Coach: Duquesne b-ball team stuck overnight on snowy highway

The Dukes were traveling home to Pittsburgh from Fairfax, Va., after their 86-75 victory against George Mason on Friday.

Salim-Beasley, however, said her team’s training has made spending hours on a cramped bus more bearable than it might be for others.

Head coach Jim Ferry told CNN some of the players went to another bus stuck beside them to talk to a group of 8th graders who were also stranded.

Benda says officials have not told them when they’ll be clear to move ahead.

Local fire departments, medical crews as well as other personnel with help from the National Guard have gone vehicle by vehicle, tapping on windows and checking the well-being of those inside. “We hope it starts moving pretty soon.”.

“They sent an officer out here, but he didn’t know what he was coming out here for, so he didn’t bring anything with him”, Gilliam-Montesinos said.

A stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Pittsburgh that was shut down by a snowstorm, stranding hundreds of motorists including university athletics teams, began to clear Saturday afternoon.

The bus carrying the team was one of 500 vehicles stranded on the road after a tractor trailer crashed and caused a massive backup. “We could be moving, but we’re doing well and watching a movie”, Ives said.

The AccuWeather forecast for Somerset does not call for more snow Saturday evening, just some clouds.

Traffic is packed up on the Pennsylvania Turnpike at 3:00 a.m. Saturday morning.

The church group was returning from the March for Life in Washington, D.C. Father Shaun Whittington said they had enough gas to keep the buses running and enough DVDs to keep the kids entertained. They used a large coffee table for their alter, Cowgill said. She’d been stranded for several hours and said the interstate had been closed because of crashes.

The players mostly got by on leftover pizza and Gatorade and watched movies, including “Invincible”. Still, she said it’s been a memorable and unexpected development on her third trip to Washington.

Duquesne’s men’s basketball team tried to avoid any trouble it might have with 2016’s version of the Snowpocalypse and it may have turned into one of the great all-time backfires. The Kentucky chaperones and students are still in good spirits, but are praying for the “light at the end of the tunnel”, stated Edge.