HOLLIDAYSBURG — After a disappointing ending to the Cambria County League playoffs, Bedford’s baseball team advanced to the Western Pennsylvania Baseball League Championship Tournament this past weekend with a lot of uncertainty.
HOLLIDAYSBURG — The rollercoaster season for the Claysburg entry in the Western Pennsylvania Baseball League came to an end this weekend.
Western Pennsylvania Baseball League Tournament Saturday’s Games Championship Bracket Second Round BEDFORD 1, MIFFLIN COUNTY 0, 8 innings
Five classes took to the Bedford Speedway on Friday night with a pair of drivers winning for the first time in the 2020 season.
Jeff Rine and James Fairall pulled out a rare feat on Sunday night at the Bedford Speedway as both drivers won a pair of features in their respective divisions.
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BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) — Kevin Harvick won just about everything he could in a stellar weekend at Michigan International Speedway, although fittingly, Denny Hamlin was the last driver to pressure him.
Bedford’s Drew Hall, center with dark helmet, is mobbed after getting the game-winning hit in the eighth inning to break a scoreless tie in Saturday’s game against Mifflin County at the Western Pennsylvania Baseball League Championship Tournament at Hollidaysburg. Bedford won all four games,…
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The governing body for Pennsylvania school sports on Friday delayed making, for at least two weeks, a decision about whether to follow the governor’s recommendation and cancel sports until January.
HOLLIDAYSBURG — The last few years the Claysburg Bulldogs struggled in the opening rounds of the regional tournament in summer ball.
HOLLIDAYSBURG — Bedford came into the Western Pennsylvania Baseball League Championship Tournament on a two-game losing streak, and through the first four innings of Friday’s first round game against Westmoreland County champion Bushy Run, the Hurricanes were down 2-1 and did not have a hit.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Steelers are united heading into the 2020 season. Yet even with every member of his team opting to play this fall, that doesn’t mean Mike Tomlin is certain his club — or the NFL at large — will be able to navigate without any complications the next five month…
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s governor said Thursday youth sports should not resume until January, a recommendation sure to disappoint students, parents and coaches preparing for fall seasons.
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It seemed like any hope the Montreal Canadiens had of beating the Pittsburgh Penguins rested on the shoulders of goaltender Carey Price.
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Notre Dame opens its season as an Atlantic Coast Conference football member against visiting Duke on Sept. 12 and won’t face Navy for the first time in more than nine decades as part of the ACC’s reconfigured schedule due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Penn State All-American Micah Parsons is opting out of the 2020 season because of concerns about COVID-19.
The high school football games are scheduled to start in several weeks, but that could change at any time. The Mid Penn Conference, which includes many of the schools in Central Pennsylvania, announced on Monday that it would delay the start of practices to September 4 and the first game to …
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Roger Penske has reversed course and decided not to allow fans at the Indianapolis 500 later this month. The 104th running of “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing” will be the first without spectators, who showed up at Indianapolis Motor Speedway every year, even during the Great Depression.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Leavine Family Racing has sold its NASCAR team but will finish the season with driver Christopher Bell.
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The Laurel Highlands Athletic Conference (LHAC) announced on Thursday that it will have a couple changes to its schedule for the fall, but for the local schools, those changes would only be for football.
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The Big Ten released its 10-game conference-only football schedule beginning as early as Labor Day weekend but cautioned Wednesday there is no certainty games will be played.
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STORRS, Conn. (AP) — UConn canceled its 2020-2021 football season Wednesday, becoming the first FBS program to do so because of the coronavirus pandemic, as other schools had taken the Huskies off their schedules and the governor was reluctant to allow UConn to travel to states with high inf…
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The NCAA Board of Governors on Wednesday directed each division of the association to decide independently by Aug. 21 whether it will be able to conduct championship events safely in fall sports such as soccer, volleyball and lower levels of football during the coronavirus pandemic.
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Devin Booker does not like the notion that the Phoenix Suns, whose playoff chances were beyond slim when the season was suspended, should simply be happy to be in the NBA’s bubble.
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Adam Scott took his own sweet time returning to competitive golf.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Ben Roethlisberger is pretty sure there isn’t a technical term for what doctors did to his shredded right elbow last fall.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Gone for now are the days of baseball players, often dirt-stained and still in uniform, gathering in the clubhouse to scarf down a late night meal before heading their separate ways until doing it all again some 24 hours later.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina says he’s one of the players on the team who tested positive for COVID-19.
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Defending champion Rafael Nadal will skip the U.S. Open because of the coronavirus pandemic, putting on hold his bid to equal Roger Federer’s men’s record for Grand Slam titles.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Long before the days when most facts were a click away on the internet, Lee Kemp kept the details of his wrestling success to himself.
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TOKYO (AP) — Tuesday would have been Day 11 of the 2020 Olympics. And it finally brought what was feared the most before the pandemic postponed the games for a year: A hot and humid Tokyo summer day.
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NFL players who decide to opt out of the coming season must do so by Thursday afternoon, a person familiar with the agreement between the league and the players told The Associated Press.
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Summer Fest concluded at the Bedford Speedway on Sunday with a quartet of winners being crowned.
Bedford's Jared Dowey slides into third as Claysburg's Jacob Eberlin awaits a throw in the fifth inning, Friday. The local teams played for the league title on Friday and Sunday. Claysburg won on Friday, 7-4, to give Bedford its first loss in the double-elimnation tournament, and then beat B…
The Bedford Speedway kicked off its Summer Fest on Friday night with a first-time winner at the historical track.
The Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association (MPSSAA) is postponing the fall and winter high school sports seasons.
EVERETT – Two strong pitching performances by Travis Klahre and P.J. Holberg proved to be just what was needed on Sunday afternoon to bring the local Pirates up to the .500 mark and even their season record at 3-3.
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LOUDON, N.H. (AP) — With about 70 laps to go in his back-and-forth battle against Brad Keselowski, Denny Hamlin radioed in to his team: “This is awesome racing.”
McCONNELLSBURG — For third time this year and second time in three days, the Claysburg baseball team played McConnellsburg on the road.
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TORONTO (AP) — NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman took a short break from watching the final few exhibition games Thursday to ponder the significance of awarding the Stanley Cup some two months from now — should all go as planned.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL suspended wide receiver Antonio Brown for the first eight regular-season games of the 2020 season.
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As coronavirus cases spike in other parts of the country a month before the U.S. Open is supposed to start in New York, the U.S. Tennis Association said Friday it “continues its plans” to hold its marquee event and another tournament beforehand.
STATE COLLEGE – After starting the season on a losing skid, 0-3, the Pirates earned their first win of the season, coming back from an early five-run deficit, to knock off the Dbacks, 13-10, Sunday.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The coronavirus forced another change in Major League Baseball’s schedule, bringing the league’s total to eight teams affected in the first nine days of the season.
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Jimmie Johnson finally fulfilled his childhood dream of driving an Indy car with a test session Tuesday. When the seven-time NASCAR champion finished turning laps, he was sold on figuring out how to race next year in the IndyCar Series.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — IndyCar driver Conor Daly will have a new lead engineer for next month’s rescheduled Indianapolis 500: NASCAR Cup-winning crew chief Cole Pearn.
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Most people expected to see a pitchers dual in Wednesday’s Cambria County Baseball League playoff matchup between Bedford and McConnellsburg, the top two seeded teams in the league.
