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Central Pennsylvania’s best golfers, by the decade

Although golf has been played in central Pennsylvania since the late 1890s, the game didn’t gain a strong foothold in our area until the 1920s when new courses like Blairmont, Park Hills, Tyrone and Summit Country Club opened to the public. With plenty of quality courses in place, top-level completion naturally followed. Since the 1920s, enough competition has occurred to allow the area’s top golfers to distinguish themselves. The following is a list of the top golfers in the greater Altoona area for each decade over the past 100 years. 1920s: Lawrence Canan Known as ...

Hollidaysburg native big part of NBA success story

The heat wave sweeping the western part of the United States drove the temperature in Phoenix to a record 118 degrees the other day. Fortunately, Hollidaysburg and current Phoenix Suns senior vice president Jeff Bower joked Thursday night, “It’s only hot outside.” That’s not ...

Winning Tyrone pitcher adds to his family legacy

UNIVERSITY PARK — Oley Valley got a taste of professional-level pitching prior to Thursday’s PIAA Class 3A championship game against Tyrone. Lynx head coach Nate Reed, the 2018 Atlantic League Pitcher of the Year, who is still only 33 years old and is considering a return to playing with the Lancaster Barnstormers, threw to his team Wednesday in practice. Reed, a left-handed pitcher who was drafted by the Seattle Mariners in 2010, was trying to prepare his team for Golden Eagles junior lefty Aiden Coleman, who can hit 90 miles per hour on a radar gun and is committed to Penn ...

Eagles buy into lofty goals

Check it out The Tyrone vs Oley Valley baseball game will air on WRTA-AM 1240 & 98.5-FM on Thursday beginning at 1:15 p.m. with the pre-game show. Dave Shannon will do the play-by-play with commentary from Chuck Banas. First pitch is set for 1:30 p.m. The game will also air live on the Pennsylvania Cable Network. When area baseball coaches fill out preseason questionnaires from local media, goals like winning a league or even districts are pretty common. Central coach A.J. Hoenstine has included winning a state championship among his goals for years, which also doesn’t raise any ...

Communities make night memorable

Tyrone senior pitcher Rodney Shultz said last week that a lot of bad memories from losing his junior season due to the coronavirus pandemic could be wiped out with a win over Central in the PIAA Class 3A state baseball semifinals on Monday. But even Shultz couldn’t have imagined the ...

Dragons, Eagles ready for moment

The Central and Tyrone baseball teams both left around 1:30 p.m. for their PIAA Class 3A quarterfinal games on Thursday. They were going opposite directions that day and may have actually even passed each other on the highway. But these two squads have been on a collision course for years. The Scarlet Dragons have set the standard for high school baseball exellence in the area under coach A.J. Hoenstine and played in four PIAA championship games, winning one in 2017. Tyrone coach Kevin Soellner admits the success Central’s baseball program has achieved is what his team has ...