The PIAA is moving forward with plans to begin the fall sports season on time, it said during Wednesday’s Board of Directors meeting. But the state’s governing body for high school sports also outlined a number of scenarios for schools to push back its start date, should it so choose. So ...
Hannah Rabb remembers being taken to the LPGA Tour’s Shoprite Classic at Seaview in New Jersey. It was there she met Morgan Pressell, a two-time tour winner, who ended up becoming her role model. Rabb spent the day with her parents watching the LPGA golfers compete and soaking in everything ...
Dave Campbell was a 21-year-old first-year wrestling coach full of fire and energy when Dave Fortin offered him a job as an assistant at South Williamsport in 1988. After deciding not to compete in his final year of eligibility at Lycoming College, Campbell was about to begin his student ...
When I first noticed Jaynelle Robinson it was halftime of a varsity girls basketball game and she was walking the hallways. She was 6-feet tall and looked like she could dominate. I wondered why she was not playing that night and soon learned the answer. She was in seventh ...
Its offense dominated, but South Williamsport might have displayed its prowess best while playing defense. Shortstop Alizabeth Schuler stopped a hard-hit third-inning grounder and threw to third baseman Sage Lorson for a forceout Wednesday at Elm Park. Lorson then made a snap throw to first ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a series looking back at the Top 10 high school football teams, coaches, games and players from the last decade. Six years later it still does not seem real. The astronomical stats, the mind-blowing runs, the way defenders seemingly bounced off him … it must have ...
At Clinton County Speedway, Williamsport’s Matt Cochran won his second career limited-late model feature event Friday night over Jim Yoder. Kevin Probst finished third, Joe Lusk took fourth and Bryan Benton was fifth. In pro stock action, AJ Stroup claimed his second win of the ...
Paul McGinn and his wife were watching a Netflix documentary a few years ago called “The Short Game” which turned them onto US Kids Golf. It was from watching that documentary they found out there were kids their son’s age who were competing at a high level. Their son, Logan, had been ...
High school and college coaches shared a common theme when discussing Brandon Smith. While they loved he way he played the game, they admired the way he conducted himself even more. He was a warrior, a gentleman, a scholar and a role model rolled into one tremendous football ...
Alize Johnson yelled at his computer and cell phone quite a lot last winter. The St. John Neumann graduate and second-year Indiana Pacer forward was not experiencing technical difficulties either. Johnson was watching his younger brothers David and Davion Hill play high school ...
The middle was clogged so Kyle Datres bounced the quarterback draw toward the left sideline where a Mount Carmel defender literally stood in his way. No problem. Without putting on his cape, Datres soared like Superman into the night sky and jumped over the would-be tackler. The senior ...
Montoursville Little League president Scott Metzger was sitting at his desk around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday afternoon when he suddenly received a phone call from Little League CEO and president Steve Keener. He had no idea at first what Keener would be calling him about. That’s when Metzger was ...
After careful consideration of internal and external circumstances and with the health and well-being of each campus and community in mind, the presidents of the Middle Atlantic Conference, including Lycoming College, made the difficult decision to suspend all intercollegiate athletics ...
Isaiah Hankins just finished playing his third varsity football game, but the sophomore already sounded like a leader. Abington Heights dropped Williamsport to 0-3 on that 2014 Saturday afternoon, defeating it, 37-12, and Hankins knew things had to change. Individually, he was off to a great ...
The left shoulder and bicep should stay connected on the takeaway. Allow the upper bicep to ride on the rib cage and keep the hands quiet. When the left arm is parallel to the ground, the top of the bicep should be facing up, with the left arm parallel to the ground and parallel to the target ...
Loyalsock Little League's junior baseball division had a game Thursday between Wilkinson-Dunn and Pier 87 at James Short Park. The following is a photo gallery look at that game. For more photos, please visit CU.sungazette.com.
Phillies bench coach Rob Thomson walked over to Logan O’Hoppe and told the 20-year-old he would hit after Alec Bohm in the ninth inning. The emotion spread like wildfire through O’Hoppe. He had been sitting in the Yankee Stadium visitors dugout for eight innings and knew he needed to find ...
With a group of 58 incoming players, the largest for the program in 11 years, the Lycoming College football team will welcome another talented group when the team begins to practice, 13th-year coach Mike Clark announced Wednesday. The Warriors welcome five all-state players in the group, with ...
As the sun slowly set behind the first-base dugout at James Short Park’s softball field, the Loyalsock softball field lights at the far end of the park were slowly illuminating more and more. With no house lights on nearby to illuminate Northway Road and no street lights to brighten it, the ...
While offensive linemen mostly toil in anonymity, Williamsport’s Kurt Danneker always stood out. He was the one so often pancaking defensive linemen or driving them backward like they were human blocking sleds. No area offensive lineman last decade was as dominant as Danneker and his value ...