Not even Nostradamus could’ve foreseen the events that transpired on the women’s side of The Beacon’sAthlete of the Year bracket, which will feature a championship between No. 8 Maddie Kelley (basketball/field hockey) and No. 19 Karlye Huffman (women’s volleyball). This pairing has defied the odds and received the necessary support through Twitter polls to overcome…

Your Beacon Athlete of the Year bracket has likely been busted from the start. Not many people could’ve predicted the upsets we’ve witnessed throughout the tournament, and not one submitted bracket had two double-digit seeds facing off in the championship. But yet, fate and the voters had other ideas, and here we are. No. 13…

The Beacon’s Athlete of the Year tournament has crowned four champions, two men and two women, over the last two years. In the next few days, The Beacon will crown another set of champions. The most dramatic matchup in the tournament’s short history did not come from contests between previous champions, but instead took place…

Sports fans are desperate for some of their favorite sports to resume, and the leagues are in the same boat. The three major American sports leagues that are currently put on hold have all floated out similar ideas that would help resume each season as soon as May. The idea that has picked up the…

The sports world has never experienced anything like this. COVID-19 has done something that nobody has thought was possible – and that is shut down the world – including our beloved sports. The National Hockey League is just one of many professional sports leagues in the United States that was forced to suspend its season…

While the sports world continues to regroup from cancellations from COVID-19, Wilkes men’s ice hockey had multiple players receive high recognition for their impressive seasons. Sophomores Donald Flynn, Nick Fea and Michael Gurska all received national recognition from the American Hockey Coaches Association or USCHO.com. “When you make one of those All-American teams, there are…

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. – Collegiate sports are done for the spring 2020 semester due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but that hasn’t stopped the accolades from coming to Wilkes men’s ice hockey’s Donald Flynn. Prior to the Colonels defeat in the United Collegiate Hockey Conference championship series, Flynn was named the Co-UCHC Player of the Year, along…

Tyler Barrow took the biggest shot in the history of the Wilkes men’s ice hockey team. The shot evaded Stevenson’s goaltender Ryan Kenny and crossed the goal line, giving Wilkes the walk-off victory in overtime of the mini game and sending the Colonels to the United Collegiate Hockey Conference (UCHC) finals. “I told Devon Schell…

The second-year men’s ice hockey team at Wilkes continued their historic season with their first-ever playoff win. The Colonels used a third period comeback to overcome a physical Stevenson team, 7-5, in the United Collegiate Hockey Conference (UCHC) semifinals. The Colonels were without Donald Flynn, one of the country’s top goal-scorers, so they needed to…

The previous weekend didn’t go the way the Colonels had planned after falling to Nazareth and Utica, however, the team still had some good news. Wilkes will head into the United Collegiate Hockey Conference (UCHC) playoffs as a two seed, meaning they will avoid the first round. Wilkes fell in both games of their road…