Junior Varsity

Eastside YMCA to host Punt, Pass and Kick competition

John Dudley — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 02:03:01 +0000

The Eastside YMCA will again host the NFL Punt, Pass and Kick competition, and this year the Y will also host the sectional event at Veterans Stadium. See the full release below.

The Eastside Family YMCA will again be a local host of the annual NFL Punt, Pass & Kick competition. NFL PP&K is FREE TO THE PUBLIC (you do not have to be a Y member or participant) and is a great chance for local youth to show off their skills. The competition is for youth ages 6 – 12 (boys & girls separate) and will be held Saturday, September 10 with registration at 8:30 AM. You may pre-register online at www.ymcaerie.org/eastside/leagues. Each participant must provide a birth certificate and must WEAR SNEAKERS. Winners from each division will advance to the Sectional Event at Erie’s Veterans Stadium to compete for a spot in the Team Championship at a Pittsburgh Steelers game. For more information contact Corey Wolff at 899-9622 ext. 250 or cwolff@ymcaerie.org.

Fort LeBoeuf offers boys youth basketball clinics

John Dudley — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 02:00:07 +0000

The Fort LeBoeuf boys basketball program is offering clinics to all boys in grades 2-8 on Mondays in October. There will be two sessions with grades 2-3-4 from 6 p.m.-7 p.m. and grades 5-6-7-8 from 7:15 p.m.-8:30 p.m. The program will focus on developing of the proper skills and fundamentals needed to compete and make the team. All sessions will be held at Fort LeBoeuf High School gymnasium. Please call Bison Head Coach Kevin O’Connor at 490-7121 to register. Deadline to register is Oct. 2. Clinic dates are Oct. 3, 10, 17 and 24.

Coaches, player attack official in Florida youth football game

John Dudley — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 01:57:08 +0000

Warning, this is ugly. Things got out of hand when a group of youth football coaches in Sarasota, Fla., disagreed with an official’s call and wound up brawling with the official, who ended up being form tackled by one of the players.

(The video on the linked page says it’s no longer available, but you can view another version in a televised report by clicking the play icon in the paragraph below the video box.)

Youth football brawl in Florida

MYAA, Diocesan football openers featured on Erie Highlight Reel

John Dudley — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:48:25 +0000

Erie Highlight Reel (eriehighlightreel.com) has posted video highlights from last weekend’s MYAA and Diocesan youth football season openers.

Erie Cheetahs hold youth travel softball tryouts

John Dudley — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:48:45 +0000

The Erie Cheetahs will hold youth travel softball tryouts for their 12U and 10U teams on Sept. 10 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Zuck Park softball field on West Grandview Blvd. For more information call Tom Berndt at 881-7800.

MYAA football schedule released

John Dudley — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 13:17:52 +0000

Below is the 2011 MYAA youth football game schedule.

Aug. 27 at McKean Community Park

MYAA Lions vs. MYAA Jaguars, noon

Union City vs. McKean, 1:30 p.m.

Wattsburg vs. Edinboro, 3 p.m.

MYAA Crush vs. MYAA Eagles, 4:30 p.m.

Sept. 3 at McDowell High School (Gus Anderson Field)

MYAA Jaguars vs. MYAA Eagles, noon

Edinboro vs. Union City, 1:30 p.m.

MYAA Lions vs. MYAA Crush, 3 p.m.

Wattsburg vs. McKean, 4:30 p.m.

Sept. 10 at McDowell High School (Gus Anderson Field)

MYAA Eagles vs. Wattsburg, noon

MYAA Lions vs. Edinboro, 1:30 p.m.

McKean vs. MYAA Jaguars, 3 p.m.

MYAA Cruch vs. Union City, 4:30 p.m.

Sept. 17 at Wattsburg (Greene Township Building)

Union City vs. Wattsburg, noon

MYAA Jaguars vs. MYAA Crush, 1:30 p.m.

MYAA Eagles vs. MYAA Lions, 3 p.m.

McKean vs. Edinboro, 4:30 p.m.

Sept. 24 at General McLane High School (Linden Field)

MYAA Jaguars vs. Wattsburg, noon

Edinboro vs. MYAA Crush, 1:30 p.m.

MYAA Eagles vs. McKean, 3 p.m.

Union City vs. MYAA Lions, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 1 at Wattsburg (Green Township Building)

McKean vs. MYAA Lions, noon

MYAA Crush vs. Wattsburg, 1:30 p.m.

Union City vs. MYAA Jaguars, 3 p.m.

MYAA Eagles vs. Edinboro, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 8 at McKean Community Park

McKean vs. Edinboro, noon

MYAA Lions vs. MYAA Eagles, 1:30 p.m.

Wattsburg vs. Union City, 3 p.m.

MYAA Crush vs. MYAA Jaguars, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 15 at Edinboro University (Sox Harrison Stadium)

MYAA Jaguars vs. MYAA Lions, noon

MYAA Crush vs. MYAA Eagles, 1:30 p.m.

Union City vs. McKean, 3 p.m.

Edinboro vs. Wattsburg, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 22 at Walnut Creek Middle School

Wattsburg vs. McKean, noon

MYAA Jaguars vs. MYAA Eagles, 1:30 p.m.

Edinboro vs. Union City, 3 p.m.

MYAA Lions vs. MYAA Crush, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 29 at Union City High School

McKean vs. MYAA Crush, noon

Edinboro vs. MYAA Jaguars, 1:30 p.m.

Wattsburg vs. MYAA Lions, 3 p.m.

MYAA Eagles vs. Union City, 4:30 p.m.

