Belle Vernon’s boys basketball team will enjoy the spoils of winning a WPIAL championship by receiving a home game in the first round of the PIAA tournament. The other three area teams who have qualified for the state playoffs aren’t so lucky. Uniontown’s boys, Laurel Highlands’ ...
PITTSBURGH – As his team received the WPIAL championship trophy, Belle Vernon boys basketball coach Joe Salvino stood off the side, took a sip of water and watched the celebration unfold. “I love to watch them, because it’s for them,” Salvino said. “I’m just a part of it. I like ...
This night it was Notorious Grooms’ turn. Uniontown had ridden a historic performance by Calvin Winfrey III, who rang up a school-record 47 points, to a win over Penn-Trafford on Monday and faced visiting Latrobe in Wednesday’s WPIAL Class 5A fifth-place consolation game. Winfrey ...
CONNELLSVILLE — Aquinas Academy used solid outside shooting and took advantage of Geibel Catholic’s No. 2 scorer being in foul trouble to earn a 65-56 victory over the Lady Gators on Wednesday night in the third-place consolation game in the WPIAL Class A girls basketball playoffs at ...
Calvin Winfrey III and Notorious Grooms took it hard. The two Uniontown senior 1,000-point scorers were crushed by their team’s WPIAL Class 5A quarterfinal loss to Peters Township on Friday. “We were sad, dwelling on the loss all weekend,” Grooms said. “It hurt.” “That loss ...
Bob Kennedy was a 1,000-point scorer as a player at Beth-Center and now he’s a 200-game winner as a boys basketball coach at Bentworth. Kennedy guided the Bearcats to a 64-40 win over South Side on Feb. 13 in the preliminary round of the WPIAL Class 2A playoffs to notch the milestone win ...
