Two prominent Major League Baseball scouts with combined tenures of over 100 years passed away in 2020. Both Fred Uhlman and George Zuraw were Charleroi High School graduates within a year of each other in the late 1940s. In 2002, Uhlman was recognized as the Scout of the Year by Major League Baseball while seven years earlier in 1995 Charleroi High baseball teammate Zuraw won the same scouting distinction. Both epitomized the importance of baseball in Charleroi especially in the 1940s.

The Community College of Allegheny County’s successful 2021 spring golf season ended with one of its own winning the CCAC Wild Cat Invitational held at The Links at Spring Church on May 17 and 18. Competing against golfers from other regional institutions, sophomore Dominic Achille, from South Park, finished in first place as the invitational medalist with a score on both days of 81 and a total score of 162, beating the runner-up by six strokes.

Those individuals originally scheduled to be inducted into the Mid-Mon Valley All-Sports Hall of Fame as the Class of 2020 will now comprise the Class of 2022 and will be inducted at St. Spyridon Hellenic Center on Friday, June 17, 2022. The banquet for this year was again not feasible due to the continued prevalence of COVID-19 pandemic.

By Matthew Peaslee

Zach Borman and Carson Cress each scored a goal while goaltender Eddie Nowicki recorded a shutout as the Baldwin High School hockey team defeated Franklin Regional, 2-0, on April 20 to win the Penguins Cup AA championship. The game was played at the Robert Morris University Island Sports Center. This was the first hockey title for Baldwin since 1988.