ELIZABETHTOWN – The Waynesboro varsity wrestling team competed in the Grizzly Duals on Saturday at Elizabethtown High School and went 4-1 in the five contests. The Indians defeated Muhlenberg (40-30), York Suburban (45-28), Red Land (33-29) and Palmyra (37-33). Waynesboro lost to Elizabethtown (45-24). WAYNESBORO 40, MUHLENBERG 30 Waynesboro forfeited the 107-pound match, as it has done all season. The forfeit meant that the pressure was on the rest of the team to produce points since a forfeit is worth the same as a pin – six points. Muhlenberg didn’t need any forfeits in the next three matches, as the…
Author: Lee Goodwin
WAYNESBORO – The Waynesboro Indians varsity basketball team earned their 11th win of the season on Friday after turning away the Shippensburg Greyhounds 62-31 in a Mid-Penn Colonial Division game inside the Waynesboro Area Senior High School gym. Ryan Shaffer led the Tribe scoring surge with 20 points, and he could have scored more were it not for Waynesboro substituting liberally in the second half thanks to large leads. In fact, the running clock was used after the Indians’ advantage grew to 30 points. Michael Young scored 11 points, with three of his shots coming from beyond the three-point arc.…
WAYNESBORO – The Waynesboro varsity wrestling team trailed Big Spring 25-15 with four matches remaining in their Mid-Penn Colonial Division matchup, but the Indians finished strong by winning all four en route to a 37-25 victory on Pink Out Night. Tribe head coach David Swink, who spoke before the varsity contest about the cause and the wrestling program’s fundraising for cancer research, praised his grapplers for gutting out some tough matches and not giving up excessive bonus points in order to keep the match tight heading into the final bouts. Then, after Jayden Rooney recorded a fall in 1:08 in…
WAYNESBORO – The Waynesboro Area Senior High School varsity boys’ and girls’ swim teams got the new year off to a successful start on Tuesday afternoon as they swept the Shippensburg Greyhounds at Waynesboro Area YMCA. The boys team won 10 of 11 events en route to a 116-45 victory, while the girls squad also won 10 of 11 events on their way to a 104-65 win. “We’re getting ready for a tougher part of the season,” said Waynesboro coach Sharon McIlquham, whose team is now 2-1 in dual meets. “they have some tough dual meets coming up. So they’re…
So you thought last Saturday’s Philadelphia-Dallas game was a classic. You thought it was one of the most entertaining games played not only this season but in any season. The Cowboys overcame double-digit deficits and, thanks to two late-game fumbles by the Eagles, kicked a pair of field goals that snapped a 34-34 deadlock and gave Dallas a 40-34 victory in a much-anticipated NFC East battle royale between two of the league’s top teams. Of course, the game was not without storylines. The modern-day NFL relies on them to add texture and drama to games – especially big games. The…
MECHANICSBURG – It’s hard to win them all. It took 10 games, but the Waynesboro varsity boys’ basketball team finally took an ‘L’. After winning their first nine games of the 2022-23 season, the Indians lost 46-39 to Cumberland Valley on Wednesday in the final game of the 21st annual Sauve Bros. Holiday Basketball Tournament hosted by Mechanicsburg High School. Waynesboro defeated Mechanicsburg 53-43 the previous day to improve to 9-0. Then, the next night the Tribe came up short in a low-scoring game against the Eagles, a Class 6A opponent and a good measuring stick regarding Waynesboro’s competitiveness against…
LANCASTER – The Waynesboro Area Senior High School varsity wrestling team put a bow on 2022 with another trip to Lancaster County on Dec. 28 and 29. The Indians wrestled in the annual Neil Turner Memorial Holiday Classic hosted by Conestoga Valley High School. The tournament is held in memory of the late Neil Turner, who is not only the father of Conestoga Valley head wrestling coach Trent Turner but was a wrestling coach for 40 years at the high school and college levels. Turner, a member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, died in 2021 at the age…
WAYNESBORO – Most people haven’t been to Africa in two lifetimes. Amy Kowallis has been to the continent twice in one lifetime. She spent a couple months in Zimbabwe in 2013 working at a wildlife rescue and rehabilitation center. It was migration season for zebras In July of this year, Kowallis traveled to Tanzania and experienced something that is on the proverbial ‘bucket list’. Kowallis and long-time college friend Julia Shildmeyer-Heighway climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. As if that was enough, when the climb was barely in her short-term memory, Kowallis spent a week at a lodge in Kenya operated by an…
WAYNESBORO – The Waynesboro Indians varsity basketball team continued its early-season surge on Friday after defeating James Buchanan 70-42 in a Mid-Penn Colonial Division game to improve its record to 8-0. In a game that saw 13 players get playing time and included a fitting tribute to senior Evan Stein, who suffered a season-ending injury in the season opener against New Oxford, it was all good in the proverbial neighborhood for head coach Tom Hoffman’s team in the friendly confines of the home gymnasium. Thanks to James Buchanan’s cooperation, Stein made an uncontested layup before exiting the game. “Hopefully it…
HANOVER – The Waynesboro varsity wrestling team made the trip to southwestern York County on Tuesday, Dec. 21 to face the South Western Mustangs from the York-Adams League. The Mid-Penn Conference Indians returned back to Franklin County with a 54-22 non-conference victory after winning eight out of 13 contested matches. The meet began at 132 pounds, and Waynesboro went right to work to take control of things. The Tribe came out of the gates and won the first six bouts, beginning with Jayden Rooney’s first-period fall at 132 pounds. Rooney pinned South Western’s Aydan Livelsberger in 1:27. At 138 pounds,…
