Author: Lee Goodwin

WAYNESBORO – The Waynesboro varsity softball team has hit a rut. After winning seven games in a row, the Maidens lost to Shippensburg on Tuesday 4-1. On Thursday, the outcome was even more dire. Big Spring, which entered the game tied with Shippensburg with an 11-2 Mid-Penn Colonial Division record, had 18 base runners in a game the Bulldogs won, 10-0. The win avenges a 9-8 loss earlier in the season in Newville. “Our defense has been pretty solid,” said Waynesboro head coach Steven McElroy. “It wasn’t there today. You commit five or six errors and you’re not going to…

Anthony Ausherman recently put an exclamation mark on his wrestling season. The seventh grader at Waynesboro Area Middle School placed second at the Middle Atlantic Wrestling Association Eastern National Championships in Salisbury, Maryland. The Eastern Nationals, which brings in talented grapplers from up and down the East Coast, is the final rung of a ladder that started at the district level. Ausherman won his first three contests inside the Wicomico Civic Center before losing to Port Matilda, Pennsylvania 175-pounder Kyle Scott in the championship match, 7-2. Ausherman didn’t give up a point until he wrestled Scott in the championship match.…

BOILING SPRINGS – It doesn’t seem to matter where the Waynesboro varsity softball team plays these days, because they can win anywhere. On Thursday, the team traveled north on I-81 to Boiling Springs and came home with another double-digit run total and an 11-4 Mid-Penn Colonial Division win. The win improved Waynesboro’s record to 12-3 overall and 10-2 in the division with two more league games to play. The Maidens are home the next three games, beginning on Tuesday with a conference matchup against Shippensburg. The Greyhounds defeated the Maidens back on April 14 by a 3-0 score. Waynesboro’s other…

WAYNESBORO–Nearly two dozen Waynesboro Area Senior High School student-athletes gathered at the high school recently to hold college signings in a variety of sports. Pictured are, front (left to right): Joelle Blake (Chatham University, swimming), Ashley Donald (Hood College, volleyball), Emily Channing (Millersville University, volleyball) and Cara Toney (California University of Pennsylvania, swimming). Second row: Brody Rhodes (Lycoming College, football), Dylan Byers (Alvernia University, golf), Louis Lindsey (College of Wooster, football), Cora Helman (Shenandoah University, cross country/track and field), Rhyan Day (Bridgewater College, football), Kiaya Mouer (Penn State Mont Alto, soccer), Becca Cordell (Wilson College, soccer/basketball) and Hope Freels (Wilson…

Greencastle-Antrim boys, girls defeat Waynesboro GREENCASTLE – The Greencastle-Antrim boys’ and girls’ track and field teams defeated Waynesboro in the final dual meets of the season on Tuesday afternoon. The boys’ team dominated from top to bottom on its way to a 118-32 victory in their Mid-Penn Colonial Division matchup. The Lady Blue Devils won a closer meet, 88-62 in a meet that the Maidens won the track events by the score of 44-43. In the boys’ meet, Waynesboro kicked things off by winning the 3200 meter relay. From there, it was pretty much all Greencastle-Antrim. G-A’s Seth Stouffer notched…

Forrest Rhyne didn’t get drafted by a team in the 2022 National Football League draft, but that doesn’t mean he will not get his long-awaited chance to earn a spot on a roster. Rhyne, a 2017 graduate of Waynesboro Area Senior High School, signed with the Indianapolis Colts as an undrafted free agent on Saturday, ending at least some of the gut-wrenching speculation over whether or not the Villanova University standout linebacker will get his foot in the door in professional football. The 6-foot-1, 235-pound Rhyne, a two-time All-State defensive player for the Waynesboro Indians and a 2021 Football Championship…

Waynesboro sweeps Fairfield in track and field WAYNESBORO – The Waynesboro boys’ and girls’ track and field teams turned in dominant performances against visiting Fairfield on Thursday afternoon in non-conference action. The Indians defeated the Green Knights 117-33 and the girls pulled away for a 118-32 triumph at the Charles A. “Rip” Engle Sports Complex. Boys Track & Field Waynesboro won all three relay events to give the Tribe 15 points. The 400-relay team of Isaiah Worthy, Brodie Rhodes, Preston Hammond and Jaylon Bean turned in a time of 45.4 seconds. The 1600 relay foursome of Dillon Turner, Michael Calo,…

WAYNESBORO – It took a month for the Waynesboro Indians and Greencastle-Antrim Blue Devils to get their Mid-Penn Colonial Division game in the books. After it was completed, the Tribe might have looked back and been grateful that their late-March game against the Blue Devils was scrapped. Waynesboro overcame a 1-0 deficit by scoring seven runs in the home third and then added two runs in the sixth to notch a 9-2 victory Saturday at Robinson Field. In the meantime, what was to be the teams’ second game between each other came and went, and Waynesboro had to face a…

WAYNESBORO – If you like pitching and defense, this probably wasn’t the game for you. Waynesboro’s 13-6 victory over James Buchanan on Thursday afternoon at Robinson Field didn’t exactly make for a good game to pad the Earned Run Average stats. Instead, it was hits – and some errors – that helped the host Indians overcome a 3-0 deficit and turn a close game into a one-sided contest. Waynesboro beat James Buchanan 11-1 in their previous meeting in Mercersburg. The Tribe came close to doing it again, as they scored six runs in the sixth inning to turn a 7-5…

WAYNESBORO – The air had a November chill, and so did the Waynesboro Maidens’ bats on Wednesday at the Maidens home field against cross-county rival Greencastle-Antrim. Waynesboro turned the agony of defeat into the thrill of victory with a comeback that saw the Maidens rally from deficits of 6-1 and 8-4. A bases-loaded passed ball allowed Horner to score the game-winning run to put the exclamation point on Waynesboro’s 9-8 win in its Mid-Penn Colonial Division game. The win was the Maidens fourth straight. When G-A’s Meadow Gambacurta belted a grand slam in the top of the second inning and…