Author: Lee Goodwin

WAYNESBORO – The 2024 Waynesboro Post 15 baseball season draws to a close this week with games Wednesday at home against Chambersburg and Friday on the road at Greencastle. Waynesboro has a league record of 13-3 sitting one game behind 1st place Greencastle. Waynesboro locked up at least a second-place finish on Monday with a 10-2 victory over Biglerville. The top two teams from the Franklin County League earn berths in the Region 4 tournament running July 19 through the 23rd in Hershey. It’s been one of the hottest seasons Post 15 has played, but the weather hasn’t affected the…

RED LION – The Waynesboro Indians varsity baseball team leapfrogged four teams in the final two days to earn a home game in the first round of the 12-team District 3-6A post-season tournament. A little over a week later, Waynesboro, seeded 7th, has leapfrogged its way to the district semifinals with wins over Cumberland Valley (1-0) and Red Lion (6-2). The Tribe is a win away from its first PIAA tournament berth since 2002. Waynesboro travels to Lancaster County to face Hempfield in a semifinal game, Thursday at 4:30 p.m. The 3rd-seeded Black Knights defeated Penn Manor 4-3 in eight…

WAYNESBORO – The Waynesboro varsity baseball team fell behind 4-1 in the third inning when Northern York’s Rylan Yinger hit a high-arching home run over the fence in left centerfield. It was a jolt to starting pitcher Mason Gochenour, but he didn’t throw in the towel either. Neither did the Indians. Waynesboro tallied two runs in the bottom of the fourth and four more in the fifth before giving up a run in the sixth inning and holding on for dear life in the seventh stanza. Left fielder Eric Knepper made perhaps the defensive play of the year when he…

WAYNESBORO – Waynesboro Area Senior High School student-athletes who will be competing in a sport or sports in college attended a special College Commitment Signing Photos at the high school, an event organized by WASHS athletic director Eric McIlquham. The event took place Friday, and more than a dozen senior students had their pictures taken and filled out a form with details about their honors and achievements, their reason for selecting their college or university, their favorite memory, and even their favorite food, song, and restaurant. Photographers from Pictures Plus, Lee Goodwin from localnews1.org, and friends of the student-athletes and…

On a chilly, breezy Friday evening at the Pen Mar Youth League fields in Blue Ridge Summit, the Pesanti family watches five-year-old Lily Pesanti play in her second T-Ball game. The pride of the Tigers, coached by her father Alan, the expression on her face when running the bases tells it all. The next morning, the oldest daughter, Bailey, will play a soccer game for Caledonia Golf Club at the Robert E. Stum Soccer Complex on Country Club Road in Waynesboro. Bailey, who turned eight on March 29, is a veteran of youth soccer, having played in the spring and…

WAYNESBORO – The Waynesboro Indians varsity baseball team has become used to playing in tight games – and winning them. They did it again on Thursday against James Buchanan. After losing a 3-1 lead and heading into the bottom of the seventh inning tied 3-3 with the Rockets, Waynesboro pulled out a 4-3 win on a walk-off single by Mason Gochenour on Senior Day at Robinson Field. With the win, the Indians improve to 12-5 overall, 10-3 in the Mid-Penn Colonial Division. Waynesboro is a half-game behind Shippensburg, which defeated Northern 2-1 to end the regular season at 11-3 in…

Don Jones took up wrestling in middle school – and he’s been wrestling ever since. The 1981 Waynesboro Area Senior High School graduate, who has been living in Cincinnati, Ohio for the past 25 years, is getting better with age. Jones, 60, recently won the US Open Masters E championship in the 70-kilogram (154 pounds) weight class in Las Vegas this past week. The 2024 US Open Wrestling Championships spanned two days, April 25 and 26. It was his third year competing in the national tournament. It was his second national title. Two years ago, Jones placed second. Last year,…

WAYNESBORO – It was one of those games. It was a game that the Waynesboro Maidens should have lost. But they didn’t. Somehow, someway – it might have been the second pitching change that brought in junior righty Alexis Thompson. It could have been familiarity with Shippensburg’s starting pitcher after seeing her once through the batting order. It could have been an offensive eruption beginning in the third inning and the Maidens trailing 9-2. It could have been all of the above. Whatever “it” was, Waynesboro orchestrated one of the best comebacks in team history, as the Maidens scored the…

The Philadelphia Phillies have done something in 2024 that they may have never done before. I won’t take the time to research it but thinking about when the last time the Phils won 23 games this early in the season, or how many times in the team’s history, only serves to take away from their accomplishments. After all, Philadelphia was 8-8 after 16 games. The bats turned to rubber. Lack of offense meant a lack of run support for a pitching staff hailed as one of the best in Major League Baseball: Aaron Hola, Zach Wheeler, Ranger Suarez, Spencer Turnbull,…

WAYNESBORO – Jada Creager competed in four sports during the 2023-24 Waynesboro Area Senior High School athletic seasons. And this past week, the senior set a school record in the pole vault for the Waynesboro girls’ track and field team. By the way, Creager is also a fast sprinter, who regularly wins the 100-meter dash, while being very competitive in the 200 dash and the 400 relay team. Creager won the pole vault, 100 dash and 200 dash and ran a leg in the winning 400 relay in an 81-69 win over Greencastle-Antrim that gave the Maidens the Mid-Penn Colonial…