Youth Basketball: Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013
Jr. high7th gradeMillersburg 37 Line Mountain 21Millersburg - Lance Hoover 14, Chandler Kontzer 13; Line Mountain - Montana Sprenkle 7, Tyler Boyer 6.8th gradeMillersburg 42 Line Mountain 30Millersburg...
View ArticleShamokin Area handles Jersey Shore
JERSEY SHORE - Kelsey Yacko scored 10 of her game-high 22 points in the first quarter as Shamokin took a 21-4 lead on the way to a 52-25 Pennsylvania Heartland Athletic Conference Division I win over...
View ArticleHAC-II tussle
MOUNT CARMEL - Wednesday's game between Southern Columbia and Mount Carmel had a little bit of everything.There was stifling defense, scoring spurts, an unlikely hero and a potential changing of the...
View ArticleSports Calendar: Thursay, January 10, 2013
Kulpmont Football/Baseball AssociationMeetings, first Wednesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. Coal RunningsRunning club, meets at 5:30 p.m. each Monday at Shamokin Area's Kemp Memorial Stadium parking...
View ArticleShamokin to hire Yisrael Monday
Yaacov Yisrael will be the next head football coach at Shamokin Area. A fax sent Thursday by district Superintendent James Zack, announced a public meeting Monday at 7:30 p.m. "for the purpose of...
View ArticleIndians swim to win
COAL TOWNSHIP - Josh Scheuren (200 free, 500 free), Mike Rodarmel (50 free, 100 free) and Briar Forbes (diving, 100 breast) each won two individual events as Shamokin Area cruised past Mahanoy Area...
View ArticleBaseball Writers Assoc. got Steroids Era vote right
The Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) delivered a body blow to the so-called Steroids Era when Hall of Fame voters elected no one to the Hall this year, for the first time since 1996 and...
View ArticleSports Calendar: Friday, January 11, 2013
Kulpmont Football/Baseball AssociationMeetings, first Wednesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. Coal RunningsRunning club, meets at 5:30 p.m. each Monday at Shamokin Area's Kemp Memorial Stadium parking...
View ArticleBears maul Raiders
COAL TOWNSHIP - Mahanoy Area coach Mickey Holland has seen his share of basketball battles over the years, most of which he's won.But he probably has rarely been as happy as he was Thursday night after...
View ArticleRaiders defeat Mahanoy
MAHANOY CITY - Rachel Schultz lit up the scoreboard for 30 points and Lourdes Regional defeated Mahanoy Area 65-35 in a Schuylkill League Division II-III crossover game Friday night.Schultz, a junior...
View ArticleSports Calendar: Saturday, January 12, 2013
Kulpmont Football/Baseball AssociationMeetings, first Wednesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. Coal RunningsRunning club, meets at 5:30 p.m. each Monday at Shamokin Area's Kemp Memorial Stadium parking...
View ArticleFans need patience to reach football expectations
Rarely can a parallel be drawn between Shamokin and Philadelphia, but the recent football coaching searches in both cities has brought out a number of similarities.Unlike Shamokin Area, which has...
View ArticleUndermanned Eagles win 3 at Line Mt. Duals
MANDATA - It's somewhat ironic that in a year in which Line Mountain has trouble fielding a full team, there was so much interest in the Eagles' dual meet tournament there will actually be two of...
View ArticleRaiders qualify for D-4 playoffs
FARWELL - Rachel Schultz scored 21 points and had seven rebounds to lead Lourdes Regional to a 69-40 girls basketball win over Bucktail Area Saturday, as the Red Raiders (11-2) became the first area...
View ArticleJoraskie selected for Big 33 Classic
MOUNT CARMEL - Mount Carmel Area senior Eric Joraskie, a first-team Class AA All-State selection and The News-Item 2013 All-Area Defensive Player of the Year, earned another honor Saturday when he was...
View ArticleSports Calendar: Sunday, January 13, 2013
Kulpmont Football/Baseball AssociationMeetings, first Wednesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. Coal RunningsRunning club, meets at 5:30 p.m. each Monday at Shamokin Area's Kemp Memorial Stadium parking...
View ArticlePunk, Rock hyped on Raw
Two big television shows to kick off the new year by WWE, an aptly-named first pay per view of 2013 from TNA set for tonight and a big honor for everybody's favorite former wrestler who visits Knoebels...
View ArticleHuskies sweep at Pitt Duals
Huskies sweep at Pitt DualsPITTSBURGH - The 24th-ranked Bloomsburg University wrestling team swept its two matches on Sunday at the Pitt Duals beating the 12th-ranked Pitt Panthers, 19-18, and Eastern...
View ArticleSports Calendar: Monday, January 14, 2013
Kulpmont Football/Baseball AssociationMeetings, first Wednesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. Coal RunningsRunning club, meets at 5:30 p.m. each Monday at Shamokin Area's Kemp Memorial Stadium parking...
View ArticleRaiders' playoff hopes stand on solid ground
Lourdes Regional is going to qualify for the District 4 playoffs.Just past the midseason point, the Red Raiders are 9-3 and only a complete collapse would keep them from the Class A postseason. And...
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