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H-S Athlete of the week: Elijah Brown, Belle Vernon

Name: Elijah Brown School: Belle Vernon Class: Junior Sport: Wrestling Brown’s week: In winning his fifth match this season over Kiski Area’s Cooper Roscosky, 4-3, in the finals at 215 pounds last Saturday in the PIAA Class 3A Individual Wrestling Championships, Brown not only earned ...

Pitt continues basketball domination of WVU

PITTSBURGH — Somewhere in between badly air-balled free throws, throwing passes to no one in particular amid a number of other errors, one thing became mightily clear inside the Petersen Events Center on Friday. Jeff Capel and the Pitt men’s basketball team has taken control of the ...

Backyard Brawl hoops style takes place tonight

MORGANTOWN — The challenge will be right there inside the Petersen Events Center. The question will be whether it’s the WVU or Pitt men’s basketball team who is ready to meet it. The jury may be out on that one, at least that’s the story being told by both head coaches. “Any ...

Messich inducted into Potomac State Hall of Fame

GREENSBORO – George Messich owns a national championship ring from his two years he spent playing football at the University of Pittsburgh. Before his glorious time with the Panthers, where he was a starting offensive tackle on the undefeated 1976 team led by Heisman Trophy winner Tony ...

Into the Hall: Fran Novak

Fran Novak followed in the steps of his brother, 2010 Fayette County Sports Hall of Fame inductee Rich Novak, as an outstanding multi-sport athlete at South Union High School. Fran paved his own path to greatness with the Blue Devils and this year he’ll join Rich, who died in 2021, in ...

Memory Lane: Uniontown’s Coughenour excelled on the mound

Jory Coughenour was a baseball standout at Uniontown and the University of Pittsburgh and played minor league baseball. He turned his passion for baseball into his life's work. “I started playing baseball at nine years old,” Coughenour recalled. “I think we had 9 and 10 divisions and 11 ...