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The Bedford County Sports Hall of Fame has announced its 2023 induction class. The induction ceremony will be on Saturday, June 24, at the Everett High School Auditorium. The teams will be inducted starting at 1 p.m. in the first ceremony, while the individuals will be inducted starting at 4 p.m. and that ceremony is scheduled to end around 6 p.m. One ticket for the induction is good for both halves of the program. This year’s individual inductees are: • Brian Sell, a Northern Bedford football, wrestling, and track and field athlete who went...
I have previously written of my disdain for cell phones. They are intrusive. However, my son, Bob, and my wife, Donna, both believe I should carry one when I am fishing or hunting alone; so in the interest of family harmony, I remember to carry the one they bought me about half the time I am out. I had it with me the morning I shot a nice gobbler this past spring. I called Bob quickly after tagging the beautiful turkey. When he picked up, I think he was happier about my success than I was. Most often, however, I use the phone to call Donna...
Central Football players Eli Lingenfelter, Kade Rhule and Jason Clark (from left) played on the South team at the 38th annual Lezzer Lumber Classic on Sunday, June 11. The South team defeated the North team 45-20, breaking the South's five-year losing streak. Lingenfelter scored two touchdowns during the game. According to the Lezzer Lumber Classic's website, "in 1985, the Central Pennsylvania Football Coaches Association, with J. Gawen Stoker as the Game Director, initiated the Mid-State...
Above, Claysburg's McKenna Black (left) and Jaylee Swindell come off the field after their 10-8 PIAA Class 1A semifinal loss to Union Area Monday at Norwin High School. Below, the team piles together during their final game of the season. The Lady Bulldogs fell 10-8. They ended the season with a 22-5 record....
Sunday (June 18) is Father’s Day. It is one of the most important non-religious holidays of the year; others include Mother’s Day, Veterans’ Day, and Independence Day. Dad was a father who spent a great percentage of his time with me (and my brother, Bill) when he could have been doing other things. Though he didn’t coach sports, he nurtured our interest in athletics. When I was young, he often came out to the basket in our backyard and played basketball against my friends and me. In games of one-on-one, I could not beat him until I was a j...
PHOTO ABOVE: Altoona Curve shortstop Norkis Marcos bare hands a ground ball and makes the throw to first for the out against Binghmaton Saturday at Peoples Natural Gas Field. RIGHT PHOTO: Curve catcher Henry Davis (left) watches as Marcos dives at a foul ball. Are you a fan of the Altoona Curve? Make sure you follow the Morrisons Cove Herald Facebook page and participate in our Curve ticket giveaways....
State Representative Dave Maloney (R-Berks), Chairman of the House Game and Fisheries Committee, has been concerned with the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s (PGC) “management” of a number of things. One is that the PGC was found to be sitting on more than $72 million in escrow funds in 2019, including more than $6 million the PGC didn’t even know it had. Another is the moving of the rifle deer opener to Saturday, despite much opposition from the hunting community. The ruffed grouse population is at a 70-year low. (These are all problems I have...
Claysburg-Kimmel's Emalee Cavender works against Frazier Monday afternoon in PIAA playoff action at Central Cambria High School. McKenna Black rounds second base after hitting a game winning two run homer in the bottom of the seventh inning....
Claysburg-Kimmel Softball were named the District 6, Class 1A champions after defeating West Branch 11-5 on May 31. And their winning ways haven't stopped! On Monday, June 5, the Lady Bulldogs dominated Frazier 8-6 in the first round of playoffs. The Bulldogs will play Chartiers-Houston today, June 8, in the quarterfinals. Chartiers-Houston defeated Cambridge Springs 13-3 in the first round of playoffs. In the photos above, Claysburg-Kimmel's McKenna Black (17) is congratulated by her teammates...
