Mike Denoia played quarterback on the Hazleton High School football team and guard on the basketball team. In 1994 they won the Eastern Regional State Title and lost to Duquesne High School in the state championship game. They won All-Eastern League 1st Team honors. Mike...
Start talking about outstanding high school quarterbacks produced in Northeastern Pennsylvania and, soon or later, someone is going to mention Ron DeLucca. A 1965 graduate of West Pittston High school, DeLucca passed the Rams to an 8 and 1 record in his senior season. Fans...
Frank Castrignano was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. on December 13, 1959. The youngest son of Frank and Louise Castrignano, he had to be born tough to survive in a household with two older brothers. He proved this when he started his wrestling career at Meyers...
Joe Barkocy made All-Regional first team as an offensive and defensive end at Hazleton High in 1948. The Mountaineers finished 10-2 that season and Barkocy was able to play all eleven positions when needed for Coach George Kavel. He also lettered in football in his...
In the history of Hazleton High football that ran from 1900 to 1991, only four Hazleton High players were named to the Associated Press All-State first team. One of them was Joe Dudeck, Class of 1948. A lineman, Dudeck went on to win All-America honors...
A graduate of East Stroudsburg University, Mr. Najaka earned ten varsity letters. Najaka was the college’s starting quarterback for four seasons, played basketball for two seasons, and baseball for four years. Mr. Najaka hit over 300 each of his four seasons at East Stroudsburg. Mr....
Born one of eighteen children on a farm in Centermoreland, Pa. during the depression, years made for a tough beginning for Bill DeAngelo, who had to leave school at an early age to work in the coal mines of Wilkes-Barre. At the age of fifteen,...
Thomas B. Morris graduated from Hanover Area School District and Kingston School. He started his career at an early age fighting at area Glen Alden Coal Company Clambakes, where his record was 14 wins and 1 loss. He served in the Marines from 1946 to...
Mr. Phillip B. Latinski is a 1957 graduate of Coughlin High School, King's College (1961), and Scranton University, where he earned his Master's Degree in School Administration in 1966. He is currently serving as principal of GAR Memorial High School in Wilkes-Barre, where he also...
Mickey Dudish was born and raised in South Wilkes-Barre. He is the son of Frank and the late Marion Dudish, and has a brother, Gary. Mickey graduated from Meyers High School in 1975. While attending Meyers, Mickey played football, baseball, and basketball. In his senior...
Jim Moran attended Coughlin High School. He learned the fundamentals of the game under the late "Red" Pendergast. Coughlin had some of its best teams during this time. The Crusaders had a 20-0 winning streak, won the Wyoming Valley Championship in 1938, and the city...
John Hopkins graduated from Pittston Twp. High School in 1958 where he was outstanding in basketball on a team coached by his late father, who also is a member of the Luzerne County Chapter of the Pa. Sports Hall of Fame. He graduated from Kings...