The 29th annual Pennsylvania Sprint Car Speedweek is just around the corner, kicking off next Friday night at Williams Grove Speedway.
COAL TOWNSHIP — The Shamokin Area School Board took an “unusual step” by voting to remove Rick Kashner as head coach and reinstate Christin Hughes after an emotional plea from the young players during Monday’s board meeting.
BERWICK — Tom McDonald pitched 6.2 innings, scattering six hits and striking out seven, Damon Dowkus homered and Nathan Miller was 3-for-4 as Shamokin-Mount Carmel defeated Berwick 5-2 in Susquehanna Valley American Legion baseball Wednesday.
HUGHESVILLE — Quinn Rollman, Blair Wagner and Mark Wetzel had two hits each, and Wetzel and Wagner combined to hold Hughesville to three hits as Shamokin-Mount Carmel won a Susquehanna Valley American Legion baseball game Monday, 5-2.
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HARRISBURG — The stage was set for fireworks, but in the end there was no show.
BLOOMINGTON, IND. — From Junior League baseball through to her freshman year of throwing the javelin at Bucknell University, Mount Carmel’s Maura Fiamoncini has worn all of her athletic uniforms proudly.
It has been a few seasons since Chad Layton won a sprint car feature at Selinsgrove Speedway.
WILLIAMSPORT – Last summer about this time, John Dunn and his son, Nick, were at BB&T Park at Historic Bowman Field, watching a pitcher they knew.
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While generally friendly, but sometimes acrimonious debate raged on the internet among hardcore fans over the notion of labeling a certain bout the greatest pro wrestling match of all time, WWE television this past week had the go-home shows on Raw and Smackdown promoting the dual-branded Mo…
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HARRISBURG — Robert Lombardi, PIAA executive director, isn’t sure what questions he will be asked Monday when the PIAA Legislative Oversight Committee convenes a public hearing Monday at the State Capitol but he’s sure of one thing — there will be a lot of interest.
ELYSBURG — He burst onto the trapshooting scene last year. Everyone knows his name.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Bucknell University’s Maura Fiamoncini, a Mount Carmel Area graduate, finished second in the javelin at the United States of America Track and Field Junior Nationals Friday, earning a trip to Finland for the Junior World Nationals in July.
PIAA Championships
Arguably one of the most highly anticipated events of the racing season calendar kicked off last night at Grandview Speedway, with the 12th annual “Eastern Storm” Amsoil USAC National Wingless Sprint Car Series, a six race series that competes along the east coast.
ELYSBURG — Perhaps none of the 18 competitors in the first nostalgia event as part of this week’s state trap shoot was ready to go more than Roger Rosedale.
PIAA Championships
HARRISBURG — The PIAA Legislative Oversight Committee, led by chairman Rep. Gene DiGirolamo (R-Bucks), will hold a public hearing at 10:30 a.m. Monday at the State Capitol in Harrisburg to discuss the competitive imbalances between public and private school sports teams.
Michael A. Klembara, III, of Pottsville, will serve as the third base umpire during Friday's televised PIAA Class 6A Baseball Championship at Penn State University set to air on PCN at 3:30 p.m. Two years ago Klembara served as an official during Southern Columbia's seventh football state ch…
From the start of this track and field season, Southern Columbia junior Ethan Knoebel looked like a confident, smart runner. It was obvious watching him run that he not only was in tremendous physical shape, but that he had become a very tough runner mentally.
DANVILLE — Shamokin-Mount Carmel legion baseball team defeated Danville 5-4 in 10 innings of play, Wednesday. Cam Fenix got the win on the mound, throwing five innings in relief and allowing just one run.
District 4 Football Coaches Association
PIAA Tournament
PIAA Tournament
Mount Carmel Area’s Nicole Varano didn’t win any medals at the PIAA State Track and Field Championships this season, but that’s about the only thing she didn’t achieve in a tremendous season that capped a tremendous senior year, which in turn capped an amazing high school athletic career.
COAL TOWNSHIP — For the second time in as many days, Shamokin-Mt. Carmel legion baseball got the best of Line Mountain, topping Post 504 3-0 with a shutout performance from Mark Wetzel on the mound.
Selinsgrove’s Dylan Yoder dominated the Showdown on Sand Hill sanctioned by the Ultimate Northeast Super Late Model series Saturday night at Selinsgrove Speedway.
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MANDATA — Shamokin-Mount Carmel defeated Line Mountain 9-1 in the consolation round of the annual Kip Snyder Memorial Legion Baseball Tournament in Mandata.
For the most part, the good outweighed the bad and — thankfully — the ugly during my 2018 spring gobbler seasons that spanned four states.
COAL TOWNSHIP — As a veteran of nine years, budding football player Eric Zalar knew what he wanted to get out of Saturday’s second annual Hynoski Football Camp at Kemp Memorial Stadium.
The card for next week’s Money In The Bank event, news of a local show scheduled for July and a sad story that is eerily reminiscent of the Benoit tragedy are three of our major headlines this week as we swing into another summer season here In This Corner.
With the exception of Port Royal Speedway having an off weekend and no racing planned, area racing fans have plenty of options afforded to them over this weekend.
EUGENE, Ore. — Maura Fiamoncini may not have had her best day throwing the javelin Thursday at the NCAA Division I Track and Field Championships, but in a strange way, that confirmed just how special she may yet be.
TREVORTON — 19-year-old Hunter Harris, of Trevorton, is preparing to face some of the toughest competition in the region during round eight of the AMSOIL Grand National Cross Country Series scheduled for Saturday in Odessa, New York.
When Maura Fiamoncini first threw a javelin in 2014 as a freshman at Mount Carmel Area High School, she admits now that she wasn’t even sure what a javelin was beforehand.
Sports photo gallery for the week of Sunday, May 27
MANDATA — Line Mountain took a 7-1 lead in the first three innings and held on for an 8-7 win over Hughesville Monday in a Susquehanna Valley American Legion game.
PIAA Tournament
PIAA Tournament
WASHINGTON — Digging deeper into a culture war that he’s repeatedly stoked, President Donald Trump on Monday called off a visit by the Philadelphia Eagles to the White House Tuesday, citing the dispute over whether NFL players must stand during the playing of the national anthem.
HARRISBURG — A Pennsylvania appeals court on Monday ordered the release of documents sealed in the criminal case against former Penn State administrators over their handling of child sex abuse complaints about former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.
Selinsgrove Speedway has honored the memory of former track champion Kramer Williamson five times since his passing in August 2013 with the running of the Kramer Kup. In four of those five races, Mark Smith has been in victory lane including the latest edition of the race Saturday night.
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Shamokin’s Bill Gilger arranges each week’s interview with The Insider.
TAMPA, Fla. — Bucknell University freshman javelin competitor Maura Fiamoncini advanced last week to the NCAA Championships scheduled for June 6 to 9 at the University of Oregon’s Hayward Field.
Following last Friday’s five division show highlighted by URC Sprint cars, Big Diamond Speedway welcomes the Central PA Legends Series for its first visit of the season along with sportsman, roadrunners, street stocks, vintage stock cars and enduro racing tonight. Gates open at 5:30 p.m. and…
TURBOTVILLE — You could sense it wasn’t going to be Shamokin’s day in the District Four Class AAAA district championship game Wednesday when Maryssa Erdman lined a ball to the right-centerfield gap in the third inning.
COAL TOWNSHIP — Jake Wolfe hit two singles for two RBIs and the Shamokin-Mount Carmel Legion baseball pitching staff allowed only five hits while defeating Hughesville 8-4 during the team’s season-opener on Thursday.
District IV Tournament
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