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PC’s Hoover wins strong weight class

CRESSON — Penn Cambria’s Trent Hoover has been very successful in high school wrestling career, including being a two-time state qualifier, but he had never been voted the Outstanding Wrestler of any tournament. On Saturday night in the Panther Holiday Classic at Mount Alloysius College, the Panther senior 152-pounder added that feat to his wrestling resume. Hoover capped off his second Panther Holiday Classic title with two impressive wins that earned him the Most Outstanding Wrestler award. The second-seeded Hoover beat Bedford’s returning tournament champ Kross Cassidy, ...

Weaver places 2nd

MILL HALL — Altoona’s Braiden Weaver reached the 114-pound finals of the rugged King of the Mountain on Saturday at Central Mountain High School, but he had to settle for second place in high school wrestling. The second-seeded Weaver dropped a 4-3 decision to Chestnut Ridge’s PIAA Class 2A state runner-up Dominic Deputy in the finals. Weaver and Deputy are actually training partners at Orchard Wrestling Club. Weaver, a returning state fifth-placer, reached the finals with a technical fall, pin in 38 seconds and a 1-0 win in the semifinals. Fellow 2022-23 Mirror Wrestler of ...

Area four qualify for semifinal round

CRESSON — Four wrestlers from the Mirror coverage area advanced to the semifinals of the 50-team Panther Holiday Classic on Friday at Mount Aloysius College. Returning Panther Classic champion Trent Hoover advanced to the semifinals at 152 pounds, as did Tyrone’s Braden Ewing at 285, Glendale’s Daniel Williams at 285 and Huntingdon/Williamsburg’s Andrew McMonagle at 189. The quarterfinal round was a rough one for area wrestlers in the tournament. Eight other area wrestlers lost in the round, but are still alive in the consolations. Altoona, which had two champs last year in ...

Tyrone coach impressed with early results

LOYSBURG — Tyrone High School wrestling coach Quentin Wright was a former two-time NCAA champion and four-time All-American during his wrestling days at Penn State University. It takes a lot to impress Wright on a wrestling mat, but this year’s Golden Eagles team has been managing to accomplish the feat. Tyrone parlayed four true falls and a technical fall into a 41-27 dual meet victory over Northern Bedford at the Northern Bedford High School gymnasium Wednesday night. The Golden Eagles evened their dual meet record at 4-4 for the season while earning Wright’s ...

Shift work exactly what Vikings needed in win over Valley

By Todd Irwin sports@altoonamirror.com FLINTON — Before the dual meet against rival Moshannon Valley, Glendale coach Brian Storm tried to figure out how the Vikings should wrestle the Black Knights – straight up or with a lineup shift. It was a tough choice, so he made the choice the democratic way. “We looked at the lineup and I asked them as a team what they wanted to do,” Storm said. “We had the choice of wrestling straight up or to bump some guys up and we could get more guys in and maybe have George (Campbell) wrestle (Rocco) Reifer. They were all for (the lineup ...

Tyrone’s hot start leads to victory

TYRONE — Tyrone won seven of the first eight matches to build a 42-5 lead and then coasted past Bedford, 58-17, in high school wrestling action on Tuesday night. Remington Fleck, Cohen Wallace, Kyle Scott, Andrew Weaver, Richard Rawlings and Andrew Detwiler recorded falls for the Golden Eagles, Dominic Pluebell won by injury default, and Braden Ewing won by major decision. 133–Rumberger, T, won by forfeit. 139–Whitby, T, won by forfeit. 145–Fleck, T, pinned Hagen, 2:32. 152–Wallace, T, pinned Wetz, 3:14. 160–Cassidy, B, tech. fall Buck, 15-0 (4:00). 172–Scott, T, pinned ...