PENNSYLVANIA SPORTS

High school, college & professional sports from the Patriot-News

• A special season
For environmental and economic reasons, the American Hockey League opted to publish only a digital version of its annual guide and record book for the 2009-10 season.

• Bacashihua left off clear-day roster
Goalie Jason Bacashihua has won nine straight appearances and accounted for 28.6 percent of his team's victories.

• DISTRICT 3-AAA SECTION I
Adam Geiger can wrestle, and he can hear.

• PIAA CLASS AA TEAM WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIPS
All state championships are earned, in one way or another.

• ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Alex Patchin has a message for the rest of the District 3-A field: Despite the Camp Hill boys' basketball record of 5-14 (through Feb. 7), watch out for his team come playoff time.

• Basketball team focuses on building skills
There are bad years, and then there are really bad years.

• Coach Dad helps daughter develop into basketball star
Taylor Miller is the record-breaking scorer for the Mechanicsburg girls' basketball team and has more than 1,100 career points.

• Quarterback leads drive to help others
Aquarterback with a cause, a friend with a purpose.

• Readers wrestle over need to change weight classes
Thanks to all who chimed in with your thoughts and feel ings regarding my wrestling column two weeks ago. It was the most feedback I've received regarding a story in my time on the West Shore beat.

• Skaters stay in step to compete at national level
The Team Reflections synchronized skat ing team, based out of Twin Ponds East in Susquehanna Twp., traveled to Lowell, Mass., from Jan. 28-30 to compete in the intermediate division of the Eastern Sectional Synchronized Skating Championships.

• Slayton gets team shooting for success
cott Slayton, boys bas ketball coach at Red Land, is a thankful man.

• Lebanon teams weather the make-ups
In 1945, musicians Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne wrote the song "Let it Snow."

• Postponements drift, but organizers plow into makeup games
When bad winter weather strikes, such as the double-barrel snowstorms that have affected us all this week, there is no sports league in the midstate that has to hustle quite like the Central Pennsylvania Interscholastic League to ensure that all its games get played.

• Postseason party begins Friday
For some it's a tune-up, but for others this weekend's Mid-Penn Conference swimming championships are one more opportunity to either extend or improve their postseason.