Move has WPIAL schools threatening to withdraw from the state playoffs
Published July 4, 2009, 12:03 AM EST
by ED GRUVER
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. -
When it comes to Pennsylvania football coaches and administrators, East versus West isn't a dispute limited to frozen fields in December.And the dispute has District Seven coaches, whose teams have been dominant in the state playoffs and won 29 titles, threatening to pull out of the to......
Published July 4, 2009, 12:02 AM EST
by ED GRUVER
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. -
In 2004, Art Walker Jr.'s Pittsburgh Central Catholic squad steamrolled to the first 16-win season in the history of Pennsylvania high school football.The Vikings were so dominant they drew immediate comparison to Mike Pettine's 1998 Central Bucks West squad, which most longtime ob......
Reds minor-league prospect tabbed to play in All-Star Game
Published July 2, 2009, 4:38 PM EST
by JEFFREY REINHART, Online Sports Writer
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. -
Former Donegal standout Chris Heisey, who was recently promoted to Triple-A in the Cincinnati Reds farm system, will play in the Major League Baseball Futures Game, which will be played prior to the All-Star Game in Busch Stadium in St. Louis. Here is the press release from Heisey's coll......
With a lot of hard work and his own highlight DVD, Manheim Central's Dakota Royer has turned himself into one of the nation's top football recruits. He'll announce his college choice next month.
Published June 28, 2009, 12:21 AM EST
by MIKE GROSS, Assistant Sports Editor
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. -
It's fun being Dakota Royer, but it's not always easy. Dakota is the hottest college recruit in Manheim Central football history, and that covers some ground. He was first-team all-state at defensive end last season, as a junior. Most of the recruiting services consider him comf......
Knights’ Hammer, Bears’ Bigler, Tribe’s Kibler named to Second Team
Published June 26, 2009, 1:09 AM EST
by DAVE BYRNE
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. -
Nine Lancaster-Lebanon League athletes were recently recognized as members of the Pennsylvania Softball Coaches Association All-State team.The team was selected by members of the PSBCA with input from a statewide group of sportswriters.Hempfield's Brittany Hammer and Elizabethto......
County takes seven spots on PVCA team
Published June 24, 2009, 11:24 PM EST
by KEVIN FREEMAN
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. -
Manheim Central's boys' volleyball team made its deepest run into the postseason this past spring, thanks in part to a trio of key contributors.Seniors Steve Strait, Jeff Strait and Zach Hosler led the Barons to the pool play round of the PIAA Class AA Tournament and were honored f......
Amid his wife's health crisis, McCaskey's new football coach starts to rebuild program.
Published June 21, 2009, 12:19 AM EST
by MIKE GROSS, Assistant Sports Editor
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. -
Late last month, David Given was in his car, in Arizona, with his wife, driving toward Lancaster and his future at McCaskey's football coach. Then the phone rang, with terrifying news that almost changed everything. Kris Given had recently had an MRI. She'd been complaining of head......
Eight L-L players in Friday night game
Published June 18, 2009, 1:02 AM EST
by STAFF REPORT
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. -
Penn Manor's Cody Booth, Hempfield's Jarvis Cummings and Pequea Valley's Sean Persch are among an eight-member contingent of Lancaster-Lebanon League players and head coach who will participate Friday night in the ninth annual Scholastic Football Coaches Association East-West All-Star......
Barons' standout whittles college choice down to 5
Published June 14, 2009, 9:46 AM EST
by JEFFREY REINHART, Online Sports Writer
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. -
Manheim Central rising senior blue-chip recruit Dakota Royer has whittled his list of college suitors down to five. The Barons' blitz-happy defensive end and pass-catching, playmaking tight end, who was a First-Team Associated Press Triple-A All-State pick at DE after registering 13 sack......
National squad teammates named to high school All-America team.
Published June 14, 2009, 12:22 AM EST
by GREG CALDWELL
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. -
Lancaster County's standing as a powerhouse in high school boys' soccer is secure with this week's naming of two players to the Parade Magazine All-America High School team. Defender Zarek Valentin, of Manheim Township, and midfielder Andrew Wenger, of Warwick, were two of 37 player......
