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Portage fends off late-game theatrics by McCort

PORTAGE — Sometimes the final out in a playoff baseball game can be the toughest one to get, but that might be a bit of an understatement in Portage’s thrilling 2-1 win over Bishop McCort Catholic in the first round of the District 6 Class 1A tournament Monday. Bishop McCort was threatening with runners at the corners and leadoff hitter Mason Pfeil up to the plate in the top half of the seventh inning. Pfeil ripped a tailing line drive to left center off of Portage pitcher Jake McCoy, which would have tied the game or potentially given the Crimson Crushers the lead, but senior ...

Gorsuch, Blue Pirates set date with Marauders

NANTY GLO — Taking the mound on the road in the first round of the District 6 Class 1A playoffs against Blacklick Valley didn’t seem as daunting to Williamsburg junior Rowan Gorsuch after he helped lead the Blue Pirates to the district title game and the state playoffs last ...

Bulldogs fall in extra innings

WESTOVER — With two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning, it looked like Claysburg-Kimmel might finally have put the top-seeded Harmony Owls away in their District 6 Class A quarterfinal game on Thursday. But an untimely walk and a clutch double by the Owls’ Cohlton Fry sent the Bulldogs to an 8-7 defeat. “It was a hard fought game,” said Claysburg-Kimmel head coach Ross Helsel. “It was a good game. It was just a hard pill to swallow losing it that way. “The kids kept battling. They wanted to win.” The two teams duked it out for seven innings with Claysburg ...

Central rallies from big deficit

MARTINSBURG — It’s tough to put away a champion — especially one that never believes it is out of a game. Seventh-seeded Penn Cambria built a six-run lead in the fourth inning, but defending PIAA Class 3A champion Central battled back with two runs in the bottom of the inning, two more ...

Opportunistic Tyrone moving on to the semifinals

By Paul Buriak For the Mirror JOHNSTOWN — Tyrone capitalized on a plethora of Westmont Hilltop defensive miscues in Friday night’s District 6 Class 3A high school baseball quarterfinal, and that opportunistic play combined with a strong pitching performance propelled the Golden Eagles to a 7-2 victory at Johnstown’s Sargent’s Stadium at the Point. All of the runs for fifth-seeded Tyrone (11-10) were unearned as a result of a total of six errors by the fourth-seeded Hilltoppers (11-9), while Golden Eagle hurlers Landon Hamer and Ross Gampe combined to limit Westmont to five ...

Young Bulldogs earn upset win over Bishop Carroll

By John Hartsock jhartsock@altoonamirror.com REVLOC — Though his team entered the District 6 Class 1A baseball playoffs as the ninth seed in the tournament with a 5-14 record, Claysburg-Kimmel coach Ross Helsel is not mincing any words about the high aspirations that he has for his squad. “We want to win the District 6 championship,’’ Helsel said. “That’s our goal, and it has been our goal all season. We have a young team, but we have a very good team. We’re battlers and we’re scappers.’’ Claysburg lived up to that billing Thursday afternoon, overcoming 4-0 ...