McMURRAY – The emotion in Joe Salvino’s voice, and the tears beginning to form in his eyes, told the story. With six WPIAL championships, a pair of PIAA crowns, and 743 career wins, Salvino will have one last chance at a seventh WPIAL crown after Class 4A top seed Belle Vernon’s ...
BELLE VERNON – Over his long and storied coaching career, Joe Salvino has said numerous times about his disdain for layoffs between the end of the regular season and the start of the WPIAL playoffs. Wednesday night was no different, but Salvino’s top-seeded Belle Vernon Leopards made ...
MCDONALD — The Fort Cherry girls basketball team didn’t have much of a problem Tuesday night in its playoff opener against California on the surface. But even after a 59-29 win, Lady Rangers coach Clarence Edwards knows it could have been better. “It was a little sloppy at the ...
GREENSBURG – Brownsville figured it would be pitted against a higher seeded team and thus would be an underdog in the first round of the WPIAL Class 3A girls basketball playoffs. To be relegated to the last seed in the bracket by the WPIAL pairings committee, however, was a perceived slap ...
Uniontown and Belle Vernon were the highest seeded local teams as expected when the WPIAL released its boys basketball playoff pairings Monday afternoon. The Red Raiders drew the No. 3 seed in Class 5A and will host No. 14 Hampton in a 7 p.m. game on Tuesday, Feb. 18. The Leopards, with ...
Geibel Catholic’s girls basketball team rode a 21-1 overall record and its first section championship in 17 years to a No. 2 seed in Class A in the WPIAL playoffs. The WPIAL playoff pairings were released Monday afternoon and the Lady Gators, who were 13-1 in winning Section 1-A, received ...
