MEADVILLE – Uniontown had courageously battled back from an 18-point deficit and still had hopes of pulling out a victory midway through the fourth quarter at Meadville Friday night. Then the game, and the Red Raiders’ season, came to an abrupt end in the most unlikely ...
BELLE VERNON – In a game of runs, Belle Vernon made one final late spurt to beat Farrell, 74-63, on Friday night, which allows the Leopards to continue a run toward their dream of the program’s first state basketball title and extend coach Joe Salvino’s run at a potential ...
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 ...
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 ...