Burton Funeral Homes captures MYAA Junior softball championship

John Dudley — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:54:21 +0000

Congratulations to Burton Funeral Homes and Crematory, which captured the MYAA Junior softball championship last month. Check out the team photo below.

Front row: Rachel Rose, Kayla Fachetti, Allison Testa, Gina Cancilla, Megan Przepierski, Karlie Fachetti, Erika Enzbrenner; Second row: Head Coach Carlo Fachetti, Isabella Zonna, Maria Rose, Laura Lintelman, Alexis Federici, Allison Enzbrenner, Alyson Juchno, Marlee Turowski, Sami Jo Turowski; Back row: Assistant Coaches R.J. Zonna, Bob Juchno, Eric Enzbrenner.

Erie resident Carl Palotas third in U.S. Kids golf tournament

John Dudley — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 13:34:19 +0000

Erie resident Carl Palotas, 12, finished third in the U.S. Kids Golf Tournament Aug. 8 at Strawberry Ridge in Harmony, Pa. He shot 90 against a field of 14 other golfers in his division.

Diocesan football schedule released

John Dudley — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 13:00:30 +0000

Below is the 2011 Erie Diocesan football schedule. All games are at the Cathedral Prep Events Center.

Aug. 28

OLP JV vs. St. George JV, noon

OLP vs. St. George, 1 p.m.

Blessed Sacrament vs. St. John, 3 p.m.

Blessed Sacrament JV vs. St. John JV, 4:30 p.m.

Aug. 29

OLC JV vs. St. Luke JV, 6:15 p.m.

OLC vs. St. Luke, 7:30 p.m.

Sept. 3

St. George JV vs. Blessed Sacrament JV, 9 a.m.

St. George vs. Blessed Sacrament, 10:30 a.m.

Sept. 4

St. John JV vs. St. Luke JV, noon

St. John vs. St. Luke, 1:30 p.m.

OLC vs. OLP, 3 p.m.

OLC JV vs. OLP JV, 4:30 p.m.

Sept. 10

St. Luke JV vs. Blessed Sacrament JV, 9 a.m.

St. Luke vs. Blessed Sacrament, 10:30 a.m.

Sept. 11

St. George JV vs. OLC JV, noon

St. George vs. OLC, 1:30 p.m.

Sept. 12

OLP JV vs. St. John JV, 6 p.m.

OLP vs. St. John, 7:30 p.m.

Sept. 17

St. George JV vs. St. John JV, 9 a.m.

St. George vs. St. John, 10:30 a.m.

Sept. 18

OLP JV vs. St. Luke JV, noon

OLP vs. St. Luke, 1:30 p.m.

Sept. 19

OLC JV vs. Blessed Sacrament JV, 6 p.m.

OLC vs. Blessed Sacrament, 7:30 p.m.

Sept. 25

St. John JV vs. OLC JV, noon

St. John vs. OLC, 1:30 p.m.

Blessed Sacrament vs. OLP, 3 p.m.

Blessed Sacrament JV vs. OLP JV, 4:30 p.m.

Sept. 26

St. Luke JV vs. St. George JV, 6 p.m.

St. Luke vs. St. George, 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 1

St. Luke JV vs. OLC JV, 9 a.m.

St. Luke vs. OLC, 10:30 a.m.

Oct. 2

St. John JV vs. Blessed Sacrament JV, noon

St. John vs. Blessed Sacrament, 1:30 p.m.

Oct. 3

St. George JV vs. OLP JV, 6 p.m.

St. George vs. OLP, 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 9

OLP JV vs. OLC JV, noon

OLP vs. OLC, 1:30 p.m.

St. Luke vs. St. John, 3 p.m.

St. Luke JV vs. St. John JV, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 10

Blessed Sacrament JV vs. St. George JV, 6 p.m.

Blessed Sacrament vs. St. George, 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 15

Blessed Sacrament JV vs. St. Luke JV, 9 a.m.

Blessed Sacrament vs. St. Luke, 10:30 a.m.

St. John vs. OLP, noon

St. John JV vs. OLP JV, 1:30 p.m.

Oct. 16

OLC JV vs. St. George JV, noon

OLC vs. St. George, 1:30 p.m.

Oct. 20

Playoffs

No. 2 seed vs. No. 3 seed, 6:30 p.m.

No. 1 seed vs. No. 4 seed, 7:45 p.m.

Oct. 26

Championship game, 7 p.m.

Wesleyville Mayor’s Cup schedule changes

John Dudley — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:01:16 +0000

With Harborcreek’s 11-year-old Little League team still alive at the Section 1 tournament, Wesleyville Mayor’s Cup tournament director Tom Roberts announced changes to this year’s schedule:

ATTENTION:

CHANGES FOR THE MAYOR’S CUP. HARBORCREEK 11 HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL AT THE SECTION TOURNAMENT AND HAS TO PULL OUT. THAT MEANS THAT ERIE WILL PLAY FLAG MONDAY AT 6 PM.

ALSO NOTE THE FOLLOWING CHANGES:

1.GAME 15 BETWEEN LEBOEUF AND MYAA-AMERICAN WILL BE AT 6 PM ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 27TH.

2. GAME 18 HAS BEEN MOVED TO FRIDAY 7/29 AT 6 PM. THIS IS BETWEEN IROQUOIS AND EITHER CORRY OR ERIE(11).

3. GAME 20 HAS BEEN MOVED TO THURSDAY 7/28 AT 6 PM. THIS IS BETWEEN NORTH EAST AND EITHER HARBORCREEK OR MEADVILLE.