Our minister recently preached a series of sermons entitled “Marked by God.” One of the themes of these sermons is that we are marked by God to make a difference in the things we are involved in. For me, that includes fishing and hunting ethics. I like to think I have made a small difference in fishermen’s attitudes. I often subtly refer to catch-and-release fishing as a major ethical consideration that today’s fishermen use to help maintain healthy populations of gamefish. I also hope I have made a small difference in anglers’ attitudes...
Softball The third seeded Lady Dragons faced the second seeded Juniata Lady Indians in the district six AAA semi-finals. A 6-0 loss will now end the Dragons' season. Early on in the game, the Dragons gave up a mere three runs to the Indians in the bottom of the first. The score for a majority of the rest of the game would remain the same until the bottom of the sixth inning, where the Indians added another three to their total to solidify a loss for the Dragons. The Dragons attained a mere two h...
Central Baseball Coach A-J Hoenstine gives a well-done pat to Hunter Smith after Smith drove in two runs on a hit against Philipsburg-Osceola during a home playoff game Thursday, May 25....
To finish out the regular season of the Central Lady Dragon Softball team, they faced the Central Cambria Lady Red Devils. After a rough first inning, the Dragons fell behind and were never able to catch up, losing 6-2. Against the Red Devils, the Dragons fell into an early deficit after their opponents scored four in the first inning and two in the second. After scoring one in the second, the Dragons scored another in the third to only trail by four, a deficit that would remain the rest of the...
Central's Eli Lingenfelter competes in the high jump, while Central's Delaney Hall competes in the long jump during the District 6 Track and Field Meet Tuesday, May 16, 2023, at Altoona's Mansion Park....
On April 23, 2023, I visited the Pennsylvania Game Commission Southcentral Pennsylvania Office Building, expecting a formal presentation about the reintroduction of pine martens to Pennsylvania. There was no formal presentation. Instead, there were various display boards presenting information dealing with martens, and there was a table where mounted martens were shown in comparison to a larger fisher and a marginally smaller fox squirrel. PGC staff members were available to answer questions. The commission’s viewpoint promoting the r...
(LEFT) Williamsburg second baseman Logan Brantner collides with first baseman Alex Brantner after Logan fielded a hard hit ground ball down the first baseline. (RIGHT) Williamsburg's Parker Crownover (right) is congratulated by teammate Luke Uplinger after scoring during playoff action Monday against Blacklick Valley. The Pirates defeated Blacklick Valley 9-0, bringing their record to 9-11....
Against the Penn Cambria Panthers in the first round of the District Six 3A playoffs, the game looked bleak for the Central Dragons from the start. Coming into a two-run deficit after the second inning, and that deficit extending to six runs in the fourth, things were not great for the Dragons on either side of the ball. However, the rally began in the fourth inning, where Dalton Metzger managed to drive two runs in to break the Dragons’ cold streak. An inning later, Britton Marko achieved the same feat, now having the Dragons only trail by t...
In a long, four game week for the Dragons, they came out on top, 4-0, with many dominating victories. The Dragons had a 17-11 win over the Phillipsburg-Osceola Mountaineers, a 9-0 win over the Richland Rams, a 17-2 win over the Johnstown Trojans and a 4-2 win over the Bishop McCourt Crushers. The Dragons jumped to a five-run lead in the first inning but that was dropped to two after the Mountaineers scored three in the second. The Dragons scored three in the fourth, while giving up two in the same inning. The Dragons exploded with nine runs in...
Central Boys Volleyball completed its season with a five-set loss to visiting McKeesport on Friday, and then traveling Saturday to a tournament at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart High School in Coraopolis. We went winless at the tournament but had several close losses. Against McKeesport Bryson Brooks had nine kills and 20 digs, Christian Cherry had seven kills and 15 digs, Christian Heuston had eight kills, and Logan Hummel had 31 assists and 10 digs. At the OLSH tournament Christian Heuston had 11 kills and four blocks, Christian Cherry had...
Claysburg-Kimmel's Emalee Cavender swings at the pitch that became her 100th career hit Monday during Claysburg's game with Tussey Mountain....
