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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 ...

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 ...

A year ago, the Southmoreland boys basketball team won the Section 4-AAA championship with an undefeated 10-0 record, the school’s first section crown since 1992, won a WPIAL playoff game for the first time in eight years, and was close to earning a PIAA berth. With four starters back from ...

Zach Keefer has the same goals for his Frazier boys basketball team every season, no matter who is on his roster or what section the Commodores are playing in. "Just like all teams, we want to compete for a section title and make the playoffs again," said Keefer, who is in his ninth year as ...

Waynesburg Central boys basketball coach Michael Juliano beefed up his team's non-section schedule last year to help prepare for section play. The result was a 0-7 start but the plan worked. The Raiders wound up 9-14 overall but were 7-3 in Section 4-3A and were in the battle for first ...

Joe Hough is a Brownsville graduate who has already made an imprint at his alma mater as a boys basketball coach. Hough was an assistant under his brother Paul when the starting blocks for a team that would win a WPIAL championship under Pete Logan two years later were placed. Since then ...