GROVE CITY — The Altoona Area High School girls cross country team bested 20 other teams at the John Sample Invitational at Memorial Park on Saturday with junior Ashlyn Noce leading the way with a third-place finish in 18:50.3.

Emma Etters (sixth, 19:33) and Lana Luke (12th, 20:08) also finished in the top 25 to earn medals.

Altoona finished ninth in the boys competition and got a 20th-place finish in 17:19 from Seth Lieb.

Leo Ingham was Altoona’s top middle school finisher in 24th with a time of 11:57.

BOYS TEAM SCORES: 1, Seneca Valley 78; 2, Grove City, 112; 3, Lakeview 122; 4, North Hills 144; 5, Wilmington 156; 9, Altoona 236.

BOYS INDIVIDUAL TOP FIVE: 1, French, Knoch, 16:11; 2, Jaskowak, Grove City, 16:17; 3, Gildersleeve, Grove City, 16:17; 4, Wukitch, Hampton, 16:25; 5, McGee, Seneca Valley, 16:31.

ALTOONA BOYS: 20, Lieb, 17:19; 34, Glover, 17:42; 43, Broderick, 17:49; 58, Frederick, 18:13; 84, Dunkle, 18:54; 129, Getty, 20:34; 134, McKee, 20:58.

GIRLS TEAM SCORES: 1, Altoona, 98; 2, Slippery Rock, 137; 3, North Hills,145; 4, Mercer Area, 155; 5, Grove City, 158.

GIRLS INDIVIDUAL TOP FIVE: 1, Jewel, Mercer, 18:20; 2, Moschillo, Hickory, 18:35; 3, Noce, Altoona, 18:50; 4, Puleio, Meadville, 19:07; 5, Long, Mars, 19:17.

OTHER ALTOONA GIRLS: 6, Etters, 19:33; 12, Luke, 20:08; 34, Adams, 21:16; 43, Broadrick, 21:32; 65, Snare, 22:29; 73, Murtiff, 22:40.

Sunderland fourth

GETTYSBURG — Dean Sunderland finished fourth overall in the boys race at the Gettysburg Invitational on Saturday in 15:58.9

Carter Smith, the defending PIAA Class 3A champion from Mifflin County, won the race in 15:16.4 and led Mifflin County to the team title. Hollidaysburg finished fifth.

Reuben Manfred finished ninth individually in 16:04.8, and Sam Chestney was 13th in 16:17.3.

On the girls side, Hollidaysburg finished third as a team behind champion Chambersburg and runner-up Pequea Valley, which had the individual champion in Reagan Gates. She finished the race in 18:31.1.

Hollidaysburg’s Rylan Carney was 17th in 19:57.6. Addison Smith was 27th for the Lady Tigers at 20:26, and Sophia Fiore was 30th in 20:40.8.

BOYS TEAM: 1, Mifflin County, 48; 2, Urbana, 82; 3, Lower Dauphin, 143; 4, Chambersburg, 197; 5, Hollidaysburg, 202.

GIRLS TEAM: 1, Chambersburg, 78; 2, Pequea Valley, 144; 3, Hollidaysburg, 146.

Altoona downed

STATE COLLEGE — Altoona lost all five of its matches at the State College Invitational in high school girls volleyball on Saturday.

The Lady Spikers fell in pool play to Maplewood, 25-22, 25-11, Hollidaysburg, 25-19, 25-22, and Hempfield, 25-21, 25-15. They fell to State College, 25-16, in the winner’s bracket and lost to Bald Eagle Area, 25-21, in the elimination bracket.

Annie Yost had 10 kills, three aces, a block and four digs for Altoona. Marina Petucci had 26 digs and Maraya Bittner had 23 assists for the Lady Spikers.

No Hollidaysburg results or individual statistics were reported to the Mirror.

The Altoona junior varsity team participated in the Forest Hills JV Classic and went 5-4 and lost in the Silver Bracket finals.

In pool play, Altoona split with Northern Cambria, 20-25, 26-24, defeated Grier, 25-22, 25-11, and lost to Somerset, 25-20, 25-22. In the Silver quarterfinals, Altoona topped River Valley, 26-24, before beating Cambria Heights, 29-27, in the semifinals before Portage beat the JV Lady Spikers, 26-24, in the final.

SERVICE POINTS

ALTOONA: Bittner 15, Mitchell 15, Lopez-Oakes 9, Bower 7, Petucci 5, Yost 5, Sanchez 3, Miller 2.

Injury update

Rahmeir Smith, the Mount Union sophomore who was taken off the field on a stretcher after a helmet-to-helmet hit in the Trojans’ 29-21 win over Juniata Valley on Friday, is being treated for a concussion according to Mount Union coach Jamie Brumbaugh.

“So far so good,” Brumbaugh emailed the Mirror when asked for an update on Smith’s condition. “Preliminary indications are no spinal injury and no internal injury.”

Brumbaugh also wanted to thank everyone who reached out and prayed for Smith and said, “we were very fortunate.”

Queen selected

BELLWOOD — Chloe Stoltzfus was crowned as the 2025 Bellwood-Antis High School homecoming queen at this past Friday night’s game against Bishop Guilfoyle Academy.