H.S. volleyball: ‘A retooling year’ for Wyoming Area
The Wyoming Area girls volleyball team may need to take a step back to reset after a rapid ascent in Nick Diaco’s first three years coaching the Lady Warriors. Every starter and key reserve graduated...
View ArticleH.S. girls soccer: Wyoming Area fields young team
Wyoming Area has some holes to fill in its girls soccer lineup, but the return of Caitlin Butchko for her fourth season as goalkeeper gives the team hope of overcoming those challenges. Butchko is a...
View ArticleWVC Football: Dylan Kostak, Brian Miles led Wyoming Area to victory
WEST PITTSTON — Wyoming Area yielded a long touchdown pass on Crestwood’s second play just 2:40 into the game. The Warriors did not allow the Comets offense to have anything else the rest of the game....
View ArticleMike Mikitish’s field goal gives Pittston Area first win since October of 2014
YATESVILLE — Pittston Area kicker Mike Mikitish missed a crucial extra point with less than two minutes to play. Moments later, Mikitish turned out to be the hero. Mikitish, a junior, split the...
View ArticleH.S. football: Mike Mikitish’s field goal gives Pittston Area first win since...
YATESVILLE — One hundred weeks. Twenty-three months. Seven-hundred days. That’s how long it’s been since Pittston Area has last won a high school football game. All of that changed Friday night in one...
View ArticleLocal Sports Roundup: Seven Warriors score in Wyoming Area’s field hockey...
EXETER — In an exhibition, seven Wyoming Area field hockey players scored a goal to take care of GAR on Friday at the Atlas Field Complex. The Warriors scored nine goals in the first half, with goals...
View ArticleH.S. field hockey: Seniors dominate Wyoming Area lineup
Wyoming Area will turn to a senior-dominated lineup to try to continue the strides the field hockey team has made in recent seasons. The Lady Warriors followed up their first winning season ever in...
View ArticleH.S. football: Brian Miles, Wyoming Area upend Crestwood to improve to 2-0
WEST PITTSTON — Wyoming Area was in the lead and in control of momentum late in the third quarter of Friday night’s Wyoming Valley Conference Class 4A Division game with Crestwood. Brian Miles was just...
View ArticleDallas’ Jack Zardecki wins at Cliff Robbins Sr. Memorial High School...
DALLAS TWP. — Dallas junior, Jack Zardecki, led a field of over 200 runners, winning top honors in the Varsity Boys 5K Run at the Cliff Robbins Sr. Memorial High School Invitational Cross Country Races...
View ArticleH.S. cross country: Nicole Zambetti, Pittston Area come out firing to start...
DALLAS — Nicole Zambetti won her age group at last month’s Pittston Tomato Festival 5K. She continued that streak of strong running in her first high school cross country meet. At the 42nd annual Cliff...
View ArticleUpon Further Review: Carmen LoPresto’s two touchdowns paced Pittston Area in ‘76
September 2006 Led by Jessica Rydzewski’s 2-under-36 at Four Seasons, the Wyoming Area golf team cruised to a 152-180 win over Pittston Area. The win put the Warriors at 9-0 on the season. Wyoming...
View ArticleGreater Pittston Sports Briefs: Elm Street Sportsmen’s Club meeting Sept. 11...
Sportsmen’s club meets Sept. 11 SUSCON — The Elm Street Sportsmen’s Club will hold a meeting at 7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11 at its club house in Suscon. John Lizak will preside. PA hockey meeting Sept. 12...
View ArticleH.S. tennis: Allison Lampman, Wyoming Area best Pittston Area on the courts
In a battle between two of the hottest teams in the Wyoming Valley Conference, Pittston Area and Wyoming Area left nothing to chance on the tennis courts. Both teams entered the arena with just one...
View ArticleH.S. football: Behind five takeaways, Dallas knocks off Pittston Area, 24-6
YATESVILLE — Against Pittston Area Friday night, it took Dallas just one play to match its 2016 point total. Senior running back Justin Hutchins broke through the middle on the first play from...
View ArticleWyoming Area stuns Berwick
BERWICK — If some West Pittston residents were awaken by the tolling of a bell late Friday night, Wyoming Area running back Brian Miles isn’t concerned. “Yeah. That’s OK,” Miles said. He and the rest...
View ArticleLocal sports roundup: Pittston Area’s girls soccer team took down Tunkhannock...
HUGHESTOWN — The Pittston Area girls soccer team started the season strong with a 3-0 win over Tunkhannock to open Wyoming Valley Conference play Wednesday at the Primary Center fields in Hughestown....
View ArticleColarusso’s wins first half title in Yatesville Bocce League, tournament is...
YATESVILLE — Colarusso’s Restaurant nips Lombardo’s Market to win the first half title and a spot in the Yatesville Bocce League finals. In a best of three format, Colarusso’s won the first game,...
View ArticleH.S. boy soccer: With new coach, Pittston Area looking to surpass last year’s...
It was a difficult season for the Pittston Area boys soccer team last year. Following a 1-12-1 season under now-Pittston Area School Board Director Pat O’Boyle, the Patriots welcome back experience,...
View ArticleH.S. football: Pittston Area’s costly turnovers lead to 24-6 to Dallas
YATESVILLE — The turnover bug hit Pittston Area had on Friday night. The Patriots turned the ball over five times, while outgaining Dallas, in a 24-6 loss at Charley Trippi Stadium. Pittston Area’s...
View ArticleWVC Volleyball: Kirsten Durling leads Patriots to second win
YATESVILLE — Watch Kirsten Durling, and you will see a player that wears many different hats. The Pittston Area senior setter does a nice job of getting her teammates involved and she’s not afraid to...
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