JOHNSTOWN — John Strittmatter grew up on a dairy farm in Ebensburg and learned the importance of developing a strong work ethic at a very young age. John and his younger brother, Jody, who both went on to outstanding high school and college wrestling careers, toiled on the farm with their ...
TYRONE — Twenty years ago, Sean Brannan and Anthony DeGol were helping Hollidaysburg’s boys golf program reach levels it had never been to before. Brannan won a PIAA boys individual championship title in 2006, and with the help of DeGol, the Golden Tigers took home the team championship ...
Flood City Miller won the Central Blair Rec Commission Veterans Memorial Field Classic 14U Tournament on Sunday in walk-off fashion. The team went 2-0 in pool play on Saturday, beating Bases Loaded Baseball, 12-1, and the Jarrettsville Hawks, 15-2. In the semifinals on Sunday, the Flood City Miller edged Bases Loaded Baseball, 7-6, before nipping Diamondbacks in the championship game, 10-9. Flood City trailed Diamondbacks, 9-8, to begin the bottom of the sixth inning, and after scoring one run on an Elliott Strait RBI single, Brennan Kirsch was struck by a pitch with the bases loaded ...
The quarterfinals are set at the Park Home Altoona Classic following the weekend’s action. Fiore True Value will take on L.S. Fiore, and Holsinger’s Plumbing & Heating will play John Sisto Law Office tonight with trips to the semifinals on the line. Park Home Furniture and East End’s Cumming Motors meet on Tuesday before Greenwood Meadows tangles with Sylvan Veterinary in the other two quarterfinal games. SATURDAY PENN MED (EEYBL) 4, ARC (AABA) 0: WP—Graham Riley. LP—Chase Berwager. SO—Chase Berwager 8 (A); Graham Riley 7. Notable: Graham Riley hurled a no-hitter and ...
Jesse Georgiana went 3-for-4 with a double and two RBIs as Alexander Financial Group downed MH Electric Services, 12-5, in Altoona AAABA League action at Vets Field on Friday. Matt Gutshall had two hits and two RBIs for Alexander, and Cooper Rother and Nick Negola each drove in two runs. ...
ARMAGH — Margaret Elias of Cambria Heights and Reese Pinizzotto of Portage were the area representatives for softball on the Heritage Conference All-Conference Team for spring sports released Friday. Heights’ Carson Lobick and Portage’s Easton Slanoc made the baseball team, Heights’ Mason Kline and Logan Skebeck, and Portage’s Josh Papcun and Logan Gentile were on the boys track team, and Heights’ Brielle McMillen, Rachel McClellan, Elyce Hilyer and Avery Crynock, along with Portage’s Jada Irvin and Kendall Bednarski, were on the girls track team. SOFTBALL: Ella ...
