Sorry, no chat.  Busy, busy.

The PIAA Track and Field records and history can be found here:  Boys records …  Girls records

Here is the list of 2010-2011 PIAA Track and Field Champions (Friday’s field champions included):

CLASS AA GIRLS

100: Cierra White, Carver Engineering & Science (12), 12.05

200: Cierra White, Carver Engineering & Science (12), 24.92

400: Michelle Davis, West Catholic (12), 55.26

800: Lille Brown, Boiling Springs (3), 2:13.78

1600: Angel Piccirillo, Homer-Center (6), 4:53.42

3200: Nicole Hilton, South Fayette (7), 10:55.43

100 hurdles: Torrey Hollis, Hughesville (4), 15.10

300 hurdles: Brodie Ercole, Lewisburg (4), 44.17

4×100 relay: West Catholic (12) – Jada Steward, Mia Hicks, Caela Williams, Michelle Davis – 48.08

4×400 relay: West Catholic (12) – Jada Steward, Mia Hicks, Caela Williams, Michelle Davis – 3:54.03

4×800 relay: Montoursville (4) – Lana Spitler, Taylor Eshbach, Alexis Weisser, Briana Spitler – 9:25.50

High jump: Lauren Lubarski, Hickory (10), 5-4

Pole vault: Monica Pechanec, Notre Dame-Green Pond (11), 12-0

Long jump: Kayla Hope, Tamaqua (11), 18-10 3/4

Triple jump: Lanae Newsome, Brookville (9), 38-3 1/2

Shot: Megan Dornish, Elk County Catholic (9), 44-8

Discus: Megan Dornish, Elk County Catholic (9), 141-3

Javelin: Christine Streisel, Tamaqua (11), 143-11

Team: West Catholic (12), 59 points

CLASS AAA GIRLS

100: Iman Wilkerson, Penn Hills (7), 12.04

200: Iman Wilkerson, Penn Hills (7), 24.76;

400: Alicia Evans, Quakertown (1), 55.02

800: Emma Keenan, Gwynedd Mercy (1), 2:13.06

1600: Margo Malone, North Hills (7), 4:55.72

3200: Tori Gerlach, Pennridge (1), 10:36.00

100 hurdles: Shelley Black, Coughlin (2), 13.83

300 hurdles: Leah Nugent, Abington (1), 41.10 (Record. Old: 41.46, Ryann Krais, Methacton, 2006, and Nugent, 2009)

4×100 relay: Norristown (1) – Rowanna Watson, Alexis Ball, Ciara Heatin, Zayna Milligan – 47.13

4×400 relay: Abington (1) – Jordan Matthews, Rachel Strother, Nicole Grasty, Leah Nugent – 3:46.20. (Record. Old: 3:46.31, Penn Hills, 2010)

4×800 relay: Henderson (1) – Janie Augustyn, Michelle Tracy, Suzanne Sanders, Natalie Deacon – 8:55.43. (Record. Old: 8:58.43, Upper Dublin, 1982

High jump: Anne Holland, Pennridge (1), 5-7

Pole vault: Kasey Kemp, Norwin (7), 12-0

Long jump: Marshay Ryan, Chambersburg (3), 18-7 1/2

Shot: Margo Britton, Dallastown (3), 44-4

Javelin: Lauren Kenney, State College (6), 151-4

Team: State College (6), 37 points

CLASS AA BOYS

100: Trenton Coles, Clairton (7), 11.15

200: Trenton Coles, Clairton (7), 22.33

400: Chidi Okezie, New Media (12), 48.12

800: L.J. Westwood, Quaker Valley (7), 1:55.55

1600: Tommy Gruschow, Trinity (3), 4:17.90

3200: John Trueman, Springfield Twp. (1), 9:31.66

110 hurdles: Cyniel Hinton, Summit Academy (7), 14.99

300 hurdles: Todd Townsend, West Catholic (12), 39.15

4×100 relay: Hickory (10) – Markus Schumacher, Michael Palumbo, Marlon Pegues, Christian Jackson – 42.45

