Palmyra, Mechanicsburg Set up Girls’ Showdown
Palmyra rolled to its ninth straight win and Mechanicsburg knocked off defending champ Lower Dauphin on Tuesday, Jan. 19, setting up their meeting Friday, Jan. 22, in Wildcat country that could decide the girls’ basketball champ in the Keystone Division. Mechanicsburg exorcised the better part of six years of frustration against the Falcons when it turned a 34-29 deficit after […]
The Hockey Corner
Records are made to be broken and the Hershey Bears have been doing that on a regular basis recently. After winning a 12th consecutive game Jan. 9 in Manitoba, they saw that streak end in a tough 4-3 loss in Norfolk four days later, followed by a 10-4 victory in Albany last Friday. A 7-2 win over Wilkes- Barre/Scranton on […]
LD Boys Snap Skid; Hershey Improves to 10-3
Lower Dauphin snapped a five-game losing skid Tuesday, Jan. 19, by turning back host Mechanicsburg, 56-47, in a Keystone Division boys’ basketball encounter. The Falcons’ fourth win of the season and first against a team with a winning record saw Casey Kulina (15), Joey Miller (15) and Eric Gentry (10) lead a three-pronged attack. Miller scored 12 in the second […]
CD Wrestlers Stop LD
A couple of very young underclassmen ignited Central Dauphin’s 49-12 wrestling victory over Lower Dauphin on Saturday, Jan. 16, putting the Falcons in a mustwin situation against Middletown on Thursday, Jan. 21, to finish third in the Mid-Penn Conference Commonwealth Division. Super sophomore Shyheim Brown ran his record to 17-6 with his eighth straight victory, defeating previously unbeaten Robby Higgins, […]
Hershey Boys Break Swim Marks at Wilson
Hershey’s boys’ swimming team narrowly nosed out host Wilson, 276-264, in the Wilson Relays on Saturday, Jan. 16, while the Trojans girls finished second to the Bulldogs, 308-244. Eleven boys’ and 12 girls’ teams participated. Leading the way for the boys’ victory was the 200-yard freestyle team of juniors David Nolan, Ben Bauchwitz and Jeffrey Young and senior Sean Grier, […]
CORRECTION
In last week’s issue, Lower Dauphin cheerleader Maeve Wilson was inadvertently omitted from the list of Big 33 cheerleaders from Sun Country. Our apologies.
Basketball Standings
BOYS Keystone Team Conf. Record Red Land 8 – 1 – 0 13 – 1 – 0 Hershey 7 – 2 – 0 10 – 3 – 0 Susquehanna Twp. 6 – 3 – 0 8 – 5 – 0 Mechanicsburg 5 – 4 – 0 9 – 6 – 0 Trinity 5 – 4 – 0 7 – 5 […]
Bears’ Gordon Having Career Season
Andrew Gordon started his third season with the Hershey Bears as part of the team’s first line, led the league in scoring after the opening week and parlayed that into a callup to the Washington Capitals for a couple of games and a spot in the AHL All-Star game last week. “When I saw I was at the top of […]
Battle for 3rd Heats up in CPIHL
It was an interesting night in Tier I of the CPIHL on Monday, Jan. 18, to say the least. Lower Dauphin had its five-game winning streak snapped by Red Land in a 2-2 tie, Hershey rallied from a 2-0 deficit to tie Central York, 2-2, and Palmyra completed its sweep of Lampeter-Strasburg, 6-1, as Mario Benicky scored five times. Lower […]
