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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Yeah, yeah. Monday morning quarterbacks are supposed to spout off on Mondays. Give me a break. I was enjoying my Labor Day weekend. But here are a few tidbits from Friday night’s Week One action: 
So after weeks of “voluntary” preparation, two-a-days, scrimmages and film analysis, the L-L League’s 24 teams finally got to strap on the […]

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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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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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Hello, everyone. Keith Schweigert checking in with some pre-game thoughts on tonight’s clash between Hempfield at Garden Spot (7 p.m. in New Holland). A reminder before I get started: I’ll be blogging live from this one tonight, starting about a half-hour before kickoff. My colleague, Jeff Reinhart, will be doing the same from tonight’s marquee […]

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Spartans’ football coach chats about big win over Warwick, previews Hempfield showdown
JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com 
 
There is most definitely a good vibe around Garden Spot’s football team, which opened the season with a 17-14 victory over Warwick last Friday night.
It was a terrific win for the Spartans, who knocked off a Warriors’ team that was coming off a […]

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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
For your reading pleasure, my L-L League football Section 2 preview capsules, with teams listed in predicted order of finish …
MANHEIM CENTRAL BARONS
ONLINE: baronsfootball.com
COACH: Mike Williams (28th season; 276-56-3 overall).
PIAA CLASSIFICATION: Triple-A.
THE SCHEDULE: Susquehannock, @ Wilson, Lancaster Catholic, @ Cocalico, Solanco, @ Ephrata, Conestoga Valley, Elizabethtown, @ Lebanon, @ Garden Spot.
REINHART SAYS: Susquehannock (6-4 […]

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