Wilkes football headlines

  • For openers, here's a trophy
    September 12, 2024
    A whole number of teams have new head coaches this year. Of those coaches, most are head coaches for the first time. And from that list, a few were fortunate enough to start their career with a trophy game, and bring back the hardware. Greg Thomas talks to new coaches at Castleton, Millsaps and Wilkes in Around the Nation.
  • Western Connecticut to join Landmark
    August 28, 2024
    Cut loose by the MASCAC over the offseason, WestConn will have a conference home in 2025 after all, in the Landmark.
  • Drach named head coach at Union
    December 29, 2023
    Jon Drach, who has been head coach at Wilkes since 2018, is moving just a little bit north and will be Union's third coach in three years.
  • ODAC, Landmark hook up for Chesapeake Classic
    September 15, 2022
    One of Division III's original conferences and its newest football conference will get together for a two-game bowl series each of the first four seasons that the Landmark sponsors football.
  • Landmark to add two for football AQ
    February 09, 2022
    Lycoming and Wilkes are on the verge of switching conferences and joining the Landmark Conference, D3sports.com has learned, which makes six conference schools sponsoring football, all which is now needed to take an automatic bid.
  • Eastern to add football
    September 15, 2021
    Division III football took a big hit over the past 18 months, dropping to 239 programs, but No. 240 is on the way, and hails from the Middle Atlantic Conference.
  • Wilkes brings in Hobart assistant
    February 10, 2018
    After its first winless season since 1981, Wilkes turns to Jon Drach, Hobart's offensive coordinator, to get the Colonels back in contention as Wilkes' new head coach.
  • Brown out at Wilkes after winless season
    November 16, 2017
    Trey Brown's fourth year at Wilkes resulted in an 0-10 record and his departure from the program.
  • Top 25: Wesley in control; St. Lawrence, Stevenson slip
    November 05, 2016
    Case Western Reserve rallied to remain in playoff contention, while Wesley knocked off its archrival, Hobart handed St. Lawrence its first loss and Wilkes rallied past Stevenson in Week 10's Division III Top 25 action.
  • A tree grows in Allentown
    September 14, 2016
    Mike Donnelly's coaching tree continues to develop new branches. There are now six D-III head coaches who learned under the tutelage of the Muhlenberg legend. More in Around the Mid-Atlantic.
  • Best road trips of 2015: Week 2
    August 10, 2015
    Week 2 brings us an opportunity to go big or go home. We're going big.
  • Pedal to the metal
    October 01, 2014
    When the coach has a 200-mph speed limit sign on the wall in his office, it shouldn't be a surprise when they set records on offense. This is the new way the game is played at Wilkes.
  • Sheptock steps down at Wilkes
    December 19, 2013
    After 18 seasons, 107 wins, Frank Sheptock leaves the Wilkes head coaching job to become an athletic administrator.
  • Wilkes-Barre flooding causes two games to be cancelled
    September 09, 2011
    Due to flooding and a mandatory evacuation in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Saturday’s Bethany-King's and Wilkes-Waynesburg games have been called off.
  • NJAC to take up MAC's challenge
    November 11, 2010
    In 2012 and 2013, after the MAC-PAC challenge conclusion, the MAC will turn to the east.
  • D-III has company as Miseri adds football
    October 18, 2010
    Misericordia will bring the number of MAC schools sponsoring football to 10 and push Division III over the 240 mark in 2012 when its first team takes the field.
  • Delaware Valley picked first in MAC
    August 02, 2010
    Delaware Valley has been picked to finish first in its pursuit of a third consecutive Middle Atlantic Conference championship in the 2010 preseason coaches poll.
  • Queueing up the AQs
    October 22, 2008
    Has there ever been a better time for the automatic qualifier system?
  • Winning and losing in the trenches
    October 14, 2008
    Like many mechanisms in our lives, when they're working flawlessly, you barely even notice they exist. But a breakdown in the machine doesn't just ripple nearby -- it crashes the system. In this way, sports parallels life -- and life on offense revolves around the men in the trenches.
  • Wilkes rolls Lycoming; Easier road ahead
    October 10, 2006
    The Colonels held Lycoming to 14 yards rushing on 28 attempts and just a total of 120 yards on the afternoon as Wilkes managed their largest margin of victory in the 37-7 win.
  • Can't be everywhere? Let's try
    September 19, 2006
    Week 3 in the region was headlined by two crucial games of varying degrees of consequence.