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Remembering Randall Cramer

The Fayette County Sports community was deeply saddened by the passing of former Uniontown High School track stalwart Randall Cramer, 76, on Thursday, Dec. 23.Cramer was featured in a Memory Lane column in 2014. Here are some excerpts from that column.Randall Cramer was an unlikely athlete at ...

Richard Saccani cast a big shadow over the sport of tennis in Western Pennsylvania.His career numbers indicate that he should be in three area Halls of Fame, the Western Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame, the California University Sports Hall of Fame and the WPIAL Hall of Fame. Sadly, he is not ...

Len “Skip” Pirilla has been an iconic figure in the Perryopolis community, first as a high school athlete and later running an 80-year family business, the Perry Pharmacy.Pirilla was a standout fullback/halfback for Perry High School in 1958 and 1959. In 1960 the name was changed to Frazier ...

After a hiatus in 2020 due to COVID-19, the Belle Vernon Area Football Hall of Fame celebrated its 21st year by inducting its Class of 2021 consisting of six inductees.Three Richard O. Dolfi award winners, along with a founding member, and two representative players from the 1980s were ...

Gaydos rode football to success in medical field

Many Fayette County athletes used athletics to further their education. One of those athletes was former German Township High School football and wrestling standout Joel Gaydos.Gaydos was a two-year varsity letterman in football for the Uhlans in the late 1950s. He was on squads that posted ...

Myles Witchey could best be described as a basketball lifer, having played the game and then coached for many years.WitcheyĢƵ basketball journey began at Belmont High School in Ohio. At 6-foot-6, Witchey used his height to great advantage on some competitive teams at Belmont.“Belmont had an ...