Author: Lee Goodwin

CHAMBERSBURG – The Waynesboro Maidens varsity basketball team hit a wall in their second game of the season on Friday. After a slow start, followed by gutsy determination to try to make up ground against a bigger Red Lion team, the Maidens couldn’t put any runs together and eventually gave way to the Lady Lions, 44-20 in the first of two games this weekend at Chambersburg High School in the first-of-its-kind Franklin County vs. Everyone Tip-Off Tournament. “Warly on the pressure had us on our heels, but I think we adjusted, recognized and started passing and getting the ball to…

WAYNESBORO – The Waynesboro Maidens varsity basketball team tips off the 2022-23 season on Friday at the Franklin County vs. Everyone Tip-Off Tournament at Chambersburg High School. Head coach Heidi Shaull is in her fourth season at the post, and she is looking forward to another season of growth and, perhaps, more wins. “This group has been committed to our program and getting better,” Shaull said of her squad, which consists of four seniors, two juniors, five sophomores and a freshman. “This group has learned how to persevere through difficult times and never give up. They always come ready to…

WAYNESBORO – The season that essentially began with open gym and then pre-season practices the week before Thanksgiving have ratcheted up to serious preparations for the 2022-23 season opening Franklin County vs. Everyone Tip-Off Tournament at Chambersburg High School on Dec. 9 and 10. Last season’s squad leaves this season’s group with a tough act to follow. The Indians finished 17-4 a season ago and hosted Wilson in a first-round District 3-6A playoff game. Waynesboro also split the Mid-Penn Colonial Division championship with Shippensburg. All that work in the weight room and on the hardwood will be put to the…

WAYNESBORO – Cameron Witte is quite a versatile athlete. The quintessential Waynesboro Area Senior High School senior plays soccer, basketball and softball – and she excels at each of them. Recently, the centerfielder for the Maidens committed to attend Millersville University where she will play softball. “The campus felt like home,” said Witte, who is preparing for the 2022-23 hoops season and then moving on to open gym and softball. “When I walked in I loved the feel. When I went in and met the players, it already felt like I was on the team.” Millersville, coached by Jen Probst,…

The annual Ohio State vs. Michigan college football game on Thanksgiving weekend needs no hype. It doesn’t need outtakes of heated confrontations between players from each team to raise the temperature of viewers. It doesn’t need lofty language to describe the history of the sport’s greatest rivalry. Sometimes, you have to tune out the exaggerated promotional stuff and appreciate the rivalry for what it is and what it has been. It’s Ohio State vs. Michigan. It’s The Game. It’s the greatest rivalry in college football. It hasn’t always been a rivalry. It didn’t become one until an Ohio State assistant…

MONT ALTO – At last check, the Penn State Mont Alto women’s volleyball team was still in celebration mode. That’s because, a little more than a week after winning their first ever United States Collegiate Athletic Conference championship, there is no more season for which to prepare. You’ll have to excuse head coach Randy Hood if he is still a bit overwhelmed. “I woke up the next day and said that really didn’t happen,” said Hood, the veteran volleyball coach who finished his sixth season at Mont Alto and his 24th overall season as a head coach or assistant. “I…

WAYNESBORO – Waynesboro Area Senior High School’s Michelle Baker will be playing another four years of softball. The senior pitcher will attend Chestnut Hill College, located in Philadelphia, where she will play softball for head coach Francine Roseman. The Griffins play in Division II and compete in the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference. For Baker, playing a sport in college was the fulfillment of “one of my most important goals. I’m the first in my family to be a collegiate athlete, so it’s a big honor to me.” Baker was a key player in Waynesboro’s run to a District 3 tournament…

MONT ALTO – In 2008, Penn State Mont Alto athletic director Marty Ogle orchestrated a move from the Commonwealth Campus Athletic Conference to the United States Collegiate Athletic Association. It was the biggest move of Ogle’s tenure at the post he held for 28 years, and it coincided with PSU Mont Alto becoming a four-year college. “That was the biggest step in my career here,” said Ogle, who died in 2019 after a battle with cancer but left a legacy of excellence at the school he served as head men’s basketball coach and won a CCAC title in 2002. “It…

Perhaps nothing is more meaningless than press conferences. In the never-ending quest for a profound quote from a coach, a player, an owner or anyone who happens to be at the podium at the time, reporters of every kind sit mostly as audience members while listening to mostly vanilla comments with no real impact or substance. For some reason, the powers that be in professional and collegiate athletics deem these media functions an essential part of a game, leading up to a game and wrapping up the game with another press conference. In the event of a major happening, such…

WAYNESBORO – It wasn’t a storybook ending to the high school football season, but it was a storybook ending to the Waynesboro Indians final game of the season. Facing the prospects of losing its final six games of the season in front of a home crowd on Senior Night, the Indians somehow took victory from the jaws of defeat and defeated East Pennsboro in double overtime, 13-10 at Buchanan Automotive Stadium. Andrew Soffe kicked a clutch 40-yard field goal with 4:41 remaining in the game that tied the Panthers 3-3. Neither team was able to win it in regulation, and…