By Todd Irwin sports@altoonamirror.com Tyrone freshman 172-pounder Kyle Scott was admittedly nervous before his quarterfinal bout in the Southwest Regional Class 2A Tournament on Friday night. Well before both of his bouts, he was pacing up and down the gym floor between the four mats at ...
Penn Cambria’s Trent Hoover made a big leap at the Southwest Regional Tournament last season when he captured the 126-pound title after going 0-2 in the tournament the year before. Hoover enters this weekend’s regional tournament at the Altoona Fieldhouse as the only wrestler from the Mirror coverage area with a regional title under his belt. Another title could possibly propel him toward his first medal at next week’s PIAA Championships. “Nothing is a guarantee by any means,” Penn Cambria coach Todd Niebauer said. “There are real, real tough kids coming in. We obviously ...
107 POUNDS: Finalists: Mason Beatty, Mount Union vs. Dominic Deputy, Chestnut Ridge. Champion: Deputy. Comment: Tyrone’s Korry Walls should get a shot at Deputy in the semifinals. 114 POUNDS: Finalists: Landon Bainey, West Branch vs. Nico Fanella, Indiana. Champion: Bainey. Comment: Bainey will get a huge quarterfinal test against Burgettstown’s Parker Sentipal. Ridge’s Easton Mull could meet Fanella in the semis. 121 POUNDS: Finalists: Lucas Fye, Bald Eagle Area vs. Jack Kazalas, Quaker Valley. Champion: Fye. Comment: Ridge’s Brock Holderbaum could face Fye in the ...
When Altoona freshman Braiden Weaver won his championship finals bout at the Northwest Regional Tournament, the 107-pounder flexed toward the Altoona section of the Altoona Fieldhouse. A little later on Saturday night, sophomore teammate Luke Sipes held up two fingers at the same section ...
JOHNSTOWN — Chestnut Ridge won the District 5 Class 2A team championship for the 12th year in a row Saturday at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. Dom Deputy, Easton Mull, Kobi Burkett, Calan Bollman and Sam Albright won District 5 individual titles. It was Bollman’s fourth ...
By Todd Irwin sports@altoonamirror.com Altoona stars Braiden Weaver and Luke Sipes didn’t just win their quarterfinal bouts in the Northwest Regional Class 3A Tournament on Friday night at the Altoona Fieldhouse. They dominated those bouts with an impressive display of chain wrestling. Moving fluidly from one move to another from the top position, Weaver and Sipes overwhelmed their opponents. Weaver racked a pin of Cathedral Prep’s Aiden Carter in 51 seconds at 107 pounds. Sipes, the returning regional champion, nearly won by technical fall in the first period at 152, but ...
