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Lady Cougars building on youth for return trip to playoffs

If the Charleroi girls basketball team is going to make the playoffs for a second straight year, youth is going to play a factor.“We have two starters back and several girls competing for starting positions and playing time, but we don’t have a senior on the team who has ever played ...

New coach, same expectations for Lady Scotties

There has been a changing of the guard for the Southmoreland girls basketball program this year, but not in expectations.Amber Weimer Cernuto takes over the reigns as head coach from Brian Pritts, who guided the Lady Scotties to a section championship and WPIAL 4A runner-up finish last ...

Murray gone, but Lady Raiders have plenty returning

Penny Kezmarsky had recently wrapped up her third season as Uniontown girls basketball coach when she recalled everything changing."I remember we were at the Big 56 banquet and that was the last day that life was normal," Kezmarsky said. "It was the Thursday before everything shut down in March ...

Lady Pioneers look to continue remarkable run

West Greene has been one of the area's premier girls basketball teams for the past four years and the Lady Pioneers' remarkable run doesn't look to end any time soon.Coming off a pair of 22-win seasons, West Greene upped that school record in 2019-20 with an amazing 24-2 record. The Lady ...

Gerdich wants Lady Cougars to keep moving in right direction

The Yough girls basketball program is finally headed in the right direction, and fourth-year coach Mike Gerdich wants to keep it going.“Our expectations this year are to be much more competitive and put more marks in the win column that we have in previous years,” said the 6-7 former Saint ...

Regula dealing with late hire, virus restrictions

New Ringgold girls basketball coach Matt Regula was not hired until October, but being hired late is not a new concept to him.“It is definitely something different getting hired so late, but it is something that I am used to,” said Regula. “I was hired late in the year at Derry, as ...