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D6 postseason success a must with Lady Bulldogs softball

CRESSON — Throughout the past two decades, you can almost always count on the Claysburg-Kimmel softball team to make plenty of noise in district playoff action. The current collection of seniors (McKenna Black, Payton Hinish, Launa Musselman and Jaylee Swindell) have been raising the bar ...

West Chester loves having Central grad Smith

West Chester University baseball coach Mike LaRosa usually goes into a series against an opponent with a mindset of not letting one player beat them. When Central High School graduate Hunter Smith was at Mansfield last season, he was that guy in the Mountaineer lineup. “That’s pretty rare ...

Big Ten has times, TV for first 3 games of college football season

The Big Ten Conference announced kickoff times on Wednesday for the first three games of the season for the Penn State football team. The Nittany Lions will open the season at home on Saturday, Sept. 5, against Marshall at 3:30 p.m. Kickoff will take place on Fox Sports 1. In week 2, on Sept. ...

PSU basketball team gets freshman guard, Andy Gemao

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State men’s basketball coach Mike Rhoades announced the signing of guard Andy Gemao on Wednesday for the 2026-27 season. Gemao, a native of the Philippines who played at Royal Crown School in Toronto, Ontario, comes to Penn State as a freshman. In two seasons of scholastic ball in Canada, Gemao, a 6-foot-1 guard, totaled 712 points, 256 assists and 122 rebounds as a team captain. His team went 19-2 during his senior season where he was a NPA first-team all-star and an OSBA second-team all-star. Gemao was a member of both the U19 and U16 national teams ...

Lilly takes down BCO in City League action

LILLY — Shane Suter gave up four hits and struck out four in three innings to earn the win, and Preston Farabaugh threw three scoreless innings of relief as Lilly Conrad Chiropractic beat Blair County Oil, 5-2, in the Altoona Greater City Baseball League on Wednesday. Ryan Ickes, CJ McCoy ...

Hollidaysburg turns miscues into another district title

WINGATE — Great baseball teams capitalize on an opponent’s mistakes and limit their own. That formula, which has worked for the most part all season for the Hollidaysburg Area baseball team, helped the Golden Tigers claim their second District 4-6 Class 5A championship in three years ...