Pairings listed for district baseball, softball playoffs
Southern Columbia, seeded fourth, and Lourdes Regional, seeded fifth, each have first round byes, then will face each other in the quarterfinal round of the District 4 AA softball tournament Friday at...
View ArticleSports Calendar: Monday, May 20, 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 lot....
View ArticleStutts, Cannon earn wins at Selinsgrove
Liverpool's T.J. Stutts and Pat Cannon of Etters won sprint car features at Selinsgrove Speedway on Saturday night.Stutts' win in the non-stop 25-lap main event came in the Empire Super Sprints (ESS)...
View ArticleNorth Schuylkill, Minersville set for rematch
North Schuylkill and Minersville engaged May 13 in a dramatic Schuylkill League semifinal, the Spartans pulling out a 10-9 victory in the bottom of the seventh inning.Nine days later, the two squads...
View ArticleSports Calendar: Tuesday, May 21, 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 lot....
View ArticleThree area teams set for softball playoffs
Today starts the finest time of the year for sports cliches. Yes, it's the time for the playoffs, the second season, when history is made, win or go home, and you'd better hope your team is peaking at...
View ArticleYouth Baseball: Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Mount Carmel Area Junior BaseballMajor DivisionVFW 12, Anthracite 2W: Brock Evert. L: Bruce Carl.VFW - Jack Chapman, triple, double, single; Michael Balichik, double, single; Shane Weidner, double,...
View ArticleHIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL: Southern Columbia defeats Mansfield in D-4 opener
CATAWISSA RR - Mason Peters drove the first pitch of the game over the center field fence.It was the kind of start Southern Columbia needed in its District 4 Class AA playoff opener against Mansfield...
View ArticleHIGH SCHOOL TRACK: Mount Carmel relay team desn't fit traditional mold
Mount Carmel boys track and field coach Mike Farronato calls his 4 x 100 relay team The Freak Show.One look at the runners and you can tell why.There is Nick Troutman, a soccer player who may be all of...
View ArticleHIGH SCHOOL TRACK: 29 area athletes set to compete this weekend at Shippensburg
Carter Green's prodigious discus throw of 152 feet, 7 inches at last week's District 11-AA championships has earned her the top seed for in the event at the PIAA state championships - by a large...
View ArticleSports Calendar: Thursday, May 23, 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 lot....
View ArticleMCA grad has successful coaching season
MCA grad coaches successful teamREADING - Frank Keating, a Mount Carmel Area graduate, recently coached the Penn State Berks softball team to a 37-4 record, best in school history. The team won the...
View ArticlePRO FOOTBALL: Hynoski Sr. says son is upbeat heading into surgery
If the past is any indication, Henry Hynoski's first serious injury as a professional football player won't stop him.Hynoski, the Southern Columbia graduate who is starting his third season with the...
View ArticleFausey earns academic honor
Fausey earns academic honorCHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Line Mountain graduate Jon Fausey, who wrestles at the University of Virginia, was recently named to the National Wrestling Coaches Association's...
View ArticleHoliday weekend big for local racing
Extra-distance, higher-paying races are slated for this weekend's racing action in celebration of Memorial Day.Plenty of tracks will have remembrances of our fallen war heroes and also honor the lives...
View ArticleHornberger's hard-luck season has turned around
ATHENS - Jenny Hornberger has had a hard-luck season. Shamokin Area's starter in center field during her first two years, the junior was asked to play catcher this season, and she did for the first...
View ArticleSports Calendar: Friday, May 24, 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 lot....
View ArticleYouth Baseball, May 24
Mount Carmel Junior BaseballKnights of Columbus 14, Anthracite 0W: Chris Krah (perfect game, 10 strikeouts). L: Mike Makuski.K of C - Jeremiah Renno, triple, double, single; Manus McCracken, double, 2...
View ArticleHIGH SCHOOL TRACK: Athletes battle wind at state championship meet
SHIPPENSBURG - On what was likely the coldest day in PIAA state track and field championships history, several area athletes managed to advance to today's second day and, hopefully, better...
View ArticleSports Calendar: Saturday, May 25, 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 lot....
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