Our 2020-2021 pheasant season ended with neither a bang nor a whimper, although it was closer to the latter. Our Lab Finn came up lame after a few rousing play sessions with puppy Riley and a romp in the woods the day before we were set to close out the season on its final day with what is o…
‘Holiday deer hunt’ approved for N.Y.’s Southern Zone
CORNING — With eight seconds remaining in the game, the senior connection of Gabby Picco and Sydney Tomasso shined as Picco found Tomasso on the back side of the Corning defense. Tomasso, the St. John FIsher bound guard drove baseline and flipped up a floater that went in, followed by a Picc…
The District 4 basketball playoffs kick off today, and this year the quarterfinals and semifinals will be at the site of the higher seeds.
ELMIRA, N.Y. — A big win for the Waverly girls was a milestone day for coach Bob Kelly.
A pair of NTL divers finished third at the District 4 diving championships on Saturday at Bloomsburg.
WILLIAMSPORT — Three local wrestlers, Sullivan County’s Nathan Higley, Athens’ Gavin Bradley and North-Penn Liberty’s Kohen Lehmen earned the right to advance to the Super Regional state qualifier next week-end. The three battled through a Northeast Regional tournament that parsed out multip…
SAYRE — The atmosphere felt like a playoff basketball game. The Sayre Redskins and the Northeast Bradford Panthers battled it out Saturday afternoon for playoff positioning. The Panthers were able to avenge a loss from the first game of the season to take down Sayre on the road in the final …
Three wins.
A few months ago the idea of Dylan Ammerman earning a trip to nationals seemed a million miles away.
MANSFIELD — The Athens Wildcats picked up a 65-56 win over the host Tigers on Friday.
TOWANDA — The Black Knights are hitting on all cylinders as they prepare for the start of districts.
WYALUSING — For the second straight year the NP-Liberty boys are NTL small-school champions after picking up a 65-52 win over Wyalusing on Thursday.
Nine local wrestlers will make look to take another step toward Hershey as the Northeast Regional Tournament kicks off on Saturday at Williamsport High School.
WAVERLY — It had a different look, but the Waverly Wolverines took place in the Class C Sectional meet on Thursday.
WAVERLY, N.Y. — For the second time this season the Waverly girls picked up a win over Horseheads, this time winning 56-43.
ROME -- Another day, another game-winning shot by the Northeast Bradford Panthers as they edged NP-Mansfield 40-39 on Tuesday night.
ATHENS — Athens had just made a run, cutting the deficit down to five points.
NP-Liberty trailed much of the game until late in the fourth quarter, but were able to edge Canton 60-54 on Wednesday night.
LIBERTY -- After a third quarter in which they were outscored by 10 and their hot first half shooting had cooled down, Troy looked up at a scoreboard that saw them trailing by eight points and their hopes to clinch the NTL Large School title Tuesday night at North Penn-Liberty were slipping …
Ty Barrett scored 22 points in the fourth quarter to lead the Troy Trojans past NP-Liberty 62-51 to clinch the NTL, large-school title on Tuesday.
With thirty seconds left, Wellsboro’s Peyton McClure stepped to the line and knocked down two clutch foul shots to extend Wellsboro’s lead over North Penn-Mansfield to seven, effectively icing a comeback win for the Hornets in a must win game to keep their NTL Large School title hoops alive.…
A year ago Maisie Neuber was a good player, on a good Northeast Bradford team.
TROY — Nick Williams had a career-high 20 points to lead the Troy Trojans to a 61-43 win over Towanda in boys’ basketball action on Monday.
TIOGA CENTER, N.Y. — Sidney Tomasso had 25 points to lead Waverly to a 79-41 win over Tioga in girls’ basketball action on Saturday.
Several area wrestlers advanced to the regional tournament next weekend at Williamsport High School.
Gavin Bradley did not have his fastball Saturday at the District IV AA Individual Wrestling Tournament. He didn’t really know why that was. Maybe it was the lack of practice time this past week due to weather issues or the fact that it was a rather subdued atmosphere at the Magic Dome due to…
Even after he had his hand raised as district champion, all eyes stayed on Nate Higley. Sullivan County’s all time wins leader immediately ran off the mat over to the small slice of basketball court left exposed next to the auxiliary mat and started running wind sprints. Saturday’s district …
Down 17-8 after one quarter, the Panthers against mounted a comeback for the win 52-47 over Athens on Saturday.
The Athens boys and girls junior high swim teams each won the Junior High Championships against Towanda. The boys won 198-14 and the girls won 123-107.
Nathan Higley has established himself as the best wrestler in Sullivan County history.
ATHENS — The Wildcats picked up a 67-55 win over Canton in NTL boys’ basketball action on Friday.
As Wellsboro watched their 18-point second half lead slip away, it brought up a feeling of déjà vu for the Hornet faithful. All three of the Hornet losses this year has been late leads given away. At South Williamsport Friday night, Wellsboro was determined not to let it happen again as Well…
Maisie Neuber had 16 points and 13 rebounds as NEB girls beat Athens 38-27 on Friday.
It was a different year at sectional wrestling.
WAVERLY — The Waverly girls basketball team bounced back after a tough loss the night before, getting the last laugh in a 61-53 victory over Newark Valley on Thursday night.
Athens trailed 27-22 at the half, but Athens scored 41 second-half points in a 63-51 win.
The Towanda girls completed the season sweep of Wyalusing with a 58-39 win on Wednesday.
NEWARK VALLEY--Just under a year ago, the Newark Valley Cardinals and the Waverly Wolverines matched up against each other in the Section IV girls Class B quarterfinal game.
With Troy down two with under thirty seconds to play, everyone at the Troy Commons building thought that Ty Barrett would take the last shot for the Trojans. That included the Wellsboro defense. So, when the district’s leading scorer drove right, three Hornets collapsed on him. That’s exactl…
Before he became widely known as a turkey call maker whose products have been responsible for the demise of thousands of gobblers for nearly 50 years, Al Holbert was a turkey hunter.
Harrisburg, Pa. — Pennsylvania hunters took 3,608 black bears during the 2020 seasons, a total down 20 percent from the previous year but still the sixth highest ever in the Keystone State.
For the very first time since we moved to Alba in l982, we have two deer eating whatever they can find in our backyard and visiting our neighbors and eating their bushes.
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For so many reasons the day could have never happened.
On Friday night the Sullivan County Griffins dropped a heartbreaker to Northeast Bradford by a point.
The Northeast Bradford Panthers have developed a flair of the dramatic recently.
ATHENS — Saturday was the first time the Canton wrestling team was on the mats in three weeks.
Maisie Neuber had 29 points as Northeast Bradford edged Sullivan County 63-62 in a non-league matchup.
ATHENS — The North Section Junior High wrestling championship was held on Friday, a day before the varsity event today.
The first game of the season Athens rallied to edge Wellsboro.
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