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Cubbison gets one more chance at NCAAs

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BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — Kylee Cubbison has spent a year thinking about the race she didn’t get to run. The Mifflin County graduate and Bowling Green State University senior came within one round of the NCAA Championships last spring, surviving a rain-soaked opening day in Jacksonville, Fla., to grab the final qualifying spot in the 1,500-meter race before falling short in the quarterfinals. She left Florida knowing exactly how close she had come to Eugene, Ore., and exactly how much it stung to miss it. Now she gets one more chance. Cubbison returns to the NCAA East First Round ...

Huskies can’t control Beavers’ bats in play-in loss

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DUBOIS — Tuesday’s loss to the DuBois Beavers epitomized the softball season for the Mifflin County Huskies. All spring, the Huskies either got a stellar pitching performance and their bats went cold, or they piled up runs and couldn’t get the big out when they needed it. Despite the inconsistency, Mifflin County still found itself within striking distance of the PIAA playoffs. But despite leading by as many as four runs, the Huskies fell to DuBois 10-7 in a Class 5A play-in game at Heindl Field. Macy Pietzsch collected three hits in four at-bats in the loss for the Huskies ...

Mifflin County mauls McDowell

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CRESSON — This year’s edition of the Mifflin County Huskies proved they were a team of destiny on Tuesday. The Huskies were looking to make history in their District 6/7 play-in contest at Mount Aloysius College against McDowell, the same program that ended their postseason hopes a ...

Belltown rallies for win over Milroy

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By RAY WILDE Sports Correspondent BELLTOWN — It looked pretty dismal for Belltown Friday as Milroy had just hit a grand slam and had taken an 8-4 lead late in the game with darkness and a rain storm looming on the horizon. But, the Belltown fans were rewarded as the home team rallied for seven runs in the fifth and took home an 11-8 victory in the Mifflin County Babe Ruth League. Belltown had six hits in the inning, all singles. The winners opened the fifth with four straight base hits from Tanner Shawver, Teagan Kauffman, Lucas Shawver and RJ Link. Link drove ...

Relay team wins PIAA title for MC

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By RAY WILDE Sports correspondent LEWISTOWN — In all the years that Mifflin County has sent teams to the PIAA track and field state championships, it has never won a relay race. That was until Saturday. The team of Reese Cubbison, Connor Lynch, Wyatt Kauffman and Carter Smith combined for a 7:42.46. The top ten teams were all schools from large metro areas, Haverford, Lower Merion, Carlisle, JP McCaskey (Lancaster), Plymouth Whitemarsh, North Penn, Perkiomen Valley, Council Rock North and Unionville. With the exception of JP McCaskey and ...

Carter Smith wraps up a great career

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By RAY WILDE Sports correspondent LEWISTOWN — The high school career of Mifflin County's Carter Smith is now in the history books. How good was his high school running career? Just think about this. Three of the most notable athletes to come out of Mifflin County didn’t have the success that he had in his high school career. Ralph Baker played football at Lewistown High School and went on to star at Penn State and won a Super Bowl with the New York Jets. Lewistown’s Krista Gingrich was a star player for the Lady Panthers in ...