The individual postseason is officially upon us. On Friday morning, 27 teams and 274 wrestlers will gather at Altoona High School to compete in the District 6 Class AA tournament, with action set to begin at 11 a.m. Of those teams, two will represent the Express area in Bald Eagle Area ...
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Penn State women’s basketball falls to No. 20 Maryland by way of an 81-62 final score on the road in College Park, Maryland, on Thursday night. The Nittany Lions drop to 8-17, 1-13 Big Ten while the Terrapins improve to 20-6, 8-6 Big Ten. Despite another 30-point performance from McMiller and a first quarter lead, Penn State was unable to outlast Maryland on the road. Sophomore guard Kiyomi McMiller led the offensive charge for Penn State with 30 points including nine from beyond the arc. This marked her third consecutive 30-plus-point performance. Redshirt ...
EDINBORO — Avery Bassett won his 100th-career match in the Lock Haven men’s wrestling team’s 18-12 Mid-American Conference victory on the road at Edinboro on Thursday night. With the victory, Lock Haven improved to 12-4 overall and 5-1 in the MAC, after picking up its 10th win in the previous 11 matches. Edinboro falls to 5-6 on the season and 2-2 in the conference. After dropping the opener at 125 pounds, the Bald Eagles surged ahead with victories in three of the next four bouts. Gable Strickland got Lock Haven on the board with a 2-0 decision over Landon Bainey at 133, ...
It’s not often that a head football coach at the Power-4 level gets fired and is on the staff the following year as an assistant. But that’s exactly where Altoona native Brent Pry finds himself after being let go as Virginia Tech’s head coach in September and now is back as the ...
In Wednesday night's regular-season finale, the Penns Valley girls basketball team struggled to slow down Bellwood-Antis's Lily Gerwert, who scored 26 points to lead the Blue Devils to victory, 65-48. Though the Rams cut their deficit to four before halftime, Bellwood-Antis outscored them 34-21 through the second half to get the job done. In a physical game that featured 46 free throws, the Blue Devils also shot 20-for-26 from the line. For Penns Valley, Paige Johnson led the way with 13 points, and Elle Dinges also finished in double figures, going 9-12 from the line to finish with ...
