Print Edition Highlights - November 12, 2015

First annual 2015 Corn Hole Tournament - A big success

Players toss bean bags back and forth during the first annual Corn Hole Tournament, sponsored by the Polar Bear Foundation on October 24 at Range End Golf Course.

____ Thirty-five teams competed in the Polar Bear Foundation’s first annual Corn Hole Tournament on Oct. 24 held at Range End Golf Course.
____ Against the beautiful backdrop of the South Mountain, fall foliage rained down alongside large square bean bags tossed between competitors. Live music was provided by disc jockey Wally while the Penn State football game played in the background.
____ Unusually named teams such as Bagnificant, Corn to Be Wild!, Board of the Rings and others battled throughout the three-game round robin tournament for the coveted trophy and Corn Hole Championship bragging rights. Corn Supremacy, made up of two Dillsburg principals, Troy Sauer and Steve Lehman, made its way through the losers’ bracket and ultimately fell to two dynamic community members, Chris Folk and Joey Augustine, whose team was the Great Cornholios.

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Print Edition Highlights - November 12, 2015

Polar Bears bounced from PIAA postseason
By Andy Sandrik


Photo by Curt Werner.
Northern’s Maddie Waits has contact with a Fleetwood player going for the ball.

____The terrific and promising season of the Northern girls soccer team has come to a sudden end.
____On Saturday, Seth Lehman's Polar Bears fell 2-0 to Fleetwood in the District 3-AA title game. Then late on Tuesday, in the first round of states, Northern played Villa Joseph Maria through a scoreless regulation and overtime before losing 4-3 in penalty kicks.
____The Polar Bears, who outscored their opponents 97-20, finish their season with a 19-4 record and a Mid-Penn Capital Division title.
Northern will be saying goodbye to seven seniors: Toni Feite, Maggie Frey, Amber Vandevender, Michaela Lowery, Alyssa Swartz, Gabi Mowchan and Abby Pendergist.
____Check back next week for more on these games, as well as a look back on the Polar Bears' highly-successful season.

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____East Pennsboro arrived in Dillsburg last Friday with the same mission as their Northern hosts: Win the Mid Penn Colonial Division title. After taking a 21-0 lead into halftime, the Panthers kept the upper hand as they added a fourth quarter touchdown while allowing only one TD in by Northern.
____With a 28-7 victory, East Pennsboro claimed the Colonial title outright and improved to 8-2.
____Northern, meanwhile fell to 7-3 and slipped to 8th in the PIAA District 3, Class AAA rankings. However, the Polar Bears still secured an opening round playoff berth when they host York Suburban this Friday night. The York-Adams Division II League champs, ranked 9th in District 3, Class AAA, bring their 6-0 league record and 8-2 overall mark into Bostic Field.

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____ I know a great hunter, a guy that can find deer when no one else can. He can shoot a bow or a rifle, and his marksmanship will astound you. He practices diligently, and can consistently hit the bull’s eye at 30 yards with his bow.
____ The man knows how to scout by looking for and finding fresh dung, scrapes and rubs. He is meticulous with his gear, making sure his blades on the arrows are sharp and the fletching is perfect so his arrows fly true. He has often performed a “Robin Hood” meaning he has shot one arrow into another. I know the man well, we have hunted together for years on end, until recently, when he set out on his own or was joined by his brother-in-law. Our hunter is in the woods, with his tree stand in place and sitting in it by 4 a.m. “I love it out there," he told me. Although he may move his stand to another area between noon and 1 p.m., he seldom goes anywhere for lunch. “I take it with me and often eat in the stand," he said. He has hunted nearly every single day of archery season. From that stand he has seen coyotes, bear, a bobcat and turkey. He carries both a still and video camera, but in the heat of the moment, often is so enthralled he forgets he has it with him.
____ “Do you realize all the sights and sounds you can collect out there?” he asks with little thought. You can see that faraway look in his eyes, and you get the sense he’s reliving each and every moment. When the day is done, he climbs down from his stand, almost as fulfilled as if he had placed his tag on a whitetail, takes it apart and carries it out of the woods. Unlike most of us, he never seems bored, simply excited to get out there and do it again.
____ Earlier, at the beginning of archery season, he had taken a doe with his bow. It was his first. He tracked it, tagged it and decided to butcher it himself. “I think I did a pretty good job, with the help of my brother-in-law,” he stated rather proudly. If you think “our hunter” is a young man, and in the early stages of hunting, he isn’t. Truth be known, he has almost 35 years of hunting beneath his belt. His children are raised; he has a daughter in college, a hard working son and a very tolerant wife. He shares his stories, reluctantly at first, but once you pry, ever so gently, he opens up like a proverbial can of worms. “This year I have seen 17 different buck and 36 doe, just in the small area I hunt. I guess I’m a little amazed at the number of hunters that have seen nothing.” Oh, I can relate to that one! I’ve seen a total of 10 deer in 12 days of hunting, not in the same area, but in what we call "deer woods."

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