Author: Lee Goodwin

WAYNESBORO – There’s something to be said for watching a town’s high school varsity football team play in front of a home crowd. And, while it doesn’t exactly remove the sting of a loss, the unconditional support received on a fall Friday night lends perspective to the fact that, like other sports, football is something students do because they want to and not because it’s compulsory – like attending school. The above statement isn’t a rationale for a defeat, only an observation that this too shall pass, and that this year’s team has left it all on the field -…

MECHANICSBURG – The 2022 varsity football season started out as a challenge for a Waynesboro team that graduated 22 seniors from an historic 2021 campaign. The season that started out as a challenge has become downright difficult and frustrating for a senior group that was left with a tough act to follow. How do you follow up a 9-3 season that included the school’s first-ever District 3 playoff victory? The short answer? You don’t. The disappointing season that is continued Friday night with a 28-0 loss to Mechanicsburg, but it wasn’t as lopsided as the score appeared. Two touchdowns in…

WAYNESBORO – The 2022 season has been, despite a lineup that features five seniors and two juniors, a rebuilding one for the Waynesboro Maidens varsity volleyball team. The learning curve has been a big reason head coach Kim Saunders’ team hasn’t quite lived up to past successes. It’s also because last year’s group of seniors logged most of the court time for multiple seasons, leaving the up-and-coming players to learn by watching. On Thursday night, the Maidens kept it close for two of the three games the teams played, but the Blue Devils were too much at the net and…

Just in case you’re wondering – and fuming at the roughing the passer penalty against Atlanta Falcons defensive lineman Grady Jarrett – Tom Brady will someday retire. Hopefully, the National Football League will rewind the time to when Brady was not destined to be the most coddled, worshipped, envied and placated professional football player in the history of the league. If you saw the play from the Tampa Bay-Atlanta game Sunday (it was on locally), you would have been as dismayed as Falcons head coach Arthur Smith when Jarrett, exuberant about the sack that made it fourth down of a…

WAYNESBORO – The Waynesboro Indians came close to taking a 10-point lead on the Gettysburg Warriors early in the second half. But an 11-yard touchdown run by Mikel Holden was called back because of a holding penalty. Gettysburg bided its time after being denied by a stubborn Waynesboro defense, using one big play to turn the game in its favor. A mistake-filled fourth quarter cost the Indians a win, and they lost to the visiting Warriors, 21-10 in the annual Homecoming game at Buchanan Automotive Stadium. “What we saw was the difference between and established team and a developing team,”…

Waynesboro Area Senior High School senior Evan Stein’s final year on the varsity golf team has been extended. Sophomore Tyler Fortney is competing in what he hopes is the first of three PIAA District 3-AAA Championships. Stein and Fortney, the team’s top two scorers during the season, practiced at the host course of this weekend’s district tournament on Monday. On Wednesday, they were at the Waynesboro Country Club driving range working on their long game. On Friday morning, they will be competing against more than 60 golfers to make the cut at Briarwood East Golf Club in York (a and…

HARRISBURG – The winner of Friday’s Waynesboro-Susquehanna Township varsity football game got its record to .500, and the nod went to the home team. Susquehanna Township used a bruising and flashy running attack and a still-struggling Waynesboro offense to the tune of a 23-0 victory in a Mid-Penn Colonial Division contest at Roscoe Warner Field. The Warriors improved to 3-3 overall (one of the wins was a forfeiture against Middletown, which cancelled the 2022 season). Now, Waynesboro will try to regroup and get ready for a Homecoming game against Gettysburg next Friday. Both teams were trying to not only beat…

HARRISBURG – Waynesboro Area Senior High School golfers Tyler Fortney and Evan Stein represented their school well on Tuesday at the 2022 Mid-Penn Conference Championships at Dauphin Highlands Golf Course. Playing for a team that won its fourth consecutive Mid-Penn Colonial Division title, Fortney placed second overall with a 1-over-par 73. Fortney was in first place at the end of the tournament on the par-72, 7,212-yard 4 Star rated course. “He played in a two-man playoff and wound up losing on the second hole,” said Waynesboro coach Ryan Henderson. “He lost to a senior, and Tyler, only being a sophomore,…

WAYNESBORO – Mention the name Aaron Brooks, and anyone who knows anything about wrestling knows who he is. Brooks, a graduate of North Hagerstown High School, was a visiting clinician at Sunday’s fall wrestling clinic hosted by Waynesboro Wrestling and held at the Waynesboro Area Senior High School gym. “This is the second year that we have hosted Penn State wrestlers at the high school for a fall clinic,” said Waynesboro Indians varsity wrestling head coach David Swink. “It’s an amazing opportunity for local wrestlers to be in the same gymnasium with these guys.” Current and former Waynesboro wrestling coaches…

WAYNESBORO – Andrew Soffe is listed at 5-foot-6, 150 pounds on the Waynesboro varsity football roster. But his presence on the football field at Buchanan Automotive Stadium on Saturday afternoon loomed larger than life. The junior placekicker provided the boost the Indians needed, and his final contribution won the game. Soffe, who earlier in the game kicked a 21-yard field goal, arched a kick right down the middle of the uprights from 26 yards with 2.8 seconds remaining. Jaylon Bean blooped the kickoff, and Waynesboro swarmed to the ball carrier as time expired in a thrilling 13-10 comeback victory. Waynesboro…