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Mustangs overcome jitters to topple Vikings

By Calem Illig sports@altoonamirror.com NANTY GLO — With two outs in the bottom of the seventh and a chance to end the game, Portage’s Connor Binaut had a tough play. Facing No. 2 Blacklick Valley in Monday’s District 6 Class 1A quarterfinal, Binaut fielded a grounder but miscalculated his throw to first and allowed the tying run to score. Binaut kept a short memory and drove in the go-ahead run in extra innings, and after being called to step on the mound, he quickly made up for his earlier mistake. He struck out the side in the bottom of the eighth to deliver a 6-5 ...

Black Knights oust Blue Pirates

By Jon Fleck For the Mirror WILLIAMSBURG — When Williamsburg and Moshannon Valley met in the regular season, Rowan Gorsuch and Landyn Evans locked up in a pitcher’s duel for their respective teams. Gorsuch and the Blue Pirates took that game 4-0. The two met again Monday in the District 6 Class 1A quarterfinals with the result going the other way this time. Evans scattered five hits and struck out seven while the Black Knights’ bats came to life in the middle innings for a 5-2 victory and a berth in the district semifinals Friday. The Black Knights will face Bishop McCort, ...

BC bats explode to top Glendale

By Jaclyn Yingling For the Mirror FLINTON — Tied 6-6 with Glendale heading into the top of the seventh inning, Bishop Carroll coach Bill Schenk looked up to the sky and asked for some divine intervention. “I lost my dad to cancer in December,” he said. “I just said right before those at bats, ‘Dad, if there is anything you can do, show us right now.’ We had one home run all year and then they go back-to-back. Sometimes there is just a higher power that we can’t explain.” The Huskies got just that, hitting back-to-back solo homers to defeat Glendale 8-6 in the ...

Bulldogs come up short against Crushers

By Jim Hammett For the Mirror JOHNSTOWN — The Claysburg-Kimmel baseball team has been living on the edge this postseason and it caught up with the Bulldogs on Monday. Claysburg hung in there with top-seeded Bishop McCort Catholic, but in the end dropped a 2-0 decision to conclude the season with an 8-12 final record. “I was proud of this team all season and I told them all year,” Claysburg-Kimmel coach Ross Helsel said. “Every game, they never gave up whether we were down one run or 10 runs, they never stopped and just kept playing. I’m very proud of this ball ...

Dragons have too much ‘O’

By John Hartsock jhartsock@altoonamirror.com MARTINSBURG — The Central High School baseball team, which boasts hitting ability from the top to the bottom of its lineup, is a dangerous squad without receiving any extra outs from its opposition. On Friday afternoon, in a District 6 Class 3A quarterfinal-round playoff game with seventh-seeded Penn Cambria, second-seeded Central scored 15 runs and mashed out 11 hits while benefiting from three Panthers’ errors as the host Scarlet Dragons advanced to the semifinal round with a 15-6 victory. Central (15-6) now moves on to host ...

Base on balls in bottom of seventh leads Claysburg-Kimmel past BG

CLAYSBURG — The longer the Claysburg-Kimmel/Bishop Guilfoyle playoff game remained scoreless, the more obvious it became that one or two runs is all it would take to move on to the next round. Both teams had opportunities throughout but failed to score until the seventh. The Marauders ...