Central's Ty Brumbaugh (left), Eli Lingenfelter (right), Delany Hall (below, left), and Randy Harris (below, right) compete in the long jump Tuesday, May 9, during the Laurel Highlands Athletic Conference meet at St. Francis College....
The Pennsylvania Game Commission recently released its estimated deer harvest figures for the 2022-2023 seasons. It estimated that hunters killed an incredible 422,960 deer, of which 164,190 were estimated to be bucks. Bowhunters were estimated to have killed more than a third of these deer: 145,640, of which 75,770 were supposedly bucks. David Stainbrook, PGC Deer and Elk Section Supervisor, says that Pennsylvania’s deer population is likely increasing. So, the PGC is planning to increase the number of doe tags by 147,000 to 1,095,000 this y...
ABOVE: Collin Yeatts signs his letter of intent to play soccer at Geneva College as his parents Marcus and Emily watch. BELOW: Abby Kline signs her letter of intent to play soccer at Penn State Altoona with members of her family (front row, from left) Nichole and Steve and (back row, from left) Tammy Spencer and Judy Kline attending....
Bouncing back from the Bald Eagle loss, the Lady Dragons pounded their opponents this week, finding victories of 12-1, 6-0 and 13-1 over the Richland Lady Rams, the Phillipsburg-Osceola Lady Mountaineers and the Altoona Lady Mountain Lions respectively. Against the Rams, the game remained at a low score for a majority of the start of the game. The Dragons scored one in the third, followed by two in the fifth and one more in the sixth. In the seventh, however, the Dragons exploded with eight runs...
A new Dollar General could soon be under construction north of Claysburg along Polecat Road near Dunnings Highway. The final land development plan for a 10,640 square foot building received conditional approval from Greenfield Township supervisors at their May 2 meeting. The company is still waiting for several permits, including water and sewer, and will also need a developer’s agreement with the township, but hopes to break ground as soon as June. A wavier to construct 35 parking spaces instead of the 43 required by ordinance was approved. Do...
Taxpayers in the Claysburg-Kimmel School District will see an increase, but only half of what it could have been. At its Wednesday, May 10 meeting, the Claysburg-Kimmel School Board voted to approve the 2023-24 proposed final budget with a 3-percent tax increase, half the 6 percent Act 1 allowable limit. The increase will cost households an average of $23 and is expected to raise about $93,000 in revenue for the district. The increase brings Greenfield Township's real estate taxes to 9.05...
On Thursday, May 4, Central Boys Volleyball celebrated Senior Night. The four seniors are Christian Cherry, Wyatt Holsinger, Ethan Noel and Landon Snider. The team hosted Dubois and lost by a score of three sets to zero. Christian Cherry had five kills, Logan Hummel had 17 assists, and Bryson Brooks and Christian Heuston each had five kills and five digs. On Friday, May 5, the team traveled to Derry for their Senior Night and lost again by a 0-3 score. Christian Cherry had 11 digs and 2 blocks,...
In a three-game week, the Lady Dragon Softball team found crushing victories in their first two matchups against the Bishop Guilfoyle Lady Marauders and the Johnstown Lady Trojans with 15-0 victories over both, including a Senior Night victory over the Trojans. Sadly, as the week neared its end, the Dragons fell to the Bald Eagle Area Lady Eagles in a crushing 10-0 defeat. Against the Marauders, the Dragons jumped to an early lead as they normally do, scoring eight in the first inning, followed by one in the third, and six in the fourth to put...
When "play ball" was yelled for the first-time this season at People's Natural Gas Field, Tom Crownover began his 15th season working for the Altoona Curve. Crownover is passionate about his career with the team, but his journey to job fulfillment was not a typical one. Crownover lives with an intellectual disability. But thanks to the Employment Services division of Skills of Central PA, he was assisted in seeking a job to fit his needs. Crownover was supported through the process of applying,...
