GIRLS BASKETBALL
MIDDLEBURG — Midd- West’s half-court trap not only produced a lot of steals, but it also led to the Mustangs’ 40-29 victory over Montoursville in Heartland Athletic Conference Division I action Friday.
Christina DiBartolomeo scored 13 points and Brittney Kuhns added 10 for Midd- West (7-8, 5-3 HAC-I).
Jillian Gleason had 16 points for Montoursville (8-9, 4-5).
Mifflinburg 40, Milton 36
MILTON — With the game deadlocked after three, the Wildcats outscored the Black Panthers in the final period to take the HAC-I win.
Katie Oliveri scored 13 points and Bryanna Valentine had 10 for Mifflinburg (5-10, 4-6 HAC-I).
Madison Krebs scored 12 points to lead Milton (8-9, 5-4), which also got 11 points from Ali Derr and 10 from Mandy Metzger.
Shikellamy 62, Selinsgrove 22
SELINSGROVE — The Braves beat the Seals in every facet of the game in taking the HAC-I win.
Kelly Bickel scored 21 points, while Megan Slonaker had 12 and Alexis Angstadt chipped in 11 for Shikellamy (13-4, 8-1 HAC-I).
“Shamokin and Shikellamy are clearly the top two teams in the league, and it’ll take somebody else to step up (to beat them),” said Selinsgrove coach Scott Kerstetter.
Selinsgrove falls to 4-9, 2-6.
Loyalsock 53, Danville 44
LOYALSOCK TOWNSHIP — Sam Zampetti and Abbi Woll scored a combined 30 points, but it wasn’t enough as the Ironmen fell in the HAC-II matchup.
Danville falls to 11-6, 4-5 in the conference. Loyalsock is 11-5, 7-2.
Upper Dauphin 39, East Juniata 35
ELIZABETHVILLE — Courtney Rudisill scored all of the Trojans’ fourth quarter points as Upper Dauphin held on to pick up the Tri-Valley League victory.
Rudisill finished the game with 16 points, including seven in the fourth quarter, and added five steals for Upper Dauphin (6-10 overall, 1-2 TVL second half). Madison Miller chipped in for the Trojans with a double-double of 12 points and 10 rebounds.
Mackenzie Truitt led East Juniata (4-13, 1-2) with eight points.
Shamokin 70, Jersey Shore 31
COAL TOWNSHIP — Cassie Grow scored 16 points and she was just one of three double-figure scorers for the Indians in the HAC-I win.
Tanika Gonzalez and Tara Sabotchick tallied 14 and 13 points, respectively, for Shamokin.
Lewisburg 41, Hughesville 25
LEWISBURG — Nine players reached the scoring column as the Green Dragons dominated the HAC-II game.
Chelsea Boyer scored eight points, while Jenny Meslener added seven points for Lewisburg (14-2, 8-1 HAC-II).
Southern Columbia 58, Central Columbia 49
CATAWISSA — Cynthia Adams scored a game-high 27 points as Tigers dominated the second-half of the HAC-II game and picked up the victory.
The Tigers got off to a slow start scoring only 16 points in the first half but came back in the second half and outscored the Blue Jays, 42-24.
Ali Oley added 15 points for Southern (8-7, 6-3 HAC-II).
Shannon Phillips had 21 points to lead Central (7-10, 4-6).
Northumberland Chr. 55, Immanuel Christian 41
FREELAND — Alyssa Wesner’s impressive doubledouble of 27 points and 27 rebounds led to the Warriors’ taking the nonleague victory.
Shelby Derr added 20 points for Northumberland Christian (14-7).
Sunbury Christian 57, Muhlenberg Christian 13
HUNLOCK CREEK — Taryn Borich and Molly Gutelius scored in double figures for the Eagles as they won the nonleague game.
Borich scored 13 points, while Gutelius chipped in with 10 points and seven rebounds and Rebecca Powlus added eight points and pulled down nine boards for Sunbury Christian (18-2).
BOYS BASKETBALL
Selinsgrove 59, Montoursville 50
MONTOURSVILLE — A fourth-quarter run keyed by Ryan Keiser lifted the Seals to the Heartland Athletic Conference Division I win.
Selinsgrove (8-8, 5-4 HACI) started the game on an 8-2 run, but Kyle Kepner scored 10 of his 13 points in the first quarter to keep Montoursville (4-11, 3-6) close.
The Warriors carried a one-point lead into halftime and they led by three after three and that’s when Keiser and the rest of the Seals woke up.
Keiser scored eight of his game-high 17 points in the fourth as Selinsgrove outscored Montoursville 20-10 in the period to pull out the victory.
Keiser also had 12 rebounds and six blocks on the night.
“It was a close game.
Montoursville scrapped the whole game and they played us pretty tough,” said Selinsgrove coach Ray Moyer. “They played without Berresford (who was on a college trip), and they played inspired basketball.”
