6, Line Mountain 3
Tulpehocken 7, Blue Mountain 6

TODAY

Tulpehocken @ Schuylkill Haven, 11 a.m.
Pottsville @ Liberty, Noon
Shenandoah Valley @ Pius X, 1 p.m.
MMI @ Panther Valley, 1 p.m.
Lehighton @ Minersville, 1 p.m.

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

National League

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Roy Halladay pitched eight strong innings in a soggy home debut, Chase Utley hit his fifth homer in four games and the Philadelphia Phillies held on for an 8-6 victory over the Florida Marlins on Friday. Halladay ended Jorge Cantu's major league-record streak of 10 games with at least one hit and one RBI, and Dan Uggla hit a solo shot for Florida.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A Cherry Hill, New Jersey man is facing charges after police say he intentionally vomited on an 11-year-old girl in the stands during Wednesday night's Phillies game. Twenty-one-year-old Matthew Clemmens was arraigned yesterday. Clemens was held on $36,000 bail.

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Lastings Milledge singled home the winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning as the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Cincinnati Reds 4-3 after blowing a late three-run lead. Andrew McCutchen singled with two outs and stole second base, making him 6 for 6 in steal attempts. Milledge then laced a single up the middle off Nick Masset.

Chicago Cubs 7, Houston 2
Washington 5, Milwaukee 3
Atlanta 9, Colorado 5
St. Louis 4, N.Y. Mets 3
San Diego 6, Arizona 3
L.A. Dodgers 10, San Francisco 8

Saturday's Games

Houston (Oswalt 0-2) at Chicago Cubs (Gorzelanny 0-0), 1:05 p.m.
Milwaukee (Wolf 1-0) at Washington (L.Hernandez 1-0), 1:05 p.m.
N.Y. Mets (J.Santana 1-1) at St. Louis (J.Garcia 1-0), 4:10 p.m.
San Francisco (Lincecum 2-0) at L.A. Dodgers (Haeger 0-0), 4:10 p.m.
Cincinnati (Cueto 0-0) at Pittsburgh (Burres 0-1), 7:05 p.m.
Florida (Nolasco 0-0) at Philadelphia (Moyer 1-0), 7:05 p.m.
Colorado (Jimenez 2-0) at Atlanta (Kawakami 0-1), 7:10 p.m.
Arizona (Benson 0-0) at San Diego (Correia 1-1), 8:35 p.m.

American League

Cleveland 6, Chicago White Sox 2
N.Y. Yankees 5, Texas 1, 6 innings
L.A. Angels 7, Toronto 5
Boston 1, Tampa Bay 1, tie, 9 innings, susp., rain
Minnesota 10, Kansas City 3
Oakland 4, Baltimore 2
Seattle 11, Detroit 3

Saturday's Games

Texas (Feldman 1-0) at N.Y. Yankees (A.J.Burnett 1-0), 1:05 p.m.
L.A. Angels (Saunders 0-2) at Toronto (Tallet 1-0), 1:07 p.m.
Kansas City (Meche 0-1) at Minnesota (Blackburn 1-1), 1:10 p.m.
Baltimore (Guthrie 0-2) at Oakland (Duchscherer 1-0), 4:05 p.m.
Chicago White Sox (Peavy 0-0) at Cleveland (Westbrook 0-1), 4:10 p.m.
Tampa Bay (J.Shields 0-0) at Boston (Buchholz 1-0), 7:10 p.m.
Boston 1, Tampa Bay 1, tie, 9 innings, comp. of susp. game, 8:10 p.m.
Detroit (Verlander 0-0) at Seattle (Rowland-Smith 0-1), 9:10 p.m.

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE

PITTSBURGH (AP) - The Pittsburgh Penguins rebounded to beat the Ottawa Senators 2-1 on Friday night to even the Eastern Conference first-round series at a game apiece. Sidney Crosby scored a goal, prevented one and his deft stickhandling led to Kris Letang's winner late in the third period.

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Penguins defenseman Jordan Leopold was down on the ice for several minutes after being leveled by an elbow hit from Ottawa defenseman Andy Sutton late in the first period of the game Friday night. He got up before being helped to the locker room. Sutton wasn't penalized.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Dainius Zubrus scored on a rebound with 4:04 to play and the New Jersey Devils beat the Philadelphia Flyers 5-3 on Friday night to even the first-round Eastern Conference playoff series at a game apiece. Zach Parise, Colin White, Andy Greene and Ilya Kovalchuk also scored to help New Jersey avoid losing the first two games at home in the best-of-7 series.

Nashville 4, Chicago 1
Detroit 7, Phoenix 4
San Jose 6 Colorado 5 OT

Saturday's Games

Boston at Buffalo, 1 p.m.
Montreal at Washington, 7 p.m.
Los Angeles at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE

Manchester 2, Portland 1
Hershey 3, Bridgeport 2
Albany 3, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 2
Chicago 3, Milwaukee 0
Texas 2, Rockford 1

Saturday's Games

Manitoba at Hamilton, 2 p.m.
Worcester at Lowell, 7 p.m.
Manchester at Portland, 7 p.m.
Hershey at Bridgeport, 7 p.m.
Abbotsford at Rochester, 7:05 p.m
Rockford at Texas, 8 p.m.
Chicago at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.

NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION

Saturday's Games

Chicago at Cleveland 3:00 p.m.
Milwaukee at Atlanta 5:30 p.m.
Miami at Boston 8:00 p.m.
Utah at Denver 10:30 p.m.

MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER

Saturday's Games

Kansas City at Seattle FC, 3 p.m.
Chivas USA at Houston, 4 p.m.
Chicago at D.C. United, 7:30 p.m.
FC Dallas at New York, 7:30 p.m.
New England at San Jose, 10 p.m.
Real Salt Lake at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE

ATLANTA (AP) - A Georgia police officer who took the first report from the woman who accused Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger of sexual assault has resigned. Milledgeville police Chief Woodrow Blue says Sergeant Jerry Blash resigned Wednesday. That's one day before Georgia authorities made public all documents related to its investigation of the woman's claim.

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Tackle Willie Colon, tight end Matt Spaeth and cornerback William Gay have signed one-year tenders with the Pittsburgh Steelers. All three were restricted free agents. Colon is entering his fifth season. Spaeth and Gay are entering their fourth season.

NASCAR

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - Tony Stewart is on the pole for a NASCAR Sprint Cup race for the first time in five years. Stewart will start from the front in his 400th career race in NASCAR's top series after turning in a qualifying lap of 191.327 mph at Texas Motor Speedway on Friday. It's been 155 races since Stewart last started on the pole, at Martinsville in October 2005. Stewart will start on the pole for the third time in Texas. He was the top qualifier twice in the IndyCar Series in the 1990s. Former IRL star Sam Hornish Jr., still winless in his third full Sprint Cup season, almost knocked Stewart off the pole. He settled for second with a lap of 191.232.