SUSQUEHANNA — Mifflin County alumnus and current Juniata College first baseman Isaac Maclay rewrote a piece of the Eagles’ record book on Saturday as the senior launched three homers in Juniata’s 15-5 loss to Susquehanna University. Maclay is the first player to homer three times in ...
Ankle pain got you down? Here are three common causes, tips for healing at home and advice on when to see a doctor. You may not think much about your ankles, even though you rely on them every day to stand, walk, climb stairs and exercise. It’s when you have pain, swelling or discomfort in one or both ankles that you notice how crucial they are to your daily life. If you don’t have an obvious injury, it may be difficult to pinpoint the cause of your ankle pain or know what you can (or should) do about it. Dr. Amanda Moyer Holleran, an orthopaedic surgeon at Geisinger who ...
From staff reports LEWISTOWN — With the postponement of the winter sports season, this winter’s Sentinel sports insert highlights multiple athletes who signed during the fall signing period. The book does not feature all of the athletes that have signed this fall, but the staff is working to highlights all of the local athletes who have signed to play at the next level. This book highlights Mifflin County’s Taylor Ciccolini, Trey Kibe, Coletta Beeler, Ella Spriggle, Brayden Harris and Lydia Hidlay. The book also features each of East Juniata’s Tri-Valley League MVPs in ...
There are many reasons for the Nittany Lions three-game win streak that they’re riding into Big Ten “Championship Week.” But the biggest is internal leadership. While most watching from the outside of Penn State?s program believe the players have sacrificed enough and are fine with looking ahead to the holidays and eventually the 2021 season, the players remain invested. Even without fans —and absurdly, even without their parents in the stands due to state government overreach (especially given that Army-Navy had a large crowd) the Lions showed in Saturday’s 39-24 ...
With all the uncertainty that has surrounded this year, college football’s goal was really pretty simple: Just get the season in. And for the Nittany Lions, by approximately 3:30 p.m. today, that season will be in. Or should be. The entire Penn State athletic program deserves a ton of praise for the measures implemented to minimize the spread of the coronavirus. In figures released this week, out of 1,269 tests, the athletic department had four positive cases. Four. And that was actually doubled over the previous week. Since testing began when student-athletes returned to campus ...
There’s a fine line between winning and losing, but there’s a wide gap on how outcomes affect certain teams. Especially teams with big dreams. Penn State’s 27-17 victory Saturday at Michigan in an empty Big House sent a much-needed infusion of positivity through the Nittany Lions, who had been sulking since their devastating season-opening loss to Indiana. “I don’t know if anybody in the program has slept right since October 24 (Indiana game),” defensive tackle and team leader PJ Mustipher said. The Lions allowed that disappointment, followed by the usual loss to ...
