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Bucktail boys suffer 64-52 home loss to Coudersport

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FARWELL — Coudersport was led by 6-foot, 4-inch sophomore Lawson Wetzel who left Bucktail looking for answers long enough to pick up a 64-52 win Monday evening. Coudersport improved to 11-7 on the season and dropping the Bucks to 6-10. Wetzel’s looming presence affected the game early and eventually it was the big man’s scoring his team’s final eight points that sealed the win. “That’s exactly what I talk about when I say that our team is young and inexperienced, we just couldn’t work our way around him, for whatever reason, for three and a half quarters, and it cost ...

LHU women's basketball 9-0 in PSAC after beating Bloomsburg

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The Lock Haven women’s basketball team used a dominant effort on the glass to pick up a 70-56 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference East win in Thomas Fieldhouse over Bloomsburg on Monday. The Bald Eagles are arguably off to their hottest start in their PSAC East competing history and continued to roll on Monday night by improving to 9-0 in the division after taking down Bloomsburg. Lock Haven won its 10th game at home on Monday to improve to 15-5 on the season and 11-3 in the PSAC. Bloomsburg fell to 11-10 on the season and 7-7 in conference play. Lock Haven has now won five of ...

Kelsie Wagner lifts Bucktail girls past Curwensville

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FARWELL — Coming off a long week of wintry weather that saw Bucktail in action just one time in a win at Montgomery, Bucktail outlasted Curwensville, 43-32, Monday evening at home. Freshman Kelsie Wagner again proved too dominant for her opponents as the ninth grader scored 23 points, ...

Penn State men edge out Minnesota, earn first Big Ten win of season

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UNIVERSITY PARK – Penn State rookie guard Kayden Mingo scored on a game-winning left-handed scoop shot with one second left to play to lift the Penn State men’s basketball team to a gutsy 77-75 win over Minnesota Sunday afternoon inside the Bryce Jordan Center. Penn State led by as much as 13 in the first half and still led by double-digits at 71-61 with 4:44 remaining in the game, but Minnesota went on a 14-4 run to tie the game at 75-75 with 31 seconds to play. Trailing 75-72, the Gophers pulled within one on a layup by Jaylen Crocker-Johnson and then stole a long inbounds ...

Shore, CM, Bellefonte have success at Williamsport Showcase

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Jersey Shore's Isabella Gottschall continued her solid season with a gold medal at 155 pounds at the Williamsport Showcase at the Magic Dome on Saturday. She was the Bulldogs' only medalist. Gottschall needed just 70 seconds to pin Bailee Scott of Bellefonte in the final. The win moved Gottschall, a junior, to 20-2. Central Mountain's Kendall Wagner finished as a runner-up at 170 and teammate Ashlyn Miller took third at 190. Wagner reached the final at 170 and battled, but lost to Shikellamy freshman standout Finley Boetsch by fall in 2:16. The loss was Wagner's fifth of the year ...