4×400 relay: Trinity (3) – Mike Giordano, Derek Pawlush, Brett Seymore, Tommy Gruschow – 3:24.90

4×800 relay: Lewisburg (4) – Noah Bernahu, Ryan Lopes, Greg Oleginski, Luk Oleginski – 7:50.66

High jump: Luke Gallaher, Forest Hills (6), 6-7

Pole vault: Patrick Anderson, Kane (9), 15-0

Long jump: Derek Gaul, Schuylkill Valley (3), 23-1 1/4

Triple jump: Jarred Gambrell, Athens (4), 50-1 3/4 (Record. Old: 49-5, Justin Jarmon, Kennett, 1998)

Shot: Mike Recla, Bloomsburg (4), 57-0 1/2

Discus: De’mond Davis-White, Sharon (10), 172-2

Javelin: Rob Robbins, Northeast Bradford (4), 221-6 (Record. Old: 213-10, Thomas Lang, St. Pius X, 2010)

Team: Trinity (District 3), 42 points

CLASS AAA BOYS

100: Tyler Smith, Norristown (1), 10.87

200: Ronnie Gillespie, Upper Perkiomen (1), 22.09

400: Matt Gilmore, Cheltenham (1), 47.81

800: Hong Cho, Wissahickon (1), 1:52.49

1600: Drew Magaha, Upper Moreland (1), 4:07.32 (Record. Old: 4:09.33, Craig Miller, Manheim Twp., 2004)

3200: Glenn Burkhardt, Unionville (1), 9:07.53

110 hurdles: Chris Williams, Strath Haven (1), 14.18

300 hurdles: Eric Futch, Penn Wood (1), 36.43. (Record. Old: 36.94, Jason Kremus, Northampton, 1989)

4×100 relay: Susquehanna Twp. (3) – Leroy McClain, Patrick Olal-Ogwal, Rodney Watkins, Colby Grant – 41.74

4×400 relay: Cardinal O’Hara (12) – Brian Hamilton, Ken McAndress, Christian Canavarro, Tyler Gallen – 3:17.61

4×800 relay: Central Bucks West (1) – Nico Metzler, Matt McGarvey, Matt Bee, Connor Manley – 7:41.51

High jump: Ryan Brumfield, Owen J. Roberts (1), 6-10

Pole vault: Eric Hunter, Northampton (11), 15-0

Long jump: Matt Green, Belle Vernon (7), 23-5 ¾

Triple jump: Imani Brown, Reading (3), 48-7 3/4

Shot put: Kyle Long, Landisville Hempfield (3), 58-3 3/4

Discus: Kyle Long, Landisville Hempfield (3), 202-10 (Record. Old: 201-9, Ryan Whiting, Central Dauphin, 2005)

Javelin: Tom Lang, Pope John Paul II (1), 211-4

Team: Landisville Hempfield (3), 28 points

There will be no live chat today for two reasons. First, there are no track event finals on Friday, only field finals. Second, I’m working for two other media outlets on Friday that will limit my time on my own website.

Saturday’s a little different story. As of right now, I’m planning a Saturday live chat.

The PIAA Track and Field records and history can be found here:  Boys records …  Girls records

Here is the list of 2010-2011 PIAA Track and Field Champions:

CLASS AA GIRLS

Pole vault: Monica Pechanec, Notre Dame-GreenPond (11), 12-0

Long jump: Kayla Hope, Tamaqua (11), 18-10 3/4

High jump: Lauren Lubarski, Hickory (10), 5-4

Discus: Megan Dornish, Elk County Catholic (9), 141-3

CLASS AAA GIRLS

High jump: Anne Holland, Pennridge (1), 5-7

Shot: Margo Britton, Dallastown (3), 44-4

Long jump: Marshay Ryan, Chambersburg (3), 18-7 1/2

Javelin: Lauren Kenney, State College (6), 151-4

CLASS AA BOYS

Triple jump: Jarred Gambrell, Athens (4), 50-1 3/4 (Record. Old: 49-5, Justin Jarmon, Kennett, 1998)

