LOCAL AUTO RACING: Season closes with Outlaw show at Charlotte
CONCORD, N.C. - The 2014 season came to a close for the World of Outlaws Sprint Cars at the eighth annual World Finals at The Dirt Track at Charlotte Satuday.Donny Schatz of Fargo, N.D., clinched his...
View ArticleField hockey stars
Forward Bailey Carl and defender Taylor Jones of Southern Columbia have been named to the Pennsylvania Heartland Athletic Conference Division II field hockey all-star first team in voting by the...
View ArticleFive pick all 12 in football contest
Of the 156 entrants in Week 11 of The News-Item's Football contest, five people had all 12 games picked correctly. In the most points scored by a team tiebreaker, all five went over the highest which...
View ArticleSanchez knocked off rust in leading Eagles to victory over Carolina
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Mark Sanchez shook off the rust and had one of the best games of his career in his first start in two years. Sanchez threw for 332 yards and two touchdowns, the defense dominated...
View ArticleArticle 1
Southern Columbia fans knew they were getting a big addition to the wrestling team when the 2014 PIAA Class AA 145-pound state runnerup Billy Barnes transferred into the school district from Williamson...
View ArticleGirls soccer Heartland Conference all-stars
Ten area girls soccer players were named to Heartland Conference all-star teams, as voted by the conference coaches.In Division 2, Southern Columbia's forward Christina Podpora and midfielder Haley...
View ArticleH.S. FOOTBALL: Improved Montoursville will test Southern Columbia in D-4...
If there is one team in District 4 that seems to have improved most from the first week of the season until now, it's probably Montoursville, Southern Columbia's opponent in Friday's District 4 AA...
View ArticleH.S. BOYS SOCCER: HAC All-Stars announced
Three Southern Columbia players were named first team picks, and three others were second team selctions on the Division III team of the Pennsylvania Heartland Athletic Conference boys soccer all-star...
View ArticleCorrection
Player mistakenly omitted from storyMount Carmel Area's Jennifer Bolick was inadvertently left out in a story in Wednesday's News-Item story about area players who were named Heartland Athletic...
View ArticleH.S. FOOTBALL:North Schuylkill set for Northwestern Lehigh in D-11 AA final
FOUNTAIN SPRINGS - Nate Gadinski still gets sick over it.The North Schuylkill senior lineman gets a little fired up when you ask him about last year's Eastern Conference Class AA championship game...
View ArticleTabs on 45: Henry Hynoski, Giants in rough stretch
Up next: The New York Giants (3-6) and Henry Hynoski return home for a matchup with the San Francisco 49ers (5-4) Sunday at 1 p.m.Last week: New York continued its recent struggles, with its fourth...
View ArticleH.S. FOOTBALL: Southern Columbia, Montoursville to meet in D-4 AA semifinal
If Southern Columbia hopes to win a District 4 AA title to go along with all the A championships it has won, the Tigers (11-0) will have to beat Montoursville (7-4), a team that looks downright...
View ArticleH.S. FOOTBALL: Mistakes costly for Southern Columbia in loss
CATAWISSA RR - Southern Columbia entered the District 4-AA playoffs with a number of injuries to skilled players, but was able to fight past Hughesville in the first round by playing classic Tigers...
View ArticleH.S. FOOTBALL: Montoursville eliminates Southern Columbia in District 4-AA
CATAWISSA RR - Sooner or later, Southern Columbia's missing firepower was going to hurt the Tigers.Sooner or later, Southern was going to play a team too good.It happened Friday, when the Tigers failed...
View ArticleWWE Survivor Series brings back Ryback
With the WWE Survivor Series event set for next Sunday, the company ran a major angle in England at the Raw taping last Monday that centered around the return of Ryback and the question of just which...
View ArticleSix earn PHAC all-star honors
Three members of Mount Carmel Area's district champion boys cross country team head a list of six area athletes who have been named to first team slots on the Pennsylvania Heartland Athletic Conference...
View ArticleHigh School Football Scores
PREP FOOTBALL Saturday scores Class AAAA District 3 Central Dauphin East 41, Hempfield 40, 3OT District 8/10 Final Erie McDowell 35, Brashear 6 Class AAA District 11 Bethlehem Catholic 49, Saucon...
View ArticleH.S. FOOTBALL: Mount Carmel "will likely" open head coaching job
MOUNT CARMEL - Mount Carmel Area school board will likely open head football coach Carmen DeFrancesco's job at this week's meeting, according to board President Thomas Ditchey. Ditchey, reached Monday...
View ArticleWeek 12 football contest winners announced
In the final week of The News-Item's Football Contest, four of the 142 entrants guessed the highest amount of games right with nine.Based on the most points scored by a team tiebreaker, which was...
View ArticleRunning game comes to rescue for careening Steelers offense
NASHVILLE, Tenn - The sometimes exhilarating, frequently revolting, consistently mind-bending thrill ride some call the Steelers offense, careening crazily as it has all season in the hands of...
View Article