MONESSEN 鈥� Janine Vertacnik put it best on Monday night.鈥淟et鈥檚 get that monkey off my back,鈥� the Lady Greyhounds coach said.Monessen had gone 10 years without a WPIAL girls basketball playoff win and Vertacnik was 0-2 in the postseason in her first three years as coach there.The ...
BURGETTSTOWN 鈥� The last time Burgettstown鈥檚 girls鈥� basketball team won a playoff game, Bill Clinton was beginning his first term as president, Kurt Cobain was still leading Nirvana and Barry Bonds was months away from playing his first game in a San Francisco Giants uniform.Monday night, ...
WAYNESBURG 鈥� In NCAA March Madness, it鈥檚 believed that matchups between No. 12 seeds and No. 5 seeds are the ones most likely to end in an upset.It happens sometimes in high school basketball, too, and fifth-seeded Waynesburg Central was in real danger of being a causality on its home court ...
PERRYOPOLIS 鈥� Frazier and Carmichaels were very familiar with each other heading into Friday night鈥檚 WPIAL Class AA girls basketball preliminary round playoff game.The teams had split their two regular-season Section 2 meetings and both knew what to expect in their third clash. The Lady ...
PERRYOPOLIS -- Frazier and Carmichaels were very familiar with each other heading into Friday night's WPIAL Class AA girls basketball preliminary round playoff game.The teams had split their two regular-season Section 2 meetings and both knew what to expect in their third clash. The Lady ...
Freeport closed the game with a 9-2 run to rally for a 56-49 road victory Friday night in a WPIAL Class AAAA boys basketball first round playoff game at Uniontown.Freeport (13-9) advances to the quarterfinals to play at third-seeded Belle Vernon (18-3) on Wednesday at 7 p.m.The game was tied at ...
