Central York girls' soccer coach Liz Critchfield insists the talent has always been there.

Despite dropping five league games this season and just barely getting in to the YAIAA tournament as the No. 4 seed out of Division I, Critchfield said her squad was just as talented as its league counterparts -- the Panthers just needed to get their heads straight and their confidence up.

Check and check.

First, it was a quarterfinal shootout victory over Eastern York on Monday. Then, the Panthers scored twice in the first five minutes of Wednesday's semifinal against Dallastown and never looked back, earning a 3-2 victory.

Now, with or without currently ineligible star midfielder Casey Morrison, the Panthers are in prime position to pounce on Spring Grove in Friday's final and take their first tournament title since 2001, according to Critchfield.

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Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, basketball coach Ed DeChellis and baseball coach Robbie Wine will headline the Central Pennsylvania Nittany Lion Club Dinner on June 7 in Camp Hill.

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Penn State’s A.Q. Shipley has been named to the “watch list” for the Rimington Trophy, presented to the nation’s top center.

The senior is one of just three Big Ten players on the initial list of 42 candidates.

He also has been named to “watch lists” for the Rotary Lombardi Award and the Outland Trophy. He earned first-team All-Big Ten honors last season.

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Oops.

Allow me to apologize in advance for this post running later than it should have.

This is what happens sometimes when you put an e-mail aside for later, but nonetheless I found it and congratulations go to Chase Renoll for being named the University of Delaware Best of the
Blue Hens Athlete of the Week back on April 21.

Renoll, a Spring Grove grad, is a sophomore on Delaware’s men’s track team and helped lead to team to a fourth-place finish at the Colonial Athletic Association championships that took place in late April.

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After seeing their favorite go without a win again, Dale Earnhardt Jr. fans were upset that Kyle Busch spun him out on the way to victory at the Richmond International Raceway last weekend.

According to reports, Busch had to be escorted from the track for his own safety. Now that is really pathetic.

Why do I think some of these same people would have cheered if Junior would have pushed Busch out of the way? Or how many of these same folks cheered when Dale Sr. did the same thing?

At least Junior took the high road saying to chastise Busch would be “hypocritical,” especially since he admittedly pushed Busch out of the way at Kansas last year.

Too bad some of his fans can’t feel the same way.

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Richard Stine, a 1952 Red Lion graduate is getting inducted into Elizabethtown College’s Ira R. Herr Athletics Hall of Fame on Saturday.

Stine, who graduated from Elizabethtown in 1956 with a business administration degree, was a rare four-time letterwinner in basketball and also earn two letters in soccer.

During his senior year with the Blue Jays, he was the served as the captain of the 18-6 basketball team.

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Baseball batting stances of the 1980s

Boston Red Sox batting stances, past and present

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With a state championship medal in her possession and speed and command on the mound that has helped the Warriors stay undefeated this season, it would be hard to argue against Susquehannock junior Megan Sheaf as the best hurler in the YAIAA.

And yet, Central York freshman Lauren Walker is making her own case with her play on the diamond.

Sure, Sheaf threw a 14-inning shutout in a victory over Division II rival Kennard-Dale last month. But Walker did her one-inning better on Friday, blanking South Western for 15 innings and allowing only two hits to help the Panthers win 1-0.

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Philadelphia Phillies catcher Carlos Ruiz, right, tags out the Arizona Diamondbacks' Justin Upton at the plate during the ninth inning of Monday night's baseball game in Phoenix. The Phillies won 11-4. (Associated Press photo)

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Penn State has moved up to third nationally in the Division I U.S. Academy Directors' Cup standings -- and could push higher with the recent national title by the men's volleyball team.

The rankings are good through the NCAA winter championships.

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There's little doubt to what the story of the day was here today in York County. Over the weekend, more than 20 teens -- most from York Catholic High School -- were cited for underage drinking at a party in East Hopewell Township.

Those cited, police said, included some notable York Catholic student-athletes -- Kelly Rhein, Jacob Iati, Angelina Ortenzio, Nick Falci and Steph Carr among them.

Whatever you might think of the news value and repercussions of this story, you can't deny that it has people talking. As of 7:40 p.m., there were already 144 reader comments tacked on to the story. Those comments themselves became part of the story and part of the community discussion. It would take you quite a while to read through all of them.

Here are 10 comments (lightly edited) that I thought were particularly illuminating or thought-provoking (though I don't necessarily agree with all of them):

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