2011 lancaster-lebanon league football preview

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

L-L FOOTBALLINTELLIGENCER JOURNAL/LANCASTER NEW ERA

SCHEDULE, page 2 • Team-by-Team OUTLOOKS • PLAYBOOK, page 47

PREVIEW, 2011

SPECIALSECTION

BRIGHTEST STARS, page 4

2011 L-L FOOTBALL PREVIEW2 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2011 LANCASTER, PA.

2011 High School Football ScheduleCedar CrestFalcons

EphrataMountaineers

HempfieldBlack Knights

Manheim TownshipBlue Streaks

McCaskeyRed Tornado

Penn ManorComets

WarwickWarriors

WilsonBulldogs

CocalicoEagles

Conestoga ValleyBuckskins

ElizabethtownBears

Garden SpotSpartans

Lampeter-StrasburgPioneers

LebanonCedars

Manheim CentralBarons

SolancoGolden Mules

Annville-CleonaLittle Dutchmen

ColumbiaCrimson Tide

DonegalIndians

ElcoRaiders

Lancaster CatholicCrusaders

Northern LebanonVikings

Pequea ValleyBraves

Lebanon7 p.m.

Exeter7 p.m.

L-S7 p.m.

Central Dauphin7 p.m.

Coatesville7 p.m.

Solanco8 p.m.

Dallastown7 p.m.

Gov. Mifflin7 p.m.

Schuylkill Val.7 p.m.

Conrad Weiser7 p.m.

Cedar Cliff7 p.m.

Twin Valley7 p.m.

Hempfield7 p.m.

Cedar Crest7 p.m.

Lower Dauphin7 p.m.

Penn Manor8 p.m.

Palmyra7 p.m.

Eastern York7 p.m.

Daniel Boone7 p.m.

Hamburg7 p.m.

Trinity7 p.m.

Pine Grove7 p.m.

York TechSat., 1 p.m.

Conrad Weiser7 p.m.

Cocalico7 p.m.

Lanc. Catholic7 p.m.

Red Lion7 p.m.

York7 p.m.

L-S7 p.m.

CV7 p.m.

Man. Central7 p.m.

Ephrata7 p.m.

Warwick7 p.m.

Hershey7 p.m.

Dover7 p.m.

Penn Manor7 p.m.

N. Lebanon7 p.m.

Wilson7 p.m.

C.D. East7 p.m.

Hamburg7 p.m.

Northeastern7 p.m.

Fleetwood7 p.m.

Pine Grove7 p.m.

Hempfield7 p.m.

Lebanon7 p.m.

Kutztown7 p.m.

Hershey7 p.m.

CV7 p.m.

Central York7 p.m.

Elizabethtown7 p.m.


Dallastown7 p.m.

Garden Spot7 p.m.

Reading7 p.m.

Gov. Mifflin7 p.m.

Ephrata7 p.m.

Man. Township7 p.m.

Warwick7 p.m.

Cedar Cliff7 p.m.

Elco7 p.m.

Selinsgrove7 p.m.

OxfordSat. 7 p.m.

Fleetwood7 p.m.

Daniel Boone7 p.m.

Conrad Weiser7 p.m.

Lebanon7 p.m.

McCaskey7 p.m.

Hamburg7 p.m.

Octorara7 p.m.

Warwick7 p.m.

Man. Township7 p.m.

Penn Manor7 p.m.

Ephrata7 p.m.

Wilson7 p.m.

Hempfield7 p.m.

Cedar Crest7 p.m.

McCaskey7 p.m.

Man. Central7 p.m.

Garden Spot7 p.m.

Solanco7 p.m.

CV7 p.m.

Lebanon7 p.m.

L-S7 p.m.

Cocalico7 p.m.

Elizabethtown7 p.m.

Pequea Valley7 p.m.

Boiling Springs7 p.m.


N. Lebanon7 p.m.

Donegal7 p.m.

Elco7 p.m.

A-C7 p.m.

Wilson7 p.m.

Penn Manor7 p.m.

McCaskey7 p.m.

Warwick7 p.m.

Hempfield7 p.m.

Ephrata7 p.m.

Man. Township7 p.m.

Cedar Crest7 p.m.

L-S7 p.m.

Elizabethtown7 p.m.

CV7 p.m.

Lebanon7 p.m.

Cocalico7 p.m.

Garden Spot7 p.m.

Solanco7:30 p.m.

Man. Central7:30 p.m.

N. Lebanon7 p.m.

Elco7 p.m.

Pequea Valley7 p.m.

Columbia7 p.m.

East Pennsboro7 p.m.

A-C7 p.m.

Donegal7 p.m.

Man. Township7 p.m.

Warwick7 p.m.

Wilson7 p.m.

Cedar Crest7 p.m.

Penn Manor7 p.m.

McCaskey7 p.m.

Ephrata7 p.m.

Hempfield7 p.m.

Lebanon7 p.m.

Solanco7 p.m.

Garden Spot7 p.m.

Elizabethtown7 p.m.

Man. Central7 p.m.

Cocalico7 p.m.

L-S7 p.m.

CV7 p.m.

Donegal7 p.m.

N. Lebanon7 p.m.

A-C7 p.m.

Camp Hill7 p.m.

Pequea Valley7 p.m.

Columbia7 p.m.


Hempfield7 p.m.

Wilson7 p.m.

Cedar Crest7 p.m.

Penn Manor7 p.m.

Warwick7 p.m.

Man. Township7 p.m.

McCaskey7 p.m.

Ephrata7 p.m.

Elizabethtown7 p.m.

Man. Central7 p.m.

Cocalico7 p.m.

L-S7 p.m.

Garden Spot7 p.m.

Solanco7:30 p.m.

CV7 p.m.

Lebanon7:30 p.m.

Columbia7 p.m.

A-C7 p.m.

Trinity7 p.m.

Pequea Valley7 p.m.

N. Lebanon7 p.m.


Elco7 p.m.

McCaskey7 p.m.

Hempfield7 p.m.

Ephrata7 p.m.

Wilson7 p.m.

Cedar Crest7 p.m.

Warwick7 p.m.

Penn Manor7 p.m.

Man. Township7 p.m.

Garden Spot7 p.m.

Lebanon7 p.m.

Man. Central7 p.m.

Cocalico7 p.m.

Solanco7 p.m.

CV7 p.m.

Elizabethtown7 p.m.

L-S7 p.m.

Elco7 p.m.


N. Lebanon7 p.m.

A-C7 p.m.

Columbia7 p.m.

Donegal7 p.m.

Pine Grove7 p.m.

Ephrata7 p.m.

Cedar Crest7 p.m.

Warwick7 p.m.

McCaskey7 p.m.

Man. Township7 p.m.

Wilson7 p.m.

Hempfield7 p.m.

Penn Manor7 p.m.

CV7 p.m.

Cocalico7 p.m.

L-S7 p.m.

Solanco7 p.m.

Elizabethtown7 p.m.

Man. Central7 p.m.

Lebanon7 p.m.

Garden Spot7 p.m.


Pequea Valley7 p.m.

Elco7 p.m.

Donegal7 p.m.

A-C7 p.m.

Palmyra7 p.m.

Columbia7 p.m.

Penn Manor7 p.m.

McCaskey7 p.m.

Man. Township7 p.m.

Hempfield7 p.m.

Ephrata7 p.m.

Cedar Crest7 p.m.

Wilson7 p.m.

Warwick7 p.m.

Solanco7 p.m.

L-S7 p.m.

Lebanon7 p.m.

Man. Central7 p.m.

CV7 p.m.

Elizabethtown7 p.m.

Garden Spot7 p.m.

Cocalico7 p.m.

Williams Valley7 p.m.

Donegal7 p.m.

Columbia7 p.m.


Elco7 p.m.

Pequea Valley7 p.m.

N. Lebanon7 p.m.

SECTION TWO

SECTION ONE Sept. 2Home games shaded

Sept. 2

Sept. 9 Sept. 16 Sept. 23

Sept. 23

Sept. 30 Oct. 7 Oct. 14 Oct. 21 Oct. 28 Nov. 4

Nov. 4Oct. 21 Oct. 28Oct. 14Oct. 7Sept.30Sept. 16-17Sept. 9

SECTION THREE Sept. 2-3 Sept. 23 Sept. 30Sept. 16Sept. 9 Oct. 7 Oct. 14 Oct. 21 Oct. 28 Nov. 4

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LANCASTER-LEBANON LEAGUE

Football 2011IN THIS ISSUE:•Brightest stars:L-L boasts 3 returning All-State players ..4•Games to watch:Rivalries add spice to Friday nights ....... 7•Offseason training:Football is a year-long pursuit .............11•Pa. Football News: Preseason state rankings ....................13•Dealing with a tragedy:Barons remember, forge on ................25•Inside the Playbook:The Pioneers’ pistol offense .................47

McCaskey .......................................... 6 Hempfield .......................................... 8Penn Manor ......................................10Manheim Township ............................12Warwick ...........................................14Cedar Crest ......................................16Wilson .............................................17Ephrata ............................................18Conestoga Valley ...............................20Solanco ............................................22Lebanon ...........................................24Manheim Central ...............................26Elizabethtown ...................................28Garden Spot .....................................30Cocalico ...........................................32Lampeter-Strasburg ...........................34Lancaster Catholic .............................36Donegal ...........................................38Columbia ..........................................40Pequea Valley ...................................42Northern Lebanon ..............................44Elco .................................................45Annville-Cleona .................................46

TEAM PREVIEWS

ON THE COVER: From left, Wilson’s Rodney Gillin, Lancaster Catholic’s Adam DePietro and Columbia’s Mike Burke IV bring true star power to the L-L League this season.Cover illustration by Roxanne McRoberts.

