As we head into the 10th and final week of the regular season, 32 of District 3’s 48 playoff slots in its four classes have been filled, leaving 16 spots up for grabs. Which means there will be plenty of drama in the final week of the season — especially for a handful of Lancaster-Lebanon […]

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We’re down to two games left in the regular season, and things are starting to get interesting. We’ve got a Section One showdown brewing between Penn Manor and Wilson this week, while other teams around the league continue to jockey for position in the upcoming District 3 playoffs.
Wilson hosts the Comets Friday at 7 p.m. […]

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We’re officially in the home stretch of the regular season. Eight weeks down, two to go. I can’t tell if I’m catching playoff fever, or if it’s just the early stages of the swine flu, but either way I’m ready to go.
Here are the power points standings heading into Week 9. Thanks to the good […]

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We’re heading into the eighth week of the regular season, which means it’s time to start shifting our focus away from the Lancaster-Lebanon League section races and toward the District 3 power points standings, which are used to determine the playoff field in all four classes.
With three games left in the season, 12 L-L League […]

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  We’ve still got four games left in the regular season, but there are several big showdowns on tap this week…which puts me in a Doc Holliday kind of mood. If you haven’t seen Val Kilmer’s portrayal of the Wild West anti-hero in the movie “Tombstone,” go add it to your Netflix queue right now.
In […]

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Boy, the first half of the regular season just flew on by, didn’t it? Seems like yesterday that we were getting fired up for the start of two-a-days in August, and now here we are glancing at the district playoff power points standings  already.
Locally, the L-L League’s section races are beginning to heat up as […]

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Well, we’ve made it through the non-league portion of the schedule and are rto get into section play, which is always my favorite time of year. No more having to chase down stats for the Fleetwoods and Interboros of the world in the vain hope of making an informed guess. Now we can concentrate on the […]

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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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Greetings, and welcome back to The Huddle! Keith Schweigert reporting in from the first of three sessions at the Lancaster-Lebanon League’s Football Media Day, which is being held at Enck’s at Kreider Farms, just south of Manheim.
I’ve just finished a whirlwind tour of the league’s eight Section Three squads, interviewing coaches and sitting in with […]

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KEITH SCHWEIGERT, Online Sports Editor
Well, one thing’s for certain: Lancaster Catholic’s defense will have its hands full.
I’ve spent the last day or so gathering info on West Catholic, the Philadelphia school that the Crusaders will face Friday night in the PIAA Class AA semifinals at Philly’s Northeast High School (cheap plug alert — LancSports.com will […]

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