
Event helps bring friends together
Larry Ryland and Derek Day were going through the line, slapping and shaking hands with opposing players following the West’s lightning-shortened 10-0 win in the PSFCA East West All-Star Football Game at Mansion Park on Saturday night. When they came to each other, though, they both smiled. They paused a moment, then their handshake quickly turned into a hug. “I just said, ‘Congratulations. You played well,’’’ Ryland said. In a game where emotions ran high and smack talk was easy to find, the moment between Ryland and Day exhibited the other side of things — friendship and camaraderie — even though they were wearing different colored jerseys. Ryland, from State College, was a safety for the West. Day, a Central Dauphin grad, played the same position for the East. While there were a lot of strangers coming together and forming friendships in Blair County during the week of practices, Day and Ryland were just adding another memorable chapter to theirs.
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