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Stacked deck: Shorthanded Gators fall to Aquinas Academy, 69-40

PITTSBURGH – Geibel Catholic knew ahead of time its leading scorer, Evan Strimel, and one of its key reserves, Tony Nicksicher, wouldn’t be eligible for the WPIAL boys basketball playoffs due to the PIAA transfer rule. However, late-season injuries depleted the Gators even more with ...

Belle Vernon weathers storm, beats EF for 3rd time

BELLE VERNON – Over his long and storied coaching career, Joe Salvino has said numerous times about his disdain for layoffs between the end of the regular season and the start of the WPIAL playoffs. Wednesday night was no different, but SalvinoĢƵ top-seeded Belle Vernon Leopards made ...

Lady Trojans fall at Fort Cherry, 59-29

MCDONALD — The Fort Cherry girls basketball team didn’t have much of a problem Tuesday night in its playoff opener against California on the surface. But even after a 59-29 win, Lady Rangers coach Clarence Edwards knows it could have been better. “It was a little sloppy at the ...

Grizzled veterans

There is no substitute for playoff experience. Uniontown senior duo Notorious Grooms and Calvin Winfrey III have each played 16 games in the postseason over their high school careers, and they showed it in the Red Raiders’ 59-42 victory over Hampton on Tuesday in the first round of the ...

Brothers-in-arms

It seems like yesterday that UniontownĢƵ Notorious Grooms and Calvin Winfrey III were playing in the youth leagues at the YMCA and Grant Street Park. The senior duo has accumulated 2,947 career points as they head into tonightĢƵ game with Hampton in the first round of the WPIAL Class 5A ...