Local Sports Update – Wednesday, 1/28

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District 9 Basketball

Boys:

TUESDAY

DuBois 61, Bradford 50 – Trey Wingard connected on eight 3-pointers for 24 points to lead the Beavers…teammate Thacher Hanzely recorded a double-double with 21 points and 14 rebounds

DuBois Central Catholic at Brockway – Postponed to today (Jan 28)

Curwensville at North Star – Postponed to February 7

Girls:

TUESDAY

Brookville 44, Forest Area 6

St. Marys 46, Bradford 31 – Braelyn Beck netted 20 points for St. Marys

Elk County Catholic 47, Kane 33 – Peyton Newton topped the Lady Crusaders’ scoring sheet with 17 points

College Basketball:

TUESDAY

Pitt 80, Wake Forest 76

TONIGHT

Penn State-Shenango at Penn State-DuBois

Clarion at Gannon

California, PA at IUP

THURSDAY

Penn State at Northwestern

Pittsburgh Penguins:

The Pittsburgh Penguins, winners of their last four, and 12 of their last 17 games, will be hosting Chicago tomorrow night. The Penguins pregame show starts at 6 with the opening faceoff at 7pm Thursday on your home for Pittsburgh Penguins hockey, Connect FM.

Pittsburgh Steelers:

Tuesday, the Pittsburgh Steelers officially introduced Mike McCarthy as the team’s new head coach. McCarthy becomes only the fourth man to hold that position at the Steelers’ helm since 1969. Over the past 18 seasons, McCarthy served as head coach of the Green Bay Packers, and the Dallas Cowboys. McCarthy is a Pittsburgh native, and he said yesterday, “Pittsburgh’s my world, and it’s just awesome to be back here.”

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