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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...