Eleven teams from the Altoona Mirror’s core coverage area qualified for the PIAA basketball tournament, which begins Friday with first-round games. Four of those teams will play that night and seven more will open their state playoff runs on Saturday afternoon. Seven of the 11 teams will ...
MILTON — Bellwood-Antis’ Juliette Cuevas and Northern Bedford’s Rachel Clouse qualified for this week’s PIAA girls Wrestling Championships by earning medals at the Central Regional Tournament on Saturday at Milton High School. Clouse, a freshman, finished third at 106 pounds. Cuevas, a senior, took fourth at 100 pounds. The top four girls at every weight qualified for the state tournament. Clouse pinned her first two opponents in 3:31 and 3:44, respectively, but she dropped a 9-6 decision to Montgomery’s eventual champion Jenna Houseknecht in the semifinals. Clouse put a ...
CRESSON — Trailing early in its District 6 Class 3A championship game Friday at Mount Aloysius, Central Cambria turned to freshman Delaney Snyder, who had a traditional three-point play and a 3-pointer to end the first quarter to put the Lady Devils ahead. Snyder later helped close the ...
Tyrone senior Kyle Scott and Altoona junior Gavin Ciampoli won regional wrestling titles on Saturday. Scott captured his first Class 2A Southwest Regional title with a 7-0 win over Derry Area's Brady Brown in the finals at the Altoona Area High School Fieldhouse. Scott (43-0) went 4-0 n the ...
CRESSON — In more than one way, turnabout was sweet and fair play for the Bishop Guilfoyle Marauders in their 74-54 District 6 Class 3A boys basketball championship victory over Forest Hills Friday night before a packed house at the Mount Aloysius College Athletic and Convention ...
Down 3-1 entering the third period of the 107-pound Southwest Class 2A Regional quarterfinal against Elizabeth Forward’s Warren Wolesagle, Central freshman Ty Matthews noticed Henning was running out of gas. Wolesagle took an injury timeout when the second period ended. “I just (had ...
