Huntsville Golf Club in Shavertown has been selected to serve as one of 111 worldwide sites for the first step in qualifying for this year's U.S. Open Golf Tournament at Pinehurst No. 2 in North Carolina.

Ryan Monk was a spectator at the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association Wrestling Championships as a Dallas freshman and sophomore.

Tunkhannock ended a four-year Dallas run as District 2 Class AA boys swimming champion, but the Mountaineers went down fighting.

Wrestlers from the Back Mountain Wrestling Club competed in two local tournaments on Feb. 1. The first was the Penn League Tournament at Lake-Lehman High School and the other was the Muncy Elementary Wrestling 15th Annual...

Wyoming Seminary Upper School recently named the athletes who received Most Valuable Player, Coaches Awards and Gold Awards for the fall season. Athletes who earned four varsity letters or three varsity and one junior varsity letters in...

Dallas girls basketball coach Kelly Johnson never embraced the term “rebuilding year.”

Lake-Lehman junior Matt Edkins appears to be peaking at just the right time.

Austin Harry, Brady Butler and Derek Dragon – and the Lake-Lehman team as a whole – returned to the top of District 2 Class AA wrestling with their performances Feb. 21 and 22 at the Kingston Armory.

Erik Cannon a senior Biology major, has been named to the the Student-Athlete Academic Honor Roll at Lafayette

The Newberry Ladies Golf League, at their annual Holiday Party held in December, collected $320 for the Back Mountain Food Pantry. From left, are Nancy Silvi, vice president of the golf league; Carol Eyet, coordinator of the food...

Anderson Leo recently earned his First Degree Black Belt in Taekwondo. A student of the Hapkido Taekwondo Institute in Kingston, Leo studies under the instruction of Master Vincent Sperduto. The son of Mark and Joyce Leo, of Dallas,...

BMLL REGISTRATION

Two boys and three girls from the Back Mountain area were named local winners of the 2014 Father O'Leary Knights of Columbus #8224 Free Throw Championship. They have earned the right to compete at the K of C District 14...

Mark Michno, of Shavertown, a senior football player at Dallas High School, will continue his academic and athletic career at Kutztown University (The Golden Bears), in the fall of 2014.

The fourth grade Dallas Youth Basketball team went undefeated to win the Newport Basketball tournament on Feb. 15 and 16. The BMT boys defeated the fourth-grade Newport team in the championship game. From left, kneeling, are Jake...

The Dallas High School ninth-grade boys basketball team defeated Wyoming Valley West, 59-28, to finish its season. Here, Ethan Szczecinski goes up for two of his team's points.

Lake-Lehman junior Cayle Spencer was named co-Division 2 Player of the Year, highlighting the Back Mountain selections on the Wyoming Valley Conference girls basketball all-star teams, as selected by the conference...

Lake-Lehman never let West Scranton get started Wednesday night.

The Wyoming Valley Conference, in general, and the Back Mountain, in particular, were their usual hotbed of field hockey activity in the first week of February when NCAA Letters of Intent were signed.

WILD TURKEY GROUPSLATES EVENT

The Dallas Mountaineer Aquatic Club ended a perfect season by defeating the Scranton Sea Knights in the 2013-14 Northeast PA Age Group Swim League on Saturday, Feb. 8. The following swimmers placed in their...

The District 2 basketball tournaments will get underway this week.

Austin Harry and Kaylee Hillard have known for years that they wanted to continue their favorite sports into college.

Ambitious and talented youth softball players who wanted a bit more than their Little League competition picked up another option when the Dallas-based Edge 14-and-under softball team was created last year.

Senior members of the Dallas High School girls basketball team and their parents were honored prior to their last home game against Berwick on Feb. 10 at the Dallas High School gymnsium. Senior members of the team are Katy Comtiz,...

Lake-Lehman senior Brady Butler posted the 100th win of his high school wrestling career Feb. 8 with a pin of Michael Grasley in 2:40 at 182 pounds during a 42-36 loss to Berwick.