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ON THIS DATE
Jan. 5
1943 – Nick Carlesi is replaced as basketball coach at Bentleyville High School so he can head a new expanded intramural program. Carlesi is replaced by Fred Ryland but remains Bentleyville’s football coach.
1957 – “Hot Rod” Hundley sets West Virginia’s single-game scoring record with 54 points in a 110-95 win over Furman.
1970 – Bob Clites scores 44 points as Mapletown wins its 10th straight basketball game, 98-36, over West Greene.
1971 – McGuffey’s wrestling team defeats host Chartiers-Houston 29-24 before a standing-room-only crowd. In the feature bout, McGuffey’s Tom Teagarden (112), a two-time WPIAL champion, wrestles to a 1-1 draw with C-H’s Jim McConnell.
1979 – Mike Sloan’s basket in the second overtime gives Ringgold a 56-54 victory over host Connellsville and keeps the Rams undefeated at 15-0.
1983 – Craig Dellorso (138) becomes the first Canon-McMillan wrestler with 100 career victories, registering a win in the Big Macs’ 45-8 victory over McGuffey.
1991 – Waynesburg High School’s Dave Thomas pins Latrobe’s Derek Weyandt in 1:10 for his 100th career victory. Waynesburg wins the match, 30-27, to remain undefeated.
1991 – Kevin Bradshaw of U.S. International scores 72 points to break Pete Maravich’s NCAA Division I single-game scoring record of 69, but Loyola Marymount sets an NCAA team scoring record in defeating the Gulls, 186-140.
1997 – Curtis Martin rushes for 166 yards and scores three touchdowns, including a 78-yard run, as the New England Patriots defeat the visiting Pittsburgh Steelers, 28-3, in an AFC playoff game played in dense fog.
2003 – The Pittsburgh Steelers overcome a 17-point deficit by scoring four touchdowns in the final 19 minutes to defeat the Cleveland Browns, 36-33, in an AFC wild-card playoff game at Three Rivers Stadium. It is the biggest postseason comeback in Steelers history.
2009 – Pitt makes it to the top of the Associated Press men’s college basketball poll for the first time. The Panthers are one of a record nine Big East teams in the poll.
2012 – Kristi Guritza and Sarah Taylor combine for 30 points as Mapletown snaps a 38-game girls basketball losing streak with a 44-40 victory over Geibel.