Dick Witt and his deceased twin brother Bill were known as “Twin Terrors” when they played football for Connellsville High School in the late 1950s and early 1960s.“Brother Bill and I were very competitive growing up,” Witt said. “We started playing football in the fourth grade. We ...
Jarrod King found out his name was on the Fayette County Sports Hall of Fame ballot for the second year in a row a few months ago.The scenario wound up being far different from 2019, though.Usually, ballots are released in February, the class is revealed in May and the banquet takes place in ...
Connellsville Area High School athletic department recognized its Tri-Athlete award winners for the 2019-20 school year.Seniors Garrity Bungard (soccer, basketball, softball) and Morgan Lukaesko (cross country, diving, track) received the Tri-Athlete Award for the fourth year. Fellow senior ...
The WPIAL released its new basketball section alignments for the next two years and two Greene County boys teams were affected.Jefferson-Morgan will be moving from 1A up to 2A, while Waynesburg Central will drop from 4A to 3A.All five county girls teams will remain at their same ...
Some of the areaĢƵ top baseball programs will be switching classifications next year.Connellsville, Laurel Highlands and Mount Pleasant will both be moving down, while California and Brownsville have been bumped up according to the new baseball and softball alignments released by the WPIAL.In ...
<em>The following is one in a series of stories featuring local high schools that lost their spring sports seasons due to the coronavirus pandemic</em><em>.</em>The Connellsville spring sports squads were just about ready to swing into ...