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 […]
DANVILLE — Tuesday night was nothing short of routine for the Lake-Lehman girls soccer team: Mackenzie Love, hat trick. Amanda Ayers, three assists. Unfortunately, common thread at Lake-Lehman for the past four years — through […]
Since the turn of the century, no area in the state of Pennsylvania has been more successful then Northeastern Pennsylvania at winning PIAA field hockey titles. Except lately. After going through a 15-year run of […]
For the second time in three years, Crestwood was one of the last boys soccer teams standing in District 2, capturing its second title in three years. The difference? Head coach David McFarland and assistant […]
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