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Hannah Fairchild scored six times and assisted on the other goal Friday when Wyoming Area routed host Western Wayne, 7-0, in a non-league girls soccer game.

Fairchild scored the first four goals – two in each half – then assisted Ella Shepulski’s goal and scored twice more in the last three minutes.

Bella Costa, Emily Kostik and Sofia Menta each added assists.

Wyoming Area improved to 10-4-1 overall to rank third out of 11 teams pursuing eight berths in the District 2 Class 2A playoffs.

Dallas 5, Pittston Area 0

Dallas shut out visiting Pittston Area in Thursday’s WVC Division 1 games.

The Lady Patriots fell to 4-7 in the division and 8-8-1 overall. They are sixth of 10 teams trying to make the eight-team District 2 Class 3A playoff field.

Wyoming Area 8, Nanticoke 0

Hannah Fairchild scored five goals and assisted on one Tuesday to help Wyoming Area pummel visiting Nanticoke in the WVC Division 2 game.

Fairchild scored four times to help open a 6-0 lead for the Lady Warriors, who are 6-3-1 in the division.

Ella Shepulski assisted the first goal and scored the second on the way to finishing with two of each.

Summer Semanek also scored while Emily Kostik had an assist.

Wyoming Area had 25 shots and four corner kicks while holding Nanticoke to three shots and not allowing a corner kick.

Pittston Area 2, Hazleton Area 0

Cameron Karp scored early and Kayla Rodzinak connected late to lift Pittston Area to the home-field victory in Wednesday’s WVC Division 1 game.

Bella Dessoye assisted the first goal.

Meghan McCawley made eight saves for the shutout.

Pittston Area 3, Tunkhannock 3

Kayla Rodzinak scored the game’s last two goals to lift Pittston Area into the tie in Monday’s WVC Division 1 game against visiting…

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Nanticoke, Luzerne Co. — In honor of Hispanic heritage month, FOX56 is highlighting a new Latina owned dance studio in Nanticoke scheduled to open on Wednesday, October 18th.

The studio highlights showing pride through traditional dances.

Marcie Curry, a Mexican American and the owner of Rhythmic Republic Dance Studio, has been dancing for over 20 years.

Her first dance studio was located in Chino, California. However last year, she made the move from Chino to Nanticoke to continue her dream of enriching others with the culture of traditional dance and expression.

“It’s not just about dance, it’s about expression. So for example you express your feelings along with what’s going on with the song. Let’s say a toddler maybe, they’re going to expressing whatever they’re going through, not only the routine”, Curry added.

One of the many styles covered at the Rhythmic Republic dance studio is regional Mexican dance from the state of Jalisco, Mexico.

For this style and many others, performers wear Mexican folklore shoes with nails.

The nails add noise to the dancers steps to make the shoes a part of the musical experience.

The Rhythmic Republic Dance team has been operating on a smaller scale for the past few months.

The team have performed in multiple festivals throughout NEPA including the Wilkes-Barre Multicultural festival last month.

Evolet Vazquez has been dancing and performing since she was three years old.

She says despite the large number of people at their performances she just focuses on dance moves and lets everything else fall into place naturally.

“It’s a lot of work, but my mom tells me that I’m going to do a good job and I just believe in myself. Just stop worrying about other things and you’ll do fine”, Vasquez said.

Jules, one of the dance instructors encourages all people to consider joining…

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WILKES-BARRE TWP. — 235 yards and four touchdowns is a great full-game statline for most running backs in the Wyoming Valley Conference.

For Nanticoke Area’s Zack Fox, that was just one quarter.

Fox scored on his first two touches, Nanticoke’s first two plays from scrimmage, as the Trojans smashed Holy Redeemer 54-0 at McCarthy Stadium.

The senior workhorse halfback got an early breather in the second quarter, but not before slashing and gashing his way through the beleagured Royals defense.

“He’s been my guy for the last three years,” said Nanticoke Area head coach Ron Bruza after the win, the Trojans’ fourth in a row. “Zack’s a great modest kid, and he’s a great running back.”

On Nanticoke’s first play of the game, Fox got the pitch and bounced it outside for a 56-yard score. On Nanticoke’s second play following a quick three-and-out, in what looked like the same play call, Fox ran through a tackler or two and scored from 36 yards out.

He would add two more before the quarter was through, with a 21-yard scoop-and-score from Treston Allen added in to a 35-0 Trojans lead at the end of the first.

Fox got so many early opportunities in large part because the Nanticoke defense proved immovable through the night, with Holy Redeemer finishing the game with negative yardage and Royals quarterback Thomas Dugan forced to run for his life, getting dropped multiple times way behind the line of scrimmage.

On a very rainy, very cold night, Bruza was able to get Fox out of the game early to keep him healthy and rested for the rest of the season.

“Whenever you could get one of your guys a rest, it’s a huge advantage moving down the stretch,” Bruza said.

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