Author: Lee Goodwin

WAYNESBORO – The Waynesboro American Legion baseball team had one bad inning, but it was enough – combined with struggles at the plate – to give Fayetteville AA the competitive advantage as the visitors defeated Post 15 by the score of 12-1 in five innings, Wednesday at Robinson Field. Fayetteville sent 13 batters to the plate in the top of the first inning and scored nine runs to put Waynesboro deep in the hole, making a comeback in the category of a miracle. “We just played them a week ago and we were down early in that game and came…

I can’t imagine a more insane decision by an NCAA Division I football conference than to invite two teams from a “rival” conference to join. I’m not naïve. I know college football has been the victim of a hostile takeover by the corporations, who use their lobbying power to usurp the authority of college presidents and their respective conference leaders. When the Southeastern Conference invited Oklahoma and Texas to join the SEC, the decision upped the ante for conference realignment – we are living in the Age of the Super Conferences, and it stinks. OU and Texas were members of…

Jaylon Bean was an accomplished three-sport athlete while attending Waynesboro Area Senior High School. So much so that people came to believe that he had the ability to compete in football, basketball and track and field in college. It’ll be football for Bean, who will be reunited (in a way) with former Waynesboro standout kicker George Souders, who recently received his master’s degree and is working towards a Ph.D. Bean, who recently placed eighth in the PIAA Class AAA state championships in the triple jump, will be attending Robert Morris University. Before classes begin, he will report for the Colonials’…

Kira Mowen is coming home. Well, almost. The 2003 Waynesboro Area Senior High School graduate, who went on to play college basketball at the University of Illinois and Youngstown State and continued as a graduate assistant (Texas State), assistant coach (Davidson, Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Monmouth), and, most recently as a head coach (Knox College), recently was hired to be the Millersville University head coach. Mowen officially begins her head coaching duties on Monday at the Lancaster-county University, which competes as an NCAA Division II school in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference. “Millersville is returning a great core group,” Mowen said. “I’ll…

WAYNESBORO – What a difference a year makes. Last year on this weekend, rain greeted the participants of the 2022 Strokes, Spokes and Strides mini-triathlon. There was no rain in sight, and the morning of Saturday, June 10 dawned a bit chilly for what people may be used to so close to summer. But it isn’t the weather that draws folks (or keeps them from coming) to what has become an iconic event in Waynesboro, and the 8th annual event hosted by the Waynesboro Area YMCA went off without a proverbial hitch as dozens of people took part in the…

WAYNESBORO – The transition from spring to summer means one thing to the dedicated high school (and for some college) baseball players – switching out of the Waynesboro Indians uniform and into the Waynesboro American Legion Post 15 uniform. From orange, blue and white to red, black and white. From head coach Travis Hardman to manager Dan McCleaf. There is one unifying element in that both teams play home games at Robinson Field on the campus of Waynesboro Area Senior High School. Waynesboro is off to a 2-0 start this season, having won games against Fort Loudon, 4-0, and Biglerville,…

Oh, those hazy, lazy, crazy days of summer. Or, another way of putting it, “another hazy, hot, humid day” in the hemisphere. Don’t walk so fast. You’ll sweat. Don’t think too hard; you’ll also sweat. Slow down. Sip; don’t drink too fast. You’ll sweat. Pardon the digression. Those in the deep south are already there, but they don’t know what it’s like to feel Mother Nature waver between hot and cold – until it’s time to turn up the heat and make us northerners suffer until we plead for autumn. Until then, we have time to adjust our zeal for…

Donald Jones has been involved in wrestling in some form or another since he was in elementary school. It started in, of all places, Fairbanks, Alaska. When his family moved back to Waynesboro a few years later, Jones returned to the mat and has been there ever since. Most recently, Jones – a 1981 Waynesboro Area Senior High School graduate – won the US Open Masters E Division in Las Vegas. Jones, wrestling at 70 kilograms (154.3 pounds), won his first bout 8-0. He won his next match 10-0 and secured the championship with a pin in the finals of…

CHAMBERSBURG – The high school track and field postseason got underway on Saturday. Chambersburg High School hosted the annual Mid-Penn Conference Track and Field Championships under rainy and cloudy skies as around three dozen mid-state schools converged for bragging rights in 18 events. Waynesboro senior Jaylon Bean kicked off the first leg of his final postseason with a pair of top-five finishes. The three-sport athlete – he’s attending Robert Morris University in the fall where he will play football – placed third in the triple jump with a jump of 45 feet, 2 inches. Later in the day, Bean finished…

WAYNESBORO – It’s always good to win your last game – no matter where it is played. But there’s nothing like winning your last game of the season on your home field. Indeed, it’s not just another game: it’s the game that you think about all throughout the offseason. “That’s what I’ve been telling them,” said Waynesboro coach Travis Hardman. “And another thing, we finished five hundred. We finished 10-10.” Waynesboro’s 7-6 non-league victory over Spring Grove on a very warm Friday afternoon at Robinson Field was another heartstopper. Hardman referred to the team as the Cardiac Kids. It was…