Altoona senior Braiden Weaver has scored a lot of points and takedowns over his four-year career at the Altoona Fieldhouse. Those points and takedowns have netted him 142 wins. Weaver closed out his stellar home dual meet career on senior night much like many of the other nights at the ...
Central and Glendale advanced to the quarterfinals of the District 6 Class 2A Duals with wins in the first round, but they lost their next match. Sixth-seeded Central edged 11th-seeded Bald Eagle Area, 35-31, in the first round at Huntingdon, but the Scarlet Dragons lost to third-seeded Huntingdon, 53-24. Glendale beat Westmont Hilltop, 36-27, in its first match at Penns Valley, but the Vikings (15-6) then lost to the top-seeded Rams, 58-18. The 12-0 Rams will host the semifinals and finals on Saturday. Central Cambria, seeded 12th, was supposed to wrestle West Branch at ...
MORRISDALE –- As the 2025-26 wrestling season has progressed, Tyrone’s Kyle Scott has continued to set his sights higher and higher. First he won his first Laurel Highlands Championships title at the beginning of January. On Saturday morning, the senior reached the 150-win plateau in the 189-pound semifinals of the Ultimate Warrior Tournament at West Branch at the expense of Hollidaysburg freshman Keegan Hewitt, pinning him in 2:54. Then Scott withstood an aggressive start by Richland’s Grayson Mahla, turned to his own offense, piled up the points and rolled to a 16-1 ...
BEDFORD –- Sometimes in wrestling tournaments, seeds can be deceiving. Central Cambria sophomore Hadyn Strittmatter provided a classic example of that in this past weekend’s Bedford Thomas Automotive Wrestling Tournament at the Bedford Area High School gymnasium. Strittmatter, whose season to date has been abbreviated by a knee injury, entered the tournament as the ninth-seeded wrestler in the 133-pound weight class, with only 11 matches under his belt and an 8-3 record. Strittmatter showed that he was deserving of a much higher seed, however, as he knocked off three ...
GROVE CITY -- Glendale’s Daniel Williams captured the 285-pound title of the Fred Bell Tournament on Saturday at Grove City High School. The second-seeded Williams, who is 33-1 in his first season back from multiple knee injuries, capped off a 5-0 weekend with a 7-2 tiebreaker win over Laurel’s top-seeded Casey Wilson in the finals. Williams reversed Wilson to his back for six points in the first tiebreaker period. Wilson escaped in the second tiebreaker but Williams won comfortably. Williams, who was the only Glendale wrestler to place, had a pin, technical fall, major ...
MORRISDALE — Blair County will be well represented in the semifinals of the Ultimate Warrior Tournament as six area wrestlers won their quarterfinal bouts on Friday at West Branch High School. Hollidaysburg advanced four to the semifinals in Connor Sidney (107), Landon Krupka (114), Brayden ...