Editors:Kevin FreemanRoxanne McRobertsWriters:Ed GruverDave ByrneMatt BlymierDustin LeedJoel SchreinerGordie JonesTom Arnold

Photographers:Justin David GraybillMarty HeiseyJeff RuppenthalVinny TennisGraphics:Dan MorrisProduction:Tim Gross, Alyssa WilliamsSpecial Thanks:PAHelmetProject.com.

SECTION ONE Wilson With Gillin back, bullish on the Dawgs again. McCaskey Winning ways continue, topped by a Cherry. Penn Manor Don’t be Sahd, Comets’ renaissance alive in Millersville. Manheim Twp. Scott’s experience keeps Blue Streaks in contention. Warwick Warriors air it out with Farnan at controls. Hempfield New coach, new approach, Black Knights need time to gel. Cedar Crest Falcons look to bring sharpened talons to defensive effort. Ephrata Mountaineers look to leave some kind of mark before departing Section One.

SECTION TWO Lamp.-Strasburg Returning skill players give Pioneers edge to repeat in competitive section. Manheim Central Barons are young, but tradition keeps them in section hunt. Garden Spot Talented returnees bring Spartan attitude to New Holland. Solanco Led by Welk, Golden Mules to challenge favorites. Lebanon Basketball offense on grass continues to confound opponents. Conestoga Valey Experienced offensive line set to block for new skill players. Cocalico Graduation forces rebuilding effort in Denver. Elizabethtown Question marks abound; Bears tracking improvement in trenches.

SECTION THREE Lanc. Catholic Crusaders’ farewell season in Section Three ends with another title. N. Lebanon Key returnees have Vikings setting sail in pursuit of title. Donegal Indians get boost from return of key skill players. Columbia Harrison-to-Burke IV connection raises Tide’s hopes. Annville-Cleona New defensive scheme has Dutchmen poised for improvement. Elco Raiders hope to avoid injury bug, return to playoffs. Pequea Valley New coach brings new mentality to experienced Braves.

Going out on a limb Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era staffers gaze into the crystal ball to predict the league races.

W hile sportswriters generally aren’t given too much credit for having a

lot on the ball — and probably rightly so — when it comes to football forecasting, we’re right up there with, uh, weather fore-casters and stock brokers.

I know that weather forecasting can be tricky business but the fore-cast that reads, “partly sunny with a chance of showers,’’ well, couldn’t we just say that every day and jam some more sports news into those 22 minutes every night at 11 p.m.?

Stock brokers have it rough, too. The market is volatile — up 400 points one day, down 400 the next. Who knew? But here’s where and when you should invest your money.

Take my 401(k).Please.So, here we are at the outset of

the L-L’s 40th football campaign and time for our staff to put their heads together and come up with some stone cold prognostications. Remember, this is only for fun. As

David Letterman says, there is no wagering.

First, a look back at how we fared last season.

We went 2 for 3 in picking sec-tion winners, getting Wilson and Lancaster Catholic right but didn’t see Lampeter-Strasburg supplant-ing Manheim Central in Section Two.

We had Cocalico finishing higher than it did but who knew they wouldn’t get really hot until a 3-1 run in the playoffs?

We correctly predicted North-ern Lebanon’s improvement in Section Three but the strides made by Annville-Cleona and Columbia fooled our collective genius.

Now, this season.Hard to pick against Wilson to

repeat in Section One, what with the return of swift running back Rodney Gillin. Add in quarterback Seth Klein, who performed ably when Zach Zweizig was on the mend last season, and you’ve got a nice offensive foundation.

We see the continued resur-gence of McCaskey under Rob

Monzon, the blossoming of Adam Sahd at Penn Manor and Brennan Scott at Township so Wilson can’t feel too comfortable.

Lampeter-Strasburg just keeps throwing wave after wave of skill kids at opponents and this season doesn’t figure to be any different. They appear to have the edge in Section Two, particularly with perennial power Manheim Central on the inexperienced side.

After L-S, each of the remaining seven teams could finish second.

How’s that for partly sunny with a chance of showers?

Lancaster Catholic gets the nod in Section Three but they must find a new quarterback. Roy Wall is on the ball at Northern Lebanon and keeps the Vikings within striking distance of the top spot.

Otherwise, watch Donegal, which has many experienced play-ers back, and Columbia, which also gets a lot of football out of only a few players.

So, now we’ve played the season on paper. Time for the real thing.

—Kevin Freeman

Playing the 40th season...on paper


C O V E R S T O R Y

BY MAT T BLYMIERSports Staff

T he Lancaster-Lebanon League experi-enced a youth movement last season.

Of the 87 total spots on the First Team All-Star teams that all section coaches vote

on, 26 of those went to underclassmen. Three players were sophomores and 23 were juniors.

An unprecedented amount of youngsters for an honor that is typically dominated by seniors.

“I’ve never seen the L-L so loaded with so much in-dividual talent,” Columbia coach Mike Burke III said of this season’s senior class. ‘‘It’s really stacked.”

At the top of the Class of 2012 are Wilson’s Rod-ney Gillin, Lancaster Catholic’s Adam DePietro and Columbia’s Michael Burke IV.

Gillin came out nowhere last season, his first as a starter, and made the most of his limited touches. In his first season as a starter in West Lawn, Gillin ran

for 1,829 yards and hit paydirt 28 times. He did all of that while averaging just 15 carries a game.

Not bad for a player that was suppose to be in a time-share at tailback.

“We really didn’t expect that from him,” admitted Wilson coach Doug Dahms. “We thought there would a three-tailback system and he would share reps.”

Gillin’s 2010 season set the school record for yards in a season as he surpassed the century mark in all 12 games last season. He’s now 1,610 yards shy of top-ping Jake Stopper’s career records of 3,510.

“It was the best single season we ever had from a running back,” said Dahms. “This year will determine if he’s the best (running back) we’ve ever had. He has the ability to be the best we’ve had.”

Though he has no official offers from colleges yet, Gillin, who also earned All-Section One honors at cornerback and was named to the Pennsylvania Foot-ball News All-State Third Team at running back, has drawn interest from the University of Pittsburgh and a handful of MAC schools, according to Dahms.

Another season like his junior year would likely garner Gillin a scholarship offer and his personal goal of cracking the 2,000-yard plateau seems logical considering his talent on the field.

Cream ofthe crop

Roxanne McRoberts / Staff

Wilson’s Gillin, Lancaster Catholic’s DePietro and Columbia’s Burkelead the L-L League in star power

Please see CREAM, page 5

Columbia’s Mike Burke IV, above, caught 66 passes for 1,027 yards last season and Wilson’s Rodney Gillin, left, picked up a school season record 1,829 yards rushing as a junior.

Kevin Freeman / Staff


Cream: Long on talent“He can beat you multiple ways,”

Penn Manor coach Todd Mealy said. “He’s a power back so he can run through you or he can run by you. It’s tough to defend a guy like him because you need four to five helmets on him every time.”

DePietro was the most dominant in Section Three on both sides of the ball. He earned All-Section Three First Team honors as both an offensive and defensive lineman, was the Offensive and Defensive Lineman of the Year and the Outstanding Lineman of the Year. He capped his junior season by being named to the Pennsylvania Sports Writ-ers Class AA All-State Second team.

“With all of the players we’ve had the past couple years, Adam has developed into that kind of linemen because of the guys we’ve had,” Catholic coach Bruce Harbach said referring to the handful of Division I players the Crusaders have had in DePietro’s three seasons prior to this year. “He’s a coach on the field with the line and he’s developed that lineman mentality.”

DePietro’s junior season, and his 6-5, 285-pound size, landed him scholarship offers from at least seven Division I schools and he chose Northwestern, where he’s expected to play at left tackle. His rise to a blue chip recruit is not surprising to his coach and opposing coaches alike.

“I could see that he was going to be pretty good when he was a sophomore,” Harbach recalled. “His size and work ethic were outstanding.”

Said Burke III, “His footwork is out-standing, he stays low and he knows the game. He can read a play and reads his

keys very well. He can dictate where he wants the play to go.”

