FB FRIDAY: What 2 Watch 4
What 2Watch 4 Games of the Week Northwestern Lehigh at North Schuylkill, Fleetwood at Blue Mountain, Millersburg at Tri-Valley, Pine Grove at Northern Lehigh, Marian vs. Pius X SCFCA All-Star Game...
View ArticleMarian to play Greensburg Central Catholic for state volleyball title
HOMETOWN — Serves and suicides. Marian’s girls’ volleyball team spent much of its practice this week doing both, the first to begin play on the court with consistent shots over the net, and the other,...
View ArticleFB FRIDAY: Spartans, Tigers square off in showdown of unbeatens
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 ArticleH.S. TRACK AND FIELD: Blue Mountain coach Yackenchick steps down
ORWIGSBURG — Al Yackenchick has been a track and field head coach in the Schuykill League for the past 19 years, first with Mount Carmel and then with Blue Mountain. He might get to 20 and beyond down...
View ArticleFB Friday: Eagles, Dawgs, Cards ready for title games
Going into Week 5 of the 2014 high school football season, Blue Mountain was 2-2 and facing a tough Marian team on the road. Pine Grove was also 2-2 and just eked out a three-point win over Susquenita....
View ArticleEC FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS: Harner, defense lead Dwags to Class A title
HEGINS — It was a great way for Tri-Valley to finish the season and build for the future. It couldn’t have been a better finale for Hunter Harner’s career. The Bulldogs’ quarterback ran for a...
View ArticleEC FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS: Blue Mountain downs Fleetwood for title in shootout
ORWIGSBURG — Christian Puzzi summarized how he and his Blue Mountain Eagles felt after Friday night’s Eastern Conference Class AAA title game against Fleetwood at the Eagles’ Nest. “It’s everything we...
View ArticleNorthern Lehigh cruises past Pine Grove in EC AA final
SLATINGTON — “Anytime you get to Week 12, it’s a good season.” Pine Grove will have to keep head coach Jeff Sampson’s words in mind when it looks back at its 53-6 loss to Northern Lehigh in Friday’s...
View ArticleD-11 FOOTBALL: NW Lehigh nips Spartans in AA final
FOUNTAIN SPRINGS — A few inches meant the difference between winning a District 11 championship and another heartbreaking loss for North Schuylkill. The Spartans came up inches short on two critical...
View ArticleD-11 FOOTBALL: Pius X routs Marian for Class A title
NAZARETH — Marian drove into the red zone on each of its first three possessions, spending most of the first half on the Pius X half of the turf at Nazareth High School’s Andrew S. Leh Stadium. Each...
View ArticlePenn State report card
PSU report GAME BALLS Offense LT Donovan Smith, Penn State The big tackle returned after missing two games with an undisclosed injury and dominated the Temple defense, paving the way for 254 rushing...
View ArticleSummer research indicates healthy black bear population
Mark Ternent knows bears. As the biologist who heads the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s black bear-management program, it is Ternent’s responsibility to observe, study, trap, tag and examine as many...
View ArticlePIAA VOLLEYBALL: Marian seniors leave their mark
JOHNSTOWN — It was a scene that Marian girls’ volleyball fans had already witnessed. Marian’s seniors were lifting a PIAA trophy after Saturday’s PIAA Class A championship match Saturday at the...
View ArticleWeaknecht now has his own tale to tell
KUTZTOWN By the time Rick Weaknecht was old enough to shoot his first stick bow in the backyard, he had already heard a lifetime of bowhunting stories from those who visited his father’s archery shop...
View ArticlePIAA VOLLEYBALL: Bisignani too much for Fillies to handle
JOHNSTOWN — The team that ended Marian’s reign as PIAA Class A champion spent most of Saturday morning leaping to block the Fillies’ kill attempts. By the end, though, the coup de grace became one of...
View ArticlePIAA VOLLEYBALL: Marian falls in PIAA Class A final
JOHNSTOWN — It was a moment seemingly frozen in time. The ball drifted lazily across the net and, for a split second, it appeared all six Marian girls’ volleyball defenders, with arms outstretched,...
View ArticleMarian grad McGowan plays for Temple against Penn State
STATE COLLEGE — It wasn’t exactly the kind of “fun’’ that Brendan McGowan was expecting in his first visit to Beaver Stadium. The former Marian High School standout was on the field for every one of...
View ArticleOD: Trophy room accepting photos
Online ‘Trophy Room’ accepting photos Successful hunters may submit their digital photos of bear, deer and wild turkey to the online “Trophy Room” of the Republican-Herald and News-Item by visiting...
View Article