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Valley routs Knoch in resumption of suspended game to complete section series sweep

Blue skies. Pleasant temperatures. Warm breezes. Oh, what a day for baseball. Wait a minute. Where are the umpires? “It was a scheduling matter these past few days. It’s been a challenge,” first-year Valley coach Jaron Minford said Thursday. The Vikings, following a nearly half-hour delay when the umpiring crew...
Freeport baseball continues hot start with win over Deer Lakes

Who says you can’t win ’em all? So far, Freeport’s baseball team has beaten every opponent to start the season. The Yellowjackets remained undefeated Monday, scratching out a pair of runs in the ninth inning to topple Deer Lakes, 5-3, for their ninth consecutive victory. Marco Wolfe’s RBI double scored...
Latrobe ‘starting to come around,’ blasts past Kiski Area

Latrobe leaned on its lone returning starter from last season’s baseball team to carry the once-beaten Wildcats to their third consecutive victory Tuesday. Cole Short pitched four innings of two-hit ball and drove in three runs with a bases-clearing double to pace Latrobe past visiting Kiski Area, 13-1, in a...
Duquesne announcer Ray Goss: ‘I’m very fortunate to be alive’Video

For several days now, Ray Goss has been in a bad way. “I’m very fortunate to be alive,” Duquesne basketball’s 89-year-old play-by-play man told TribLive on Monday in the aftermath of a rollover crash on Route 119 in northern Indiana County that sent him to a Jefferson County hospital in...
No late heroics needed for Freeport baseball in sweeping Ligonier Valley

Freeport didn’t need another walk-off home run against Ligonier Valley to remain unbeaten Tuesday, but it didn’t hurt that the Yellowjackets’ offense was in midseason form. Jeff Coller went 4 for 4 with two RBIs, and three other players logged two hits apiece as Freeport swept the two-game series with...
‘Fierce competitor’ Tyler Samide pitches Greensburg Central Catholic past Jeannette

Greensburg Central Catholic right-hander Tyler Samide had just finished off Jeannette on a one-hitter Monday when he joined his teammates in moving an infield tarp onto the Centurions’ home field. With the wind whipping at times, the temperature came with a chill during GCC’s 5-1 victory. “Not at all,” the...
IUP women’s basketball team routed in NCAA final

The Michigan machine rolls on. IUP’s dream of a national championship in women’s basketball was shattered by a nightmarish outcome in Saturday’s NCAA Division II title game against defending champion Grand Valley State. The bigger, longer and stronger Lakers from Allendale, Mich., outclassed Indiana County’s Crimson Hawks during a 72-49...
IUP women’s basketball team reaches Division II championship

Nyshae’ Weaver’s blank stare elicited a quirky question for the IUP senior and two-time PSAC West women’s basketball Athlete of the Year. Had the 6-foot forward from Baltimore Coppin Academy High School ever felt this numb before? “Never,” Weaver said without a blink. Rightfully so, because IUP is headed to...
Next generation of Flenory family, 14, opening eyes as college basketball prospectVideo

Another flashy Flenory is developing deep in the heart of Texas. And it’s reverberating all the way back to Pittsburgh. Grandpap is majorly excited about the future of his grandson, and if you’re familiar with Baron “B.B” Flenory’s enthusiasm for the sport of basketball, you get what it means. In...
Duquesne’s Tarence Guinyard named to all-region 2nd team

Fresh off a berth on the all-Atlantic 10 first team, Duquesne’s Tarence Guinyard has collected another postseason honor. The senior point guard transfer from UT Martin on Tuesday was named to the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Mid Atlantic Region second team. West Virginia senior guard Honor Huff earned...
Duquesne men not selected for NIT

Five Atlantic 10 teams — Dayton, Davidson, George Mason, George Washington and Saint Joseph’s — made the NIT cut Sunday night. Duquesne, another one, didn’t. Despite the A-10’s push for the Dukes’ inclusion in college basketball’s second-fiddle tournament, the National Invitation Tournament selection committee didn’t see it that way. With...
VCU silences Dayton supporters, wins Atlantic 10 tourney at PPG Paints Arena

As the confetti began to fly Sunday afternoon at PPG Paints Arena following No. 2 seed VCU’s triumphant 70-62 victory against No. 4 Dayton in the Atlantic 10 men’s basketball tournament championship game, a familiar figure silently thumped his chest. Phil Martelli Sr. is Saint Joseph’s former longtime coach with...
A-10 Tournament notebook: Duquesne’s Dru Joyce III hopes team gets NIT call

Duquesne is among a handful of teams the Atlantic 10 is pushing for inclusion into the National Invitation Tournament’s 32-team field, which will be revealed Sunday night. Coach Dru Joyce III welcomes the opportunity. “I haven’t talked to the players, but I spoke to each of our coaches, individually, and...
VCU earns convincing win over Saint Joseph’s, returns to A-10 championship game

VCU is back in the Atlantic 10 Tournament championship game for a fourth straight time, and the Rams got there with an impressive showing in the semifinals. One day after holding on in the final minute to beat Duquesne in the quarterfinals, Terrence Hill Jr. scored 18 points on 8-of-10...
Duquesne’s run in Atlantic 10 Tournament ends with quarterfinal loss to VCU

There were more than a few Duquesne championship T-shirts rocking Friday’s crowd at PPG Paints Arena for the Dukes’ Atlantic 10 Tournament quarterfinal against VCU. The Uptown school’s basketball fans remember 2024 well, a year when their men’s team finally returned to the top of the Atlantic 10. Duquesne’s opponent...
Duquesne wins at PPG Paints Arena, moves on in Atlantic 10 tourney

Duquesne’s Dru Joyce III glanced at two of his players sitting side-by-side just a few feet away. His eyes opened wide as he raised his brow and offered up a half-smile. Had his message finally sunk in? “We’ve grown a ton. We’ve definitely picked it up on the defensive end,”...

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