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“Helen, it’s time to get up,” said Ted, her dad. “We should eat our breakfast and then get out to the creek. I think I know a good spot for us to fish.” Ten-year-old Helen was excited. This was going to be her first trout-fishing experience. Ted had taken her fishing in ponds for sunfish, and she knew how to operate her small spincast fishing outfit. In addition, he had bought her a voluntary youth fishing license, and he had placed his own required license and trout stamp in a license holder. Making sure they had packed all their gear in the b...
Ryan Cherry Head Coach What year is this for you as head coach?: 3rd Year Career record: 20-20 League:Inter-County Conference Last year’s record: 12-8 Strengths: Work ethic, experience and a team-first mindset. Concerns: Staying healthy throughout the season. Team Goals: Win a District Championship. Returning starters: Josiah Bowser, 12, INF/P Eion Snider, 12, INF/P Ben Gable, 12, INF Noah Kochara, 12, C/OF Rece Dibert, 12, OF Aaron Bowers, 11, INF Reece Musselman, 11, OF/P Wesley Horsh, 11, UTL Alex Kochara, 11, UTL Returning Letter winners a...
By Shane Suter Head Coach Years as head coach: Second Season League: ICC East Last year's record: 8-13 Returning starters/letterwinners: Seniors: Lindsey Bolinger, P/3B Miranda Brown, C Lacy McIlnay, 3B Leah Swanseen, OF Lacie Zelanko, 2B/3B Juniors: Ava Helsel, Utility Newcomers: Sophomores: Kaylee Ebersole, OF Madison Lemin, IF/OF Kasey McElgin, P/IF/OF Kamryn Plotts, IF/OF Justina Thomas, IF/O Freshman: Callie Miller, C/IF Mylee Mitchell, P/OF Strengths: Leadership from the senior class. We...
Mark Barbarini Head Coach Number of years as head coach: 24 years League: ICC East Last year's record: 23-4 Conference Record: 14-2 Career Record: 339-138 Returning starters/letterwinners: Emalee Cavender, (P,OF), (3) Jenna Helsel, (OF)(3) Bella Francona, (INF)(2) Zakera Bush, (INF)(2) Ryleigh Lehman, (OF)(2) McKenna Black, (C,OF)(1) Alicia Musselman, (OF)(1) Payton Hinish, (INF)(1) Caitlyn Helsel, (INF,OF)(1), Jaylee Swindell, (INF)(1) Launa Musselman, (P,OF)(1) Eleah Diehl, (INF)(1)...
Ross Helsel Head Coach Number of years as head coach: 2 League: ICC East Last year’s record: 6-15 Returning starters/letterwinners: Aidan Simpson, Senior, IF/P, Zach Campagna,Senior,IF/P, Riley Ebersole, Senior, OF Landon Douglas, Junior, IF/P, Quinton Bush, Junior, IF/P, Bradon Furry, Junior, IF/P, Porter Weise, Junior, OF, Bayden Haney, Soph, IF/P, Mason Campagna, Soph, IF/C. Newcomers: Paul Strayer, Landon Woods, Tyler Mowry, Paydden Knisely, Matthew Lehman, Dustin Slowik Strengths: Our new facility, overall game experience, Pitching d...
The Northern Bedford County School District sent four students to states for wrestling in the PIAA State Wrestling Tournament AA Championship held in Hershey at the Giant Center March 9 and 10. The boys were seniors Rece Dibert (215 weight class) and Eion Snider (189 weight class). Both lost in the semi-finals. The NBC girls participating in the first-ever girls PIAA Wrestling Championship were Kaylee Ebersole (106 weight class) and Reagan Snider (155 weight class). Kaylee placed sixth overall...
By Jeff Dodson Roster: Seniors: Bralynn Ellis, C; Madison Kennedy, OF-P; Ashlyn Renner, OF. Juniors: Alexis Fetzer, INF-P; Kaylee Kensinger, OF; Aubry Rhodes INF-P, Tasia Britton, OF; Marah Dickson, INF-P. Other returning players: Sophomores: Norah Bechtel, C-UTL; Lynnae Dibert, INF; Bailey Gearhart, UTL; Hannah Oakes, UTL; Riley Peterson, INF-P. Newcomers: Sophomores: Bailee Miller, UTL; Raylee Stock, UTL; Rylee Stultz, UTL. Freshman: Ava Brown, UTL; Keyla Diaz, UTL; Ellie Fisher, INF-UTL;...
