Columbia Talk

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Tide girls blanked by Eagles

Singles

Lindsay Wanner, Cocalico def Kelsey Ulrich, Columbia 6-0, 6-0
Jane Volynets, Cocalico def Jenna Geesey, Columbia 6-3, 6-4
Allison Witmer, Cocalico def Alex Lydon, Columbia 6-0, 6-0
Emily Shupp, Cocalico def Cody Barton, Columbia 6-1, 6-0
Caitlin Cooper, Cocalico def Amanie Beshara, Columbia 6-0, 6-0
Doubles
Murphy/Eidig, Cocalico def Geesey/Beshara, Columbia 8-1
Rutter/Miller, Cocalico def Lydon/Walton, Columbia 8-6

Eastern to honor first coach

Eastern will honor its first football coach tomorrow night. They played their first few years at Glatfelter Field: http://www.yorkdispatch.com/prepsports/ci_16027018

Old glory damaged

Took this picture this morning near Fifth and Locust streets of one of the American flags placed out for Labor Day damaged.

PPL sells shares of Safe Harbor

What affect will this have on the cabin area: http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/287380

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Car should be towed

This car is parked in an alley between Second and Third streets. The sign says no parking or car will be towed. Nothing was said about the car, which has been parked there for a long time, doesn't have a license plate, but does have a few flat tires.

Tide drops volleyball opener

Columbia opened its girls' volleyball season last night, losing in three sets at Elco, 25-11, 25-14 and 25-16.
Katie Will had two aces and blocks for the Tide, along with three kills.

Tide falls to A-C in tennis

SINGLES

Addie Davies, AC def Kelsey Ulrich, Columbia 6-0, 6-0
Amalia Hartman, AC def Jenna Geesey, Columbia 6-0, 6-0
Abigail Bridi, AC def Cody Barton, Columbia 6-0, 6-0
Renee Houser, AC def Amanie Beshara, Columbia 6-0, 6-0
Elizabeth O'Connor, AC def Rachel Hall, Columbia 6-0, 6-1
DOUBLES
Lemon/R. Light, AC def Geesey/Beshara, Columbia 8-0
Fair/S. Light, AC def Ulrich/Barton, Columbia 8-0

Traffic concerns

PennDOT is working on Route 30 in Wrightsville: http://www.ydr.com/ci_16020404

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Columbia Police reports

RICHARD DWAYNE DIXON, AGE 40, OF LANCASTER, WAS CHARGED AND ARRAIGNED IN LANCASTER CENTRAL ARRAIGNMENT, FOR TERRORISTIC THREATS AND FOR POSSESSION OF COCAINE, SEPT. 4.
HIS BAIL WAS SET AT $30,000.00 STRAIGHT BAIL. THE INCIDENT HAPPENED ON SOUTH 10TH STREET.

PATRICK MICHAEL MULLIKIN, AGE 26, OF MANHEIM, WAS CITED FOR DISORDERLY CONDUCT AND FOR PUBLIC DRUNKENNESS, IN THE 400 BLOCK OF CHERRY STREET, SEPT. 4..

WAYNE KENNETH PLEMPEL, AGE 51, OF MARYLAND, WAS CHARGED AND ARRAINGED AT JUDGE HERMAN’S FOR AGGRAVATED ASSAULT ON A POLICE OFFICER, RESISTING ARREST, DISORDERLY CONDUCT AND CRIMINAL MISCHIEF, SEPT. 1.
HIS BAIL WAS SET AT $50,000.00 STRAIGHT BAIL, AND HE WAS TAKEN TO L.C.P.

BRIAN SCOTT KENNEY, AGE 21, OF COLUMBIA, WAS CITED FOR CRIMINAL TRESPASS ON SOUTH FOURTH STREET, SEPT. 2.
LEO W. LOWE, JR., AGE 48, OF COLUMBIA, WAS CITED FOR OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES AT FIFTJH AND CHERRY STREETS, SEPT. 4.
BRITTANY ANNE WISEMAN, AGE 21, OF LANCASTER, WAS CITED IN THE 500 BLOCK OF NORTH SECOND STREET, FOR REGISTRATION AND CERTIFICATION OF TITLE REQUIRED, SEPT. 4..

