LEWISTOWN — Midway through the third quarter, two Carson Franklin free throws put Mifflin County ahead of Altoona by 22 points in their District 6 Class 6A semifinal game Tuesday night, and things looked like they might get ugly for the Mountain Lions. Instead, seniors Ethan and Dylan Hicks ...
CLAYSBURG — Trailing an inspired and feisty seventh-seeded Homer-Center team by six points as the third quarter wound down in a District 6 Class 2A quarterfinal-round boys basketball playoff game Tuesday night, second-seeded Claysburg-Kimmel was in dire need of a boost. And sophomore guard ...
WESTOVER — While Harmony has had a nice season with the first time making the District 6 Class 1A playoffs in a few years, they hadn’t seen a player quite like Bishop Carroll’s Jace Casses. “A couple kids came to the bench and said, ‘Coach, you told us he was good, but you didn’t ...
The Juniata Valley girls basketball team is perhaps the biggest victim of the historic dominance of District 6 in the Class 1A classification the past two seasons. The Lady Hornets have had back-to-back solid seasons, and this season they won 15 games — including a triumph over 19-4 Everett — but the postseason outlook with Bishop Guilfoyle Academy, Bishop Carroll Catholic, Saint Joseph’s Academy and Williamsburg as the top four seeds has always looked bleak, as it would for almost any other Class 1A school attempting to crack the top of District 6’s bracket in the ...
NORTHERN CAMBRIA — Juniata Valley basketball coach William Lightner said long-distance travel does not appear to agree with the Green Hornets. “Historically for some reason, and Ty knows it, long bus rides do us in,” he said, nodding to Huntingdon Daily News reporter Ty States while he discussed the Green Hornets’ 77-51 drubbing by Northern Cambria in a District 6 Class 2A boys’ basketball quarterfinal game on Tuesday at Ted Keenan Memorial Gym. If the long bus ride did not do in Juniata Valley, the Colts’ brisk pace did. “It was not the start I was looking for. They ...
ARMAGH — After falling to Heritage Conference champion United twice in the regular season, Portage knew of the tall task the Lions presented in the District 6 Class 2A quarterfinals. The Mustangs hung with top-seeded United early, but the Lions eventually found their footing behind their high-pressure defense. United turned a two-point mid-first quarter advantage into a 34-point lead at halftime by forcing 25 Portage turnovers in a 71-30 victory Tuesday night. “We came in with a plan to play a little bit slower because like to go fast,” Portage coach Jade Zatek said. “We ...
