Riverside baseball

April 18, 2026

Riverside Baseball Beats Freedom; Softball Shuts Out New Brighton

The Riverside baseball and softball teams each collected victories on Friday afternoon. The boys baseball team jumped out early with four first inning runs en route to a 7-2 home victory over Freedom. Jackson Barber, Dylan Meyer, and BrockJames each collected two hits as part of the nine hit offensive performance by the Panthers. Meyer walked twice and collected a team-high two RBIs on the afternoon. Matt Santillo tossed a complete game to earn the victory on the mound for Riverside. Santillo struck out seven batters, allowed five hits and walked two batters. The right-hander surrendered his only two runs…

April 9, 2026

Panthers Walk-Off Mohawk; Wolverines Sweep Sto-Rox

Dylan Meyer singled in the bottom of the eight inning at Riverside earned a 5-4 extra-inning walk-off victory Wednesday afternoon over Mohawk. Logan Young collected three hits in four at bats to lead the offensive charge. Young singled in the seventh inning, singled in the third inning, and singled in the eighth inning. Mohawk Area was the first to get on the board in the fourth when Kamren O’Lare singled, scoring two runs. The visiting Warriors added runs in the fifth and seventh to take a 4-0 advantage into the bottom of the seventh. Riverside tied the game up in…

July 17, 2025

Zach Hare Named MaxPreps.com Small Town National Player Of The Year

Riverside senior Zach Hare has collected some additional hardware in addition to his WPIAL and PIAA State Championship rings. Hare was named the MaxPreps Pennsylvania Player of the Year and named to its PA All-America honors. Small Town All-America Team includes only players who attend schools with an enrollment under 1,000 students in a town with a population under 10,000. P — Zach Hare, Sr., Riverside (Ellwood City, Pa.) Hare earned MaxPreps Pennsylvania Player of the Year and All-America honors after an astounding playoff performance. He threw 34 consecutive no-hit innings in the postseason (36.1 including regular season) with three no-hitters (one…

May 28, 2025

PERFECTION: Hare Tosses Perfect Game, Panthers Claim WPIAL Championship

The Riverside Panthers are WPIAL Champions once again behind historic pitching perfection. Senior Zach Hare tossed a perfect game Thursday evening to lead the Riverside Panthers to a 1-0 victory over Quaker Valley to claim its WPIAL Class 3A Championship. The 15-strikeout, no hit, no walk performance capped a legendary postseason run by the Slippery Rock University commit. Hare’s 2025 WPIAL playoffs stat sheet – four appearances, three wins, 24.1 innings pitched, ZERO hits, 42 strikeouts, and only five walks. His gem Thursday is reported to be the first perfect game in modern WPIAL Championship Game history. I’ve only been…

May 23, 2025

Riverside Ousts South Park In 12 Innings, Advances To WPIAL Championship

In a monumental pitching dual, the Riverside Panthers outlasted South Park in extra innings Friday evening to advance to the WPIAL Class 3A Championship Game for a third consecutive year. The Panthers earned a 1-0 walk-off victory compliments of a Jackson Barber single in the bottom of the 12th inning. In the 12th inning, Hunter Garvin and Zach Hare walked before a ground ball by Drake Fox forced an error and loaded the bases with no outs. South Park was able to settle down and get two outs before Barber singled to right field for the game winning RBI. For…

May 21, 2025

Riverside Cruises Past Burrell, Ellwood City Knocked Off By Mohawk

There will be no Riv-Ell WPIAL Championship game in 2025 as Ellwood City was knocked off by #11 seed Mohawk in the WPIAL Class 3A Quarterfinals on Tuesday. Top-seeded Riverside cruised to an 11-0 victory over Burrell advancing to the semifinals to face South Park on Wednesday at Plum High School at 4:00 p.m. RIVERSIDE 11 BURRELL 0 Hunter Garvin drove in five runs on two hits to lead Riverside past the Burrell Bucs 11-0 on Tuesday. Hunter Garvin hit a grand slam in the fifth inning, scoring four runs, and doubled in the fourth inning, scoring one. Zack Hare…

April 19, 2025

Riverside Falls To Bethel Park 2-1 On Walk-Off Single

A walk-off single left the Riverside Panthers on the wrong end of a 2-1 extra inning defeat to Bethel Park Thursday afternoon. The game was tied at one in the bottom of the eleventh when Stanhoff singled, scoring one run. The pitching performance was outstanding for Riverside as three Panther pitchers struck out 22 batters. The game was scoreless after seven innings and well into extra frames before Riverside opened the scoring in the eleventh powered by a Hunter Garvin solo home run to right field. In the bottom of the eleventh inning, Bethel Park responded as Hofbauer singled and…

April 5, 2025

Hare, Panthers Defeat Wolverines at SRU To Even Season Series

After a series of weather induced rescheduled affairs, the Riverside Panthers and Ellwood City Wolverines found themselves at Jack Critchfield Park on the grounds of Slippery Rock University Friday evening for a WPIAL section tilt. The Panthers came away with a 9-5 victory behind Zach Hare to even the season series with the Wolverines. Ellwood City shutout Riverside earlier in the week. On Friday, Zach Hare slugged two homeruns at the plate and tossed five innings on the rubber to lead the Panthers. Hare led off the scoring for the visiting Panthers as he homered to left field in the…

March 28, 2025

SPORTS ROUND-UP: Zach Hare Leads RHS Baseball, Tennis Defeats LHS

Zack Hare was dominant on the bump Thursday afternoon and at the plate Thursday in Riverside’s 4-1 victory over West Allegheny running the Panthers early season unbeaten record to 4-0. Hare rang up 11 strikeouts and surrendered only three hits, one walk, and one run over six and two-thirds innings. The righty also went 4-4 at the plate with an RBI. Hare also opened up the offensive scoring for Riverside with an RBI single in the bottom of the first inning. Riverside added one run in the third after scored on a wild pitch. Hunter Garvin and Hare were tough…

March 13, 2025

Tyler Falk Among Seven To Be Inducted Into Clarion Sports Hall Of Fame

Tyler Falk, a 2013 Riverside graduate and letterman in both baseball and basketball, will be among seven new members inducted into the Clarion “Sports Hall of Fame” on Friday, April 25, 2025. Joining Falk (2014 – 2017 Baseball) are inductees Kellie (Bartman) Biddle (2008 – 2011 Women’s Volleyball), Kim (Hanslovan) Marshall (2010 – 2012 Women’s Track & Field), Margaret “Gie” Parsons (1990 – 2014 Head Coach Women’s Basketball), John Peterman (1985 – 1988 Football), Ron L. Righter (1989 – 2014 Head Coach Men’s Basketball) and Thomas C. Tomeo (1994 – 1998 Wrestling). Clarion’s 36th Annual Sports Hall of Fame Induction…

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