Montgomery used a 23-point second quarter to pull away from Bucktail and never let the Bucks rally in a 63-46 boys basketball win on Friday night.

Montgomery saw four players score in double figures in James Godley (20), Parker Bennett (17), Demaj Stewart-Williams (12) and Jace Hanford (12). Gavin Pick had 16 points for Bucktail and was the Bucks’ lone double-digit scorer. Both Corbin Pentz and Aidan Ditty added eight.

• South Williamsport closed the regular-season with a 37-31 win at home in girls basketball against Line Mountain. South Williamsport and Line Mountain combined for 40 points in the fourth quarter as both offenses came alive.

South Williamsport saw Carly Quimby score 11 points, Maddie Reidy score nine and Ella Moore add seven.

• Thanks to three-hit efforts from senior first baseman A.J. Llorente (a Montoursville graduate), senior outfielder Josh Bottger and junior outfielder Eric MacCluen, the Lycoming College baseball team opened its 2026 season with a 12-1 win over Guilford on Friday afternoon, Feb. 13, at McBane Field, producing 16 hits in the team’s first season-opening win since a 2-0 win at Dickinson in 1970.

Lycoming (1-0) built its lead with four runs in the second inning, as Bottger singled in MacCluen with the first run before a fielding error helped junior designated hitter Anthony Guzman score, setting up RBI singles from Perkins and Llorente. The Warriors added single runs in the fifth, with Llorente reaching on an error to score senior Nick Hoheb, sixth, with Hoheb scoring MacCluen on a single, and seventh, with senior third baseman Brody Lindsey, to take a 7-1 lead. Guilford scored its lone run in the sixth.

• Talia Ross struck out 10 hitters to lead the Lock Haven softball team to a 3-0 victory over Wilmington (Del.) in a non-conference game to kick off the 2026 season on Friday morning. The Bald Eagles split the doubleheader, with Wilmington taking game two 10-0.

The doubleheader was hosted in the Adventure Crossing USA Dome in Jackson Township, N.J. with Wilmington (Del.) as the host school.

Pitching and timely hitting led the Bald Eagles to victory in their opener as they wrap up opening weekend 1-1.

In the opener, the Bald Eagles opened the scoring in the top of the second inning after Madison Harvy doubled down the left field line to plate Gianna Goodman.

Harvy extended the Bald Eagles lead to 2-0 after hitting into a fielder’s choice, which led to a mishap at first base to allow Hailey Irwin to come all the way around to scored from second base to make it 2-0.

• Bucknell women’s lacrosse rode a 12-4 first half to an 18-10 win over UMBC in Christy Mathewson-Memorial Stadium, despite being out-scored 4-0 in the fourth quarter. With their first home victory and second consecutive win of the 2026 season, the Bison moved to 2-0 overall.

Megan Krestinski led Bucknell in scoring with a career-high seven goals, which ties her at second in the Bison record books for goals in a single game. She also recorded a team high three assists to give her 10 points which ties her with Allie Boyce for fifth in the record books in total points in a single game.

Two other Bison notched hat-tricks on the afternoon as Caroline Sheridan finished the game with four goals and one assist and Caleigh Cummiskey found three goals and one assist. Freshman Katie Powers scored her first collegiate goal as one of four Bison that recorded one goal in the game. The other three Bucknell goal scorers were Katie Browne, Kat Reynolds and Regan Sansiviero.

Lycoming was picked to finish in a tie for seventh in the Landmark Conference Preseason Coaches’ Poll. Scranton topped the poll with 80 points and eight first-place votes. Catholic was second with 73 points and the remaining two first-place votes. Susquehanna (61), Moravian (57), Juniata (46) and Elizabethtown (44) rounded out the six slots predicted to earn a slot in the Landmark Conference Championship, while Lycoming and Drew (30) finished ahead of Goucher (17) and Wilkes (12) to round out the poll.

The Warriors welcome back two all-conference performers and six starters from a team that finished 8-8 overall and 3-6 in the Landmark Conference under first-year head coach Meaghan Smith in 2025.

Senior Riley Block returns after earning first-team All-Landmark Conference honors in 2025 when she led the Landmark Conference and finished 14th in Division III after averaging 4.56 goals per game. Sophomore goalkeeper Emma Yanders earned honorable mention all-conference honors, as she finished second in the league with 10.44 saves per game.

• Michael Meyer matched his career high with six goals, but defending Northeast Conference champion Robert Morris used big runs early and late in the contest to turn back Bucknell 16-12 on Friday afternoon at Joe Walton Stadium. The Bison fell to 2-1 on the season, while the Colonials picked up their first win of the season after falling twice on the road to top-20 teams.

