Southern Columbia’s dominance in Class A girls soccer over the last four years has been a result of more than just talent and hard work.
Line Mountain sophomores Sierra Klinger and Queenlyn Zartman were named Tri-Valley Athletic Association first-team girls soccer all-stars, two of only three 10th graders to earn the distinction.
Greenwood junior midfielder Sam Myers was named the Most Valuable Player of the Tri-Valley Athletic Association after scoring a league-high 43 points during the 2021 season.
MOSCOW — Danville enjoyed a breakthrough regular season and extended it through an overtime District 4 championship win in boys soccer.
LANCASTER — As far as Mark Ferster is concerned, his Midd-West soccer team is at a point in time when each game is a one-game season.
CATAWISSA — Harrisburg Christian surprised Southern Columbia with an early response during Tuesday's PIAA Class A girls soccer first-round game.
The Valley will be buzzing with postseason soccer action Tuesday as three area schools host local teams in state playoff matches.
DANVILLE — In the first five minutes of Southern Columbia's District 4 Class A semifinal game against Northeast Bradford, the Tigers were called for an offsides penalty. That was the last time they fell victim to the trap.
ALMEDIA — Midd-West dominated the first half Tuesday night on its way to a 5-1 win over Milton in a District 4 Class 2A boys soccer semifinal.
WILLIAMSPORT — It was barely a minute into the second half Monday when Milton’s Mackenzie Lopez delivered exactly what her team needed.
Boys soccer teams from Northumberland Christian, Lewisburg and Danville, as well as the Mifflinburg girls, are seeded first in their respective classifications for District 4 tournaments that begin Tuesday and Wednesday.
MONTOURSVILLE — Addison Parker scored the game-winner in the 78th minute to lead Troy to a 4-3 win over Northumberland Christian in the consolation of the Montoursville Tournament on Saturday.
All District 4 soccer playoff games scheduled for Saturday — including games involving 14 Valley teams — have been cancelled ahead of what is expected to be heavy rains across the region.
SUNBURY — Shikellamy spent the last few minutes of the second half Monday peppering the Montoursville goal in a desperate attempt to score a game-winner.
Nicole Varano and Kelli Beiler were named the top players in their respective divisions of the Heartland Athletic Conference by the Heartland Girls Soccer Coaches Association.
With the boys’ soccer season over — Lewisburg’s 2-0 loss to Lancaster Mennonite in the PIAA Class 2A semifinals brought everything to a close — Pennsylvania Heartland Athletic Conference coaches have unveiled their all-star teams.
HARRISBURG — When East Juniata’s girls look back on Tuesday night’s encounter and review what took place, a sizable number of Valeria Dressler’s disappointed players will believe they merely ran out of time. Well, that’s one way to look at it.
HARRISBURG — While Lewisburg’s hearty soccer partisans understood the Green Dragons’ remarkable postseason success would end at some point, all of them were hoping they’d have a few more games in them or everything would last until 2023.
Having been involved in a pair of PIAA Class 2A semifinal-round games — and won them, too — Nate Liscum knows there’s no point in overhauling the system in order to try to slide past the guys on the opposite bench.
MANCHESTER — Encounter a close call — particularly since a sizable lead was thought to be firmly in place — and one needs to learn those lessons and tuck them away, particularly since they could prove useful at a later date.
MANCHESTER — Thea Neimond knew she had to stay patient, and remain persistent.
LEBANON — A little less than 12 minutes into Saturday’s state girls soccer quarterfinal, Midd-West senior Kelli Beiler stepped up to take a free kick.
The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association has announced the sites and times for Saturday's quarterfinals of the state playoffs.
DANVILLE — With a pair of big-time goal scorers lurking dangerously every time the other side happened to move the ball into their offensive end, Alyssa Keister knew she and her teammates might need to win a shootout just to move on.
SCRANTON — Lewisburg co-coach Skip Kratzer sensed that even Scranton Prep’s players were beginning to think that Tuesday’s Class 2A boys soccer state first-round playoff game was essentially over.
