Andino Vecchiolla’s two-run double sparked a six-run first inning that helped propel the Carmichaels Copperheads to a 7-3 win over the visiting Charleroi Magicians in Fayette County Baseball League action Tuesday. Both teams entered the game with 3-0 records. Carmichaels’ big first ...
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 ...
A year ago, Waynesburg Central’s baseball team let a section title slip away with a couple late-season losses to Mount Pleasant then fell in the first round of the WPIAL playoffs. Despite a 13-4 overall record, the Raiders felt unfulfilled. Waynesburg broke through on two fronts in ...
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 ...
