HARRISBURG — Altoona held off a fourth-quarter rally from Central Dauphin to pick up a 59-58 victory in high school girls basketball action on Tuesday.

Brionna Hudson led the Lady Lions with 15 points and 10 rebounds, Zaelihn Nguyen-Moore posted 10 points and eight boards, while Lanie Wilt fronted with a team-high 17 points.

ALTOONA (59): M. Eyer 2 5-6 9, Nguyen-Moore 4 2-4 10, Hudson 5 4-4 15, Wilt 6 2-2 17, R. Eyer 1 0-0 3, Cogan 1 0-0 2, Harpster 1 0-0 3. Totals – 20 13-16 59.

CENTRAL DAUPHIN (58): Sembrot 3 2-2 8, Matthews 2 0-0 5, Dickerson 3 0-0 9, Matincheckil 3 0-0 6, Taylor 6 4-4 18, Green 4 4-4 12. Totals – 21 10-10 58.

SCORE BY QUARTERS

Altoona 23 15 10 11 – 59

Central Dauphin 13 13 16 16 – 58

3-point goals: Altoona 6 (Wilt 3, R. Eyer, Harpster, Hudson); Central Dauphin 6 (Dickerson 3, Taylor 2, Mathews).

Records: Altoona (10-2); Central Dauphin (9-3).

JV: Altoona, 29-26. High scorers – Ryann, A, 9; Kirkpatrick, CD, 8.

JV rolls past MV

ALEXANDRIA — Anna Taylor’s game-high 16 points equaled the amount that Juniata Valley gave up to Moshannon Valley in a 52-16 win.

Aubrey Anderson registered 15 points and Kassidy Watson tallied 13 for the Lady Green Hornets.

MOSHANNON VALLEY (16): McCoy 2 0-0 5, Mihalko 1 1-6 5, Wagner 1 0-0 3, Walborn 1 1-1 3. Totals – 6 2-7 16.

JUNIATA VALLEY (52): Hartman 2 2-4 6, Watson 5 3-5 13, Taylor 5 2-2 16, Anderson 5 4-5 15, Russell 1 0-0 2. Totals – 18 11-16 52.

SCORE BY QUARTERS

Moshannon Valley 3 8 0 5 – 16

Juniata Valley 15 15 12 10 – 52

3-point goals: Moshannon Valley 2 (McCoy, Wagner); Juniata Valley 5 (Taylor 4, Anderson).

Records: Moshannon Valley (1-9); Juniata Valley (5-6).

GYMNASTICS

Altoona triumphs

RIDGWAY — Katie Bettwy won the floor exercise en route to the all-around title for Altoona in a 134.9-101.325 win over Ridgway in gymnastics.

Taylor Knepper finished first on the bars and beam, and Lamar Heaster captured the vault for the 3-0 Lady Lions.

Vault–1, Heaster, A, 8.875; 2, Pastore, A, 8.375; 3, Bush, A, 8.3. Bars–1, Knepper, A, 8.925; 2, Bettwy, A, 8.35; 3, Heaster, A, 7.33. Beam–1, Knepper, A, 8.85; 2, Bettwy, A, 8.7; 3, Pastore, A, 8.65. Floor–1, Bettwy, A, 9.15; 2, Pastore, A, 9.0; 3, Bush, A, 8.475. All-around–1, Bettwy, A, 34.45; 2, Bush, A, 32.00; 3, Mathis, R, 30.32.

Records: Altoona (3-0).

HOCKEY

Altoona routs CV

Altoona jumped all over Conemaugh Valley with four goals in the first and second periods in a 9-1 win at Galactic Ice in hockey.

Carter Panick and Ricky Crum netted a goal and two assists each for the Mountain Lions, while Noah Staines notched a goal and an assist, and Kyle Conrad totaled two assists.

SCORE BY PERIODS

Conemaugh Valley 0 0 1 — 1

Altoona 4 4 1 — 9

First period: A-Staines (Crum), 15:33; A-Marinak (Staines), 14:11; A-Panick (unassisted), 9:46; A-McHenry (unassisted), 6:54.

Second period: A-Piper (Conrad), 16:10; A-Crum (Panick), 14:11; A-Hosgood (Conrad), 12:10; A-Della (Panick), 5:53.

Third period: CV-Hamula (Reesey, Gates), 11:08; A-Kirsch (Crum), 6:19.

Records: Altoona (5-4).

Tigers fall short

EBENSBURG — Hollidaysburg tried to keep up with Somerset in a scoring battle, but the Eagles got two goals in the third period to pull ahead for good in a 5-4 Golden Tigers’ loss at NCRC Ice Skating Rink.

Brody Duey, Isaac Miller and Jayden Mentzer notched a goal and an assist apiece, while Porter Weise scored a goal for the Tigers.

SCORE BY PERIODS

Hollidaysburg 0 2 2 — 4

Somerset 2 1 2 — 5

First period: S-Lucas (D. McKelvey), 6:43; S-Gary (K. McKelvey, Lucas), 0:13.

Second period: H-Duey (Mentzer, Miller), 12:41; S-Lucas (D. McKelvey), 8:40; H-Weise (unassisted), 2:57.

Third period: H-Miller (unassisted), 13:52; S-Kostyk (Smith), 7:38; S-K. McKelvey (McKenzie, Vought), 5:16; H-Mentzer (Duey), 1:35.

Records: Hollidaysburg (6-4).

RIFLE

BC defeated

EBENSBURG — Bishop Carroll’s Karli Schoop shot a 252-4 to lead the Huskies in a 1314-1239 loss to North Star in rifle action.

North Star’s Cody Snoeberger was the top shooter with a score of 277-5, while BC’s Alena Nagle had a personal best of 251-2.

NORTH STAR (1314): Snoeberger 277-5, Barnick 269-7, Fetsko 264-1, Lepley 260-2, Snyder 244-6.

BISHOP CARROLL (1239): Schoop 252-4, Cunningham 252-1, Nagle 251-2, Clapper 245-3, Public 239-2.

Records: Bishop Carroll (2-3).

JV: Bishop Carroll 264-2, North Star 244-0.

COLLEGE CORNER

Berkheimer honored

ANNVILLE — Lebanon Valley College’s Darrian Berkheimer of Altoona was named to the Third Team of the United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-East Region Team.

Berkheimer, who was named to the USC All-Region Team a few weeks ago, has a 3.90 grade-point average. She was also selected as a College Sports Communicators Academic All-District honoree this season. The midfielder becomes LVC’s first Scholar All-Region honoree in program history since the USC began the award.