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Six Lions make US World Team

Penn State

UNIVERSITY PARK === Six members of the Penn State Nittany Lion Olympic Regional Training Center/Nittany Lion Wrestling Club competed at 2026’s Final X at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. Five of those competitors won their best-of-three series and earned spots on the 2026 U.S. World Team. All six are already part of the 2026 U.S. National Team. Reigning NCAA Champion Levi Haines battled Chance Marsteller at 79 kg. Haines dominated the first match-up, post a 6-1 victory. Haines then dominated the second period in the next bout, using a four-point move to roll to a 6-3 win. He ...

Carey hauls in USA U20 javelin crown

Penn State

EUGENE, Ore. – Rising sophomore Nolan Carey of the Penn State track and field team earned a spot on Team USA for the World Under-20 Championships after winning the USA U20 javelin title Thursday afternoon at Hayward Field. Carey claimed the national title with a throw of 66.38m. Carey recorded the mark on his second attempt in the preliminary round, and it remained unbeaten through the final. Rising sophomore Bryce Thompson will also compete at the USA Under-20 Championships, taking part in the shot put on Friday at 7 p.m. ET, where he will look to earn a spot on Team USA’s Shot ...

Curve sink RubberDucks, 4-1

Local Sports

AKRON, OH. – After the Curve dropped Wednesday’s suspended game with the Akron RubberDucks, 10-9 in ten innings, Altoona pitchers Connor Oliver and Jake Shirk combined on all nine innings on the mound in a 4-1 victory in the regularly scheduled game on Thursday at 7 17 Credit Union Park. June 17 - 10-9 L (10) Despite getting the first career two-homer game from Omar Alfonzo, the Curve dropped the completion of the suspended game with Akron, 10-9, in ten innings. Altoona held a one-run lead going into the ninth inning, however, a throwing error by 3B Javier Rivas on a potential ...

Sooners, Tar Heels advance to CWS final

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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Jason Walk and Dasan Harris each hit two home runs and Trey Gambill also went deep to lead Oklahoma to the College World Series finals with an 11-4 win over Georgia on Wednesday night. The Sooners (41-22) will meet North Carolina in the best-of-three championship ...

Spikes break out the brooms versus Canada

Penn State

UNIVERSITY PARK – Trent Turner hit the State College Spikes’ first home run at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park in the 20th Anniversary Season, and the Spikes came back twice to defeat the Canadian Junior National Team, 11-8, on Thursday night to clinch a three-game sweep in the International Series. Turner, a utility infielder from Western Carolina who played shortstop on Thursday night, launched a 418-foot shot off the batter’s eye in the fifth inning for a two-run blast, his first of the season, to bump the Spikes’ (8-7) lead to 7-4. The Spikes trailed 4-0 after Maxime Blain’s ...

PGC wants public to report turkeys this summer

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HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Game Commission is again asking the public to report sightings of all wild turkeys they see this summer. The annual Wild Turkey Summer Sighting Survey runs July 1 through Aug. 31. Public participation is important for wild turkey population management. These reports allow the agency to estimate how good the wild turkey ‘hatch’ was and compare long-term reproductive success within Pennsylvania and across states, as this is a standard methodology used across the country. Data also are used in a population model to track trends in wild turkey ...