The Fayette County sports community was saddened by the news that Tod Trent had passed away on Feb. 6 in LaFayette Manor.Trent was 90, and he was preceded in death by his loving wife Irma (Anderson) Trent, Sept. 9, 2016; and a son, Todd Trent.From 1951 until he retired in 1991, Tod Trent was a ...
Bill McGee heeded the advice of Horace Greeley to 鈥淕o West, young man鈥� back in the 1970s.The former Uniontown native will be honored with induction into the Nevada high school Hall of Fame by the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association on March 14.McGee played basketball for the ...
John Russell was part of the greatest basketball team in Belle Vernon Area High School basketball history and the memories of the Leopards鈥� WPIAL title run in 1977-78 are still vivid to this day.After playing JV ball, Russell became a key cog for Belle Vernon in 1976-77 on a team that ...
Don Bartolomucci was a football lifer. As a player football provided him with an education, and later a career in education and coaching.Bartolomucci was a crackerjack running back on some fine Brownsville High School football teams in the 1950s. A four-year starter, he played on teams that ...
Fayette County athletics had a banner year in 1940. Brownsville High School captured the Class AA football championship and Masontown secured the Class B title. In basketball tiny Point Marion High School had a tremendous run and won the WPIAL Class B championship.It was an interesting ...
Former Brownsville High School basketball star George Lemon has known the ups and downs of life, including a stint in prison, through it all he remains one of the most positive people you will ever meet.鈥淓verything is not PG-13, the Disney channel, it doesn鈥檛 work like that,鈥� Lemon said. ...