DEREK M. KNEISLEY, AGE 28, OF WILLOW STREET, WAS CITED FOR STOP SIGNS AND YIELD SIGNS AT FRONT AND LOCUST STREETS, SEPT. 5.

SAIRDARIUS S. JOHNSON, AGE 22, OF COLUMBIA, WAS CITED FOR DISORDERLY CONDUCT IN THE 400 BLOCK OF MANOR STREET, SEPT. 5.
JAMES E. PRISTER, III, AGE 22, OF LANCASTER, WAS CITED FOR DRIVERS REQUIRED TO BE LICENSED, AT FRONT AND PLANE STREETS, SEPT. 6.
DAVID SCOTT COLLINS, AGE 27, OF MARYLAND, WAS CITED FOR STOP SIGNS AND YIELD SIGNS, AT THIRD AND LINDEN STREETS, SEPT. 6.
SHAQUIRA COLON, AGE 32, OF YORK, WAS CITED FOR STOP SIGNS AND YIELD SIGNS, IN THE 300 BLOCK OF LINDEN STREET, SEPT. 6.
KEVIN THOMAS, AGE 37, OF LANCASTER, WAS CITED FOR DRIVING WHILE OPERATING PRIVILEGE IS SUSPENDED OR REVOKED, AT 13TH AND MANOR STREETS, SEPT. 7.

Moving day

This trash pile was spotted in the 600 block of Plane Street and gets bigger every day.

New signs

New street signs were installed today on Locust Street.

School is open

Students at Park Elementary School enjoy their first day of school recess as the Columbia Borough School District opened for classes today.

Burglars sought in Marietta

Suquehanna Regional Polie are looking for burglars in Marietta: http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/286458

Monday, September 6, 2010

Week Two Predictions

Here are some week two predictions for Columbia and its remaining opponents:

Susquehannock at Daniel Boone. The Blazers, who return to Columbia next week improve to 2-0 with a 42-0 win over Susquehannock.

Boiling Springs at Palmyra: The Bub, Bub, Bubblers were drilled in their opener by Littlestown. A trip down to Lebanon County for a game with 1-0 Palmyra is no walk in the park, but take the Bubblers, 14-12.

Pine Grove at Elco: The Raiders, who many expected to challenge Lancaster Catholic in Section 3, have some injury problems and fall to 0-2 with an 18-12 loss to Pine Grove.

Lebanon at Northern Lebanon: The Ray Wall era at NL didn't get off to a great start with a loss to Pine Grove and it won't get any better this week, Lebanon wins big, 36-14.

Annville-Cleona at Hamburg: The Little Dutchmen might be the most over rated team in Section 3. Big things were expected in A-C this year. They laid an egg in week one vs. Palmyra. Add cheese to that Hamburg, loss number two for the Dutchmen, 14-6.

Kutzown at Pequea Valley. We know the Braves can put the points on the scoreboard. But when you score 46, you should win. Yet, they lost to York Tech 48-46. This week, the scoreboard gets another workout, take PV 47-34.

Hempfield vs. Lancaster Catholic: On paper, this looks like a marque game. The biggest school in the L-L League against the defending Class AA state champs. Hempfield has a lot of problems and this game has no luster and won't even be a contest. Take the state champs big, 43-7.

Columbia at Northeastern: Columbia broke an 11-game losing streak Friday night and has been playing football for well over 100 years. Northeastern's program is only three years old. Take Columbia and its high powered offense, 35-12.

Donegal at Fleetwood: Donegal had no chance in week one against Daniel Boone, but rebound this week with an 18-14 win.

A bit of history

Michael Burke III became the seventh Columbia High School football coach since 1925 to win their first game as head coach.
The others were Mike Burke II, 1985, over Elizabethtown, 21-20; Jason Shoff, 2004, 25-13 over Eastern; Jack Yohe, 1963, 7-0 over Wilson; Boyd Sponaugle, 1941 over the Patton School, 33-0; Charles Spangler, 1936, 19-0 over Susquehanna Township and Irv Keener, 1926, 14-0 over Lititz.
Coaches not winning their first game were Joe Horn (1983 to Hempfield); Les Schoelkoph (1976 to Hempfield); Elmer Kreiser (1958 to Manheim Central); Tom Donan (1950 to Lancaster Catholic); "Whitey" Pew (1945 to Ephrata); Harry Langford (1943 to Lancaster Catholic); Woody Sponaugle (1938 to Lancaster Catholic) and Sam Angle (1927 to Reading).

