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ON THIS DATE
Feb. 12
1959 – Merwin Holland scores 42 points on 21 field goals as Midway High School defeats East Washington, 63-59, in overtime.
1963 – West Greene’s Rick Sonneborn scores 42 points as the Pioneers outlast Jefferson-Morgan 72-71 in a double-overtime basketball game.
1969 – Ray Greene’s 41 points power California State to a 105-96 victory over Point Park.
1972 – The Soviet Union ice hockey team wins the gold medal with a 5-2 victory over Czechoslovakia at the Winter Olympics. The United States is awarded the silver because it had beaten and tied Czechoslovakia.
1973 – Waynesburg High School’s wrestling team wins its 50th consecutive match, defeating Trinity 26-22 when heavyweight Mike George wins the final bout by fall.
1980 – Doug Silbaugh scores 24 points to lead Immaculate Conception to a 55-51 win over Washington in the third meeting of the season between the boys basketball teams. The win clinches a WPIAL Class AA playoff spot for the Comets.
1985 – Pittsburgh’s Mario Lemieux becomes the first rookie to be named most valuable player at the NHL All-Star game. The 19-year-old center scores two goals, including the game-winner, and has an assist to lead the Wales Conference to a 6-4 win over the Campbell Conference.
1986 – Chartiers-Houston’s Tim Oakley scores 13 points, including his 1,00th career point, in the Bucs’ 68-50 win over Avella.
1988 – Wade Timmerson scores 44 points, is credited with 15 assists and leads Fort Cherry to an 85-76 victory over Avella in Section 15-AA-A.
2010 – Canon-McMillan advances to the PIAA Class AAA Wrestling Team Tournament semifinals with a 31-30 victory over District 4 champion Shikellamy.
2010 – Gilbert Brown and Ashton Gibbs make two free throws in the final 30 seconds and No. 25 Pitt outlasts No. 5 West Virginia 98-95 in triple overtime. Gibbs and Brad Wannamaker each score 24 points for Pitt. WVU’s De’Sean Butler has a game-high 32 points and 11 rebounds.
Feb. 13
1962 – Waynesburg High School extends its three-year wrestling winning streak to 38 matches by rallying to defeat host Trinity 25-23. Waynesburg heavyweight Mike George secures the win for the Raiders with a first-period pin.
1970 – Paul Wright scores 29 points and Section 20-B co-leader Waynesburg defeats German Township, 76-53.
1973 – South Fayette’s Ray “Smoke” Laval scores 59 points in the Lions’ 92-73 victory over Avella. Laval makes 26 field goals.
1975 – Washington ends Chartiers-Houston’s 12-match wrestling winning streak by edging the previously undefeated Bucs, 30-21.
1977 – Cal State wrestling coach Frank Vulcano gets career wins No. 99 and 100 as the Vulcans defeat Fairmont State and Grove City by identical 32-12 scores.
1985 – Washington’s Brian Davis, the Parade Magazine National Co-Player of the Year, signs a national letter of intent to play football for the University of Pittsburgh.
1985 – Tony Torchia scores a team-high 20 points and Washington & Jefferson ends a 14-year drought by winning the Presidents’ Athletic Conference men’s basketball title with a 71-61 victory over Grove City.
1987 – Mike Selway scores 19 points as Trinity defeats visiting Canon-McMillan, 92-49, to win the Section 5-AAAA boys basketball championship, the Hillers’ first in 21 years.
1991 – Waynesburg College’s Joe Johnson makes a three-point field goal at the buzzer to force overtime, but Washington & Jefferson uses Jeff Petri’s 30-point performance to outlast the Yellow Jackets 99-93 at Henry Memorial Center.
1994 – Tommy Moe wins the men’s downhill over local hero Kjetil Andre Aamodt at the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. Moe wins by 0.04 seconds. Norwegian speed skater Johann Olav Koss has a world record-setting gold medal performance in the 5,000 meters in 6 minutes, 34.96 seconds.
1998 – Brian Torboli scores 23 points and Fort Cherry defeats Bentworth 72-59 in the first round of the WPIAL basketball playoffs at Ringgold.
2010 – Megan Sowers scores 17 points and grabs 12 rebounds as Beth-Center defeats Washington 59-49 to win the Section 5-AA girls basketball championship.