IN BRIEF
Several Butler County teams will be in action in the WPIAL playoffs. They include:
Baseball
Class AAA: Knoch (9-9) will face Yough (9-10) in a play-in game at noon Saturday at Shaler's Matulevic Field.
Mars (12-7) will battle Blackhawk (9-6) at 7 p.m. Monday at North Allegheny.
Class AA: Freeport (11-3) will take on Brownsville (13-4) at 2 p.m. Monday at Mount Pleasant High School.
Class AAAA: Seneca Valley (16-3) received a first-round bye and will face the winner of Monday's game between Bethel Park and Franklin Regional at a date, time and site to be determined.
Softball
Class AAA: Mars (9-9) will play West Allegheny (10-6) at 3 p.m. Thursday at Shaler High School.
Class AA: Freeport (11-6) will face Greensburg Central Catholic (10-4) at 3 p.m. Tuesday at Woodland Hills High School.
Boys Lacrosse
Division II: Mars (7-6) will play at Baldwin (12-5) at 7 p.m. Thursday.
Butler grad Geibel honored by PSAC
Butler High School product Jenna Geibel, a senior third-baseman for Slippery Rock University's softball team, was selected to the All-PSAC West Team after batting .326 with seven home runs and 28 runs batted in. It is the fourth time in as many years that Geibel has earned All-Conference accolades.
Geibel's teammate, SRU catcher Katie Saluga, was named PSAC West Player of the Year. Also a senior, Saluga hit .434.
HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Game Commission has announced no human fatalities related to gun handling in hunting and trapping over the past year.This is a first since the commission began tracking such incidents in 1915.There were 33 non-fatal incidents — a decrease from the previous year — and hunting-related shooting incidents have declined by nearly 80 percent in Pa. since 1959.