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March 12

1958 – Washington County is assured of having the WPIAL Class A basketball champion when Washington defeats Sharon 50-36 and Charleroi routs Uniontown 70-45 in the semifinals.

1961 – Led by champions Terry Wilson (103) and Tony Gusic (127), Waynesburg High School wins the team title at the Southwest Regional wrestling tournament before 2,819 at Wash High gymnasium.

1968 – Charles (Buzz) Ridl is hired as Pitt’s head basketball coach. Ridl has spent the past 12 years as head coach at Westminster College.

1969 – Bucky Waters resigns as head basketball coach at West Virginia to take the same position at Duke.

1978 – Peters Township defeats Gateway 3-1 to win the West Penn Interscholastic Hockey League’s Class AA championship at the Civic Arena. Ralph Antone scores and a goal and assist on another for the Indians.

1987 – Darrin Walls scores 25 points, Rob Montgomery has 21 and Shawn McCallister contributes 12 assists as Waynesburg holds off Valley City State (S.D.), 86-84, in the second round of the NAIA basketball tournament at the Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Mo.

1992 – California University’s baseball team defeats Concordia (N.Y.) 5-4 for coach Chuck Gismondi’s 283rd career victory, making him the winningest coach in Cal history.

1996 – Carmichaels, which makes 10 three-pointers and overcomes an 11-point second-half deficit, uses six free throws by Justin Voithofer in the final 17 seconds to edge Northern Bedford, 65-62, in the PIAA Class A West Region quarterfinals at Latrobe High School. Northern Bedford’s A.J. Nastasi, the leading scorer in the state, tosses in 38 points, including 30 in the second half.

2009 – Syracuse outlasts Connecticut in the second-longest Division I game ever played, capping a Big East tournament quarterfinal doubleheader in which the second- and third-ranked teams in the nation both lose. Andy Rautins hits a 3-pointer 10 seconds into the sixth overtime, to give the Orange their first lead since regulation and they go on to a 127-117 victory over the third-ranked Huskies. Much earlier in the evening, West Virginia beats No. 2 Pitt, 74-60.

2011 – Sparked by two second-place finishers and three third places, Canon-McMillan wins the Class AAA team title at the PIAA Wrestling Championships. No local wrestlers win gold.

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