Burke’s son had a similar break-out season last year. Burke IV led the league with 1,027 receiving yards on 66 catches and topped all receivers with 15 touchdowns. His season led to an All-Section Three First Team nod, the Sec-tion Three Outstanding Receiver of the Year award and was highlighted with a spot on the Pennsylvania Sports Writers Class A First Team All-State team.

“He committed to our offseason workout program with our strength and conditioning coach before last season and worked out like a mad man,” Burke III explained. “He could always catch so he worked on his strength, speed, conditioning and route running.”

The younger Burke spent the off-season fielding offers from Division I teams that included BYU and Pitt. Both of those schools, however, wanted the 6-3, 195-pound receiver to move to tight end or H-back so Burke instead decided to go to Villanova.

“He really liked Villanova, the small campus atmosphere and they want him to play receiver,” said Burke III. ‘‘He likes the CAA and the possibility that they might go to the Big East.’’

Burke III says that his son wanted to make an early commitment so he can focus on his senior year. It’s a year that will likely feature a rolled up safety to his side or a true double coverage as Section Three coaches figure out a way to slow him down.

“Someone like that you have to game plan around,” Harbach said. “You’re always aware of where he’s at on every play.”

Lancaster Catholic’s Adam DePietro was named Section Three’s Outstanding Lineman of the Year last season as a junior.

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SENIORS Pos. Ht. Wt.Johnathan Huylo QB/LB 5-8 165Dominque Miller-Shell WR/LB 5-10 153Blaise Glover TE/DE 6-4 187Joshua Ransing RB/LB 5-9 175Alexis Rodriguez WR/CB 5-4 142Dashaul Elliot WR/DB 5-10 168Quashaun Davis WR/S 6-0 170Darrien Hilliard WR/DB 5-6 155Cassion Walston WR/DB 5-8 132Christian Davidson WR/DB 6-1 155Noel Burgos RB/DB 5-8 162Anthony Perez WR/LB 5-7 140Sean Jackson TE/LB 5-11 170Deron Johnson RB/LB 5-6 197Xavier Solis OL/DL 5-11 219Stanley Gede OL/DL 6-4 252Dante Swinton OL/DL 5-11 245Mario Asencio OL/DL 6-0 290Jermaine Murray WR/CB 6-1 166JUNIORS Pos. Ht. Wt.Diante Cherry WR/CB 5-9 165Aaron Swinton RB/CB 5-10 156Terrell Talton WR/LB 5-6 164Johnathan Huylo QB/LB 5-7 162Darrell Walton RB/DB 5-7 157Avery Wilson RB/LB 5-10 180Samuel Wright WR/DB 5-9 152Victor Guzman FB/LB 5-4 140Angel Vasquez WR/CB 5-11 152Laron Wesley WR/CB 5-10 160

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McCASKEY

Head coach: Rob Monzon (2nd season, 7-4)Lancaster-Lebanon League Section: 12009 section: 5-22009 overall: 7-4PIAA Class: Quad-A

Base offense: SpreadBase defense: 4-4

SCOUTING REPORTKey players returning: QB-LB Johna-than Hulyo, OL-DL Dante Swinton, RB-CB Aaron Swinton, WR-CB Diante Cherry, TE-DE Blaise Glover.Key players lost: RB-DB Markeith Wil-liams, DE-DE T.J. Ford, OL T-Jay Fry, OL-LB Alex Zellie, FB-LB Mackie Deeter.

2011 ROSTER

2011 SCHEDULE 2010 RESULTSSept. 2 @ Coatesville, 7 p.m.Sept. 9 YORK, 7 p.m.Sept. 16 @ Lanc. Catholic, 7 p.m.Sept. 23 WILSON, 7 p.m.Sept. 30 HEMPFIELD, 7 p.m.Oct. 7 @ Penn Manor, 7 p.m.Oct. 14 @ Warwick, 7 p.m.Oct. 21 CEDAR CREST, 7 p.m.Oct. 28 MANHEIM TWP. , 7 p.m.Nov. 4 @ Ephrata, 7 p.m.

OUTLOOK

RED TORNADO

Assistant coach Chris Meyers has also installed a no-huddle offense that will keep opposing defenses on their heels. The trio of Cherry, Swinton and Hulyo should lead to enough points, so it may come down to whether the Tornado defense can stand tall.

Swinton

PEABODY W, 47-0@ York W, 45-14LANC. CATHOLIC L, 17-7@ Wilson L, 34-7@ Hempfield W, 27-7PENN MANOR W, 20-14WARWICK L, 26-18@ Cedar Crest W, 28-21@ Manheim Twp. W, 17-14EPHRATA W, 35-21@ Red Lion L, 14-13

Miller Hulyo

BY JOEL SCHREINERSports Correspondent

For the Tornado, the goal is a simple one.

They want to build on last year’s rebound season when they erased the memory of a 1-19, two-year slide by going 7-4 and making a re-turn trip to districts.

Making it happen starts with the likes of Diante Cherry and Aaron Swinton, two of the biggest play-makers in the Lancaster-Lebanon League.

Remarkably, the talented duo is entering a third year of wearing the Red & Black and still have next year to look forward to.

But, first things first.“Great things are going to hap-

pen, I can tell,” said Cherry, a wide receiver and cornerback. “Expec-tations are always high. We’re just trying to do better than we did last season. This year, we want to keep it rolling.”

As a sophomore last fall, Cherry caught 24 passes for 394 yards (16.2 yards per catch) and two touch-downs, while also rushing for a pair of TDs.

On defense, Cherry picked off two passes and had 60 tackles and also averaged 38 yards per kickoff return.

“It’s more about his mental strength,” McCaskey coach Rob Monzon said of Cherry. “Last year, he was a young guy and he put a lot of pressure on himself and got down on himself if the game wasn’t going his way. This year, I see a ma-turity in him that he has to have a short memory and he’s going to be able to make plays.”

Swinton, another two-way threat, will move from wide receiver to running back in an attempt to fill the void left by the graduation of Markeith Williams (1,154 rushing yards, 12 TD).

“I feel comfortable back there,”

said Swinton, who caught 19 passes for 264 yards and two touchdowns last fall. “We definitely have talent and athleti-cism. We just have to be strong and smart. We have a lot of guys who can do a lot of things with the ball in their hands.”

Swinton and Cherry, both ju-niors, are already on the radar of many colleges, including some at the Division I level.

“I’m fortunate to have skill players like them back,” said Monzon, a for-mer Tornado player who took over last year. “They push each other and it starts to create a real positive culture because the other kids want to follow.”

Quarterback Johnathan Hulyo is also back and makes the Tornado offense even more dangerous.

Last year, Hulyo completed 79-of-163 passes for 1,121 yards and 12 touchdowns, but was picked off 11 times. He also rushed for 289 yards

and five more scores.New offensive coordinator Chris

Meyers, a former QB at Manheim Central and at Stevens College of Technology where he played for Monzon, has worked with Hulyo and that work has already paid off.

“He seems more comfortable where the ball is going,” said Mon-zon. “This year he’s doing a lot bet-ter job of trusting his progressions, looking at his reads and getting it to the right person.”

Tornado building onnew-found success

ROB MONZONMcCaskeyRed Tornado

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The Red Tornado expect big contributions on both sides of the ball from Diante Cherry, above, and Aaron Swinton, below.


BY ED GRUVERSports Staff

I t’s never easy projecting weeks or even months ahead. Hey, even Nostradamus hedged his bets a bit, cloaking his visions in vague quatrains.

We’ll try to be a bit more precise here as we forecast the top 10 games — week by week — in-volving Lancaster-Lebanon League football teams this fall.

Sept. 2 — Lampeter-Strasburg at Hemp-field/Lebanon at Cedar Crest: Depending on which side of Route 72 your allegiance lies, one of these two games will be The Game to kick off the season.

Falcons versus Cedars in the annual Cedar Bowl needs little explanation. It’s a tradition-bound, county rivalry game. ’Nuff said.

Pioneers at Black Knights lacks the above ingredients, but it’s a big game for two reasons. L-S is the reigning L-L Section Two king, and this first game should provide some insight as to whether the Pioneers are up to defending their crown.

With a new coach, new attitude, new strata-gems, etc., Hempfield is also something of a mys-tery as the season gets underway.

Sept. 9 — Wilson at Manheim Central: Not a lot needs to be said about this inter-county rivalry between powerhouse programs hailing from Berks and Lancaster, respectively. The Bulldogs and Bar-ons have split their past two meetings, and these games almost always offer up a wildly entertain-ing affair.

Sept. 16 — McCaskey at Lancaster Catho-lic: The Retro Rivalry enters its second year, and

this time the festivities will take place at Rossmere Stadium. Red Tornado coach Rob Monzon told Lancaster Newspapers last May that interest in this rematch is such that the powers in charge at Lancaster Catholic have decided to bring in extra bleachers for the game. A wise move, since an estimated crowd of 10,000-13,000 fans jammed into McCaskey Stadium last September to see a colli-sion eventually won by the Crusaders.

