The Athens Lady Wildcats captured the 2008 Waverly Christmas Invitational title on Tuesday with eight first-place finishes leading the way.

The Powerade Christmas Wrestling Tournament is one of the top tournaments in the country and the Waverly Wolverines will be sending two wrestlers to its semifinals today.

On the strength of a 13-0 first-quarter run, Horseheads raced out to an early lead that Waverly could never erase Monday night in the championship game of the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic at Elmira Southside High School. The result was a 48-37 win for the Lady Blue Raiders and Waverly’s first loss of the season.

It was all Wolverines at the 2008 Holiday Bowling Tournament held at the Valley Bowling Center in Waverly on Saturday afternoon.

The Waverly girls basketball squad went into Saturday night’s first-round game of the Coaches vs. Cancer Tournament with the challenge of knocking off the four-time defending tourney champion Notre Dame Crusaders. When it was all said and done, there was no doubt in anyone’s mind if the Lady Wolverines were up to that challenge.

The Sayre Lady Redskins will be heading into a 14-day break with some momentum after cruising to a 50-26 victory over visiting Bucktail on Tuesday night.

The Athens Wildcats have played the toughest schedule of any boys basketball team in the area up to this point in the season. The only problem with that is that they haven’t found a way to get that elusive first win.
Athens came into Tuesday night’s game looking for that first win against a tough Ithaca squad, but the visiting Little Red rallied for a 64-61 victory over the Wildcats, which sent the home squad to 0-6 on the season.

The Sayre Lady Redskins dropped their first game of the season on Monday evening in a heartbreaking 58-54 overtime loss at the hands of the Wellsboro Hornets.

The Sayre Redskins came into Monday night’s game looking to rebound after last week’s blowout loss at Wellsboro, and they did just that with a 47-39 victory over visiting North Penn.

Tied at 13-13 at the end of the first quarter, the host Wolverines opened the second period with a 12-0 run and never looked back in beating Dryden 61-38 in an Interscholastic Athletic Conference Division I Saturday matinee.

The 2008 version of the Harold Jarvis Memorial Tournament held at Athens High School was filled with great wrestlers from both Pennsylvania and New York with all eight schools competing having very good wrestling programs.
In the end, it was the Waverly Wolverines taking home the team title with 280.5 points followed by Pal-Mac at 237.5 and host Athens with a total score of 230.5.

Athens and Waverly combined to send 13 wrestlers into the second day of the Jarvis Invitational undefeated — and some of those will hook up today in the tournament, which will begin at 10 a.m. at Athens Area High School.

The Waverly Wolverines traveled down the road to rival Sayre on Thursday afternoon and came away with a 92-82 victory over the host Redskins.

When you have a dominating inside player and someone who can shoot lights out from beyond the arc, winning basketball games can seem pretty easy.
The Sayre Lady Redskins have been making it look easy all season long and Thursday night was no different as the ’Skins stayed undefeated with an easy 74-39 win over visiting Liberty.

Towanda won every event but one Monday to roll to a 122-58 win over Waverly’s extra-youthful Wolverines swim team in a non-league meet.