No sleep in Ireland for Nittany Lions
DUBLIN Sometime before 10:30 p.m. Tuesday all the way back in Harrisburg, Penn State’s football team packed itself onto a charter plane, and sometime just before 11 a.m. Wednesday in a time zone...
View ArticleSV announces Hall of Fame class
The Shenandoah Valley Athletic Department will induct two individuals and one team into its Hall of Fame prior to kickoff of Friday’s home football game against Blue Mountain. Coaches and players are...
View ArticleEagles out for history
If the Blue Mountain girls’ soccer team was extra eager to get preseason practice started, it wouldn’t have been hard to blame them. A fourth consecutive Schuylkill League title — a 2-1 victory over...
View ArticleWyomissing returns to face Tide
Wyomissing coach Bob Wolfrum loves playing in Pottsville’s Veterans Memorial Stadium. The aura, the big grandstand, the electric feeling of a packed house with the crowd cheering and the band playing...
View ArticlePenn State preps for Central Florida
DUBLIN, Ireland — There is plenty of history to learn and sights to see in Dublin, and at some level, perhaps Jesse James will appreciate that enough to come back and experience those. Even though he...
View ArticleBecker hunts for Big Diamond title
FORESTVILLE — Big Diamond Speedway’s 2014 season concludes this weekend, which means Pottsville’s Jeremy Becker is soon ready to put his roadrunner car back in the garage and get his hunting gear out,...
View ArticleRealignment, expansion shuffle Schuylkill League girls' volleyball
DIVISION I Blue Mountain Head coach: Nick Marrongelle (4th season) Last year: 14-4, 11-2 D-I, District 11 AAA semifinalist Returnees: Brittney Moyer (sr., OH), Alex Ferrier (jr., MH), Alexis Juritsch...
View ArticleFB FRIDAY: Williams Valley, Marian square off in possible playoff preview
HOMETOWN — It’s tough to say a Week 1 game has postseason implications. Tonight’s inter-league matchup between Williams Valley and Marian falls into that category, however. The Vikings and Colts will...
View ArticleRattigan looks to complete county sweep
ORWIGSBURG — It’s been a big year on the links in 2014 for Jim Rattigan. The 36-year-old Deer Lake resident would like nothing more than to cap it with another trophy. Rattigan enters this weekend’s...
View ArticleWeek 1 High School Football Schedule
(All games start at 7 p.m. unless noted) TONIGHT’S GAMES DISTRICT 11 Wyomissing at Pottsville Blue Mountain at Shen. Valley Jim Thorpe at Minersville Lehighton at Mahanoy Area Tamaqua at North...
View ArticleFootball Friday profile
Name: Clarence Grutza Age: 17 Nickname: Big Clar Twitter handle: @cjg462 Parents’ names: Bill and Diane Grutza Hometown: Shenandoah High School: Shenandoah Valley Years played: 4 Positions you play:...
View ArticlePenn State experiences Gaelic football
DUBLIN, Ireland — Donovan Smith is a 6-foot-5, 335-pound junior tackle who someday could be playing in the NFL, the type of athlete general managers in one of the world’s biggest sports leagues would...
View ArticleWhat's next in conference realignment?
If there’s a theme for the 2014 high school football season, realignment is definitely it. From Blue Mountain and Lehighton joining the Anthracite Football League, to the Tri-Valley League adding...
View ArticleFB FRIDAY: What 2 Watch 4
What 2Watch 4 Games of the Week Williams Valley at Marian, Tamaqua at North Schuylkill, Wyomissing at Pottsville, Lehighton at Mahanoy Area, Blue Mountain at Shenandoah Valley SV Hall of Fame...
View ArticleH. S. FOOTBALL: Mount Carmel wins opener
MOUNT CARMEL — You might have correctly predicted that Mount Carmel would knock off Loyalsock in the teams’ season opener Friday. Bet you didn’t correctly pick who the hero was. Tom Belski, a...
View ArticleH. S. FOOTBALL: Marian defeats Williams Valley in opener
HOMETOWN — What a difference a year makes for K.J. Snerr. The Marian junior suffered a shoulder injury on the first play of the 2013 opener and missed most of the season. A year later, a now fully...
View ArticlePSU PREVIEW: Position matchups
When Penn State has the ball Offensive line vs. Defensive line No position seems more uncertain than the offensive line, which very well could start two converted defensive linemen at guard. The only...
View ArticleH. S. FOOTBALL: Tri-Valley wins opener
MILLERSBURG — Anthony Snyder scored two touchdowns and Tri-Valley scored the game’s final 12 points to pull away to a 31-14 season-opening victory over Millersburg in a Tri-Valley League game Friday....
View ArticleH. S. FOOTBALL: Tide fall to Wyomissing in opener
In the third period of Wyomissing’s 41-0 season-opening victory over Pottsville on Friday at Veterans Memorial Stadium, Pottsville had forced a fourth down for the visiting Spartans and appeared set...
View ArticleH. S. FOOTBALL: Spartans thump Tamaqua
FOUNTAIN SPRINGS — Workmanlike. Impressive. Scary. Yes, all those adjectives can be used to describe North Schuylkill’s 35-6 victory over visiting Tamaqua in Friday’s opening-night victory in...
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