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High School Basketball

Mustangs rally falls just short in loss to Tigers

Laurel Highlands rallied from a 12-point deficit but fell just short in a loss to visiting McKeesport, 54-52, in a Section 1-5A boys basketball battle Friday night. Lamont Perkins scored a game-high 21 points for the Tigers (1-0, 3-1) and Darryl McCullough added 12. Luke Martin led the ...

Record breaker

Emma Larkin had an unforgettable junior season and already a record-breaking senior year. The Geibel Catholic girls basketball star broke Shelley Bortz’ program scoring record of 1,977 on Dec. 1 then went over the 2,000-point mark for her career on Dec. 4. Still, although she admits the ...

Family feat

YORK RUN — Dierre Jenkins remembers when he scored his 1,000th career point while playing for Uniontown. “Three in the corner against Woodland Hills,” said the 2002 Uniontown graduate, who finished his Red Raiders career with 1,244 points. “I remember Mr. (Dave) Shuck came and told ...

Conard looking for improvement from Lady Mikes

Carmichaels' girls basketball team was an unlikely WPIAL playoff qualifier a year ago when it went 3-19 overall and 3-7 in Section 3-2A. The Lady Mikes came up big when they needed to get to the postseason, with key late-season wins over visiting Bentworth, 45-28, and at Jefferson-Morgan, ...

Rockets take aim at section championship

Jefferson-Morgan has made the WPIAL boys basketball playoffs all four years Brandon Lawless has been coach, and that's the goal again this season with one stipulation. The Rockets want a section championship, too, this time. "That's what we're aiming for," said Lawless, whose team finished ...

Youthful Trojans trying to build under Baker

Now in his second year as the California boys basketball coach, Brent Baker sees that things are moving in the right direction, although his team is still on the youthful end. “We are still very, very young,” he said. “Last year, we had a good group of seniors that they laid the ...