Standard-Journal Sports

MIFFLINBURG — The Mifflinburg girls basketball team put an exclamation point on Senior Night with their second win of the season Friday night at the ‘Cats Den.

LEWISBURG — Friday night’s Lewisburg-Central Columbia game could best be summed up by one word: hustle.

LEWISBURG — It had been eight long days since their last game but if the Lewisburg boys basketball team had any rust it sure wasn’t evident as they handled Mount Carmel 69-50 in a Heartland Athletic Conference Division II contest.

TURBOTVILLE — It may have been Senior Night at Warrior Run, but it was an underclassman who lit up the scorebook for the Defenders.

TURBOTVILLE — It’s not likely many of the Warrior Run wrestlers noticed Central Columbia’s diminutive head coach Todd Cummings tucked into a small group of Milton fans on the east end of their home gym Wednesday night. But what a show they gave the coach of the Blue Jays, the top seed in the District 4 Class AA Duals.

MIFFLINBURG – Wrestlers love challenges. Mifflinburg sophomore 106-pounder Noah Kuba met the challenge head-on Wednesday night in the first round of the District 4 Class AA Team Championships at the Intermediate School Gym.

LEWISBURG — Just call her “Ms. Big Shot.”

LEWISBURG — A strong second half allowed the Lewisburg girls basketball team to hang in with the Heartland Athletic Conference Division II leader  Mount Carmel, but the Green Dragons still fell 52-43 to the Red Tornados Tuesday night.

Consistency. Noun. A steadfast adherence to the same principles, course or form.

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT — Milton coach Mike Snyder has been preaching one thing to his team throughout this wrestling season: Get better individually and we’ll get better as a team.

Boys basketball Milton 66 Jersey Shore 57 MILTON — Chad Diggan had a big offensive night for the Black Panthers as Milton (5-12 overall, 2-7 HAC-I) avenged a 24-point loss earlier in the season to Jersey Shore.

LEWISBURG — Friday night the Lewisburg girls basketball team was looking to get one game closer to .500 and a spot in district playoffs.

MILTON — Black Panther head coach Aaron Slusser stopped a brief pregame chat.

MILTON — Milton’s Tylor Moyer got plenty of hugs following Milton’s dual meet win over Shikellamy on Thursday night.

Ever since Sunday morning, whenever I log on to Facebook on my laptop at home, my news feed is flooded with tributes to Joe Paterno.

CATAWISSA — A 7-0 run might not seem like something worth noting, that is, until one considers the situation in which said spurt occurred.

LEWISBURG — American coach Jeff Jones said what many coaches have thought privately, or aloud, after facing Bucknell over the last three years. “I wish (Mike) Muscala was a senior.”

MILTON —  Discount the Milton girls basketball team at your peril.

LEWISBURG — Wrestling fans are great anticipators.

MIDDLEBURG — Prior to the start of Monday night’s game, Warrior Run head coach Jack McAndrew was asked when, in previous history, did the Warrior Run boys’ basketball team embark on a three-game winning streak?