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Solid start doesn’t last for Altoona

CRESSON — Altoona baseball started off Wednesday’s District 6 Class 6A championship game against Mifflin County with a Tanner Stroup home run and two base hits from Nick Kraft and Eric McAllister. There wasn’t much to be excited about for Mountain Lions after that point. Even after a ...

Lady Blue Devils secure spot in finals

BELLWOOD — Bellwood-Antis has enjoyed a special resurgence this season in high school softball, but falling behind by two runs in the first inning of the District 6 Class 2A semifinals to the team that ended your season a year ago would shake up plenty of young teams. But it seems despite ...

Pirates bullpen struggles continue in St. Louis

ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Cardinals did it again. Ivan Herrera hit a three-run, walk-off home run in the bottom of the 10th inning — one of four homers by St. Louis — as the Cardinals rallied to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night. Herrera’s 410-foot shot off of Mason ...

Gourson, bullpen key win for Curve

The Altoona Curve plated four runs in a second-inning rally to boost the team to a series-opening victory over the Erie SeaWolves on Tuesday night, 4-2, at Peoples Natural Gas Field. The four-run second inning saw five stolen bases and three hits as Duce Gourson highlighted the frame with a ...

Northern Bedford beats Southern Fulton, weather

LOYSBURG — Even though Mother Nature rained on a few parades in central Pennsylvania on Wednesday — talking of course about the postponement of several district softball and baseball playoff games — she wasn’t able to put a damper on the Northern Bedford softball team. But she tried. ...

Feathers helps NBC baseball move on

NEW ENTERPRISE — Sophomore pitcher Kolson Feathers tossed five innings of no-hit ball for the Northern Bedford baseball team Tuesday afternoon at home in helping the Black Panthers to a 7-1 win over Rockwood in the District 5 Class 1A quarterfinals. NBC (11-9) will now take on Meyersdale ...