Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Another slugfest

It was another slugfest this afternoon at Cocalico for the Columbia baseball team.
The Tide and Eagles combined for 17 runs and 20 hits as Cocalico scored an 11-6 win over the Tide.
Last night, the Tide gave up 11 runs in a loss to L-S.
The difference in the game was the bottom of the sixth when the Eagles scored six runs.
Cocalico led the game 3-0 with a pair of runs in the second and a single run in the third. The Tide got back in the game somewhat with a two spot in their half of the fifth innings, before the Eagles scored twice in their half of the fifth to take a 5-3 lead.
Columbia closed the gap with three runs in the top of the seventh.

No more warnings

As many of you know, street sweeping has resumed its normal schedule in the borough of Columbia.
Warnings will no longer be issused for vehicles that aren't moved. As of tomorrow, all vehicles not moved will be ticketed.

Tide back to winning ways

Junior pitcher Emily Detz broke open a 0-0 tie game in the second inning with a grand slam home run that cleared the left field fence and led the Crimson Tide to a 6-0 win over visiting Cocalico in a L-L League Section 3/4 crossover game.
 Detz went 2-3 at the plate and also walked in four appearances. In the circle, she struck out 14, while walking two and yielding just 4 hits on the rain-soaked afternoon at Glatfelter Field.



The win improved Columbia to 6-2 in Section 4 and 8-3 overall, and established a new single season school record for wins by the softball team. The previous mark of 7 wins was set in 1995 when the tide finished 7-9.

The Crimson and Gold visit Elco on Friday looking to keep pace with Section 4 front runner Pequea Valley. The Tide currently sits in second place in Section 4, a game ahead of Annville-Cleona.

Tide drops make-up

The Columbia baseball team was a 10-0 loser Tuesday night to Section 3 leading Lampeter-Strasburg.
The game was postponed from Friday.
The Tide had just five hits for the game.
The Pioneers, who hosted the game under the lights, scored three times in the second inning and twice in the third. They also scored once in the fifth and four more times in the sixth.
Brandon Arnold making his first start of the year, struck out three and walked six, until he was relieved in the sixth.

Columbia man charged in burglary

A Columbia man has been charged by Susquehanna Regional Police. Here is the link http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/251367

Province buys Union National

Province Bank, with a location in Columbia and one in Marietta, has agreed to purchase Union National Community Vank, which also has an office in Columbia.
Here is the link from today's story in the Intell/New Era: http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/251349

Monday, April 19, 2010

Tide drops slugfest

It was a day for hitters on Monday afternoon at Glatfelter Field as Manheim Central and the Crimson Tide combined for 21 runs and 20 hits. The bad part for the Tide was Manheim Central scored 15 of the 21 runs in a 15-6 win over the Tide.
Columbia dominated the first three innings of the game, leading 4-1. But "Manheim Magic" hit in the top of the fourth inning when the Barons exploded for eight runs to take a 9-4 lead in the game.
Columbia pulled within 9-5 with a solo run in their half of the fourth, but the Barons were not donem scoring twice in the fifth and four times in the sixth to bust the game open.
The two teams also combined for 14 strikeouts and 17 walks.

Track team enjoy first success

The Columbia track teams picked up their first wins of the season in a non-league tri-match up on the hill against the Lititz Christian School and the Christian School of York.
Columbia won the boys' meet with 71 points, followed by Lititz Christian with 43 points and the Christian School of York with 32.
In the girls' meet, the Tide had  74 points, followed by Lititz with 25 and CSY with 12.
There were a number of events that were not contested or had one or two competitors.
First place finishers for the Tide girls: Rachel Knighton (1,600); Audreana Edmond (400), Rachel Hall (300 hurdles); Rebecca Kuhn (800); Nicole Bowman (high jump and long jump), and Kelsy Ulrich (shot put, discus and javelin).
Second place: Edmond (100 and 200); Shaday Frazier (400); Knighton (3,200) and Michelle Hall (shot put and javelin).
Third place: Frazier (100 and 200); Kuhn (400); Rachel Hall (long jump) and Kolyana Mimnall (shot put, discus and javelin).
First place for Tide boys: 3,200-meter relay (Markis Harrison, Tony Barton, Alan Foehlinger and Derek Zercher); Jerermy Daise (100); David Wells (300 hurdles); Brandon Felus (shot put, discus and javelin).
Second place: Well (100); Zercher (1,600); Foehlinger (300 hurdles); Harrison (800); 1,600-meter relay team and John Bosley (discus and javelin).
Third Place: Harrison (400) and Jeremy Beckley (long jump).
Fourth Place: Tony Barton (1,600); Daise (200).

