By Scott Franco sfranco@altoonamirror.com When the District 6 Class 3A and 2A Swimming and Diving Championships get under way today at Penn State University, there will be several area swimmers from the Mirror coverage area who will have their sights set on a trip to states. In ...
CLAYSBURG — When a No. 5 seed beats a No. 1 seed in a semifinal matchup of any kind, someone is bound to take notice. It’s a good bet that after hearing about, and seeing, No. 5 Everett down No. 1 Central Tuesday night, 52-43, in the District 6 3A playoff game at Claysburg-Kimmel, Penns ...
By Scott Franco sfranco@altoonamirror.com MARTINSBURG — Hard to imagine that a team could hit just one basket from the field in a quarter of play and still win a high school basketball playoff game. However, when you play defense like the Central girls team does, sometimes you ...
Everett High School rifle coach Ethan Cessna says it’s too hard to compare the sport he coaches to other scholastic endeavors when it comes to competition. “There is no playbook. There is no game-plan,” said Cessna, who is in his first year at the helm of a a program that is only eight ...
MARTINSBURG — Central freshman basketball player Hunter Klotz has not played enough on the varsity level to develop a nickname just yet amongst the team’s faithful followers. After Tuesday night’s District 6 Class 4A playoff opener against Forest Hills, he probably could now. How about ...
The Sunday Column There are two people who read my column each month with a small sense of fear — my boss, Neil Rudel, and my wife, Ann Marie Franco. Both have good reasons. Neil is terrified of whom I might offend, and Ann Marie is equally scared of what family secret I am going to ...