As I was perusing social media, I came across a photo of a Monessen girls youth softball team that was participating in the local playoffs. What caught my eye about the photo was that one of the team’...

2014 • Belle Vernon’s American Legion team pounded out 12 hits, all singles, on its way to a 9-5 victory over host Farmington in Fayette County League action. Belle Vernon never trailed, as winning pi...

Jeremy Sellew We’ve seen our share of baseball and softball champions around the Mon Valley. WPIAL champions like Elizabeth Forward softball this year, Belle Vernon softball last year and state champi...

2014 • Sunday – no paper 2004 • The Belle Vernon Area coaching community has added two new members. Ellen Hildebrand was hired Monday to head up the girls basketball team. Hildebrand is a 1978 Montour...

2014 • Even a little bit of extra motivation couldn’t help Mitch’s Bail Bonds snap their losing streak. The Jailbirds losing streak extended to five games as they suffered a 4-1 loss to Company G at V...

2014 • Melanie Greco’s vision for the girl’s division of the Grebb Summer Basketball League is starting to come into focus. Last year, Greco, commissioner of the girl’s division, said she wanted to se...

2014 • Belle Vernon American Legion team picked up its second win in as many days, knocking off visiting Waynesburg 5-2 at Cedar Creek Park. It wasn’t a pretty victory, but Belle Vernon coach Bill Fra...

2014 • In a game delayed almost two hours due to a lack of umpires, Jake’s Pizza handed Mitch’s Bail Bonds its third consecutive loss in Fayette County League play. Jakes started off strong in the fir...

At my age, I’m old enough to remember the Pirates of the early 1970s, who won a World Series and probably could have won more if it weren’t for the Big Red Machine in Cincinnati. I remember the “We Ar...

2014 • The much anticipated matchup between the top two teams in the Fayette County Baseball League didn’t turn out to be much of a game. Carmichaels rode the powerful right arm of Bentworth graduate ...

Mike Darnay’s photos, it’s obviously a deep sting, too. But when they all look back on what a special season this was, there’s plenty to be proud of. A WPIAL title that was elusive for a number of yea...

2014 • Sunday — no paper 2004 • Monessen assistant boys basketball coach Jim Arnold and Brandon Jackson, the Greyhounds all-time No. 2 scorer, were members of the men’s 21-and-older bracket in the Eat...

2014 • The 1969 Frazier Commodores boys basketball team will be inducted into the Fayette County Sports Hall of Fame. The Commodores won the WPIAL championship that year. Charles Ramsey, an all-state ...

(Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of a three-part series on Monessen star Charel Allen.) When Charel Allen coached at Cal State Fullerton, she used to occasionally take to the court with her players. “I ...

2014 • A contingent of local high school senior football players will get to play one more game. Fifteen players from six local schools will take part in the 18th annual BeeGraphix Football Classic at...

2014 • The latest in a series of features about the 2014 inductees into the Mid Mon Valley All Sports Hall of Fame described Tony Segzda as having “baseball in his blood.” The 1947 California High Sch...

Along my travels over the years as a sports writer and in my private life, few people made my day better seeing them than Phil Pergola did. Whether I saw him in the locker room before or after a game ...

2014 • Mitch’s Bail Bonds manager Ryan Encapera has become a master at putting together a winning lineup. When his scheduled starting pitcher, Brian Fisher, was unavailable, Encapera was left with onl...

2014 • Mark Sever, 22, of West Newton is just beginning his second year of premier late model racing but he is having a big impact on some of the veteran drivers. The young driver is currently second ...

2014 • Cal U seniors Clarissa Enslin and Kelsey Nuhfer repeated at as large academic All-Americans by the College Sports Information Directors of America. Nuhfer received Academic All-American status ...