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NBC falls short to Berlin

BERLIN — The Northern Bedford County High School softball team’s season reached an end on Friday with an 8-1 loss to top-seeded Berlin Brothersvalley in the District 5 Class 1A semifinals. Mylee Mitchell struck out 13 batters for the Lady Panthers, who committed six errors. The Lady Panthers, which finished the season at 12-8, got a two-out single from Callie Miller in the top of the first that scored Emilee Beach to account for the lone NBC run. Elena Ritchey tossed a one-hitter with nine strikeouts for Berlin, which will play Meyersdale in the championship game Tuesday at ...

Tiger duo bows out in 1st round

HERSHEY — The District 6 Class 3A doubles tennis champions lost in the first round of the PIAA Championships on Friday at the Hershey Racquet Center. Hollidaysburg seniors Garrett Bouchard and Felix Xu fell to Dallastown senior Nirvan Joshi and freshman James Anderson, 7-6 (9), 6-3.

Lady Lions show improvements

EBENSBURG — Altoona softball coach Alyssa Rumberger said the Lady Lions made significant strides in their bid to attain respectability during the 2026 softball season. “I think we took some big strides this year. We had a great core of seniors that have been playing together for several ...

Solid start doesn’t last for Altoona

CRESSON — Altoona baseball started off Wednesday’s District 6 Class 6A championship game against Mifflin County with a Tanner Stroup home run and two base hits from Nick Kraft and Eric McAllister. There wasn’t much to be excited about for Mountain Lions after that point. Even after a ...

Lady Blue Devils secure spot in finals

BELLWOOD — Bellwood-Antis has enjoyed a special resurgence this season in high school softball, but falling behind by two runs in the first inning of the District 6 Class 2A semifinals to the team that ended your season a year ago would shake up plenty of young teams. But it seems despite ...

Northern Bedford beats Southern Fulton, weather

LOYSBURG — Even though Mother Nature rained on a few parades in central Pennsylvania on Wednesday — talking of course about the postponement of several district softball and baseball playoff games — she wasn’t able to put a damper on the Northern Bedford softball team. But she tried. ...