Tide falls again in softball

:It was a tough one today," said Columbia softball coach Brad Brubaker.
.Manheim Central defeated Columbia 5-1 in a Section3-4 crossover game in Manheim today.
Emily Detz battled with a 7 strikeout, 1 walk performance, giving up 6 hits. "She was hit by a line drive in the hip in the third inning, but remained in the game," Brubaker said.
Freshman catcher Ashlyn Phillips, who was hit in the dugout area with a line drive foul ball in the top of the first inning, went 2-3 and drove in the Tide's lone run with a one-out single in the third inning, plating Detz who had walked.
Columbia could only muster three hits and three walks on the offensive side.

The loss drops Columbia to 5-2 in league play and 7-3 overall.

Columbia's weekly police reports


JOHN N. MORRISON, 62, OF RED LION, WAS CITED FOR OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES, AT NORTH THIRD AND LINDEN STREETS, AT 5:38 P.M., APRIL 12.

MARCELLUS BYAS, 47, OF COLUMBIA, WAS CITED FOR DRIVERS REQUIRED TO BE LICENSED, IN THE 200 BLOCK OF SOUTH THIRD STREET, AT 8:43 P.M., APRIL 12.

BRIAN JACYSZYN, 26, OF CONESTOGA, WAS CITED FOR OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES AT ROUTE 441 SOUTH AND PERRY STREET, AT 4:15P.M., APRIL 12.

FRANKIE RIVERA, 30, OF COLUMBIA, WAS CITED FOR REQUIRED FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; UNAUTHORIZED TRANSFER OF REGISTRATION; AND FOR DRIVING WHILE OPERATING PRIVILEGE IS SUSPENDED OR REVOKED, IN THE 200 BLOCK OF CHERRY STREET, AT 9:08 P.M., APRIL 12.

ERNEST T. CONNOR, 53, OF COLUMBIA, WAS CITED FOR DRIVING WHILE OPERATING PRIVILEGE IS SUSPENDED OR REVOKED, AT 12TH AND MANOR STREETS, AT 10: 54 P.M., APRIL 12.

BRADLEY A. GROFF, 41, OF LANCASTER, WAS CITED FOR MAXIMUM SPEED LIMITS AT FRONT AND PERRY STREETS, AT 9:18 A.M., APRIL

SANDRA B. GARCIA, 42, OF COLUMBIA, WAS CITED FOR OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES IN THE 900 BLOCK OF LANCASTER AVENUE, AT 7:45 A.M., APRIL 13.

MICHAEL K. ALLISON, 33, OF CONESTOGA, WAS CITED FOR OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES AT FOURTH AND LOCUST STREETS, AT 8:15 P.M., APRIL 13.

MARY C. HENRY, 36, OF MOUNT JOY, WAS CITED FOR DRIVING VEHICLE AT SAFE SPEED AND FOR DRIVING WHILE OPERATING PRIVILEGE IS SUSPENDED OR REVOKED, IN THE FIRST BLOCK OF SOUTH FOURTH STREET, AT 12:18 A.M., APRIL 14.

A 15 YEAR OLD COLUMBIA MALE, WAS CITED FOR REGISTRATION AND CERTIFICATION OF TITLE REQUIRED AND FOR DRIVERS REQUIRED TO BE LICENSED IN THE 400 BLOCK OF LOCUST STREET, AT 4:06 P.M., APRIL 15.

