The 2021 IUP Athletic Hall of Fame class to be enshrined Saturday features conference champions, regional champions, even a national champion. But Ray Bosetti can top all of his follow inductees. He’s a world champion — nine times over. The 87-year-old Bosetti has celebrated senior softball …

McCullough claims Heritage golf title

Effort, execution, physicality and resilience.

IUP will play Shepherd on Saturday in the second game of the 2021 regular season.

Make them earn it.

Indiana drops narrow decision on course

Homer-Center tops Punxsutawney

The Indiana County courthouse was abuzz Monday with activity as hunters lined up to purchase over-the-counter antlerless licenses. A line began to form at 7 a.m. despite the courthouse not opening until 8. By late morning, the tags left for WMU 2D were dwindling, and I felt fortunate that I …

Javon Davis found out 48 hours before kickoff that he would be starting Saturday’s IUP season opener.

Autumn’s cooling water temperatures trigger a movement that sees largemouth bass, smallmouth bass and walleyes relating to steeper-breaking areas. On still and flowing waters, anglers that key in on drop-offs will more consistently enjoy late-fall success.

There is still a long way to go, but IUP coach Paul Tortorella already knows something about his Crimson Hawks.

History-making performances have been an all-too-common theme at Indiana. One phrase, however, has not.

PATTON — They might have been playing Cambria Heights for the first time in seven years, but don’t try to tell Gavin Rezk or the Northern Cambria High School football team that Friday night’s Heritage Conference road clash didn’t have special significance.

KENWOOD — Penns Manor botched the snap on two special teams kicks and never got a foot on the ball.

BLAIRSVILLE — Cage Kinney can talk the talk. On Friday night, he walked the walk.

PURCHASE LINE West Shamokin coach Jon McCullough doesn’t make it a habit to forecast the future, but he was right on the money with his halftime prediction Friday night.

HOMER CITY — Greg Page earned his 99th win as a coach for Homer-Center as his Wildcats pounced on the United Lions, 46-0, in a Heritage Conference football game at Memorial Field on Friday night.

Indiana sisters make tennis history

Indiana coach Brandon Overdorff was angry after his team fell to Ligonier Valley, 20-14, to open the season, and, if you thought he’d simmer down following a 44-7 win over Burrell, you’d be wrong.

When the IUP Crimson Hawks begin their 2021 season Saturday with a home game against Kutztown, 658 days will have passed since they last played a game.

When Harry Woodbery decided to use his final year of eligibility elsewhere, the former Eastern Illinois quarterback found a lot of things he liked about IUP.

Youth is being served on the 2021 IUP defense. That’s not a bad thing.

Thursday, Sept. 2

It’s obvious Duane Brown needs to get the football if the IUP offense is to soar this season.

KUTZTOWN

In his 25 seasons at IUP, Paul Tortorella has seen some tough schedules. But the 2021 slate is, in his estimation, the toughest of all of them.

Here’s one word to properly describe how IUP’s 2021 football season can go spectacularly good — or spectacularly bad.

IUP is in a hurry. Well, actually a rush.

Two of the Heritage Conference’s top four teams will see their first loss Friday night.

Indiana opens section play with victory

For some people, it’s a tattoo on their arm or a picture on the wall. Maybe it’s the look in their child’s eyes, a penny on the ground or, of all things, an empty roll of toilet paper.

Hunting season is officially underway with wing shooters enjoying dove and geese now as an outdoor option.

During the summer, when water temperatures are in the 70s and levels are low, a large portion of river-dwelling smallmouth bass can be found out in mid-river areas, using boulders, channel edges and rock ledge for cover. When the water cools and levels rise — such as we’ve had during the pas…

Indiana girls drop tennis match

NORTHERN CAMBRIA — Although Northern Cambria and Homer-Center sought to avenge their losses in Week 1, it was the Wildcats who left Duffy Daugherty Field with their first win of 2021.

LOWER BURRELL — Whoever said you can’t run from your problems failed to mention that to the Indiana Indians.

MARION CENTER — It was evident that Marion Center was unhappy last year having to share the Heritage Conference title with their neighbors to the east, Penns Manor.

ARMAGH — Purchase Line went back to what it does best.

Indiana tops Gateway, falls to Penn-Trafford

The Indiana Indians are angry.

The Heritage Conference kicks off Week 2 on Friday night, and teams around the league are gearing up to either fight to stay at the top or start the journey to get there.

The Ernest Grays might have been exceptional, but they weren’t the best Black baseball team to grace an Indiana County diamond. Far from it.

R&P League rosters in the 1930s and 1940s were loaded with big league-caliber baseball players, many of whom passed on the majors simply because work in the mines was more lucrative.

While blade baits — compact metal vibrating baits the likes of the classic Silver Buddy and Heddon Sonar — aren’t marketed specifically to be fished vertically, that’s how many anglers use them, particularly during the fall when fish such as walleye and smallmouth bass are often deep.

This time of year, college football coaches have an educated idea of how good — or bad — their offense and defense will be when the season begins. The question mark is usually special teams.