MOUNT CARMEL - All North Schuylkill needed to do to finish its first perfect regular season in school history was to be itself.
That meant the defense and running game needed to shine, and after shaking off Mount Carmel's best body blows in the first hal
MILTON - Southern Columbia 38-0 victory over Milton in Friday night's regular-season finale went about as expected.
Milton is, simply put, a bad football team.
So, for a measure of the Tigers' being playoff ready, it pays to look deeper at their recent b
LOYALSOCK TOWNSHIP - The first 10 minutes of Shamokin's final football game of the season was a microcosm of the whole season.
While there were still more than two minutes left in the first quarter, Shamokin had already turned the ball over three times,
MOUNT CARMEL - Mount Carmel Area cross country runner Mikael Hause will join teammate Chris Monahan in competing at Saturday's PIAA state cross country championships in Hershey after another district qualifier dropped out.
Hause finished 15th at last wee
Not much in this world is perfect.
Not Brad Lidge's 2009 postseason after Sunday night, not the first snowflake of winter and as hard as this may be to believe, not even me.
Tonight, North Schuylkill has that rare shot to do something perfect, at least a
BLOOMSBURG - Line Mountain has a bit of a history for putting out top-notch field hockey players.
Everyone knows about Jill Martz, but the Eagles have another alum with a growing reputation on the field hockey field.
On Wednesday, Betsy Renn, a 2008 grad
Mount Carmel Area Jets
'A' Division
Jets 31, Pottsville 0
In sloppy conditions on Saturday night, the Jets earned a share of the Tri-County Northern Division championship with a shutout of the Bulldogs. Kyle Karycki scored on a 44-yard pass from Tommy Ly
Krankoski named all-state
Southern Columbia junior Elise Krankoski earned a selection to the Pennsylvania Soccer Coaches Association all-state team thanks to an excellent individual season which included 15 goals for the Tigers and a first-team Heartland
Shamokin Area's football team did a good job of killing Mifflinburg's District Four AAA playoff hopes last week with a 22-12 win, and the Indians will turn their attention to a AA hopeful this week when they close the season at Loyalsock.
The Lancers (6-
MANDATA - It comes down to this, can Line Mountain push aside a four-game stretch that includes a single win over lowly Halifax and sit a little higher going into the District 4 playoffs, or continue to feed off a season ripe with expectations but bereft
COAL TOWNSHIP - Way back in the beginning of September, Week 1 of the high school football season, Lourdes Regional was manhandled pretty easily by Northwest in a 33-6 setback.
It seemed then that the Red Raiders would have to forget about any chance at
With a win over 1-8 Milton tonight, Southern Columbia will likely lock up a home playoff game next week against Bloomsburg, one of the four teams that own wins over the Tigers this season, so it shouldn't be too hard to get the Tigers up for the Black Pa
North Schuylkill has never had a football team complete a regular season undefeated.The Spartans will try for it tonight, but it won't be an easy assigment.
The state's winningest program, Mount Carmel, stands in the way, and although the Red Tornadoes a
This wasn't the way Trevor Demko's senior season was supposed to play out.
After being named to the Associated Press all-state second team as a junior, and accepting a scholarship to play football at West Virginia University, Demko was supposed to be the
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