Javelin: Rob Robbins, Northeast Bradford (4), 221-6 (Record. Old: 213-10, Thomas Lang, St. Pius X, 2010)

Pole vault: Patrick Anderson, Kane (9)

Shot: Mike Recla, Bloomsburg (4), 57-0 1/2

CLASS AAA BOYS

Discus: Kyle Long, Landisville Hempfield (3), 202-10 (Record. Old: 201-9, Ryan Whiting, Central Dauphin, 2005)

Triple jump: Imani Brown, Reading (3), 48-7 3/4

PERFORMANCE LISTS
CLASS AAA BOYS

CLASS AA BOYS

CLASS AAA GIRLS

CLASS AA GIRLS

PIAA TRACK AND FIELD HISTORY AND RECORDS

PIAA BOYS TRACK AND FIELD RECORDS

PIAA GIRLS TRACK AND FIELD RECORDS

(Hey, Mabel, don’t look now, but that there fella who runs that high school sports website has finally learned that he can put color on his site.  Only took him a year and a half …)

Second, I’m attending my first spring sports event of the year (not kidding; would you go out in the rain if you were a broken old fart like me?). Fortunately, it’s one of my favorites: The District 3 Track and Field Championships.

Inasmuch as I’m here in an official District 3 capacity as webmaster (yep, it’s what I do), I won’t be blabbing on and on like I did last year.

Rather, I’m throwing up the link to the live results below. If something crazy happens, I’ll make a comment or two. Otherwise, I’m strictly business (very boring).

DISTRICT 3 TRACK AND FIELD LIVE RESULTS

I’ll post the PIAA Track and Field Championships performance lists at some point on Sunday. The reason I’m so vague about the time is because I won’t be near the laptop on Sunday; I will be in State College for induction into the Pennsylvania Wrestling Coaches Association Hall of Fame. needless to say, I am very grateful for the honor.

In the meantime, enjoy the track and field. In fact, click here for the District 3 track and field page for some limited records and history. All of that history will appear on RodFrisco.com once I’m able to update after the meet.

The new school, a merger of Indian Valley and Lewistown high schools that was approved by the Mifflin County School Board last week, will be in place next school year if current Mifflin County School District plans move forward. At current, there is no indication that anything will interrupt those plans, but with school mergers, anything can happen.

But here is what has happened: Indian Valley and Lewistown, both members of the Mountain League, were booted out of the Mountain League in 2012-2013, although the new school will have Mountain League schedules in most, if not all, sports for the next school year.

With the new school, which will be a mid-sized Class AAAA school in football and basketball, thrown out of the Mountain League, it is highly likely that the Mid-Penn Conference will accept the new school as a full member at the start of the next cycle.

On Thursday, the Mid-Penn Conference, as anticipated, accepted State College as an all-sports member; the Little Lions had been a football-only member since 2004. With Mifflin County between State College and Harrisburg, it makes adding Mifflin County a little more palatable to the Mid-Penn.

So palatable, in fact, the conference has included the Mifflin County school in its 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 schedules as a league member, despite the fact that no formal action has been taken on the Mifflin County matter.

In fact, the Mid-Penn, meeting at the same time as the Mountain League and unaware of the ML’s actions, would likely have passed the alignments that included Mifflin County had it not been for requests by Trinity and Steelton-Highspire to change basketball divisions. The conference will vote electronically next Wednesday on the alignments once Steel-High and Trinity resolve the issue. Assuming the Mifflin County school is included in those alignments, as they were on Wednesday, that’s a pretty good indication Mifflin County will have smooth sailing to Mid-Penn membership.

Sometimes I just provide links.

Sometimes I make people mad with my rankings or opinions.

Sometimes I even have someone agree with me.

But always, always, I wish the very best for everyone – athlete or not, coach or not, parent or not – because to think anything less would make me less than I can and should be.

I thank everyone for their patronage of RodFrisco.com this year. But far more than that, I wish everyone – Christian or otherwise – a very happy, safe and wonderful Christmas and holiday season.

Merry Christmas to all.