SARAH PATRICIA THRAN, 26, OF MARIETTA, WAS CITED FOR DRIVING WHILE OPERATING PRIVILEGE IS SUSPENDED OR REVOKED, AT ROUTE 30 EAST AND 441, AT 3:46 P.M., APRIL 15.

CALVIN E. BEAMESDERFER, 76, OF MYERSTOWN, WAS CITED FOR OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES AT SIXTH AND LOCUST STREETS, AT 7:48 A.M., APRIL 15.

KEVON BARRY FREY, 49, OF RED LION, WAS CITED FOR MAXIMUM SPEED LIMITS, ON ROUTE 30 EAST, AT2:38 P.M., APRIL 15.

JARRETT MICHAEL BAYMAN, 21, OF COLUMBIA, WAS CITED FOR TURNING MOVEMENT AND REQUIRED SIGNALS, IN THE 100 BLOCK OF NORTH SEVENTH STREET, AT 3:33 P.M., APRIL 16.

DONALD LEE HEINAMAN, 52, OF COLUMBIA, WAS CITED FOR PUBLIC DRUNKENNESS, AT MUSSER’S MARKET, 960 LANCASTER AVENUE, AT 7:18 P.M., APRIL 16.

TRACY L. FINEFROCK, 49, OF COLUMBIA, WAS CITED FOR REQUIRED FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, AT CHERRY STREET AND ROUTE 462, AT 4:23 P.., APRIL 16.

KEVIN MAURICE SPRIGGS, 45, OF YORK, WAS CITED FOR DRIVING WHILE OPERATING PRIVILEGE IS SUSPENDED OR REVOKED, AT SECOND AND WALNUT STREETS, AT 7:34 P.M., APRIL 16.

CHRISTOPHER D. BOWMAN, 27, OF LANCASTER, WAS CITED FOR DRIVING WHILE OPERATING PRIVILEGE IS SUSPENDED OR REVOKED, IN THE 400 BLOCK OF CHERRY STREET, AT 12:41 A.M., APRIL 19.

HARRY ARTHUR LAIRD, JR., 45, OF MANHEIM, WAS CITED FOR PUBLIC DRUNKENNESS AT SECOND AND MILL STREETS, AT 1:58 A.M., APRIL 17.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

L-L Coaching chances since Goodling came to HHS

Twenty-five years in a long time to stay in coaching. But that's how Long Warren Goodling has been at Hempfield.
Over those 25 years, each team in the L-L League has changed coaches at least once.
Here is a list:
CV, McCaskey and Township have had two coaches.
Three -- Cedar Crest, L-S and Lebanon Catholic.
Five -- Ephrata, Pequea Valley, Cocalico, Northern Lebanon and Lancaster Mennonite.
Six -- Penn Manor, Solanco, Warwick, Lancaster Catholic, Columbia (can you name them?), Donegal and Elco.
Seven -- Central, Annville-Cleona, Garden Spot, Lebanon.
10 - E-town.

Tide doesn't do well at Shippensburg

The Columbia track team competedat the annual Shippensburg Invitational yesterday and for one of the rare times in school history failed to score any points.
In girls' events, the 400-meter relay team placed 18th, while the 1,600-meter relay team placed 16th. In individual events, high jumper Nicole Bowman did not place.
In boys' events, Jeremy Daise tied for 34th in the 100 and Derek Zercher was 20th in the 3,200. Thrower Brandon Felus was 23rd in the shot put and 19th in the discus.
In relay events, the 400-meter relay team was disqualified, whole the 1,600-meter relay team was 19th and the 3,200-meter relay team was 16th.

Hempfield's Goodling steps down

I was told this earlier last week, but veteran Hempfield boys' basketball coach Wareen Goodling is stepping down. He's been the Black Knight boss for 25 years.
Here is Mike Gross' story http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/251257

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Michener to Kutztown

Columbia senior and veteran bowler Allison Michener has accepted a bowling scholarship to Kutztown University.

