Sometimes even Gus Gerard is surprised at what he was able to accomplish in the sport of basketball when he reflects on his career. Gerard scored 1,198 points in just three years at Laurel Highlands, starred at the University of Virginia and played seven seasons of professional basketball in ...
The annual Fayette County Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony is as popular as ever with the Class of 2025 being enshrined Friday at Pleasant Valley Golf Club. Headlining the new group were Brownsville graduate and former major leaguer Doug Dascenzo and Fayette County’s all-time ...
High school athletes dream of leading their team to a WPIAL championship. Pete Smith accomplished that goal in not one, but two sports in the same year. The Uniontown graduate was the point guard on the Red Raiders boys basketball team that won WPIAL and PIAA championships in 1962 and also ...
Terrance Vaughns was there at the beginning of what would evolve into Uniontown’s 2001-02 WPIAL Class 4A boys basketball championship team. “We knew back in eighth grade,” said Vaughns, who would go on to become the Red Raiders all-time scoring leader with 1,721 points, a spot he still ...
Katie Kelly may be one of the most underrated girls basketball players in Fayette County history. The 2000 Albert Gallatin graduate is the only county player to score over 1,600 points in both high school and at the NCAA Division-I level. Kelly rang up 1,687 points as a four-year starter ...
Tara Cochrane Warrington scored over 1,000 points while playing for Geibel Catholic’s girls basketball team and led the Lady Gators in scoring (13.1 points per game) and rebounding (9.2 rebounds per game) during her senior season. Those numbers don’t mean as much to her as what her team ...
