MANDATA - Southern Columbia head coach Jim Roth called it the whackiest game he'd ever been a part of.
That's because the season opener for Line Mountain and Southern Columbia was a game of unexplainable runs.
Line Mountain opened with a 20 point first q
SELINSGROVE - Pat Cannon took the lead from Daryn Pittman with two laps to go to apparently win the Selinsgrove Speedway National Open and $8,000 Saturday night.
Cannon, however, came up light at the scales, and track officials awarded the win to Pittman
The return of the hard-hitting action of the Pennsylvania Championship Wrestling Alliance to Mount Carmel next weekend, the death last weekend of former wrestling star Luna Vachon and the TNA pay per view this weekend are the hot topics this week.
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FORESTVILLE - Mike Loney waited nearly one year to capture a sportsman feature victory at Big Diamond Raceway.
Friday night, Loney, of Taylor, won the Pioneer Pole Buildings Coalcracker 50, earning the $2000 payday.
He also won the race in 2009.
Ricky Be
MANDATA - Mount Carmel Area scored only three goals, but allowed only one, winning two games and the Marc Kissinger Trophy in the Line Mountain boys soccer tournament Saturday.
In the opener, Jake Horan scored the Red Tornadoes' (2-0) only goal in a 1-0
COAL TOWNSHIP - North Schuylkill's Brendan Shearn and Bloomsburg's Meghan Ashford looked to be in prime midseason shape Saturday at Shamokin Area's Purple and White Invitational.
No one must have told them that Saturday's race was only the first of the s
COAL TOWNSHIP - Corey Houser's debut as the head football coach at Lourdes could have gone better.
That's an understatement.
Baltimore's Mount Zion Baptist, like Lourdes, brought only an 18-man roster to the Raiders' Leo A. Mulhall Stadium for Saturday n
Game Summary
MCA (1-0) 0 7 0 7 - 14
Selinsgrove (0-1) 0 0 0 0 - 0
MCA - Stutzcavage 6 pass from Stewart (Kanezo kick)
MCA - Lamb 8 pass from Stewart (Kanezo kick)
Game Summary
Mifflinburg (0-1) 0 0 0 9 - 9
Shamokin (1-0) 16 0 7 0 - 23
S - Jared Montgomery, 26 run (Jon Vanaskie kick)
S - Lee Supsic, 1 run (Vanaskie kick)
S - Safety, Matt Brouse tackled in end zone
S - Supsic, 6 run (Vanaskie)
M - Oakley Whitesel, 2
COAL TOWNSHIP - As season debuts go, Shamokin's Area's was about a solid 'B'.
The Indians had their 'A' game going in the first quarter, taking a 16-0 lead, then coasted for a couple of quarters before settling for a 23-9 win over Mifflinburg that was pr
SELINSGROVE - All fairy tales have a beginning and an end.
Depending on what side of the field you were on Friday night at Selinsgrove, Carm Defrancesco and Mount Carmel Area was either a shining knight or a fire-breathing dragon.
The Red Tornadoes ended
FOUNTAIN SPRINGS - The new playing surface at North Schuylkill's Spartan Stadium got the kind of christening the Spartans wanted Friday night.
After an emotional pre-game ceremony honored fallen NS graduate John Anczarski of the Pink Pedal cycling team,
Friday, Sept. 3
Football
Mount Carmel at Selinsgrove, 7 p.m.
Shenandoah Valley at North Schuylkill, 7 p.m.
Mifflinburg at Shamokin, 7 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 4
Cross Country
Purple and White Invitational, 9 a.m.
Football
Southern Columbia at Line Mountain,
Shamokin Sports Passes
Shamokin Area Middle/High School will be selling sports passes for all home events. Cost is $50 for adults, and $10 for students. Seniors over age 65 can receive a gold card free of charge by showing identification. Passes may be p
Saturday night has been long awaited since Line Mountain and Southern Columbia announced they'd open the 2010 season against each other.
The Eagles and Tigers have met in the postseason for the past four years. There have been some slobberknockers, close
Shamokin Area got a little bit of a break from the Pennsylvania Heartland Athletic Conference schedule this season, starting with two home games against Mifflinburg and Jersey Shore.
That doesn't necessarily mean two guaranteed wins, but it is a bit easi
COAL TOWNSHIP - There are better ways to open the season, but at least Lourdes will be in familiar surroundings at Leo A. Mulhall Stadium.
Mount Zion Baptist School, a small, private school from Baltimore, is visiting on Saturday, and for new Red Raiders
MOUNT CARMEL - Five different times Mount Carmel has had the pleasure of opening its season after winning a PIAA state title, although it's been eight years since the last time.
Tonight, Selinsgrove will experience its first season opener as a defending
North Schuylkill football coach Rick Geist isn't one for polls and things.
It's no big deal to him that his Spartans are ranked very high in most of the statewide Class AA polls, as well they should be, coming off a 13-1 season and with seven starters ba
COAL TOWNSHIP - There's a bit of irony that in the same season Corey Houser landed his first job as a high school head football coach, Carmen DeFrancesco - after four head coaching stops at four schools - finally wound up in the one head coaching positio
