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  • Injuries can't slow Lewisburg star

    He didn’t know it at the time, but Brandon Smith came to realize that a back injury last year that threatened to end his outstanding high school football career was actually an opportunity.
    And it had nothing to do with football.

    October 12, 2012

  • Lewisburg Area High School Band features 135 members

    LEWISBURG - Justin Hill, the Lewisburg High School’s Band Director has been the band director for 12 years.

    October 8, 2012

  • CSS9CC.jpg HS Football Notebook: Running QB helps Mount Carmel end slide

    Mount Carmel ended its three-game losing streak on Friday, tossing its hat right back into the District 4 Class AA playoff race with a 20-point win over previously unbeaten Central Columbia.

    October 7, 2012 1 Photo

  • Lewisburg rallies past Montoursville in HAC-II

    Lewisburg knew that Montoursville was playing with tight ends on the offensive line. It was what was discussed in the locker room at halftime and Green Dragons coach Jeremy Winn knew that in order to get to the quarterback, they would have to blitz from outside of the tight end.
    So with the game clock just inside of the two-minute mark in the fourth quarter and Montoursville on its own 29, Brandon Smith and the Lewisburg defense knew that they needed to get to Warriors quarterback Griffin Dunne.

    October 6, 2012

  • Lewisburg 27, Montoursville 22

    Statistics from Friday's game

    October 5, 2012

  • Smith, defense leads Lewisburg past Shamokin

    Mark Twain once said there were three kinds of lies — lies, damned lies and statistics.
    Well the statistics didn’t lie in the first half of Lewisburg’s homecoming game on Friday night against Shamokin.

    October 1, 2012

  • Lewisburg pulls away from Shamokin

    Lewisburg overcame a slow start, scoring touchdowns on all three of its offensive possessions and averaged nearly 10 yards per carry in the second half as it picked up a 35-14 Heartland Athletic Conference crossover victory at Christy Mathewson-Memorial Stadium over Shamokin on Friday night.

    September 29, 2012

  • Lewisburg 35, Shamokin 14

    Statistics from Friday's game

    September 28, 2012

  • Morris loves his role in Lewisburg

    Chuck Morris and his spotters work at Bucknell's Christy Mathewson-Memorial Stadium, where Morris has been the announcer for Lewisburg's high school football team for 20 years after a friend volunteered him. He has called Lewisburg games ever since, missing just one over his career.

    September 26, 2012

  • Smith leads Lewisburg past Tilford, Shikellamy

    Brandon Smith had 144 yards on 19 carries with a touchdown and caught another seven passes for 79 yards and another score as Lewisburg downed Shikellamy, 24-14, on Friday night, spoiling former Lewisburg coach Todd Tilford's first game against his old team.

    September 22, 2012