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A reign and run are both done.Penn Manor, the defending Class AAA champion, had its crown taken away with a 1-0 overtime loss to Lower Dauphin Saturday afternoon in a PIAA Field Hockey Tournament quarterfinal game at Exeter High School.Later Saturday evening, Hempfield's somewhat surprising post...

The sense of first-half déjà vu was palpable.Throughout the first 30 minutes at Hershey High School, the Donegal Indians were all over the ball, keeping play deep in their offensive zone. They had penalty corners. They had shots. They had power.What they didn't have in Saturday'...

For the first few seconds after the final point ended, Hempfield's players showed no emotion at all.Then, as soon as the gravity of the situation hit them, the tears began to flow.This one hurt.When you pour everything you have into a five-game thriller and end up two tiny points short, it hits ...

Six Lancaster-Lebanon League teams advanced to the second round of the District Three football tournament Friday.Two L-L teams are alive in the Class AAAA bracket; three are playing in Class AAA while one remains in Class AA.All games in Class AAAA and AAA will be quarterfinal games. The Class AA an...

On some level, of course, it's ridiculous to say any high school team, in any sport, had to win any game.But McCaskey had to beat Reading in football Friday, Nov. 6.McCaskey, the biggest school in the Lancaster-Lebanon League with, according to some, the greatest athletic potential, had lost 20 ...

The leap from McCaskey to the highest level of high school basketball was a big, tough one for Lamar Patterson.The leap to the highest level of college basketball figures to be even higher and tougher.Paterson, from Lancaster, is finding his way as a freshman small forward at the University of Pitts...

Records toppled Saturday like sand castles swarmed by the incoming tide.And, for a while, it appeared all Franklin & Marshall's football team had accomplished to date would be swarmed under a wave of big plays by visiting Gettysburg.Scoring the first two times it had the ball — gaining...

In terms of strength and quickness and defensive ability, Austin Alecxih probably isn't yet ready for Division I basketball.But Alecxih, a former Penn Manor star, has one very marketable skill.Dude can shoot the rock."I've been around the game a long time," said Eddie Biedenbach, Alecxih's coach at ...

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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 ...

It was a mad dash, one for which Jenna Hunter will always be fondly remembered by her Donegal field hockey teammates.A swift senior forward, Hunter dodged a defender, then pulled the goalie out of position before firing in the game-winning goal to lift the Indians over Oley Valley 2-1 in overtime to...

Every time Hempfield went to the net for a kill, it seemed like there was an open lane leading toward empty space.Some of that was because setter Riley Kratzer was putting her teammates in excellent position to finish. Some of it was because Hempfield enjoyed a sizeable height advantage up front.Som...

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...

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 ...