Sports, Sports Columns, Sports Scoreboard
June 20, 2024
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...
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June 19, 2024
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...
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June 18, 2024
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...
Sports Columns, Sports Scoreboard
June 17, 2024
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...
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SPORTLIGHT
By By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports 
June 16, 2024
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...
Sports, Sports Columns
June 16, 2024
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 ...
Believe what Harry Rutherford says about his Warriors team
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I’M JUST SAYIN’
June 14, 2024
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...
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June 14, 2024
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...
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June 13, 2024
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 ...
Allen talks difference in eras of college, WNBA ball
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SPORTS STEW
By By WAYNE STEWART For MVI Sports 
June 11, 2024
(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 ...
Sports, Sports Columns
June 11, 2024
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...
Sports Columns
June 12, 2024
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...
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By By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports 
June 10, 2024
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 ...
Sports, Sports Columns
June 10, 2024
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...
Sports Columns
June 5, 2024
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 ...
Sports Columns
June 4, 2024
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 ...
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SPORTLIGHT
By By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports 
June 2, 2024
With parents’ blood pressure rising throughout the area as kids are off from school for the summer, here’s a little food for thought to make your day: • Over the last couple of years, Major League Bas...
Sports Columns
June 2, 2024
2014 • California Area’s baseball season came to an end because of the solid pitching performance of Cranberry’s Dylan Cyphert, who had committed to Penn State. The Trojans lost the PIAA Class AA firs...
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May 30, 2024
2014 • The California baseball team is about to face something new for them – a southpaw with a wicked fastball. The Trojans will square off against District 9 runnerup Cranberry and lefty fastballer ...
Allen: From small school to prestigious Notre Dame
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SPORTS STEW
By By WAYNE STEWART For MVI Sports 
May 30, 2024
Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part story on Monessen star Charel Allen. While it’s impossible to compare athletes from different eras, it’s impressive to know that Monessen’s Charel Allen ...