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Greater Nanticoke Area Comes Up Short
Greater Nanticoke Area was not able to break out of their rough patch on Monday as the team picked up their eighth straight defeat dating back to last season. They lost 19-3 to the Dallas Mountaineers. If the Trojans were looking for revenge after losing 16-2 to the Mountaineers when the teams met back in May of 2022, then they’ll just have to keep looking.
Greater Nanticoke Area saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Alyvia Schneider, who went a perfect 1-for-1 with two RBI and one double. Another was Juliana Percival, who scored a run and stole a base while going 1-for-2.
Greater Nanticoke Area’s loss dropped their record down to 0-2. Dallas has started the season off flawlessly and has a 2-0 record to show for it.
Coming up, Greater Nanticoke Area will be playing at home against Northwest Area at 4:15 p.m. on Tuesday. As for Dallas, they will head out to take on North Pocono at 4:15 p.m. on Thursday.
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And then, there was one.
The 2020 recruiting class was viewed as a major one for the UNC basketball program, as six prospects made their way to Chapel Hill.
At the time, we didn’t know that this group would be the final recruiting class of the Roy Williams era. We also had no idea that this group would be part of a rare class that received an additional season of eligibility due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Five years later, we’re finally closing in the end of that recruiting class’ collegiate tenure, as one Williams recruit still has at last one college game left to be played.
Day’Ron Sharpe took his talents to the NBA after one season in Chapel Hill. Walker Kessler transferred after his freshman year and ended up becoming a star at Auburn, a brief stint that also led him…
Wilkes-Barre, PA — The front end was a good place to race Saturday (March 15) afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania despite it being a cool and windy day; that observation is perhaps best demonstrated by 11-1 shot Striking Impact, who won the $35,000 Championship of the Game Of Claims Pacing Series for horses starting out with a $25,000 tag.
Anthony Napolitano sent the Always B Miki gelding straight to engine command and yielded to no one in fractions of :27.3, :56.3, and 1:23.4 despite no fewer than four separate bids from horses challenging to claim the top spot in various points. Striking Impact had the lead turning for home, shook off first-over Real Surreal (Tyler Buter), then withstood a late charge from two-holer Belmont Major N (Matt Kakaley), who came clear between horses, by a half-length. Favored Lyons Surfing (George Napolitano Jr.), winner in all three Game of Claims prelims while beating :28 home each week, got a second-over trip but did not have as sharp a late kick this race, finishing another neck back in third.
Striking Impact makes his lead stand up to take his $35,000 Championship in the Game Of Claims Pacing Series Saturday at Pocono. Curtis Salonick Photo.
Striking Impact was claimed in the middle prelim of the series by trainer Marta Piotrow and owner Debbie Avery. He won his final prelim, then held his form nicely to triumph in the Championship. (And there is no claiming from the final, so Striking Impact will have the chance to add to the $26,000 he has already collected for his new connections.)
In the $25,000 fast-class pace, the Somebeachsomewhere gelding Spring Inhis Step A (Buter) again got a pocket trip behind Chase H Hanover (Anthony Napolitano…
MAYS LANDING – The Ocean City High School girls rowing team won all four of the events it entered at the first Lenape Sprint this season in May Landing.
The varsity lightweight four featuring Abby Smith, Ava Ryan, Coryn Driscoll and Heather Trostle kicked off the day with a seven-second win over Mainland, Egg Harbor and Absegami.
The novice eight began its season with a 19-second win over Egg Harbor Township, Atlantic City and Mainland. The crew included Maddie Aragno, Kendal Barnes, Bella Panico, Brooke Delanzo, Kailyn Nilsen, Katie Grimley, Stella Tomaselli, Kristin Campbell and Mary Libro.
The second varsity eight continued the winning streak with an 11-second win over Atlantic City and Mainland. That crew featured Ava Ryan, Abby Smith, Coryn Driscoll, Anneliece Mattina, Harper Petitgout, Heather Trostle, Maddie Aragno, Kendall Barnes and Adeline Robbins.
In the final women’s race of the day, the Red Raider varsity eight punched the final win for the team with a four-second win over Atlantic City, Egg Harbor and Mainland. The varsity eight included Aubrey Schlembach, Margot Swift, Marin Pearce, Marina Zappone, Ava Ruh, Jada Smith, Marissa Trostle, Reese Hemberger and OCHS rowing team will compete at the Walter Mess Regatta in Fairfax Virginia on Saturday.
