Bigger, better Hackenberg to guide PSU
STATE COLLEGE — No doubt, Christian Hackenberg will be a big part of whatever success Penn State achieves this season. The sophomore quarterback with Northeast Pennsylvania roots — his dad played...
View ArticleCasserly wins junior golf championship
Leaderboard FRIEDENSBURG — All Colin Casserly wanted to do was lag his long putt close to the hole. Instead, he ended up hitting it perfectly, quickly ending a sudden-death playoff in dramatic fashion....
View ArticleSouthern's move changes landscape
WILLIAMSPORT — Start a conversation about Class A football in District 4, and Southern Columbia is mentioned in the first few breaths. And deservedly so. The Tigers have been the state’s premier Class...
View ArticleMarian tabs Radocha as new head baseball coach
HOMETOWN — Marian High School didn’t have to look far for its next head baseball coach. Tony Radocha, a former all-star player at Marian and a Colts assistant coach since 2009, was named Tuesday as the...
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Brewery to host NASCAR race team D.G. Yuengling Inc. will host NASCAR race team owner Richard Childress and NASCAR Nationwide Series driver Ty Dillon for its BBQ at the Brewery event Thursday at the...
View ArticleSports in brief, August 7, 2014
Haven’s Blugis selected to play in Keystone Klash Schuylkill Haven’s Danny Blugis was among the 40 players selected for the 2014 Big 26 Keystone Klash Baseball Classic scheduled for Saturday on Medlar...
View ArticlePreseason kickoff
BARNESVILLE — Often imitated, but never duplicated. That phrase perfectly describes the Schuylkill County Football Coaches Association Media Day. The 11th annual event, held Wednesday for the first...
View ArticleFans visit Childress, Dillon at Yuengling's BBQ at Brewery event
Kathy Faust was a woman on a mission Thursday. The Port Carbon resident waited for two hours at Thursday’s “BBQ at the Brewery” event on Mahantongo Street in Pottsville before getting her much-desired...
View ArticleSports in Brief, August 8, 2014
Big Diamond set for program FORESTVILLE — Big Diamond Speedway, coming off its eighth rainout of the 2014 season, will resume its schedule with an 8:15 p.m. program today. The program will feature the...
View ArticleShinskie hired as assistant coach at Susquehanna
Becker, Witmer headline winners at Big Diamond FORESTVILLE — Jeremy Becker, of Pottsville, captured the checkered flag in Friday’s 20-lap roadrunner feature at Big Diamond Speedway. Rick Laubach, of...
View ArticleFish and Boat Commission programs promote angling for all
HARRISBURG Fishing. It’s a family affair. At least that’s the way the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission has been promoting one of the best recreational activities for those of all ages and...
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Outdoors-related clubs and organizations can submit items to be considered for publication in “Outdoors Briefs” by emailing to outdoors@republicanherald.com. Waterfowl highlights Outdoors Days Cabela’s...
View ArticleLaubach captures feature at Big Diamond
FORESTVILLE — As Rick Laubach saw it, there is really only one option when it comes to racing at Big Diamond Speedway. “Running second is hard here, I can tell you that,” he said, adding, “You want to...
View ArticleFor trout fishing during summer, natives rule all
Long after the hottest action fizzles out on many of the most popular approved trout waters, the party is just getting started elsewhere. Tucked away in pristine valleys and remote mountain draws,...
View ArticlePSU great runs wrestling clinic at Blue Mountain
ORWIGSBURG When David Taylor was a young boy, maybe 7 or 8 years old, he traveled about an hour from his home in Wyoming to Utah, where his first wrestling coach, Steve Sanderson, lived. “Cael was home...
View Article2 local men to be inducted into PA Hall of Fame
When talent meets preparation, dreams can come true. Just ask Jack McDonald and Lance Rautzahn. Both will soon add induction into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame to their long list of honors....
View ArticleWest Chester favored to win PSAC East
KUTZTOWN — Perception can sometimes be accepted as fact, and the perception among the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Eastern Division football coaches is that Bloomsburg University has lost too...
View ArticleGreat local races on tap for August
During the last full month of summer, several local iconic races fill the calendar featuring distances for all runners of all ages. The events begin Saturday at Blue Mountain High School in Orwigsburg...
View ArticleNativity adds game to football schedule
Nativity adds football game to ’14 schedule Nativity High School has filled its football schedule for 2014, adding a second game with Bucktail for Tuesday, Sept. 23. The Green Wave previously released...
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