Category Archives: Local Sports

HERITAGE CONFERENCE RACES COME INTO FOCUS FOR CHAMPIONSHIP MONDAY
BASEBALL It will be Homer-Center and Northern Cambria vying for the Heritage Conference baseball championship on Monday night after the Wildcats came from behind in a wild seventh inning and downed Ma...
Hometown1 May 09, 2025

BUCS HOPE FOR FRESH START WILL KELLY AT THE HELM
The Pirates will take on the Atlanta Braves at PNC Park tonight, with their new manager Donnie Kelly, taking over for Derek Shelton, who was fired by the team yesterday. Shelton ends with a record of ...
Hometown1 May 09, 2025

ROUGH DAY FOR IUP BASEBALL, GOLF
BASEBALL IUP Baseball took two losses at the PSAC Championships in Millersville yesterday. The Crimson Hawks lost to Seton Hill, 8-5, and in an elimination game, they were knocked out of the tournamen...
Hometown1 May 09, 2025

CURVE CAN'T SOLVE SEAWOLVES IN ERIE
Altoona gave up a run in the eighth and another in the ninth to lose to Erie, 4-3. Imanol Vargas and Mike Jarvis each had two hits for the Curve. Mitch Jebb extended his on-base streak to fifteen game...
Hometown1 May 09, 2025

ROOKIE MINICAMP FEATURES 25 NEW PITTSBURGHERS
Twenty-five Steelers' rookie draft choices, free agents, and tryout invitees will take the field today at the UPMC Rooney Sports Complex for the first day of rookie minicamp. There are seven draft cho...
Hometown1 May 09, 2025

PIRATES FIRE SHELTON
The Pittsburgh Pirates made a change at manager on Thursday, firing Derek Shelton less than two months into 2025 season in which the Pirates have the third worst record in all of Major League Baseball...
Renda Media May 08, 2025

UNITED'S HIXSON TO ATTEND SAINT FRANCIS
United senior A.J. Hixson has signed to play Esports at Saint Francis.In the photo, first row left to right, Rich Hixson (father), A.J. Hixson, Angela Hixson (mother); second row left to right, Mike L...
Renda Media May 08, 2025

HERITAGE CONFERENCE RACES STILL RED-HOT AFTER WEDNESDAY ACTION
BASEBALL In an important Heritage Conference West doubleheader, West Shamokin kept its chances alive for a conference championship game berth with a sweep of River Valley, 15-4 and 8-2. The Wolves' Ju...
Hometown1 May 08, 2025

INDIANA TEAMS PREP FOR WPIAL PLAYOFFS WITH WINS
BASEBALL Indiana had six hits, five of them for extra bases, in an 8-1 win over Butler. Ethan Shank, Sully VanHoose, Mike Zimmerman, and Caden Force all doubles and Rocco Cosentino tripled. Indiana is...
Hometown1 May 08, 2025

PLAYOFF ACTION FOR IUP BASEBALL, GOLF, TRACK & FIELD
BASEBALL IUP Baseball scored in the first and fifth innings yesterday and held on for a 2-1 win over East Stroudsburg on the first day of the PSAC Tournament. Au'Sean Owens led off with a double and l...
Hometown1 May 08, 2025












