PLAINS TWP. — The cards were stacked up against Wilkes-Barre Area. Eighteen starters that hardly played a varsity game. Numerous injuries that kept several key players on the sidelines. A two-touchdown deficit that would cause most inexperienced teams to crumble.
And yet, in spite of the odds, the Wolfpack was merely a two-point conversion from heading into overtime against the defending District 11 Class 5A champions.
A failed two-point conversion with just over a minute remaining pitted Wilkes-Barre Area with a 21-19 season-opening loss to Whitehall on Friday night…