FIRST TEAM Alex Mykut C Sr. Huntingdon Notable: Went 3-for-3 and was winning pitcher in Curve Classic championship game win. Hit .400 with 11 extra base hits and 27 RBIs. Davis Kline 1B Sr. Bedford Notable: Will attend Princeton and play football in the fall. Hit .465 with three doubles ...

The Pennsylvania Softball Coaches Association District 6 All-Star Game scheduled for this evening has been postponed because of the rain in today’s weather forecast. The game has been rescheduled for Thursday. Gates at the Penn State Softball Complex will open at 5 p.m. with the 10-inning ...

SCOTLAND — Things were looking pretty good for the Bellwood-Antis baseball team as its PIAA Class 2A quarterfinal game vs. Camp Hill moved into the bottom of the third inning. The Blue Devils led 2-0, having snapped the Lions’ 21-inning scoreless streak in the playoffs in the top of the ...

SOMERSET — Sometimes great expectations can build a confidence that leads a team to glory. There are other times they can cause an enormous weight on someone’s shoulders. The Huntingdon Area high school baseball team that rolled to a Curve Classic championship, a second straight ...

Mason Ronan spent tons of hours on the baseball field between his days at Penn Cambria High School and his extensive involvement in summer travel competition. He traveled to sites as far away as California and Texas to hone his skills as a left-handed pitcher. On Wednesday, all the time ...

By Jon Fleck For the Mirror CRESSON — Having already graduated last week, the nine seniors on the Huntingdon baseball team have one more piece of business before wrapping up their high school careers—win a state championship. The Bearcats took the first step down that path with a 5-2 ...

By Michael Boytim mboytim@altoonamirror.com BLOOMSBURG — Bellwood-Antis sophomore Travis Luensmann spent most of Monday’s first round PIAA Class 2A playoff game dominating on the mound. But due to a relatively new rule about pitch counts, he spent the final inning sweating out the ...

A pair of area softball squads will be playing at Penn State, while the Huntingdon baseball team finally will be using a venue it had expected to see when the PIAA playoffs begin in those sports on Monday. Claysburg-Kimmel and Philipsburg-Osceola will comprise the second half of a ...

SOMERSET — In close, hard-fought games, scoring opportunities that are cashed in and scoring opportunities that are thwarted often play equally prominent roles in the outcome. That was the case Tuesday afternoon in the District 5-8-9 Class 3A subregional championship game on the Somerset ...

LOYSBURG — Everett Area High School sophomore Kaitlyn Maxwell, who recently won two medals at the PIAA Track and Field Championships, earned the Inter-County Conference 2018 track and field MVP honor. Maxwell was the top point producer with 248, edging out Juniata Valley senior Taylor Leidy ...

NEW PARIS — Despite nerves going in, Phillip Dull set the tone early for Thursday’s District 5-8-9 Class 3A semifinal game between Chestnut Ridge and Everett. The 5-foot-11 senior, headed to West Virginia in the fall, struck out the first two batters he faced looking in the top of the ...

In the space of one year, the Hollidaysburg Area High School baseball team went from experiencing the pinnacle of joy to feeling the most crushing heartbreak in the District 6 Class 5A championship game. For the Golden Tigers’ opponent in the last two championship games, Central Mountain, ...

The day started badly for the Altoona Mountain Lions — and didn’t get much better. Three first-inning errors gave State College four unearned runs and the Little Lions went on to punish Altoona, 12-1, in the District 6 Class 6A baseball championship game Thursday at Peoples Natural Gas ...

A big box in the Huntingdon Area High School baseball team’s to-do list for the 2018 season was checked off Wednesday night. The Bearcats used the excellent pitching of senior right-hander Jared Showalter, a potent batting attack that featured two home runs, and the ability to cash in on ...

First, the bad news for Bellwood-Antis. The Blue Devils committed three errors in one inning that gave Southern Huntingdon two unearned runs and helped propel the Rockets to a 5-2 win and their first-ever District 6 Class 2A baseball championship Wednesday afternoon at Peoples Natural Gas ...

Berlin — The 2018 baseball season came to a close for the Northern Bedford County Black Panthers in a 10-0 five-inning loss to Berlin Brothersvalley. The Panthers closed with a 7-11 record but return many underclassmen for next season. Berlin hurler Nick Gooden faced only 16 batters and ...

Leading up to his bottom of the seventh at-bat in a tie game against Mifflin County, Altoona’s Ian Yon had little to show for his three previous at-bats with two pop-ups and a ground out. Yon crushed the first pitch from Tyreen Smalley just foul down the left field line. The second pitch ...

Chad Luensmann earned an NCAA Division I college baseball scholarship to the University of Nebraska as a right-handed pitcher out of tiny Bellwood-Antis High School. Luensmann’s younger brother, Travis, is now only a sophomore at Bellwood, but is already showing a similar type of ability ...

SIDMAN — Bryan Bernard had two hits, including a second-inning RBI single while going 6 2/3 innings for Forest Hills in a 3-1 win over Bedford in the District 6 Class 4A baseball semifinals. Adam Cecere had a run scoring double in the first to give the Rangers the early edge. Bedford ...

By Ty R. States For the Mirror HUNTINGDON — Huntingdon showed it can find ways to score runs even when the hits just aren’t there. Against Penn Cambria Division I pitching prospect Mason Ronan in a District 6 Class 3A semifinal baseball game at Juniata College on Saturday, the ...