WASHINGTON — Uniontown got little respect from the WPIAL baseball pairings committee as was evident by the No. 16 seed it was saddled with for Class AAAA playoffs.The Red Raiders thus had to face top-seeded Montour, the defending PIAA champion, in their first-round game on Wednesday.Perhaps ...
Richie Giachetti grew up in a close-knit Italian family in Uniontown before becoming one of the most well-known names in the boxing world who trained a heavyweight champion.Giachetti, who died in 2016, was a 1958 North Union graduate who played football and baseball in high school but ...
As National Library Week came to an end last week, it reminded me of what public libraries have meant to me in the years before I ever even thought about working in a library.From my earliest school years, when I was taken to the Carnegie Free Library in Connellsville, all I could say when I ...
<em>Fayette County has a rich sports history and unfortunately the stories and exploits of many great players and coaches have been lost and forgotten by the sands of time. This is the fifth in a series of articles that will explore some of these hidden figures. This article ...
BELLE VERNON — The second of a two-game set between Section 2-AAAA baseball rivals Uniontown and Belle Vernon was nothing like the first.That was better news for the Leopards than the Red Raiders.One day after suffering an 11-1 loss to Uniontown at Bailey Park, Belle Vernon bounced back with ...
Uniontown made the most of five hits, plus six Albert Gallatin errors, to open Section 2-AAAA baseball play Monday night with a 6-2 victory over the Colonials at Bailey Park.The Red Raiders took advantage of Albert GallatinÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ first miscue when Austin Grego kept the inning alive by reaching on ...