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Mike Drago

Mike Drago has written about sports at every level for parts of six decades, most notably at the Reading Eagle for the past 38 years. Mike has written a virtual history of Berks high school football and in 2013 was inducted into the Berks County Football Coaches Hall of Fame.

Resilient Mustangs didn’t let setbacks get in way of ultimate goal: PIAA championship

Jun 19, 2024

2024 Berks baseball coverage presented by Utilities Employees Credit Union Resiliency and perseverance. Those are the two takeaways from Gov. Mifflin’s state championship baseball season. The Mustangs had…

Berks County’s league, district and state team champs for 2023-24 season

Jun 18, 2024

The Oley Valley field hockey team and Gov. Mifflin baseball team are the lone PIAA champions from Berks this season. Eleven different Berks schools brought home District 3 team championships in the 2023-24 scholastic season but…

Berks Players of the Year list, Photo Gallery, for 2023-24 season

Jun 18, 2024

Ten different Berks schools are represented among the 14 boys Player of the Year selections for the now-completed 2023-24 scholastic season. Only Wilson, Daniel Boone and Gov. Mifflin had multi selections. The same balance…

Jim Clements tabbed Kutztown University men’s Coach of the Year

Jun 17, 2024

Jim Clements, who led Kutztown University to the best season in program football history in the fall of 2023, has been selected as the school's Dr. Dennis Roth Men's Coach of the Year for the fourth time. Clements, in his ninth…

Berks Coaches of the Year for 2023-24 season

Jun 17, 2024

Coaches of the Year selected by various Berks coaching associations. Wilson boys basketball coach Matt Coldren. (PhilMarPhoto) Boys sports FALLCross countryTodd WitkowskiExeterFootballBob WolfrumWyomissingGolfJoe…

Gov. Mifflin PIAA championship photo gallery (updated)

Jun 15, 2024

2024 Berks baseball coverage presented by Utilities Employees Credit Union Photo gallery provided by Jeffrey Shomo (To view his albums: https://www.flickr.com/photos/184370978@N07/albums/) Travis…

Add the Gov. Mifflin Mustangs to the short list of Berks’ PIAA baseball champs

Jun 15, 2024

2024 Berks baseball coverage presented by Utilities Employees Credit Union Gov. Mifflin Friday becaome the 10th PIAA champion from Berks County, and the first in eight years, when it edged Hollidaysburg 2-1 in…

Second-best not good enough for Mustangs this time

Jun 13, 2024

2024 Berks baseball coverage presented by Utilities Employees Credit Union Gov. Mifflin finished second to Wilson in Division I of the Berks League this season, losing a head-to-head regular season finale that…

Travis Jenkins has been quite the catch for title-contending Gov. Mifflin

Jun 13, 2024

2024 Berks baseball coverage presented by Utilities Employees Credit Union Travis Jenkins would be comfortable playing anywhere on a baseball diamond. He was Gov. Mifflin’s starting right fielder as a…

‘Overlooked’ Hollidaysburg will provide stiff challenge for Mifflin in PIAA final

Jun 12, 2024

2024 Berks baseball coverage presented by Utilities Employees Credit Union Before he even knew who Gov. Mifflin’s opponent would be in Friday’s PIAA Class 5A championship game, Mustangs baseball coach Chris Hole…

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