BOYS BASKETBALL
COCOLAMUS -- Tyler Dressler stepped out on senior night, scoring a career-high 29 points to lead East Juniata to a 59-42 Tri-Valley League victory over Line Mountain on Monday.
Dressler, a 6-foot-5 senior center, also pulled down 11 rebounds while frontcourt mate Tyler Erhard added 11 points and 10 rebounds for East Juniata (11-11, 3-4 TVL).
Mike Marciniak scored 15 points for Line Mountain (11-11 overall).
Shamokin 60, Selinsgrove 58
COAL TOWNSHIP -- The Seals scored more than the Indians in every quarter except the second, but the low-scoring period was their downfall as they fell in the Heartland Athletic Conference Division I game.
Shamokin (12-7 overall) outscored Selinsgrove (9-11) 15-6 in the second quarter. The Seals outscored the Indians 52-45 in the other three quarters.
Kieran Kelly scored 16 points and Brent Forbes had 14 to lead the Indians.
Ryan Keiser had 13 points and Dan Ryan and Justin Keiser had 12 apiece for the Seals.
Mifflinburg 68, Milton 36
MILTON -- The Wildcats jumped out to a 22-6 first-quarter lead before they cruised to the HAC-I win.
Jim Sowers tallied 16 points and Corey Murtha had 14 for Mifflinburg (18-2, 11-1 HAC-I).
Domair Anderson led Milton (2-19, 0-13) with 10 points.
Southern Columbia 66, Midd-West 56
CATAWISSA -- Kurt Kessler sank all six of his 3-pointers in the first half, including five in the first quarter, to get the Tigers off to a hot start en route to the HAC-II win.
Kessler finished with a game-high 27 points for Southern (12-9, 6-7 HAC-II), which also got 17 points from Jared Hallick.
Mike Iaderosa scored 23 points, while Eric Frederick and Dexter Herman scored 12 apiece to lead Midd-West (5-15, 4-13).
Lourdes Regional 54, Minersville 52
MINERSVILLE -- Mike Bastian had a game-high 22 points, while Matt Gilger had five points, eight assists, seven rebounds and four steals to lead the Red Raiders to the Schuylkill League win. Lourdes improves to 10-12 overall.
Athens at Danville
DANVILLE -- The non-league matchup between the Wildcats and the Ironmen was cancelled and will not be made up.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Lewistown 51, Mifflinburg 43
LEWISTOWN -- Alexis Valentine matched the Panthers' Lauren Coleman in the scoring column with 19 points, but the Wildcats fell in the non-league matchup.
Lewistown went on for the win after it held Mifflinburg (8-12) to only eight first-half points.
Bryanna Valentine added 14 points for the Wildcats.
Southern Columbia 61, Montgomery 18
MONTGOMERY -- Three players in double figures, led by Jordan Marks' 18 points, propelled the Tigers to the convincing Heartland Athletic Conference crossover win.
Ali Oley added 13 points and Cynthia Adams had 10 for Southern.
Lourdes Regional 71, St. John Neumann 17
COAL TOWNSHIP -- Jen Kalinowski and Christina Perles scored 14 points apiece to lead the Red Raiders to the dominating non-league victory.
Kalinowski added six steals and four rebounds, while Perles pulled seven boards for Lourdes (18-3).
Williamsport at Selinsgrove
SELINSGROVE -- The non-league matchup between the Millionaires and the Seals was postponed by weather and moved to today at the same time.
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HS roundup: Dressler shines on senior night
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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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