Feb 08, 2012
MIKE GROSS and ERIC STARK
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Feb 05, 2012
MIKE GROSS, Assistant Sports Editor
So you're thinking that college sports are one big cesspool of greed and hypocrisy. You're thinking National Signing Day was nothing more than an ESPN-fueled festival of excess.You should have been at the LGI (Large-Group Instruction) Room at Warwick High School Wednesday...
Feb 05, 2012
MIKE GROSS, Assistant Sports Editor
Kyle Long and Kyle Felpel are the latest in a long line of top-shelf Lancaster County exports:Men and women who are really good at throwing heavy and/or cumbersome things a long way.The Lancaster-Lebanon League and/or Lancaster County have produced six state high-school javelin champio...
Feb 05, 2012
MIKE GROSS, Assistant Sports Editor
Warwick field hockey coach Bob Derr has no idea how many of his players have gone on to college hockey over 28 seasons.It's a three-digit number.But Wednesday was the first time Derr watched seven of his kids, at one time, sign letters-of-intent to accept scholarships.Seven. And six of...
Feb 05, 2012
JON RUTTER
It's OK by Drew Dorgan that teasers for Super Bowl commercials started popping up before anyone even knew the game lineup."I'm pretty bad at football," she admits.She's seen some of the spots online, but she'll happily watch them again tonight on TV when the New England Patriots meet t...
Feb 05, 2012
PAULA WOLF
Adam Mihan doesn't simply root for the New York Giants, he's an Ultimate Giants Fan.The Manheim resident earned that special distinction last year, along with nine others, when he entered a contest sponsored by the Giants' franchise.Prompted by his wife, Karie, Adam submitted a short but moving stor...
Feb 04, 2012
STAFF
Porscha Hunter-Speller scored a team-high 33 points for Lancaster Catholic, but it was not enough as the Crusaders (17-3) fell 67-56 to Delone Catholic Saturday afternoon. Leading the way for the Squires was Duke University recruit Sierra Moore, who scored 39 points.Donegal 30, Lancaster Country Day...
Feb 04, 2012
DAVE BYRNE
Facing an opponent very similar in makeup, Manheim Township fell to Big Spring in the District Three Team Tournament third-place match, 40-26, Saturday afternoon at Milton Hershey's Spartan Center.While a raucous crowd rocked the center, Central Dauphin took the measure of Mechanicsburg on the adjac...
Jan 29, 2012
MIKE GROSS, Assistant Sports Editor
Donegal and Manheim Central have always been rivals.Not friendly rivals. Neighbors not unlike the Hatfields and McCoys.The unfriendliness has taken on a mean and sickening edge in the last year or so, as both schools lost students in car accidents.Manheim Central football players DeVaughn Lee, John ...
Jan 29, 2012
DAVE BYRNE
Their orbits have been elliptical these last three years, traveling through the same space, but never intersecting.Until Saturday.Saturday at Garden Spot High School, in the championship match of the Tom Hecker Memorial Duals, Solanco came face-to-face for the first time with District ...
Jan 29, 2012
DAVE BYRNE
In the course of 40 years of Lancaster-Lebanon League wrestling, and over 80 years of wrestling in Lancaster County, there had never been father and son wrestlers who each won 100 wrestling matches in a career.Until Saturday.Saturday at Garden Spot High School, in Solanco's first match...
Jan 29, 2012
BARRY DECKER
In her second year of high school competition, Warwick sophomore Brandi Whitmyer is averaging 188 and has notched her best game (278) and series (735).Whitmyer credits the dynamics of scholastic competition with elevating her game."I bowl against a lot of good bowlers, which makes me w...
Jan 28, 2012
MIKE GROSS, Assistant Sports Editor
It felt like March at the Geigle Complex here Saturday, and not only because of the relatively balmy weather.The Geigle Classic Shoot-Out at Reading High School was a five-game dress rehearsal for high school basketball's postseason.McCaskey looked ready for prime time in fighting its way past Cedar...
Jan 22, 2012
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Joe Paterno, the longtime Penn State coach who won more games than anyone in major college football but was fired amid a child sex abuse scandal that scarred his reputation for winning with integrity, died Sunday. He was 85.
His family released a statement S...
Jan 22, 2012
MIKE GROSS, Assistant Sports Editor
Kris Wilson hasn't had many chances to make high-impact offensive plays in his eight NFL seasons.He's cashed a few of them in, though.Wilson, a McCaskey graduate, has been with four NFL teams in those eight years, but now he's one win away from the Super Bowl.A reserve tight end and special-teams pl...
Jan 22, 2012
STAFF
Evan Belczyk scored 16 points, Tyler Stitz added 14 and Solanco carried hot shooting from beyond the 3-point arc to a 73-55 nonleague win over visiting Avon Grove on Saturday night. The Golden Mules (6-9) hit 10 treys for the game and jumped out to a 29-17 after one quarter.Nick Hamilton scored 17 p...
Jan 22, 2012
STAFF
In a meeting of Lancaster-Lebanon League powers, Section Four-leading Lancaster Catholic handed Section Two-leading Solanco its first loss, 65-59, in nonleague action Saturday.The game remained tight throughout, with Lancaster Catholic (12-2, 9-0 Section Four) nursing a 28-25 lead at the half. The C...
Jan 21, 2012
DAVE BYRNE
Patience is its own reward.At least it was for nine of the 10 wrestlers who walked out of Conestoga Valley's Rill Gym Saturday night proudly clutching their first-ever Lancaster-Lebanon League gold medals.With just seven returning champions from the 2011 tournament in the field, the time was right f...
Jan 15, 2012
STAFF
Stevens College swept the Seaboard Conference postseason football awards, which were announced last week.Among the Bulldogs' all-conference honors:• Joe Wysock, who retired after the season, was named coach of the year.• Quarterback Frank Gaffney, from Blue Mountain High Scho...
Jan 15, 2012
BARRY DECKER
Bowling created a moment in time that Beth Moyer will never forget.It was the 2010 District Three championships at ABC North Lanes in Harrisburg.Moyer, then an Elizabethtown High School junior, found herself in third place after the preliminary round, but had to face the 2009 district ...