Fairly light menu, to be honest. The biggest news of the meeting occurred on Thursday night when the Board passed, on a first-reading basis, a proposal to advance the start of fall sports practice and playing dates by one week from the current PIAA calendar. The measure, if eventually passed in full by the Board of Directors, would be implemented for the 2012-2013 school year.

First, let’s make one thing clear: The proposal has not become PIAA policy yet. The measure must pass a second reading in January by a majority vote and by a two-thirds majority vote in March if it makes it that far. Thursday’s vote was 18-13, which shows the measure has support, but not the kind of overwhelming support required to implement the change. Frankly, it’s an uphill fight for the proposal; it will take 21 affirmative votes to pass the proposal.

A quick look at the financial game reports for fall sports shows that PIAA gate receipts are well behind last year’s fall sports receipts. Compared to last year’s receipts, PIAA is more than $23,000 behind last year’s total (football is not included in that number).

Updates will appear below the bar. The most recent update is at the top

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As expected, not much going on. The Board is down to a discussion stage on a number of matters that will not require Board action. I’m off to Hersheypark Stadium. Frisky out.

Lots of discussion on an important by-law: How the PIAA will count enrollment toward cooperative sponsorships. The PIAA is proposing to count 50 percent of a sending school’s enrollment toward a co-op rather than the current 100 percent. This seems like a reasonable and a good step toward alleviating the problem of bumping a host school up in classification.

Some Board members are bartering for an even greater reduction in percentage – District 5 rep Virgil Palumbo is asking for 25 percent – in orderto bring the percentage more in line with the actual number of students to go from a sending school to a host school.

There is a counter-argument that such a move would give a competitive advantage to the small number of schools that can engage in co-ops. And the proposal is tabled.

District 5 rep Virgil Palumbo makes a new proposal to lower the percent of enrollment used in a co-op to 25 percent. The measure passes on a first-reading basis, 22-7. The original proposal remains on the table.
Back in regular session.

Just finishing up a hearing for a Danville athlete. Will return to regular session shortly.

I spent the day refining and then actually giving a presentation to the District 3 Committee for a position with the district as its webmaster and director of corporate sponsorships.

I’m pleased to announce that the district, after some healthy discussion on the matter, has approved the job. I thank the committee, and especially chairman Sam Elias of Hershey and vice-chairman Ron Kennedy of Donegal, with deep gratitude.

In brief, I have been charged with upgrading the District 3 site and providing the site with daily content as well as establishing permanent features. In addition, District 3, much like District 7, is actively seeking corporate sponsorships for its championship events. I am thrilled to be the point man for this initiative. The district will be seeking everything from major sponsors (a la District 7) to low-cost sponsorships for specific sports.

I will have details soon on the new District 3 website, which I hope to have up by Christmas. In the meantime, if you are interested in sponsoring District 3 championships at any level or know of an individual or business that is interested in the same, please feel free to contact me at rod@rodfrisco.com or call me at 717-919-5144. I will be happy to explain District 3′s different levels of sponsorship that are designed to work with any budget.

Now, what does this mean for RodFrisco.com? Is this the end of the site? Hardly.

What will happen with RodFrisco.com is a shift in philosophy, but not in content. I’ll be less of a reporter / blogger (because of time), but still very heavy on daily information. I will have to streamline my time and some of the information. I’ll have shorter, to-the-point blog posts and more links directly to the information.

I still intend to cover PIAA championships andpost everything I can related to PIAA news. For example, I’ll cover Friday morning’s PIAA Board of Directors meeting as well as all four football championship games this weekend.

But are some things that will necessarily change. For instance, I know some readers are looking for District 3 wrestling rankings on the site, but unfortunately, I cannot so them for two reasons. Now that I am actively working for District 3, I do not believe it is ethical for me to post district rankings, which are an opinion. It could be construed as the official position of District 3, and that cannot ever be the case. In addition, I am doing the team wrestling power ratings, which will formally qualify and seed the District 3 team Championships. I cannot be in the position of putting up my own rankings while working the official ratings; it’s a conflict of interest, and neither District 3 nor I can be in that position.

