While the Mansion Park league has been in existence for 50 years, a women’s division didn’t surface until the late 1980s, on the initiative of Altoona coach Art Taneyhill, Dry said.

Mike Rhoades leaned back in his seat in the Rec Hall media room Thursday night with his arms crossed and his eyes tightening their gaze as 7-foot forward Yanic Konan Niederhauer answered questions ...