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High School Basketball

Warriors look to Boyd to lead the way

Junior guard Zach Boyd has been a starter for Elizabeth Forward since his freshman season, and there is little doubt that as he goes, so go the Warriors this season.“He has started for us since he was a freshman and he leads us in so many different ways,” said fourth-year head coach Matt ...

Wiltz, Cougars look to build on last year’s success

A year after leading the Charleroi boys basketball program to its first playoff win in 24 years, head coach Bill Wiltz thinks this year's team can do more.The Cougars return four starters and Wiltz knows what the recipe needs to be to have another solid year.“We look to build off of last year ...

Leopards motivated for run at WPIAL title

It won’t be tough enough for opponents of Belle VernonĢƵ boys basketball team that it returns four starters and the fifth may have been the best sixth man in the entire WPIAL last season.But, the opposition will also have to deal with the fact that Belle Vernon coach Joe Salvino is ...

Commodores rebuilding after losses to graduation

Zach Keefer led Frazier to its first boys basketball section crown since 1990 one season ago.If the fifth-year head coach is going to have an encore even remotely close to what the team did a year ago, it will happen with what will amount to basically a new team as all five starters from last ...

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 ...

Ringgold’s Rowland seeks to get Rams ‘back on the map’

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, ...