MECHANICSBURG — Anthony Macri made a triumph return behind the wheel by winning the Pennsylvania Sprint Car Speedweek opener Friday night at Williams Grove Speedway in Mechanicsburg. Marci, 27, of Dillsburg, broke his back in a crash at the Grove on April 3. Friday night was his first race ...
UNIVERSITY PARK – Penn State swimming and diving head coach Hollie Bonewit-Cron has hired Mike Smiechowski as Associate Head Coach. Smiechowski served as head coach at St. Bonaventure from 2022-26. He helped the women’s team to tie its highest team finish at the Atlantic 10 Conference Championships since 2017-18 and guided the Atlantic 10’s only program (men or women) to improve its team score four consecutive years at the A-10 championships. He mentored Anna Forjan, who was the 2026 A10 Women’s Swimmer of the Year runner-up after posting 57 points at the conference ...
BELLTOWN — There were a lot of twists and turns in the Belleville-Belltown Babe Ruth game on Thursday night. Most of the twists and turns went in favor of Belltown. Belleville led 4-3 going into the last inning. With darkness and a rainstorm coming towards the field, it seemed like desperate times for Belltown. Both teams were battling for third place in the Mifflin County Babe Ruth League. For Belltown the bottom of the seventh started with three straight walks. Tanner Shawver and Teagan Kauffman drew walks and Luke Shawver was given a free pass ...
The State College Spikes are home for a trio of home games on Friday, Saturday and Sunday as they start a stretch of seven home games in 10 days leading up to Independence Day weekend and the America250 celebration in Happy Valley. Highlights include a fantastic FIREWORKS show to light up the ...
CURVE, Pa. – The Curve dropped their first game of the second half in a 7-4 defeat to Reading in game three of the series Thursday night at Peoples Natural Gas Field. Derek Berg logged his 12th multi-hit game of the season while P.J. Hilson tallied his eighth. The offense struggled with runners in scoring position as the Curve went 3-for-11 in those spots. Altoona jumped into the lead in the top of the first on Callan Moss’ RBI single in the bottom of the first. Reading drew even in the second before Hilson re-took the lead with a single in the second. Reading took the lead for ...
The State College Spikes announced the promotion of Dan Petrazzolo to General Manager and the hiring of Jonathan Runkle as Director of Sales, effective immediately. Petrazzolo has been the Spikes’ Assistant General Manager since 2015 and the operations head at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park since Feburary of 2007. A native of New Jersey, Dan worked as Director of Operations with the Atlantic City Surf in the then-independent Atlantic League before joining the Spikes. For the past two decades, he has worked closely with the Spikes’ MLB affiliates on areas such as clubhouse operations, ...
