By Todd Irwin
sports@altoonamirror.com
Bellwood-Antis sophomore Juliette Cuevas followed up her seventh-place finish at the inaugural PIAA Girls Championships by capturing a state title at 103 pounds in the girls 15-16 age division of the Keystone State Championships over the weekend at ...
The Associated Press
MECHANICSBURG — Jody Mikhail was a sophomore at Pennsylvania’s Cumberland Valley High School when a poster for a new girls’ wrestling club caught her eye. So Mikhail, a senior now, tried the sport.
“I fell in love with it the first time,” she said.
Unlike ...
HERSHEY — Andrew McMonagle is still probably going through the texts and voicemails on his cell phone two days after capturing the 189-pound title at the PIAA Class 2A Championships at Hershey’s Giant Center.
“Oh, my phone’s blowing up right now,” McMonagle said after winning the ...
HERSHEY — Altoona’s Luke Sipes won another close bout against Central Mountain’s Griffin Walizer, 1-0, in the consolation semifinals of the PIAA Class 3A Championships on Saturday morning at the Giant Center.
But his hopes of finishing third at 152 pounds were dashed when he just missed ...
Sipes loses in semis
By Todd Irwin
sports@altoonamirror.com
HERSHEY — At this point last year, Andrew McMonagle was hurting from an injured knee he sustained in the first round of the PIAA Class 2A Championships.
“It motivated the heck out of me,” McMonagle said. “I ate hard ...
By Todd Irwin
sports@altoonamirror.com
HERSHEY — As expected, Northern Bedford’s Raegan Snider made the semifinals of the inaugural PIAA-sanctioned girls state tournament.
But her goal of making the state finals ended in the semifinals when she was pinned in the ultimate tiebreaker by ...