Scoring 1,000 career points is a goal of most high school basketball players, a milestone that is noted and celebrated. To reach that lofty level a player has to be talented, have good teammates and be a multi-year starter. The 2024-25 Herald-Standard All-Area Girls Basketball Team is ...
Emma Larkin wasn’t taking anything for granted. The Geibel Catholic girls basketball star was named to the Pennsylvania Sports Writers’ All-State Class A First Team a year ago but that didn’t mean a repeat was a sure thing. “You don’t get it for what you did last year,” Larkin ...
GREENSBURG – Brownsville figured it would be pitted against a higher seeded team and thus would be an underdog in the first round of the WPIAL Class 3A girls basketball playoffs. To be relegated to the last seed in the bracket by the WPIAL pairings committee, however, was a perceived slap ...
BROWNSVILLE – Brownsville’s Skyler Gates felt a bit uneasy going into Friday’s home game against Jefferson-Morgan. The 6-foot-4 junior center needed 28 points to reach 1,000 for her career and she knew plenty of people were on hand to witness the possible milestone. “I was kind of ...
West Greene took a three-point lead into halftime and hung on for a 45-39 victory over Jefferson-Morgan in Section 3-2A play on Tuesday at West Greene Junior/Senior High School. The Pioneers (8-3, 10-7) trailed 12-9 after the first quarter, but a 13-7 advantage in the second period provided ...
The trio of Mallory Clemmer, Ava Henderson and Emma Larkin combined for 57 points in Geibel Catholic’s 61-36 triumph over Avella on Monday in Class A Section 2 play at “The Swamp.” The Lady Eagles gave Geibel Catholic fits during the first meeting, as the Lady Gators escaped Washington ...
