YORK RUN -- The Belle Vernon boys scored points in every event Thursday afternoon for a pair of wins in a Section 2-AAA triangular meet with Uniontown at Albert Gallatin.

ALVERTON -- The Southmoreland girls carried most of the first-place finishes on a cool, windy Wednesday afternoon to open the Section 8-AA schedule with victories against visiting Frazier and Ligonier Valley.

CARMICHAELS -- The first game of the Section 1-A series between Jefferson-Morgan and Carmichaels Monday produced a combined three runs and seven hits.

Brownsville will be back on the mats for the 2023-24 school year.

When you are the last match in the Pittsburgh Wrestling Classic, some important organizers of the event must think you are pretty special.

Fayette County has been blessed with some great families of athletes through the years and at the top of the list has to be the Munsey family who were part of the rich history of Uniontown High School athletics.

Forty-five years ago Bob Fedorko was helping Ken Misiak prepare Geibel Catholic for its first, and only, appearance in the PIAA basketball championship.

CRANBERRY TWP. -- LJ Crouch heeded the advice of Rick Kalinowski and his Ringgold coach staff when he lifted the puck over the pinching Bishop Canevin defense in overtime.

CHARLEROI — Uniontown was hoping Lincoln Park would have an off shooting night when the two met in Monday’s PIAA Class AAAA semifinal basketball game.

Masontown, Pennsylvania has a rich sports history and one of the best chapters in that glorious past was written by a Little League team in 1954 that made a run to the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa.

Bakari Wallace let go of the shot and everyone inside Charleroi High School followed its flight.

Two of the four remaining PIAA Class AAAA boys basketball teams come from the same town and are on a path where they could meet for a berth in the state championship game in the semifinals.

Mapletown's Ella Menear and Mount Pleasant's Lily King qualified for the finals with the fastest times out of the preliminaries Wednesday morning, and those performances carried over into the finals with both swimmers winning gold at the PIAA Class AA Swimming & Diving Championships.

NORTH HUNTINGDON -- Rodney Gallager and his Laurel Highlands teammates have the opportunity to avenge an early season loss to Lincoln Park after the Mustangs defeated Hampton, 57-50, in the PIAA Class AAAA second round Tuesday night at Norwin High School.

Mount Pleasant's Lily King took the PIAA meet by storm last year with two gold medals and a state record.

CLEARFIELD — Keondre DeShields proclaimed his previously sprained ankle to be 100 percent after Friday night’s basketball game.

Rick Hauger sees the good and the bad of having over a week off before his Laurel Highlands boys basketball team begins play in the PIAA tournament tonight.

LEISENRING -- Neshannock's defense didn't have a chance Tuesday night once the Connellsville offense got rolling with the Falcons scoring eight unanswered goals for an 8-1 victory in the quarterfinals of the PIHL D2 Division playoffs at The Ice Mine.

Almost two hours prior to curtain, they lined up back to Martin Hall on the campus of Waynesburg College. Some were sitting on steps, others just milling around talking about that night’s game.

Uniontown junior Logan Voytish and California senior Anastasia Georgagis sought to make it back to a state championship after both did so in the fall.

Six area teams will be revving up the buses for long road trips on Friday or Saturday when the PIAA basketball tournament begins.

Former Geibel Catholic basketball standout Erica Hogan was a 1,000-point scorer in high school and college.

PITTSBURGH -- The second day of the WPIAL Class AA Swimming & Diving Championship Friday afternoon was golden for Mount Pleasant's Lily King, Mapletown's Ella Menear and the Mount Pleasant girls.

Everyone wanted a couple moments with Rodney Gallagher on Wednesday night.

Mount Pleasant's Lily King made quite a splash in her first WPIAL Class AA Swimming & Diving Championship last year as a freshman, and promises to do the same this year.

When a game is on the line the Waynesburg Central girls basketball team invariably turns to Kaley Rohanna.

NORTH HUNTINGDON -- The North Catholic boys ran their WPIAL Class AAAA playoff record against Fayette County's best to 2-0 Monday night after the Trojans defeated Laurel Highlands, 74-59, in the semifinals at Norwin High School.

Born on Feb. 23, 1921, in Republic, John Kondrla was an outstanding three-sport athlete at Georges Township in the 1930s.

If Geibel Catholic's boys basketball game Saturday was a boxing match the Gators would've been given a couple standing eight counts in the first quarter of their match-up with top-seeded Imani Christian.

Rodney Gallagher has been coming through in big games for Laurel Highlands throughout his four-year high school basketball career.

MCMURRAY -- It looked murky early for the Gators, but Geibel Catholic saved its best for last and used a 21-12 fourth quarter advantage to advance to the WPIAL Class A semifinals with a thrilling come-from-behind win over Neighborhood Academy, 66-64, Wednesday night.

The end of the line was both a time of sadness and pride for Laurel Highlands' girls basketball team.

For those West Virginians who haven't spent the last four or five years down in the mines or otherwise out of touch with reality, you may have noticed a distinct decline in athletic success at the state university.

It was 50 years ago come March 9 that the Ringgold Rams captured the WPIAL Class A basketball title with a 54-47 win over General Braddock at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh.

Don Porter made it clear to his fourth-seeded Geibel Catholic boys basketball team not to look past the first round of the playoffs.

Expectations were high for Belle Vernon heading into the 2022 football season, and for those on the outside, anything short of a WPIAL Class 3A championship and a run at a PIAA title would have meant an unsuccessful season.

CONNELLSVILLE -- The Uniontown athletic department will need to update the banners in the gymnasium after the Uniontown boys swimming team capped an undefeated Section 5-AA season Thursday night with a 99-75 victory at Connellsville.

LEISENRING -- Jonathan Holland stopped all 30 shots he faced, and Dylan Brooks scored a pair of goals to lead Connellsville to a 3-0 PIHL D2 Blue Division victory Tuesday night against visiting Ringgold at The Ice Mine.