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ON THIS DATE
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.