Williamsport coach Chase Smith often feels frustrated. But his is a problem most coaches envy. Smith has trouble filling out a lineup card because his team is so deep. Williamsport is dressing 17 players and Smith has full confidence that each one can and will produce. Early indications are ...
Muncy had no idea when high school sports were shut down for two weeks starting March 13 last year that its season was over. As with every team last spring, the shutdown was a cruel blow. Unfortunately, the Muncy seniors cannot get that year back. The returning players, however, are doing ...
Power-5 conferences seeking new leadership in football or basketball generally have two choices: A head coach at a mid-major program who has had success, or a rising assistant from a bigger-name school. In Micah Shrewsberry, Penn State chose the latter. Shrewsberry has spent the last 13 ...
Muncy’s Austin Johnson recorded five falls on his way to a first-place finish at the Keystone State Championships for youth wrestling over the weekend. The tournament was held in place of the Pennsylvania Junior Wrestling state tournament, which was canceled for the second year in a row. ...
Senior Tyler Melko, a Cowanesque Valley grad, hit his fifth home run in the last four games to tie the nightcap at three, but Kutztown scored the game winner in the top of the sixth inning to complete the 7-2, 4-3 sweep in PSAC East action in college baseball. Through just 16 games, Melko has ...
BETHLEHEM, Pa. – The Bucknell football team clinched its spot in the Patriot League championship game with a 6-0 shutout of rival Lehigh on Saturday at Goodman Stadium. The Bison (2-0, 2-0 PL South) only needed a pair of Ethan Torres field goals to down the Mountain Hawks (0-2, 0-1 PL ...
Loyalsock did more than capture a Class AAA state championship last week. It provided District 4 teams everywhere hope. Other than Lourdes finishing as the Class A runner-up in 2018, no other District 4 team had reached a state final in the 2000s. The memorable 1999 Williamsport Millionaires ...
Williamsport had not played or practiced together since the previous Saturday. It had a ready-made excuse if things did not go well Saturday at Elm Park. The Millionaires never needed it. They made big plays, key pitches and delivered timely hits instead. Because the school was in remote ...
He referred to it as rewarding. That is how Scott Baker summarized his tenure as the Central Mountain girls basketball coach. Baker — who led the Wildcats to an eye-opening 17 wins this past season —made the decision to step down as Central Mountain’s coach earlier this week. He spent ...
Canton freshman Hudson Ward went 3 for 3 with two doubles and three RBIs as the Warriors erased a five-run fifth-inning deficit and defeated Wellsboro, 7-6. Canton scored three times in the fifth and sixth innings to take the lead and Joel Schoonover (2 for 4) threw 2 2/3 hitless innings to ...
At the 2021 U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Fort Worth, Texas, Lock Haven graduate Chance Marsteller earned a win against Penn State’s Vincenzo Joseph at 74-kilograms in the quarterfinals of the men’s freestyle competition. The late sessions did not end in time for this edition. The finals ...
At the beginning of every golf season, there is a good chance that most golfers will experience the dreaded shanks sooner or later. The word shank is so powerful. Golfers are afraid to say it out loud. It robs a golfer of confidence and scares them so badly they are afraid to take the club ...
Loyalsock captured another District 4 Class AAA championship, reached the state quarterfinals and may have been the state’s second-best team, giving state champion West Catholic its toughest playoff game on its home court. Central Mountain orchestrated one of the best turnarounds in area ...
Fifteen wrestlers with Penn State and Nittany Lion Wrestling Club ties will be competing at the 2021 United States Olympic Wrestling Team Trials this weekend. Four current Nittany Lions, two gold medal winners from the 2016 Olympic Games, and nine wrestlers who have won NCAA individual titles ...
To say this was a fun winter season for high school swimming almost wouldn’t do it justice. I’ve covered swimming in the past with the Sun-Gazette, but never to the extent I did this year and I’m definitely glad I was able to. There was so much that happened this year. From Lewisburg ...
Alize Johnson’s stay with the Brooklyn Nets will last a little bit longer. A day before his first 10-day contract was set to expire, the Nets gave Johnson a second 10-day contract, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. According to Wojnarowski on Twitter, Johnson’s agent George ...
For the first time since 2004, the Lycoming College men’s basketball team produced three all-conference selections, as senior guard Darius Dangerfield and sophomore forward Dyson Harward were each named to the All-MAC Freedom first team, and sophomore forward DeAundre Manuel was an honorable ...
Nobody could see her, but behind every well-thrown pitch Marissa Helmrich delivered Tuesday at Short Park her mother Traci was there. Traci passed away last summer following a valiant battle against cancer, but Marissa continues honoring her mother by playing excellent softball. Traci always ...
This may be one of the most exciting spring high school sports seasons I’ve ever experienced in 20 years in this business. Usually, there’s so much we already know and we can predict how things are going to go in any spring sport. For one of the first times, I have no problem shrugging my ...