Tornadoes tip off state action tonight
Mount Carmel and Lourdes, congratulations, you won District 4 titles.Line Mountain, you're headed to the state playoffs for the first time since the 2004-05 season.All the net cutting, and celebrating...
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HERSHEY - Southern Columbia's Brian Watkins waited four years to get to the state wrestling championships, and he had a tough assignment when he got here.Watkins was matched up with a returning...
View ArticleRetherford, Erdman wrestling for 3rd
HERSHEY - For the first time since 2004, Line Mountain will not have a finalist in the PIAA Class AA state wrestling championships.Sophomore Zain Retherford, a 2010 state champ, and Travis Erdman both...
View ArticleTornadoes' season ends with defeat to Mid Valley
DANVILLE - Mid-Valley outscored Mount Carmel 20-3 in the second quarter Friday night and hung on to win 67-57.It's not flashy, it's fact. And contained in that one brief sentence is everything you need...
View ArticleTillett reaches final
HERSHEY - Shamokin Area's Wes Tillett will try to become the Indians' next state champion today in the PIAA Class AA state finals, after winning two bouts Friday.Tillett downed Beth-Center's Jeff...
View ArticleSeasons, careers end
HERSHEY - When Shamokin Area's Brandon Pesarchick beat Cochranton's Matt Bryer on Thursday in the first round of the PIAA Class AA wrestling championships, it marked the 150th win of Pesarchick's...
View ArticleSYBL Playoffs
SYBL Playoffs 'C' Championship Zarick's 15, Knoebels 12 Zaricks's - Mason Filarski 8, Matt Schiccatano 5, Alyssa Charriez 2; Knoebels - Sarah Rodriguez 3, John Stabinski 3. 'B' Championship Flemings...
View ArticlePCWA cancels upcoming shows
The end of an era on the local pro wrestling scene, the return of Stone Cold Steve Austin to Raw as the journey toward WrestleMania continues and the lineup for tonight's Victory Road payper-view are...
View ArticleL.M. upsets Schuylkill power Fillies
COAL TOWNSHIP - Marian Catholic had the height advantage.Line Mountain had the heart advantage.The Eagles are moving on, and no one showed more heart than Kasey Long in Line Mountain's 38-32 PIAA Class...
View ArticleLourdes will meet familiar opponent in Tri-Valley
COAL TOWNSHIP - Lourdes' Nikki Komara stepped in front of a Greenwood pass, made a beeline for the basket and scored an easy layup.The Red Raiders' sophomore didn't just do it once, she did it often...
View ArticleState silver for Indians' Tillett
HERSHEY - What heavyweight bouts sometimes lack in excitement, they often make up for in tension. They usually come down to one key moment, and Shamokin's Wes Tillett was not the benficiary of that key...
View ArticleMuncy has big tourney
It would be hard to imagine a better tournament, short of a team title, than Muncy High School had this year.The Indians had two state champs, Zach Strickland (152) and Ryan Hembury (189), both of whom...
View ArticleRetherford places 3rd with fall
HERSHEY - Zain Retherford didn't win a state title this season, but it certainly wasn't because he was resting on his laurels.The Line Mountain sophomore, who was Class AA 103-pound state champ in...
View ArticlePIAA sites announced
Sites and times for the next round of the PIAA state basketball tournament were announced Sunday.Lourdes will again play close to home, as it did in the opening round.The Red Raiders' game against...
View ArticleHeartland conference winter all-stars named
The Pennsylvania Heartland Athletic Conference released its winter all-stars recently. The first team members on the boys basketball squad are Shamokin's Kieran Kelley (Div. I) and Zach Malett (Div....
View ArticleRaiders, Eagles return to PIAA action tonight
For Line Mountain and Lourdes, the first round of the PIAA Class A state playoffs couldn't have gone better.Considered underdogs by many, both teams won, and left little doubt that each was the best...
View ArticleRomanoski Hall of Fame class listed
SHAMOKIN - Two-time state wrestling champion Kirk Stehman of Shamokin Area, former basketball standouts Matt Dennis and Lori Martino-Schwartz of Lourdes Regional, baseball star Bill Enders of Line...
View ArticleWhitcomb sparks Eagles
HAMBURG - One of the great mysteries of Line Mountain's postseason was solved Wednesday night.For the past five games, top shooter Mikhail Whitcomb was merely a little nervous.In what the Eagles hope...
View ArticleRaiders eliminated by Schuylkill rival
COAL TOWNSHIP - Lourdes Regional girls basketball coach Mike Klembara said people kept telling him that all his team had to do to beat Tri-Valley was "stop two girls."Maybe, but when those two girls...
View ArticleLM Girls To Play in Pottsville
The Line Mountain girls will continue their run in the PIAA Class A state basketball playoffs Saturday at 2 p.m. at Pottsville's Martz Hall where they will meet Steel-High.
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