LAST WEEK: 5-3.
OVERALL: 109-37.

Keith’s picks from The Huddle Blog here.

Another week, more football picks.

Six Lancaster-Lebanon League teams are still cutting the proverbial rug in the District 3 playoffs.

And one of the fun parts of my gig is predicting their fate.

So I’m either a stinking genius, or people pin up this column in the locker room and draw squiggly beards on my face or poke my eyeballs out. Hey, it’s all in good fun, right?

My selections …

Central York @ Wilson – CY’s Kyle Baublitz, a Penn State recruit, is a monster. But Wilson keeps finding ways to win. And the ‘Dawgs would love to defend their crown. So I’m going Wilson here. This is why you play your guts out during the regular season: to get a top-2 seed and get home games. Bulldogs tame Panthers, 28-13.

Penn Manor @ South Western – At the risk of sounding like a complete homer, I’m really, honestly leaning Penn Manor here. South Western is enjoying a super season, found a wild way to win last week, and definitely gets a home-field edge here, with this game being contested at the very cool Corral. But I have a hunch about this Comets’ team. For all the second-half turnovers and digging out of trouble, I think going through those things has toughened up this group. Penn Manor clears a hurdle and gets to the semis. Comets tame Mustangs, 31-24.

I’m going to see if I can use the word ‘tame’ in all my picks this week. Let’s see how I do …

Daniel Boone @ Manheim Central – Blogging live from this game at LancSports.com. Thought I’d go ahead and drop in that shameless plug right out of the chute. This will not – repeat: will not – be a 56-0 romp for the Barons. That said, I think Manheim Central wins and advances here, but this won’t be anything like the Barons’ last 5-6 games, which were all ridiculously lopsided and titanic blowouts. Not this week. Boone is tricky. Not big. But tricky. And speedy. And QB Jon Monteiro is quite good. So the Blazers will put up some points – and put up a good fight. But nobody is in Central’s stratosphere at the moment. Barons tame Blazers, 38-14. (3-for-3; I’m definitely on a roll here).

Cocalico @ Susquehanna Township – Put some new light bulbs in the scoreboard. Might be some major points in this game. There was last year, when Cocalico topped Susquehanna Township 49-30 in a first-round game in Denver. Eagles have to go on the road this time and will play on the Indians’ turf field. Two prolific offenses in this one: ST averages a tick under 430 yards a game; Cocalico 398 yards a game (tops in the L-L). And the Eagles are coming off a (gulp) 589-yard rushing effort in first-round win over Elco. Looking at this game three ways – my gut says Susquehanna Township; my head says Cocalico. My heart? Wow. Been struggling with this one all week. I think, in the end, ST QB Ben Dupree might be too much to curtail. Indians (wait for it) tame Eagles, 40-34.

Conestoga Valley @ West York – Buckskins are the darlings of the Triple-A bracket, coming off a 35-0 romp over No. 5 seed Northern York – in a game CV’s D held the Polar Bears (couldn’t resist typing ‘Polar Bears’ one last time this season) to 38 yards and two first downs. And Kevin Kelley went over 2,000 rushing yards in the process. West York? Well, they’re a completely different animal (just realized the Buckskins went from Polar Bears one week to Bulldogs the next; love District 3 nicknames). West York is the defending Triple-A champ, is 10-1, and is feeling a tad frisky after losing in Week 10 to Littlestown, and then having to hold off Mechanicsburg in the first round last week. Bulldogs are ready to unleash (I am King of the bad pun, sorry). Can CV’s defense do it two weeks in a row? No reason to believe they can’t, but West York has a ton of firepower. And the Bulldogs have been here before. Kudos to Kelley and the Buckskins for a marvelous season. But the pick here is West York. Bulldogs (you got it) tame Buckskins, 28-14.

Middletown @ Lancaster Catholic – A trip to the District 3 Double-A title game is riding on this one. And if the Crusaders didn’t have enough to play for, now they have a fallen comrade (Trevor St. Clair broke his ankle last week) to play for. Catholic with more motivation? Um, yeah. That’s not what you want. Saw a poster in Catholic’s locker room the other day about smelling chocolate. Take a big whiff, boys. You’ll be smelling the real thing next week. Catholic cruises here. Crusaders (one more time) tame Blue Raiders, 42-7. Reminder: Keith blogging live from this game at LancSports.com. Thus ends the shameless plugs.

Yay, I did it.

MORE PICKS: Because you just can’t get enough, and while I’m at it, here’s who I like in the other District 3 playoff games in Round 2 – Quad-A: Bishop McDevitt over Governor Mifflin (McD slips down to Triple-A next year; somewhere Mike Williams, mumbling something inaudible under his breath, is devising plays on a chalkboard); Cumberland Valley over Central Dauphin (Eagles would love a rematch with Wilson and make amends for last year’s title-game turnover fest) … Triple-A: Conrad Weiser over Hershey (I had L-S over Weiser last week and the Scouts blocked a field goal at the horn to win it; not picking against these guys two weeks in a row) … Double-A: Delone Catholic over Littlestown (setting up a Delone Catholic-Lancaster Catholic finale) … Single-A: Upper Dauphin over York Catholic (UD had a first-round bye so they should be refreshed, although sometimes that backfires – not many bye weeks in prep football, come to think of it); Millersburg over Steel-High (ending Rollers’ superb reign).