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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...
There's an old and over-used sports cliché that says it's hard to beat the same team three times in a season.
Manheim Township and Cocalico disproved that theory Tuesday.
The Blue Streaks knocked off Penn Manor, 22-6, for the fourth time this season before the Eagles survived Lancaster Country Day...
There is no such thing as an ex-Marine.
Certainly, the late Dr. Gene Carpenter, who served three tours of duty as a United States Marine Corps Corporal, knew this. And just as certainly, everyone who came in contact with the man knew he was one of them.
The Few.
The Proud.
"He made sure that 'pr...
The Warwick Tornadoes, a 10U fast pitch softball team, won the top prize at the 12th Annual Columbia Softball Tournament this past weekend.The tournament consisted of 17 10U teams from a cross Lancaster County. The Tornadoes won with a perfect 5-0 record. The team came from behind in its final three...
Solanco Little League recently conducted an in-house skills contest for its players. This was the second year for the event, which showcases the competitors' skills in the areas of pitching, hitting and baserunning. Winners were named in each skill category. An overall winner, based on collective po...
While there is certainly a lot of volleyball to be played from now until the end of the playoffs, Hempfield wouldn't mind seeing a repeat of what happened to its team in 2006.
That season, the Black Knights lost the Lancaster-Lebanon League title match to Lancaster Mennonite but went on to win the ...
The Long Island Ducks had not lost a game at home this season, until Monday. The Lancaster Barnstormers tied a season-high with 15 hits and beat the Ducks 8-1 in a battle of Atlantic League division leaders at Bethpage Ballpark in Central Islip, N.Y.
Adam Godwin had four hits and Fehlandt Lentini a...
DISTRICT THREE BASEBALL: Catholic rallies to edge Vikings in opener, 9-8Mon, 21 May 2012 23:07:00 EDT
The Curse of the Bambino.
Avoid stepping on the foul lines.
And never, ever talk about a no-hitter in progress.
Baseball has a long history of superstitions, and a couple came into play Monday in a District Three Class AAA playoff opener at Clipper Magazine Stadium.
Seeking to improve on a 1-2 r...
All-Pro running back LeSean McCoy and a star-studded cast of his Philadelphia Eagles teammates will come to Lancaster to take on a group of NFL stars in a charity softball game at Clipper Magazine Stadium on June 23, the player announced Monday at a news conference.
Proceeds from the game will be d...
