It has been another huge week for news in the mat world with WWE Royal Rumble results and fallout, a second demise for ECW, more bold moves from TNA and yet another death of a wrestling legend.
Edge (Adam Copeland) made a triumphant return from his July surgery for a torn Achilles tendon to capture the 2010 version of the Royal Rumble last Sunday on pay-per-view. John Cena was the last adversary thrown out by Edge after Cena ducked a Batista assault attempt that catapulted the Animal over the top rope. Batista had dispatched Shawn Michaels from the event moments earlier, with Michaels knocking tag partner Triple H out on his list of priors.
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MILTON - Benton and Shikellamy won District 4 Dual Meet championships in the team duals at Milton High School on Saturday.
Benton (12-5) handed Muncy (25-1) its first loss of the season in Class AA championship, 43-33, after earlier wins over Towanda, 36-27, and Wyalusing, 37-36. The Tigers and Muncy advance to the state team tournament, with Benton getting a first round bye.
In Class AAA, Shikellamy downed Jersey Shore, 41-21. The Braves wrestle in the first round of the state tournament Wednesday.
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Who remembers multiplication timed tests as a kid?
There were those of us who dreaded them, and those who relished the pressure.
There were different strategies. Some kids started off strong but fizzled at the end. Other kids, sensing time was about to expire, would scribble furiously and sometimes did their best work, while there was always that segment who went along at their own pace and didn't miss a beat.
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Saturday's snow caused postponements of several area high school sporting events. Events postponed and their makeup dates, if available, are, according to sport:
* Boys basketball - Lourdes at Columbia-Montour Vo-Tech, to Feb. 13, 7:30 p.m.; Meadowbrook Christian at Line Mountain, to be announced; Shamokin at Shikellamy, Feb. 19, 6:30 p.m..
* Girls basketball - St. John Neumann at Lourdes, Feb. 15, 7:30 p.m.; Williamsport at North Schuylkill, Feb. 15.
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Expectations of Friday's snowstorm caused postponement of the day's area sports schedule, as well as some of today's.
Friday's postponed events, with makeup dates if available, were:
* Boys basketball - North Schuylkill at Pottsville, no makeup date.
* Girls basketball - Lourdes at Minersville, no makeup date; Southern Columbia at Loyalsock, no makeup date; Upper Dauphin at Line Mountain, no makeup date; Mount Carmel at Central Columbia, today, 6 p.m.
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Although all of our area teams were eliminated from today's District Four AA team duals tournament, which is scheduled to start at 3 p.m. at Milton (four hours later than originally scheduled to allow for expected snow conditions), there is obviously sufficient interest in the tournament to allow us to do some forecasting.
Here's how I see the final three rounds going:
Quarterfinals - No. 1 seed Muncy (23-0) over No. 8 Athens (12-4); No. 4 Warrior Run (17-4) over No. 5 Mifflinburg (13-3); No. 14 Benton (9-5)
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It was a warm fall day and Upper Dauphin had just come off a win over Line Mountain when Carmen DeFrancesco declared he was happy being a Trojan.
DeFrancesco said this with a maturity that comes with age, as though he'd finally decided against chasing the pot of gold at the end of every rainbow, and it was believable.
It's the same DeFrancesco who had been a player at Mount Carmel and later an assistant coach under Jazz Diminick with the Red Tornadoes.
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