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 Kevin Freeman 
I wanted to expand a bit on the item that appeared in both the Intelligencer Journal and New Era concerning the meeting of Lancaster-Lebanon League officials Wednesday afternoon.
When voting to accept the league’s realignment for the 2010-11 season, two proposals were put to a vote, one that passed and one that did not.
First, the proposal that passed. Ephrata athletic […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
This just in …
Some sad news to report:
Reigning Associated Press Double-A Second-Team All-State selection Sean Persch, Pequea Valley’s outstanding multi-purpose threat, and last year’s leading receiver in the Lancaster-Lebanon League, has very likely played his final game for the Braves.
Persch, who caught a league-high 71 passes for 1,029 yards in his junior season, […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
blogs.lancasteronline.com/jeffreyreinhart
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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