Athens Edges Towanda, Mansfield for 19th Straight League Win
By: Tim Birney | NTL Sports | August 30, 2024
TOWANDA - Athens kept its win streak alive by the narrowest margin in the two-plus years of the streak, topping Towanda and North Penn-Mansfield by three strokes here Thursday in NTL golf action at the Towanda Country Club.
The Wildcats shot a four-player aggregate score of 338, while Towanda and NP-M each shot 341, and fourth-place Wyalusing carded a 361. Wellsboro was fifth at 380, Cowanesque Valley was sixth at 424, and Sayre finished seventh at 531.
The win is the 19th in a row for Athens in NTL play. The Wildcats improve to 18-0 on the season.
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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).
