Our old buddy Leroy Boyer, sports editor of Pat Flannery's hometown paper in Pottsville (one of our old haunts), has penned a nice piece on Pat's quest for the one thing that has eluded him thus far in his coaching career: A Patriot League title and a trip to the dance.

For some reason we can't find this on the Republican's Web site, so you'll have to suffer with the crappy z-wire formatting of the version that appeared in the Shamokin News-Item.