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Flood City Miller team captures Vets Field Classic tourney

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 ...

Quarterfinals set in Park Home Classic

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 ...

Georgiana’s big night lifts AFG to AAABA baseball win

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. ...

Heritage Conference hands out spring sports honors

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 ...

Injuries forcing Pittsburgh Pirates to shuffle their lineup

PITTSBURGH — Over the course of a long six months-plus Major League Baseball season, every team will ride its share of ups and downs, and be faced with adversity on several occasions. The Pittsburgh Pirates are going through that situation right now, and their season may very well depend ...