Weatherly Area Baseball Wreckers top Golden Bears behind James’ arm, bat

Winning pitcher Jack James struck out 11 batters in 6-plus innings, and also drove in two of Weatherly Area’s three runs in last week’s 3-1 Schuylkill League Division III baseball victory over Mahanoy Area, in Mahanoy City.

The Wreckers (2-6, 1-3) won despite having just two hits. Ismail Zuberi hit a sacrifice fly that scored James in the first-inning, and James had a two-run single in the second. Ian McLaurin added a single for

Weatherly.

Mike Oblas drove in the Golden Bears’ only run in the fifth inning.

Shenandoah Valley 16, Weatherly Area 0 - The Wreckers ran into a buzzsaw last week, as Shenandoah Valley pitchers allowed no hits for the third straight game as the Blue Devils blanked Weatherly Area for the SIAL Division III win.

Brayden Maksimik pitched the first four innings, striking out nine and walking one to get the win. Chase McCole then struck out the side in the fifth before the 10-run rule ended the game early. The Blue Devils (5-2, 2-0) had no-hit Mahanoy Area and Minersville in their previous two games. Nine Blue Devils contributed at least one base hit to the 12-hit offensive attack. McCole also delivered the game’s biggest hit, a three-run homer to highlight a 10-run second inning. Kaleb Maksimik added a double, single and two RBI; Brayden Maksimik

Weatherly Area Track & Field

and Brayden Lutz both singled twice and Jake Matta doubled.

In their previous two games, the Devils no-hit Mahanoy Area and Minersville.

Nativity gets track & field win over Wreckers

Nativity swept its Schuylkill League Division II track and field meet with Weatherly Area last week, winning the boys’ meet 10531, and the girls’ meet 78-18.

Boys

Nativity 105, Weatherly Area 31Noah Dolbin won three events, including both hurdles and the long jump, and also ran for the winning 1600 relay team as Nativity got the win. The meet was held at Jim Thorpe High

School.

For the Wreckers, Ian McLaurin captured the 100meter dash in 11.77 seconds and was second in the 200 meters. Teammate Owen Broskoskie won the javelin (120-0), was second in the high jump and third in the long jump.

100 — 1. McLaurin (W) 11.77, 2. Kadiela (N),

3. Spolski (N); 200 — 1. Kadziela (N) 23.58, 2. McLaurin (W), 3. Mills (N); 400 — 1. Gorski (N)

54.50, 2. Mills (N), 3. Steffan (N); 800 — 1. J. Messina (N) 2:08.74, 2. Stank (N), 3. Otero (W);

1,600 — 1. Rossi (N) 4:56.73, 2. Wagner (N),

3. Burke (N); 3,200 — 1. Rossi (N) 11:05.32, 2.

Parker (W), 3. Berger (W); 110 HH — 1. Dolbin (N) 15.57; 300 IH — 1. Dolbin (N) 41.62, 2. Williams (W); 400 relay — 1. Nativity (Mason, Spolski, Gorski, Sanchez) 48.97; 1,600 relay

— 1. Nativity (Kaziela, Gorski, Stank, Dolbin) 3:40.46; 3,200 relay — 1. Nativity (Wagner, Stank, Rossi, J. Messina) 9:01.42; High jump

— 1. Steffan (N) 5-06, 2. Broskoskie (W), 3. L. Messina (N); Long jump — 1. Dolbin (N) 19-07, 2. L. Messina (N), 3. Broskoskie (W); Triple jump — 1. Mills (N) 34-10.25, 2. Wagner (N), 3. L. Messina (N); Shot put — 1. Ziolkowski (N) 40-06.5, 2. Shimko (N), 3. Kimmel (N); Discus — 1. Ziolkowski (N) 90-06, 2. Eubanks (W), 3. Shimko (N); Javelin — 1. Broskoskie (W) 120-0, 2. Rugh (N), 3. Becker (N); Pole vault — No event

Girls

Nativity 78, Weatherly Area 18Melissa Malarkey and Sara Spolski each won three events as Nativity cruised past the short-handed Lady Wreckers.

Freshman Kelly Reiner won the discus (72-7) and javelin (87-10) and was third in the shot put to pace Weatherly Area. Kendall Gerhart was second in the 200 and long jump.

100 — 1. Spolski (N) 13.52, 2. Howell (N), 3. Zimerofsky (N); 200 — 1. Spolski (N), 2. Gerhart (W), 3. Howell (N); 400 — 1. Malarkey (N) 1:07.59, 2. Daynorowicz (N), 3. Yurichek (N); 800 — 1. Sherman (N), 2. Malarkey (N), 3. Daynorowicz (N); 1,600 — 1. Rymarkiewicz (N)

6:25.47, 2. Rushannon (N); 3,200 — No event; 100 HH — 1. Miller (N) 21.19; 300 IH — 1. Miller (N) 1:01.4; 400 relay — 1. Nativity (Miller, Zimerofsky, Howell, Spolski) 56.28; 1,600 relay — No event; 3,200 relay — 1. No event; High jump — 1. Daynorowicz (N) 4-02; Long jump —

1. Malarkey (N) 15-0, 2. Gerhart (W), 3. Miller (N); Triple jump — 1. Malarkey (N) 31-05.5, 2. Spolski (N); Shot put — 1. Kramer (N) 30-10,

2. Zimerofsky (N), 3. Reiner (W); Discus — 1. Reiner (W) 72-7, 2. Kramer (N), 3. Navarro (N); Javelin — 1. Reiner (W) 87-10, 2. Zimerofsky (N), 3. Kramer (N); Pole vault — No event