NuMINE – When they emerged from their locker room, the West Shamokin Wolves declined an invitation to gather on the court for a commemorative photograph to mark the occasion of their most significant victory to date.

JOHNSTOWN — United knew what it was up against in Friday night’s matchup, and the Lions stepped up to the occasion.

CROMWELL TOWNSHIP — The Penns Manor Comets were the first Heritage Conference team to start the basketball season.

BUTLER — Calvary Baptist beat Bible Baptist of York for two of its three wins Friday en route to the title in the Calvary Christian Academy Invitational boys’ basketball tournament in Butler.

Last year in March, the Indiana High School swim team was on the road, headed to the state meet.

Indiana likes to play fast-paced hockey.

SIDMAN — Top-seeded Bishop Guilfoyle broke away from Marion Center in the second quarter and cruised past the Stingers, 71-40, in the quarterfinal round of the District 6 Class 3A boys’ basketball playoffs Thursday.

CROMWELL TOWNSHIP — Down 12 points early in the fourth quarter, the Penns Manor Comets were facing a long ride home after the end of the season.

SIDMAN — Unbeaten Forest Hills rolled past Marion Center, 55-34, in the District 6 Class 3A girls’ basketball quarterfinals Wednesday night.

NuMINE — The West Shamokin Wolves are getting ready to do it again.

ARMAGH — The key point in United’s scouting report for its matchup with West Branch went something like this: The Warriors will shoot it from anywhere.

Bishop McCort pulled away from Blairsville in the fourth quarter en route to a 77-57 victory Tuesday night and advanced to face United in the District 6 Class 2A girls’ basketball semifinals at home on Friday.

NuMINE — Clutch was on full display at West Shamokin on Tuesday night.

CENTER TOWNSHIP — Brook Murlin was a little surprised when her first 3-point shot of the night went down.

SALTSBURG — Saltsburg turned in a defensive effort worthy of a victory.

The WPIAL’s open basketball playoffs continued Monday night, but Indiana didn’t make it out of the opening round in the Class 5A girls’ bracket.

Indiana opened a busy week on the ice, rolling to an 11-3 victory over Sewickley Academy in a PIHL Class A hockey game Monday at the Robert Morris University Island Sports Complex.

The recent thaw has melted much of the snow, exposing bare ground for the first time in more than a month.

Long before the arrival of precision-tuned suspending lures, anglers were catching awakening springtime bass on modified spoonbill-style hardbaits. On steep-sided highland-type impoundments like Raystown Lake, the shrewd use of these lures continues to con largemouths and smallies.

NuMINE — West Shamokin’s Justin Smulik knew the Wolves needed someone to step up in the final minute of the game, so when he got the ball and the shot was there, he took it.

CENTER TOWNSHIP — The mission was clear for the Homer-Center girls’ basketball team: Win one for Vada Walbeck.

The high school basketball postseason is here, but it’s going to be more of the same for the top girls’ teams in the Heritage Conference.

Marvin Beatty is right on schedule.

There is a widely cited belief in sports that it is hard to beat the same team three times in the same season.

Matt Rodkey is “99.9 percent sure” the United Lions have not played for a conference championship since winning the Appalachian title in 1992-93.

Saltsburg tuned up for the District 6 Class 1A playoffs by closing the regular season with a 57-41 win over Northern Cambria in Heritage Confer3ence boy’s basketball game Thursday night.

Baseball has been a huge part of Michael Ryan’s life for so long that he admittedly began taking it for granted.

It came down to the final day of a whirlwind season, and the Homer-Center Wildcats are No. 1 … for now.

United put the final piece into place in the Heritage Conference boys’ basketball semifinals on Tuesday night.

NuMINE — Once the United Lions figured out their angles, they started clicking.

Warm weather toward the end of the week will coincide with the last days of small game season.

Unlike the sluggish “just there” take of the several large smallmouth bass caught earlier in the day, this fish telegraphed a strong “tick” when it clamped down on the four-inch tube jig. In response, a quick hookset followed.

While the girls’ side of the Heritage Conference slugs it out until the final day, the West Shamokin Wolves established their presence early and often on the boys’ side.

Sam Lenze was not fazed by any of it.

They could have just flipped a coin.

ALTOONA — Marvin Beatty did exactly as expected and won a District 6 championship.

There’s more at stake in the coming days than Heritage Conference playoff berths.

Head coach Dan Braun and the IUP men’s golf team officially welcomed Isaiah Swan to the program after he signed his National Letter of Intent.

FOX CHAPEL — Indiana led a double-digit lead slip away and lost to Fox Chapel, 65-54, in a WPIAL Class 5A Section 2 girls’ basketball game Thursday.

NuMINE — West Shamokin took another step toward the No. 1 seed in the Heritage Conference, and Sophie Fusaro took a big step in her girls’ basketball career.

In a normal year, Marion Center’s Marvin Beatty would be gearing up for what would look like a sure run at earning a medal and PIAA Wrestling Championships.

Wednesday’s Heritage Conference boys’ basketball schedule had the top four teams playing the bottom four, and nothing changed when the top three held serve.

The uncertainty of the high school basketball season continues, but things are getting clear in the Heritage Conference girls’ basketball race.

PHILADELPHIA — New head coach Nick Sirianni is putting on a mini IUP reunion with the Philadelphia Eagles as he assembles his staff since being hired last month.

Ben Schmidt always had a feeling he’d end up at IUP, and now it’s happening.

Third-year IUP softball coach Shawna Bellaud announced her program’s 2021 schedule earlier this week.

Indiana won a pair of close decisions over Laurel Highlands in a TOPIAL Class 2A Section 4 swim meet at IUP on Tuesday.

United’s Maizee Fry needed 17 points to tie the school scoring record in girls’ basketball.