The District 3 football playoff brackets are set, with nine L-L League teams in the field.
Three in Quad-A (Manheim Township, Penn Manor, Wilson).
Five in Triple-A (Cocalico, Conestoga Valley, Elco, Lampeter-Strasburg, Manheim Central).
And one in Double-A (Lancaster Catholic).
Wilson and Lancaster Catholic are out to defend their championships from last fall.
Here’s a quick sneak peek at first-round […]

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Big, big, big win for Cocalico last Friday night, when the Eagles rallied to knock off Conestoga Valley 21-14 in a Section 2 game in Denver.
The victory did two things:
First, it knocked CV out of the Section 2 hunt and gave Manheim Central – a 47-0 winner over Lebanon – the outright section championship – […]

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My ‘3 Stars’ selections now that Week 7 is tucked neatly in bed …
Kriss Brown, Wilson – What a game for the Bulldogs’ speedster, who rushed for 229 yards on 15 carries (15.3 per pop) and scored five touchdowns in Wilson’s 61-19 runaway win over cross-town rival Reading. Brown’s TD runs covered 5, 32, 33, […]

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Halfway home … that was about the fastest first five weeks of an L-L League football season that I can recall in quite a while.
But here we are: Five down and five to go before the postseason gets kicked off. That’ll be here before you know it.
Time to trot out another top-5 for you … […]

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If you haven’t noticed, the Cocalico vs. Manheim Central football games have become quite the hot little rivalry the last couple of years.
It looked like the Eagles were finally going to pickoff the Barons last year, when Cocalico zoomed to a 14-0 first-quarter lead, and then saw another touchdown called back because of a penalty.
A […]

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