By Michael Boytim mboytim@altoonamirror.com WINGATE — A year ago, Penn Cambria capped a history-making run through the District 6 Class 2A boys soccer playoffs with the school’s first district championship. It was a victory that then-junior goalkeeper Duncan Gongloff said he felt ...
By Andy Stine astine@altoonamirror.com Make it a repeat for the Bishop Guilfoyle Academy girls soccer team. The Lady Marauders kept peppering the goal with shots throughout Wednesday evening’s District 6 Class 1A championship, and only allowed two shots in a 3-0 shutout over West ...
By Nate Ritchey nritchey@altoonamirror.com JOHNSTOWN — Second-seeded Bishop Carroll-McCort and top seed Westmont Hilltop split the two regular-season matchups as members of the Laurel Highlands Athletic Conference. The most recent meeting was exactly two weeks ago so not much, if anything, has changed for either team. The familiarity played a huge factor as the two schools played scoreless through regulation and one overtime, before the Hilltoppers put one into the back of the net in the second OT for a 1-0 win over the Crushkies to capture the District 6 Class 1A title ...
Sometimes the results of a game take a backseat, and an event is put into perspective. The Altoona girls soccer team, in the midst of grieving the loss of teammate Lundyn Treese over the weekend, opened up the District 6-8-10 Class 4A subregional with a 5-0 win over Allderdice on Monday ...
By John Hartsock jhartsock@altoonamirror.com Turnabout was indeed fair play for Hollidaysburg in the District 6 Class 3A girls soccer championship game Tuesday night at Mansion Park Stadium. After suffering a heartbreaking overtime loss to Bellefonte on penalty kicks in last year’s ...
By Nate Ritchey nritchey@altoonamirror.com WINGATE — Sports can sometimes be unkind. But they can also serve as a life lesson that no matter what you do right, things don’t always go the way you hoped they would or how it appears they should. Unfortunately, for the second-seeded ...
