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1 month ago | 
huntingdondailynews.com | Terry L. Snare
Huntingdon head softball coach Anna Tobias would be the first one to tell you that there is no easy afternoon in the Laurel Highlands and Tuesday’s game at Penns Valley just added to that statement. In just their third game of the season, the Bearcats were again embroiled in another pitcher’s duel. But, unfortunately, this one ended in the Bearcats’ first loss of the season.
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1 month ago | 
huntingdondailynews.com | Terry L. Snare
No matter what the records are, when Tussey Mountain and Southern Huntingdon square off on the softball diamond, you can always expect a close contest. Such was the case in Tuesday afternoon’s ICC East Division battle on the Rockets’ field. Southern pushed three runs home in the bottom of the third with two outs and then let its pitching and defense do the rest of the work in picking up a 3-0 victory over the visiting Titans.
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1 month ago | 
huntingdondailynews.com | Terry L. Snare
Emma Smith and Ella Young delivered two hits apiece, while Young struck out five and scattered four hits to lead Southern Huntingdon to a 6-3 win over visiting Windber Wednesday afternoon in high school softball action. The Rockets, who were coming off a 13-3, five-inning rout over Northern Bedford in Tuesday’s season opener, improved to 2-0 overall. The Ramblers (1-1) won a 10-7 decision at Southern Fulton Tuesday.
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1 month ago | 
huntingdondailynews.com | Terry L. Snare
Huntingdon’s defense and pitching stepped up big once again during Wednesday afternoon’s home opener against Bellwood-Antis. Bearcat sophomore pitcher Alivia Nicklow continued to throw fire with 11 strikeouts on the afternoon, while giving up just three hits and the defense had just one error as Huntingdon topped the Blue Devils 3-1 in Laurel Highlands East Division softball action.
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1 month ago | 
huntingdondailynews.com | Terry L. Snare
Philipsburg-Osceola ace Alivia Bizzarri limited Huntingdon to just one hit during Tuesday afternoon’s season opener on the Mounties diamond. But, that hit was a two-run home run by Alivia Nicklow with one out in the top of the first inning. The Bearcat defense paired with Nicklow’s stellar four-hit pitching effort was enough to make that early blast hold up as Huntingdon opened the season with a 2-0 win over the Mounties in high school softball action.
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1 month ago | 
huntingdondailynews.com | Terry L. Snare
It wasn’t the kind of start Southern Huntingdon head coach Terri Lessley was hoping for as the 2025 season got underway Tuesday afternoon. The Rockets gave up a pair of runs to visiting Northern Bedford in the top of the first. However, Southern Huntingdon got one of those runs back in the bottom of the frame and then added nine more over the second and third innings on its way to a 13-3 victory in five innings over the Panthers in high school softball action.
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1 month ago | 
huntingdondailynews.com | Terry L. Snare
It was quite a year for Huntingdon’s Lily Fiscus. Not only did the Bearcat senior guard become the 40th area girl and third at Huntingdon to surpass the 1,000-point plateau in early January, but she also became the Bearcat girls’ all-time leading scorer in her next to the last game of her scholastic career. Fiscus poured in a career-high and this year’s area single-game best 34 points in a 66-31 win at Mount Union on February 11 to eclipse Erin Donelson’s 27-year scoring record of 1,214 points.
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1 month ago | 
huntingdondailynews.com | Terry L. Snare
The Southern Huntingdon softball team will be dealing with low turnout numbers this spring. However, within that 13-player varsity roster, there are nine returning letter winners along with four of the squad’s top five hitters from last season. This year’s Rocket team consists of just one senior, along with four juniors, six sophomores and a pair of freshmen. kAm“(:E9 DF49 =@H ?F>36CD[ >J 3:886DE 4@?46C? :D :?;FC:6D 2?5 ECJ:?8 E@ 7:?5 C6A=246>6?ED :? 46CE2:? A@D:E:@?D :7 D@>6@?6 8@6D 5@H? H:E9 2?
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1 month ago | 
huntingdondailynews.com | Terry L. Snare
The Huntingdon softball team is coming off its best season, and first winning campaign, since the 2012 squad’s run to a District Six championship game appearance. The 2024 Bearcats posted an 11-9 overall record, including a 6-6 mark in the Laurel Highlands East Division, and took third-seeded Central Cambria into eight innings before dropping their first playoff game appearance in seven years.
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1 month ago | 
huntingdondailynews.com | Terry L. Snare
The curtain came down on the Southern Huntingdon girls’ basketball team’s season Monday evening with a 74-56 loss to a powerhouse Berlin Brothersvalley squad in the Inter-County Conference championship game inside the Claysburg-Kimmel High School gymnasium.
