Manheim Central’s football team will remain in Section 2 of the Lancaster-Lebanon League.
Because of realignment numbers, Central was supposed to drop to Section 3 and Lampeter-Strasburg was supposed to bump up to Section 2 at the start of the 2008-09 fall sports season. 
But Central athletic director George Derbyshire petitioned L-L League football chairman Tom Jordan […]

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It will be an all-Lancaster County final in the Central Pennsylvania Scholastic Lacrosse Association district championship game.
No. 1 seed Manheim Township improved to 25-0, holding off rival Hempfield 12-9 in one semifinal game on Wednesday, while Warwick, the No. 8 seed, topped sixth-seeded Cumberland Valley 8-5, meaning the Blue Streaks and the Warriors will square […]

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The record is so close, you can practically smell it. Manheim Township senior Tim Stratton moved within seven points of breaking the U.S. career scoring record on Wednesday, netting four goals and getting three assists in the Blue Streaks’ victory over Hempfield in the CPSLA district semifinals. Stratton needs six points to tie and seven […]

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Pending school board approval, McCaskey defensive coordinator Todd Mealy will succeed Bob Forgrave as Penn Manor’s varsity football coach, the New Era has learned.
Forgrave recently left Penn Manor for Hempfield, where he took over for Tom Getz, who resigned earlier this spring.
According to three sources close to the negotiations, Mealy edged out former Conestoga Valley […]

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I was at Wilson on Tuesday night for the first round of the PIAA Triple-A boys’ volleyball playoffs, and Hempfield took care of business, blanking Council Rock North to advance to state quarterfinal pool play on Friday in Penn State’s Rec Hall. In the Double-A bracket, Lancaster Mennonite and Conestoga Valley also advanced to Penn […]

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