April 2024
On the GEFA Trail: Dauphin County Comanche
April 9, 2024 | Guy Smith
Our GEFA choice this week was whittled down to either the Dauphin County Comanche, where we could see afternoon football and evening racing, or head west and knock off another of the farther away teams, the Indiana County Crusaders. In the end, the double won and we headed to the Comanche. GEFA has made many […]
On the GEFA Trail: Bedford County Buffaloes
March 31, 2024 | Guy Smith
This season, we decided to go to GEFA 8-man semi-pro football games as many Saturdays as our schedule allows. Two for two. Last week we were at Central Columbia High School for the “Kickoff Classic.” For what GEFA calls “Week 1” of the season we had four game choices. Guy writes a weekly auto racing […]
GEFA ROB MARRERO MEMORIAL KICKOFF CLASSIC
March 26, 2024 | Guy Smith
So far in 2024 we had been to see auto racing, basketball, track & field, wrestling, ice hockey, softball, rugby, lacrosse, and baseball all at the college level or higher. But until Saturday, March 23, nary a single football game. Now we’ve seen three. For over 50 consecutive years, Guy has been to more auto […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Military Bowl
January 3, 2024 | Guy Smith
We always enjoy feedback from readers at RTRYFBAR@aol.com. Back for our 26th, and final blog of the season, as we have averaged one “PA Football News” blog per every other week for 2023. Between Christmas and New Year’s, we went to the Military Bowl in Annapolis, MD. This was our third time at this particular […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: 2023 Annual Review
December 28, 2023 | Guy Smith
2023.25. Guy and Pam wish everyone a peaceful holiday season and Happy New Year! We always enjoy feedback from readers at RTRYFBAR@aol.com. It was another great year for Pam and Guy following local football. We both saw 60 or more games this season, with one more still to follow. Although all games we went to […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: 2023 All-Snack Bar Team
December 19, 2023 | Guy Smith
We always enjoy feedback from readers at RTRYFBAR@aol.com. Back by popular demand is our District 11 First Team All Snack Bar for 2023. This column was so very well received in 2021. Since we visited fewer D11 stadiums in 2022, we did a much-truncated version last year, and we were good-naturedly skewered by those looking […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Stairway to Seven
December 12, 2023 | Guy Smith
We always enjoy feedback from readers at RTRYFBAR@aol.com. This past weekend we headed to Cumberland Valley for the six PIAA state championship football games. There was some discussion about whether or not we were going to all six games as usual, or cut back a bit. We are now both in our 60s, and back-to-back-to-back […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Tigers and Golden Bears Get 2nd December Game First Time in Program Histories
December 5, 2023 | Guy Smith
We always enjoy feedback from readers at RTRYFBAR@aol.com. Appreciate the comments on last week’s blog. What a great weekend of football! We saw two of what were certainly among our top five games this season on consecutive December days. And both of our teams came out victorious. The weekend started a day early as we […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Northwestern Lehigh Tigers Last Team Standing
November 29, 2023 | Guy Smith
2023.21. We always enjoy feedback from readers at RTRYFBAR@aol.com. As we head into the second to last week of the 2023 high school football season in Pennsylvania, 46 of the 47 teams in District 11 have put away their shoulder pads for this season. The 3A Northwestern Lehigh Tigers are the last of our teams […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Black Friday for D11 Teams
November 21, 2023 | Guy Smith
“Black Friday” came a week early for District 11 football teams as all four teams that advanced to play schools from other districts last Friday lost and thus were eliminated from the playoffs. The only teams from D11 still playing for state gold are 3A Northwestern Lehigh and 6A Nazareth, both of whom defeated in-district […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Golden Hawks the 4A Champs
November 13, 2023 | Guy Smith
The 12th week of the football season brought four championship games to District 11. Congratulations to our Champions: 1A—Minersville Battlin’ Miners 2A—Williams Valley Vikings 4A—Bethlehem Catholic Golden Hawks 5A—Whitehall Zephyrs STILL GOING. Another apology in order this week. In listing the schools still playing this season last week, Guy somehow forgot Easton. Of course, they […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Great Comeback by the PV Bears
November 8, 2023 | Guy Smith
The start of the playoffs is bittersweet. The big games are coming up, where the top teams face off head-to-head on the road to the state finals (almost said the road to Hershey). But it also means the regular season is over. Teams are putting away the pads until next year, there will be fewer […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Northwestern Lehigh Runs the Table
November 2, 2023 | Guy Smith
