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February 22, 2025
2005 • Yough’s Ben McCauley couldn’t have picked a better time to be at his best. McCauley, after averaging 28 points per game in the regular season, has been stealing the scene in the WPIAL Class AAA...
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February 22, 2025
Brownson House looking for girls basketball teams The Brownson House in Washington is looking for girls basketball teams. The 2025 Brownson House Spring Girls Youth Basketball League will begin the se...
Humbert resigns as Leopards’ head coach
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By JEREMY SELLEW 
February 21, 2025
After announcing his resignation, Matt Humbert said he will remain as the school’s athletic director. One of the mantra’s the Belle Vernon Area football team follows under Matt Humbert’s leadership is...
Warriors advance to semifinals
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By ADAM BREWER MVI SPORTS 
February 21, 2025
No. 4 Elizabeth Forward will face top-seeded Blackhawk Monday without senior Michelle Jellison after being disqualified after two technical fouls It is an old sports cliché, but it’s true. Styles make...
Wade drops 30 as Bears advance to semifinals
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By By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com 
February 21, 2025
Karma Fuqua added 18 points and JuJu Childs went for 15 in Clairton’s win over St. Joseph. When it comes to postseason basketball, lower-seeded teams traveling on the road are looking to play upset wh...
Caterino: BVA boys job ‘too exciting’ to pass up
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By JEREMY SELLEW 
February 21, 2025
Tyler Caterino, 25, was most recently the head coach at California High School. The Belle Vernon Area School Board officially hired a new soccer coach Tuesday, voting to hire former Monessen and Westm...
PIAA alters language of transgender athlete policy to comply with Trump’s order
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By By CHRIS HARLAN Trib Total Media 
February 21, 2025
The PIAA has changed its transgender athlete policy and no longer will ask member schools to determine those students’ “gender” but rather their “sex.” The changes were approved Wednesday by the PIAA ...
FLIPPING OUT
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February 21, 2025
Bednar looks to reclaim closer role for Pirates
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By By KEVIN GORMAN TribLive 
February 21, 2025
BRADENTON, Fla. — Being booed off the field in his hometown was humbling for David Bednar, as Pittsburgh Pirates fans voiced their displeasure with his blown leads in late-game situations. The two-tim...
Leggett gives teammates brutal honesty
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By By JERRY DIPAOLA TribLive 
February 21, 2025
Most everyone playing major-college basketball can shoot reasonably well, and most have the requisite strength and size to compete for rebounds and loose balls. And everyone on both sides wants to win...
Pirates add lefty Heaney to rotation
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By By KEVIN GORMAN TribLive 
February 21, 2025
The Pittsburgh Pirates added a World Series champion left-handed pitcher to their starting rotation by signing veteran Andrew Heaney to a one-year contract, pending physical, a source confirmed to Tri...
Lange’s legacy goes beyond his phrases
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By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
February 21, 2025
The beloved Pittsburgh icon and Penguins’ broadcaster died late Wednesday. When Mario Lemieux joined the Penguins as the franchise’s savior in 1984, there wasn’t an abundance of ways to watch the team...
Where did Lange come up with those magical words?
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By By JOANNA KLIMOVICH HARROP TribLive 
February 21, 2025
This story was originally written and ran May 15, 2017. A guy walked into the former Wren Haven bar in Scott Township where Penguins announcer Mike Lange was having lunch and said to the bartender “Bu...
Robot umpires are getting first MLB test in spring
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February 21, 2025
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A computerized system that calls balls and strikes is being tested during Major League Baseball spring training exhibition games starting Thursday after four years of experiments in...
PLAYOFF SNAPSHOTS
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February 21, 2025
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February 21, 2025
2005 • The Monessen girls basketball team fought gallantly back from a deficit to get within two points of Mt. Alvernia early in the fourth quarter of a WPIAL quarterfinal contest at Southmoreland. Af...
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February 21, 2025
Brownson House looking for girls basketball teams The Brownson House in Washington is looking for girls basketball teams. The 2025 Brownson House Spring Girls Youth Basketball League will begin the se...
Humbert resigns as BVA football coach
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By Jeremy Sellew 
February 20, 2025
By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com One of the mantra’s the Belle Vernon Area football team follows under Matt Humbert’s leadership is “rejecting comfort.” Humbert embraced it Thursday. The longtime ...
More to the recipe of destroying a program
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I’M JUST SAYIN’
February 20, 2025
Here we go again with more parent drama plaguing a successful athletic program in the Mon Valley. And while the Frazier wrestling program has seen a lot of success since it’s creation in 2015, it’s se...
Penguins’ legendary broadcaster Lange dies
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By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
February 20, 2025
Mike Lange didn’t think he would make it in Pittsburgh. Beyond the first week. After arriving in Western Pennsylvania to begin his new job as the play-by-play voice of the Penguins, Lange took up temp...