TYRONE — As snow began to fall and pile up outside of Tyrone Area High School on Thursday night, the Central and Tyrone wrestling teams were piling up pins inside the gymnasium. There were pins in 11 of the 13 bouts, with the two non-fall results being forfeits. Eight of the pins were ...
By Todd Irwin sports@altoonamirror.com HUNTINGDON — With a combined 21 wins between Altoona and Huntingdon, the dual meet on Tuesday night before a large crowd figured to be a good one. It didn’t disappoint. The Bearcats charged out to 13-point lead after first five weights, but a major decision from Altoona’s Liam Chirdon at 114 and a pin from teammate Tabor Baker in his season debut at 121 kickstarted the Mountain Lions to a 36-30 victory. “It was back and forth, and Huntingdon’s always a good team,” Altoona coach Joel Gilbert said, “so you never know what ...
PATTON — Central received nine victories by forfeit in a 60-9 rout of Cambria Heights that gave coach Dave Marko his 350th career dual meet win Tuesday in high school wrestling. “The most important thing to me was that the team got another win tonight,” Marko said. “Hopefully we’re building towards what we can do at the district duals. The (number) of wins is just the by-product of it all. I actually didn’t realize where I was until the kids asked me over the weekend how many wins I had, and I started to count everything up at that point.” Blair Miller (215-pounds) ...
INDIANA — Altoona’s Braiden Weaver and Luke Sipes lost close bouts in the finals to finish second in the 57-team Mid-Winter Mayhem on Saturday at IUP’s Kovalchick Convention Center & Athletic Complex. Weaver, ranked third by PA Power Wrestling, dropped a 4-2 decision to Butler’s Santino Sloboda, ranked second in Class 3A, in the 121-pound finals. The second-ranked Sipes dropped a 9-6 decision to Bishop McCort’s returning Class 2A state champion Melvin Miller, a sophomore who’s ranked first in the state in Class 2A and the nation at 160. Hollidaysburg’s Mitchell ...
BELLWOOD — Central dominated Bellwood-Antis, 67-3, with six forfeit wins and three falls in high school wrestling action on Thursday. Carsen Mowery, Braydon Beach and Blair Miller had falls for the Scarlet Dragons, Kaden Horn and Joel Morris won by technical falls, and Walldims Benitez won by decision. Vince Shank won a decision for Bellwood. 107—Ty Matthews, C, (For.) 114—Carsen Mowery, C, over Tanner McElravy, (Fall 1:48) 121—Vince Shank, BA, over Bailey Wilt, (Dec 11-9) 127—Bryer Mickel, C, (For.) 133—Joel Morris, C, over Sean McFarland, (TF 17-0) 139—Jeremiah ...
By John Hartsock jhartsock@altoonamirror.com Clearfield is one of the state’s top-ranked boys wrestling teams at the Class 2A level. Altoona is a pretty good team itself at the Class 3A level, as the Mountain Lions showed Wednesday night by edging the previously unbeaten Bison, 31-29, in a dual meet at the Altoona Area High School Fieldhouse. Altoona won the matches that it needed to win, and perhaps just as importantly, avoided giving up costly bonus points or falls in a couple of the other bouts. “We got points when we needed to, and we were able to do what we needed to ...
