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.
HERSHEY — Every great champion needs to be tested, and Saturday night in the PIAA Class 3A Individual Wrestling Championships at the Giant Center, Belle Vernon senior Elijah Brown was tested by Garnet Valley’s Paxton Hunt. Brown capped off his high school career with a second straight ...
A coach taking a team with a senior-less starting lineup on a long road trip for its first PIAA playoff game would likely expect to see plenty of nerves from his players. Belle Vernon’s girls basketball team showed little if any jitters, though, in disposing of host Clearfield, 58-46, in ...
Cornelious Nesbit didn't dangle any goals in front of his players when he began his second season as head coach of the Belle Vernon girls basketball team. With a senior-less starting lineup he was content to concentrate on the now. "One thing about us is we actually didn't set any goals ...
Belle Vernon’s Elijah Brown and Connellsville’s Kai Vielma are four victories away from a state championship in Class 3A, as the two won titles in the PIAA Class 3A West Regional on Saturday at Canon-McMilland High School. Vielma, a junior, had his streak of bonus-point victories snapped ...
