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Riverside paints baseball title picture again

Written by Mike White on .

Mike White, with more detail on Riverside's PIAA Class AA championship:
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(Photo: Riverside celebrates after defeating Pine Grove Friday in the PIAA Class AA championship in University Park, Pa. Matt Freed /Post-Gazette.)


"UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Dan Oliastro was playing director of Riverside's team picture Friday after the PIAA Class AA baseball championship. "Juniors and seniors in front," he commanded in front of a dugout.

Then Riverside's coach moved a few players.

"Make sure you stand in the space between each other," he said before joining the group.

Oliastro knew just how the championship picture should look. Then again, his Panthers are used to saying "cheese."

No school in the history of Pennsylvania high school baseball has taken so many PIAA championship team pictures.

Riverside came back from an early three-run deficit and defeated Pine Grove, 5-4, to win the PIAA Class AA title on Penn State's Medlar Field at Lubrano Park. Riverside became the first school to win four titles."