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Carroll’s dream season is ended quickly

By John Hartsock jhartsock@altoonamirror.com HARMONY — Bishop Carroll’s stunning run through the postseason came to a screeching halt Thursday afternoon. After making it to the District 6 Class 1A championship game as the tournament’s sixth seed, and knocking off defending PIAA lass 1A state champion Clarion High School in an opening-round PIAA playoff game Monday, Carroll ran into a buzzsaw in the quarterfinals in District 10 runner-up Saegertown, which used a quality pitching effort and a relentless batting attack to mercy-rule the Huskies, 11-0, in a game that was played ...

Tigers’ next game set for Johnstown

Two of the three remaining teams in the Mirror’s core coverage area will be playing relatively close to home in the PIAA baseball and softball quarterfinals when the tournaments resume on Thursday. The Hollidaysburg baseball team will play WPIAL champion Penn Trafford in Johnstown at Sargent’s Stadium at the Point at 4 p.m. in a Class 5A quarterfinal game. The winner will play either District 12 champion Monsignor Bonner or WPIAL runner-up Bethel Park in the semifinals on Monday. Claysburg-Kimmel’s softball team will play Carmichaels, the WPIAL third-place finisher, at Berlin ...

Pitching, timely hitting put Tigers in quarterfinals

By John Hartsock jhartsock@altoonamirror.com HOLLIDAYSBURG — In Jon Szynal’s quarter-century as Hollidaysburg Area High School’s head baseball coach, the Golden Tigers had never made it to the quarterfinal round of the PIAA state tournament. That all changed Monday afternoon, when ...

CC finds silver lining inside playoff loss

By Michael Boytim mboytim@altoonamirror.com EBENSBURG — Several perks come with winning a District 6 championship, and for Central Cambria’s baseball team, one of those was the chance to play a PIAA first-round playoff game at home on the day the school unveiled a banner on the ...

Huskies score early, often in first-round upset

By Todd Irwin sports@altoonamirror.com DuBOIS — On paper, the PIAA Class 1A first-round state playoff game between defending state champion Clarion and a 10-13 Bishop Carroll team appeared to be one stop on another state title run for the Bobcats. The Huskies ripped that paper up on Monday night at a sparkling Showers Field in DuBois. Bishop Carroll set the tone from the start, scoring three runs in the first inning before riding the pitching arm of senior pitcher Mark Mento, who gave up only one run in six innings of a 9-3 upset of the stunned Bobcats. “This team shocks me ...

Fourth inning ends season for Dragons

By Joe Sager For the Mirror HARMONY — One bad inning may not be a big deal during the regular season. In the playoffs, however, it can spell doom. Central experienced that Monday in a PIAA Class 3A baseball first round game at Seneca Valley High School. Avonworth’s bats came alive in the fourth and produced all the team’s runs in a 6-1 decision. “Hitting is contagious and they strung a couple together that inning,” Central coach A.J. Hoenstine said. “I really thought that we had pretty good at-bats and hit the ball hard, sometimes right at them. They made plays that ...