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High School Basketball

Cougars will rely on returning starters Usher, Wagner

Longtime Charleroi boys basketball coach Bill Wiltz led the Cougars to a share of the Section 4-AAA title last year, the programĢƵ first since 2014-15.For the team to have a chance to repeat it will have to rely on its two returning starters, senior point guard Zach Usher and junior wing Will ...

Red Raiders optimistic despite loss of stellar class

The slate has been wiped practically clean for Uniontown's boys basketball team.Gone are all five starters -- Billy DeShields, Isaiah Melvin, Ray Robinson, Jahmere Richardson and Bryant Grady -- and seven seniors overall from last year's squad that went 20-3, won a second straight section title ...

Lady Trojans ‘chomping at the bit’ to get playing

When the California Area administration decided to halt all afterschool activities until Dec. 14, the offseason for the girls basketball program was extended, as if it hadn’t been long enough already.“We have been chomping at the bit,” third-year head coach Chris Niemiec said with a ...

Giacobbi, Lady Vikings prepared for whatever season brings

Scott Giacobbi enters his 16th season as the Mount Pleasant girls head basketball coach, and has dealt with losses to graduation, reclassification and game preparations through the years.But, the veteran coach is preparing for a season like no other in his previous 15 seasons with the impact ...

Lady Raiders taking aim at playoffs

Waynesburg Central was a perfect example of a team that was better than its record indicated last girls basketball season.The Lady Raiders were 7-15 overall and 1-13 in Section 2-AAA but they were in most of their games and their lone section win was on the road against a Charleroi playoff team ...

Sloan leads the way for Lady Bulldogs

Guiding a team through a season during the COVID-19 pandemic is nothing new to Beth-Center girls basketball coach Steve Beyer."We went through this with the volleyball team," said Beyer, who also coaches that sport at B-C. "Like I tell the girls, you just have to take one day at a time."A lot ...