Hard to believe we’re coming up on the halfway point of the regular season already. Football season always seems to fly by, even when the playoffs extend into late November or early December.
Seems like there’s a good chance of that happening again around here. We’ve already hit the point where the wheat begins to separate […]

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After a slow start in the opening week, I bounced my way back to respectability with my performance in Week 2: a 15-4 record, moving me up to 25-11 this season. I think my strategy of actually thinking  about the picks beforehand may have helped me a bit, so we’ll do the same for Week 3.
Lots […]

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Thanks to Clubber Lang for one of my favorite lines from the “Rocky” series.
My predictions were truly painful last week. So bad, in fact, that yours truly is currently looking up at all his sportswriting brethren in the race for the title of “Top Prognosticator.” I went 10-7, while my online colleague Jeff Reinhart is […]

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Keith Schweigert checking in…it seems silly to start worrying about the district playoffs when we’re only halfway through the regular season, but for those who are interested, here are the District 3 power point standings, which are used to determine the playoff fields:

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Little Dutchmen coach previews Thursday’s game vs. Cocalico
JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com

Annville-Cleona is home again – and the Little Dutchmen are feeling absolutely fine about that.
After spending the last two seasons playing 20 road games because of construction at the school, A-C finally got its home field back this season – and christened it with an opening-night […]

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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
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My L-L League football Section 3 preview capsules, with teams listed in predicted order of finish:
LANCASTER CATHOLIC CRUSADERS
ONLINE: crusaderfootball.vicid.com
COACH: Bruce Harbach (7th season; 50-20 overall).
PIAA CLASSIFICATION: Double-A.
THE SCHEDULE: Trinity, Ephrata, @ Manheim Central; Donegal, @ Lampeter-Strasburg, @ Pequea Valley, Northern Lebanon, @ Columbia, Annville-Cleona, @ Elco.
REINHART SAYS: If that Week 3 tilt at […]

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