Many area scholastic sports teams resumed or began winter sports practices Monday, and a few teams will begin competitions as early as Friday. The Tyrone boys basketball team, which finished as the District 6 Class 4A runner-up last season and returns its top six players, will travel to ...
Altoona Area High School senior Matt Sarbo has had his heart set on competing for the NCAA Division I Lock Haven State University wrestling program since he began thinking about his college destination. Sarbo, a three-time Northwest Class 3A Regional and District 6 Class 3A Tournament ...
Notes and observations from a PIAA wrestling season that has yet to start and will hopefully be held in some form this winter: n The past year has been an extraordinarily difficult one for just about everybody on the planet, including many with wrestling ties to the Mirror’s current or former coverage area. Dave Conaway, who wrestled in high school at Philipsburg-Osceola and later coached at Bellwood-Antis, is waging a heroic struggle against a degenerative nerve disease as this year comes to a close. Conaway, who will turn 63 on Christmas Day, is in hospice care at his Adams ...
As cases of the COVID-19 pandemic surge throughout the state, and just one day after he had tested positive for the coronavirus himself, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf on Thursday decreed a temporary shutdown throughout the commonwealth of various businesses and activities, which will also affect PIAA sports. The restrictions will begin Saturday and prohibit all sports activities at the state’s K-12 public schools, non-public schools, private schools, and at the club, travel, recreational and intramural levels until Monday, Jan. 4. Professional and collegiate sports events will be ...
Tonight was supposed to be the first night of competition for the winter scholastic sports season, but in District 6, there won’t be any tip-offs, grappling or dives into a pool. And there might not be for quite some time. The PIAA decided not to delay the season at its meeting Wednesday, but no schools in the Mirror’s region have met the 15-practice preseason rule to begin competition tonight and likely won’t reach that mark any time soon, especially with Thursday’s announcement that all sports at K-12 schools have been shut down starting Saturday until Jan. 4 by the ...
Due to concern from school superintendents in Intermediate Units 8, 10 and 11, which make up most of District 6 in scholastic sports, there is a possibility that the district may not participate in the PIAA playoffs during the winter sports season. “Everything is on the table given the way our school boards are pushing back the start of athletics,” District 6 chairman Bill Marshall said. At this point, there is nothing set in stone and a decision isn’t expected until January, though the District 6 committee will meet to discuss feedback from the superintendents today. “I ...
