HOLLIDAYSBURG — The top two seeds in the Blair Regional YMCA Summer League Alumni Division found themselves in close games down the stretch in semifinal action. Top seed Mid-Atlantic Sports faced a tough The Pickled Pimp team, the fourth seed, but used a run in the last 10 minutes of the ...
JOHNSTOWN — A surprise wake-up call can sometimes jolt someone into action even quicker than a coffee or an energy drink. It certainly paid off for Altoona’s top entry in the All-American Amateur Baseball Association National Tournament, Imler’s Poultry, on Monday. Many of Imler’s ...
PORTAGE — Cumming Motors struggled with a lack of numbers during its regular AAABA season and even into its league playoff competition, but all hands are now on board for the team that, prior to being unseated by Imler’s Poultry in the league championship series last week, had won three ...
In the first four innings of play, Sheetz left 10 runners on base and managed just a 1-0 lead after four innings in its best-of-3 deciding semifinal game against Pro Fab Solutions in the Altoona Greater City Baseball League playoffs at Vets Field Monday night. “I was getting a little frustrated because that is a lot of runners left on in a game deciding who gets in the finals,” Sheetz coach Kyle DeGennaro said. “Luckily, we got a couple across eventually, and I was happy with the way our guys kept battling.” Sheetz scored one in the third, three in the fifth and then pulled ...
JOHNSTOWN — Altoona Area High School product Tanner Stroup enjoyed a monster game in helping Johnstown AAABA League champ Mainline Pharmacy dominate New York, 13-3, in seven innings in the national tournament at Sargent’s Stadium at the Point on Monday night. Stroup went 3-for-4 with two triples and five RBIs for Mainline, while Xander Richardson went 3-for-3 with a home run and two RBIs. Trey Wingard, Landon Hamer, Bryce Roberts and Aiden Snowberger each added two hits, and Chase Williamson went five innings to earn the win. New York’s Jasmark Munoz homered twice and drove in ...
Sometimes, you just need one swing to change a baseball game around, whether that’s a key hit, key play or a key inning. The latter happened for Eldorado Civics Association Monday night in game one of its Altoona Teener League 15U Major Division Championship Series. Eldorado used a ...
