Cold-Shooting Second Quarter Dooms Athens In 62-35 Loss To NP-Mansfield
By: Tim Birney / January 8, 2025
ATHENS - Athens played a strong eight minutes to start the game, then went stone cold in a decisive second quarter in a 62-35 loss to North Penn-Mansfield here Tuesday night in NTL Large School Division boys basketball action.
Sophomore Lucas Schultz and senior Jase Babcock scored four points apiece in the first quarter to help the Wildcats to a 14-13 lead after the opening stanza.
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Tim Birney
Tim Birney is the founder / owner of River Road Media Group. He was born and raised in the Valley, graduating from Waverly High School in 1984.
Birney earned an Associate's Degree in Journalism from SUNY Morrisville in 1986 and a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism / Public Relations from Utica College of Syracuse University in 1988. He began his newspaper career at The Daily Review in Towanda in 1989, before moving on to The Evening Times in 1995. He spent more than 10 years at the Times, the last four as Managing Editor.
River Road Media Group includes five sites in "The Sports Reports" family that cover 24 school districts in five counties: Valley Sports Report (launched Aug. 10, 2009), Tioga County (NY) Sports Report (Aug. 13, 2018), and Northern Tier Sports Report (Aug. 31, 2020); Northern Tier West Sports Report (March 15, 2021) Southern Tier Sports Report (Aug. 16, 2021).
