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Balla wants Trojans to get off to fast start

Fourth-year California boys basketball coach Aaron Balla wants his team to hit the ground running this season.“We want to start off winning our home tip-off tournament,” said Balla. “Then, we want to build to a section title.”The Trojans host Propel Montour Dec. 10 in their tip-off ...

When he was hired as the boys basketball coach at Ringgold, former Belle Vernon standout Matt Rowland had an advantage a lot of coaches don’t get, and that was he had already been working with the team.When Eugene Wilson stepped down after one year as coach to take over at Woodland Hills, ...

Biggest key for Cougars is learning how to win

When asked about goals and success to the 2021-22 basketball season, Yough boys coach Jim Nesser didn’t mince words on what he and assistant coach William Sherbondy want to accomplish.“We have to learn how to win,” said Nesser. “That is the biggest key.”Now in his fourth season as ...

Steve McIntire didn't pick the best time to become a first-year coach.McIntire faced a slew of challenges in his first season guiding the Waynesburg Central boys basketball team."Of all the years to take over a boys basketball program, I had to do it in the middle of a pandemic," McIntire said ...

ROSTRAVER TWP. — The flowing tears, the agonizing heartache and the wrenching pain told the story.Belle VernonĢƵ run at its first WPIAL boys basketball championship since 1978 came to a heartbreaking end Thursday night with a 77-76 loss to North Catholic in the WPIAL Class AAAA ...

RinggoldĢƵ Demetrius Butler scored his 1,000th career point Monday night in a 69-63 non-section loss to visiting Frazier.Ringgold led 18-15 after the first quarter, but Frazier pulled ahead at halftime, 34-32. The Commodores maintained the lead in the third quarter, 50-44, and secured the win ...