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ON THIS DATE
March 28
1957 – James (Beanie) Gordon becomes the first Washington High School basketball player to be named all-state when he is chosen to the United Press first team. Charleroi’s Ollie Payne is named to the third team.
1966 – Carl DePasqua, backfield coach at Pitt since 1963, is hired as head football coach at Waynesburg College.
1972 – The ABA’s Pittsburgh Condors play the last “home game” in franchise history. The game against the Kentucky Colonels is moved to Tucson, Ariz., and 5,000 fans show up to watch Kentucky win 136-134.
1978 – Gale Catlett is named head basketball coach at West Virginia. Catlett had a 126-43 record in six seasons at Cincinnati.
1984 – Washington High School leads the entire game and Mark Wise scores 23 points during a 72-57 victory over Erie East in the PIAA Class AA boys basketball semifinals at Westminster College.
1986 – John Luckhardt, who coached Washington & Jefferson College’s football team to a 17-3 record over the last two seasons, is named the school’s athletic director.
1989 – The Pittsburgh Pirates acquire pitcher Neal Heaton from the Montreal Expos in exchange for pitcher Brett Gideon.
1989 – Junior Scott scores 21 points and Monessen takes advantage of huge rebounding edge to defeat Kennedy Catholic 58-48 in the PIAA Class A basketball semifinals at Butler High School.
1990 – Yancey Taylor scores eight of Ringgold’s 10 points in overtime as the Rams beat Mt. Lebanon 65-57 before a standing-room-only crowd in the PIAA Class AAAA West Region final at Chartiers Valley High School.
1992 – Four-time Pennsylvania state champion Cary Kolat of Jefferson-Morgan High School and three-time Florida champion Chris Bono wrestle to a 4-4 tie in the feature bout at the Pittsburgh Wrestling Classic. The U.S. defeats the Pennsylvania team 25-20 before a crowd of 6,400 at Pitt’s Fitzgerald Field House. The Kolat-Bono 135-pound bout is moved out of its normal sequence and becomes the finale, after the heavyweight bout.
1992 – Christian Laettner makes a 15-foot turnaround jumper at the buzzer to give defending champion Duke a 104-103 overtime victory over Kentucky and a fifth consecutive trip to the Final Four.
2004 – Si Bishop caps a stunning comeback by scoring 3:04 into overtime, giving Peters Township High School a 5-4 victory over Indiana in the Penguins Cup hockey final at Mellon Arena. PT overcomes a two-goal deficit in the third period to win its third straight Penguins Cup.
2013 – John Coss, who spent two stints as West Greene’s head football coach, resigns.