Six local squads ready for PIAA playoff openers
Published March 11, 2010, 10:56 PM EST
by ED GRUVER
Warren Goodling likes the way his Hempfield boys' basketball team has rebounded. And he's not just talking about the admirable work his squad has done on the glass this season. Their biggest rebound yet could come Saturday night in the opening round of the PIAA Class AAAA playoffs.......
3 L-L wrestlers get through on first day of States
Published March 11, 2010, 10:50 PM EST
by DAVE BYRNE
HERSHEY, Pa.
It's not always about having been here before. But it sure doesn't hurt if you have. Hempfield's Austin Miller (103), Solanco's Dan Neff (130) and Warwick's Antonio Giorgio (189) advanced to this afternoon's Class AAA quarterfinals of the PIAA Wrestling Championship......
Defense will be key vs. Carver Engineering & Science
Published March 10, 2010, 11:17 PM EST
by JASON FULGINITI
Out-of-sync. Timid. Out of character. Even confusing.All were words that came up as Lancaster Mennonite girls' basketball coach Sherri Gorman stood by the locker room in Hershey's Giant Center last Thursday evening, discussing her team's 38-30 loss to York Catholic in the Distr......
State finals start Thursday morning in Hershey
Published March 10, 2010, 9:54 PM EST
by DAVE BYRNE
It's a new experience for Kyle Coblentz, Bobby Rehm, Austin Schultz and Cole Dillman. It's another opportunity for Austin Miller, Dan Neff and Dylan Killian. It's practically old hat for Antonio Giorgio. It is the PIAA Wrestling Tournament, which gets under way at 9 a.m. t......
Six L-L League boys teams will open state playoffs this weekend
Published March 10, 2010, 8:38 AM EST
by KEITH SCHWEIGERT, Online Sports Editor
It's do-or-die time for six Lancaster-Lebanon League teams. No more consolation games. From now on, if you lose, you're done.The PIAA playoffs open with first-round games on Friday and Saturday. The L-L League has three teams (Hempfield, Warwick and Penn Manor) competing in the Cla......
Warriors' standout is one to watch at 189 pounds
Published March 10, 2010, 12:01 AM EST
by DAVE BYRNE
It is the American Narrative: Young man leaves his small, Old World village and journeys to the United States to make a new life.It was a journey taken by Mike Giorgio. A journey that, this weekend, could be marked with this milepost: one, or more, of his grandsons winning a state wrestlin......
Conestoga Valley's Ocasio makes mark in league meet
Published March 9, 2010, 9:57 PM EST
by GREG CALDWELL
Rifle is a sport in which one person can have a big day and beat all the top competitors. And this L-L League season was no different, with a relative unknown shooting himself to the top mark and the individual championship.Ian Ocasio of Conestoga Valley, who did not rank among the league&......
Freshman earns two gold medals in District 3 Meet
Published March 7, 2010, 11:15 PM EST
by PETE KAUFFMAN
MECHANICSBURG, Pa.
Speechless. Breathless. Stunned.You know what, you can use almost any adjective that comes to mind, and you'd still come up short of fully explaining the phenomenon that is Warwick freshman Emily Cameron.Her times recorded during this, her first campaign of her scholastic swimmi......
6 L-L boys' teams, 2 L-L girls' teams ready for States
Published March 7, 2010, 3:12 PM EST
by JEFFREY REINHART, Online Sports Writer
The PIAA basketball brackets have been released, and starting Friday, two L-L League girls' teams and five L-L League boys' teams will start the trek to Penn State.Here are the first-round games involving L-L League teams …GIRLS DOUBLE-A...
8 from L-L will go for state gold starting Thursday
Published March 7, 2010, 12:59 PM EST
by JEFFREY REINHART, Online Sports Writer
The PIAA wrestling brackets have been released, and starting Thursday at 9 a.m. in Hershey's Giant Center, eight Lancaster-Lebanon League wrestlers will set sail on winning a state title — seven in Triple-A and one in Double-A.In Triple-A …103 pound......
