Category Archives: Local Sports

BASEBALL The District 6 playoffs swing back into action today with a number of Heritage Conference teams on the field. In Class A, the top four seeds play with three of the games featuring Heritage Co...

BASEBALL The top-seeded Indiana High Little Indians play number nine Ambridge tonight in the WPIAL Quad-A quarterfinals. Indiana is 19-1 and had a first round bye. Ambridge is 9-10 and beat Knoch, 5-0...

The Pirates' season has been a nightmare so far, and it got worse yesterday, with a sweep at the hands of the Phillies and bad news on pitcher Jared Jones. Greg Brown recaps the loss to the Phils. &nb...

Altoona dropped the finale of its six-game series against Harrisburg, 6-4. Jack Branigan was 2-for-4 with a double for the Curve, who will begin a six-game set tomorrow at Akron.

The Phillies' Zack Wheeler was too much for the Pirates offense on Saturday. Greg Brown recaps another Bucco loss.   Wheeler threw six shutout innings for the Phillies, giving up three hits and a...

Altoona doubled up Harrisburg 8-4 on Saturday for the Curve's fourth win in five games against the Senators on the current homestand. Mitch Jebb and Mike Jarvis each had three hits and Jarvis hit his ...

The Pirates started their rivalry series with the Phillies with a loss. Greg Brown reports. The Pirates and the Phillies play again today. Carmen Mlodzinski will start for the Bucs (1-3, 5.20 ERA) whi...

A former Pirates manager is returning to the team in a different role. Gene Lamont, who managed the team from 1997 to 2000 and was one of the original coaches under Jim Leyland, is now special advisor...

The Altoona Curve pitchers were on fire last night, striking out fourteen Harrisburg batters in a 5-4 victory at People's Natural Gas Field. Wilbur Dotel allowed three runs on nine hits and struck out...

A new Pittsburgh Sports team debuted last night as the Pittsburgh Riveters women's soccer team played the Cleveland Force to a scoreless draw. The Riveters of the USL-W league played to the fourth-lar...