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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 – 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 SalvinoÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ top-seeded Belle Vernon Leopards made ...

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 UniontownÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ 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 tonightÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ game with Hampton in the first round of the WPIAL Class 5A ...

ROGERSVILLE – Brentwood could only muster two points through half of the first quarter on Thursday night. Once the Spartans got going, though, they never let up in their WPIAL Class 2A boys basketball preliminary round playoff game at West Greene. Brentwood stormed back from an early 11-2 ...

JEFFERSON – Jefferson-Morgan hoped to end a playoff victory drought that spans a quarter century, but ran into a Springdale team that has been bucking the odds all season. Scott Ruppert took over as the head coach three weeks before the season started, the Dynamos were given the 21st and ...