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Scott Case really tried to play it cool.

Sure, this happens every day for the Penns Valley boys' soccer coach.

UNIVERSITY PARK — The recipe isn't the problem, Joe Paterno said Tuesday. Penn State might simply need to consider changing some of the ingredients.

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The Penn State women's soccer team gets to open the NCAA tournament at Jeffrey Field once again.

Sometimes, as Joe Paterno likes to say, you just get licked.

UNIVERSITY PARK — For the first 20 minutes of Sunday’s exhibition game against Indiana University of Pennsylvania, the Penn State women's basketball team looked like a toddler trying to take his first steps.

The State College football team will begin the District 6-8-9-10 Class AAAA playoffs at 7 p.m. Friday against Central Mountain at Memorial Field.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The Penn State women's soccer defeated Michigan 2-0 on Sunday to secure the Big Ten championship outright.

UNIVERSITY PARK — A new sign in the Penn State student section materialized since the Nittany Lions last played at home three weeks ago. It read, CLARK 4 HEISMAN.

Dandy Don Meredith made a living singing, “Turn Out the Lights, the Party’s Over,” when the contest was decided on Monday Night Football.

UNIVERSITY PARK — The Big Ten’s most explosive offense inched forward — four yards here, two yards there — and then staggered backward. The big plays that had always come this season — sometimes early, sometimes late, but always — never came.

UNIVERSITY PARK — Mark it down as the day Terrelle Pryor finally proved he could win the big game.

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State has had to juggle its tailback rotation in recent weeks due to Stephfon Green’s ankle injury.

UNIVERSITY PARK — It’s become like the drip, drip, drip of water torture for Penn State fans and players.

ALTOONA — The Philipsburg- Osceola girls’ volleyball team came into Saturday’s District 6 Class AA final against Somerset as the top seed. But for the first set, the Lady Mounties looked like the underdogs.

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Gymnastics Tricks and Treats Meet

Oct. 24-25 at Lebanon Bellefonte YMCA results

HERSHEY — Violent thuds caused by hundreds of strong feet smacking packed mud make the beginning of the PIAA Cross Country Championships sound like a buffalo stampede.

Ask a Broadway director abut a new play and they’ll probably tell you the same thing — all of the great practices and rehearsals don’t mean anything until your ensemble can pull off the performance in front a live audience.

IOWA CITY, Iowa — In front of a record volleyball crowd of 2,802 in Carver-Hawkeye Arena, the No. 1 Penn State women’s volleyball team defeated Iowa 25-17, 25-22, 25-13.

The weather was beautiful and many eager spectators were on hand at the Pennsylvania Game Commission Check Station last Monday morning to view elk brought in by successful hunters. The first bull elk, harvested in Zone 10 by Ray Kaltenbaugh, was checked in at Quehanna shortly after the station opened at 10 a.m.

UNIVERSITY PARK — Ed DeChellis liked the way his team guarded the ball, rebounded the ball and passed the ball Friday night in Penn State’s exhibition opener with Slippery Rock.

UNIVERSITY PARK — The Penn State women’s soccer team won its 12th straight Big Ten title and an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament on Friday when Ohio State dropped a 1-0 game to Michigan State.

You don’t see 6-foot-5, 190-pound tailbacks in college football. You don’t often see them in high school football, either, unless of course you watched any Rochester High School games from 2004 to 2006, and saw the long, loping strides of Derek Moye taking him out of the backfield and into the secondary.

Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor and Penn State quarterback Daryll Clark didn’t have much in common heading to their respective universities, which will square off this afternoon at Beaver Stadium.

PHILIPSBURG — A season that began with bright promise ground to a disappointing end Friday night as Huntingdon defeated Philipsburg-Osceola 30-15 at Veteran’s Memorial Stadium.

BELLEFONTE — Bald Eagle Area’s Stevie Eisenhuth grabbed the Curtin Bowl Trophy and made a bee line for the far end zone at Bellefonte’s Rogers Stadium.

CHAMBERSBURG — The offensive and defensive execution satisfied State College players and coaches. The halftime score caused some apprehension.

MILL HALL — On the doorstep of completing a losing season and playing a bigger, faster, stronger opponent, Penns Valley football coach Martin Tobias decided to throw caution out the bus window en route to Clinton County.

Who exactly is this Cameron Heyward?

During a season filled with opponents that have left much to be desired before and after they faced Penn State, the Nittany Lions have smiled through gritted teeth and said they couldn’t control who they played, that they were focused only on the game at hand.