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, ...
UNIVERSITY PARK – Penn State will send 33 athletes to the first round of the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships, scheduled for May 27-30, in Lexington, Kentucky. The list includes nine in the combined men’s and women’s 800-meter run events and two competing in two events each. Allon Clay headlines the five Nittany Lions competing in the men’s 800-meter run. The Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan native returns for another season after advancing to the Outdoor Championship final round in 2025. Clay also earned First-Team All-Big Ten honors after taking the men’s 800-meter run ...
HARRISBURG – With Memorial Day being the unofficial kickoff to summer, the Pennsylvania Game Commission reminds those spending time in the great outdoors to leave young wildlife alone. While some young animals might appear to be abandoned, usually they are not. It’s likely their mothers are watching over them from somewhere nearby. When encountering young wild animals, whether deer, birds, raccoons or something else, the best thing you can do is leave them alone. “Mid-to-late spring and early summer are popular times of the year for humans to encounter newborn and young ...
