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Belleville tops Strodes Mills in Babe Ruth play

BELLEVILLE — Belleville got off to a quick start and never looked back on Tuesday as it beat Strodes Mills, 31-0, in a Mifflin County Babe Ruth game. The game was called after five innings due to the 10-run rule. Belleville, which was playing its first game of the season, was ahead 18-0 after two innings. The Big Valley club scored six runs in the first and added 12 more in the second. Belleville finished with 19 hits. Levi Anderson led the way with four hits. He scored five times and knocked in three runs. Ethan Rheam also had three hits for Belleville and he also drove in three ...

Tough treading

ALTOONA — The second day of the District 6 Track and Field Championships for the 3A class and the 2A class athletes at Mansion Park in Altoona resumed on Wednesday after Tuesdays preliminaries. In team points the Mifflin County boys are in third place in 3A with 24 points and the girls ...

Record-setting runs

ALTOONA — The District 6 Track and Field Championships started on Tuesday at Mansion Park in Altoona. There are three area teams that we are watching looking to advance to the PIAA Championships in Shippensburg. The Mifflin County Huskies had a good day advancing athletes to the state ...

Miscues costly to Huskies in loss to Wildcats

LEWISTOWN — As finales go, this one by the Mifflin County Huskies was forgettable. The Huskies, winners of the Mid Penn’s Commonwealth Division and freshly anointed top seed for the District 6 Class 6A Baseball Tournament, made three costly errors and five Mifflin County hurlers combined to walk eight batters in a 6-3 non-conference loss to Central Mountain at Capouillez Field on Tuesday afternoon, in Lewistown. The Wildcats (13-4) grabbed a 2-0 lead in the top of the second inning as Darius Shade singled on a line drive to left, and, one batter later, Austin Frank reached on an ...

Local flavor at Juniata College

HUNTINGDON — Spring sports have wrapped up at Juniata College. While none of the Eagles’ teams achieved much in the name of fanfare, the efforts of local standouts certainly made a difference on the playing fields. On the diamond, Mifflin County product Landen Eichhorn finished his ...

Indian hurlers tame Tigers for TVL win

From Staff reports COCOLAMUS — Kalynn Brown and Destiny Yohn combined on a two-hit shutout as the Juniata Indians blanked rival East Juniata 6-0 in Tri-Valley League softball action on Tuesday. Brown tossed the first four innings, allowing one hit and striking out two and walking three. Yohn got the win after pitching the final three innings, giving up one hit, striking out nine and walking one. The game was a pitching duel until the sixth as Tigers hurler Madison Snyder had sailed along. She ran into trouble though as Sophia Smith walked and eventually scored on an error. The ...