Saturday, December 1st, 2007...5:01 pm
Still no love for District 3 Triple-A football champ Lampeter-Strasburg
JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
A couple of Lampeter-Strasburg football players have chatted with me on and off the record about respect. That’s always a popular subject come playoff time, especially when you start tossing seedings and records and common opponents and such around.
After knocking off Gettysburg 35-21 in the District 3 Triple-A championship game on Friday night, it looks like the Pioneers still aren’t getting any r-e-s-p-e-c-t.
Thanks to J.M. of Lancaster for passing this lovely little nugget along from gettysburgtimes.com:
Gettysburg sees dream season come to an end following 35-21 loss to Lampeter-Strasburg in title game
BY ADAM MICHAEL - Times Sports Writer
Sick with a flu, Gettysburg lineman Logan Shultz wasn’t able to practice all week. The virus caused considerable internal pain, but was nothing compared to the feeling he and his Warrior teammates had Friday.That pain was a mental anguish felt after a 35-21 upset loss to Lampeter-Strasburg in the District 3 Class AAA championship game that could not be healed by any form of medicine.“It’s the first time I put a helmet and pads on this week,” said Shultz. “We came in and gave it everything we had but it just wasn’t good enough.”Shultz gathered with the rest of the Warriors as they stood in a muted huddle around coach Sam Leedy as he tried to talk them through Lampeter-Strasburg’s trophy acceptance in Hersheypark Stadium.
Heads hung and tears fell as the Warriors tried to explain their feelings after the game.
“We were better than them,” Shultz said. “All of us on the team know that. For whatever reason it didn’t go our way, it just wasn’t meant to be this year. If a better team beats us, it sucks, but we were better than them.”
Gettysburg quarterback Evan Lewis seemed to agree.
“We didn’t play well at all tonight,” he said. “We had some horrible plays and some bad calls, they had some lucky plays but that’s football.
“I just can’t believe it’s over. It’s what we worked for and it’s over. We lost this one from the very beginning. I feel like if we play this team ten (sic) times, we win nine. This was that one time.”
<Ouch, babe.>
