Some of the area’s top baseball programs will be switching classifications next year.Connellsville, Laurel Highlands and Mount Pleasant will both be moving down, while California and Brownsville have been bumped up according to the new baseball and softball alignments released by the WPIAL.In ...
<em>The following is one in a series of stories featuring local high schools that lost their spring sports seasons due to the coronavirus pandemic</em><em>.</em>The Connellsville spring sports squads were just about ready to swing into ...
<strong>A</strong>ndy Hedrick wasn’t around the last time Connellsville happened to be in a boys basketball section with Fayette County rivals Albert Gallatin and Laurel Highlands.“People in the past have told me that back when these teams were in the same ...
In these times of limited sports activity due to the coronavirus pandemic the Ăĺ±±˝űµŘ will occasionally present “From the Vault,” a story the sports staff has dug up from the past and reprinted. Today is a story by Jim Downey on Madison Wiltrout’s NFHS record javelin throw on May ...
The years can often fly by as important dates gather in the past, and that’s just the feeling Madison Wiltrout had when she was informed her record-breaking throw in the javelin was five years ago today.“That’s crazy. I totally forgot about it,” responded Wiltrout.Wiltrout was in her ...
Callie Cunningham set the course of her college academic and soccer careers as a sophomore, but the Connellsville senior made it official last fall when she signed her letter-of-intent with Kent State University.Cunningham actually made the decision to make a verbal commitment to coach Rob ...
