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Neil Rudel on PSU: Nittany Lions are counting on Becht’s leadership

STATE COLLEGE — Rocco Becht comes to Penn State as a three-year starter from Iowa State.He’s won 26 of 39 career starts, completed 60.7% of his passes with a touchdown-interception ratio of 64-27 and a healthy yards-per-attempt of 7.9. But he also played in the Big 12, which is not known ...

Lycoming’s defense holds in sweep of Penn College women’s volleyball

Holding Penn College to a .012 hitting percentage, the Lycoming College volleyball team posted a 3-0 (25-13, 25-19, 25-21) win to open the 2026 season at Bardo Gymnasium. Sophomore Kamryn Skeith led the Warriors (1-0 overall) with nine kills, hitting .500, adding five assists and six digs. Senior Haley Balgavy added 12 assists and three aces and sophomore Emi Wenger added eight kills and two aces. Senior Alli Macensky (a Galeton graduate) posted six aces and sophomore Charlene Petreshock posted six kills and two aces. Sophomore Lara DeFreitas led the defense with nine kills and ...

Local roundup: Eyer, Woodward lead Muncy girls to 2-0 win vs. Troy

Kiki Woodward and Ava Eyer each scored goals and assisted one another, helping Muncy girls' soccer blank Troy, 2-0. Woodward scored the game's first goal off an Eyer assist before the teammates reversed roles for the second goal with Woodward feeding Eyer for a goal. Hailey Ganoe made 11 saves in goal for the defending District 4 Class A champions. • In boys soccer, Kai Wheeland scored two goals for North Penn-Liberty but Towanda scored the game's final three and won, 5-2. Wheeland scored consecutive first-half goals to tie the game after Towanda went up, 2-0. Montgomery's game ...

Cutters fall in regular-season finale to Spikes; still capture second-half title

The Williamsport Crosscutters suffered an 8-4 defeat at the hands of the State College Spikes in their regular-season finale on Tuesday, but thanks to Trenton’s 12-4 win over Aberdeen, the Crosscutters clinched the MLB Draft League second-half title. Williamsport had two home runs in the loss. jack Kail had his second of the series and third of the season, a 402-foot drive to right-center field. Trey Wells also picked up his third home run of the year, a 406-foot blast to left field. Both home runs were solo shots. James McCoy drove in the other two Cutter runs on a 1 for 5 night ...

Thornton picks up win at Port Royal Speedway

At Port Royal Speedway, Ricky Thornton Jr was the dominating car in Friday’s late model preliminary feature as he picked up his fourth straight win at Port Royal. Thornton Jr., who started in the third spot, would jump to the second spot right off the opening start, but it would only take three laps before Thornton would contest for the lead and overtake Chris Madden for the top spot. Thornton’s biggest challenge came around the halfway point, when a caution would set up a restart and would allow Devin Moran, who was running in second, to have a shot for the lead on the ...