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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By Jason Guarente
Section 2 was once the exclusive property of Manheim Central. The Barons were written into the top spot in ink every year.
It’s not that way any more.
Central hasn’t won the section title since 2005. Conestoga Valley was the surprise champ in 2006 before Elizabethtown and Solanco shared the crown last year.

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Mountaineers’ football coach chats about playing Warwick for the George Male Trophy
JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com

The granddaddy of all L-L League football backyard scraps is set for Friday.
And when Ephrata hosts Warwick at War Memorial Field at 7 p.m., the winner is walking out of there with the George Male Trophy.
It’s the Warriors and the Mountaineers – […]

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