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Vinglish scores 40; CH secures home game

By Rick Weaver For the Mirror PATTON — Gracey Vinglish could hardly miss. The Cambria Heights Highlanders, for largely that reason, will play a home game in the Heritage Conference girls’ basketball championships. The 5-foot-8 senior connected on 5-of-6 3-point field goal attempts and finished the night with 40 points as the Highlanders rolled to a 79-43 victory against Portage in the conference season finale on Friday night at Cambria Heights High School. “It was confidence, and the atmosphere in the gym. Our teammates had each other’s backs tonight, and we were all ...

Freshman contributes mightily

By Andy Stine astine@altoonamirror.com Even though there is still a lot to play for this season, it’s already been a special season for the Altoona girls basketball team. The program crossed the 1,000-win mark in its history. Melana Eyer got 1,000 points on the same night that the ...

Lady Pirates piling up wins

WILLIAMSBURG — The Williamsburg girls basketball team improved to 16-3 Thursday night, thanks to a 54-24 win over Glendale in high school action. The Lady Pirates got 16 points each from Levada Gorsuch and LeeAnna Royer. Teammate Anastasia Ranalli added 10 points. Glendale (9-9) was led ...

Mustangs clinch top seed in HC

PORTAGE — The Portage High School boys basketball team jumped out to an 18-10 first-quarter lead en route to a 63-39 win over Cambria Heights on Thursday. Portage (15-5) clinched the top seed in the Eastern Division of the Heritage Conference and will host Homer-Center Tuesday in the tournament semifinals. Bode Layo’s 17 points were tops for Portage, while Trae Kargo added 15 to go with 12 from Owen Gouse. Heights (4-16) was led by Garrett Jasper and Nolan Clawson with nine points each. CAMBRIA HEIGHTS (39): Abrams 1 0-0 3, Nelen 2 0-0 5, Weiland 1 0-0 3, Nagel 2 2-2 7, Baker ...

Pirates still learning to play 32 minutes of ball

By Michael Boytim mboytim@altoonamirror.com WILLIAMSBURG — Williamsburg cut its deficit against a one-loss McConnellsburg team to a single point on an Ethan Reffner runner with 6:30 to play in the third quarter Wednesday night. Unfortunately for the Blue Pirates, they didn’t score ...

Early lead just what Blue Devils needed

By John Hartsock jhartsock@altoonamirror.com MARTINSBURG — There’s an old sports adage that holds that it is very difficult for any team to beat another team three times in a season. The Bellwood-Antis Lady Blue Devils managed to pull off that feat in a Laurel Highlands Athletic Conference girls basketball game with Blair County rival Central Wednesday night at the Central High School gymnasium, but Bellwood needed a big jump out of the starting blocks in order to do it. Bellwood (9-9 overall, 8-7 in the Laurel Highlands Conference), burst out to a 16-5 lead early in the ...