Author: Lee Goodwin

HERSHEY – The Waynesboro varsity football team didn’t get to venture into the park or ride the rides, but they still left Hersheypark happy on Friday night. Jaylon Bean punched it in on a 1-yard touchdown run in the second quarter, and Cody Tharp galloped into the end zone on an 8-yard run on the opening possession of the third quarter for what proved to be the winning points, as the Indians defeated the Hershey Trojans, 13-7 at Hersheypark Stadium. The win evened Waynesboro’s record at 1-1 awaiting its first home game of the season next Friday against Chambersburg. After…

The life of a Penn State football fan has been full of ups and downs since the ouster and death of long-time head coach Joe Paterno. Let’s face it, the scars left by the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal have left an enduring impact on a program that was known for being squeaky clean. Paterno was elevated to the status of patron saint of college football coaches. He even gave incoming freshmen reading lists as a “prerequisite” for playing football. The message: Never forget that you are a student first, a college football player second. The events of Nov. 8…

SPRING GROVE – The Spring Grove and Waynesboro varsity football teams are becoming quite familiar with one another. The Rockets (10-2 last season) and Indians (9-3 in 2021) last played on Nov. 11, 2021 in the District 3-5A playoff quarterfinals. They also faced off in the season opener a year ago. Fast forward to 2022. The two teams met again at Papermakers Stadium in York County, and the result was the same as the previous two encounters. Spring Grove took a 14-6 lead at the half and then pulled away in the second half on its way to a 46-14…

WAYNESBORO – It used to be that winning was the exception for the Waynesboro Area Senior High School varsity football team. Now, it’s the expectation. Since 2014 (after more than two decades of losing seasons), the Indians have reeled off seven winning seasons, including last season’s 9-3 campaign that included the program’s first-ever District 3 playoff victory. The road to another winning season begins Friday on the road against the same team that defeated Waynesboro in the 2021 district quarterfinals – Spring Grove. The Rockets pulled away to a 21-6 win after holding a 7-6 lead late in the second…

GREENCASTLE – It’s been a while since the Waynesboro Area Senior High School varsity golf team has lost a match. In fact, in the previous three seasons (from 2019 to 2021), Waynesboro accumulated a cumulative record of 83-2 (both losses came against Chambersburg). Waynesboro was 25-0 a year ago. Coach Ryan Henderson’s team coasted to a win in the opening Mid-Penn Colonial Division match of the season at Waynesboro Country Club and entered Monday’s second divisional contest at Greencastle Golf Club with a 6-0 mark. It was Greencastle-Antrim that handed Waynesboro its first loss in nearly three seasons. The hosts…

The takeover of NCAA Division I-A, which later became known as Football Bowl Subdivision, began in the early 1990s. The maneuvering to make the sport under the sole auspices of entities other than the National Collegiate Athletic Association entered a new phase recently when, according to a report published on ESPN.com, “the (College Football Playoff) board of managers briefly discussed the possibility of restructuring how college football is governed, with the idea presented of major college football potentially being governed outside of the NCAA. The most logical place for the sport to be run outside of the NCAA would be…

WAYNESBORO – The Waynesboro Area Senior High School varsity golf team picked up where they left off last season – winning. A season removed from a Mid-Penn Colonial Division championship and a home meet to tee off the 2022 season, Waynesboro went 6-0 at Waynesboro Country Club on Monday afternoon. Waynesboro bested runner-up Northern York by 18 strokes and had two golfers finish in the 70s. Tyler Fortney was the medalist with a 71. Evan Stein carded a 78 to finish second overall, helping Waynesboro to a team score of 325. Waynesboro, ever playing with the proverbial bulls-eye squarely on…

The plot continues to thicken in NCAA Division I college football, and the Age of the Super Conferences has dawned. Perhaps we could have read the tea leaves nearly 30 years ago when the Southeastern Conference and the Atlantic Coast Conference introduced new teams to their respective conferences. There was a minor difference, however, since a number of teams were not affiliated with conferences, so adding them to a conference – or starting a conference like the Big East – made perfect sense. Flash forward to the year 2022. The SEC is expecting again. So is the Big Ten. Seemingly…

The Waynesboro American Legion Post 15 baseball team won two more games in the past week, bringing its Franklin County American Legion League win streak to six games. On Wednesday, June 29, Waynesboro defeated Fort Loudon 3-2 at Fannett-Metal High School. Post 15 scored single runs in the third, fifth and sixth innings and rode a strong complete game effort from pitcher Bryce Shaffer. Shaffer surrendered four hits while striking out 13 batters and only allowing one walk. After Waynesboro fell behind 1-0 after two innings, Nathan Wynkoop led off with a single to left in the third inning. Tyler…

WAYNESBORO – Izzy Reed was on his A-game Monday evening at Robinson Field. The former Waynesboro Indians ace and now a pitcher for Hagerstown Community College, Reed pitched seven solid innings against McConnellsburg Post 561 in a Franklin County American Legion League baseball game, while Waynesboro’s defense backed up Reed with seven solid innings of its own. Reed, a hard-throwing right hander who showed his versatility and velocity against the visiting Post 561 batters, walked only one hitter and struck out eight. The defense did the rest, including a double play in the top of the fifth and a nifty…