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The Nanticoke Minor League all-star baseball team led Lower Sussex 9-4 into the fourth inning of the District III tournament but fell by a score of 16-10 in the game played in Seaford. Lower Sussex utilized 15 total walks in the game to overtake Nanticoke for the win.

Nanticoke’s James Brown, Jr. opened the game when he was hit on the leg by Lower Sussex pitcher Brian Seymour. Brown’s base stealing skills moved him up to third base and he later came home on a passed ball. Nanticoke scored a second run on a Ryan Downs’ RBI infield ground out. Nanticoke scored the third run on an error and then an

Shown (l to r) is the Nanticoke Minor League all-star baseball Team: first row- Ian Castro Mender, Max Lathbury, Lincoln Condos, Carter Lankford, Cade McAvoy; second row: Ryan Downs, James Brown, Jr, Ace Maxwell, Asher Maxwell, Deklan Lankford, Brady Hamilton; coach Jonah Lathbury, manager Tyler Massey, and coach Chris McAvoy.

other passed ball scored the fourth run when Deklan Lankford was safe at home.

Starting pitcher for Nanticoke, Max Lathbury walked a batter, struck out two, and a ground ball to second baseman Ian Castro Mendura accounted for the three outs in the inning.

Nanticoke added runs in the top of the third inning beginning with a Lincoln Condos single who moved up to third base on a steal and fielder’s choice. Catcher Ryan Downs hit into a ground ball out but collected an RBI for a 5-0 score.

Lower Sussex scored in the bottom of third inning with a walk, single to right field, and a single that loaded the bases. An error and a passed ball scored a total of three runs before Lathbury ended the inning on a ground ball out back to the mound.

Nanticoke came back…

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LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— A 17-year-old has been missing from Wilkes-Barre since July 3.

And his mother is desperate to find out what happened to him.

“That’s my first born, he’s the reason I learned to be a mom,” said Jazzmen Owens, mother, Nanticoke.

Owens, a mother of four doing her best to provide for her children.

Search for missing 37-year-old man

Last week, her oldest son, Mark Ward, didn’t answer his phone after she dropped him off at Kirby Park in Wilkes-Barre.

Owens then went searching for Mark, following the phone’s location.

“I then got in the car and I went to the location that the phone was sending me. As I was crossing the bridge, it told me I arrived to the location, and then I drove back and put on walking distance and his phone was on the bridge cracked into pieces,” recalled Owens.

Owens contacted the police, and they are actively searching for him, but a close family friend says she still can’t believe what happened.

“Honestly, I cried because it’s just very sad to know that like you know, you see stuff like this on the news and in other places, but for it to happen to someone who’s close to you and who you’re close with, it’s like I couldn’t even imagine what his mother’s going through,” expressed Giavanna Twyman, family friend, Wilkes-Barre.

As more time passes without updates, Owens is holding on to her motherhood to keep her steady.

“I haven’t always been the best in life, I’ve been through so much, but one thing I stand on is being a mom. I feel like I was put here to be a mom,” said Owens.

Owens says she will be putting up posters around the community and urges people to help if they can.

“Please…

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NANTICOKE – One inning. That’s all it took to send Carbino Club/Archbald into the elimination round of the Pennsylvania State Major Softball Tournament.

St. Mary’s scored six runs in the fifth inning, and pitcher Gia Straub held the Section 5 champs to just three hits en route to a 7-3 win Thursday night at the Nanticoke Little League field.

It was Carbino Club/Archbald’s first loss in the tournament, and also, the first setback of the 2025 all-star season.

“It was just one bad inning,” Carbino Club/Archbald coach Sumer Ploskonka said. “We made some mistakes, and we just didn’t play up to our standards today. We are still in it, and we just have to make some little adjustments here and there.”

St. Mary’s advances to the winner’s bracket final Saturday to face off with Caln Township, while Carbino Club/Archbald starts the climb back Friday with a 4 p.m. matchup with District 9 champ Bullskin Township.

“That was the goal for us. We wanted to play in the 7 p.m. game today, and play in the 7 p.m. game on Saturday,” St. Mary’s coach Doug Straub said. I really like our ballclub. We are working really hard, and I think it’s going to be a really good one with Caln on Saturday. Valley View is a really solid team. We struggled with their first pitcher (Alana Lophovsky). She threw well for them.”

Straub stood in right field as his St. Mary’s squad danced and celebrated the win.

He took a quick glance at the scoreboard, and saw the red six glaring under the fifth inning. It was one day ago where St. Mary’s put a six-spot on the scoreboard in the fourth inning to push past Stroudsburg to open up the state tournament.

Thursday, they did it once again.

“I would…

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