Girls Lightweight Four
1st Ocean City – 6:47.8
2nd Mainland – 6:54.92
3rd Egg Harbor – 7:09.88
4th Absegami – 7:52.67
Girls Novice Eight
1. Ocean City – 6:36.59
2nd Egg Harbor – 6:55.81
3rd Atlantic City – 7:12.25
4th Mainland – 7:33.65
Girls 2ndd Varsity Eight
1st Ocean City – 6:00.90
2nd Atlantic City – 6:12.25
3rd Mainland – 6:56.53
Girls Varsity Eight
1st Ocean City – 4:24.15
2nd Atlantic City – 4:38.37
3rd Egg Harbor –…
Sierra Ripka is a trailblazer in District 2 girls’ wrestling.
The Nanticoke Area junior puts her heart and soul into the sport, starting off on the boys’ team as a freshman and continuing to build a resume that others will be chasing for years to come.
She wrestles year around, pushing herself against the best in the country.
She’s now a two-time state place-winner, ending with a fifth-place finish this year in her junior campaign.
Perhaps, though, her biggest attribute is the way she promotes the newly-formed sport. The Nanticoke Area wrestling room is bustling with new energy from underclassmen girls who want to learn, thrive and succeed in the sport.
And there’s no one better to lead their charge than Ripka.
“It’s amazing that I get to share what I know,” she said. “We had a bunch of new girls come out this year. Being able to sit back, talk with them and watch some of their matches with them, it’s fun. I really enjoy helping them to get better in the sport. A lot of the girls are nervous, but I just try to tell them to stay calm and have fun.”
For her efforts this season, Ripka is The Citizens’ Voice Girls’ Wrestler of the Year. She joins former Lake-Lehman wrestler Alahna Morris as only the second female chosen for the award.
Ripka finished the season with a record of 35-4 with 24 pins and three majors. This was her second state-placer, ending in fourth as a sophomore. She was a Wyoming Valley Conference champ, District 2 170-pound titlist and was third at the Central Regional in Milton.
Out of her four losses, three of them were to wrestlers that placed top four or higher at states.
Ripka sat down with The Voice to reflect on her season, discuss her offseason and talk about what goals she’ll…
ELIAS MacLEISH (Photo provided)
MacLeish To Be LWV Delegate for Annual Conference
COOPERSTOWN—The League of Women Voters of the Cooperstown Area has announced that Elias MacLeish will be the 2025 delegate to the annual Students Inside Albany conference in Albany. Elias, the son of Padraic and Shelby MacLeish, is a junior at Cooperstown High School and lives Hartwick.
“Congratulations to Elias. The SIA program is a fantastic immersive experience for our area students,” said Kristin Pullyblank, co-president of the LWV of the Cooperstown Area. “Civics education is at the forefront of the League’s mission, and we are fortunate to have been able to send at least one student since the inception of the program in 2001.”
The League of Women Voters of New York State Education Foundation Inc. sponsors one delegate from each League in New York to SIA. The program is designed to increase high-school students’ awareness of their responsibility in representative government and provide information about the tools necessary for meeting that responsibility. This year’s SIA Conference will take place May 18-21 and will bring 40-some students from across the state to Albany.
Students will participate in a series of interactive lectures on topics such as the state budget process, the role of lobbyists in the legislative process, citizen rights to access government information, the role of media in politics, and the move to reform state government. Shadowing their senator and their assemblymember for an afternoon and attending a session on the Chamber floors are two of the highlights of SIA.
At Cooperstown High School, Elias is involved in mock trial, Envirothon, yearbook, cross country, track and field, and Leadership Training for Athletes. He has also been leading a project to restore the LaCava Nature Center.
Elias is interested in pursuing studies that…
UNCASVILLE, CT — Fans in a nearly packed Mohegan Sun Arena were there to see future Division I college star Abdouramane Toure of Notre Dame-West Haven.
And they didn’t leave disappointed.
With silky smooth efficiency, Toure scored 27 points and the Green Knights soundly defeated the St. Bernard Saints (Montville) 68-55 to win the CIAC Division I boys basketball championship.
With 17 scholarship offers (including the University of Connecticut), Toure seemingly toyed with the Saints.
But Notre Dame coach Jason Shea said while Toure is the star, the rest of the group is a big reason why they’re champions.
“These guys spend a lot of time together. They really love each other, ” Shea said after celebrating the title. “They’re completely unselfish. They’re really a special group.”
