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Mirror Male Athlete of the Week: Lions’ Black building a legacy

Name: Kade Black School: Altoona Age: 18 Grade: Senior Sport: Soccer Athlete of the week achievement: Black scored the only goal in Altoona’s 1-0 victory over Hollidaysburg and also scored twice in a 4-1 win over Indiana earlier in the week. Season update: Black has scored a team-high 15 goals and has four assists for the 12-5 Mountain Lions. Coach Dave McCarter’s quote: “He’s a special player and a great leader on and off the field. He has a ton of character and sets the standard of what a player should be. He’s a Division I recruit, and it’s through a lot of talent ...

Kline clutch for Lady Panthers

Name: Abby Kline School: Northern Bedford Age: 17 Grade: Senior Sport: Soccer Athlete of the week achievement: Kline scored two goals, including the game-winner, and had an assist in Northern Bedford’s 4-3 win over West Branch and also scored four goals in the Lady Panthers’ 8-0 victory over Fannett-Metal earlier in the week. Season update: Kline scored her 100th career goal earlier this year and has scored 44 goals and has 17 assists this season for the 13-1 Lady Panthers. Coach Marcus Yeatts’ quote: “The West Branch game was our biggest ICC game, and Abby showed ...

Stockley a team-first player

Name: Ty Stockley School: Cambria Heights Age: 18 Grade: Senior Sport: Football Athlete of the week achievement: Stockley ran for 243 yards and four touchdowns in Cambria Heights’ 31-12 win over Homer-Center. He also completed a pass for 25 yards. Season update: Stockley has a team-high 793 yards rushing and 11 touchdowns this season. He’s also passed for 445 yards and eight more scores. Coach Jarrod Lewis’ quote: “He’s a guy that is the perfect quarterback for our team, because he’s very unselfish. He doesn’t care if he needs to run 30 times, pass 30 times or ...

Improving Stitt gets rewarded

Name: Ashden Stitt School: Hollidaysburg Age: 17 Grade: Senior Sport: Golf Athlete of the week achievement: Stitt battled back, down two strokes with three holes to play, and made a clutch putt on her 18th hole to secure the District 6 Class 3A individual high school girls golf championship and clinch a berth in the PIAA championships later this month. Season update: Stitt was the top girls golfer in the Mountain League this season and was the medalist in all of her team’s regular-season matchups. Coach Jill Hileman’s quote: “Ashden committed herself to ...

Central QB passes test big time

Name: Jeff Hoenstine School: Central Age: 18 Grade: Senior Sport: Football Athlete of the week achievement: Hoenstine completed 21 of 28 passes for 350 yards and seven touchdown passes in Central’s 55-21 victory over McCort-Carroll. He also carried the ball eight times for 72 yards. Season update: Hoenstine is 108-for-169 for 1,502 yards with 23 touchdown passes and one interception for a 4-2 Central team. Coach Dave Baker’s quote: “As usual he was excellent. He had more touchdown passes than usual, but a couple of times he had real good runs down the field ...

Rhodes represents Tigers well

Name: Gretta Rhodes School: Hollidaysburg Age: 18 Grade: Senior Sport: Tennis Athlete of the week achievement: Rhodes won at No. 1 singles in a 5-0 win over Altoona and a 7-0 victory over Tyrone that helped the Lady Tigers finish 6-0 in the Mountain League and win the conference title. Season update: Hollidaysburg is 13-1 overall. Rhodes is undefeated in singles competition. Coach Brian Denis’ quote: “We have had some outstanding female tennis players come out of the Hollidaysburg program over the years, and Gretta is right up there with the best of them. She has worked ...