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Lady Lions tennis team earns victory

DuBOIS — Altoona defeated DuBois, 4-1, behind singles wins from Skylar Irwin, Ava Williams and Adalia Lopez-Oakes in high school girls tennis on Wednesday. Emma Hovan and Natalie Baker won at No. 1 doubles for the Lady Lions (5-1). SINGLES: 1, S. Irwin, A, def. Parekh, 3-6, 6-2, 10-7; 2, Williams, A, def. Lashinsky, 6-1, 6-2; Lopez-Oakes, A, def. Catalano, 6-2, 6-2. DOUBLES: 1, Hovan-Baker, A, def. Orzechowski-Sarick, 6-3, 6-0; 2, Sheloski-Gutheridge, D, def. E. Irwin-Harris, 6-3, 6-7 (7-5), 10-4. Records: Altoona (5-1); DuBois (4-2). SOCCER BG cruises Emma Marasco scored ...

Lady Bears, Bobcats win big

The Great Commission girls soccer team improved to 2-1 Friday afternoon, thanks to a 5-1 win over Johnstown Christian in high school action at the Valley View Field. Grace DiBiase scored two goals and added an assist in a game it led, 2-0, at halftime. Teammate Alexa Hall added two goals. SCORE BY HALVES Johnstown Christian 0 1 -- 1 Great Commission 2 3 -- 5 First Half: GC–Hall (DiBiase); GC–DiBiase (unassisted) Second Half: GC–Hall (unassisted); GC–DiBiase (Miller); GC–Miller (unassisted) Records: Great Commission (2-1), Johnstown Christian (0-1) Kennedy keys ...

Lady Eagles tennis above .500 mark

HUNTINGDON — The Tyrone girls tennis team improved to 3-2 on Wednesday, thanks to a 4-0 win over Huntingdon in high school play. The Lady Eagles got singles wins from Ezri Bumgarner and Jocelyn Diel. They also earned doubles victories from the tandems of Cassidy Fleck-Grace Zimmerman and Cassie Behrer-Addison Davis. SINGLES: 1, Bumgarner, T, def. Boonie, 6-0, 6-0; 2, Diehl, T, def. Stapleton, 6-0, 6-1 DOUBLES: 1, Fleck-Zimmerman, T, def. Weller-Wiser, 6-0, 6-1; 2, Behrer-Davis, T, def. Huang-Dolan, 6-0, 6-1 Records: Huntingdon (0-5); Tyrone (3-2). Central picks up No. ...

Doubles team helps Lady Tigers defeat rival Lady Lions

HOLLIDAYSBURG — Hollidaysburg’s No. 2 doubles team of Olivia Panaro and Rina Stiffler came through with a 6-3, 6-4 victory to give the Lady Tigers a 3-2 win over rival Altoona in high school girls tennis action on Tuesday. Hollidaysburg, which received singles wins from Crosby Denis and Grace Muriceak, improved to 4-0, while Altoona, which got a singles win from Andie Adams and a doubles victory from Emma Hovan and Addy Mitchell, fell to 4-1. SINGLES: 1, Denis, H, def. S. Irwin, 6-1, 6-2. 2, Muriceak, H, def. Williams, 6-0, 6-1. 3, Adams, A, def. Moritz, 4-6, 6-0, 7-5. DOUBLES: 1, ...

Hollidaysburg wins Forest Hills tourney

SIDMAN — Hollidaysburg won the high school girls volleyball Forest Hills Kickoff Tournament on Saturday after going 8-0 in pool play and beating three teams in the playoffs to win the Gold Division title. The Lady Tigers topped Richland, 25-15, 25-11, in the championship after topping ...

BG boys golf piling up victories

EBENSBURG — The Bishop Guilfoyle Academy boys golf team defeated both Bishop Carroll and Penn Cambria on Monday afternoon in high school action at the Ebensburg Country Club. The Marauders, who improved to 14-1, finished at 306 while the Panthers wound up with a 332. The Huskies were third at 360. Grant Okonak led BG with a 74 while Penn Cambria’s top scorer was Colten Karlheim. Carroll was led by Ryen Myers’ 80. BISHOP GUILFOYLE (306): Okonak 74, Sheehan 76, Nachtman 77, Boland 79 PENN CAMBRIA (332): Karlheim 75, Durbin 80, Gides 86, Michina 91 BISHOP CARROLL (360): Myers 80, ...