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Please keep Conaway in your prayers

Notes and observations from a PIAA wrestling season that has yet to start and will hopefully be held in some form this winter: n The past year has been an extraordinarily difficult one for just about everybody on the planet, including many with wrestling ties to the Mirror’s current or former coverage area. Dave Conaway, who wrestled in high school at Philipsburg-Osceola and later coached at Bellwood-Antis, is waging a heroic struggle against a degenerative nerve disease as this year comes to a close. Conaway, who will turn 63 on Christmas Day, is in hospice care at his Adams ...

Scholastic sports off until Jan. 4

As cases of the COVID-19 pandemic surge throughout the state, and just one day after he had tested positive for the coronavirus himself, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf on Thursday decreed a temporary shutdown throughout the commonwealth of various businesses and activities, which will also affect PIAA sports. The restrictions will begin Saturday and prohibit all sports activities at the state’s K-12 public schools, non-public schools, private schools, and at the club, travel, recreational and intramural levels until Monday, Jan. 4. Professional and collegiate sports events will be ...

Area gyms remain silent for now

Tonight was supposed to be the first night of competition for the winter scholastic sports season, but in District 6, there won’t be any tip-offs, grappling or dives into a pool. And there might not be for quite some time. The PIAA decided not to delay the season at its meeting Wednesday, but no schools in the Mirror’s region have met the 15-practice preseason rule to begin competition tonight and likely won’t reach that mark any time soon, especially with Thursday’s announcement that all sports at K-12 schools have been shut down starting Saturday until Jan. 4 by the ...

D6 could opt out of state playoffs

Due to concern from school superintendents in Intermediate Units 8, 10 and 11, which make up most of District 6 in scholastic sports, there is a possibility that the district may not participate in the PIAA playoffs during the winter sports season. “Everything is on the table given the way our school boards are pushing back the start of athletics,” District 6 chairman Bill Marshall said. At this point, there is nothing set in stone and a decision isn’t expected until January, though the District 6 committee will meet to discuss feedback from the superintendents today. “I ...

Feelings for Pitt never wavered

For more than a year, it was almost a foregone conclusion that Glendale High School senior and two-time PIAA Class 2A wrestling champion Brock McMillen would further his wrestling career on the NCAA Division I level at the University of Pittsburgh. McMillen, a three-time PIAA finalist with a ...

Glendale gets new wrestling coach

The Glendale Area High School wrestling program enjoyed a banner year in the 2019-20 season. After logging a 16-2 dual meet record, Glendale won its first-ever District 6 Class 2A team championship and sent four wrestlers to the PIAA state tournament at Hershey’s Giant Center, where Brock ...