Author: Lee Goodwin

MERCERSBURG – The Waynesboro Indians varsity boys’ basketball team used a second-half surge to defeat the James Buchanan Rockets on Friday. Waynesboro used a combination of stifling defense, a patient half-court offense and opportunistic transition points to turn a 24-17 second-quarter lead to a final score of 60-41 in a Mid-Penn Colonial Division game. “The story played out the same as the other game (against James Buchanan),” said Waynesboro head coach Tom Hoffman, whose team beat the Rockets 62-42 on Dec. 14. “We were up six and Michael Young hit a three at the buzzer at the half to put…

ELIZABETHTOWN–The Waynesboro varsity wrestling team, coming off a 4-1 showing at the Elizabethtown Duals last week, competed in meets on back-to-back nights. The Indians hosted Chambersburg, which went away with a 37-27 victory on Wednesday. On Thursday, Waynesboro defeated Greencastle-Antrim, 54-9 in Greencastle. The Tribe received eight forfeits against the Blue Devils en route to the lopsided win. Greencastle won three of the four contested bouts. Waynesboro’s Bodie Rouzer recorded a fall in 3:25 after building a 16-3 lead. The senior 138-pounder earned eight points off takedowns, five on a pair of near falls and another two points on a…

ELIZABETHTOWN – The Waynesboro Area Senior High School varsity wrestling team made the trip to Elizabethtown High School on Saturday for the Grizzly Duals and returned home with four wins under its collective belt. The Indians went 4-1 on the day, with the lone loss coming against host Elizabethtown, 44-30. Waynesboro defeated Palmyra 45-27, York Tech 66-3, Wyomissing 58-18 and Muhlenberg 48-27. “The boys really wanted to do well in support of the twins (Bodie and Kaden Rouzer) and assistant coach Mike Rouzer, who lost Mindy this week to cancer this week. It was also really good for the team…

The decade of the 1980s was the golden era for the National Football League’s NFC East division. Actually, the division’s dominance extended into the 1990s when the re-purposed Dallas Cowboys, who deposed head coach Tom Landry after the 1988 season and hired University of Miami head coach Jimmy Johnson in 1989, won three Super Bowls between 1992 and 1995. The 1995 Cowboys won the Super Bowl under head coach Barry Switzer, who was essentially window dressing. Dallas, a well-oiled machine behind a monster offensive line and a vaunted defense, was on auto pilot and went on to beat the Pittsburgh…

WAYNESBORO – It’s not often that a Waynesboro basketball team thoroughly dominates Greencastle-Antrim, but it happened for the second time this season. The Indians, who defeated the Blue Devils 61-28 in the Franklin County Tipoff Tournament consolation game back in December, stormed out to a 19-2 lead in the first half and never looked back, winning 52-23 in a Mid-Penn Colonial Division game on Friday night on the home court. “The maturity level the players are showing is a good thing. We’re going to keep riding it,” said Waynesboro coach Tom Hoffman after his team won for the eighth time…

GETTYSBURG – The Waynesboro Indians varsity boys’ basketball team has now lost two games this season, and both have come against Chambersburg. The most recent clash between the two teams came Tuesday night in the championship game of the Lions Club Holiday tournament at Gettysburg High School. The Trojans, which defeated the Indians 70-54 in the title game of the Franklin County Tipoff Tournament earlier this month, staged a fourth-quarter rally en route to a 52-40 victory. Waynesboro, which led 27-21 at halftime, was outscored 20-4 in the fourth quarter. Jaylon Bean and Reese Cover scored 13 and 12 points,…

I loathe holidays. Not for me. I know a rat when I smell it; and Christmas, like Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, and any day that is arbitrarily assigned to celebrate an occasion in history, reeks of commercialism (that includes Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and practically any Day you can think of like those national days of whatever). Why should Christmas be revered when the birth of Jesus Christ took place in utmost secrecy? King Herod issued a proclamation to kill all unborn children under the age of two, because he was told that a baby was going to be…

The Waynesboro Area Senior High School varsity boys’ basketball team continued its winning ways this week, as the Indians defeated West Perry, 68-18 on Monday and Northern York, 50-42 on Wednesday. The pair of victories boosted Waynesboro’s season record to 5-1. On Wednesday, the Tribe’s eight-point triumph was the first time this season that Waynesboro didn’t win by double digits. The Indians trailed 21-18 at halftime but rallied in the second half for the win. Waynesboro outscored the Polar Bears 19-14 in the third quarter to take a 37-35 lead, the won the fourth period 13-7. Ryan Shaffer tallied 14…

WAYNESBORO – The Waynesboro varsity wrestling team made quick work of visiting James Buchanan on Tuesday night. In a meet with three forfeits and two no contests, the Indians recorded pins in the other bouts en route to a 66-0 victory in the team’s second Mid-Penn Colonial Division competition. Waynesboro was coming off a 40-16 loss to West Perry last Thursday. Colby Bittorie started things off for Waynesboro. He scored on a takedown and three-point near fall to take a 5-0 lead after the first period. Bittorie started the second period in the down position, but he didn’t stay there…

CARLISLE – The Waynesboro varsity wrestling team traveled north for the Carlisle Invitational, an event that teams in the past competed in for years before opting to participate in other tournaments. The experience was a good one for Waynesboro’s Jayden Rooney. The freshman 120-pounder, whom head coach David Swink said in the preseason that he expected good things from, placed second. Seniors Bodie Rouzer (138 pounds) and Kaden Rouzer (145 pounds) placed third, while sophomore Garrett Price (132 pounds) was sixth. “Jayden wrestled incredibly well,” Swink said. “He entered the tourney with a record of 0-4, clearly unseeded. He avenged…