Morgan ready for NFL Draft

Here is a link to a story today in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Derrick Morgan, who played football with the CBAA program and at the junior high level here in Columbia, before moving back to Coatesville.
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/sports/20100417_Coatesville_s_Morgan_ready_for_NFL_draft.html

Park Rangers to hold detail

On Saturday, April 24, the Columbia Park Rangers, as part of Columbia Pride Day, will work at Locust Street Park. Rangers will assemble at 8 a.m. at Sixth and Locust streets.
The four-hour work session will be a general cleanup one focused on getting the park in tip-top form for spring.

Friday, April 16, 2010

Accident snarls Route 30 traffic

http://www.wgal.com/video/23173084/index.html

A lesson learned in loss

The Columbia girls’ softball is young, with a lot of inexperience at the varsity level.


There’s no denying that through the first seven games of the season, they’ve done well, winning six of those games.

For the first time in school history, the rest of the Lancaster-Lebanon League is taking notice.

Through the first half of Section 4 play, the Tide went 5-0, beating a couple of traditional powers.

Friday afternoon at Glatfelter Field, coach Brad Brubaker’s team started crossover play with a game against Lampeter-Strasburg, one of top teams in Section 3.

And it was a dandy of a game, with the Pioneers holding off the Crimson Tide for a 2-1 win.

Columbia is 5-1 in league play and 6-2 overall. Monday, the Tide travels to Manheim Central for another tough non-league game.

The difference in this one was that the Tide, despite an 11-strikeout performance by junior Emily Detz, didn’t come up big in the field and two runners thrown out at the dish attempting to score.

The Pioneers scored first. Their lead-off batter tripled just wide of the glove of Tide right fielder Emily Nobile. Despite striking out the side in the first, the Pioneers got the jump in the scoring column, scoring on a passed ball.

Columbia got its first chance to score in the third when Allison Michener reached on an infield hit and moved to third on a stolen base and a ground out. With two outs, Emily Groft worked a walk to give the Tide two base runners, but Vallesa Carollo was called out on a questionable third strike call to end the threat.

With two outs in the fifth, the Pioneers reached Detz for another run, capitalizing on a solid single to right, two stolen bases and a little infield nubber that went for a hit.

At that points, the two runs looked big for the Pioneers as the Tide wasn’t doing much at the dish.

But in the fifth, the Tide got something going.

With one out, Nobile reached on a bunt hit and Detz with a single to right, allowing Nobile to scurry to third and Detz eventually ending up on second. A golden opportunity for the Tide. Next up was Groft, who bunted, but Nobile was gunned down at the plate, keeping the Tide off the board.

After a scoreless sixth, this one went down to the final three outs.

Michener led off the seventh with a solid single to center and pinch-hitter Kayla Lambert came off the pines to rip a gapper to left-center scoring Michener. All the sudden, it was 2-1 with no one out and the top of the order up.

Rather than give up a big hit to the Tide’s best player Detz, L-S threw four balls out of the strike zone, with one problem. Ball four sailed wide of the plate past the L-S catcher, allowing Lambert to move to third.

With the game on the line, Groft hit a hard liner to second, which was caught and nearly doubled Detz off first. With one out, Carollo hit one to third, but Lambert was cut down at the plate. Still, there was at least one more chance for the Tide, but the comeback ended when Jenna Plastino popped out to end the game.

Despite the loss, the Tide still leads Section 4, just ahead of Pequea Valley and Annville-Cleona.

Did you know?

That a violent sexual predator has moved into the 400 block of Locust Street? Police were passing out information yesterday.

Here is the link: http://www.pameganslaw.state.pa.us/OffenderDetail.aspx?text=bgdddiid&dt=HCEJCFDED4ENIFNDJ4da

