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Getz sisters lead Pleasant Valley softball past Parkland, into program’s 1st EPC final
The Pleasant Valley softball team began this season with zero appearances in the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference final. In fact, the Bears only qualified for the EPC tourney one time before this year. Not only did Pleasant Valley clinch a spot in the conference tournament this spring, but the seventh-seeded Bears...
EPC girls lacrosse: Pleasant Valley wins third straight title
Pleasant Valley opened up an early 5-0 lead and maintained its advantage throughout Tuesday’s EPC championship game against Emmaus to capture its third straight crown with a 9-4 win at Northampton. The Bears kept the Green Hornets at bay, leading 6-1 after two quarters and 8-3 heading into the fourth quarter. Alivia Rath had two goals and three assists to lead Pleasant Valley, which showed its ...
Palisades softball posts surprising rout of Palmerton in Colonial League semifinals
Palisades High School’s 11-2 conquest of Palmerton in the Colonial League semifinals Tuesday at Patriots Park was nothing like the teams’ regular-season meeting. That was a 1-0 Palmerton victory on April 27 in which Palisades managed just one hit off Blue Bombers senior right-hander Carley Gaffney, and the victors mustered only one hit off Pirates junior righty Karlye Teman.
Drums Native Casey Eichfeld Returning to the Olympics in 2024
Casey Eichfeld is set to become the second American to compete in four Olympics in canoeing after winning the men’s slalom at the Olympic Trials a couple of weeks ago. Eichfeld previously competed at the Olympics in 2008, 2012 and 2016 with a best finish of seventh.
Top sophomore stakes at Pocono this weekend
Wilkes-Barre PA — Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania hosts the 3-year-old colts and geldings, with stakes races for both gaits, this Saturday afternoon and Sunday evening, both highlighting the best of the Pennsylvania-sired horses. On Saturday afternoon there will be four divisions of the $157,776 second preliminary leg of...
RailRiders lose 13-12 slugfest as Worcester wins on walk-off homer in ninth
Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Six runs in the first two innings weren’t enough. An even dozen through eight also didn’t get the job done. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre had pulled off a late rally before ultimately falling 13-12 on a walk-off home run by Worcester on...
H.S. Baseball: Wyoming Area defeats Holy Redeemer in WVC Division 2 title game
HUGHESTOWN — Wyoming Area knows it’s not a baseball team that can change things with one swing. Instead, the Warriors use a lot of tactics to manufacture runs — like in Thursday’s Wyoming Valley Conference Division 2 championship game against Holy Redeemer. Wyoming Area made the...
Softball Game Recap: Lewisburg Takes a Loss
Lewisburg is still looking for their season's first win. They lost 17-0 to the Warrior Run Defenders on Tuesday. Lewisburg was given a dose of their own medicine in this game as Warrior Run apparently hadn't forgotten their loss the last time these teams played back in May of 2023.
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