Sept. 23 — Cocalico at Manheim Cen-tral/Wilson at McCaskey: Impossible to choose between these two games, since both are likely to have huge implications in their respective section races.

Eagles-Barons matchups have become bare-knuckle brawls since Cocalico became Central’s Section Two neighbor in 2004.

Wilson has been, ahem, top Dawg in Section One for some time now, and the Red Tornado, enjoying a renaissance under Monzon, will get to see where they stand.

Sept. 30 — Lampeter-Strasburg at Cocali-co: Another old-school rivalry, but transplanted to a new neighborhood. The Eagles and Pioneers have been butting helmets since their days in Section Three, and it doesn’t seem that long ago — in 2002 and again in ‘03, to be exact — that these two teams met to decide the Section Three title. Needless to say, this game will impact the Section Two race.

Oct. 7 — Warwick at Ephrata: It’s a cliché to say the least, but you really can throw out the records when it comes to this annual battle for the George Male Trophy. There are a handful of “tro-phy” games every year involving L-L teams, but this is probably the most intense and undeniably the most well-known.

Oct. 14 — Manheim Central at Conestoga Valley: It’s been called by those involved the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry of the L-L League. Just like the Buckeye-Wolverine wars, Bucks-Barons was an annual end-game to the regular season.

Still, no matter which week of the season this game is scheduled for, CV-Central is all about tradition and history. It’s Mike Williams against Jim Cantafio and then Gerry Novak. It’s Bob Aungst and Sam Turner leading the ’85 Bucks, and it’s Matt Nagy and Dan Kreider powering the ’94 Barons.

The names and faces change through the years, but the rivalry they forged continues.

Oct. 21 — Wilson at Manheim Township: Every year, it seems, the Blue Streaks point to this game as the game that will make or break their chances of a Section One title. This year will likely be no different. This game is set for Neffsville, but there’s little doubt that the road to a Section One title still runs through West Lawn.

Oct. 28 — Penn Manor at Wilson: Consider this the Comets’ chance to step up and challenge the reigning section champs. Todd Mealy has built a competitive program at Penn Manor and this game, coming as it does in the penultimate week of the regular season, could have title implications.

Nov. 4 — Elco at Lancaster Catholic: The Raiders, by their account, expected to be 9-0 head-ing into their 2010 season-ending showdown with lordly Lancaster Catholic.

Injuries and a lack of depth conspired to pre-vent that from happening, but the Raiders remain optimistic. Two years removed from the playoffs, they’re expecting to make another run at districts, and, perhaps, at a section title as well.

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It’s a new day for the Knights, who head into their first season un-der first-year boss Ron Zeiber. His track record at previous stops gives Hempfield high hopes for the future.


Ron Zeiber’s previous coaching stops include Central Dauphin, Ex-eter and Reading.

That’s not to say that Hempfield’s new coach doesn’t know about the Lancaster-Lebanon League.

“”I’ve seen a lot of L-L games,” Zeiber said. “I know it’s a competi-tive league week in and week out. I know it’s not going to be easy.”

Perhaps not, but if Zeiber’s track record is any indication, this is a guy who knows what it takes to build a successful program. And he’s got the pelts on the belt to prove it.

After serving apprenticeships at Reading, Exeter and Central Dauphin, Zeiber took over as head man at Exeter in 1993. Four years later, the Eagles claimed the Berks Intercounty League championship and qualified for the District Three playoffs. In ’98, they returned to the postseason. From 1993-2002, Zeiber’s Eagles went 51-43.

In 2002, he took charge at Boyer-town. Following the same pattern as he did at Exeter, Zeiber built a title team by his fourth season, his 2006

squad winning the Pioneer Athletic Conference crown for the first time in program history and reaching the district playoffs.

From 2002-07, Zeiber fashioned a 38-31 record, a .550 winning per-centage that ranks as the highest in team history.

So Zeiber knows a thing or two about winning programs. And that bodes well for the Black Knights, who struggled to a 3-7 finish last season and are 19-22 over their last four seasons.

One of the first things Zeiber did upon taking over following his hir-ing in late March, he said, was to change the climate of Hempfield’s program.

“One of our strengths is going to be our attitude,” he stated. “Our atti-tude is going to be on a new level.”

Listen to some of the returning Black Knight players, and it sounds as if it already is.

“We’re really motivated,” said sophomore Joey Goodhart, a pro-jected starter on both the offensive and defensive fronts.

And when a guy is 6-foot-3 and 240 pounds, you tend to take him at his word.

“It’s going to be really important for us to get off to a good start,” he added.

Something the Knights didn’t do last season. Hempfield didn’t score until Week Four, and the Knights were blanked in five of their 10 games.

Zeiber’s facelift of Knights’ foot-ball isn’t just cosmetic. As most in-

coming coaches do, he’s changing the existing offensive and defen-sive schemes and teaching the sys-tem he knows.

That means Hempfield’s Mul-tiple Option offense and Multiple 4-3 defense are being scrapped in favor of a Spread offense and 3-3 Stack defense.

After averaging a league-low 182 yards of offense per game last sea-son while surrendering 300 yards per outing, the players are embrac-ing the changes.

“We’re looking forward to the new offense,” said senior wide re-ceiver KJ Pederson, who will also see time on defense at one of the linebacker slots.

“We’re going 100 percent.”Said junior quarterback Michael

Murr, “(The offense) is completely different. We’re working as hard as we can.”

The same holds true for the guys on the other side of the ball. Their consensus is that the new 3-3 Stack offers a more aggressive approach than did the 4-3 they played last sea-son.

“We’re going after people,” Goodhart said.

The Knights return key contrib-utors, notably Pederson, who led the squad with 106 stops; and run-ning back Joe Gamble, who ranked among Section One rushing leaders last season with 494 yards of terra firma.

All told, Hempfield returns seven starters on offense and five on de-fense. A solid nucleus, Zeiber said, to build upon.

“We’re not going to have a sit-back-and-wait-approach,” he stated. “We’re going to get after it on both sides of the ball.”

Black Knightseye success via change

Junior Michael Murr takes over as quarterback for the Black Knights.

Ron Zeiber arrived at Hempfield after leading Exeter and Boyer-town to the district playoffs.

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RODNEY GILLINWILSONPosition: RB-DBClass: SeniorHt. 5-11 Wt. 171NOTABLE: Gillin ranked second in the section last season with 1,581 yards and 24 TDs. His 10.5 ypc average was second-best in the L-L.

QUOTABLE: Wilson coach Doug Dahms: “He ‘s the best we’ve ever had in a single season; he has the (school’s) single-season rushing record. This year will determine if he’s the best we’ve ever had for a career. He has the ability to be the best we’ve had.”

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DEREK HORSTEPHRATAPosition: OL-DLClass: SeniorHt. 6-1 Wt. 210NOTABLE: A standout for the Mountaineers, Horst earned All-Section First Team honors at defensive end last season.

QUOTABLE: Ephrata coach Jim Vieland: “Derek plays with a high motor and others follow his example. He is a sound, well-disciplined player who strives to make us better as a team.”

BRIAN SLOSSPENN MANORPosition: KClass: SeniorHt. 5-8 Wt. 150NOTABLE: An All-Section First Team choice.

QUOTABLE: Penn Manor coach Todd Mealy: “Brian, who plays football and soccer, joined our team during his sophomore year. He really enjoys playing football and wishes we would have him do more than kick for us. He’s been an accurate kicker, having missed just one PAT and has made two field goals at 31 and 38 yards in his career. His kickoffs need to improve, because last season we gave our opponents short fields most of the time.”

DAULTON PALMERPENN MANORPosition: WR-DBClass: JuniorHt. 5-10 Wt. 170NOTABLE: Had team-best 27 catches for 355 yards. Named All-Sec-tion First Team on offense and Honorable Mention on defense.

QUOTABLE: Penn Manor coach Todd Mealy: “Daulton is valuable to our team because of what he does in all three phases: Offense, defense and special teams. In fact, he’ll play nearly every second of each game.”

GARRETT LEVENGOODCEDAR CRESTPosition: QB-DBClass: SeniorHt. 6-0 Wt. 175NOTABLE: Led Section One QBs last season with a 95.6 rating and 16 TDs. Threw for 1,768 yards.

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Penn Manor coach Todd Mealyand his staff have a different ap-proach to coaching high schoolfootball.

Waydifferent.The Comets’ brass feels that

teaching football comes second toteaching life lessons. Once the lifelessons are learned, the coachingstaff believes, football becomeseasier.

“I think that life lessons becomea way to measure a football pro-gram,” Mealy explained. “I thinkbecause we’ve been coaching thatway for four years that our pro-gramiswhereitis.

“Those life lessons have gottenour program to a point, that despitesome hardship, we’ve gotten bet-ter, stayed close as a unit, remainedconsistentandcancompete.”

So far Mealy’s unorthodox phi-losophyhasworkedinMillersville.

The Comets are coming off ofa 6-5 season that included a thirdstraight trip to the District ThreeClass AAAA playoffs, and a thirdconsecutive winning season. All ofwhich has never happened at PennManor.

