After one round of the District 3 football playoffs, six Lancaster-Lebanon League teams are still alive and kicking: Wilson and Penn Manor in Class AAAA, Manheim Central, Cocalico and Conestoga Valley in Class AAA and Lancaster Catholic in AA.
All of them will be looking to take the next step on Friday. For Lancaster Catholic, that […]
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District 3 playoffs: Round 2 Picks
November 19th, 2009 · No Comments
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PLAYOFFS?!? You want picks for the PLAYOFFS?!?
November 12th, 2009 · No Comments
Jim Mora is shocked and appalled.
After 10 weeks of regular-season football, the second season is upon us. Nine Lancaster-Lebanon League teams remain alive as the postseason begins. Two of those teams — former Section 3 foes Cocalico and Elco — will go at it in the first round. Another familiar face — Governor Mifflin — […]
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Pondering the playoffs: First impressions of the matchups
November 9th, 2009 · No Comments
I was up until the wee hours of Saturday morning figuring out the math for all the brackets, so I decided to take the rest of the weekend off before I started wrapping my head around all the matchups. But now that Monday’s here, I guess it’s a good time to take a look and […]
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District 3 playoffs: Who’s in, who needs help, and who needs a miracle
November 3rd, 2009 · No Comments
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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Down the stretch they come: Week 9 picks
October 29th, 2009 · No Comments
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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More power points ponderings
October 28th, 2009 · No Comments
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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District 3 Power Points ponderings
October 21st, 2009 · No Comments
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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Need some Week 7 picks? I’m your huckleberry
October 14th, 2009 · No Comments
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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Week 6 Picks
October 8th, 2009 · No Comments
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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Week 4 predictions: We’re a-movin’ on up…
September 24th, 2009 · No Comments
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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