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Akron rallies to best Curve, 7-6

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AKRON, OH. – The Akron RubberDucks completed a miraculous rally to earn a 7-6 win over the Curve on Wednesday night at 7 17 Credit Union Park in Akron. Altoona held a 4-1 lead with two outs and the bases empty in the ninth inning before the ‘Ducks managed to start their comeback. After a walk and a run-scoring double to make it 4-2, Akron outfielder Jaison Chourio launched a pinch-hit, game-tying two-run homer. In the top of the tenth inning Altoona got RBI singles from Callan Moss and Lonnie White Jr. to take a 6-4 lead. Akron rallied for three runs in the bottom of the inning, ...

Lions make IWLCA Academic Honor Roll

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UNIVERSITY PARK – On Wednesday afternoon, seven Nittany Lions were named to the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) Division I Academic Honor Roll with the team being named an IWLCA Academic Honor Squad. Junior Lily Strohecker, seniors Emily Bette, Erika Ho, Lauren Tinson and Payton Wainman along with graduate students Julia Basciano and Anna Salerno were all named to the IWLCA Academic Honor Roll. To be named an IWLCA Academic Honor Squads for the 2024-25 academic year, the women’s lacrosse team must have posted a 3.2 or higher team GPA for the academic ...

Mifflin County Babe Ruth 14s finish seventh

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BY RAY WILDE Sentinel correspondent OLD BRIDGE, NJ — The Mifflin County Babe Ruth coaching staff of the 14-year-old All-Stars have to be pleased. The team went 1-3 at the Mid-Atlantic Regionals and finished in a tie for seventh. This year’s team scored 23 runs. Last year Mifflin County as 13-year-olds were 0-4 and scored only five runs. They played at the same place, Old Bridge, New Jersey. “We were very pleased with the effort our team put forth this year," said Keith Baker, the Mifflin County manager. “It was very good competition and we won one game ...

Curve launch four homers in win over RubberDucks

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AKRON, OH. – Lonnie White Jr. hit two of Altoona’s four home runs in an 8-7 win on Tuesday afternoon at Akron’s 7 17 Credit Union Park. Altoona jumped all over the RubberDucks in the early stages of Tuesday’s game, sitting through a 1:42 rain delay from the scheduled start time. Facing rehabbing Guardians lefty Tim Herrin, Altoona loaded the bases with one out before he hit his hard pitch limit. Murf Gray stepped up after the pitching change and launched a Grand Slam, his second homer in four games with the Curve and his 25th of the season. Lonnie White Jr. followed him just two ...

Spikes knock off Cutters, 8-5

Penn State

WILLIAMSPORT– Justin Journette capped a three-homer sixth inning for the State College Spikes with the longest of them all, a 467-foot, two-run shot that was the longest ever hit in MLB Draft League play, as the Spikes defeated the Williamsport Crosscutters, 8-5, on Tuesday night at Journey Bank Ballpark at Historic Bowman Field. Journette, who homered twice in Monday night’s game at the same ballpark, sent his blast almost over the 45-foot-high batter’s eye in dead center field on an 0-1 pitch from Williamsport (7-4 2nd Half) starter Kenney Fabian (0-1). The round-tripper was the ...

Some Babe Ruth World Series Trivia

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BY RAY WILDE Sentinel correspondent LEWISTOWN — With the upcoming Babe Ruth World Series, here are some thoughts and trivia concerning the upcoming World Series. The trip to Branson, Missouri is 1,061 miles (from Lewistown). That will rank fifth on the longest road trips Mifflin County has taken. The two longest trips were to Longview, Washington, 2,714 miles. Mifflin County made the trip twice in 2004 and 2018. The other two trips before Branson were in 2021 to Eagle Pass, Texas (1,805 miles) and Williston, North Dakota in 2022 (1,623 miles). —-------- ...