Donora's Bowman resigns post at Central Dauphin
Donora's Brian Bowman has resigned after one season as the head football coach at Central Dauphin East High School in Harrisburg.
The former two-sport Ringgold standout and three-year starting cornerback at Penn State guided Central Dauphin East to a 4-6 overall record last year and will remain at the school as a guidance counselor.
The football team had won just four games total from 2006-2009. Bowman served as an assistant coach with Central Dauphin in 2009
During his scholastic and collegiate playing days, he was Brian Miller but, after college, he changed his surname from Miller to Bowman, opting to use the same as his father, Benjie Bowman, who was an outstanding athlete at Clairton High School.
He began his football coaching career in 2002 by serving as an assistant coach for three seasons at Marvale High School in Phoenix.
In 2005, he returned to Pennsylvania and was an assistant coach for one year at Harrisburg High School before coaching at Susquehanna Township for three seasons.
Record broken
Back on Jan. 25, Ringgold High School senior boys' basketball player Andrew Stine scored a single-game school record 42 points in an 81-35 WPIAL Class AAA Section 5 victory over Waynesburg.
The previous Ringgold single-game mark was 39 points set by the then Brian Miller against Latrobe Area High School during the 1990-91 season.
Bowman is Ringgold's third-leading scorer in basketball with 1,337 points and was a key starter as a junior on the Rams' 1989-90 team that went 29-3 overall, won the WPIAL Class AAAA title and was a state Class AAAA finalist.
He is one of seven 1,000-point scorers in Rams' history.
Yancey Taylor, a teammate of Bowman's and top player on the 1990 team, is Ringgold's career-leading scorer with 1,626 points, followed by Ricky Webb, who played from 1976-79, at 1,559. The remainder of Ringgold's 1,000 point scorers include Mon Valley All Sports Hall of Fame inductee Ulice Payne (1,223), Brian Anselmino (1,139), Mike Horan (1,090) and Art Coleman (1,010).
Locals in Big 33
Three local players were chosen for the Big 33 All-Star game.
The 54-year-old game, which matches Pennsylvania's senior all-stars against a team from Ohio, will take place on a Saturday, June 18 game at Hersheypark Stadium.
All told, 12 WPIAL players were chosen.
Defensive lineman Desimon Green and defensive back Joshua Paige from Clairton High School along with McKeesport High School's defensive lineman Delvon Simmons were selected.
Green and Page helped the Golden Bears compile a perfect 16-0 record in 2010 while winning the WPIAL and PIAA Class A championships for the third and second consecutive years respectively. They are only the fourth WPIAL team to win back-to-back PIAA championships and own a 31-game winning streak heading into 2011.
Simmons helped McKeesport and first-year head coach Jim Ward compile an 8-2 final overall record last fall and the Tigers won the WPIAL Class AAAA Foothills Conference with a 6-0 mark.
McKeesport was eliminated by Bethel Park in the first round of the WPIAL playoffs, 24-21. Simmons helped McKeesport's defense record three shutouts and hold four other opponents to one touchdown each.
The trio of area players will hope to help Pennsylvania to its first Big 33 win since 2008. Ohio overcame a 9-0 deficit and won last summer's game, 18-15.
Five former Big 33 participants competed in the most recent Super Bowl this past February.
Former Ohio Big 33 players included Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, Green Bay linebacker A.J. Hawk, Green Bay cornerback Brandon Underwood and Green Bay linebacker Matt Wilhelm.
Pittsburgh safety Ryan Mundy, Woodland Hills High School, was the only former Pennsylvania Big 33 all-star.
