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09/09/2024

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KSAC Girls Volleyball

Union at North Clarion

First serve about 7PM

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09/03/2024

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Keystone at Clarion Area
First serve about 7PM

07/15/2024

Inside the gym, it is muggy. Oppressive. The air is thick.

But Taylor Ripple shrugs it off. She jumps with a sudden explosion to smash volleyballs over the net with startling velocity. She sprawls out to dig them inches from hitting the floor. She delicately pops them into the air with her fingertips.

Since the 5-foot-10 middle hitter became a six-rotation player last season for Redbank Valley, Ripple’s volleyball skills have blossomed across the board.

And they have come in quite handy in a hectic summer playing for Renaissance Volleyball Club.

https://d9sports.com/all-in-redbank-valley-senior-taylor-ripple-spends-summer-traveling-country-as-part-of-renaissance-volleyball-club/

07/12/2024

Brooke Steinman feels most free while riding her 13-year-old American Quarter Horse.

Her blood pumps the fastest while in a gallop, making sharp turns around barrels in a cloverleaf pattern.

Steinman has many passions. Barrel racing tops that list.

TIONESTA, Pa. (EYT/D9) — Brooke Steinman feels most free while riding her 13-year-old American Quarter Horse. Her blood pumps the fastest while in a gallop, making sharp turns around barrels in a cloverleaf pattern. Steinman has many passions. Barrel racing tops that list. “It’s the adrenalin ...

07/08/2024

Early in the spring, Quinn White was in a slump.

But White didn’t dwell on the failures. Instead, she sought ways to correct the things that were do***ng her in the box.

She took extra swings in practice and got extra help with her hitting coach. That work enabled her to steer out of that skid, closing the season red-hot at the plate for the Bulldogs and putting up her usual impressive numbers.

(This is one in a series of summer player profile articles. If you would like to participate, fill out this PLAYER PROFILE form for a chance to be selected.) NEW BETHLEHEM, Pa. (EYT/D9) — It was a very uncomfortable feeling for Quinn White. She was mired in a slump. Rough stretches at the plate ha...

07/03/2024

It’s a complex assembly of parts designed to traverse rough and challenging terrain at high speeds.

With that kind of machinery, things can go wrong. Very wrong. And sometimes it happens to Lexi Ruckdeschel, no matter how much she prepares.

Sophomore middle hitter on the Butler County Community College volleyball team has also shined on the court for the Pioneers…

07/02/2024

Clarion-Limestone senior Logan Lutz has found a home this summer playing for a travel baseball team in Mars and has also found his college baseball home at Alfred State.

Lutz, left-hander, threw a no-hitter for the Invaders' U17 travel team last week…

07/01/2024

There’s no doubt now. Evie Bliss is among the elite javelin throwers in the United States, finishing sixth at the Olympic Trials.

EUGENE, Ore. (EYT/D9) — When the javelin left her hand, Evie Bliss knew it was going to be a very good throw. The only question in her mind was just how good was it going to be. Good enough to put her in the top eight at the finals of the women’s javelin at the […]

06/29/2024

South beats North, 20-0

06/29/2024

Union grad Evie Bliss advances to the finals in the javelin at the Olympic Trials with a personal-best throw of 175-1. She’s guaranteed to place in the top 12. Those finals are Sunday.

06/28/2024

South leads North 13-0 in second. While that’s going on, Union grad Evie Bliss launches a careee-best throw of 175 feet and an inch at the Olympic Trials in Oregon.

06/28/2024

Owen Clouse warming up at QB for the South before the ninth-annual Frank Varischetti All-Star Football Game.