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Sites set for next round

From Mirror reports Friday night will be a busy one for the remaining area teams in high school football. District 6 Class 1A champion Bishop Guilfoyle Academy will stay within the district and play Westinghouse at Johnstown’s Trojan Stadium at 7 p.m. in a game between two of the best schools in their classification in the state. In other state quarterfinal games that night, Hollidaysburg will travel to Mechanicsburg’s John Frederick Field to play Roman Catholic at 7 p.m., and Bedford will play Troy at Lock Haven University at the same time. Two other District 6 champions ...

‘Special’ play saves Tigers

MILTON — Hollidaysburg has leaned on all aspects of its team during a history-making season, but special teams has been the unit coach Homer DeLattre has repeatedly praised throughout the season. Friday night at Alumni Stadium in a PIAA first round game against District 2 champion Abington ...

Unbeaten Highlanders rule in 2A

After winning the District 6 football championship in Class 1A last year, Cambria Heights moved up to the Class 2A level this season and the Highlanders faced many naysayers who doubted that they could win another title at the higher classification. Cambria Heights spent Friday night ...

Panthers plow into PIAA quarterfinals

SIDMAN — Familiarity with an opponent during the state playoffs is not very common, and it’s a lot less likely that they will hail from the same conference. However, that was exactly the case when Laurel Highlands Athletic Conference members Somerset and Penn Cambria squared off in the ...

Bisons get a big kick out of beating Steel-High

By Matt Michelone For the Mirror CLAYSBURG — A high school football team’s path to victory sometimes can come with an unplanned trick play bouncing your way. Following Owen Horne’s field goal late in the second quarter, the Bedford Bisons were attempting a squib kick when it ended up bouncing of a Steelton-Highspire player, and ended up right back in the Bisons’ hands. Quincy Swaim scored from there as Bedford went on to stun the defending PIAA Class 1A champion Rollers, 24-15, in a PIAA Class 2A first-round matchup at Claysburg-Kimmel’s Bulldog Stadium. “We were ...

Guilfoyle focusing only on the outcome

By John Hartsock jhartsock@altoonamirror.com The Bishop Guilfoyle Academy football team has been at or near the top of the various PIAA Class 1A rankings all season long, but Marauders coach Justin Wheeler and his players don’t pay too much attention to the rankings. “I think that every week, we’re going to get the opposing team’s best attempt,’’ Wheeler said. “It doesn’t matter whether we’re ranked 1, 2 or 3 — I think that everybody just wants to beat us, and that’s been going on for a while. But that also helps us to prepare. “None of those polls matter ...