By Kenneth Streilein Number of years as head coach and career record: Six. 16-39 overall record. League: Mid-State Boys Volleyball League Last year’s record (overall and league): 0-15 overall, 0-8 league Returning starters: Juniors: Bryson Brooks, outside hitter RJ Daugherty, middle Logan Hummel, setter Sophomores: Christian Heuston, opposite Mason Kocsis, libero Blake Reynolds, defensive specialist Other returnees: Seniors: Jack Myers, Felix Diaz. Juniors: Collin Becker, Noah Grace; Sophomores: Tregan Butler, Bailey Wilt, Ian Hickey. N...
AJ Hoenstine Head Coach Number of years as head coach: 17 (278-101) League: LHAC Last year’s record:19-3/ 15-1 League Returning starters/letterwinners: Seniors: Hunter Smith, C,1B Griffin Snowberger, 2B, P Baron Dionis, CF,P Britton Marko, C,P Juniors: Lukas Black, UTIL/P Mason Byler, 1B,P Kyle Klotz, C,P Jay Hoenstine, UTIL,P Sophomores: Colton Harbaugh, P Mason Sparks, P Troy McNichol, C, UTIL Newcomers: Seniors: Brycin Lapenna, 3B Zach Oakes, UTIL Juniors: Cortlyn Hetrick, P,1B Sophomores: Josh Beltz, INF Wyatt Dilling, INF,P Troy M...
Quick – name one thing associated with Williamsburg and wrestling. Up until last weekend, the words of Williamsburg and wrestling didn’t necessarily go together. Enter Williamsburg High School Senior Andrew McMonagle. McMonagle is the son of Dan and Tracy McMonagle and has two brothers, Austin and Aden, a sister Alexi, and a niece, Millie, and a nephew, Ellis. McMonagle’s father, Dan, encouraged him to try out the sport of basketball at a young age, and according to McMonagle, “I just didn’t...
Another PGC Controversy. Not long ago, I was directed to google “Spotlight PA” on the Internet and look for an article by Angela Couloumbis called “Former top Pa. Lawmaker’s lobbying firm paid $41K by Game Commission in unusual arrangement.” The article reports that the game commission hired Allegheny Strategy Partners at $10,000 per month to do lobbying work for it with the state legislature. “One of the three partners in the firm is Joe Scarnati of Jefferson County who held the top leadership post in the State Senate for more than a deca...
Williamsburg’s Leeanna Royer, right, and Berlin Brothersvalley’s Regan Lauer dive for a loose ball during the PIAA Class 1A quarterfinal game Saturday, March 16, at Richland High School. Williamsburg won 54-53. Williamsburg (27-3) advanced to the semifinal round for the second time in three seasons. The semifinal game was scheduled for Tuesday, March 19, after the Herald went to press....
Williamsburg girls celebrate their one point win over Berlin Brothersvalley in the PIAA Class 1A quarterfinal game Saturday, March 16 at Richland High School....
Northern Bedford’s Addie Love, right, comforts Leah Hall (44) in a PIAA IA playoff game Wednesday, March 13, at Hempfield High School. Union won 52-42, ending Northern Bedford’s season....
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Dively wins again. Claysburg is the home of a good many serious sportsmen. Among these is ninth-grade student Aiden Dively. He is the most recent of a line of champion turkey callers hailing from the Claysburg area, continuing the success enjoyed by the Chamberlain family and others. During the weekend of February 16-17, Dively competed in the Junior Grand National Turkey Calling Contest at the convention of the National Wild Turkey Federation held in Nashville, Tenn. His grandfather, Ralph Baker of Roaring Spring, emailed a video of...
Williamsburg Girls Basketball...
In the District Six 4A Championship match, the Central Scarlet Dragons were put up against the Johnstown Trojans, a team they had lost to twice before in the season. The game started off great for the Dragons, who nabbed a 9-4 lead with a little over four minutes left in the first quarter. By the end of the quarter, the Dragons led by three. The second quarter brought 11 points from both teams, keeping the Dragons lead with a 22-19 halftime score. But things fell apart for the Dragons in the...
Williamsburg/Huntingdon’s Andrew McMonagle, left, wrestles Bald Eagle Area’s Caleb Close in the PIAA SW AA Regional Championship bout at 189 lbs. on Saturday at Altoona Area High School. McMonagle lost the match, earning the silver medal....
Regular readers of this column know I am concerned with fishing and hunting ethics and sportsmanship. I have little interest in fishing and hunting contests that award prizes for catching fish or killing game animals. One notable exception is bass-fishing tournaments that promote the live release of the fish after they are measured. This brings us to organized coyote hunts. According to the Jan. 19 issue of “Pennsylvania Outdoor News,” more than two-dozen coyote hunts were held in Pennsylvania during the past winter. The largest of these and...
