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October 2024
Around District 11 With Pam and Guy: Parity a Pipe Dream in D11
October 3, 2024 | Guy Smith
2024 Episode 21. We can’t speak for the rest of the state, but in District 11, it seems the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, so to speak. Week in and week out, there seem to be far more blowouts than close, exciting games. Take last weekend for instance. There were 24 games […]
Around District 11 With Pam & Guy: 124 Points in Minersville
September 25, 2024 | Guy Smith
2024 Episode 20. Another three-game week for us, beginning with the crazy game in Minersville on Thursday night. On Friday, we visited the last of the six schools from outside of District 11 that were grouped with the district teams in subregions at some point from 2021-2023. The last to visit was the 6A Williamsport […]
Around District 11 With Pam and Guy: LED & ESN Both Much Improved
September 18, 2024 | Guy Smith
2024 Episode 19. This week’s sporting events were the Shellhammer Dirt Track races Wednesday, East Stroudsburg North Timberwolves on Thursday and Shenandoah Blue Devils high school football on Friday, NCAA men’s and women’s cross country at Misericordia University on Saturday morning, NCAA field hockey at Wilkes University on Saturday afternoon, New Egypt Speedway racing on […]
Around District 11 With Pam and Guy: Thinking Outside the District
September 11, 2024 | Guy Smith
2024 Episode 18. As we reached the third week of the high school football season, football was our most attended sport last week. We kicked it off with Reading Fightin’ Phils minor league baseball Wednesday, Marian Catholic football Thursday, Executive Education football on the road Friday, NCAA women’s soccer in the Saturday afternoon rain, racing […]
Around District 11 With Pam and Guy: Thursday Night Football Begins
September 3, 2024 | Guy Smith
2024 Episode 17. After three fall seasons of football being the top priority at almost every opportunity, this year we are “rebalancing our portfolio” and diversifying a bit more this season. For the Labor Day weekend, we scheduled a split with three football games and four races. We lost one of each due to non-weather-related […]
Around District 11 With Pam and Guy: Strong Start by D11 Schools
August 28, 2024 | Guy Smith
2024 Episode 16. High school football is back! Way better than Christmas! The teams from D11 had a good week, with the majority of schools playing teams from outside the district. And D11 had a good showing. Of the 27 (of 47) schools that played outside teams, the D11 schools won twice as many as […]
On the GEFA Trail—Keystone Bowl XX
July 16, 2024 | Guy Smith
2024 Episode 13. After an almost month-long break for us (we skipped the two weekends of playoffs), we were back on the GEFA trail for the Keystone Bowl. It’s not like we sat home for a month, as from the final regular season game on June 15 to the championship game on July 13, we […]
On the GEFA Trail—Indiana County Crusaders
June 18, 2024 | Guy Smith
2024 Episode 12. It was the final week of the regular season, and we had been to see eight of the 11 GEFA teams play at home, plus the neutral field “Kickoff Classic” triple header. The Monroeville Titans folded early, and the Somerset County Miners home season had ended. Also, the Bedford County Buffaloes had […]
On the GEFA Trail—Moshannon Valley Vikings
June 10, 2024 | Guy Smith
2024 Episode 11. After ten straight weeks of spring Saturday football, we took a Saturday off for Philadelphia vs. Brandywine Civil War Rules Base Ball at Burnside Plantation in Bethlehem, followed by races that evening at Wall Stadium Speedway in New Jersey. This past Saturday we were back on the GEFA Trail. Our sports week […]
On the PSFCA Trail—East/West All Star Games
May 21, 2024 | Guy Smith
2024 Episode 9. It was indeed another busy sports week for us, but we did manage to include spring football for the ninth week in a row. We started with a Wednesday race rainout at the Kutztown Fairgrounds Action Track USA. But a Thursday NCAA National Tournament double got things back on the right track, […]
On the GEFA Trail: Berks County Raptors
April 21, 2024 | Guy Smith
Five straight Saturdays of spring football. Life is good. After a week break for Harrisburg Stampede AIF indoor football at the Farm Show, we were back on the GEFA trail. So far this season we had seen GEFA games at Central Columbia High School in Bloomsburg (Kickoff Classic), Claysburg-Kimmel High School in Claysburg (Bedford County […]
On the Arena Indoor Trail: Harrisburg Stampede
April 16, 2024 | Guy Smith
(2024.04). Our fourth straight Saturday of spring football, but this time it wasn’t the GEFA, as we headed indoors for our first Harrisburg Stampede game. It was a busy Saturday for us. We started with a gym workout. Then we headed to DeSales University for men’s and women’s outdoor track and field, a tri-meet against […]
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: 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: 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: 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 […]
Washington Stays Undefeated in Win Over Waynesburg-Central
September 29, 2023 | Brett Gombita
On Friday night, the Washington Prexies beat the Waynesburg-Central Raiders by a score of 48-14. Prexies Junior running back Eddie Lewis had a field day against the Raiders defense, running for four touchdowns. Early on, it looked like Waynesburg could go toe to toe with the Prexies, as senior linebacker Colby Pauley intercepted a pass […]
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 […]
