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Champions crowned on both Sylvan Hills and Summit golf courses

CRESSON — The Central Counties Junior Golf Championships were held at the Summit Country Club where four different age groups won titles. In the boys 16-18 division, Colten Karlheim (76) was the low gross winner while Avery Schenk was the low net winner (75). Henry St. Amant, Andrew Pile ...

Bishop Guilfoyle edges Altoona in Blair YMCA summer league thriller

HOLLIDAYSBURG — Even though the calendar read Aug. 6 on Thursday night inside the halls of the Blair Regional YMCA, the atmosphere presented things much differently inside the gym where The First Stop Shop and Beard Legal Group were playing for the girls High School Division YMCA basketball ...

CNB Bank cashes in on 3-peat in Alumni Division final

HOLLIDAYSBURG — The list of three-peat winners in women’s basketball — college and professional — is a very short one. Though, it’s not in the same ranking, many of the players on the CNB Bank team of the Blair Regional YMCA Women’s Summer League either play or played in the ...

Conrad Chiropractic/Lilly American Legion survives Game 3 in extra innings

When you’re down 2-0 in a best-of-5 series the way defending Altoona Greater City League champion Conrad Chiropractic/Lilly American Legion is, sometimes the best thing to do is break down the series into best-of-ones. Thursday night in a contest where both pitchers put on a superb ...

Mainline Pharmacy knocks out Imler’s Poultry from AAABA Tournament

JOHNSTOWN — Imler’s Poultry came into the Altoona portion of its All-American Amateur Baseball Association season with little expectations. With a young squad and a manager in Adam Plummer who had not been at the helm long, the goal was simply to get some experience, bond as a franchise ...

Softball season over for West Suburban

KIRKLAND, Wash. — The West Suburban 14U softball team reached the end of the road in the quarterfinals of the Little League Juniors World Series Thursday night. West Suburban fell to Hudsonville, Mich., 2-1, and was eliminated from the tournament. Teener Minor CM survives Cumming Motors scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning and edged Furrer Beverage, 9-8, in the Altoona Teener Minor double-elimination playoffs at Seitz Field on Friday. Trailing 8-7, Dirk Pardee singled in Avery Sowers with one out in the seventh to tie the game. Then, with two outs, Jase Kosicki ...