Youth Baseball Results
Lower Anthracite Teener LeagueLocust Gap 8, Catawissa 2W: C. Panko (8K). L: Jacob.Locust Gap - K. Kropp, triple, single; W. Kalinoski, double, single; M. Ziv, double, 2 singles; E. Salamone, 2 singles;...
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Mount Carmel Area Junior BaseballAtlas Fire Co. 20, Kulpmont Wildcats 2W: Cody Chmielewski. L; Nick Troutman.Atlas - Damon Dowkus, home run, 2 singles; Trevor McDonald, 2 singles; Logan Yuskoski, 2...
View Article'Jazz' meant much to the whole region
Retired sportswriter Doyle Dietz first covered coach Jazz Diminick's Mount Carmel football teams in 1968 as a correspondent for the now-defunct Tamaqua Courier and covered at least one Red Tornadoes...
View ArticleJohn Cena captures 15th world title
Money In The Bank results, a couple of surprising returns and more injury news are among our primary topics this week in pro wrestling, along with a couple of other noteworthy tidbits making the...
View ArticleSpeedweek Series ends with memorial
The Pennsylvania Sprint Car Speedweek series concluded Sunday night at the Selinsgrove Speedway with the Jan Opperman Memorial.It was a tough start for co-Speedweek point leader Lucas Wolfe, who had a...
View Article9 local softball players earn all-state honors
SHAMOKIN - Five members of Shamokin Area's District 4 Class AAA runner-up team headline a group of nine area players selected for honors on the 2014 Pennsylvania All-State Softball Team selected by...
View ArticleLEGION BASEBALL: Shamokin-Mount Carmel wins two
SHAMOKIN - Shamokin-Mount Carmel entered Monday on a five-game losing streakBy the end of the day, the team had a winning streak of two, defeating Line Mountain 5-4 in the completion of a suspended...
View ArticleStreaky Phils up and down during June
June was a month of streaks for the Phillies.After losing six in a row and eight of nine, the Phillies fell to a season-worst 11 games under.500. They rebounded by winning 9 of their next 11, including...
View ArticleCoach's legacy many faceted
Shortly after I started my second go-round here at The News-Item in 2006, Shamokin Area was hosting Southern Columbia in football at Kemp Memorial Stadium. At that time, Carmen DeFrancesco was still...
View Article'Jazz' remembered
MOUNT CARMEL - Mount Carmel Area football coach Carmen DeFrancesco only kisses a few people when he says goodbye. Among them, his mother, father and son.But in the last six months of Joseph "Jazz"...
View ArticleLEGION BASEBALL: Danville rallies past Shamokin-Mount Carmel
COAL TOWNSHIP - Things couldn't have been going much better for Shamokin-Mount Carmel at the start of the sixth inning in its game against Danville Wednesday night.The team had a seven-run lead and...
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Mount Carmel Junior LeagueCougars 11, Wildcats 8WP: Anthony Stutzcavage (4 Ks). LP: Gabe Klembara (4 Ks).Cougars - Tyler Owens, 2 singles; Jake Adzema, 2 triples; Stutzcavage, 3 singles; Tyler...
View ArticleNostalgia Nationals set to go
Drag racing fans get the chance to turn back the clocks to 1969 when "Beaver Bob" McCardle and his staff at Beaver Springs Dragway will be hosting the 11th annual York Nostalgia Nationals this...
View ArticleLEGION BASEBALL: Shamokin-Mount Carmel blanked in playoff opener
ALMEDIA - Wednesday, Shamokin-Mount Carmel had a collapse in the final two innings against Danville.Against Bloomsburg, in the playoff opener Thursday, S-MC's downfall came much quicker, and lasted...
View ArticleLane posts unbeaten record at AAU mat event
Southern Columbia wrestler Kent Lane went 10-0 for the Middle Atlantic Wrestling Association (MAWA) Blue Team wrestling in the All-Star Division at the AAU Scholastic Duals at the ESPN Wide World Of...
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Mount Carmel Junior Baseball LeagueElysburg Masons 16, Vic's Transmissions 6WP: D. Wetzel LP: G. RosenbergerMasons - B. Gedman, triple, 3 singles; D. Wetzel, 3 singles; B. Heim, 2 singles; T....
View ArticleSCA junior easy choice for Boys Athlete of the Year
For a guy who spent much of the season gimping around on a bad ankle, Southern Columbia's Luke Rarig certainly put his stamp on the 2014 track and field season. Although Rarig failed to win a district...
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BOYS100: Luke Rarig, Southern, 11.1200: Zeke Zsido, Mount Carmel, 22.94.400: Josh Heidel, Milton, 52.0800: David Fletcher, Mount Carmel, 1:55.981600: Simon Smith, Towanda, 4:27.763200: Nate Bartos,...
View ArticleS-MC ousted from playoffs
COAL TOWNSHIP - Line Mountain scored five runs in the third inning and held off a late rally to down Shamokin-Mount Carmel 6-3 Friday in a Susquehanna Valley American Legion League playoff elimination...
View ArticleMCA senior, 4-time selection, is Girls Athlete of the Year
To say Mount Carmel Area's Ali Varano had a fine high school athletic career is like saying Thomas Edison tinkered around with a few gadgets. It's true, but it doesn't really say what needs to be...
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