Jill Witmer said she was about to cry.That's not the reaction you'd expect from a seasoned veteran with more than 100 career goals.Still, Witmer said she was not prepared to take a penalty stroke awarded the Comets on a controversial call with just 4:30 left in Saturday's District Three ...

Over the course of the 2009 season it has been a given: The best way to stop Franklin & Marshall's prolific offense is to decapitate it at its source.Quarterback John Harrison.Given that F&M was 7-1 through eight games, and the one loss a 45-43 shootout with Dickinson, it is safe to assu...

When it comes to moral victories, or so-called good losses, Millersville coach Greg Colby is not a big fan.That said, Colby and the Marauder faithful were feeling pretty good about themselves following a 28-25, season-ending loss to perennial PSAC West power Edinboro Saturday afternoon at Biemesderf...

A Stevens College assistant coach provided a preview minutes before Saturday's Seaboard Conference championship game in Lancaster."This is what it always comes down to: us and them," he said, while watching Valley Forge Military Academy warm up minutes before kickoff.In what has become tradition, th...

Halfway through 2009, the Houston Texans are in line for a wild-card playoff spot. The success in the standings had paralleled triumphs from the Texan players in fantasy football until the events of Week 8 threw the prospects of a number of Houston players up in the air.Steve Slaton has had fumble p...

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The defensive clear hit Mechanicsburg's Sean Swidersky at point-blank range, squarely in the solar plexus.It left a large red welt that, needless to say, hurt.Not as much, however, as it hurt Conestoga Valley.In a classic example of right place, right time, Swidersky unwittingly delivered the ga...

The goal cage literally blew over.No, it had nothing to do with one of Jill Witmer's rocket shots, although that would come later.The wicked winds that swept across Hershey High School's new artificial turf field caused a momentary delay in the game, but could not delay the Penn Manor field ...

On the surface, a two-goal deficit seems like a tall mountain to climb.Hempfield coach Julianne Bojanic doesn't see it that way. If you can get that first score, she believes, fortunes can change pretty quickly.The Black Knights proved their coach's belief true Saturday when they rallied to ...

Holding a lead can sometimes be harder than doing the actual scoring. Hempfield found that out on the PIAA District Three playoff stage Saturday.The Knights twice lost grips on leads, including one with 5:53 left in the game, in a 3-2 season-ending loss to Central Dauphin."Their counterattack w...

With the completion of Saturday's preliminaries in Class AAA, the field is set for the District Three girls volleyball championships.In Saturday's preliminaries Warwick defeated Muhlenberg, Manheim Central defeated Carlisle, Manheim Township defeated Central Dauphin and Conestoga Valley defe...

John Harrison completed 26 passes for 404 yards and five touchdowns to lead Franklin & Marshall (7-1, 5-1 CC) to a 41-20 win over McDaniel (4-4, 2-4) on Saturday in Westminster, Md.The sophomore quarterback reset F&M's season records for completions, passing yards and touchdowns in the w...

Saturday's PSAC East clash between East Stroudsburg and Millersville stood scoreless after the first quarter, but the Warriors stormed in front with four unanswered scores in the second quarter en route to a 44-3 rout of Millersville.East Stroudsburg's Matt Marshall threw a pair of touchdown...

The hottest commodity in fantasy football right now is a player that does not even start for his own team. Owners in nearly 60 percent of leagues acquired New York Jet Shonn Greene this past week in the aftermath of his 144-yard, two-score performance against the lowly Raiders.Greene was a common sl...

A victory in soccer can be decided by one or two mistakes by a team or the bounces going one team's way.This was the case Saturday at Hersheypark Stadium in the District Three Class AA quarterfinals as Donegal fell in double overtime to the Fleetwood Tigers 2-1.The Indians, who had the best seas...

There was a time, not that long ago, when Matt Gibson couldn't have walked into a locker room stuffed with 60 football players."No way," Solanco's senior said. "I always knew there was something wrong … I can't really explain it. I had some good times and some bad t...

The L-L League boys' soccer championship game between Manheim Township and Hempfield, scheduled for Saturday night, was postponed because of rain.The game was rescheduled for 7 p.m. Monday at Penn Manor.District soccer: The play-in round of the District Three Class AAA and AA soccer playoffs is ...

By the time they return to Williamson-Sponaugle Field in mid-November, Franklin & Marshall's football team may be on the cusp of a Centennial Conference championship and its greatest season in 20 years.Or just enjoying the fruits of a really good season.Regardless of how the coming two-week ...

McCaskey's homecoming football game against Cedar Crest is scheduled for 6 p.m. Monday at McCaskey.The game was postponed Friday after a sinkhole was discovered in the south end of the end zone about 30 minutes before the scheduled 7 p.m. kickoff.The hole was about 18 inches wide and 3 feet deep. Wo...

From, pretty much, start to finish they played in a driving rainstorm — accompanied by occasional thunder and even lightning — that left even the synthetic turf under water.When Brad Lantz lunged into the end zone in the second overtime, ending the epic battle, the field was drenched in ...