“People have a short memoryand people in our community thinkof Penn Manor football as winningand that’s what they expect,” saysMealy. “That means this program isataspotwherewewantit.”

The Comets appear to be in a po-sition to maintain the level of playthey’re accustomed too. They losefive starters on offense and four ondefense.

Junior Adam Sahd highlights thelist of returning starters on offense.Sahd threw for 1,111 yards in theregular season with eight scoresand 12 picks. Returning with Sahdare linemen Ethan Barley, CodyStryker, Alex Quinn and Trent Crid-erandreceiverDaultonParmer.

The defense returns Crider,Quinn, Stryker and Errol Ham-mond up front, Dylan Weber at line-backer and defensive backs ParmerandMikeBucek.

“As long as we play solid defensewe have a chance to win games,”

Mealy said. “We’re fortunate enoughthat we have these players back ondefense. Helps, too, because we’llhaveyounglinebackers.”

Though the Comets return mostof their starters from last season,they’re still a young team. With onlya dozen seniors on a 44-man roster,PennManor’sfuturelooksbright.

“I have to admit that we are mak-ing some decisions that will help usin a year or two,” Mealy said. “Notthatwe’llsacrificethisyear.

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focusonthat.”And Mealy knows his program’s

winning ways won’t continue with-out his small, but very important,seniorclass.

“We like these seniors becausethey’ve been with us every step ofthe way. They’re coachable, disci-plined and they know what it takesto keep our program at the levelwhere it’s come,” he said. “They’refortunate enough to have played inthree district playoffs and have awinning record in Section One, thatprior to their arrival, Penn Manornever had. They’ve been a part of alotofwinning.”

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BY KEVIN FREEMANAssistant Sports Editor

T here were days, believe it or not, when football players put their helmets, shoul-der pads and cleats in a locker in Novem-ber and then didn’t touch them until the

“official’’ start of practice in August.That was back in a time when sports seasons had be-

ginnings and ends. Out of season meant out of season.You didn’t throw a football in the spring or shag flies

in the fall.Gradually, it seems, we’ve entered an era of spe-

cialization. If you’re a football player and you’re not practicing football, whether it’s February or July, you won’t be the best football player you can be. The same can be said for other sports. In basketball, there’s AAU ball. Volleyball has out-of-season club teams.

All these out-of-season events are designed to hone one’s skills at one particular sport.

It’s like that adage that goes something like, if you’re not practicing, your opponent is and he’ll have the edge. Is there a line to be drawn somewhere?

Do we want to draw a line?For some, concentration on

one sport is fine, if that’s what they want to do. Whether if it’s for love of the game or the prospect of a scholarship (which can be legitimate or fantasy), focusing on one sport for 365 days is a choice a player makes.

If, however, a player feels forced into an out-of-sea-son activity at the expense of an in-season sport, then maybe we’ve gone too far.

Many of today’s football coaches face a dilemma. On one side of the coin, they have to keep up with other programs or else their teams won’t be able to compete.

On the other hand, they don’t want to rob teenagers of the right to be, well, normal teenagers.

“Football, right now, is year ’round, it’s constant,’’ said Cocalico coach Dave Gingrich.

So, coaches try to compromise. Many hold spring workouts but do so after spring sports are finished. They try to hold workouts at differ-ent times in an effort to accommo-date the players.

In other words, they try to find a balance. Keep up, but let kids be kids.

“We try to find time to get the kids together with-out imposing on their lives,’’ said Warwick coach Bob Locker.

The end of a football season and the onset of winter pushes most football players indoors where they spend the next few months in the weight room. When spring arrives, it’s time to move outside for some concentrat-

ed workouts, maybe a couple of days a week.The summer brings more non-contact workouts and

7-on-7 and team camps (and more lifting). Then it’s the middle of August and the season starts.

“When we first started offseason workouts, we just used shorts and t-shirts,’’ said Gingrich, whose spring workouts lasted three weeks. “We went through some drills with no helmets, no shoulder pads. But the last few years, the PIAA has changed its rules. Now, we go out in helmets and wore shoulder pads on a couple of the days.’’

There was no hitting in the spring and the general idea about letting players use helmets and shoulder pads is to have them get used to the feel.

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Troy Karpinski TE/LB 5-10 175Everett Green FB/LB 5-8 155Derek Ritchey WR/DB 5-9 150David Sanchez OL/DL 5-10 180Brendon O’Shea OL/DL 5-10 180Andre Torres OL/DL 5-10 180Nick Berntheizel OL/DL 5-9 260Michael Ramirez OL/DL 5-9 245Matt Hahn OL/DL 5-9 210Gavin Johnson OL/DL 6-0 245Eric Catalan OL/DL 5-10 180Evan Buckwalter TE/LB 5-10 175Isaiah Reichenbach WR/DB 5-9 150Jafaar Sule WR/DB 6-0 150SOPHOMORES Pos. Ht. Wt.Alex Zug WR/OLB 5-8 155Justin Sims FS 5-11 170Matt Sallade TB/OLB 5-11 175Keenan Hurley WR/DB 5-10 165Logan Aument TE/LB 5-11 200Christian Hasson WR/DB 5-9 140Brandon Clements TE/K/LB 6-1 195Alex Woolley WR/PK/DB 5-8 150Logan Murr WR/LB 6-1 165Ian Henry FB/LB 5-11 160Alex Vasquez FB/LB 5-10 180Michenzie Foltz FB/LB 6-0 200Jakob Finegan OL/DL 6-1 230Ben Shrum OL/DL 5-9 190Jake Devenney OL/DL 5-11 165David Frank OL/DL 6-0 230Nick Buczacki OL.DL 6-5 250Bryan Gonzalez WR/DB 5-8 140Andrew Young TE/OLB 5-10 175Juan Tamayo WR/DB 5-8 135

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Head coach: Mike Melnyk (13th season, 67-60)Lancaster-Lebanon League Section: 12010 section: 4-32010 overall: 5-6PIAA Class: Quad-A

Base offense: MultipleBase defense: 4-2-5

SCOUTING REPORTKey players returning: QB Brennan Scott, TE-LB Alex Opp, TB-LB Scott Sallade, OL-DL Clayton Hoffmaster, OL-DL Jordan Mayes, OL-DL Mike Farley, WR-FS Chase Miller, WR-DB Tyler Karpinski, WR-DB John Shaffer.Key players lost: OL-DL Alex Vigilante, OL-DL Alex Hupfeld, TE-LB Brett Donmoyer, OL-DL Matt Beaugard, WR-DB Kalil Bailey, FB-LB Garrett Perau, RB-CB Brady Souders.

2011 ROSTER

2011 SCHEDULE 2010 RESULTSSept. 2 @ Central Dauphin, 7 p.m.Sept. 9 RED LION, 7 p.m.Sept. 16 ELIZABETHTOWN, 7 p.m.Sept. 23 EPHRATA, 7 p.m.Sept. 30 @ Warwick , 7 p.m.Oct. 7 @ Cedar Crest, 7 p.m.Oct. 14 PENN MANOR, 7 p.m.Oct. 21 WILSON, 7 p.m.Oct. 28 @ McCASKEY, 7 p.m.Nov. 4 @ Hempfield, 7 p.m.

OUTLOOK

BLUE STREAKS

Backed by Scott’s arm, the legs of running back Scott Sallade (back after a 500-plus-yard season last fall) and a rather large offensive line, the Township offense should be pretty scary and will be tough to contain.

Scott HoffmasterOpp

CENTRAL DAUPHIN L, 37-27@ Red Lion L, 27-21@ Elizabethtown W, 28-26@ Ephrata W, 47-32WARWICK W, 33-21CEDAR CREST W, 70-40@ Penn Manor L, 38-20@ Wilson L, 27-14McCASKEY L, 17-14HEMPFIELD W, 38-15@ Wilson L, 48-21


Clayton Hoffmaster and Bren-nan Scott are good friends and spend a lot of time together off the field.

On the field, Scott, Manheim Township’s quarterback, considers Hoffmaster his best friend.

As a hulking, 6-foot-4, 260-pound left tackle, it’s Hoffmaster’s job to protect Scott’s blind side. If he does, Scott can make things happen.

Scott, still a junior, is armed and dangerous, especially given the fact he already has two years of starting experience under his belt.

He came into his own last fall when he threw for 2,010 yards (most among Section One QBs) and 15 touchdowns while guiding Town-ship’s offense that produced the second-most points in Section One.

“We have a quarterback who is returning for his third year and I think you’re a fool if you’re not using a kid like that,” said Streaks coach Mike Melnyk. “The first year when he played we brought him along slowly. Last year, we loosened the reigns a little bit, gave him a few more things to work with.

“This year, we’re giving him the freedom to change the protec-tion if he needs to, change a route if he needs to. The whole premise is we want him to get us into a good play.”

