G Kerry Webster

SIDMAN — The Bald Eagle Area girls’ soccer team had its best season in the past decade come to a end on Nov. 9 with a PIAA, 2A quarterfinal loss to North Catholic, 5-0. The team finished with a 20-2-1 record for the season and had its first winning campaign since 2009. …

HERSHEY — It was a one-two finish for Penns Valley’s Colton Sands and Brendan Colwell in the PIAA state championship cross country race, held Nov. 2 in Hershey. Sands kicked it into high-gear during the last quarter mile of the course to finish in first place and capture the gold medal with a time…

HERSHEY — The girls’ cross country runners of St. Joseph’s Catholic Academy may not have qualified for the Class A state championship meet as a team, but they won it anyway — perhaps in the most unconventional way possible. As a team, St. Joe’s failed to place first or second at the earlier District…

BOALSBURG — St. Joseph’s Catholic Academy has added a new sport to its athletic agenda this fall. For the first time in school history, the Wolves will field a boys’ varsity soccer team. “This program would be strictly for training purposes only in Year 1, were it not for the persistence, commitment and…

Not so long ago, kids clamored to pharmacy and candy store shelves, digging through their pockets for change to purchase a pack of baseball cards. They carelessly tore the cardboard prizes from the wax-covered packages which held tasty, yet albeit short, bubblegum treats. These cards were shuffled around, traded, wrapped in rubber bands —…