After seeing four or five games most weeks, we only went to a pair during the final week of the regular season. With no D11 game on Thursday, we supported our local high school girls’ volleyball team for the third and final time this season as the Pleasant Valley Bears were eliminated by Nazareth. The […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Whitehall is in D11 Playoffs
October 25, 2023 | Guy Smith
This week we were at four football games out of seven total sporting events. We started Tuesday at the EPC girls’ volleyball semi-finals at Northampton. Thursday was Guy only at Liberty vs. Whitehall as Pam missed her first football game of the year. Friday we were in the rain for a Scranton Prep rout of […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Tamaqua Climbs to .500
October 18, 2023 | Guy Smith
As happens nearly every week, our planned schedule was weather altered somewhat. Once again, the change was in football’s favor, as our planned four games this week turned to five. On Tuesday we headed west to Central Columbia High School to see their defending state champion girls’ soccer team in action. An easy win for […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: 2-4 Pates Shutout 5-1 Hawks
October 10, 2023 | Guy Smith
As usual, the plan for the coming week when we wrote last week’s blog changed with the weather forecast. This time football was the benefactor and we went from only a pair of planned games to double that. The only day that changed was Saturday. On Tuesday it was Del Val vs. DeSales in NCAA […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Huskies Get a “W”
October 3, 2023 | Guy Smith
Our original plan for the week was nine sporting events with five being football. The plan is always fluid, and it ended up as ten sporting events but with four being football. Tuesday went as planned. We stayed local for Pleasant Valley girls’ volleyball. Two friends have kids on the team. They happened to be […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: 40 Miles is a World Away
September 26, 2023 | Guy Smith
This week Pam & Guy attended three football games out of nine events. The week began Wednesday with the “Wingless Wednesday” Micro Sprint races at Shellhammers Dirt Track in Leesport. Thursday we were at Panther Valley for their varsity game against Minersville. It was Guy’s Pick this Friday, and he went outside the (D11) box […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Good Things Come in Threes
September 20, 2023 | Guy Smith
2023.11. This week Pam and Guy again made it to five more games. Our sporting week started on Wednesday with a DeSales University women’s volleyball win over Moravian. On Thursday we were planning on going to see the New Hope Solebury Lions play but that game was cancelled, so we headed to North Schuylkill High […]
Around District 11: The Travels of Guy & Pam – Playoff Time for GEFA
June 21, 2023 | Guy Smith
2023.07. Last Saturday Pam and Guy headed to their 9th and final football game of the first half of 2023. We ended up at Manor Middle School in Lancaster for the Lancaster County Cyclones GEFA semi final game against the Dauphin County Comanche. That’s not the game we anticipated seeing when we left home that […]
Around District 11: The Travels of Guy & Pam Checkin’ Out the Eight-Man GEFA Game – Spartans v Warriors
April 11, 2023 | Guy Smith
Around District 11: The Travels of Guy & Pam Checkin’ Out the Eight-Man Game After his first GEFA 8-Man semi-pro football game, PA Football News legend Billy Splain said: “Go see one for yourself.” OK, boss. Will do. Our spring Saturdays are always booked up pretty solid with both afternoon and evening sporting events, but […]
Around District 11: The Travels of Guy & Pam: Who’s On First?
January 11, 2023 | Guy Smith
Around District 11: The Travels of Guy & Pam Who’s On First? 2023.01 Guy and Pam are full of quirky sports attending goals. It’s all for fun. For football, in 2022 we finished our two-year goal of seeing all 47 District 11 high schools play a home game. We are now in the midst of adding all the District 11 […]
Around District 11: The Travels of Guy & Pam Week Sixteen: Epiblog
January 4, 2023 | Guy Smith
Around District 11: The Travels of Guy & Pam Week Sixteen: Epiblog 2022.19. We had hoped to get in one more football game before the end of the season, but it didn’t work out and the six state championship games at Cumberland Valley turned out to be the last football games of the year for […]
Around District 11: The Travels of Guy & Pam Week Thirteen: D11 Teams in Final 8 in all 6 Classes
November 22, 2022 | Guy Smith
Around District 11: The Travels of Guy & Pam Week Thirteen: D11 Teams in Final 8 in all 6 Classes 2022.15. Pam headed to New Orleans to present at a conference and pick up another award for her contributions to her profession. She left Tuesday morning and returned home late Saturday. Guy stayed home […]
Around District 11: The Travels of Guy & Pam Week Twelve: The Championship Triple
November 15, 2022 | Guy Smith
Around District 11: The Travels of Guy & Pam Week Twelve: The Championship Triple 2022.14. The original plan was Phillipsburg (NJ) on Friday and the NCCA D2 PSAC state championship game on Saturday. Then we changed the plan to three D11 championship games on Friday and Saturday. But as happened a number of […]
