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Local roundup: Hughesville baseball qualifies for districts with win

Local Sports May 11, 2026

Despite a serious rash of injuries which threatened to derail its season before it even started, Hughesville kept grinding and is once again playoff-bound. The Spartans pulled some serious double duty to secure that seventh straight District 4 Class AAA playoff berth Monday. Hughesville swept two games at Central Columbia, blanking Berwick, 6-0 before downing the hosts in eight innings, 10-6 to earn their 18th playoff spot in 19 seasons. Jed Abernatha slammed a go-ahead triple in the eighth inning of the second game and Blake Babb struck out five in 2 2/3 innings of relief as ...

Bucktail softball uses four-run fourth to scrape past Lewisburg, 8-6, in home finale

Local Sports May 11, 2026

Bucktail softball hasn't seen a home seven inning game since a 5-4 loss to Montgomery in the second game of the season, including a dominating four game stretch where they outscored their opponents by a combined score of 64-1. With all eyes now on a postseason push and dreams of a district ...

Liberty's Booth throws 3-hitter as Mounties beat Montgomery softball

Local Sports May 11, 2026

MONTGOMERY — She waited two years behind current Penn College standout Mackenzi Tice, but North Penn-Liberty pitcher Elyna Booth did not pout or complain. She simply kept working and preparing. So, when her opportunity came last spring, Booth was as ready as one could be. And she has ...

Chris Masse on baseball: A look back at the Backyard Brawl as a whole

Local Sports May 11, 2026

Kirby moved them into scoring position with a grounder to the right side. Big inning—Montoursville first: Yes, the Warriors only scored once here and still trailed, 2-1 but it was important they blunt the momentum Loyalsock had built with a strong start. This entire game was a fight and ...

Williamsport, Hughesville notch pair of titles, headline area boys' success at PHACs

Local Sports May 10, 2026

BLOOMSBURG – How you start isn’t always indicative of the end result. Just ask Williamsport’s Kye Diakite and Hughesville’s Tyce Shaner. At the rain-impacted PHAC Track and Field Championships at Bloomsburg on Saturday, both local seniors trailed in the latter portion of their respective races – Diakite in the 110-meter hurdles and Shaner in the 1,600. But whether by strategy or sheer effort, each managed to make up the deficit in the nick of time to take home gold. Their efforts headlined a strong day for both their teams and the area as a whole. Diakite’s gold was one ...

Sanders sisters break three combined PHAC records, as Williamsport girls run away with league gold

Local Sports May 10, 2026

BLOOMSBURG - Heading into Saturday’s PHAC Track and Field Championships, Williamsport junior Madeline Sanders had other goals on top of pushing for league gold. She had breached 11 minutes in the 3,200-meter run on multiple occasions throughout the season, a time the league meet record hadn’t yet surpassed. Even with weather conditions being less than favorable, it’s a mark she knew full well she could claim for herself. Sanders ran a 10:52.48, beating the previous PHAC record set by Danville’s McKenzie Jones in 2017 by just over nine seconds and claiming gold by over 50 ...