This summer, Scott won the Golden Gun Award for accuracy at the Elite 11 QB Camp at Penn State. That honor, along with his perfor-mance on the field, will undoubt-edly make Scott a major player in the college recruiting race.

“I’m getting used to it,” said Scott, when asked about dealing with the attention he’s already at-tracted. “The season is the main fo-cus. The main goal is to do well and help the team win.”

When speaking of blue chip QBs

at Manheim Township, it’s inevi-table that Scott will be compared to Pat Bostick, who rewrote the MT re-cord book for career yards (7,259), TD passes (82) and completions (543) before going to Pitt.

“I think Brennan understands the legend of Pat Bostick here and I don’t think he’s afraid of it,” said Melnyk. “He understands that he’s kind of the face of the program right now and the burden that goes along with that. I don’t think he’s here to chase any numbers, he’s here to be-come the best quarterback that he can be.”

That’s where Hoffmaster comes in as the senior anchor of the offen-sive line.

Hoffmaster has also been busy this summer going to camps and go-ing through the recruiting process, getting attention from some Ivy League schools.

“You have to keep it in perspec-tive and not let it become your life,” said Hoffmaster. “It’s fun, but now I’m just ready for the season.”

And ready to do his job.“Hopefully, he can keep me

safe,” said Scott.Hey, what are friends for?

Streaks to follow Scott’s leadMIKE MELNYK

Manheim TownshipBlue Streaks


Brennan Scott returns to the Blue Streaks after throwing for over 2,000 yards and 15 TDs last season.

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CLASS AAAA

Rank, School (District)

1. Pittsburgh Central Catholic (7)2. North Penn (1)3. La Salle College (12)4. Neshaminy (3)5. Upper St. Clair (7)6. Bethlehem Liberty (11)7. North Allegheny (7)8. Coatesville (1)9. Council Rock South (1)10. Ridley (1)

Others to watch:

Bayard Rustin (1)Boyertown (1)Central Dauphin (3)Cumberland Valley (3)Daniel Boone (3)Delaware Valley (2)Downington East (1)Easton (11)Mount Lebanon (7)Parkland (11)Roman Catholic (12)Wilson (3)Woodland Hills (7)Wyoming Valley West (2)

Pennsylvania Football News preseason rankingsCLASS AAA


1. Allentown Central Catholic (11)2. Bishop McDevitt (3)3. Archbishop Wood (12)4. Erie Cathedral Prep (10)5. Montour (7)6. Valley View (2)7. Thomas Jefferson (7)8. Abington Heights (2)9. Susquehanna Twp. (3)10. Hopewell (7)

Others to watch:

Cardinal O’Hara (12)Central Valley (7)Clearfield (9)Crestwood (2)Dallas (2)Greater Johnstown (6)Greencatle-Antrim (3)Grove City (10)Manheim Central (3)Strath Haven (1)Lampeter-Strasburg (3)

CLASS AA


1. West Catholic (12)2. Lancaster Catholic (3)3. Lewisburg (4)4. Aliquippa (7)5. Trinity (3)6. Seton-La Salle (7)7. Mount Carmel (4)8. North Schuylkill (11)9. Tyrone Area (6)10. Sharon Area (10)

Others to watch:

Beaver Falls (7)Bloomsburg (4)Delone Catholic (3)Forest Hills (6)GAR Memorial (2)General McLane (10)Greensburg Central Catholic (7)Hickory (10)Montoursville (4)Northern Lehigh (11)Towanda (4)Wilmington (10)Wyomissing (3)

CLASS A


1. Clairton (7)2. Southern Columbia (4)3. Rochester (7)4. Pius X (11)5. Dunmore (2)6. Springdale (7)7. Line Mountain (4)8. Shenandoah Valley (11)9. Sto-Rox (7)10. Bellwood-Antis (6)

Others to watch:

Avonworth (7)Bishop Canevin (7)Bishop Carroll (6)Curwensville (9)Farrell (10)Lackawanna Trail (2)Ligonier Valley (6)Linesville (10)Marian Catholic (11)North Star (5)Port Allegany (9)Schuylkill Haven (11)Steelton-Highspire (3)West Middlesex (10)Williams Valley (11)

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Head coach: Bob Locker (11th season, 44-50)Lancaster-Lebanon League Section: 12010 section: 4-32009 overall: 6-5PIAA Class: Quad-A


SCOUTING REPORTKey players returning: OG-DE Jared Good, C-DE Dalton Bol-linger, QB Tyler Farnan, OL-DL Tom Devenney, WR-DB Korey Johnson, QB-DB Zack Hurst, WR-DB Brady Forney, WR-DB J.A. Howland. Key players lost: RB-DB Deron Thompson, FB-LB Bryan McCall, WR-DB-KR Matt Rissinger, WR-S DJ Johnson, OT-DT Tony Venti, G-DT Kurtis Zimmerman, OT-DT John Devenney, TE-SS Tyler Bomberger.

2011 ROSTER

2011 SCHEDULE 2010 RESULTSSept. 2 DALLASTOWN, 7 p.m.Sept. 9 CONESTOGA VALLEY, 7 p.m.Sept. 16 @ Garden Spot, 7 p.m.Sept. 23 @ Cedar Crest, 7 p.m.Sept. 30 MANHEIM TWP., 7 p.m.Oct. 7 @ Ephrata, 7 p.m.Oct. 14 McCASKEY, 7 p.m.Oct. 21 @ Penn Manor, 7 p.m.Oct. 28 HEMPFIELD, 7 p.m.Nov. 4 @ Wilson, 7 p.m.

OUTLOOKIt’s a carpe-diem kinda year for QB Tyler Farnan, just as it was last

year for RB Deron Thompson. Seemed to work out pretty well for the Warriors in the latter case. Maybe lightning strikes twice.

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SENIORS Pos. Ht. Wt.Anthony Boak RB/DB 5-8 155Dalton Bollinger C/DE 6-0 215Tyler Farnan QB 6-2 178Brady Forney WR/DB 6-0 182Jared Good OG/DE 5-11 211J.A. Howland WR/DB 6-1 175Korey Johnson WR-DB 5-11 162Shawn Mearig K 6-0 160Chad Messimer RB/LB 5-10 182Sean Reidenbaugh WR/SS 6-0 184Dakota Rhinier RB/LB 6-0 181Zack Salsgiver WR/DB 5-9 151Jesse Snyder OG/DT 5-9 197Ryan Wiegand TE/LB 5-11 199JUNIORS Pos. Ht. Wt.Andy Brinkman WR/DB 6-0 155Brent Bossemer OT/DE 6-4 230Tallon Burkholder OG/DT 5-10 197Zane Dawood RB/DB 5-8 156Tom Devenney OL/DL 6-2 278Charlie Fatjo WR/DB 5-9 151Andrew Hackman WR/DB 5-9 155Zack Hurst QB/DB 6-0 163Nate Johnson FB/LB 5-10 208Nick Johnson OL/DT 5-10 220Ben Kressley WR/DB 5-8 138Sean Malone WR/LB 5-7 155

Austin Minnich WR/DB 5-8 157Albert Powell RB/LB 5-9 170Ethan Quinn WR/DB 5-6 135Alec Rhoads OG/DE 5-11 184AJ Sanderson OG/DT 5-11 210Nick Sham OG/DE 5-7 155Tyler Spangenburg OG/DE 5-8 172Eric Wagaman TE/DE 6-3 215Ivan Zelaya OT/DT 6-0 257SOPHOMORES Pos. Ht. Wt.Tommy Lee Bell OT/DT 6-1 238Patrick Birmingham OG/DE 6-3 201Justin Brenneman WR/DB 5-6 140Anthony Fatjo WR/DB 5-7 132Tom Fishel WR/DB 6-0 154Tommy Garner QB/DB 5-11 165Austin Myers WR/DB 6-1 162Luke Newberry WR/DB 5-5 125Matt Pennypacker QB 5-9 147Luis Santiago WR/LB 5-6 145Taylor Slagle WR/LB 5-11 150Carson Snavely WR/LB 6-0 203Aaron Springer QB/LB 6-0 165Gabe Taylor RB/DB 5-9 154Coleman Wagner RB/LB 5-11 170FRESHMEN Pos. Ht. Wt.Austin Maguire C/DT 6-1 210Adam Wagaman OT/DT 6-2 187

Farnan

@ Dallastown L, 17-14@ Conestoga Valley W, 28-14GARDEN SPOT W, 20-10CEDAR CREST W, 52-20@ Manheim Township L, 33-21EPHRATA W, 35-28@ McCaskey W, 26-18PENN MANOR L, 16-0@ WILSON L, 48-19@ Penn Manor L, 56-21@ Central Dauphin L, 42-7

Warwick quar-terback Tyler Farnan has re-covered from a broken throw-ing hand, which sidelined him for 95 percent of last season.


BY GORDIE JONESSports Correspondent

The pain wasn’t so bad at first, Warwick quarterback Tyler Farnan recalled.

