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ON THE AIR
Feb. 25
1924 – Marie Boyd scores 156 points in a Maryland high school basketball game (163-3).
1946 – Centerville High School receives points form only three players but they’re enough to beat South Union 52-27 in a WPIAL Class B playoff game. Wally Skavarch leads Centerville with 23 points, Francis Hamilla scores 18 and Pat Ricciuti 11.
1954 – The WPIAL Division Committee declares East Bethlehem the Section 18 basketball champion after ruling that Centerville used an ineligible player. East Bethlehem and Centerville had tied for the section title.
1964 – Cassius Clay wins the world heavyweight title when Sonny Liston is unable to answer the bell for the seventh round at Convention Hall in Miami Beach, Fla.
1967 – Rich Kotarsky scores 31 points as California State wins the State College West Division basketball title with a 91-80 victory at Slippery Rock.
1984 – The Pittsburgh Maulers make their debut in the United States Football League, losing 7-3 to the Oklahoma Outlaws in a cold, driving rain in Tulsa. Heisman Trophy winner Mike Rozier gains only 27 yards on 16 carries for the Maulers.
1984 – Beth-Center wins its first WPIAL wrestling championship, defeating Fort Cherry 40-26 in the Class AA final at Chartiers Valley.
1985 – Michael Wilson’s steal and slam dunk with five seconds remaining caps California University’s comeback from a 12-point second-half deficit and gives the Vulcans a 67-65 victory over IUP in the PSAC West Division basketball tournament semifinals.
1987 – The Southern Methodist football team is suspended for the 1987 season after investigations reveal that players received money from a booster slush fund.
1987 – Burgettstown’s Kevin Krzeczowski steals an inbounds pass and makes the front end of a one-and-one with no time left in regulation to force overtime, and the Blue Devils go on to defeat Brentwood 58-56 in the first round of the WPIAL Class AA playoffs at Charleroi High School.
1995 – Czar Walsh rebounds his own miss and flips in the game-winning basket as Ringgold defeats New Castle 71-70 in the WPIAL Class AAAA quarterfinals at Robert Morris University.
1995 – Jeremy Galish’s buzzer-beating shots gives Burgettstown a 59-58 victory over defending state champion Aliquippa in the WPIAL Class AA quarterfinals at Ambridge.
1999 – Larry Piper resigns as West Greene’s head football coach, ending his second stint with the Pioneers. Piper had a combined 58-61-1 record and guided West Greene to the 1993 WPIAL Class A title game.
2004 – The Pittsburgh Penguins snap an 18-game winless streak with a 4-3 overtime victory over Phoenix. The Penguins come back from a 3-1 deficit for their first win since Jan. 12 at Philadelphia.
2010 – Trinity’s Chelsea Fonner wins the WPIAL Individual Rifle championship with a score of 200-19x.
2011 – Mike Lamberti scores a career-high 30 points, leading South Fayette to an 87-58 win over Uniontown in the WPIAL basketball playoffs at Canon-McMillan.
2012 – Local wrestlers dominate at the WPIAL Class AA wrestling championships, winning eight weight classes. Among them are two sets of teammates who win in consecutive weight classes: Charleroi’s Josh Kwasny (132) and Nick Gavazzi (138), and Fort Cherry’s Greg Kumer (220) and Corey Garry (heavyweight).