Coaches from Penn Manor, Cocalico, Elco earn L-L Coach of the Year kudos
JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
MOUNT GRETNA – The votes are in, and the Lancaster-Lebanon League football coaches have chosen a Coach of the Year in each of the league’s three sections.
Penn Manor’s Todd Mealy in Section 1, Cocalico’s Dave Gingrich in Section 2, and Elco’s […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Here they are … my Lancaster-Lebanon League Section 3 All-Stars, hot off the presses.
I picked the top 11 players (in my humble opinion) on each side of the ball, plus a punter, a kicker and one special teams player.
These picks are based on my own observations, and include some notable items about […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Full L-L League girls’ basketball Section 3 preview capsules, listed alphabetically for your reading and viewing pleasure …
COCALICO EAGLES
COACH: Richard Kohler (1st season).
CLASSIFICATION: Quad-A.
LAST SEASON: 3-13 Section 2, 6-17 overall.
KEY PLAYERS LOST: G Emily Harris (3.8), G Rachel Hurst (6.7, 19 3-pointers), F CariBeth Shappell (6.7).
KEY PLAYERS RETURNING: G Shannon Graybill (Sr., 1.4), […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
COACH – Mark Evans (Just completed his 11th season; 60-54 overall).
SECTION 3 RECORD – 5-2.
OVERALL RECORD – 6-5 (Lost to Manheim Central in the first round of the District 3 Triple-A playoffs).
RESULTS – Hamburg (W 21-20), @ Pine Grove (L 40-16), @ Lebanon (L 45-10), Northern Lebanon (L 24-21), @ Columbia (W 58-26), […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Audio Podcast preview interviews below with Elco coach Mark Evans and Manheim Central coach Mike Williams
THE GAME: No. 12 Elco Raiders (6-4 overall) @ Manheim Central Barons (8-2 overall), Friday, 7 p.m.
LIVE BLOG: I will be blogging live from this game on the L-L League Insider at lancsports.com. If you can’t make it […]

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Raiders’ coach chats after loss to Lancaster Catholic, looks ahead to postseason

What a great ride by Elco.
The Raiders won five games in a row down the stretch to put themselves in line to tie Lancaster Catholic for the L-L League Section 3 championship last Friday.
But the Crusaders took care of business, topping Elco 42-7 to […]

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Week 9 in the books and the grand finale – Week 10 – is staring us in the coconut.
Here are my top 5 teams heading into the final week of regular-season play …
1. Wilson (6-0, 9-0) – Saw the ‘Dawgs live and in person on Friday at Penn Manor. Man, they were as nasty as […]

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Hear my entire “5 Questions” interview Podcast with Achey right here!
 
Two things in one post. Wow!
Click the ‘play’ button above to listen to my full interview with Arron — and continue reading the post for my story on Achey’s big game against Hamburg … and why he was the choice for New Era Player of […]

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Raiders’ football coach talks about Player of the Week Arron Achey, Elco’s fast start

Elco coach Mark Evans was just sitting down to show his team the game tape of the Raiders’ thrill-a-minute 21-20 win over Hamburg when I came stumbling into the locker room Monday morning.
Must admit that it’s really, really cool watching a coach […]

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It’s back – Reinhart’s 3 Stars … my top three performers from each week in L-L League football.
Several clutch performances from Week 1 of the new season last Friday, so I had to put my thinking cap on right out of the chute.
I could have gone several different ways. But after making my final list […]

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Welcome back to another season of Reinhart’s Rankings … my weekly top-five poll in L-L League football.
I wanted to do a preseason poll, but I flat ran out of time before all the Week 1 games. Sorry.
But now that everyone has a game under their belts, I thought I better debut the rankings – which […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Pull up a chair and get cozy … it’s my L-L League Section 3 preview capsules — everything and anything you need to know about your favorite Section 3 football teams, in capsule form, listed in predicted order of finish. Enjoy:
LANCASTER CATHOLIC CRUSADERS
ONLINE: crusaderfootball.vicid.com
COACH: Bruce Harbach (7th season; 50-20 overall).
PIAA CLASSIFICATION: Double-A.
THE SCHEDULE: Trinity, […]

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Predicting the Lancaster-Lebanon League Section 3 race is like getting a tooth yanked.
This race usually has so many twists and turns and subplots that it’s often painful to make any kind of prognostication.
And it seems that more times than not, this section race ends up in some sort of a goofy tie – like last […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Former Cedar Crest standout Allison Smith leaves Niagara, will join former Penn Manor star Kelsey Caruthers at St. Francis (Pa.)
Don’t look now, but there is a really nice pipeline taking shape from the Lancaster-Lebanon League to St. Francis University’s women’s basketball program.
First, former Elco star and Penn Manor coach Ashli Schwab left the […]

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Even more L-L League baseball previews for you. Today, Dave Byrne tackles Section 3 …
Since Todd Garber became the head baseball coach at Lampeter-Strasburg, the Pioneers have won six Lancaster-Lebanon League Section 3 championships, including five in a row from 2001-05.
Title No. 6 came last year when L-S outlasted Elco by a game and Manheim […]

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This L-L League girls’ softball Section 3 capsule was prepared by Phil Glatfelter for your reading pleasure:
What can be we expect from this year’s Lancaster-Lebanon League girls’ softball Section 3 race?
Based on past experience, quite a lot.
Section 3 teams have won back-to-back league titles, as well as two straight District 3 Triple-A crowns.
Two years ago, […]

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