Young offensive line passes test as Vikings down Miners
Game SummaryWms. Valley (1-0) 13 20 13 0 - 46Minersville (0-1) 0 0 6 6 - 12
View ArticleWeiser too much for Eagles
ROBESONIA - After playing favored Conrad Weiser even for a half Friday night, the turning point seemed at hand for visiting Blue Mountain in the debut of Cory Mabry as its head coach.Unfortunately for...
View ArticleHS FOOTBALL: Pottsville rolls past Shamokin
COAL TOWNSHIP - Both Pottsville first-year head coach Tom McGeoy and Shamokin first-year head coach Yaacov Yisrael were fairly pleased with their teams' play in the Crimson Tide's 41-13, opening-night...
View ArticleHS FOOTBALL: Williams Valley dusts Minersville
MINERSVILLE - Willams Valley's Trevor Whelski is a typical bruising-type fullback not known for long runs.But with the number of big plays the Vikings turned in Friday night, he might as well get...
View ArticleHS FOOTBALL: Big plays lift Wyomissing past Haven
ST. LAWRENCE - Mike Farr is confident his Schuylkill Haven football team will win a lot of games this season.For his Hurricanes to be champions, the ninth-year coach stressed, they have to learn some...
View ArticleStankiewitch remains optimistic despite release by Patriots
ORWIGSBURG - NFL rosters are constantly changing.Injuries, trades and poor performances force teams to make changes in personnel on a weekly basis.Matt Stankiewitch isn't giving up hope that an NFL...
View ArticleDominating performance
SCHUYLKILL HAVEN - Schuylkill Haven scored more goals in three games Saturday than some Schuylkill League girls' soccer teams will tally all season.Kelsey Sisko scored 11 goals on the day and Rileigh...
View ArticleHackenberg shows his potential
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.The most surprising thing about Christian Hackenberg's foray into big-time college football isn't that he started the game.It isn't that he didn't wilt, even on a stifling day in...
View ArticleHaven gives Georgevic 300th victory
MILLERSBURG - Schuylkill Haven coach Vanco Georgevic earned his 300th career victory as the Hurricanes finished 1-1 at Saturday's Millersburg Tournament.The Hurricanes gave their head coach his...
View ArticleKurzinsky leads county tourney
FRIEDENSBURG - Randy Kurzinsky has won the past three medal-play titles at the Schuylkill County Amateur Golf Championship.Now, the Barnesville man is halfway to an unprecedented four in a...
View ArticleCabela's Regulator by BowTech on target at Quebec bear hunt
HAMBURGWith the Saturday, Oct. 5, opening day of Pennsylvania's six-week archery deer season five weeks away, there is still plenty of time for those who have procrastinated about replacing their...
View ArticleNew Carlisle show to help after loss of Eastern Show
CARLISLE - Much like strikes and lockouts by professional sports leagues, when the promoters of the Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show cancelled this year's event because of the backlash against its...
View ArticlePSU NOTEBOOK: Lions battle through injuries
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - It didn't lose the first half on the scoreboard.But Penn State sure didn't feel like winners in the trainer's room.Three key Nittany Lions players - tight ends Matt Lehman and...
View ArticleBig Diamond plans richest race of season
FORESTVILLE - Big Diamond Speedway will conduct its richest program of the 2013 season at 8:15 p.m. today when it hosts its 33rd annual Coalcracker program.The winner of the 358 modified feature, the...
View ArticleRattigan captures 5th Schuylkill County golf title
FRIEDENSBURG - The consecutive four-peat in Schuylkill County amateur golf remains an elusive goal.For Jim Rattigan, No. 5 was pretty fine Sunday.Rattigan, 35, of Deer Lake, captured his fifth overall...
View ArticleCollege athletes go back to work
Thought for the day: It's Labor Day, and hopefully for you, gentle reader, it is a day off. But even if it's not, or you are unhappy because a return to work lurks around the corner, or you are back to...
View ArticleStrunk captures 3rd Coalcracker win at Big Diamond
FORESTVILLE - When the late Doug Hoffman won his third Coalcracker 358 modified feature at Big Diamond Speedway, it came 16 years after his second.And it was considered an unusual accomplishment.Well,...
View ArticleLocal races abound in Schuylkill County
The prime season for participating in road races is upon us. During the late days of summer and the early days of fall, temperatures drop, humidity all but disappears and local races abound.Most of our...
View ArticlePerennial powers
Last season was sort of an anomaly in Schuylkill League boys' soccer.For only the second time in the 15 seasons since the league broke into two divisions, neither Blue Mountain nor Schuylkill Haven won...
View ArticleMarian tops Nativity in Schuylkill volleyball clash
Perhaps they didn't know they were supposed to wilt under the pressure.Instead, Marian sophomores Maureen Kloap and Abby Stankiewitch found ways for their team to claim the opening match of the...
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