STATE COLLEGE
There's a theme here, but there's no need to try to make you guess it with fancy words and faintly disguised allusions.
It's so painfully obvious for anyone who watches Penn State play football at this point, anyway. It makes beating around the bush tactless. It's not a good way to get to the point.
That point: Penn State has lost two games this season. In both of them, its special teams broke down like an '85 Yugo.
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STATE COLLEGE - The last few weeks, Daryll Clark started to drum up a little bit of Heisman Trophy consideration, courtesy of coach Joe Paterno's insistence that he wasn't getting enough.
After Saturday, that talk will probably be down to a murmur.
Clark struggled badly in a 24-7 loss to the Buckeyes. He completed just 12 of his 28 passes, amassed just 125 yards, was picked off in the fourth quarter and completed just one pass to the two biggest playmakers Penn State has at wideout - Derek Moye and Chaz Powell.
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Mid Valley coach Frank Pazzaglia will not be coaching his team this week as he prepares for a major surgical procedure on his heart.
Longtime assistant coach Tom Krempasky and Pazzaglia's staff will be guiding the team throughout the week as the Spartans get ready to play at No. 1 seed Dunmore on Friday at 7 p.m.
Rob Pazzaglia and Mike Barrett will handle the offense, Krempasky and Barrett will call the defense, Tom Lisowski is in charge of the special teams and Joe Bour will contribute on both offense and defense.
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HERSHEY - Every day in the summer at 8 a.m., Jake Kanavy would show up at Aaron Wilkinson's house so they could go for a training run.
During that time, the Valley View teammates talked about winning at districts and medaling at states.
Neither one of them imagined, however, that Wilkinson would do what he did Saturday at the PIAA Cross Country Championships.
Wilkinson headlined a strong showing by District 2 by finishing fourth out of 289 runners in the Class AA race. The sophomore covered the 3.1-mile Parkview Championship Course in 16 minutes, 53 seconds.
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CLARKS SUMMIT - Abington Heights came into Saturday afternoon seeking to check off the first of its list of goals this season.
With a powerful running game and explosive special teams, the No. 4 Comets overwhelmed Honesdale, 41-6, to claim a share of the Lackawanna Football Conference Division I title.
It is the seventh division crown for Abington Heights since 1998. The Comets, who are the No. 1 seed for the District 2 Class AAA playoffs, share the crown with North Pocono, which defeated them earlier this year.
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HERSHEY - Somehow, Elk Lake sophomore Maria Trowbridge and Blue Ridge junior Allison Hall always seem to wind up together.
Running in the same cluster during the Lackawanna League regular season, three meets saw Trowbridge finish first and Hall second. Three wound up Hall-Trowbridge, while one had Hall first and Trowbridge third.
At the District 2 Class AA Championships, the two runners broke away from the rest of the field. Hall won her second straight district title and Trowbridge took second.
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