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When he took over as Penn State's acting athletic director last Nov. 16, Dr. David Joyner said Thursday night, it was as if things were moving at 6,000 rpms.
And well, they kinda were. The news of the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal had hit a week and a half earlier. Perjury indictments w...
The Lancaster Barnstormers' first game in the Lone Star State was one that they'd just as soon forget.
It all started with starting pitcher Rich Rundles' control issues, and the bottom fell out after they went to the bullpen in the bottom of the sixth inning.
Rundles (1-1) had three walks and thre...
By the fifth inning of Thursday night's three-plus hour marathon, even the home plate umpire sounded a bit impatient.
He wasn't alone.
In a game that almost defied description, No. 9 Red Land knocked off top-seeded Hempfield, 16-11, in a District Three Class AAAA quarterfinal at Wenger Field.
"I'...
In the few tense moments before he returns a serve, he locks in, feet apart, racquet holstered on his right thigh. His upper body sways, side to side, and his hypnotic glance shoots across the net at his opponent.
It's a trance, a mode fitting for the brother of three-time PIAA girls' singles champ...
Judging by the celebratory, purple and gold human teepee Ephrata's boys' lacrosse team built on the turf after the final buzzer Thursday night, it was obvious the victory felt awesome.
Even better, perhaps, was the impact it figures to have on so many others, some of whom have never even picked up ...
Stop me if you've heard this before.
Having saved the game with her defense in the early going, Brittiny Griffith won it late at the plate.
In the time it took the ball to jump off Griffith's bat and travel the 193 feet to its final destination - over the left field fence at Lebanon Valley C...
It's been called the "Sweetest Place on Earth."
And for four years it has been just that for Manheim Township's girls' lacrosse team.
The Blue Streaks came to Hershey four years ago as underdogs and they left Thursday with their fourth District Three championship gold medal draped around their nec...
Nearly everyone is familiar with Little League baseball. What people may not be familiar with is a division of Little League called Challenger. The District 23 Challenger Little League Division in Lancaster County is designed for developmentally, physically and emotionally disabled boys and girls, a...
Patience and commitment.
Those are two key components to a good javelin throw, and two things that may go unnoticed to the untrained eye.
"There's commitment to runway speed and commitment to your block," Mike Wise, Manheim Central's javelin coach, said Tuesday.
The block is when the lead foot is...
The Long Island Ducks pounded the Lancaster Barnstormers pitching staff for 15 hits en route to a 15-5 win in the rubber match of a three-game series at Bethpage Ballpark in Central Islip, N.Y.
Leading 1-0, the Ducks broke the game open with five runs in the third against 'Stormers starter J.D. Dur...
Focus is intensified and put to the test when the District Three playoffs roll around in boys' volleyball.
The competition is ramped up, certainly, but in pool play, with four matches going on side by side, in the same gym, well, teams have to be on their game or their seasons are in peril.
Wednes...
It's a simple, three-step process: pass, set, hit.
When the first part of the equation is missing, the latter two parts rarely come into play.
That was the predicament in which Lancaster Mennonite found itself Wednesday during pool play of the District Three Class AA boys' volleyball tournament.
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The Regency Panthers, a youth ice hockey club, will be holding supplemental evaluations for 14U (Bantam) and 16U (Midget) players at Regency Ice Rink, 2155 Ambassador Circle, Lancaster. The evaluations will be held Wednesday, May 30, at 8 p.m. for both recreational travel and Regency's DVHL travel t...
Solanco Little League will host The Pride of the Diamond baseball camp on June 18-21. The camp is intended for players 6-14 years of age and will include drills to help correct the faults of a young player and learn proper techniques to develop skills. Program emphasis will be on individual skills a...
Nate Shank and Dan Neff scored first-inning runs for Lampeter-Strasburg, and Peter Darrenkamp made his early advantage stand up as the Pioneers edged host Shippensburg 2-1 Tuesday night in a District Three Class AAA first-round playoff game.No. 9 L-S (17-6) advances to Thursday's quarterfinals to fa...
Brandon Sing hit a grand slam in the seventh inning to break open a tight game and the Long Island Ducks went on to beat the Lancaster Barnstormers 7-0 on Tuesday night at Bethpage Ballpark in Central Islip, N.Y.
The difference in the game was the Ducks took advantage of their chances and the Barns...
In the eyes of both Connor Moran and Jess Rheinheimer, preparing to take on an opponent in athletics is not too far removed from preparing to take a math quiz or write an English term paper.
"In both academics and athletics, you don't want to cram the night before, you want to space it out," Moran ...
The thing that should have killed Bishop McDevitt's girls' soccer team Tuesday night only made it stronger.
Might have been something in the grass.
Despite losing superstar forward Kelsie Maloney to a red card in the closing minutes of regulation, Bishop McDevitt got the equalizer with 6:53 left i...
After several low-scoring outings, and facing a team that could've been making senior-week plans, one would expect Manheim Central to break out offensively.
After 12 days of inaction, one wasn't quite sure what to expect from Elizabethtown.
The defending Class AAA champion Barons banged out 12 hit...
Ephrata came back for thirds Tuesday, and as a result achieved a first, with another unique achievement now within reach.
The Mountaineers beat Hempfield for the third time this season in boys' lacrosse, 13-6 in a District Three semifinal at Lower Dauphin Middle School. And as a result they advance...
