By Michael Boytim mboytim@altoonamirror.com MECHANICSBURG — When teams talk about being a family, it’s usually used in a figurative way. For many of the players on the Bishop Guilfoyle Academy football team, it’s literal. There are five sets of brothers on the Marauders’ roster — ...
By Michael Boytim mboytim@altoonamirror.com Any headline about a local kid suffering sudden cardiac arrest playing high school football should justifiably worry any parent who is considering whether or not their son should participate in the sport. A similar concern over concussions and the impact of that injury on developing brains has also caused some hesitation from parents before signing their kids up for sports over the last decade. But one parent who would encourage kids to keep participating in extracurricular activities is Dave Davis — the father of Hollidaysburg ...
With scholastic sports on a break until August, many kids — and their parents — are spending the summer playing recreational sports. Many sports, like football, wrestling and baseball (unless you play for Lilly’s City League team), get harder or impossible to participate in the older you get. If you can find a league, you also run the risk of injury which could keep you away from a full-time job. Two sports that remain popular for adults into their 80s though are running and golf. Other than being exercise that people can easily find places to participate in, the sports ...
UNIVERSITY PARK — Carson Kensinger couldn’t stand to watch the final moments of PIAA officials presenting Governor Mifflin with the state championship trophy Friday night after the Mustangs’ 2-1 win over Hollidaysburg in the Class 5A baseball final at the Penn State University’s Medlar ...
HERSHEY — None of the Bishop Guilfoyle Catholic players who stepped on the court during a dominant first quarter in the PIAA Class 1A championship game Friday at the Giant Center had ever played in a state final. You certainly couldn’t tell that from watching the game. In fact, the Lady Marauders have played beyond their years throughout the 2023-2024 season. The majority of the year, BG started three freshmen, Morgan Ruggery, Maurie Querry and Anberlyn Petrecca, and a pair of sophomores, Stella Yeskey and Alana Lightner. Once the postseason started, sophomore Gia Adams joined ...
Relegation is a term used in the English Premier League, the world’s top soccer league based in Europe in which the bottom three teams each season are sent down to a lower league and three teams from the lower league replace those teams the next season. According to a report from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette earlier this week, Butler High School would like to bring a form of relegation to the PIAA. The school made a presentation to the PIAA’s strategic planning committee that involved a team being allowed to ask to move down in classification due to a lack of competitiveness over ...
