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Scholastic Sports

2024-25 Tigers can learn and win, too

By Matt Michelone For the Mirror HOLLIDAYSBURG — Starting over was something Hollidaysburg boys basketball coach Brad Lear knew the Golden Tigers were going to have to do this season. They lost every starter from last year’s team that made it to the District 4-6 Class 5A championship ...

Horsh has career night for NBC in road victory

ROCKWOOD — Wesley Horsh’s career-high 31 points lifted Northern Bedford to its first win of the year in a 56-30 defeat of Rockwood Friday night in high school basketball play. The Black Panthers outscored the Rockets 36-19 in the middle quarters. NORTHERN BEDFORD (56): Norwood 2 0-0 5, ...

Third-quarter flurry lifts BG to fifth title

By John Hartsock jhartsock@altoonamirror.com MECHANICBURG — Punch. Counter-punch. Punch. Knockout. That was the sequence on a sunny but frigid and blustery Thursday afternoon in the PIAA Class 1A football state championship game at Cumberland Valley High School’s Chapman Field, as the ...

Seniors go full circle for Marauders

MECHANICSBURG — The seniors on this year’s Bishop Guilfoyle Academy’s football team were, for the most part, cheerleaders for the 2021 Marauders team that won the PIAA Class 1A championship in Hershey. Thursday at Cumberland Valley High School’s Chapman Field, they carved their own ...

Guilfoyle shows it’s truly a band of brothers

By Michael Boytim mboytim@altoonamirror.com MECHANICSBURG — When teams talk about being a family, it’s usually used in a figurative way. For many of the players on the Bishop Guilfoyle Academy football team, it’s literal. There are five sets of brothers on the Marauders’ roster — ...

Injured McElheny gets final play

By Michael Boytim mboytim@altoonamirror.com MECHANICSBURG — Bishop Guilfoyle Academy expected to lean on senior lineman Connor McElheny this season, but an early ACL injury took that security blanket away from the Marauders. Thursday, McElheny was finally back on the field for the final ...