SCA looking for late boost
Southern Columbia is an overwhelming favorite when it travels to Warrior Run tonight.The Tigers are 9-0 and have scored 396 points this year, while Warrior Run is just 2-7 and has allowed 333...
View ArticleBoth teams feel pressure
Naturally, when you haven't beaten your biggest rival in 17 years, you're going to feel some pressure to do so. So most people can understand what Shamokin Area players feel like going into tonight's...
View ArticleSports Calendar: Friday, November 2, 2012
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 ArticleEagles fall in overtime
LEWISBURG - If there is any consolation in Line Mountain's 3-2 overtime loss to Selinsgrove in the District 4 Class AA field hockey championship game Thursday at Bucknell University, it's that the...
View ArticleTigers roll to victory
TURBOTVILLE - There have been lots of accomplishments for Southern Columbia through the years, but Friday at Warrior Run the Tigers had a rare first.Senior Jake Becker caught a 16-yard pass from little...
View ArticleBucket stays with MCA
MOUNT CARMEL - Mount Carmel's much-maligned defense led the way Friday as the Red Tornadoes defeated Shamokin 21-7 to win the Coal Bucket game for the 17th straight season.The Red Tornadoes, who were...
View ArticleSports Calendar: Saturday, November 3, 2012
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 ArticleBulldogs blitz Eagles
HEGINS - Before ending the regular season Friday with a Tri-Valley League game against Line Mountain, senior running back Blake Bowman said there was no way that Tri-Valley would treat the game merely...
View ArticleMCA runners turn in solid races
HERSHEY - To give you an idea of what the start of any of the races at the PIAA cross country championships is like, imagine you're one of 230 or so runners spread out across an area the width of maybe...
View ArticleSeniors lead NS to victory
FOUNTAIN SPRINGS - There were plenty of possible distractions for North Schuylkill this week.Classes and practices were cancelled for two days and Friday's game was pushed back a day because of...
View ArticleResults from latest ppv
We have tons of news this week with Hell In A Cell pay-per-view results, the death of another former pro wrestler and health updates on a couple of prominent WWE personalities among our top...
View ArticleGeist set to resign
North Schuylkill head football coach Rick Geist informed the Standard-Speaker Friday evening that he will be tendering his letter of resignation to the school district, ending a coaching and playing...
View ArticleSports Calendar: Sunday, November 4, 2012
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 ArticleHuskies top W. Chester
BLOOMSBURG - So, now that Bloomsburg University's football team has finished where it was projected in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Eastern Division coaches preseason poll, the Huskies...
View ArticleEagles blank Moravian
WHITEHALL - It's been 12 years since Line Mountain was in the state playoffs in field hockey.They're there again, but on a cold day in Whitehall a fire of sorts needed to be lit under the Eagles'...
View ArticleCharlotte races close Outlaw season
The World Finals were held last weekend for the country's top dirt track divisions including the World of Outlaw sprint cars and late models, along with the big block modifieds. The event is held at...
View ArticleTentative playoff matchups listed
The official District 4 football playoff meeting is today, but for purposes of matchups the unofficial points show these likely week one games.In District 4 Class AAA, which is a four-team bracket, No....
View ArticleSports Calendar: Monday, November 5, 2012
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 ArticleLocal racer retires as a champion
CYPRESS, Calif. - Traci Cecco-Pickens, long-time Yamaha rider from West Cameron Township, recently won her ninth Grand National Cross Country women's ATV series title, then announced her...
View ArticleSports Calendar: Tuesday, November 6, 2012
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...
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