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Opponents in place for Class 2A tennis final

The top two seeds — No. 1 Xane Whitesel of Juniata and No. 2 Nilesh Singh of Richland — advanced to the finals of the District 6 Class 2A Singles Tennis Tournament on Monday afternoon. Each won two matches at the Mansion Park courts. Whitesel beat Bishop McCort’s Cameron Smith, 6-1, 6-1, and Westmont Hilltop’s Sebastian Masterson, 6-1, 6-3, and Singh topped Maverick Fleck of Tyrone, 6-1, 6-1, and Easton Ragno of Westmont, 6-1, 6-3. The two will face each other at noon Wednesday. The District 4-6 Class 3A tournament will be held today. QUARTERFINALS: Whitesel, Juniata, def. ...

Dragons win at Forest Hills

SIDMAN — Central captured the first two sets (25-23 and 25-13), lost the third (25-18) and then won the fourth (25-21) to claim a 3-1 win over Forest Hills Monday night in boys high school volleyball. Bryson Brooke led the Dragons with 14 kills and 14 digs, Christian Heuston tallied 11 kills, Hayden Smith had 10 kills. Logan Hummel finished with 30 assists, while Blake Reynolds came up with 16 digs as Central improved to 3-7. SERVICE POINTS CENTRAL: Kocsis 8, Hummel 6, Grace 6, Brooks 4, Reynolds 4, Heuston 3. Records: Central (3-7); Forest Hills (3-4). JV: Central won ...

C-K ups record to 8-0

ALEXANDRIA — Bella Francona had three hits, including a double, and drove in six runs to lead Claysburg-Kimmel to a 15-0 win over Juniata Valley in high school softball on Saturday. Jenna Helsel doubled and tripled and drove in two runs for the Lady Bulldogs, who improved to 8-0. Emalee Cavender drove in three runs, and Launa Musselman blanked the Lady Hornets from the circle while striking out two and walking three. SCORE BY INNINGS Claysburg-Kimmel 120 336 X—15 13 2 Juniata Valley 000 000 X— 0 7 1 2B—Cavender, Helsel, Francona (CK). 3B—Helsel (CK). ...

Victory over Somerset ups Tigers’ mark to 14-0

HOLLIDAYSBURG — The Hollidaysburg Area High School boys tennis team ran its record to 14-0 with a 5-0 sweep of Somerest on Friday. Ben Johnson, Garrett Bouchard and Michael Waibel won singles matches in straight sets for the Tigers, and Aamir Azad and Yvan Chen, and Alex Arbogast and Jacob Sidney each won in doubles play. SINGLES: 1, Johnson, H, def. Grant, 6-3, 6-3. 2, Bouchard, H, def. Petrosky, 6-0, 6-0; 3, Waibel, H, def. Wassilchalk, 6-0, 6-2. DOUBLES: 1, Azad-Chen, H, def. Antram-Egal, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2. 2, Arbogast-Sidney, H, def. Bowers-St. Clair, 6-2, 7-5. Records: ...

Altoona boys bring home tourney title

MILL HALL — The Altoona boys team won all three of its matches at the Central Mountain Tournament on Thursday in high school tennis action. The Mountain Lions started with a 3-2 win over the host Wildcats, then defeated Galeton by a 4-1 score before finishing off the day with a 3-2 victory over Mifflin County. Josh Adams captured two wins playing in the No. 2 singles spot and combined with Luke Mitchell, who also won at No. 1 singles, for a victory in No. 1 doubles. Aiden Aiken joined with Brady Sassano to take two wins in doubles matches and played with Avery Lanzendorfer, who ...

Mountain Lions earn 5th win of the season

MARTINSBURG — Altoona improved to 5-3 with a three set victory (25-12, 25-12, 25-14) over Central Thursday night in high school boys volleyball action. Altoona improved to 5-3 while Central fell to 2-7. Lukas Weathersbee led the Lions with 12 service points, including four aces, eight kills and four digs, while Caleb Fries had 10 kills and six blocks, and Sam Kessinger tallied 23 assists and Nino Yohn totaled 15 digs. Bryson Brooks fronted the Scarlet Dragons with five kills and five digs, while Christian Heuston had four kills and Logan Hummel registered 11 assists. SERVICE ...