Meyer also recorded an assist to give him seven points on the day. His only other six-goal game came back in 2023 against Mercer. Sean Berrigan and Owen Kovacs scored twice apiece and Luke Brunner had a goal and two assists for the Bison, who erased a couple of multi-goal deficits only to see Robert Morris break open a 10-10 game with a 5-1 run in the fourth quarter.

Freshman Dylan Anderson had a huge day for the Colonials with four goals and five assists, and goalie Nate Fechter stood on his head throughout and finished with 20 saves.

• The Lycoming College men’s and women’s swimming teams combined to set seven season bests and one personal best on the second day of the Landmark Conference Swimming & Diving Championships.

Through two days, both the Warriors men’s and women’s teams sit eighth, with Catholic holding the lead on both sides.

The day finished with the 400-yard intermediate relay, where the group of first-year Jason Ricci, junior Drew Degnan, junior Will Eberz and freshman Dominic De Mar turned in a time of 4:05.60, setting a season-best by 0.12 seconds.

For the women, freshman Riley Pool, sophomore Madison Robbins (a Wellsboro graduate), junior Anasten Holbrook and junior Gwyn Fox finished the 400-yard medley relay in 4:50.86, knocking off 1.3 seconds from the previous best.

• Lock Haven head field hockey coach Anna Rogers has announced her resignation from Lock Haven. Rogers, who has been the coach at Lock Haven for the last three season (2023-25), has been named the new coach at Long Island University.

When Rogers was named the Bald Eagles’ new head coach in August 2023, she became just the fourth head coach since the program’s founding in 1945. Prior to her time as Lock Haven’s head coach, she was an assistant coach with the program for seven seasons (2016-22).

A national search for Lock Haven’s next head field hockey coach is forthcoming.

• Freshman Samantha Barile was one of 543 student-athletes honored by the National Field Hockey Coaches Association as 2025 Division III Scholars of Distinction.

This honor celebrates student-athletes who earned a cumulative GPA of 3.90 or higher through the fall semester and were nominated by their NFHCA member coaches. Barile is the first Warrior to earn the award.

The Warriors finished the 2025 season 10-8, 4-5 in Landmark Conference play under fourth-year coach Allyson Kenyon. Lycoming set program records for wins and conference wins, while posting the program’s first winning record since 1978 and qualifying for the Landmark Conference Championship for the first time.

BOYS BASKETBALL

Montgomery 63, Bucktail 46

BUCKTAIL (46)

Otis Emerick 3 0-2 6, Landon Charcalla 1 2-2 5, Nate Steele 0 0-0 0, Aidan Ditty 4 0-1 8, Teagan Stone 1 1-2 3, Corbin Pentz 3 1-4 8, Sam Mansfield 0 0-0 0, Will Pedokus 0 0-0 0, Gavin Pick 7 2-5 16, Pierce Russell 0 0-2 0. Totals 19 6-18 46.

MONTGOMERY (63)

Cam Wilver 1 0-0 2, Demaj Stewart-Williams 6 0-0 12, Parker Bennett 6 4-8 17, Dillon Johnson 0 0-0 0, Jace Hanford 5 2-2 12, Cody Sechrist 0 0-0 0, James Godley 9 0-0 20, Brady Denton 0 0-0 0, Hayden Denton 0 0-0 0, Chase Bennett 0 0-0 0. Totals 27 6-10 63.

Bucktail 10 8 15 13 — 46

Montgomery 12 23 10 18 — 63

3-point goals: Bucktail 2 (Pentz 1, Charcalla 1), Montgomery 3 (Godley 2, Bennett 1).

GIRLS BASKETBALL

South Williamsport 37, Line Mountain 31

LINE MOUNTAIN (31)

Ava Stiely 2 0-0 5, Carma Shutt 1 0-0 2, Bella Shingara 3 3-3 9, Khyler Cary 0 0-0 0, Mary Grindstaff 0 0-2 0, Koera Loitzor 1 2-5 4, Kailey Buriak 3 0-0 8, Cora Moyer 1 0-0 3. Totals 11 5-10 31.

SOUTH (37)

Brielle Borgess 2 0-0 4, Coco Kline 3 0-0 6, Kloey Persun 0 0-0 0, Ella More 2 2-6 7, Carly Quimby 3 2-2 11, Maddie Reidy 3 0-0 9, Abigail Holbrook 0 0-4 0. Totals 13 4-12 37.

Line Mountain 6 3 2 20 — 31

South Williamsport 5 4 8 20 — 37

3-point goals: LM 4 (Buriak 2, Moyer 1, Stiely 1), South 7 (Reidy 3, Quimby 3, Moore 1).