Though crappies provide consistent fishing during the spring, when forays to feed and reproduce draw them into shallow water, come summer their location often becomes a mystery. Combining trolling tactics to find crappies, and then a casting/jigging approach once located, can keep the action…
BLAIRSVILLE — When he was in high school in the mid-1990s, Jess Houser often wondered how good of a football team could be created if sister schools Blairsville and Saltsburg merged into one.
SLIPPERY ROCK — Maddie Griffin and the Ligonier Valley Rams are heading to Penn State to play for a state championship.
On the surface, Steve Kline’s interest in being the IUP baseball coach seems a little unbelievable.
The Heritage Conference has announced its all-conference teams for spring sports.
CRESSON — One run was all Ligonier Valley needed on a rainy, chaotic mess of a Thursday afternoon to squeak past Chestnut Ridge in the PIAA Class 2A softball quarterfinals at Mount Aloysius College.
WEST LEBANON — West Lebanon picked up its first win of the season, 3-1 over the Indiana County League’s new team, Blacklick Valley, on Tuesday.
PUNXSUTAWNEY — Kovacik Insurance beat Punxsutawney Post 62, 10-0 in five innings, in an Indiana Youth Legion baseball game Wednesday.
SLIPPERY ROCK — Ligonier Valley scored a 3-2 victory over Sharpsville and advanced to the quarterfinal round on the opening day of the PIAA Class 2A softball playoffs on Monday.
Last week while traveling to work, I was reminded why I had written my column in regard to giving wildlife a brake. Where the Route 119 bypass crosses over Route 286, I could hardly believe my eyes. A mallard hed and close to a dozen tiny ducklings were using the same overpass as my truck an…
Soft swimbaits, minnow facsimiles that provide an inherent bite-triggering action, are effective in a wide variety of bass-fishing situations. From stump-laden largemouth lakes to rocky smallmouth rivers, swimbaits are highly versatile tools.
MURRYSVILLE — Young Township split a pair of games with Murrysville in a Westmoreland County Senior Legion baseball doubleheader on Saturday.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania has hired Steve Kline as the 14th head coach in the baseball program’s history.
The CWD-positive deer recently detected in Warren County has led to new regulations to reduce the risk of the disease spreading, according to the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
Gracie Agnello, a senior attack on the Indiana High girls’ lacrosse team, was named to the WPIAL Class 2A all-star team on Wednesday.
The Indiana University of Pennsylvania Athletic Department has announced its 12-member Hall of Fame Class of 2021.
KITTANNING — North Catholic and West Shamokin fought back and forth early in Tuesday night’s PIAA first-round boys’ volleyball match, but once the Trojans took seven of the last eight points to take the opening set, the Wolves never rebounded.
SHIPPENSBURG — Abbie Huey had a moment of clarity Saturday at the rainy PIAA Track and Field Championships.
Sometimes bass are in a chasing mood, sometimes they are not, circumstances that can change not only on a daily basis but an hourly one as well. Seasonally, this is particularly evident during the early part of summer, when bass are transitioning from the recent spawning period and moving to…
Increased travel over the Memorial Day weekend coincided with cooler weather, which had wildlife on the move.
SHIPPENSBURG — For a field athlete, Maizee Fry sure did a lot of running Friday.
Jon Mills, a native of Canada and former Indiana resident who played professional golf and now coaches the Kent State men’s team, was named the Mid-America Conference coach of the year recently.
MARION CENTER — The Marion Center Stingers couldn’t get any momentum.
WEST LEBANON — Thursday was more than a baseball game for the Saltsburg community.
John Bomboy, the former director of athletics at Marion Center High School, has been inducted into the Pennsylvania State Athletic Directors Association Hall of Fame.
Maizee Fry versus Justley Sharp. It’s the best rivalry you’ve never heard of.
The Heritage Conference is adding a new member to its roster for the 2022-23 school year.
BURRELL TOWNSHIP — Blairsville had been playing at its best, defeating undefeated Marion Center on back-to-back days and claiming its first Heritage Conference softball championship last week.
MARION CENTER — For a team that averaged 9.2 runs per game this season, Marion Center didn’t look the part Tuesday.
Three Heritage Conference teams, United, Penns Manor and Homer-Center, bowed out of the District 6 softball playoffs Tuesday.
SIDMAN — West Shamokin took down Central in four sets to claim the District 6 Class 2A boys’ volleyball championship at Forest Hills High School on Tuesday.
Much-needed rain Monday morning has quickly transformed the area’s waterways.
Crappies are well known for their affinity to wood cover. But this doesn’t mean they’ll always be hovering in shoreline laydowns and off-the-bank brushpiles, particularly during the spring when the need to reproduce is a factor. The fish are often on the mover.
MARION CENTER — The Marion Center Stingers survived and advanced.
O’HARA TOWNSHIP — Blackhawk roared out to a 4-0 lead out of the gate, but Indiana rebounded and played gritty against the Cougars.
Three former Indiana High School standouts and two from Blairsville, a major college baseball coach and a innovative coach from decades ago make up the 2021 Indiana County Sports Hall of Fame induction class.
MARION CENTER — After clawing back from a 3-0 deficit, Marion Center’s Ty Ryen found himself in a jam in the seventh inning, with runners on second and third with no outs and the Stingers up by one run.
NORTHERN CAMBRIA — Mia Urbani stepped up to the plate with an opportunity to tie the game in the bottom of the seventh inning after Grace Rougeaux was intentionally walked. Urbani crushed a ball high and deep to right field, but Blairsville’s Emma Skirball made a game-saving catch with her b…
SLIPPERY ROCK — Indiana athletes turned in a couple big surprises while another took care of business in typical fashion at the WPIAL Class 3A Track and Field Championships at Slippery Rock University on Wednesday.
ALTOONA — In their own words, neither of the Saltsburg 1,600-meter relay teams gave themselves much of a chance at the district meet Tuesday.
ALTOONA — Some six years ago, Teagan Sharp picked up a shot put for the first time. But even back then, he was itching to try his hand at discus.
IUP women’s basketball coach Tom McConnell has been added to the staff of the 2021 USA Women’s U16 National Team as an assistant coach.
Saltsburg, the Heritage Conference runner-up, earned the top seed in the District 6 Class 1A baseball playoffs.
CENTER TOWNSHIP — United’s bats splurged for 11 runs in the first two innings and Ben Tomb didn’t allow a hit in a dominating performance over Saltsburg in the Heritage Conference baseball championship game Monday at First Commonwealth Bank Field.
Longtime Indiana County Youth Legion baseball manager Mitch Pacconi picked up his 600th career when the Drillers beat Young Township, 7-2, on Monday.
Turkey season is now in all day for licensed tag holders, allowing ample opportunities at putting meat on the table.
The smallmouth bass hit the fluke-style soft jerkbait with such force it nearly ripped the rod from my hand. The subsequent fight might not have achieved the cliché “towed the boat around,” but it did swing the bow a good 90 degrees. After several tense minutes I slipped the 21-inch, 5-pound…
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