“How many mushrooms have you found, Rich?” a friend recently asked. “The usual – nearly none.” I went on to tell him I don’t have enough time to hunt mushrooms – correctly named morels – during the spring. Between fly-fishing for trout and trying to squeeze in some spring gobbler hunting, I just don’t have enough energy to look for morels. By the end of the first week of gobbler season, I’m exhausted from trying to burn the candle at both ends; and when the big evening fly hatches begin, I have to make a choice between turkey hunting and fly-fi...
Central's Christian Cherry signs his letter of intent to play volleyball at Penn State Altoona on Thursday with his mother Apryl and his high school coach Ken Streilein....
After my son had tagged a 25-pound gobbler on last spring’s opening day of gobbler season, we unloaded our guns and began our trek back to his parked truck. Since his gobbler was so large and we had quite a distance to walk, I toted both of our shotguns. We hadn’t walked far along the base of the grass cliff where Bob had killed the big tom when we saw two gobblers sprint across the jeep trail we were on, heading up the cliff. “Come on, Dad. We’ve got to get up there where we can set up to call one in.” “I’m not climbing up there again. My leg...
The Lady Dragons continued their reign of victory with two more opponents squashed throughout the week. The Dragons faced the Penn Cambria Lady Panthers and the Bedford Lady Bisons and found 17-0 and 12-2 victories respectively. Against the Panthers, the Lady Dragons absolutely dominated, scoring seven right off the bat in the first inning, while adding four in the third and another six in the fourth for a run-rule victory. Lacey Lynn was the winning pitcher, recording six strikeouts and a mere one walk. Madison Kennedy had six RBIs, clearing...
The Dragon Baseball team faced two opponents this week: the Penn Cambria Panthers and the Bedford Bisons. A 15-5 victory over the Panthers and a 7-2 victory over the Bisons cemented the Dragons at a 12-2 record at the week’s end. Against the Panthers, the Dragons jumped to an early seven-run lead, scoring four in the first and three in the second. After scoring one in the third, the Panthers brought it to a two-point game in the top of the fifth before the Dragons responded with seven runs to take control of the game. Jeff Hoenstine hit a w...
Central's Kerri Mock competes in the long jump event at Bellwood High School Monday during the Bellwood Invitational track meet....
Williamsburg's Coltyn Wagner can't make the tag in time on Bishop Guilfoyle's Hamilton Gates at second base during Friday's game at Altoona's Vets Field....
The CK varsity baseball team will hold a DH at the Altoona Curve field on May 2, 2023. The game times (and opponents) are set as follows: • 1 p.m. vs. Southern Huntingdon • 4 p.m. vs. Forbes Road...
The Pirates fell to the Marauders 13-3. The team's record is 6-5. They are set to play Curwensville today....
Central High School hosted a track and field meet on April 19....
The Lady Dragons’ past few games have left them in a slump. After the 5-4 loss to the Rangers and this week’s 9-3 loss to the Chestnut Ridge Lions, the Dragons were finally able to turn things around with a 17-0 victory over the Bishop Carroll Lady Huskies and a 10-6 victory over the Westmont Hilltop Lady Hilltoppers. After the losing streak, the Dragons came ready to play when facing the Bishop Carroll Huskies, scoring 12 in the first inning and adding another five in the second while shutting out the Huskies for a run-rule victory. Lacey Lyn...
After the Dragons hit a slump in the Curve Classic, they rebounded well, crushing all of their opponents in their next week of games. A 15-5 victory over the Chestnut Ridge Lions, 15-0 victory over the Bishop Carroll Huskies and 9-6 victory over the Westmont Hilltop Hilltoppers left the Dragons 3-0 for the week. Against the Lions, the Dragons jumped to an early lead right off the bat, scoring five in the first inning followed by seven in the second. Another one in the third and two more in the fourth finalized the Dragons’ scoring, while o...
Prior to the 2022 spring gobbler season, I had heard fewer gobblers on land to which I have access than I had heard for many years. This included both public and private lands. I had, however, heard regular gobbling on properties where I don't have permission to hunt. I had pretty much settled on a first-day hunt on a ridge where my son, Bob, has enjoyed frequent success. I figured he could call in one of the gobblers I'd been hearing there. However, the day before the season opened, a friend...