Dan Ryan added 14 points for the Seals and Alex Lupolt had 10.
Williams Valley 65, Lourdes Regional 35
TOWER CITY — The Vikings out-scored the Red Raiders 17-2 in the first quarter to roll to the Schuylkill League win. Lourdes falls to 5-10 overall.
Meadowbrook Chr. 66, CMVT 57
MILTON — Three players scoring in double figures, lifting the Lions to the nonleague victory.
Ryan Torrey led Meadowbrook (12-5) with a gamehigh 34 points, while Dan Shaffer and Danny Lynd added 12 and 11 points, respectively.
Edward Donnelly had 21 points for Columbia Montour Vo-Tech. (2-11).
WRESTLING
New Oxford Tournament
NEW OXFORD — Following Friday’s round-robin action, a total of seven Line Mountain wrestlers advanced to today’s championship eight-man brackets. The remaining six Eagles are in the consolation bracket and are still alive in the tournament.
Advancing to the championship bracket are Zain Retherford (103), Seth Lansberry (112), Mason Zimmerman (119), Ryan Paul (125), Adam Kritzer (135), Travis Erdman (145) and Bryce Martz (215).
Retherford, Kritzer, Erdman and Martz are a combined 13-0 through the early rounds of the tourney.
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Roundup: Mustangs’trap pays off with HAC-I victory
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Shikellamy Braves rally to stay alive
SELINSGROVE — With 11 losses, the Shikellamy girls basketball team is teetering on the brink of elimination from the District 4 Class AAA playoffs. And on Wednesday night, it looked like the Braves were going to go quietly into the offseason when Selinsgrove built a 14-point lead early in the third quarter.
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They learn to be tough young
It's difficult to recall exactly how the sequence unfolded because it happened so darn fast. Shikellamy made a couple baskets, and the crowd began to stir. It was still anybody's game, and the Braves had some momentum late in the third quarter of a recent run with Danville.
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Motorsports: Selinsgrove, Lincoln speedways to host 360 sprint series
MECHANICSBURG -- Mach 1 Chassis of Mechanicsburg will be the title sponsor of the Mid-Atlantic 360 Sprint Car Championship Series, a $120,000 six-race tour that will include five shows at Selinsgrove Speedway and one event at Lincoln Speedway in 2012.
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Girls basketball: Records fall, Red Tornadoes stay unbeaten
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT -- An overflow crowd zealously cheered Tierney Pfirman's pursuit of the South Williamsport scoring record throughout Tuesday's game, until their breathless faces matched the Mounties' royal blue.
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High school roundup: Rosini pin lifts Ironmen over Tigers
DANVILLE -- Steven Rosini's pin over Connor Houseknecht in 37 seconds in the final bout of the day at 132 pounds prevented disaster for Danville as the Ironmen pulled out a 40-36 Heartland Athletic Conference crossover victory on Tuesday.
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College sports notebook: Antensteiner starts, finishes fast
ANVILLE -- Ines Antensteiner, a member of the powerful Lewisburg girls track & field team for the past four seasons wasted little time making her presence felt in college. On Monday, Antensteiner, a freshman at Lebanon Valley, was named the Middle Atlantic Conference's Indoor Track & Field Athlete of the Week after a pair of event wins at Saturday's Ducharme Invitational.
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Bill Bowman's column on college sports: Tale of two teams in the clutch
Because basketball season is so long it is easy to forget that one or two moments in a single game can essentially make or break an entire season. While teams might play 30 games or so, most of them come down to a couple of possessions, spots where one little thing can be the difference between winning and losing, between making the postseason tournament or turning in the uniforms.
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Sports court strips Contador of 2010 Tour title
MADRID -- Alberto Contador was stripped of his 2010 Tour de France title Monday and banned for two years after sports' highest court found the Spanish cyclist guilty of doping. The Court of Arbitration for Sport suspended the three-time Tour champion after rejecting his claim that his positive test for clenbuterol was caused by eating contaminated meat on a 2010 Tour rest day.
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H.S. boys basketball: Selinsgrove rallies to top Southern Columbia
CATAWISSA -- In a battle between two schools better known for their football programs, Monday's game between host Southern Columbia and Selinsgrove naturally featured plenty of physical play. After a combined 43 fouls and 55 free-throw attempts, the Seals finally pulled it out. Reserve guard Tyler Krebs made five foul shots in the final minute and a half in Selinsgrove's 54-53 victory.
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High School Bowling: Kratzer, Hartranft take home Pro-Am titles
SUNBURY -- The name might have changed, but the results were the same. Now called the 13th annual Best Bowl/Strike Zone High School Pro-Am Scholarship Challenge, the two-day tournament was another success as it pitted some of the Valley's best young bowlers against each other in friendly competition.
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