Mapletown regained the lead in the second quarter and its defense shut out visiting Monessen over the final three quarters as the Maples earned a key Tri-County South victory, 15-8, on Friday night.The win gives a boost to MapletownĢƵ playoff chances and knocked the Greyhounds out of a ...
Gage Gillott is settling into college life at South Carolina Upstate where he’ll be playing baseball for the NCAA Division-I Spartans.Before that, the Connellsville graduate had an exciting end to his summer baseball season in Laredo, Texas.Gillott was selected to play for Youngstown, Ohio ...
Area sports fans were deeply saddened by the news that one of the great athletes to come out of Fayette County Robert M. “Bo” Scott passed away on Aug. 4 at the age of 78.His given name was Robert and he had a twin sister, Roberta. “Roberta couldn’t say ‘brother’ so she would call ...
The Fayette County sports community was deeply saddened by the news that Fayette County Sports Hall of Famer Hall Weightman passed away at the age of 84 on July 22.Weightman was a link to Fayette CountyĢƵ glorious basketball history and was featured in a Memory Lane column in 2013. Here are ...
Just five months after the debut of her first novel, a Connellsville woman has published her sophomore effort.Last week, the new novel, “The Book of Grace,” was trending in the number-one spot in a teen and young adult category on Amazon.com.The novel's author, S.J. Cunningham, said the ...
Connellsville has a rich high school wrestling tradition and has produced many outstanding wrestlers over the years but Jarrod King, surprisingly, notched a first back in 2009 while at Edinboro University.King won the 165-pound NCAA national championship for the Fighting Scots that year, ...