Police to host citizen's academy

West Hempfield Township Police Department announces that it will be hosting its first “Citizens Police Academy”. The Academy will held Monday through Thursday over a twoweek period from May 17 to May 27.
 Attendees are not required to attend all eight sessions. The purpose of the academy is to provide a “Partnership through Education.” The academy is being presented to provide the citizens of West Hempfield Township and Mountville Borough with the basicoperations and legal issues by which the department functions. Each session will provide an overview of various areas of law enforcement, department operations and day-to-day responsibilities of the officers
 The academy is being coordinated by Sgt Timothy Coyle and Cpl Douglas Ober who, along with other officers from the department, will also be instructing several of the classes.
“We’re very excited to offer thisopportunity to our residents” stated Chief Mark Pugliese, “the officers coordinating the classes have been working very hard to line-up guest speakers from across the criminal justice spectrum.”
Speakers include Lancaster County District Attorney Craig Stedman as well as several Assistant District Attorneys, Magisterial District Judge Robert Herman, and Lancaster County Sheriff Terry Bergman. Additionally, attendees will have the opportunity to tour the Lancaster County 911 Center and the County Courthouse.
Any West Hempfield Township or Mountville Borough resident, business owner or individual actively involved in the community may apply for the academy. Individuals must be at least 18 years of age and the academy will be limited to the first 30 eligible applicants. Applications may be picked up at the West Hempfield Township Police Station or at the Mountville Borough Office. Deadline for registering is April 30.
Questions may be directed to the West Hempfield Township Police at 285-5191. Contact person: Chief Mark G. Pugliese at 285-5191

Gift from retiring teacher

Retiring CHS teacher Jean Phiel wants to honor the Class of 2010 on the hill.

West HempfieldTownship police reports

Police are investigating the passing of counterfeit bills at the Musser's Market, 3975 Columbia Ave., at 5:48 p.m., April 14.
Police said the night before a number of bogus $5 bills were passed in the store.
Anyone with any information is asked to call police at 285-5191.

Officials of the Getty Mart of Mountville, reported at 6 a.m., April 14, someone cut wires to the rear of the building and rilled out the door lock. Once in side, the suspects took a large amount of cigarettes and cash.
Anyone with any information is asked to call police at 285-5191.

Officials of Rod's Auto Body of the 800 block of Ivy Drive reported at 1 p.m., April 14, reported the theft of tires and wheels, between April 4-9.

Police bust man on sex charges

A 27-year-old from West Hempfield Township has been charged with 15 counts of sexual abuse of children.


Township Police Detective George Brace charged Devin Jay Garman, 27, of Stonehouse Lane, with the offenses, April 14.

Police said Garman was charged as the result of an investigation, reported to Lancaster County Adukt Probation and Parole, Dec. 17, 2009.

Garman was reported to allegedly be in possession of illegal pornographic material, police said.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Tide swept in track

It was another rough afternoon for Columbia in track.
The Tide was swept on the home track by Hempfield, losing the girls' meet, 133-17 and the boys' meet, 138-12.
Some Columbia athletes will compete in the Shippensburg Invitational on Saturday.
Highlights of the day were Jeremy Daise, who finished first in the 100 and Shaday Frazier, who won the 100 and a leg of the winning 400-meter relay team.

The winning continues

Here is a report on the last two softball games from Columbia coach Brad Brubaker.
We took a 5-1 win over McCaskey in Lancaster. Emily Detz was again strong in the circle striking out 13, walking none and allowing just two hits. The run was unearned.
Freshman Jenna Plastino broke open a 1-1 tie with one out in the 6th inning by crushing her first career home run to deep centerfield. The bomb plated freshman Alexis Eckman, who was pinch running for Ashlyn Phillips, who had walked. The Tide broke it open in the top of the seventh when freshman Brit Germer, who was 2-3 on the day with an RBI, led off with a single. Pinch hitter Marina Benavente would bring her home from third on a drag bunt.

The non-league win over McCaskey runs Columbia's record to 7-1 overall, tying the record for most wins in a season. The 1995 Crimson Tide finished the season at 7-9.
On Wednesday, Detz went for 4-4 with two doubles, a triple, home run and scored 3 times in leading Columbia to a 6-2 win at Lancaster Mennonite.
Plastino also went 2-4 in that game. The Tide scored single runs in every inning but the second and closed the first half of the L-L League Section 4 schedule with a perfect 5-0 mark.
 Detz was dominant in the circle, allowing three hits and striking out 18 while walking none.