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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 ...

Lady Pioneers look to keep rolling under Brudnock

West Greene's girls basketball team switched coaches last year but still kept rolling along. In Ben Brudnock's first year at the helm the Lady Pioneers went 16-9 overall, finished fourth in Section 2-A at 8-6 to qualify for the postseason for the ninth year in a row, and won a WPIAL playoff ...

Becker takes over Pioneers as Romanus departs

Jim Romanus ended a long, successful coaching career that spanned 48 years, including 14 leading West Greene's boys basketball team, after last season. Those are big shoes for Billy Becker to fill. Becker, a Waynesburg Central graduate, is in the midst of his first head coaching job as he ...

Capozzoli takes over young, talented Lady Raiders

Waynesburg Central's girls basketball team has a talented group coming in but a highly successful veteran coach going out. Chris Minerd stepped down after completing his 10th year as a head coach in the offseason. Minerd was 50-20 at the helm of the Lady Raiders, including 10-12 last year ...

Raiders hope to make another run at section title

Waynesburg Central boys basketball coach Michael Juliano beefed up his team's non-section schedule last year to help prepare for section play. The result was a 0-7 start but the plan worked. The Raiders wound up 9-14 overall but were 7-3 in Section 4-3A and were in the battle for first ...