TOWANDA — The Northern Tier League recently announced its girls basketball All-Stars for the 2022-23 season.

TOWANDA — The Northern Tier League recently announced its boys basketball award winners and All-Stars.

In the spring of 1998, Paula and I were into our 10th month of living in the Adirondacks, and although we had wild brook trout in our backyard and enjoyed an exceptional winter of ice fishing on Lake Champlain, turkey hunting didn’t appear to be a legitimate pursuit.

CANTON — The Athens baseball team rallied from a four-run deficit to send Thursday’s game against Canton to extra innings, and then the Wildcats earned a 7-6 victory over the Warriors in the ninth inning.

WYALUSING — The Wyalusing girls track and field team opened their season with a 110-39 win over Williamson on Tuesday.

TOWANDA — The Towanda baseball team improved to 2-0 on the season with an 8-1 win over visiting Cowanesque Valley on Tuesday afternoon.

TOWANDA — Towanda led 2-0 after four innings, but visiting Cowanesque Valley scored one run in the sixth and another in the seventh to force extra innings.

SAYRE — The Wyalusing Lady Rams opened their season with a 20-4 blowout win over host Sayre on Friday afternoon.

TOWANDA — The Towanda boys tennis team opened the 2023 season with a 4-1 win over visiting Cowanesque Valley on Friday afternoon.

CASTLETON, VT — Former Athens wrestling standout Gavin Bradley wrapped up an impressive freshman season at Castleton University with a trip to the NCAA Division III Championships.

ROME — The Northeast Bradford Lady Panthers opened the 2023 softball season with a 14-2 win over Montrose in five innings on Wednesday.

ATHENS — Longtime Athens High School football coach Jack Young has decided to hang up his whistle after 22 seasons on the sidelines, according to Athens Superintendent Craig Stage.

WILLIAMSPORT — Athens grad Kayleigh Miller found success both on the court and in the classroom for Penn College this past basketball season.

TOWANDA — The Northern Tier league announced its 2022-23 wrestling All-Stars on Sunday with Towanda sophomore Mason Higley earning Wrestler of the Year honors.

ATHENS — The North Section Wrestling Hall of Fame welcomed four new members during 2023 North Section Championships last month.

This just didn’t feel right. Here I was, more than seven months out from a Alaskan mountain goat hunt, talking with several talented taxidermists about how I would like to display my billy after of what is sure to be a memorable hunt, regardless of whether I harvest a goat.

HARRISBURG — The Athens girls wrestling team had a strong showing at the MyHouse Pa. Girls State Wrestling Championships on Sunday with one medalist and two others who came up just one win short of the podium.

TOWANDA — Towanda senior Paige Perry is heading to the next level to play golf as she is planning on competing for Misericordia University next season.

TULSA — Sullivan County grad Nate Higley is heading to the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships this week.

HERSHEY — Sullivan County’s Colton Wade put together an impressive sophomore season on the mat and it ended with him on the podium inside the Giant Center in Hershey on Saturday.

TROY — It’s a well-used sentiment that winning in the postseason comes from losing in the postseason.

LAPORTE — The District IV champion Sullivan County Griffins struggled with the length, quickness and range of visiting La Academia in the opening round of the PIAA state playoffs on Friday night.

HERSHEY — Sullivan County sophomore Colton Wade punched his ticket to the podium with a big win in the blood round at the PIAA Class AA State Wrestling Championships on Friday.

HERSHEY — Two local wrestlers punched their ticket to the state quarterfinals with first round wins on Thursday at the PIAA Class AA Wrestling Championships at the Giant Center in Hershey.

There’s no doubt about it — it’s a great time to be a Sullivan County Griffin.

HERSHEY — Canton senior Mason Nelson placed second at sectionals a year ago before going just 1-2 at districts to end his junior season — which was filled with some nagging injuries — in disappointing fashion.

HERSHEY — Wrestling at the PIAA Championships in Hershey is the goal of every high school wrestler.

HERSHEY — Last year, Colton Wade burst onto the Pennsylvania High School wrestling scene by winning the North Section, District IV and Northeast Regional titles as a freshman for Sullivan County High School.

HERSHEY — Once his freshman season ended in the regional tournament last year, Towanda’s Mason Higley went to work.

TOWANDA — Towanda senior Juliana Varner searched far and wide for the right fit when it came to where she will spend her college career, but in the end, it was a school right down the road that made the most sense.

MANSFIELD — With just five seconds remaining, Troy’s Jackson Taylor chucked the ball down the floor into the front court, not really knowing where it was going, and not really caring, for that matter. Colin Loveland ran underneath it like a receiver would a Tom Brady deep ball, perfectly in …

WILLIAMSPORT — The PIAA Class AA Northeast Region was loaded with talent this year and proved to be a tough test for local wrestlers, but five grapplers from the North Section were up to the challenge and are moving on to the state championships in Hershey.

MONTOURSVILLE — For the second time this week, the Athens boys basketball team came up just short at Montoursville High School — this time dropping a hard-fought 66-61 contest to Shamokin in the District IV Class AAAA third-place game on Friday night.

WILLIAMSPORT — The Athens Wildcats posted a strong performance at the 2023 District IV Swimming Championships in Williamsport on Wednesday and Thursday.

ATHENS — The all-time passing leader in Athens football history isn’t done throwing the pigskin.

I’ll just recently made the decision, after taking inventory of our flies — dries, wets, nymphs and streamers — that I’m not buying any this year.

MONTOURSVILLE — Montoursville High School may have played host to Wednesday night’s District IV Class A boys basketball championship game, but it might as well have been called Sullivan County South for the night.