Elizabeth Forward visits top-seeded Belle Vernon Area in a WPIAL 4A quarterfinal game tonight. The game has a lot of storylines to it going in. For starters, BVA (18-4) is the top seed in the tourname...

Cam Epps (24) and Drew Cook (18) combined for 10 3-pointers and 42 points in SA’s win over Charleroi. Charleroi head coach Joe Dunn joked that if his Cougars pulled the upset over No. 2 South Alleghen...

Coming into Tuesday night’s WPIAL Class 5A playoff matchup at No. 4 Chartiers Valley, Thomas Jefferson coach Dom DeCicco said that his squad would have to avoid turnovers and rushed possessions despit...

Balanced scoring helped Elizabeth Forward move on to Thursday’s WPIAL quarterfinal. The Elizabeth Forward girls wasted no time making a statement in their WPIAL Class 4A playoff matchup against Hopewe...

Has anyone heard of the Charleroi River? Maybe after tonight you will. “Well you know we changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. I got a call from the State Department,” Charler...

Thomas Jefferson has competed with the best of the best in Class 5A this season. Looking at the WPIAL playoff bracket, the Jaguars have battled the No. 1 seed in Montour, No. 2 Baldwin twice, No. 3 Un...

Nine days ago, the Philadelphia Eagles dominated the national news by winning a Super Bowl title. This week, the Eagles are once again in the limelight. The Serra Catholic Eagles, that is. Serra’s Owe...

The Belle Vernon Area girls basketball team’s first season under head coach Cornelious Nesbit came to a close Friday, but not before the 10th-seeded Leopards put a scare into No. 7 Central Valley. The...

MVI Sports invaded the Soccer Madness futsal tournament at Belle Vernon Area High School to award the Leopards’ Grace West the 2024 “Moe” Rosensteel Leadership Award. Joining to honor West were, from ...

Thomas Jefferson’s Shep Turk and Justin Schmidt will join EF’’s Chris Climes on the Pa. roster. The prestigious Big 33 Football Classic between the premier highschool football talent in Pennsylvania a...

They have a three-game winning streak heading into tonight’s matchup with Central Valley. The Belle Vernon Area girls basketball team will take an 11-11 record into tonight’s WPIAL 4A playoff game at ...

There’s a lot to process when looking through the WPIAL playoff brackets when it comes to our local teams. Needless to say, it was a pretty good season for our Valley teams. Out of the 30 in the Mon V...

They just don’t make ‘em like Joe Salvino anymore. The veteran basketball coach announced last week his 41st season as a head coach at Monessen and Belle Vernon Area would be his last. As someone who ...

Now that the so-called “Big Game” is behind us, it is time locally for the real big games to start … high school basketball playoffs. In honor of one of my favorite times of the year, here’s a little ...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com When it’s time, you just know. For Belle Vernon Area boys basketball coach Joe Salvino, now is the time. The second-winningest coach in WPIAL history with 741 vict...

Tony Battaglini was a star quarterback at Frazier under former head coach Mike Steeber. Former Frazier quarterback Tony Battaglini knew exactly what question he was going to face as soon as he answere...

The Monessen boys basketball team bounced back from a loss at Serra Catholic by starting fast and smacking Cornell, 72-43, on Major Corley Court in Monessen. The Greyhounds (10-6) jumped out to a 22-8...

Members of the Belle Vernon Area high school, middle school and youth wrestling programs got together for a photo thanking sponsor C. Harper for their continued support of the Leopards wrestling progr...

Belle Vernon senior basketball star Zion Moore has crept to the doorstep of another milestone. And this is a big one. Moore, one of the WPIAL’s top volume scorers, needs 36 points to reach 2,000 for h...