SHIPPENSBURG – Safe to say Jared Schatz will never, ever forget his senior season. Lancaster Mennonite’s distance specialist got his year started by going undefeated through league competition in cross country last fall. That included a photo-finish victory in the L-L League championship. Then came a runner-up appearance in the District 3 “AA” cross...
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WILLOW STEET – Brittiny Griffith, Manheim Central’s first-year left fielder, had an angel on her shoulder Thursday night. He was there when she stepped into the batter’s box with two away in the bottom of the fourth. He was there when she walloped a line drive to the gap in left-center. He was there...
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WILLOW STREET – A year ago at this time, it was Alexa Campbell in the pitching circle for Manheim Central, working out of trouble, punching batters out and pitching gems. End result: The Barons won the Section 3 title, the District 3 “AAA” championship and the PIAA Eastern regional on the way to the state...
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NEFFSVILLE – Devon Reis’ hero is his big brother, Ron. In 2008, Ron, then a football player for Penn Manor, was diagnosed with Viral Encephalitits, a brain infection. Ron had to leave the football team because of his recovery – a long recovery and a long road back. Devon watched his big brother cope...
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NEFFSVILLE – With standout twin sister volleyball players in the same house, it’s surprising that it took Colby Sangrey until his senior year to play for Penn Manor’s boys’ volleyball team. But he’s here now. And he’s playing very well. And on Wednesday, he helped the Comets win the L-L League championship, compliments...
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WILLOW STREET – Christi Lerchen was cruising right along, mowing down batters and minding her own business. Annville-Cleona’s ace righty took a no-hitter into the bottom of the fifth on Tuesday in the Little Dutchmen’s L-L League semifinal softball against Manheim Central game at Garrett Field. The Little Dutchmen had scratched out three hits...
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LANDISVILLE – One of the big question marks coming into the L-L League track and field championships was whether or not Hempfield soph Sarah Helgeson could live up to the hype and win all three sprint events as the No. 1 seed in all three. Helgeson hit the trifeca on her home track Saturday: She...
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LANDISVILLE – It was the first L-L League Section 2 football game last fall. And it was raining buckets in New Holland, where Garden Spot, off to a fast start, was hosting Conestoga Valley. The Buckskins’ quarterback: Senior speedster Terrance Taylor, fresh off a breakout junior track season, when he finished fourth in the...
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MANHEIM – She is Conestoga Valley’s last line of defense. And on Saturday, the Buckskins got defensive against Warwick in the L-L League girls’ soccer championship game at Manheim Central. Once again, Buckskins’ sophomore goalie Jess Plunkett came up big between the pipes, keeping the Warriors off the scoreboard in CV’s 2-0 victory, giving...
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LANDISVILLE – Big things sometimes do come in small packages. Like Friday, when Hempfield sophomore Danielle Poletti – all 5-1 of her – cleared a Black Knights’ program record 11-8 and won the gold medal in the L-L League championship meet girls’ pole vault event on her home turf. Poletti, the top seed coming into Friday’s...
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