Candace John helped the Laurel Highlands girls basketball team reach heights it had never achieved before and wound up as the Fillies’ all-time leading scorer with 1,734 points. The 1999 LH graduate is a member of the Fayette County Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2025 and isn’t shy when ...
Gus Gerard was a 1,000-point scorer for Laurel Highlands in a basketball career that led to him playing in the NBA and Robin Guerriere Amend also reached the 1,000-point milestone while helping lead Geibel Catholic to four consecutive WPIAL girls basketball titles from 1993 to 1996. The two ...
Rick Hauger is likely best known for guiding Laurel Highlands to a pair of WPIAL boys basketball championships. There was another championship the now-retired coach won that he also holds dear to his heart. Hauger led Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus to the 1983 Penn State University ...
After 29 seasons, PennWest California University baseball coach Mike Conte is retiring. Conte, coming off one his finest seasons as the Vulcans’ coach where they advanced to the PSAC championship game and the NCAA Division II tournament, finished his career with an 802-548-4 record, a ...
WASHINGTON – One bad inning in the field, and six of them on the basepaths, ran Belle Vernon’s baseball team out of the postseason. Central Valley erased a two-run deficit by scoring five times in the sixth inning, and Belle Vernon self-destructed by committing six outs on the bases as ...
While the Roundball Classic will be taking place at North Allegheny for senior high school basketball players this weekend, some of the WPIAL’s top underclassmen had a chance to show their talents on Thursday at the Roundball Classic Rising Stars games held at RIZE Sports Complex in ...
