Category Archives: Local Sports

Braxton Ashcraft set a career-high with 10 strikeouts in seven innings but the Curve's bullpen fell apart in the ninth inning and Akron walked it off in a 2-1 win Tuesday afternoon. Infielder Kervin P...

The Marion Center girls and the Homer-Center boys both took the field yesterday looking for Heritage Conference titles in softball and baseball...and both came away winners over "the Conemaughs." The ...

The Pirates built a big lead on a career night for Bryan Reynolds, but had to hold off the hard-charging Brewers last night to open their road trip. Joe Block has the recap on a wild Bucco win.  ...

The official brackets have not been released yet, but if all falls into place according to the District 6 rankings, Homer-Center will enter the District Double-A baseball playoffs as the number two se...

The Pirates have had a lot of problems this season, but two of their biggest headaches led to another loss on Sunday: the failure to drive in a run with the game on the line and a staggering bullpen. ...

HERITAGE CONFERENCE The weather will be great for today's Heritage Conference softball and baseball championship games. Marion Center will play Conemaugh Valley for the softball title at 3 o'clock at ...

For the first time in 34 years, IUP has made the NCAA Division II Baseball Tournament, selected as the number five seed in the Atlantic Regional, which begins on Thursday. IUP's wins over Millersville...

Altoona split a doubleheader with Somerset yesterday, losing the first game, 5-2, and winning the second, 3-1. Anthony Solometo gave up three runs in three innings in Game One and the Curve did not ge...

The Steelers wrapped up their three-day rookie minicamp yesterday and they announced the signing of six-year veteran cornerback Anthony Averett, who was in camp on a tryout invitation. Averett has pla...

On the day on which pitcher Paul Skenes made his Major League debut, it was a rare power display by the Pirates' offense which came through for the Bucs in their game against the Cubs. Joe Block has t...