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March 2

1961 – Terry Holder scores 28 points and Fort Cherry defeats Bentleyville 54-49 in the WPIAL Class B basketball quarterfinals at Mt. Lebanon. Bentleyville, behind Carey Moore’s 18 points, cuts a 12-point fourth-quarter deficit to two but is unable to score the tying basket.?

1963 – Washington & Jefferson, using only five players, defeats Bethany 61-53 to clinch its first Presidents’ Athletic Conference basketball championship. Ed Cooper leads W&J with 21 points.

1968 – Waynesburg’s Gary McClure (103 pounds) and Dale Murdock (112) win titles at the WPIAL Wrestling Championships at the Pitt Field House.

1969 – Boston’s Phil Esposito becomes the first NHL player with 100 points in a season, scoring a goal in the Bruins’ 4-0 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins.

1970 – Mark Bellich scores 20 points as California defeats Mapletown 68-55 in the WPIAL Class B basketball quarterfinals at Charleroi.

1974 – Peters Township swimmers set two PIAA records at the state championships in University Park. Eric Schwotzer wins the backstroke in 51.97 and the Indians’ 200-yard medley relay team breaks its own state record time.

1981 – Tim Tyler scores 18 points and Ray Natili has 17 as Waynesburg College defeats visiting Point Park, 81-60, in the NAIA District 18 basketball semifinals at College Gym.

1984 – Tony Ellis scores 19 points and makes 11 of 13 free throws as Washington defeats Quaker Valley 61-51 in the WPIAL Class AA boys basketball quarterfinals.

1985 – California erases a 10-point deficit in the final nine minutes and beats Millersville 81-79 to win the PSAC men’s basketball championship in Hershey. It’s the second conference title for California, which gets an automatic berth in the NCAA Division II tournament. The Vulcans’ Michael Wilson scores 34 points on 13-for-22 shooting.

1993 – Washington overcomes a 12-point second-half deficit and scores the game’s final eight points to defeat Yough 68-64 in the first round of the WPIAL Class AAA girls basketball playoffs at Belle Vernon. Natalie Kubala scores 20 points for the Prexies.

1994 – Pitt athletic director Oval Jaynes pulls a three-year contract extension offer to head basketball coach Paul Evans. In eight seasons with the Panthers, Evans’ teams had only one losing season and made the NCAA tournament five times.

1996 – Derrick Scott and Robert Jones combine for 45 points as California University wins the PSAC men’s basketball tournament championship with an 87-84 victory over Indiana at Hamer Hall.

2010 – Brooque Williams scores 27 points and becomes California University’s all-time women’s basketball scoring leader (2,118 points) in the Vulcans’ 72-49 victory over Indiana in the first round of the PSAC tournament.

2011 – Beka Bellhy scores 20 points and Fort Cherry stops Rochester 40-34 in the WPIAL Class A girls basketball semifinals at Baldwin.