WILLIAMSPORT — Greenwood had plenty of chances Tuesday night in a boys soccer Class A state first-round playoff game, but the Wildcats couldn’t convert.
LEHIGHTON — Just off of winning a District 4 Class 3A title in the rain, Selinsgrove found itself right back on a damp pitch as it opened the PIAA Class 3A playoffs with a trip to Lehighton to take on District 11 champion Blue Mountain.
DANVILLE — Charge into the fray without one of your most effective weapons and it’s going to be difficult to come out with a favorable result.
Just a few minutes after dropping District 4 Class AA gold medals on excited Lewisburg shoulders for the fourth year in a row, co-head coach Skip Kratzer couldn’t say enough good things about an emerging Green Dragons defense.
Five soccer teams and four field hockey teams begin the quest for a state title on Tuesday night.
WILLIAMSPORT — As Selinsgrove players huddled around her at the halftime break, coach Cheryl Underhill knew what needed to be done.
WILLIAMSPORT — Gabe DeFacis is one of those soccer players with the ability to figure out what the game’s going to give him — and then he’ll gladly take it.
HUGHESVILLE — Devan Leitzel scored twice in the first half against Warrior Run and liked it so much he scored two more times in the second half of the game.
DANVILLE — Ben Liscum said the game plan was quite simple.
DANVILLE — Thea Neimond had a number of reasons to be extremely excited as the East Juniata sophomore celebrated with her equally excited teammates.
HUGHESVILLE — Bloomsburg executed to near perfection throughout the second half of its girls soccer District 4 Class A semifinal against Warrior Run.
DANVILLE — On a night when it appeared as if Mifflinburg twice had prevailed in its first postseason outing this season, the Wildcats needed a third chance to put it away.
DANVILLE — One timely spurt.
WILLIAMSPORT — Macey McCarthy scored two goals to lead Sullivan County to a 2-1 victory over Line Mountain in the District 4 Class A quarterfinals on Saturday at Loyalsock High School.
WILLIAMSPORT — On paper it might not have been the most exciting matchup, but for those in the know, it had the makings of another District 4 girls soccer playoff classic.
WILLIAMSPORT — Not everybody is presented with the opportunity to pocket a pair of finishes on his 18th birthday — and give himself a memorable present — but Devan Leister had that chance and he certainly took advantage.
A short time after his Mifflinburg Wildcats secured their first Heartland Athletic Conference-Division II boys’ soccer championship — their first regular-season title of any kind — Dan Gehers talked about navigating the difficult Monday-Wednesday stretch they faced that week.
MILLERSBURG — Jack Sheaffer is quite fond of saying that nothing ever comes easy for his soccer-playing Millersburg Indians — especially after a tight outing.
WILLIAMSPORT — Bloomsburg’s run down the stretch to simply qualify for the postseason might have worked in its favor as the Panthers’ offense seemed to click early in the opening round of the District 4 Class A playoffs.
WILLIAMSPORT — Nobody questioned Warrior Run’s defense throughout the season as it held multiple opponents down.
Now it’s time to see whether a high-powered Millersburg side can turn home-field advantage into at least one postseason outing — and maybe more.
District playoff action gets started this week in boys and girls soccer and field hockey.
BUCKHORN — Meadowbrook Christian's dynamic duo of Trey Baugman and Dillon Stokes teamed to produce three goals, and the Lions authored the first shutout of Northumberland Christian all season to win the Allegheny Christian Athletic Association championship, 3-0, on Saturday.
BLOOMSBURG — The Allegheny Christian Athletic Association soccer teams from Northumberland County made quick work of their opponents Friday in the conference tournament semifinals, setting up a pair of championship contests today between Meadowbrook Christian and Northumberland Christian.
MIDDLEBURG — The front cover of the Midd-West girls soccer program sports the slogan “Taking care of business.”