He had slammed his left hand — his passing hand — on the helmet of a Dallastown defender on the War-riors’ third possession of last year’s season opener, but didn’t think he was badly hurt. He stayed in for another play, but found he couldn’t take the snap. Then he retreated to the sideline, and began jogging.

As he did so, he said, “I could feel the bone crunching.”

The bone in his thumb, obviously broken. His junior season, his first as a starter, was over. And if there was little pain in the beginning, it would only grow with each passing week.

“It was really hard to watch the team — really hard to stand and

watch,” he said. “It was, ‘I wish I was out there. I could have made that play.’ ”

That was likely true. He had led the Warriors to touchdowns on each of their first two possessions against Dallastown, and they were on the move again when he suffered his injury.

“I was having the time of my life,” he said.

But 10 days later he was having four pins surgically implanted in his thumb. Without him the War-riors went 6-5 and reached districts, but were heavily dependent on se-nior tailback Deron Thompson, who with 2,135 yards became the fifth

back in Lancaster-Lebanon League history to rush for over 2,000 in a season.

In all, Warwick gained 2,544 yards on the ground, third-most in the league. But the Warriors’ 734 passing yards were fourth-fewest.

Farnan, who had the pins re-moved last November, could not throw for six months, and did not feel like he was 100 percent healthy until June or July.

While coach Bob Locker thought his QB showed some signs of rust during an opening scrimmage against Manheim Central, the coach believes Farnan has regained all of his arm strength.

“We’re looking for him to have an excellent senior season,” Locker said.

As is Farnan himself. He was sus-tained last fall by Thompson, who had missed virtually all of the 2009

Healthy Warriors hope breaks go their way

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season when he broke his left leg on his second carry of the opener.

“He felt the worst for me,” Farnan said. “He knew exactly how I felt. … He lost his junior season, and came back and made up for it. I’m hoping I can do the same.”

There is some uncertainty about who will replace Thompson, now a preferred walk-on at Penn State, at tailback. Junior Albert Powell appeared to have the in-side track as the preseason wore on, but senior Anthony Boak and sophomore Gabe Taylor were also in the pic-ture.

Dalton Bollinger and Jared Good anchor the War-riors on both lines, as does Tom Devenney — “a very, very good football player,” according to Locker.

Chad Messimer, Coleman Wagner and Nate Johnson look like they’re starting to emerge at linebacker, where the Warriors lost Bryan McCall, who led Section One in tackles, as well as Thompson, who was fifth.

But the biggest news is that Farnan has re-emerged — that the pain is gone, once and for all.

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Devon Edwards TE/LB 5-10 180Javier Bonilla DL 5-10 200Zack Kressler RB/DB 5-7 140Talmon Kreiser RB/LB 6-2 205John Zug OL/DE 5-10 220Steven Galbraith OL/LB 5-7 207Ivan Young OL/DL 6-1 238Dean Houshower OL.DL 5-10 277Kevin Dechert OL/DL 6-2 305Lukas Gerdes DL 5-9 195Allen Kline OL/DE 6-5 240Brian Kaley OL/L 6-3 285Ryan Young OL/DL 5-8 218SOPHOMORES Pos. Ht. Wt.Gage Ocker QB/DB 6-1 174Grant Boehler RB/DB 5-10 181Antonio Lambakis WR/DB 5-8 140Dajour Harrison WR/DB 5-9 145Adam Gilson RB/LB 5-8 160Ryan Muller TE/LB 6-0 205Mike Nelson LB 5-9 192Skylar Scherer OL/DL 5-7 180Hunter Wise OL/DE 5-6 171Patrick Donley OL/DL 5-8 188Austin Elliott OL/DL 5-8 218Devin Elder OL/DL 5-8 207Josh Lebo WR/DB 5-10 155Brandon Henriquez WR/DB 5-8 126Denzel Pierre WR/DB 6-1 170

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Head coach: Tom Waranavage (3rd season, 5-15)Lancaster-Lebanon League Section: 12010 section: 1-62010 overall: 1-9PIAA Class: Quad-A

Base offense: SpreadBase defense: 4-4/4-3

SCOUTING REPORTKey players returning: QB-DB Garrett Levengood, TE-DE Darin Kline, Slot- DB Taylor Steinbauer, Slot-LB Nick Bechtold, WR-DB Daulton Ritter, OL-DL Chris Bishop, LB Brian Wawrzyniak, Key players lost: WR Lucardy Jean-Francois, OL Jacobi Ortiz, OL-LB/DL Kyle Tice.

2011 ROSTER

2011 SCHEDULE 2010 RESULTSSept. 2 LEBANON, 7 p.m.Sept. 9 @ Conrad Weiser, 7 p.m.Sept. 16 @ Hershey, 7 p.m.Sept. 23 WARWICK, 7 p.m.Sept. 30 @ Wilson, 7 p.m.Oct. 7 MANHEIM TWP., 7 p.m.Oct. 14 @ Hempfield, 7 p.m.Oct. 21 @McCASKEY, 7 p.m.Oct. 28 EPHRATA, 7 p.m.Nov. 5 PENN MANOR, 7 p.m.

OUTLOOK

The Falcons have some nice offensive pieces, led by all-section QB Garrett Levengood. But they will need to show marked improvement on the defensive side of the ball in order to creep up the standings.

Bishop Wawrzniak

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Levengood

@ Lebanon L, 35-7CONRAD WEISER L, 46-14HERSHEY L, 41-28@ Warwick L, 52-20WILSON L, 43-13@ Manheim Township L, 70-40HEMPFIELD L, 28-13McCASKEY L, 28-21@ Ephrata W, 28-23@ Penn Manor L, 56-21


It’s not at all difficult to pinpoint where Cedar Crest bottomed out last year. That was in Week Seven, when the Falcons lost at Manheim Township, 70-40.

That’s right, they scored 40. And lost by 30.

It was one of seven games in which Crest, 1-9 a year ago, allowed 35 points or more. The Falcons gave up at least 28 in every game, and a league-worst 422 in all. They also surrendered an average of 419.8 yards per week, more than any oth-er L-L team.

Coach Tom Waranavage noted that offenses are more wide open than ever before, that just about ev-erybody runs the spread and throws the ball all over the lot.

But, he added, “If you score 40 points, I still think you should be winning games.”

With All-Section One quarter-back Garrett Levengood running the show, Crest should once again be able to move the ball. It’s just a matter of whether the Falcons can stop anybody.

“We’re going back to basics with the kids,” Waranavage said on L-L media day, “which we’ve been working on all spring and summer — just basic alignments and getting the kids to understand the impor-tance of leverage on defense, and running to the football.”

He pronounced himself pleased with the defense’s progress af-ter the Falcons’ first scrimmage, against Conestoga Valley.

“We have 1,000 things to work on,” he said, “but I thought we played faster than we have in a long time. When you do that on defense, good things can happen for you.”

He was particularly happy about the work of senior linebackers Bri-an Wawrzyniak and Nick Bechtold, two of the Falcons’ seven returning starters on defense. Another senior, Ryan Smith, joins them at ’backer,

which makes that positional group-ing a potential strength.

Also back are Chris Bishop and Darin Kline on the line, and Taylor Steinbauer, Daulton Ritter and Lev-engood in the secondary.

But it is on offense where Le-vengood is expected to make the biggest splash. He finished as the section’s top passer a year ago, com-pleting 50.8 percent of his attempts for 1,768 yards and 16 touchdowns, with eight interceptions.

“He slings the ball everywhere,” Bishop said.

And this year, Levengood said, “I feel more confident, more relaxed. I know kids know what to do, and they know what I’m doing. It pretty much all ties together.”

Despite his big year in ’10, he acknowledged that he was “pretty

nervous” at first.“I never played varsity before,”

he said. “Everything was pretty fast. I started getting more con-fident. It was slowing down. I got used to things.”

He has lost his top receiver, all-section choice Lucardy Jean-Fran-cois, but Waranavage believes Rit-ter will be one of the league’s best pass-catchers when all is said and done. The Falcons also have experi-ence at the other skill positions, and while Bishop is the only returning lineman, the coach believes that group will develop.

“We have a good mix of kids up front,” he said. “I see us getting more and more physical as the sum-mer has gone on.”

That should help. Now they just have to go out and stop somebody.

Making a defensive stand

Defensive end Darin Kline will be part of what the Falcons hope is an improved defense this season.

