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Rick Perez’s ‘secret sauce’ key ingredient to Red Knights’ success, says Stu Jackson

Mike Drago Mar 30, 2023

Ruben Rodriguez, Myles Grey and their Reading High teammates are far too young to know the name Darryl Washington or of the unrelenting pain he inflicted upon a generation of Red Knights basketball fans. When Amier Burdine fouled Roman Catholic’s best player, Xzayvier Brown, with 1.7 seconds left in the PIAA Class 6A championship game last…

23 numbers to remember from historic 2023 Berks boys basketball season

Mar 29, 2023

14 strikeouts in 5 innings? That’s ‘ridiculous’, Deven Sheerin

Mar 29, 2023

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Painful learning lessons paying off for Eagles, as they once did for…

Mar 24, 2023

Reading’s golden boy, Ruben Rodriguez, has a basketball resume…

Mar 6, 2023

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Diamond Credit Union Berks baseball scoreboard for Thursday

Mar 30, 2023

Thursday, March 30 ParklandatWilson4:15WhitehallatDaniel Boone4:15FleetwoodatSchuylkill Valley4:00CocalicoatTwin Valley4:15Pequea ValleyatOley Valley4:00 Wednesday, March 29 Gov. Mifflin11Pottsville1Bryce Detwiler, Ty…

Diamond Credit Union Berks baseball scoreboard for Wednesday (complete)

Mar 29, 2023

Wednesday, March 29 Gov. Mifflin11Pottsville1Bryce Detwiler, Ty Minick HRs for Mustangs (3-1) Matt Koehler 2 hits, 3 RBIs.Wilson5Owen J. Roberts2Ryan Sekulski 2 hits, 2 RBIs, Trevor Bilodeau 2 RBIs for Bulldogs (2-0); Nick…

Conrad Weiser boys basketball coach Rich Miller out after two seasons

Mar 29, 2023

With two of the Berks Conference’s top scorers returning, each for their junior season, Rich Miller was looking forward to coaching Conrad Weiser’s boys basketball team again next year. He won’t get that chance after being forced…

An early swing at projecting top teams in Berks Girls League for ’23-24 season

Mar 29, 2023

The Berks Girls League basketball season wrapped up when Wyomissing fell to North Catholic in the PIAA Class 4A quarterfinals. Let’s take a way-too-early swing at the Top 10 teams heading into next season. Hey, it’s only eight…

Oley Valley collects 13 hits in win at Kutztown

Mar 29, 2023

Oley Valley baseball coach Jeff Pinder wasn’t sure before the season if he’d have enough bats this season to make another run at the postseason. He may have to reassess that after seeing the Lynx crank out 13 hits in a 14-7…

Muhls’ late rally comes up short in season-opener against Barons

Mar 28, 2023

Muhlenberg fell behind by five runs, didn’t get its first hit until the seventh inning and still had a chance to beat defending District 3 Class 5A champ Manheim Central in the season opener for both Tuesday at Gochenauer Field. …

New Hamburg basketball coach knows he has building job ahead of him

Mar 28, 2023

Will Wilson admits it was never a goal to be a high school head coach. The 39-year-old Reading High grad sees basketball as a way to develop and positively influence young people and that’s what he’ll try to do as Hamburg’s…

2,000 points in high school? Seems almost impossible, doesn’t it?

Mar 28, 2023

By Sean McBryan -- MikeDragoSports.com correspondent Reading High’s Ruben Rodriguez reached the 2,000-point threshold last week, prompting a response from a fellow 2K scorer and Red Knight, Rashida Suber. …

Is this the greatest Reading basketball team of all-time? Might be

Mar 27, 2023

Before his Reading High teammates contested their first shot or hit the floor for the first time to scrap for a loose ball Ruben Rodriguez threw down the gauntlet. “Are you ready to coach the greatest basketball team ever?” he…