Fire pictures

From the Columbia No. 1 Fire Department, here are a few pictures from this morning's fire.

Fire damages home in the boro

A home in Washington Boro was destroyed by a fire around 3 a.m.: http://www.wgal.com/video/24898156/detail.html

The Town Square this morning

Snapped these pictures of Town Square this morning shortly after 7 o'clock. The damage was repaired several hours later.

Town Square damaged

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Tide wins, Tide wins

photos by Pat Kreider

One game down and one win in the books for the 2010 Columbia football team
The Tide broke an 11-game losing streak Friday night with a 43-24 win at the "Dust Bowl" on the hill over cross-river rival Eastern York.
Outside of the opening drive of the game and the third quarter, the Tide showed its dominance in breaking a two-year losing streak to the Knights.
On that first drive of the game, the Knights started from their own 25. On the second play of the game, quarterback Mark Holloway broke up the middle for 63 yards to the Tide 17. Five plays later, the Knights went ahead 6-0 on a 1-yard run by Alex Cooley, but the Knights botched the PAT and only led 6-0.

Back roared the Tide. Out of its "gator" offense, the Tide needed 13 plays to reach the end zone for the first time this season. With 5:13 left in the opening quarter, first-year starting quarterback Tyler Harrison found Michael Burke IV on a fade for a 30-yard score to deadlock the game.
Actually, the Tide scored twice on the drive, but the scores were negated first by a holding penalty and later by a procedure penalty.
With all the makings of an offensive show, the Knights then drove to the Tide 38 where they were faced with a fourth and 23. The Knights tried to punt but the snap sailed over punter Eric Moore's head fora 37-yard loss.
That gave the Tide the ball at the Knight 25. After a big run by burly fullback Dominic Trout, David Wells gave the Tide its first lead in 14 games with a 5-yard run. Seth Lefever's 2-point pass to John Markley gave the Tide a 14-6 lead five seconds into the second quarter.
After the two teams exchanged punts, Eastern put three points up on the scoreboard with 5:24 left in the half on a 21-yard field goal by Moore.

But the Knights had no answer for the Tide's offense. Harrison threw his second scoring strike of the game, a 9-yard pass to Burke and with 2:55 left in the half, the Tide led 21-9.
Eastern was forced to punt again and the Tide took over at midfield. It didn't take long for the Tide to score as Harrison found Lefever for his third score of the half from 13 yards with 46 seconds left in the half to give the Tide a 27-9 lead.
There might have been another chance for the Tide to put up some points as Eastern muffed the ensuing kickoff at the one. But there was no chance for the Tide to record a safety.
The third quarter belonged to the Knights.
They scored on their first offensive play of the half on a 73-yard run by Mitch Leratonda and on their next possession drove 45 yards in eight plays as Cooley scoed on a 3-yard run. All he sudden with one minute left in the third quarter, Eastern trailed 27-24.

The game was suddenly in doubt.
That douby ended four minutes into the fourth quarter. Back-up running back Brock Taylor sprinted 25-yards for a score and the Tide was ahead 33-24.
Taylor was just getting warmed up.
Three minutes later, he took an option pitch from Harrison and raced 72-yard for a score. All the sudden a game that was in doubt, wasn't as the Tide led 39-24.
Now it was the defense's time to shine.
After Eastern muffed another punt at the 1, Trout rushed Holloway and forced an intentional grounding call in the end zone for a safety 14 seconds later.

It was the first of two safeties in the final in minutes. On their next possession, the Tide were forced to punt. The center snapped sailed out of the end zone for anothe safety, making the final 43-24.
And as the final seconds counted down, there were plenty of reasons to celebrate at the "Dust Bowl."

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Congrats, you may have made the playoffs

In 2009, there were just six teams in the Class A playoffs. That's because about three of the 11 teams in the class went winless and another didn't want to go with two wins. Yes, had they wanted to, the Tide could have went to the playoffs last year, but didn't.
So with that in mind, five Class A teams, including Columbia, scored wins last night. They were Reading Central Catholic, Millersburg, Steel-High and Upper Dauphin.
Class A teams losing were Camp Hill, Carson Long,Halifax and York Catholic.
Fairfield was idle.