Sometimes discussions in the newsroom are funny--in fact there is some blog out there that gets attention once in awhile called 'overheard in the newsroom' that usually contains blunders by one writer or editor and then becomes national fodder for all. I had a discussion with our sports editor about our Friday coverage--I was either going to travel to shoot a fringe coverage high school team or stay a little closer to home and cover a local college hosting an NCAA tournament game. It was decided that stay close, but then--what will go on the Sports Saturday cover. Neither team is really in our main coverage plans. So it was said--if you come back with an award winning photo we'll make that the cover. I like a challenge and even though I don't know if this picture would win an award, I know it has a shot at one and I was pretty pleased to get it. The action was really something I didn't expect to get a good photo from--the players were running full bore in the opposite direction, but I saw an opportunity when they began to dive all over the place for the ball and was very lucky to see that the Edinboro players face could be seen looking back. I had four or five frames from this sequence and each of them would've worked. I like this one because of the hand reaching up from under her for the ball. It also wouldn't really work for the cover because it is more horizontal. Luckily however--what we failed to think about in our earlier coverage is that we have wrestlers at the state tournament--one of which will medal and be the first in 9 years to do so from Meadville. So that is far more important of a local story and deserves the cover. And this can be run inside full without type or the masthead over the top of it. Meadville Tribune photograph by Richard Sayer.