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Playoff prep: Falcons edge Red Raiders 1-0 in tense 8-inning battle

Connellsville and Uniontown couldn’t have asked for a better game to prep themselves for the upcoming WPIAL baseball playoffs. In a pitchers’ duel that needed extra innings to decide, Kace ShearerÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ perfectly placed bunt on a suicide squeeze play brought in Grayden Gillott with the ...

Into the Hall: 1982 Connellsville baseball team

Tom Sankovich is quite familiar with the Fayette County Sports Hall of Fame. Sankovich, who starred in baseball and football at North Union Township High School and played football at Maryland, was inducted in 2015. Thanks to his outstanding career as Connellsville baseball coach, he was ...

Local roundup: Falcons put away AG with big seventh inning

Gayden Gillott smacked a run-scoring double and a sacrifice fly in a seven-run fifth inning to help Connellsville pull away from Albert Gallatin on its way to an 11-3 non-section baseball victory at Thomas E. Sankovich Field on Thursday. Jonathan Kelly had a single and a walk in the ...

Uniontown manÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ death ruled a suicide

The death of a Uniontown man who jumped out of a window while in police custody has been ruled a suicide. The Office of the Allegheny County Medical Examiner reported that Bernard Geisel, 42, died of blunt-force trauma to the head on Dec. 29 in Connellsville. Geisel was handcuffed and being ...

Veteran, teacher, coach returns home to celebrate 100th birthday

Special and unique birthday celebrations are his thing. When Allen Q. Jones turned 95, he spent his birthday with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. So, as his 100th birthday approached, his friend Barry Craig knew he wanted to do it up big. And, do it up big he did. Craig planned a ...