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Bellefonte YMCA Stingrays dominate at district tournament

YORK, Pa. — The Bellefonte YMCA Stingrays turned in an impressive performance at the YMCA Central District Championships in York this past weekend, earning multiple personal bests, strong relay swims and several qualifications for the YMCA State Championships. The team, coached by Lynette Kramer and Dominick Romanini, continues to grow as a competitive program, with swimmers demonstrating strong improvements throughout the season. Even with training in a three-lane, 23.5-yard pool, the Stingrays demonstrated the strength and depth of their program. Leading the Stingrays was Evelynn ...

Chase Dietz claims win at Lincoln Speedway

As early racing goes, Sunday was another good one as Saturday was canceled due to the weather. Defending track champion Freddie Rahmer started on the pole alongside Kyle Moody with last week’s winner Chase Dietz lining up third. Rahmer led the field into Turn 1 at the drop of the green flag while Dietz quickly challenged Kyle Moody for second, taking the spot on lap one. Rahmer had reached lapped traffic by the 10th lap allowing Dietz to close the gap quickly. The lead shrank as the two frontrunners navigated slower cars and Dietz repeatedly pressured Rahmer through ...

Spotts and Fisher showed constant determination for Jersey Shore

During this past boys wrestling postseason for Jersey Shore, there has been nothing but constant determination, drilling and effort carried into districts. Wrestling takes countless hours of practice all year around to get athletes to district competitions. Especially because District 4 Class AAA only allowed three qualifiers from each weight class to move on to states. That made it much harder for the Jersey Shore wrestlers competing in the five-team Class AAA district field hoping to have made it to Hershey this past weekend. As the 2025-26 wrestling season came to an end,, there ...

LHU’s Ross named PSAC East Pitcher of the Week

Lock Haven softball’s Talia Ross was named the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Eastern Division Pitcher of the Week, the conference office announced on Monday. Ross was outstanding in the circle for three straight days for Lock Haven. The sophomore won all three starts, while striking out 8.5 hitters per game. On Friday, Ross went 7 2/3 innings, struck out nine, didn’t allow a run and surrendered just two hits at Tusculum. On Saturday, she pitched an eight-inning complete game shutout and struck out eight against a very good UVA-Wise team. On Sunday, Ross made it ...

PSU sees seven wrestlers win Big Ten titles; qualifies 10 for NCAAs

STATE COLLEGE — — It’s only fitting that after another record-setting dual meet season, the Penn State wrestling team would continue the trend at the Big Ten Wrestling Championships. The Nittany Lions set a team record Sunday in front of 13,226 fans in the Bryce Jordan Center by winning seven individual championships, qualifying all 10 wrestlers for the NCAA Championships and breaking its own Big Ten tournament team scoring record for the second straight year with 184 points to win its fourth consecutive championship. Luke Lilledahl (125 pounds), Shayne Van Ness (149), P.J. ...

Complete final results from the PIAA wrestling championships

BOYS CLASS AAA TEAM SCORING — 1. Nazareth 84, 2. Notre Dame G.P. 68, 3. Northhampton 65.5, 4. Bethlehem Catholic 58.5, 5. Connellsville 57. Outstanding Wrestler Award - Keanu Dillard, Bethlehem Catholic FIRST-PLACE FINALS 107 - Jacob Carr (Sun Valley) dec. Lee Dreshman (Canon-McMillan), 3-0. 114 - Brayden Wenrich (Northampton) dec. Gabe Benyo (Hazleton), 1-0. 121 - Landon Sidun (Norwin) tech. fall Tommy Gretz (Connellsville), 17-0, 3:52. 127 - Kavin Muyleart (Cedar Cliff) dec. Emilio Albanese (Emmaus), 5-2. 133 - Keanu Dillard (Bethlehem Catholic) dec. Wilmont Kai (Whitehall), ...