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High School Basketball

Katarski shifts from coaching college to Vikings

Mount Pleasant alumnus Mark Katarski has returned home to take over his alma mater’s boys basketball team, and it is a little bit of a change of pace compared to what he is used to. The all-time winningest coach of the women’s programs at both Chatham and Seton Hill, Katarski is up for ...

Youthful Trojans trying to build under Baker

Now in his second year as the California boys basketball coach, Brent Baker sees that things are moving in the right direction, although his team is still on the youthful end. “We are still very, very young,” he said. “Last year, we had a good group of seniors that they laid the ...

Bulldogs optimistic with 4 returning starters

Now in his third year at the helm of the Beth-Center boys basketball program, Scott Bower is liking where things are trending for this team. His optimism stems from multiple perspectives. First, the team returns four starters from last year’s team that made the WPIAL ...

New era begins with Leopards as Tyburski takes over for Salvino

Anytime someone follows a legend in any aspect of life, there are whispers that people don’t want to be the “man who follows the man.” Instead, they would rather be the “man who follows the man who follows the man.” But for first-year Belle Vernon boys basketball coach Ricky ...

Lady Pioneers look to keep rolling under Brudnock

West Greene's girls basketball team switched coaches last year but still kept rolling along. In Ben Brudnock's first year at the helm the Lady Pioneers went 16-9 overall, finished fourth in Section 2-A at 8-6 to qualify for the postseason for the ninth year in a row, and won a WPIAL playoff ...

Capozzoli takes over young, talented Lady Raiders

Waynesburg Central's girls basketball team has a talented group coming in but a highly successful veteran coach going out. Chris Minerd stepped down after completing his 10th year as a head coach in the offseason. Minerd was 50-20 at the helm of the Lady Raiders, including 10-12 last year ...