PIAA District VI Class 1A Championship...
NBC girls basketball game from the D5 semi final game held on Wed 2/28/24...
Wednesday Feb. 28 at Mount Aloysius in the District 6 1A championship game...
I am not one of the great financial wizards of our time. However, I think I understand enough about finances to know that the Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC) is sitting on a pile of money. For years, the commission lobbied the legislature to approve a license fee increase. However, that is something the commission did not need. The following comes from the February 2024 “Pennsylvania Game News.” License fees accounted for only 9 percent of the PGC’s income during the 2022-23 fiscal year. A whopping 73 percent was obtained through Natur...
The Williamsburg Junior High girls won the ICC Championship with a 58-35 win over Berlin. Bella Royer and Faith Detwiler were the high scorers with 19 each. B. Prosser was the high scorer for Berlin with 20 points. The JH girls have won the ICC championship game the last three years in a row. Their record this year was 22-1. Shown in the photo are (front row, from left): Manager Kaylee Prough, Manager Rylee Flaig, Bailey Fulton, Jordan Flaig, Ingrid Parks, Faith Detwiler and Manager Gracie...
The Central Scarlet Dragon Basketball team faced the Juniata Indians at home last week for the District Six 4A semi-finals. With their 67-43 victory, the Dragons will advance to the championship for the third year in a row. Against the Indians, the Dragons’ fast-paced offense coupled with their defensive pressure made for an excellent game. The Dragons led by seven after the first quarter, and after making a few more shots in the second, led at halftime with a 32-14 advantage. Despite the I...
Central’s Robert Long-Yarrison drives the baseline and dishes off a pass against Juniata in a District 6 4A playoff game on Friday, Feb. 23, at Central High School....
Williamsburg’s Ethan Reffner, left, defends against Blacklick Valley’s Eli Sheesley during Williamsburg’s District 6-1A playoff game Tuesday, Feb. 20....
Williamsburg’s Rowan Gorsuch, left, dives to try to keep the ball inbounds during Williamsburg’s District 6-1A playoff game against Blacklick Valley Tuesday, Feb. 20. The Blue Pirates won, 55-46....
Williamsburg’s Levada Gorsuch (20) goes to the basket between Juniata Valley’s Anna Taylor, left, and Kassidy Watson Monday, Feb. 19, in a District 6 Round 1 playoff game at Williamsburg High School. The Blue Pirates beat the Hornets, 63-32....
The Lady Dragon Basketball team traveled to face the River Valley Lady Panthers in the District Six AAA playoff opener. Unfortunately, the Dragons were forced out of their rhythm and ended the match in a loss via a score of 58-29. As the Dragons prepared to give extra attention on defense to the Panthers star player, the other members of their opponents unexpectantly knocked down quite a few shots. This left the Dragons trailing 25-7 after the first quarter, and after making some adjustments to combat their opponents, the Dragons lost the...
Williamsburg’s Leeanna Royer, right, looks to pass around Juniata Valley’s Izzy Anderson on Monday, Feb. 19, in a District 6 Round 1 playoff game at Williamsburg High School. See more local sports on Page A-5....
Dave Baker never had a plan. Not when he took a job as a biology teacher at Williamsburg Community High School right out of IUP in 1967 and wanted to coach a sport, any sport at any level, just to stay involved in athletics. Not when he finally acquiesced to taking over as the Blue Pirates varsity football coach four years later, when Williamsburg was struggling to find someone to replace Jerry Campbell. Not when he applied to succeed A.J. Hoenstine and guide Central back in 2011. And certainly not in 2001, when, after 30 years leading...
Williamsburg’s Raina Alexander, at right, and Juniata Valley’s Amelia Russell go after a loose ball Monday, Feb. 19, in a District 6 Round 1 playoff game at Williamsburg High School. The Blue Pirates won, 63-32....
Williamsburg’s Laney Prough (34) advances the ball on a fast break against Everett Saturday, Feb 17, at Claysburg High School. Williamsburg won, 45-31....
In the last match of the regular season, the Lady Dragons faced the Bellefonte Lady Red Raiders at home. The Dragons dominated throughout the entire match, ending with a 62-24 victory. The Dragons started the game off strong, outscoring their opponents by 10 in the first quarter, then followed up with an 11-point advantage in the second quarter’s scoring for a 33-12 halftime lead. The second half brought much of the same for the Lady Dragons, who outscored their opponents by seven and 10 in the third and fourth quarters respectively. Megan D...