On Tuesday, April 18, the Central High School volleyball team traveled to Dubois and lost 0-3 by scores of 15-25, 14-25, 9-25. RJ Daugherty had four kills and one block, Logan Hummel had eight assists, Bryson Brooks had 10 digs. On Thursday, April 20, West Shamokin traveled to Martinsburg and won 3-0 by scores of 25-11, 25-15, 25-8. Bryson Brooks and RJ Daugherty had two kills each and Logan Hummel had six assists. On Friday, April 21, Altoona came to Central and defeated the Dragons 3-0 by...
Northern Bedford shortstop Emily Green scoops up a hard-hit ground ball in early innings action against Windber Wednesday, April 19, 2023, at Northern Bedford County High School. The Lady Panthers lost 8-5, bringing their overall record to 3-7....
Occasionally someone will ask me what I was doing on a certain date. I laugh. “How am I supposed to remember that?” I wonder. “I generally can’t remember what I was doing yesterday.” However, I sometimes can recall something of importance. For instance, last spring I remember that I was hearing fewer gobblers hollering than usual before the season. Quite a few others, who are better hunters than I am, agreed that they were hearing fewer birds than usual. One thing that jogs my memory is leafing through my outdoor journals. For instance,...
Claysburg-Kimmel’s varsity baseball team is set to play the following games on April 21 and 22: • Friday, April 21, 2023 Vs. Tussey Mountain School District – @ Bedford High School baseball field Game STARTS at 4 p.m. Bus to DEPART at 2 p.m. • Saturday, April 22, 2023 Vs. McConnellsburg - @ Bedford High School baseball field Game 1 STARTS at 11 a.m. Game 2 STARTS at 1:30 p.m. Bus to DEPART at 9:15 a.m....
In a grueling, four-game week, the Dragons came out 2-2, being handed their first loss in years in the Curve Classic. The week started out against the Somerset Eagles, where the Dragons squeaked out a 4-2 victory. Afterwards, the Dragons crushed the Westmont Hilltop Hilltoppers in an 18-9 victory. To finish out the week, the Dragons played two games as part of the 2023 Curve Classic. In the first game of the week, the Dragons narrowly edged out a victory over the Somerset Eagles. The Dragons took a one-run lead in the first inning before the Ea...
In a three-game week, the Lady Dragons dominated their first two opponents, finding victories of 8-0 and 12-2 over the Somerset Lady Eagles and Westmont Hilltop Lady Hilltoppers respectively. However, finishing out the week, the Lady Dragons fell just short in the final moments of the game against the Forest Hills Lady Rangers, ending in a 5-4 loss. Against the Eagles, the Dragons’ defense was led by Madison Kennedy, who pitched a complete game, two-hit shutout. The Dragons’ eight runs were split throughout the game: two in the second inn...
The Central High School boys volleyball team played two matches last week. On Tuesday, the team lost to Forest Hills at home by scores of 25-23, 21-25, 17-25, 17-25. Bryson Brooks had seven kills, Christian Cherry had five kills and three blocks, Logan Hummel had 18 assists. On Friday, the Dragons traveled to Bishop Guilfoyle and lost by scores of 14-25, 10-25, 19-25. Bryson Brooks had 10 service points and six digs, Collin Becker had four kills, and Ian Aungst had 13 assists. According to Coach Ken Streilein, the team played its best match of...
The Lady Dragon Softball team continued the winning streak with three games this past week: one against the Richland Lady Rams and two against the Bishop McCourt Crushers. The match against the Rams was over in just six innings with an 11-1 score, while the two games against the Crushers ended in 11-1 and 8-6 victories for the Lady Dragons. Against the Rams, the Dragons jumped to an early lead, scoring four in the first inning and three in the second whilst only giving up one. Another run...
