Published April 13, 1978

LIVINGSTON MANOR - Thursday Al Larson was carrying around the Eldred baseball roster in his shirt pocket. April 17, Larson, Livingston Manor baseball coach, is hoping his Wildcats will have Eldred in their hip pocket after the two teams meet in the 1978 Western ... read more

Sullivan West 50
Fallsburg 22

FALLSBURG -- It was inevitable that football teams would be hurt by the pandemic-related postponement of the fall season. With schools often on remote sessions and the long winter before the Fall 2 season finally got underway, conditioning and limited ... read more

LIBERTY -- In case you haven't heard, the Liberty Varsity Boys Soccer team is a force to be reckoned with. The talented bunch, which includes 12 seniors, many of whom have been playing together since their underclassman years, have jumped out to a 5-0 start. Even more impressive is the fact they ... read more

Monticello and Liberty had rough outings against James I. O'Neill and Chester respectively on Saturday afternoon. The Panthers were defeated 35-6, and Liberty lost 42-7. Monticello's TD was scored by Julian Velasco (pictured) off a pass from Xavean Mitchell while Liberty's came on a big breakaway ... read more

LIBERTY -- The Indians continued the dominant start to their season with a 7-0 victory over Chester on Wednesday. Goals were scored by Liam Henry (3), Owen Siegel, Chase Racette, Dennis Cardenas and Raul Morales.
Assists were tallied by Norlis Acosta (3), Racette (2), Lewis Paz, Siegel and ... read more

MONTICELLO - When Monticello's Kaitlyn Miller started trapshooting with the high school's club team four years ago, only four high schools in the state had teams. That number has since grown to 100 schools and the competition has increased exponentially as well.
This fall, Miller finished third ... read more

SULLIVAN COUNTY -- When it comes to the current standings of the Section 9 Eight-Man Football League division that Sullivan County teams call home, like the popular saying in the card game Crazy Eights goes, “All eights are wild.”
Anything can happen as Roscoe/Manor, Sullivan West and ... read more

ELDRED -- Striking first doesn't always mean you will laugh last. Just ask the Eldred Yellowjackets who in a valiant effort, fell to the visiting Sullivan West Bulldogs, 2-1, in their season opener on Wednesday afternoon.
The home team only has 10 players, which means they'll have to play down ... read more

Roscoe/Livingston Manor 40
Fallsburg 0

ROSCOE- “A life that touches others goes on forever.”
So even though it was the first time in the past 51 years that Fred Ahart was not standing on the sidelines of Roscoe's football field, offering the encouragement and love that he showed right ... read more

Sullivan West 36
Eldred 6

ELDRED- “Thunderbolts and lightning very, very frightening me.”
No it wasn't a Queen performance of Bohemian Rhapsody but Sullivan West's barnstorming descendance on Eldred that resulted in a 36-6 win over Eldred in its belated season opener.
The wind was ... read more

Published April 6, 1978

Take one twelve-year-old little girl and a brand new puppy and you usually end up with one puppy that Mom has to take care of. But that's not the case at the Earl Myers household.
Shari Myers, Earl and Marian's oldest daughter, not only trained her pup herself but ... read more

GRAHAMSVILLE -- The Tri-Valley Varsity Cross Country teams continue to impress. They hosted O'Neill earlier this week, in a meet that saw the boys win 23-32. There were no team scores tallied in the girls meet.
Tri-Valley results are as follows ...

Boys --1. Adam Furman (T-V) 16:43; 2. ... read more

Sportsman Outdoors

The New York DEC has imposed a fishing regulation making it legal to fish for trout 365 consecutive days in a year. The previous fish regulation protected trout from being caught, disturbed and interfered with during their spawning ritual period. The trout fishing season will have the same ...read more

Further Review

Please don't think I'm pulling a sudden escape like the Baltimore Colts did 35 years ago when they fled to Indianapolis in the middle of the night. But this will be my last Further Review column. After 10 years, more than 500 columns and 350,000 words, I'm turning out the lights. I always said to ...read more

Golfing Highlights

Bryson DeChambeau is now the U.S. Open Champion.
He has riveted spectators with his unique golf swing and style. He has introduced the golf world to the Single Plane address position that was promoted by the great Moe Norman and now the Graves Golf Academy.
Interesting, all those skeptics of ...read more

Streamside

We've just completed the first full week in April, and it seems as though each spring day brought a new gift - the cheerful greetings of songbirds each morning; the first buds of the red maple, forsythia, apples, and lilacs; the sturdy daffodils pushing out their bright yellow blossoms; the ‘spring ...read more

Bowling Highlights

Pete Weber and Walter Ray Williams Jr., two of the greatest players in PBA Tour history, announced their respective retirements recently, following PBA Scorpion Championship best-of-five match play from the World Series of Bowling XII at AMF University Lanes, held in Tampa, Florida.
Weber, a ...read more

Raceway Wrap

WHITE LAKE -- It was ‘Music Night', sponsored by Frank Stevens Roofing, at Bethel Speedway last Saturday. The night was highlighted by the ‘Detroit Iron 35' which was a special race for the fan popular street stock division. Track Championship races also continued to gain attention as there are ...read more

Friday, February 28

High School

Indoor Track

Eldred, Fallsburg, Liberty, Monti, Sull West, Tri-Valley @ OCIAA West Point, 6 pm