Tag: Greensburg C.C.

Greensburg Central Catholic boys hold off Leechburg in key Section 3-A game

January 29, 2019

Greensburg Central Catholic heard Leechburg's crowd, loud and clear. And then the Centurions quieted it down. Visiting GCC took the air out of Leechburg's rowdy andquot;Devils' Denandquot; with a dominant second quarter, then weathered a second-half rally from the home team, holding on for a 68-57 win in a crucial

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Greensburg Central boys cash in on chances to beat Greensburg Salem in 2OT

January 26, 2019

Opportunities kept arriving at Greensburg Salem's doorstep. At the end of regulation. At the end of the first overtime, and again at the end of the second. But Greensburg Central Catholic did just enough with the chances it had to snag a 52-50 victory in a nip-and-tuck backyard rivalry game

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Westmoreland County high school notebook: WPIAL rushing champ Shoaf pledges to Mercyhurst

The two-time WPIAL regular-season rushing champion has a college destination. Yough senior running back Dustin Shoaf, who racked up 5,053 yards during his highlight-packed career, announced Friday he has committed to Mercyhurst. Shoaf made a short video to declare his school of choice and posted it to Twitter with the

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Greensburg Central Catholic girls run floor, best rival Greensburg Salem

As a former La Roche coach, Greensburg Central Catholic girls coach Sam Salih is used to training players to run on a wide college floor. He has done the same type of training with his current players, and it paid dividends Saturday afternoon against Class 4A Greensburg Salem on the

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WPIAL girls basketball rankings for week of Jan. 26, 2019

Rankings Girls basketball Class 6A 1. North Allegheny, 17-0, 1 2. Peters Township, 16-0, 2 3. Bethel Park*, 14-1, 3 4. Norwin, 16-1, 4 5. Seneca Valley, 11-5, 5 Out: none Class 5A 1. Chartiers Valley, 18-0, 1 2. Oakland Catholic, 15-2, 3 3. Gateway, 14-3, 4 4. Penn Hills,

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Westmoreland high school notebook: Hempfield tackle Brose drawing D-I looks

January 19, 2019

Junior Fintan Brose is the next Division I football prospect to watch at Hempfield. He isn't hard to miss. Brose is 6-foot-3 and 280 pounds and is a two-way tackle for the Spartans. His ability to stuff the run and open rushing lanes on offense is paramount for Hempfield. He

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GCC’s Geoff Helm quietly tops 1,000-point mark

A scoring milestone came and went with little fanfare, and Geoff Helm liked it that way. Helm, a senior basketball player at Greensburg Central Catholic, discovered Saturday he had scored his 1,000th career point two games ago. The milestone happened during a 64-48 home loss to Clairton on Tuesday. Nobody

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WPIAL girls basketball rankings for week of Jan. 20, 2019

Rankings Girls basketball Class 6A 1. North Allegheny, 15-0, 1 2. Peters Township, 13-0, 2 3. Bethel Park, 12-1, 3 4. Norwin, 13-1, 4 5. Seneca Valley, 11-3, 5 Out: none Class 5A 1. Chartiers Valley, 16-0, 1 2. Penn Hills, 11-4, 2 3. Oakland Catholic, 13-2, 3 4. Gateway,

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Helm-led Greensburg Central Catholic rallies past St. Joseph

January 18, 2019

Greensburg Central Catholic exacted some revenge on first-place St. Joseph, but it did not come easy. The host Centurions had to piece together a second-half rally to regain control and take down the Spartans, 62-54, on Friday night in Section 3-A boys basketball. Senior guard Geoff Helm scored a game-high

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Westmoreland high school basketball notebook: Brozeski subs fast and furious

January 17, 2019

Norwin girls basketball coach Brian Brozeski joked he has a timing mechanism in his pocket during games that alerts him when to substitute players. Watch a Knights game, and it's like hockey line changes: three in, three out; four down, four up. While a number of teams like to whittle

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