Here are a few other notable happenings in Butler County sports, 2015:

Freeport plays its final football game at Swartz Field, reaches WPIAL semifinals for first time in 25 years

A-C Valley's girls basketball team posts first winning record in 21 years

Mars girls soccer team wins WPIAL championship

Slippery Rock University football team repeats as PSAC champion

Freeport girls volleyball team wins WPIAL championship

Seneca Valley girls, Knoch boys repeat as WPIAL cross country champions

Karns City's Logan Moroney wins District 9 track titles in 100 and 200 meters, runs leg of winning 400 meter relay team

Saxonburg's Joe Boros qualifies for the 2016 U.S. Senior Open in golf

Karns City becomes first football team to win four consecutive District 9 titles

Seneca Valley freshman Louis Newell becomes school's first state medalist wrestler in 14 years

Former Pittsburgh Steeler linebacker Jason Gildon hired as Cardinal Wuerl North Catholic head football coach, guides team to undefeated regular season

Dave Convery becomes first wheelchair racer to participate in Butler Road Race

Seneca Valley graduate Cory Mazzoni makes major league debut with San Diego Padres as a relief pitcher

Mars wins sixth consecutive Eagle County Baseball League championship

Mars boys basketball team reaches PIAA quarterfinals with no senior starters

Knoch graduate Chase Rowe named Regional Coach of the Year after leading La Roche College baseball team to school-record 32 wins

Butler resident Daniel Gray wins BASS Federation Mid-Atlantic Regional

Greg Loverick rolls a 300 in first game of his league's bowling season

Butler resident Carl Murdick retires after 56-year dirt track racing career

Tom Wagner retires after 22 years as Karns City High School athletic director

Butler teacher and basketball coach Joe Lewandowski leads U.S. women 3-on-3 team to silver medal at FIBA World Championships

PSAC baseball tournament features 46 home runs hit at Kelly Automotive Park

Butler sophomore Connor Ollio makes U-15 Team USA squad in summer baseball

Chuck Dunaway becomes charter member of Butler County Community College Athletic Hall of Fame

Jeff Messer earns career win No. 900 as Slippery Rock University baseball coach

St,. Louis Cardinals slugger Matt Adams has his No. 25 retired by SRU baseball

Butler resident Art Monteleone honored for 45 years of high school football, basketball officiating

Other state champions in 2015: Knoch's Brooke Zukowski and John Wilson, Grove City boys 200 medley relay (swimming), Mars' Ori Rinaman (hurdles), Evans City youth trap team