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Lion matmen rule with seven champions

UNIVERSITY PARK — It’s only fitting that after another record-setting dual meet season, the Penn State wrestling team would continue the trend at the Big Ten Wrestling Championships. The Nittany Lions set a team record Sunday in front of 13,226 fans in the Bryce Jordan Center by winning seven individual championships, qualifying all 10 wrestlers for the NCAA Championships and breaking its own Big Ten tournament team scoring record for the second straight year with 184 points to win its fourth consecutive championship. Luke Lilledahl (125), Shayne Van Ness (149), P.J. Duke (157), ...

Bryner and Krepps fuel girls wrestling boom

HERSHEY — Since the recent inception of girls wrestling, the sport’s growth has jumped in leaps and bounds, especially this season. Participation has skyrocketed in just a few short years. Across the PIAA, the number of girls wrestling programs has climbed to 266 statewide, including 14 ...

Beeler returns to lead Mifflin County field hockey program

LEWISTOWN — Mifflin County High School has turned to one of its own to guide the future of its field hockey program. Coletta Beeler, a 2021 graduate of MCHS and a four-year collegiate player, has been named the new head coach for the Huskies. For Beeler, the position represents both a ...

Penn State basketball brings back Booth in crucial moment for Rhoades

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State head coach Mike Rhoades ended the regular season with a message that was equal parts defiant and determined: he’s not going anywhere. Even after a bruising 12–19 campaign that included a 3–17 mark in Big Ten play — the kind of season that tests a ...

Local wrestlers eliminated on Day 2

HERSHEY — The intensity on the mats continued to climb as the five local wrestlers found themselves winning or going home in the second day of the PIAA wrestling state championships at the Giant Center in Hershey Park. What started with five wrestlers still in contention, dropped to one by ...