Clinton’s Jacey Tripp threw a complete game and limited East Lycoming to just three hits as Clinton won, 12-6, in the major softball tournament. With the win, Clinton advances to play South Williamsport in the winners’ bracket final Sunday at South Williamsport at 2 p.m. Taleia ...
STATE COLLEGE — The sound off was the familiar click. The unmistakable sound of a baseball launched into orbit. State College’s Dariel Gomez knew without a doubt the baseball was gone. So did Williamsport pitcher Blake Bennett. Gomez’s 370-foot rocket gave the Spikes a 7-6, walk-off win ...
STATE COLLEGE — Not a single member of the Williamsport Crosscutters’ pitching staff was mentioned in any of the dozen or so offseason prospect ranking lists. Manager Pat Borders knew this. Pitching coach Hector Berrios did as well. Still, when both of them spoke of the staff during last ...
South Williamsport’s major softball team exploded for 16 runs in a 16-0 rout of Montoursville in the district tournament to advance to the winners’ bracket final. South Williamsport hosts either East Lycoming or Clinton on Sunday at 2 p.m. Montoursville drops into the losers’ bracket ...
UNIVERSITY PARK — Due to a rainstorm that passed through the State College area and rendered the field not ready for play by 9:05 p.m., the limit for starting the game per New York-Penn League rules, Wednesday night’s scheduled game between the State College Spikes and the Williamsport ...
Omar Maldonado was sitting in orientation for student-athletes last August at Cal-State Los Angeles when the Philadelphia Phillies called him. He was all-in on attending school to finish his Master’s Degree and playing one final season of college baseball, but the Phillies had other ...
Alejandro Made could see his way out of trouble. He had two outs and a runner on third base in the top of the 10th inning and needed just two strikes to give Williamsport a chance to win Tuesday’s series opener against State College. Then the right-hander caught a little bit too much of the ...
The PIAA has every reason to be skeptical about the recently announced Parity in Interscholastic Athletics Act. While Rep. Aaron Bernstine’s (R-Lawrence/Beaver/Butler) bill takes aim at solving the issue of public schools versus private schools in Pennsylvania, it only muddies the waters even ...
Mike Mussina could’ve kept playing professional baseball. The then-Yankees starting pitcher was coming off his first 20-win season as a 39-year-old and his 3.37 ERA was the seventh-lowest of his storied career. The Montoursville native even finished sixth in Cy Young voting in his final ...
Corbin Williams wasted no time changing the narrative of Williamsport’s doubleheader with West Virginia on Monday. After being shut out and held to two hits in the opener, the Crosscutters’ leadoff man ripped a double down the left-field line to open the first inning. He scored five pitches ...
Sunday’s game against the West Virginia Black Bears was postponed due to rain. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader today. The first game will start at 5:05 p.m. and the second game will begin roughly 30 minutes after the conclusion of the first contest. Both games will be ...
STATE COLLEGE — Williamsport was in trouble. It had just allowed four runs in a matter of only three pitches. It’s two-run lead was obliterated. And starting pitcher Carlos Francisco was leaving the game with nobody out in the third inning because of an issue on his pitching hand. It ...
Tom Sutera’s spot in the Cape Cod League last summer wasn’t guaranteed. He was on only a temporary contract, filling in for a player who was still participating in the College World Series or working out a potential pro contract. But Sutera, who had been bypassed in the Major League ...
At the New Balance Outdoor Nationals on Saturday, Loyalsock’s Hailey Zurich set a new PR by clearing 13 feet, 0 1/4 inches in the pole vault. It was good enough for seventh at the event. Zurich won two individual state medals at the PIAA meet last month, taking first in the long ...
Andrew Yoder and Jeff Weaver were among the winners at Clinton County Motor Speedway for Stocker Chevrolet/Stocker Suburu night this weekend. Yoder won the Smith Excavating and Construction limited late-models race, beating Mike Smith (second) and Jim Yoder (third). Weaver won ...
Pat Borders looked across his desk at Williamsport coach Greg Brodzinski and postulated it had been multiple weeks since his team made as many errors as it did Friday night at Bowman Field. The season-opening loss for the Crosscutters was littered with seven errors, all on the infield, in a 4-3 ...
Taylor Lehman has walked into the visiting clubhouse at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park once in his life. But that one time didn’t come during the four years he lived in State College as a pitcher for Penn State. Lehman will get the opportunity to explore the visitors’ clubhouse and dugout ...
There will have been only three MLB Little League Classic games soon, but the Pittsburgh Pirates will have the distinction of being the only team to play in multiple, having played in the 2017 game against the St. Louis Cardinals and this year’s upcoming game against the Chicago Cubs. And ...
Penn State’s rough recruiting week got even worse Thursday when yet another high-profile prospect decommitted from the Nittany Lions. Four-star cornerback Josh Moten announced his decision to decommit, saying he made his initial decision too soon. “After talking and having deep thought ...
It started three years ago when Little League president Steve Keener took a trip with Major League Baseball to Cuba as the Tampa Bay Rays played the Cuban National team in a spring training exhibition game. It may have only been a meeting to get to know members of the Cuban Federation, but it ...