So I have to back away from my own rankings, but I’ll be happy to post the rankings of others. As such, things will change a little, but not in a way that’s detrimental to the readers of RodFrisco.com, readers for which I am extremely grateful.

Thanks to all who have chosen RodFrisco.com since the site launched in February. The site isn’t going away. In fact, it will have a sharper focus as a result of my work with District 3.

Keep checking. There will be plenty of items on the site in the coming days, weeks and months.

Rod

From bill on Contact us #

Rod, Wonderful effort—-a grand display by you to keeping good things going. Can we send a donation or tribute? …

Well, first of all, many thanks to the otherwise anonymous Bill. Comments like that help keep my enthusiasm level high.

But Bill did bring up that rather sensitive subject of money. This gives me an opportunity to make a little pre-emptive announcement.

As a dot com, I cannot accept donations toward the site. I run a (very) small business, subject to the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and those fine folks at the Internal Revenue Service. So any income I derive through the website must come in the form of either sales or sponsorships.

I am on the cusp of seeking both. Soon – very soon – I will have some RodFrisco.com gear available for sale. No, you won’t have a slick, four-color brochure to peruse. I will have just one product to start: Simple, white T-shirts with the red-and-black RodFrisco.com logo across the front.

I will make those shirts available for sale via the website in a week or so; I still have to set up my PayPal account and install it on my site.

If you like the site, please consider purchasing one as a way of supporting the site. They will be sold a small profit, the monies of which will be used to support the site.

I do not plan on making RodFrisco.com a subscription site … ever. That’s not a great business decision, to be honest, but I have always believed that the information on the site should not be for sale. I just want readers throughout the state and beyond to have a vault of information that they can access 24/7 without the annoyance of logging in or even paying a small fee for the privilege.

The simple fact is I love covering and commenting on Pennsylvania high school sports and have since I wandered into The Progress of Clearfield 37 years ago looking for a job answering phones (thanks, Fred Kavelak!). It’s a passion, and passion doesn’t have a price.

The T-shirts will, though. But it will be a reasonable one. Look for the announcement soon.

And thanks to all who have viewed the site (just about 400,000 and growing since February).

First, the link to the PIAA Team Tennis brackets:
CLASS AAA
CLASS AA

Now, the districts:
DISTRICT 1-AAA GIRLS TEAM TENNIS
DISTRICT 1-AA GIRLS TEAM TENNIS

DISTRICT 2-AAA GIRLS TEAM TENNIS
DISTRICT 2-AA GIRLS TEAM TENNIS

DISTRICT 3-AAA GIRLS TEAM TENNIS
DISTRICT 3-AA GIRLS TEAM TENNIS

DISTRICT 4-AA GIRLS TEAM TENNIS (click on team brackets link)

DISTRICT 5-AA GIRLS TEAM TENNIS (Note: Bedford defeated Windber 4-1 for the 5-AA championship)

DISTRICT 6-AAA GIRLS TEAM TENNIS: Championship – Hollidaysburg 3, State College 0
DISTRICT 6-AA GIRLS TEAM TENNIS: Championship – Westmont Hilltop 4, Bishop McCort 1

DISTRICT 7-AAA GIRLS TEAM TENNIS
DISTRICT 7-AA GIRLS TEAM TENNIS

DISTRICT 8-AAA GIRLS TEAM TENNIS: Champion – Allderdice
DISTRICT 8-AA GIRLS TEAM TENNIS: No representative

DISTRICT 9-AAA GIRLS TEAM TENNIS
DISTRICT 9-AA GIRLS TEAM TENNIS

DISTRICT 10-AAA GIRLS TEAM TENNIS – Oct. 21
DISTRICT 10-AA GIRLS TEAM TENNIS – Oct. 21

DISTRICT 11-AAA AND 11-AA GIRLS TEAM TENNIS

DISTRICT 12-AAA GIRLS TEAM TENNIS – Oct. 22
DISTRICT 12-AA GIRLS TEAM TENNIS – Oct. 22