MINERSVILLE — As Selinsgrove celebrated and took its victory lap, Williamsport players couldn’t help but glance over and wonder what could’ve been. If not for one pitch, one hit, one error or one misplay, maybe Williamsport would’ve been sprinting around the outfield fence with its ...
Colby Fitch gave the Cutters their first lead with his first professional home run, as the Crosscutters held on to win Thursday night to open a three-game set at Batavia, 5-4. Fitch was the lone Crosscutter with a multi-hit game, going 2 for 3 with a home run and a walk. Austin Listi ...
A strong offensive effort from the Williamsport Area Little League Major Baseball team was enough to defeat Selinsgrove, 10-1, and force a rematch for the Section 3 championship. The winner-takes-all game is set for today at Minersville at 5:30 p.m. Williamsport lost the opener of the ...
STATE COLLEGE — With one swing Jake Scheiner set a tone for the Williamsport Crosscutters. It was the tone of hits and runs. Fourteen hits and 11 runs, to be exact. Scheiner’s RBI triple in the first inning set up the Cutters for a pair of two-run innings to start the game as they ...
The Lowell offense made Jake Scheiner go every direction they could at second base Sunday. It didn’t go particularly well. They challenged him to his right and came up empty. Bullets to his left? No sweat. Slow roller to make him charge and throw on the run? Done. Watch the ...
With a recruiting class that features five all-state selections and 48 members, the Lycoming College football team has reloaded for the 2017 season as it looks to step back into contention for a Middle Alantic Conference title, 10th-year head coach Mike Clark announced on Wednesday. The ...
In the Babe Ruth 13-year-old state semifinals in Altoona on Wednesday evening, Josh Rankey threw a complete game to lead West End to the 12-2 win in five innings over Broomall-Newtown. With the win, West End advances to the state championship today as it plays Upper Darby Drexel Hill at 5 p.m. ...
LEWISBURG — Recent Bucknell graduate and women’s basketball standout Sune Swart has signed a contract to play for Sirius Targu Mures, a professional team from Romania that plays in Liga Nationala. “Sune has come a long way in her development and it is exciting to see that it has now led ...
State College missed on its first attempt to sweep out Tuesday’s doubleheader from Williamsport at Bowman Field. It didn’t miss the second. After allowing the tying run in the bottom of the seventh inning, State College scored a pair in the top of the eighth to beat the Crosscutters, 3-1, ...
Williamsport advanced to the Section 3 Major Baseball championship game thanks to a 3-1 win over Wellsboro on Tuesday afternoon. The game was originally scheduled for Monday. Williamsport fell behind, 1-0, after the first inning but scored all three of its runs in the top of the fifth ...
MANSFIELD — For the first time ever, fans can watch live streaming video of Mansfield University Athletics on computers and mobile devices through Mountie All-Access. Mountie All-Access is part of the PSAC Digital Network, which includes all 18 institutions that comprise the Pennsylvania ...
Lycoming College’s head athletic trainer Andrea Lucas was honored as the inaugural Preceptor of the Year award from the National Athletic Trainers Association. The award seeks to recognize those within the profession who have served as a preceptor for an Athletic Training Program, who go ...
Will Stewart walked away from his start Sunday evening at Bowman Field happy to have thrown up a zero in the first inning. That’s been the bugaboo of the former 20th-round draft pick of the Phillies all season. So when he didn’t allow a run to the Lowell Spinners in the first inning ...
In the Babe Ruth 15-year-old state tournament in Bellville Monday evening, Jared Baker delivered a two-out three-run double in the top of the eighth inning to lift West End to a 10-7 eight-inning win over 21st Ward Roxbury. With the win, West End wins the American Division with a 4-0 record in ...
Lowell catcher Samuel Miranda took a giant step to his right to set up way off the outside corner of the plate. He held his mitt in front of his chest expecting a fastball. When Spinners teammate Juan Florentino released the baseball, it wasn’t going toward Miranda. Instead, it leaked ...
Only one pitch separated Spencer Howard from an outing he described as “not great” and an outing which he could be quite happy with. If he could take back the hanging change-up he threw to Lowell’s Garrett Benge, it would have completely changed the complexion of his second start with ...
Montoursville dropped the final in the Little League Senior Baseball state tournament in DuBois Sunday to Pennridge. Montoursville rallied into the final day after an opening loss Wednesday to Hatboro, 6-5, by defeating Four Leaf Clover, 9-3, Kennett Square, 6-4, West Scranton, 11-1, and ...
PITTSBURGH — A quick glance around Pittsburgh Pirates manager Clint Hurdle’s office inside of PNC Park and you’ll notice a ton of reminders about the game of baseball as it relates to Pittsburgh. Photos of various players, a handful of baseballs — both autographed and not — trinkets ...
By MITCH RUPERT mrupert@sungazette.com Josh Stephen didn’t try to do too much with the pitch. He just served it back from where it came. The Williamsport Crosscutters left fielder delivered his second walk-off hit of the season, scoring Malvin Matos in the bottom of the 12th inning to ...
STATE COLLEGE — Ever since he jumped over a would-be tackler against Buffalo during his first college game in 2015, it was clear Saquon Barkley had a chance to do very special things for Penn State. There are so many situations in sports when hype and expectations never materialize into ...