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Golden Tornado topple Devils

Four Butler pitchers combined for a three-hitter as the GoldenTornado baseball team edged host Mount Lebanon 2-0 Monday.

Alek Bollinger, NickRossmiller, Zach Cuffman and Tim Geibel combined for the shutout. Geibel pitched 1 1/3 perfect innings for the save.

Ryan Armahizer singled in a run and Jeff Slater also plated a run on a fielder's choice in the top of the fifth inning.

In other games:

• Freeport used a nine-run outburst in the third inning to blank St. Joseph's 10-0 in a five-inning contest.

Butler 000 020 0—2 5 0Mount Lebanon 000 000 0—0 3 0W: Alek Bollinger 2 IP (1 K, 2 BB).

L: N/A

Butler (1-1): Darren Blakley 2-1B; David Schmidt 2-1B; RyanArmahizer 1B, RBI; Jeff Slater RBI

Mount Lebanon): Boss 2B

Wednesday: Butler at Shaler

St. Joseph's 000 00x x—0 3 2Freeport 109 0xx x—10 10 0W: Harrison Wood 2 IP (5 K, 1 BB).

St. Joseph's: Tostarelli 2B

Freeport (1-1): Jarrod Mancini 3B, 1B; Joe Pullano 2-1B, 2 RBI; Ryan Siegel 2B, 2 RBI

Wednesday: Freeport at BurrellBoys TennisButler's top singles player Matt Slamecka accounted for the Golden Tornado's lone win in a 4-1 loss to Sewickley Academy.

Singles1-Matt Slamecka (B) def. Matt Kaye (S) 6-2, 6-4; 2-Matt Hoch (SA) def. Evan Kowalski 7-6, 6-0; 3-Vik Sunder (SA) def. Stefan Kemp 6-2, 6-2

Doubles1-Jeff DelPresto-Kendall Weir (SA) def. Andrew Sykes-Matt Fend 6-1, 6-3; 2-Jordan Chang-Alex Miller (SA) def. Kemper May-Andrew Hazlett 6-2, 6-4Junior High TrackThe Butler boys and girls track and field teams posted victories recently.The boys improved to 3-0 by winning a double dual meet over Mars and Shaler. The Golden Tornado defeated Shaler 91-36 and Mars 102-25.Picking up first-place finishes for Butler were Carlos Sanchez in the 110-meter hurdles (17.31 seconds) and 400 meters (59.41), Dakoda Collins in the 100 (12.62) and 200 (26.57), Trey Neveux in the 1,600 (5:38.1), Cody West in the 800 (2:25.8) and high jump (4 feet, 8 inches), Mike McPherson in the shot put (38-8) and Tanner Wahler in the pole vault (7-6).The Tornado's 400-meter relay team of Evan Parke, Patrick Lokhaiser, Alex Yonker and Dakoda Collins won in 51.15 seconds.Butler's girls posted their first win of the season, defeating Knoch 86-41. Lexis Frost won the 100 hurdles in 17.7 seconds, the long jump with a 15-6 and triple jump with a 34-4.25.Other Tornado winners were Lydia Klutinoty in the 3,200 meters (16:03), Ava Bonetti in the discus (66-4) and Paige Rittleman in the high jump (4-6).

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