High school tennis can be an overlooked sport as schools and towns promote football, baseball, basketball and soccer. GAR coach Raphael Cooper and the Wilkes-Barre Tennis Association are looking to change that. So they came […]
Another high school girls tennis season opened Monday in the Wyoming Valley Conference. And one of the biggest questions was if anyone could end the winning streak of three-time champ Hazleton Area. Wyoming Seminary quickly […]
It is impossible to explain Dallas’ sudden rise to a boys tennis power house. After all, the Mountaineers had never won a district championship. Better yet: no public school had ever won the Class 2A […]
It is impossible to explain Dallas’ sudden rise to a boys tennis power house. After all, the Mountaineers had never won a district championship. Better yet: no public school had ever won the Class 2A […]
WILKES-BARRE – Tennis may be a gentleman’s game, but Dallas had reason to let decorum slide just this one time. One by one, the Dallas players entered the Kirby Park gates, raced down the courts […]
KINGSTON — Dallas changed venues, starting times and even playing surfaces while moving from outdoor to indoor courts to finally get in its District 2 Class 2A semifinal match late Thursday afternoon. One thing remained […]
WILKES-BARRE — Chris Kocin, Will Ziegler and Nick Harth each upset higher-seeded opponents Tuesday to make it to Wednesday’s District 2 boys tennis singles semifinals as the tournament’s underdogs. With nothing but first and second […]
WILKES-BARRE — They call it a bagel in tennis. And, yet, there is nothing remotely appetizing about it. Pittston Area’s Nick Harth was handed a bagel — tennis speak for a 6-0 set (hold the […]
Stephanie Mazurek originally resisted her father Greg’s attempts to introduce her to tennis. By the time she was a junior-high student more aware of her own fitness, the sport that her father once coached became […]
FIRST TEAM Brianna Pizzano Wyoming Area, sophomore Pizzano, the only district singles champion in school history, made it 2-for-2 on District 2 Class 2A titles. Last year’s Times Leader Player of the Year lost just […]
WILKES-BARRE – Hazleton Area waited a quarter of a century for the school to produce its first district team tennis championship. Another hour wasn’t going to matter. District 2-4 Class 3A Subregional singles finalists Stephanie […]
WILKES-BARRE — Hazleton Area’s Stephanie Mazurek and Wyoming Area’s Brianna Pizzano repeated District 2 girls tennis championships Friday at Kirby Park, but Mazurek was able to find a way to add to that accomplishment. Mazurek […]
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