After long layoff, Leps ready to host Yellowjackets
Ben Bamford / MVI Sports
BVA guard Devin Whitlock is averaging 21 points per game for the Leopards this season.
By JEFF OLIVER
MVI Sports
Tonight, the top-seeded Belle Vernon Area Leopards will host the Freeport Yellowjackets in a WPIAL 4A first round playoff tilt.
It’s a game that almost didn’t happen.
BVA (11-1) had its last two games postponed due to COVID and has not played since Feb. 20.
BVA coach Joe Salvino decided last week not to hold practices. It’s probably the best decision he made all season.
“We later found out one of our players has COVID and won’t be able to play (tonight),” Salvino said. “But if we had been together and practiced, we’d be done. We would have had to forfeit and would not have played in the playoffs.
“That would have been a catastrophe.”
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