When the smoke had cleared after the PIAA basketball tournament’s first round was completed on Saturday, there were two area teams still standing.
The Jefferson-Morgan boys and Belle Vernon girls both snapped long state droughts with first-round victories and both will be in action again ...
Wednesday, March 11
High School
Boys Basketball
PIAA Tournament
Class 2A
Jefferson-Morgan vs. Jeannette, at Peters Township, AHN Arena, 7:30
Girls Basketball
PIAA Tournament
Class 4A
Belle Vernon vs. Blackhawk, at North Allegheny High School, 7:30 p.m.
Redbank Valley 1,000-point scorer Braylon Wagner fittingly sank his team’s first basket in their PIAA Class 2A first-round boys basketball playoff game against Jefferson-Morgan on Saturday.
The trouble was, by time the host Bulldogs got on the scoreboard, the Rockets had already rang up ...