It should come as a surprise to no one that the Back Mountain has become a girls soccer hotbed in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Lake-Lehman and Dallas have won each of the past two Wyoming Valley Conference […]
WILKES-BARRE – It’s a rare or special occurrence when opposing teams take a group photo before any game, let alone a rivalry game. Tuesday night at Wilkes-Barre Memorial Stadium was certainly a special occasion. The […]
For the last four years, the District 2 boys soccer tournaments were open to all teams. What that did was give every squad a chance to pull an upset and did not cause much controversy […]
For nearly three decades, Nanticoke boys soccer hasn’t had a head coach besides Mark Matusek. That will come to an end for the upcoming season as Matusek, the longest-tenured coach in the Wyoming Valley Conference, […]
FIRST TEAM Ricky Wooditch Sr., F, Dallas Wooditch was a four-year starter and senior captain for the Mountaineers. The striker was the team’s leading scorer with 20 goals and 14 assists for 54 points. Wooditch […]
By the looks of it, it would be virtually impossible to tell that Dallas senior Samantha Mazula spent the entire summer in rehabilitating an injury. In fact, she would have fooled her first-year coach had […]
FIRST TEAM Mackenzie Love Sr., F, Lake-Lehman The reigning Times Leader Player of the Year finished her outstanding career with 50 goals, 12 assists and 112 points. Love’s three goals in a PIAA First Round […]
In the final game of his high school soccer career, Berwick’s Ken Marshman fired a shot past the opposing goalkeeper for the second goal of the game and help spark the Red Team in the […]
KINGSTON – Five days after her team dropped out of the state playoffs in a heartbreaker, Samantha Mazula returned to the pitch to play one last time. The Dallas senior rounded out her high school […]
LEHMAN TWP. — Hershey had just one shot in the first 35 ½ minutes of Wednesday night’s PIAA Class 3A boys soccer opening-round game. Brendan Kerr made sure the Trojans made the most of it. […]
LEHMAN TWP. — Dallas’ Nikki Pekarski began her head coaching career this season by borrowing one of Penn State coach James Franklin’s motivational techniques. She wrote #opportunityisnowhere on a poster board. The team misread it […]
SOUTH WHITEHALL TWP. — When the Meyers boys soccer team boarded the bus to head back to Wilkes-Barre Tuesday night, it did so with a sense of accomplishment but also uncertainty. The Mohawks’ season was […]
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