Manheim Central standout chats about his future with the Nittany Lions
 
It’s official: Dakota Royer will take his skills to Happy Valley in 2010 and play football for coach Joe Paterno and the Nittany Lions.
Royer made his decision public on Thursday, when he placed a Penn State hat on his head and revealed a gray Nittany […]

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Barons’ football coach chats about Dakota Royer’s decision to pick Penn State
 
Getting used to college recruiters poking around Manheim Central has become old hat for Barons’ football coach Mike Williams.
On Thursday, another one of Williams’ athletes made his college choice official when rising senior blue-chipper Dakota Royer stepped up to the podium inside the high […]

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Fight on State has a cool photo gallery from Royer’s press conference here.
Manheim Central rising senior Dakota Royer has just given a verbal commitment to Penn State in a press conference at Manheim Central High School.
The Barons’ standout 6-2, 220-pound two-way performer was a First-Team All-State pick last season as a defensive end, after he registered 86 tackles and 13 sacks […]

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Section 4 All-Star Emily Weaver has made her college choice.
Lancaster Catholic’s senior sharpshooter will play basketball for Alvernia University in Reading.
Weaver averaged a team-best 12.1 points a game and drilled a team-high 34 3-pointers this past season for Catholic, which went 14-11 overall after finishing second in the Section 4 race, and falling in the […]

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Penn State junior wideout chats after Blue/White Game

UNIVERSITY PARK – If you’re a Penn State football fan, you’ve heard the names a gazillion times.
Derrick Williams. Jordan Norwood. Deon Butler.
Those three wideouts will be awfully tough to replace.
But former Manheim Central standout Graham Zug, a junior-eligible who went from walk-on to scholarship athlete, is hoping to […]

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