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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 ...

Comeback kid

Chase Fulmer wasn’t looking to receive any honors when the 2025 high school baseball season began. The Frazier junior was just happy to be patrolling center field again. “Last year I tore my knee the third game of the season, the MPFL (medial patellofemoral ligament) that holds your ...

Enshrined

The annual Fayette County Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony is as popular as ever with the Class of 2025 being enshrined Friday at Pleasant Valley Golf Club. Headlining the new group were Brownsville graduate and former major leaguer Doug Dascenzo and Fayette CountyĢƵ all-time ...

New plan

BrownsvilleĢƵ football program has struggled mightily in recent years and hasn’t had much stability at the head coaching position. A year ago, the Falcons’ third as an independent, David Martin III began the season as coach and former coach Von Braddock stepped back in on an interim ...