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High School Basketball

Matching up

Geibel Catholic has two of the top scorers in the WPIAL in Emma Larkin and Mallory Clemmer and came within a late-season loss in the final seconds of a perfect season. Even so, that lone defeat, 51-50 to highly regarded Serra Catholic, a team the Lady Gators defeated on the road in their first ...

Larkin breaks Fayette County scoring record in Lady Gators’ victory

Emma Larkin scored 27 points to not only help Geibel Catholic to a 67-32 victory over Carrick in non-section girls basketball action, but break Fayette County’s all-time scoring record on Monday at Carrick. Larkin, a senior who will continue her academic and basketball careers at Belmont ...

Doubling up

When the high school basketball section season wrapped up on Saturday there were 15 area teams that had punched their ticket into the WPIAL playoffs. Of that group, 10 came from just five schools. Laurel Highlands, Belle Vernon, West Greene, Waynesburg Central and Beth-Center will each be ...

Rockets enjoy section title, turn attention to playoffs

HOUSTON – On two occasions Friday night against Chartiers-Houston, the Jefferson-Morgan boys basketball team thought the game was over only to realize time was being put back on the clock. Once was for a foul that was whistled and the other was for a player stepping out of bounds. The ...

Local roundup: St. Joseph nips Gators in battle for playoff spot

Nick Tometsko scored 15 points and St. Joseph pulled out a close win at Geibel Catholic, 47-45, to beat the Gators and secure the fourth and final WPIAL playoff spot in Section 2-A boys basketball action on Saturday. The Spartans (5-5, 8-12) led 17-13 after the first quarter, the Gators (3-7, ...

Playoff bound

Luke Martin has saved his best for last lately. Three days after grabbing the rebound of a missed shot and scoring the winning basket to help Laurel Highlands’ boys basketball team pull out a 56-54 win at Uniontown, Martin was at it again on Friday night against Penn-Trafford at Harold ...