EBENSBURG — Bishop Carroll Catholic, common knowledge holds, dealt with a tough stretch through the 2½ weeks that led up to the PIAA Class 1A girls basketball playoffs. Junior Adelyn Myers admitted the Lady Huskies struggled to not take DuBois Central Catholic seriously early in their ...
Altoona Area High School junior Gavin Ciampoli became the first Mountain Lion wrestler in 52 years to win a state championship with a gold medal performance in Hershey on Saturday. Ciampoli decisioned West Scranton senior Tommy Schechterly, 9-3, in the Class 3A 160-pound championship match at ...
Four area girls and one boys basketball teams opened the PIAA playoffs on Saturday with victories. In Class 1A girls, the Bishop Guilfoyle Lady Marauders routed Otto-Eldred, 71-30, Bishop Carroll beat DuBois Central Catholic, 47-30, and Williamsburg topped Serra Catholic, 60-36. In Class 4A ...
PATTON — Momentum can be a fickle factor in any athletic contest, often swaying back and forth throughout the course of a game, and changing hands within a few minutes to decisively sway the final outcome. That was the case for Cambria Heights in its PIAA Class 3A first-round girls ...
Altoona girls basketball coach Chris Fleegle took a moment to reflect after one of the biggest gut-checks of the season for his team on Friday evening in the PIAA Class 6A first round. “Proud … just proud,” Fleegle said. The Lady Lions took a banked-in 3-pointer from Norwin’s Ava ...
EBENSBURG — Central Cambria’s Katie George is a matchup problem for nearly every team she plays against. The junior proved to be entirely too much for Our Lady of Sacred Heart to handle on Friday night in the first round of the PIAA Class 3A state playoffs. George had 19 points at the ...
