Luke Mitchell kept Middletown off the scoreboard, and Elijah Gibson had two assists to help Altoona pick up its 11th victory in 12 games, 4-0, at Mansion Park Saturday in high school boys soccer.
SCORE BY HALVES
Middletown 0 0 — 0
Altoona 3 1 — 4
First Half: A–Peterman (Gibson), 25:14; A–Black (Spallone), 27:46; A–Ahmed (unassisted), 32:47.
Second Half: A–Etters (Gibson), 64:28.
Records: Altoona (11-1); Middletown (7-5).
Noce finishes 36th
CARLISLE — Tyler Umbright, a senior from University High School in West Virginia, won the boys’ challenge race in 15:22.5, and Katie Payne, a senior from Tatnall in Delaware, won the girls challenge race in 17:59.9 at the 31st annual Carlisle Cross Country Invitational.
Ashlyn Noce finished 36th in the girls race in 19:43.8, and Dean Sunderland was Altoona’s top male finisher in 84th with a time of 16:54.8.
Juniata Valley’s Ella McCrum finished 58th in the girls challenge race with a time of 20:05.2.
Hollidaysburg also competed at the event, and Reuben Manfred led the Golden Tigers with a time of 17:20.7, placing him 148th. Addison Smith led the Lady Tigers with a time of 20:28.8, good for 82nd.
The Central Cambria boys finished third overall in the champions portion of the competition led by Dom Kuntz, who finished 14th individually with a time of 17:01.8.
Sam Chestney, of Hollidaysburg, finished 10th in the ninth-grade boys race with a time of 17:59.5.
BOYS RESULTS
TEAM SCORES
1, Tatnall, 121;2, La Salle, 139; 3, State College, 144, 4. North Penn, 173, 5, University High 205, 39. Altoona 968.
INDIVIDUAL BOYS RESULTS
1, Umbright, UHS, 15:22.5; 2, Hess, Lewisburg, 15:34.3; 3, Pizarro, Tatnall, 15:37.5; 4, T. Opperman, State College, 15:38.0; 5, Baker, Cape Henlopen, 15:39.7
ALTOONA INDIVIDUAL BOYS RESULTS
84, Sunderland, 16:54.8; 161, Quinn 17:30.0; 230, Woomer, 18:05.7; 256, Lyle, 18:17.3; 259, Lieb, 18:18.5; 189, Broaderick,18:30.9; 298, K. Webster, 18:52.5
HOLLIDAYSBURG INDIVIDUAL BOYS RESULTS
148, R. Manfred, 17:20.7; 210, Diaz, 17:51.6; 241, McNicholas, 18:10.1; 274, Watt, 18:31.2; 278, A. Manfred, 18:32.5; 291, Chen, 18:43.7; 319, Batchelder, 19:11.7.
CENTRAL CAMBRIA INDIVIDUAL BOYS RESULTS (CHAMPION DIVISION)
14, Kuntz, 17:01.8; 28, Haycisak, 17:28.4; 36, Takacs, 17:45.1; 41, McConnell, 17:48.4; 60, Doyle, 18:01.2; 69, Brannigan, 18:18.2; 86, Cafazza, 18:45.
GIRLS RESULTS
TEAM SCORES
1, Padua Academy, 159; 2, Pingry School, 194; 3, Georgetown Visitation Preparator, 205; 4, Ocean City HS, 205; 5, State College, 207; 20, Altoona 506
INDIVIDUAL GIRLS RESULTS
1, Payne, Tatnall, 17:59.9; 2, Stine, North Hagerstown, 18:09.3; 3, Ballinger, Padua Academy, 18:09.9; 4, Bondy, Carlisle, 18:12.9;5, Kelly, Downingtown West 18:15.5
ALTOONA GIRLS INDIVIDUAL RESULTS
36, Noce, 19:43.8; 108, Stoltz, 20:50.4; 119, Gioiosa, 21:00.5, 121, Luke, 21:01.1; 156, Snare, 21:37.2; 250, Rinehart, 23:21.
HOLLIDAYSBURG GIRLS INDIVIDUAL RESULTS
82, Smith, 20:28.8; 84, R. Carney, 20:29.2; 132, Etters, 21:10.4; 145, Fiore, 21:26.4; 167, A. Carney, 21:48.9; 180, Moyer, 22:02.5; 239, Watt, 23:05.3.
Frye leads Lions
Ava Frye’s hat trick plus an assist was all of the offense Altoona needed to down visiting Middletown, 4-2, in high school girls soccer action at Mansion Park on Saturday.
Lia Sankey scored Altoona’s other goal, and Sylvie Boslet and Ajaycia Alexander picked up assists.
SCORE BY HALVES
Middletown 0 2 — 2
Altoona 2 2 — 4
First Half: A–Frye (Boslet), 5:26; A–Frye (Alexander), 6:44.
Second Half: M–Artell (Herneissey), 48:24; A–Sankey (Frye), 48:04; A–Frye (direct free kick), 65:01; M–Aman (unassisted), 72:10.
Records: Altoona (9-3); Middletown (3-5-1).
JV: Tied, 1-1.
Spikers runner-up
MECHANICSBURG — The Altoona junior varsity girls volleyball team finished as the silver bracket runner-up at the Cumberland Valley JV Invitational on Saturday.
In pool play, Central York defeated Altoona, 25-21, 25-16, Mechanicsburg topped the Lady Spikers, 25-19, 25-14, and Altoona defeated Northern York, 25-23, 25-21.
In the silver quarterfinals Altoona defeated Dayspring Christian, 25-10 and in the semifinals, it defeated Lower Dauphin, 25-20, before falling to Spring Grove, 25-16, in the finals.
Sophia Knorr had 15 kills and 32 digs, and Kayden Weyandt also had 15 kills. Maraya Bittner had 32 assists, 10 aces and 11 digs, and Selena Lopez-Oakes dished out 32 assists, had 13 digs and six aces.
Marina Petucci had a team-high 46 digs.
SERVICE POINTS
ALTOONA: Bittner 20, Lopez-Oakes 18, Mitchell 17, Rosenberry 11, Petucci 11, Knorr 9, Nordick 3, Rosas 2, Mielnik 1.
Records for the day: Altoona (4-5).
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