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HS football preview: Brownsville

Brownsville will be playing football under its fourth head coach since the 2023 season began. Cody Castor intends to stick around a lot longer as he tries to get the Falcons football program back on track. Castor, a Uniontown graduate who starred for the Red Raiders and played four years at ...

HS football preview: Belle Vernon

In the case of the Belle Vernon Leopards, don't judge a book by its cover – or its first five games. First-year head coach Scott Bryer and Belle Vernon start this season with games against Aliquippa (home), at Central Valley, McKeesport (home), at South Fayette and then host Thomas ...

Hunter Konieczny shot a 6-over-par 41 to lead a balanced effort as Connellsville defeated host Albert Gallatin, 219-227, in a Section 2-3A boys golf match for its first victory of the season on Thursday. Nicky Farrell turned in the second-best score of the day with a 42 and Wade Bryner was ...

50 years and counting

The year was 1975 when player-manager Alex “Pickhandle” Mercosky led the Buffington Buffs to the first Fayette County Baseball League championship. Fifty years later the league has gone through many changes but is still on solid ground and recently handed out awards and listed leaders ...

Catching up with … Russ Moore

Russ Moore is well into his fifth decade of being a football coach and has had plenty of successful seasons along the way. One year that will always stand out for Moore is 1999 when he guided Waynesburg Central to its only WPIAL championship. Currently the offensive line coach at Waynesburg ...

Reaping rewards

Dave Briggs has seen this show before. It never gets old for the veteran Carmichaels softball coach, though. For the third year in a row the Lady Mikes put four players on the Pennsylvania High School Softball Coaches Association All-State Team, and two of them have been selected in each of ...