Going into Saturday night’s title game rematch from 2024, The Notre Dame-West Haven Green Knights were seeking their second state title in a row and their second ever.
Meanwhile, St. Bernard — led by coach Mark Jones — was looking to win the program’s fourth championship and first since 2023.
The second-seed Green Knights, coached by Jason Shea, were 21-2, including the tourney, going into Saturday, while the fifth-seed Saints were 19-3.
Both teams battled early nerves in an electric atmosphere inside a near-packed Mohegan Sun Arena, and, though the pace was frenetic, the scoring was light.
The opening quarter ended with Notre Dame up 9-7.
Notre Dame poured it on in the second quarter, however, opening up an 18-9 lead after a pair of three pointers and an old-fashioned three-point play.
With Toure leading the way, the Green Knights threatened to blow out the Saints.
But that didn’t happen as tenacious defense and clutch shooting drew St. Bernard back in the game and they eventually cut it to 22-20.
When the half ended, Notre Dame and Toure’s 13…
For expedience, the Federation of Aboriginal Nations of the Americas will be addressed as FANA, and the Sand Hill Band of Lenape and Cherokee Indians (NY, NJ, PA) will be addressed as The Sand Hill.
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Over the years, the member tribes of FANA have assisted other tribes in formulating Constitutions, writing treaties, assisting with legal matters, and addressing other Tribal needs.
The Sand Hill Tribe is a founding member of the Federation. Principal Chief Dr. Ronald Yonaguska Holloway asked me to publish the Sand Hill Constitution’s preamble and first amendment.
Therefore below is the aforementioned document
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Whereas The Sand Hill Band of Lenape and Cherokee Indians (NY, NJ, PA) are the heirs, inheritors, upholders, possessors, protectors, and sovereigns of the inalienable, inherent, natural, and sovereign rights, laws, spiritual systems, customs, traditions, lands, territories, and resources that The Great Spirit, The Almighty God, The Most High, The Creator of All Living Things- In infinite wisdom, knowledge, power, and authority- accorded to their ancestors, clans, clan mothers, great warriors, principal chiefs, and spiritual leaders who have previously walked the earth;
Whereas in infinite wisdom, knowledge, power, and authority, and intending that The Sand Hill Band of Lenape and Cherokee Indians (NY, NJ, PA) perpetually possess, protect, and uphold the inalienable, inherent, natural, and sovereign rights, laws, spiritual belief systems, customs, traditions, lands, territories, and resources it has been accorded, The Great Spirit, The Almighty God, The Most High, The Creator of All Living Things conferred into the trust of The Sand Hill Band of Lenape and Cherokee Indians (NY, NJ, PA), as an individual sovereign, the responsibilities and duties of self-governance, self-provision, and self-protection;
Whereas The Sand Hill Band of Lenape and Cherokee Indians (NY, NJ, PA) retain inherent rights to ancestral knowledge, heritage practices, Traditional ecological knowledge, Traditional environmental knowledge, intellectual property,…
Dallas won the last time they faced Greater Nanticoke Area and things went their way on Monday too. Dallas blew past Greater Nanticoke Area 19-3. The Mountaineers not only won on Monday, but they posted their biggest win since March 25, 2024.
Dallas got a massive performance out of EMMA FOSTOCK, who scored three runs and stole a base while going 2-for-2. The team also got some help courtesy of JADE SMITH, who scored two runs while going 2-for-3.
Mountaineers
| 03/24/25 @ Greater Nanticoke Area | 14 |
| 03/19/25 vs Wyoming Area | 10 |
| 05/21/24 @ Valley View | 2 |
| 05/19/24 vs Lake-Lehman | 0 |
| 05/15/24 @ Hazleton Area | 8 |
| + 7 more games |
FOSTOCK wasn’t the only one working in the hit department: Dallas kept the outfield on their toes and finished the game with 14 hits. That’s the most hits they’ve posted since back in April of 2024.
Dallas has started the season off flawlessly and has a 2-0 record to show for it. Those victories came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they’ve averaged 12.0 runs this season. As for Greater Nanticoke Area, they are on an eight-game losing streak (dating back to last season) that has dropped them down to 0-2.
Coming up, Dallas will square off against North Pocono at 4:15 p.m. on Thursday. As for Greater Nanticoke Area, they will face off against Northwest Area at 4:15 p.m. on Tuesday.
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