Stainton Forbes and Andrew Gettinger were the engine of Butler’s boys basketball team over the past two seasons. With the former landing on Slippery Rock University as hi...
Kevin Trost’s eighth season as head coach of Seneca Valley boys varsity basketball will be his last.
He resigned from the position April 27 according to Seneca Valley ath...
BUTLER TWP — Coaching high school basketball had been on Matt Clement’s radar for a long time.
“Even my baseball teammates knew it,” the former major league pitcher said....
After five seasons in charge, Jim Rocco has resigned as North Catholic’s boys basketball head coach, according to Pittsburgh media reports.
Rocco led the Trojans to 9...
Rick Fleeger was demanding of his players.
He also had a knack for getting them to loosen up or make a late-season practice fun.
It’s a difficult line for any youth o...
Madison Romanovich is the blueprint of what her teammates and future Slippery Rock girls basketball players aspire to be.
“Starting as a freshman, and kind of develop...
Two seniors from Mars and Slippery Rock are among those named all-state girls basketball players this week.
The Pennsylvania Sports Writers All-State Girls Basketball Tea...
Making history became a theme this season for Knoch boys basketball senior Teegan Finucan.
Shortly after he broke the school record for 3-pointers made in a career, which...
After averaging 22.4 points and seven rebounds per game and leading her team to the state tournament for a second straight season, Slippery Rock senior girls basketball g...
The PIAA basketball championships are over. Here are the results from all 12 finals in Hershey’s Giant Center.
See the full PIAA brackets involving local teams (Class 6A ...
McMURRAY — The snowball started slowly, but once it built up some inertia, there was no stopping it.
Blackhawk girls basketball, led by an overwhelming performance from s...
MCCONNELLSBURG, Fulton County — North Catholic entered Friday evening’s PIAA Class 4A boys basketball quarterfinal hoping to play spoiler.
For most of the contest against...
The girls basketball programs at North Catholic and Blackhawk are no strangers to each other.
Dating back to the 2018-19 season, the Trojanettes and Cougars have met six ...
North Catholic needed triple overtime to get past rival Knoch and now hopes to have fresh legs ahead of Friday’s PIAA Class 4A boys basketball quarterfinal matchup agains...
SHARON — For North Catholic girls basketball coach Molly Rottmann, her team’s effort in the first quarter Wednesday was a welcome sight, especially after the team had str...
WEXFORD — The result was the same, but the effort surely wasn’t.
For the second consecutive season, Slippery Rock girls basketball team was eliminated from the PIAA Class...
PLUM — This one was all it was cracked up to be.
North Catholic’s 77-69 triple-overtime PIAA Class 4A second-round triumph over WPIAL Section 1-4A foe Knoch may be rememb...
PLUM — Karns City’s effort during the first quarter of Tuesday night’s PIAA Class 3A girls basketball second-round playoff game wasn’t indicative of how the rest of the n...
Left standing are the two teams that have provided some of the most entertaining basketball games of the season.
Knoch takes on North Catholic for a fourth and final time...
Karns City’s defense, North Catholic’s resilience and Slippery Rock’s explosiveness have paved the way to the second round of the PIAA girls basketball tournaments.
Here’...
SLIPPERY ROCK TWP — Something just seemed off for Slippery Rock girls basketball in the fourth quarter of Saturday’s PIAA first-round playoff against Elizabeth Forward.
T...
Seneca Valley was hoping to stay a little longer.
The Raiders — playing in their first PIAA Class 6A boys basketball tournament game since 2013 — dropped a 69-62 decision...
CRANBERRY TWP — North Catholic didn’t have a characteristic start in its PIAA Class 4A first-round playoff game against Forest Hills on Saturday afternoon.
With just over...
CHERRY TWP — Karns City girls basketball’s defense was its usual, stingy self. But a little separation never hurts.
The Gremlins and Seton LaSalle were knotted at 17 midw...
JEFFERSON TWP — No WPIAL championship hangover here. It just looked that way.
For a while.
WPIAL 4A boys basketball champion Knoch had a four-point lead over Girard at ha...
KARNS CITY — Eight for eight is a perfect batting average.
Going eight for eight in terms of chasing team district championships is practically unheard of. Karns City sen...
The PIAA boys basketball tournaments are nearing, allowing local teams to demonstrate their strength against foes they don’t normally meet up with.
Let’s take a look at t...
If you’ve been waiting to see the best Pennsylvania girls high school basketball teams square off, you can turn your alarm off.
The PIAA tournaments start this week, with...
CLARION — Three teams have tried to take down this iteration of the Karns City girls basketball dynasty.
All have failed.
The Gremlins, led by seniors Naomi Venesky and H...
MEADVILLE — Slippery Rock girls basketball displayed the type of play that had brought it to Saturday’s District 10 Class 4A championship game, but not quite long enough ...
