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Just downstream from an industrial recycling operation and a stone's throw from a sewage treatment plant, a fisherman casts his line toward the passing barge traffic and watches it drop into the Delaware River. A couple eating lunch watch curiously. "No way would I ever eat anything from there," the woman says. The fishers who frequent the pier in Camden's Waterfront South neighborhood have heard it all before. That they're crazy, that they're going to grow an extra head or get sick from eating what they catch.

Notre Dame will look to unseat defending national champion Virginia at noon Sunday when the Irish and Cavaliers meet in the NCAA men's lacrosse quarterfinals at PPL Park in Chester. Colgate and Duke will follow in the second game of the day, beginning at 2:30. The other two games are set for Saturday at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Md. Johns Hopkins will play Maryland at noon, and Loyola will meet Denver at 2:30 p.m. On Sunday, Jim Marlatt scored three goals and had two assists as fourth-seeded Notre Dame defeated Yale, 13-7, in the first round to advance to Sunday's quarterfinals.

A 45-year-old Ridley Park man, Phillip Clay Lee, died early Saturday in a motorcycle crash at the I-95 off ramp at Kerlin Street in Chester. Traveling northbound at 12:15 a.m., Lee's Yamaha YZF-R1 motorcycle struck a cautionary reflective pole as he entered the exit. Lee was thrown from the bike, struck a concrete barrier, and was declared dead at the scene. A state trooper said it had not been determined whether Lee was wearing a helmet. - Bob Fernandez

This is not the kind of kick envisioned when Major League Soccer decided to locate its newest franchise in the City of Chester. Desperately seeking revenue, Chester has informed Philadelphia Union officials that it is considering a 10 percent tax on ticket sales and a 20 percent charge for parking at PP&L Park, the team's home. The fees could add as much as $2 million to city coffers, but team owners see a "banana kick," a soccer term for a deceptive shot designed to curve behind a goalie.

A Chester man has been identified as the victim found Thursday bound and gagged near the foot of the Commodore Barry Bridge. Toby A. Gale, Jr., 19, died of blunt force injuries to the head, authorities announced Friday. The Medical Examiner classified his death as a homicide. Chester city highway workers on routine cleanup discovered Gale's body in the 100 block of Central Avenue, between the Delaware River and Route 291. He was wrapped in black plastic trash bags. "There no evidence that he was killed in that location," said Det. James Nolan.

The Academy Park football team has a lot of flexibility in its Delaware wing-T offense, but when the Knights host Chester at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, it may be a case of old-fashioned, three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust football. "I don't expect them (Chester) to change much for us. They've been pretty successful running straight ahead," said Sal Oropollo, Academy Park's head coach. "I'd like to go straight ahead myself. That's the easiest way to move the ball. " For the Clippers (2-1, 4-3)

Lower Merion is seeking a big breakthrough. Chester is planning to stay the course. As expected when the PIAA District 1 Class AAAA boys' hoops tournament tipped off on Feb. 17, the Aces and Clippers will clash for the championship at 9 p.m. Friday at Villanova's Pavilion. Lower Merion (25-2) is trying for its first district crown since 1996, when Kobe Bryant, with 34 points and 11 rebounds, powered the Aces to a 60-53, come-from-behind victory over Chester. Chester (26-0)

Speedy Morris won't soon forget the brief exchange he had with Alonzo Lewis after Tuesday's Big Five Hall of Fame luncheon at the Palestra. "I was walking in the parking lot, and he was driving away," the St. Joseph's Prep coach. "He stopped and said, 'They'll let anybody walk around here.' He was in great shape. " Hours later, while crossing the street to a Catholic League girls' playoff doubleheader at Philadelphia University, Lewis was killed in a car accident. He had guided Chester to two PIAA Class AAAA state championships "It's a tragic story," longtime Lower Merion coach Gregg Downer said.

When it comes to defense, the Chester boys' basketball team plays by coach Larry Yarbray's one rule: Do not give up more than 10 points in a quarter. In Friday night's PIAA District 1 Class AAAA quarterfinal against No. 9 seed Norristown, the defending-champion and top-seeded Clippers gave up 10 points in the first half . The No. 4 team in the nation, according to ESPN, bulldozed the Eagles, 81-31, to advance to Tuesday night's semifinals. Riding a 51-game winning streak, Chester (25-0)

Michael J. Melody Jr., 80, of Exton, a Chester County Common Pleas Court judge for 22 years, died of pneumonia on Thursday, May 17, at St. Martha Manor in Downingtown, a skilled-nursing home owned by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Born in Philadelphia, Mr. Melody graduated from St. Joseph's Preparatory School in 1950, earned a bachelor's degree at what is now St. Joseph's University in 1954, and graduated in 1957 from what is now Georgetown University Law Center. Until 1959, he served in the Army.

