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2024 Berks football coverage presented by UECU The Berks Catholic Saints lost the first two games they played in their debut season, 2011. They didn't lose many over the next decade. The Saints made arguably…

2024 Berks football coverage presented by Utilities Employees Credit Union Eric Steeves knew he was headed down the wrong path as a teen-ager. He didn’t make an effort in school. He had no direction in life. He…

2024 Berks football coverage presented by UECU Al Silveri could be as demanding of his players as any coach ever was on a football field, but the same kids he chided and harangued for missing assignments or not…

2024 Berks baseball coverage presented by Utilities Employees Credit Union Gov. Mifflin capped the greatest season in program history by landing three players on the Pennsylvania Baseball Coaches Association…

National Player of the Year honors and a Division III World Series championship were just what Connor Maryniak needed to boost his baseball career. The Gov. Mifflin graduate has announced he is transferring to the University of…

2024 Berks football coverage presented by Utilities Employees Credit Union Even on a blistering hot summer day, the bright sun beating down on his Muhlenberg players as they compete in 7-on-7 drills, Rob Flowers…

Evan Blickley always figured he would someday coach football. He played tight end on Wyomissing’s District 3 Class 3A championship team, looked up to his Spartans coaches and to his dad Chris, an assistant coach with the Spartans. …

2024 Berks baseball coverage presented by Utilities Employees Credit Union One more honor for Gov. Mifflin grad Connor Maryniak, and it's a big one: The Misericordia University junior has been named the American…

Even by Wilson’s lofty standards this was a pretty productive year in West Lawn. The Bulldogs' boys team won county titles in seven boys sports and captured another District 3 championship in lacrosse. That was more than enough…

After a sophomore year at Misericordia University that didn’t grade out as well as he hoped, Connor Maryniak attended summer school. Now the Gov. Mifflin grad is at the top of his class again. He earned MAC Freedom Player of…

Wyomissing likely has never had a group of prominent, multi-talented female athletes like this before. Annie McCaffrey, Audrey Hurleman, Kacey Maggs, Alexis Hardy, Sophia Zeppos, Karly Hyde and others helped the Spartans win five…

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…

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…

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

2024 Berks baseball coverage presented by Utilities Employees Credit Union By Mick Reinhard -- MikeDragoSports.com correspondent STATE COLLEGE -- Ethan Grim and his Gov. Mifflin teammates had been here before.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…