SHIPPENSBURG — Day 1 of the track and field PIAA Championships in Shippensburg produced results that some area athletes may never forget. On Friday at Seth Grove Stadium, Mifflin County’s Carter Smith was back to his winning ways as he earned gold in the 1600-meter run with a time of ...
BY RAY WILDE Sports correspondent BEAVER SPRINGS—Anyone who follows Mifflin County Babe Ruth baseball knows how deep the Beaver Springs pitching staff is. On Thursday night, the Burnham team, the last undefeated team in the league, also found out. Springs defeated Burnham, 6-2, to go into first place in the league. Beaver Springs is now 5-1, Lewistown 4-1 and Burnham fell to third place with a 3-1 record. River Knepp and Colton Aumiller combined for a two-hitter. Knepp got the win as he went five and two-thirds innings. He struck out 10, walked four and gave ...
By Kenny Varner Sports correspondent LEWISTOWN — When the season comes to an end for this year’s Mifflin County softball team they will be remembered for never giving up and refusing to let their record stop them from making it to this year’s D6 5A championship game. They’ll also be ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Kevin Harvick, who captured the 2014 Cup Series championship and won 60 races at the sport’s top level, was selected to the NASCAR Hall of Fame on Tuesday along with former teammate Jeff Burton and Larry Phillips. The induction ceremony is set for Jan. 22, 2027, ...
By RAY WILDE Sports correspondent MILROY—Belleville’s Mason Joyce and Reagan Varner combined for a five-hit shutout Wednesday as Belleville beat Reedsville, 4-0, in the Mifflin County Babe Ruth League. Joyce went the first six innings as he gave up just four hits. Varner worked the seventh and picked up the save. Joyce struck out four, walked three and gave up four hits. Varner gave up one walk, one hit and struck out one. He got two ground balls to end the game. Belleville opened the game with two runs as Joyce had an RBI single and the other run ...
SPARKS, Md. – Three Penn State men’s lacrosse alumni have been invited by USA Lacrosse to a training camp for the field team in the U.S. Men’s National Team Program. The group, comprised of TJ Malone ’24, Mac O’Keefe ’21, and Matt Traynor ’25, joins 37 other invitees for the camp, which is scheduled to take place in Charlotte, North Carolina, from June 7-9, following the Premier Lacrosse League’s (PLL) weekend of games in the same city. Malone, a former attackman for the Nittany Lions, is currently rostered with the Maryland Whipsnakes in the PLL. The West Chester, ...