   LOUISVILLE - West Chester fell behind early in the game and never could quite overcome the deficit in losing the NCAA Division II women's lacrosse national championship, 17-16, to C.W. Post. Pioneers sophomore Jackie Sileo set a Division II record with nine points, including six goals, in a national final. The Golden Rams (16-4) scored the game's first goal and C.W. Post scored the next seven (four by Nan Mayott) to take a 7-1 lead with just over 13 minutes left in the first half, at Bellarmine University's Frazier Stadium.

West Chester scored five runs in the bottom of the first inning on Saturday night, then turned the game over to Fred Breidenbach as the Golden Rams beat Seton Hill, 9-5, to gain the championship of the NCAA Division II Atlantic Regional. West Chester (41-10) will meet Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference rival Kutztown (36-18) at 1 p.m. Sunday at Owls Field in West Lawn, Pa. A win sends the Golden Rams to the Division II College World Series in Cary, N.C., May 26 to June 2. West Chester sent 10 men to the plate in the first, and Seton Hill (46-11)

Joe Wendle (Avon Grove) stroked a run-scoring single down the right-field line in the top of the seventh to score the game-winning run as West Chester topped Mercyhurst, 3-2, in an NCAA Atlantic Regional baseball game in West Lawn, Pa., Friday night. Righthander Joe Gunkel (8-1) struck out nine to pick up the complete-game win. He allowed two runs, one of them earned, on eight hits. He did not walk a batter. West Chester took advantage of a Mercyhurst error in the seventh to score an unearned run, which proved to be the difference.

The West Chester University women's lacrosse team, which advanced to the NCAA Division II national championship game for the ninth time in the last 12 years and the first time since 2010 with a 19-10 win over Rollins on Thursday, will face C.W. Post (16-3) in the final at 2 p.m. Saturday at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Ky. In the win over Rollins, the No. 7 Golden Rams (16-3) held the nation's top-scoring offense to its lowest output of the season. In two tournament games, West Chester's defense has limited its opponents (No. 4 Limestone and No. 3 Rollins)

A West Chester high school swim coach was arrested Wednesday on charges that he posed as a swimmer's father, plied her with beer, and had sex with her. Kenneth William Fuller, 47, head coach of the Bayard Rustin High School swim team, was charged with felony sex assault and corruption of a minor. "This was a despicable violation of trust," said Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan. A member of the team, a teenage girl, told police that Fuller took her to a Kennett Square hotel April 27 and gave her "multiple" beers, court documents state.

Six months ago, it was the bedroom of a small-time tough named Cuahuctemoc Bedolla. Now, it is his shrine, a tribute to a short life with a bad ending. A Mexican flag covers one wall of the narrow nook in his parents' house in the West Grove woods of Chester County. Votive candles flicker near a statuette of Our Lady of Guadalupe. On the bed are his mechanic's tools, green T-shirt emblazoned "El Paso, Old Mexico," and a red wool beanie, a partial tableau of his 27 years. At the center of the single bed, in a box cloaked in red velvet, are his ashes.

Notre Dame will look to unseat defending national champion Virginia at noon Sunday when the Irish and Cavaliers meet in the NCAA men's lacrosse quarterfinals at PPL Park in Chester. Colgate and Duke will follow in the second game of the day, beginning at 2:30. The other two games are set for Saturday at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Md. Johns Hopkins will play Maryland at noon, and Loyola will meet Denver at 2:30 p.m. On Sunday, Jim Marlatt scored three goals and had two assists as fourth-seeded Notre Dame defeated Yale, 13-7, in the first round to advance to Sunday's quarterfinals.

This is not the kind of kick envisioned when Major League Soccer decided to locate its newest franchise in the City of Chester. Desperately seeking revenue, Chester has informed Philadelphia Union officials that it is considering a 10 percent tax on ticket sales and a 20 percent charge for parking at PP&L Park, the team's home. The fees could add as much as $2 million to city coffers, but team owners see a "banana kick," a soccer term for a deceptive shot designed to curve behind a goalie.