When the smoke had cleared after the PIAA basketball tournament鈥檚 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 ...
Redbank Valley 1,000-point scorer Braylon Wagner fittingly sank his team鈥檚 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 ...
Brandon Lawless has been busy checking off boxes this season. The Jefferson-Morgan coach has guided his senior-laden team to its finest season since 2000 and it has snapped several droughts along the way. The 2025-26 Rockets have accomplished for the first time in 26 years: 鈥� A section ...
JEFFERSON 鈥� Jeremiah Robertson moved into the Jefferson-Morgan School District from Coatesville two years ago, but he quickly learned about the history of the Rockets鈥� boys basketball team. It had been 26 years without a playoff win entering Monday night, but Robertson helped make sure ...
HOUSTON 鈥� Just when it looked like Jefferson-Morgan鈥檚 dream of a section championship for the first time in over a quarter century was slipping away, Jaymison Robinson came up huge. After Chartiers-Houston鈥檚 Noah Doyle nailed a pair of free throws that made a game that was once a ...
JEFFERSON 鈥� The Jefferson-Morgan boys basketball team finds itself on a very short list. The Rockets are one of only four unbeaten teams remaining across the entire WPIAL. The others are perennial powers. New Castle, Sewickley Academy and Clairton, which has only played seven games after an ...