After playing in their last regular season game against the Bellefonte Red Raiders and finding a 47-38 victory, the Dragons traveled to face the Johnstown Trojans to open the LHAC playoffs. The Dragons, however, did not come away with a victory, and lost 49-23. Against the Red Raiders, a slow start befell the Dragons. The score was tied at seven after the first quarter, but the Dragons started to get into a rhythm in the second quarter, as their 22-14 halftime lead showed. The Dragons tied scoring in the third quarter with their opponents, and...
The Pa. Game Commission is asking for the public’s help finding turkey flocks to trap for ongoing turkey projects. Pennsylvanians are encouraged to report the location of any turkey flocks they see. Information is being collected online at https://pgcdatacollection.pa.gov/TurkeyBroodSurvey through March 15. Visitors to that webpage will be asked to provide the date of the sighting, the location, and the type of land (public, private or unknown) where birds are seen, among other things. Game Commission crews will visit sites to assess them f...
Over the years many people have asked me if I go ice fishing. “Nope,” I reply. “Ice fishing’s past the point of being a normal sportsman’s activity.” I let it end like that. I do not tell my questioners that I sometimes go fly-fishing during the winter – which is also a little off the wall. I do not make winter fly-fishing adventures nearly as often as I did 25 years ago. In those days I regularly sandwiched fly-fishing adventures between cross-country skiing outings. But, with global warming – less snow, with the type of snow we now get clin...
Monday, Feb. 19, in a District 6 round 1 playoff game at Williamsburg High School....
On Jan. 27, 2024, the Board of Commissioners of the Pennsylvania Game Commission held its meeting to set preliminary upcoming hunting seasons and bag limits. In a recent email, sportsmen’s advocate Greg Levengood shared some of the meeting’s highlights. One of main interest to sportsmen concerned the reintroduction of the American marten, a small predator, to the Pennsylvania woods. Sportsmen are concerned about the potential damage this small weasel could do to the ruffed grouse population and to other wildlife populations as well. Lev...
In a week with a singular match against the Penns Valley Lady Rams, the Lady Dragons rallied after a tie game to push for a 38-33 victory. After the first quarter, the score was tied at seven. However, in the second quarter, the Dragons outscored their opponents 11-4 in order to attain a 18-11 halftime lead. In both the third and fourth quarters, the Rams were able to score one point more than the Dragons, but the Dragons kept up their offensive game and ended the match in a victory. Megan Diehl led the offensive effort for the Dragons with 14...
In a week with a singular match, the Dragons traveled to face the Penns Valley Rams. A less-than-stellar effort from the Dragons led to overtime, in which the Dragons finally picked things up, ending with a 56-48 victory. The first quarter left the Dragons with a two-point lead, and a similar second quarter left the halftime score at 18-14 in favor of the Dragons. In the third, the Dragons matched the Ram’s scoring, but in the fourth, the Rams were able to put up enough points in the final minutes to tie the game 42-42. Once in overtime, h...
As some sportsmen had predicted, the Pennsylvania bear harvest continued its downward slide this past season – or should I say seasons. The preliminary figures show that Pennsylvania hunters killed 2,919 bears, the first time the harvest has shrunk under 3,000 since 2007. Hunters killed about 1,243 bears during the archery, muzzleloader, and special firearms seasons. Only 1,083 were downed during the traditional four-day firearms season and 593 were tagged during the extended season. This is down from 4,653 bears killed in 2019. S...
In a three-match week, the Dragons found victories over the Bellwood-Antis Blue Devils and the Clearfield Bison with respective scores of 48-28 and 46-38. After those final two home games of the regular season, the Dragons traveled to face the Westmont Hilltop Hilltoppers and fell 57-53. A slow start befell the Dragons in their home rematch against the Blue Devils. After leading by a mere point after the first quarter, the Dragons kickstarted things to attain a 21-14 halftime lead. The Dragons held their opponents to single-digit scoring per...
Claysburg’s Aidan Simpson drives to the basket between McConnellsburg’s Drew Mellott (2) and Brayden Ramsey (23) in a home game Wednesday, Jan. 31. The McConnellsburg Spartans won, 66-42....
The Lady Dragons had two matches this past week against the Clearfield Lady Bison and the Westmont Hilltop Lady Hilltoppers. The Dragons did not come out on top in either match, losing 65-54 and 54-26 respectively. Against the Bison, the Dragons trailed by four after the first quarter, but put together a huge second quarter to take a 26-23 halftime lead. Despite 10 points from the Dragons in the third, the Bison scored 26, which was followed by a fairly even final quarter for the Dragons’ defeat. Megan Diehl led the Dragons with 13 points. T...
Central’s Hunter Smith drives to the basket on Bellwood’s Vincent Cacciotti in a home game Monday, Jan. 29. The Central Dragons won the game, 54-25....