TOM WARANAVAGECedar Crest

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SENIORS Pos. Ht. Wt.Seth Klein QB/WR/DB 6-0 183Jacob Morgan WR/DB 6-2 151Demetrius Young RB/LB 5-10 186Rodney Gillin RB/DB 5-11 171Calvin Heyward WR/DB 6-0 190Steven Dantzler WR/DB 5-9 136Collin Harrop WR/DB 5-10 143Jared Wertz WR/DB 5-10 143Greg Shade FB/LB 5-9 176Tyler Rivera WR/DB 5-9 144Bobby Hafer RB/LB 5-9 190Jimmy Waters TE/LB 5-11 160Ethan Werner TE/DL 6-0 221Steve Surgeoner OL/DL 5-9 161Will Rouse OL/DL 6-4 196Austin Noss OL/DL 5-10 262Isaiah Brown OL/DL 5-10 214Clayton Schannauer OL/DL 6-0 268Josh Dierolf OL/DL 6-2 269Deshon Giddens DL 5-10 250Woosby St. Julien WR/DB 5-11 145Mike Little WR/DB 6-4 211JUNIORS Pos. Ht. Wt.Javon Young RB/LB 5-9 137Andrew Francos QB/LB 5-10 166Jim Brooks WR/DB 5-9 145Mohamed Kromah WR/DB 6-0 170Jesse Poore WR/DB 5-10 140Darian Weidenhammer WR/DB 5-11 165Tyrone Williams WR/LB 5-11 165Tim Shields WR/DB 5-8 126Danny Rhodes WR/DB 5-8 130Madison Miller QB/LB 6-2 192Andy Vicari WR/LB 5-11 155Jaymes Hoptley RB/DE 5-11 180Dominic Moyer TE/LB 5-10 175Josh Valerio OL/DL 6-0 197Harry Destine OL/DL 5-9 176Justin Burk OL-DL 5-9 169Quinn Ritter OL/DL 5-11 200Jacob Schannauer OL/DL 5-11 205

Yensi Uribe-Martinez OL/DL 6-0 205Sampson Hartman OL/DL 5-11 240Brandon Buser OL/DL 5-10 205Bryant Surgeoner WR/DB 5-9 152Tyler Sekulski WR/DB 5-8 135Matt Rothrock TE/DL 6-3 213Engles Hernandez OL/DL 5-9 211Junior Joseph TE/LB 6-1 223SOPHOMORES Pos. Ht. Wt.Matt Timochenko QB 5-10 155Darius Young RB/DB 5-7 145Kyle Gaynor QB/DB 5-10 155Matt Close WR/LB 5-8 142Bryce Pych WR/DB 5-10 140Kyle Watkins WR/LB 5-11 165Javon Fernandez WR/DB 5-6 136Connor Smith WR/DB 5-8 142John Raifsnyder RB/DB 5-8 169Hunter Hatlee RB/LB 6-0 197Dominic Nigrelli TE/DL 6-1 175Trent Burkhardt WR/DB 5-7 135Tyler Burkhart WR/DB 5-7 135Isaiah Canepa WR/DB 5-9 160Steve Emerson OL/LB 5-11 207Ethan Harnish OL/DL 5-10 180Grady Weinheimer OL/DL 6-0 173David Lewis OL/DL 5-7 221Krystopher Swartz OL/DL 5-9 180Joe Bowers OL/DL 6-1 185Brendan Lenning OL/DL 5-10 215Madison Woodward OL/DL 5-10 205Heath Hassler OL/DL 5-10 215Jorge Vargas TE/LB 5-6 170Haji Fofana TE/LB 5-11 175Hassan Richardson QB/DB 5-5 145Solomon Navo WR/DB 5-1 175Mukeh Scott-Manga OL/DL 5-9 140Jaris Fenstermacher OL/DL 5-9 160Daniel Destine OL/LB 5-11 190Oskar Martinez WR/DB 5-7 145

www.wilsonsd.orgSCOUTING REPORTKey players returning: RB/DB Rodney Gillin, WR/DB Collin Harrop, WR/DB Jacob Morgan, OL/DL Austin Noss, OL/DL Clayton Schan-nauer, TE/DL Matt Rothrock. Key players lost: QB Zach Zweizig, OG Derek Jackson, S Connor Math-ias, LB Cody Simcox, LB Erik Schmeck, OL-DL Jordan Buchanan, OL-DL Matt Borkey.

2011 ROSTER

2011 SCHEDULE 2010 RESULTSSept. 2 @ Gov. Mifflin, 7 p.m.Sept. 9 @ Manheim Central, 7 p.m.Sept. 16 READING, 7 p.m.Sept. 23 @ McCaskey, 7 p.m.Sept. 30 CEDAR CREST, 7 p.m.Oct. 7 @ Hempfield, 7 p.m.Oct. 14 EPHRATA, 7 p.m.Oct. 21 @ Manheim Twp., 7 p.m.Oct. 28 PENN MANOR, 7 p.m.Nov. 4 WARWICK, 7 p.m.

OUTLOOKWilson certainly possesses a tradition of winning, but it’s coaching

and talent that breed all that success. Whereas Rodney Gillin estab-lished himself as one of the league’s top running backs last season, others will likely emerge this season to keep Wilson atop or near the top of the Section One standings.

Head coach: Doug Dahms (6th season, 56-10)Lancaster-Lebanon League Section: 12010 section: 7-02010 overall: 11-1PIAA Class: Quad-A

Base offense: Multiple IBase defense: 4-4

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If it were any other team in the L-L League, losing 16 starters — seven on offense, nine on defense — would signal a rebuilding season.

Not at Wilson where a roster make-over is common place every season.

In fact, it’s so common, it’s laughable.“We might struggle this year,” Wilson coach Doug

Dahms said with a straight face, before cracking a grin. “We have a totally unknown squad. We lost just about everyone from last year.”

Dahms and his staff seem to find a way every season to reload. The Bulldogs haven’t lost a Section One con-test in three years and have only two league setbacks in Dahms’ five seasons at the helm.

“Our coaching staff is phenomenal,” says Dahms. “All of them could be head coaches. Having that helps so much when we have new starters every year.”

The legacy of the Wilson program helps too. In the 39 years of the L-L League, the Bulldogs have won 19 section crowns.

“Success breeds success,” explained Dahms. “This team has been winning longer than these kids have been around. They grew up around it and know what

to expect.”The key piece to the puzzle for Wilson on

offense is senior Rodney Gillin. The All-Sec-tion One First Team running back exploded onto the scene last season, his first as a starter, with 1,890 yards and 28 touchdowns. What’s more impressive is that Gillin did all of that on just 183 carries — 15 carries per game, 10.3 yards per rush average.

“We didn’t know he would be that good,” Dahms said of Gillin, who set the single sea-son rushing mark at Wilson. “We thought we would have three-person tailback rotation and they would all share reps.”

Also back on offense are receiver Jacob Morgan and linemen Austin Noss and Clay-ton Schannauer. Quarterback Seth Klein, who started for an injured Zach Zweizig in three games last season and saw time in all 11 con-tests, will be the starter.

“It helps that Seth played last season,” says Dahms. “Not for the physical part but the mental part of the game. He learned how to be calm under fire last season.”

Gillin, an All-Section One First Team cor-nerback, and lineman Matt Rothrock are the only two returning starters on defense.

Though the Bulldogs lack returning start-ers they still have players with a ton of game-day experience. Wilson envoked the mercy-rule in more than half of its games last season giving “mop-up” duty to many of the new starters this season.

Beyond that, the Bulldogs ability to reload each year is credited to their daily practices and a robust roster (80 players), according to Dahms.

“Our philosphy is to always make practice hard physically and mentally so the games seem easier,” Dahms explained.

“The younger guys pretty much have to fight for their lives in practice every day. They get better because of that and are ready to play varsity when it’s their time.”

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Bulldogs quarterback Seth Klein completed 25 of 46 passes for 455 yards and nine TDs last season in limited playing time.


SENIORS Pos. Ht. Wt.

Jeremy Franck QB/DB 6-2 170

Tucker Keefer WR/DB 6-1 145

Ryan Brubaker P 5-11 170

Tim Murray RB/DB 5-10 180

Kevin Sollenberger LS/DL 6-4 195

Andrew Burkholder RB/DB 5-7 150

Alex Pstrak RB/LB 6-1 205

Derek Horst OL/DL 6-1 210

Conner Craven OL/LB 6-1 200

Jeff Halligan OL/DL 5-10 205

Danny Matos OL/DL 5-9 250

Allen Adams OL/DL 5-10 180

Blake Redcay OL/DL 6-1 245

Evan Weaver WR/DB 5-10 165

Corey Shirk TE/LB 6-0 175

Dan Cummings TE/LB 6-1 200

JUNIORS Pos. Ht. Wt.

Nate Bradley RB/DB 5-10 130

Max Schrom WR/LB 6-1 155

Alex Custer K 5-6 200

Brandon Brock RB/LB 5-10 165

Scott Leibl RB/LB 5-10 180

Ryan Price OL/LB 6-2 190

Brandell Hmel OL/DL 5-10 200

Zach Bock OL/LB 5-11 200

Brian Kramer WR/DB 6-0 150

Cody Springer TE/LB 5-11 185

SOPHOMORES Pos. Ht. Wt.

Koty Keefer RB/LB 5-11 150

Beau Mellinger QB/DB 5-7 140

Justin Mease QB/DB 5-9 140

Isaac Malmer WR/DB 5-11 150

Bobby Nye RB/LB 5-9 175

Blake Weaver RB/DB 6-0 150

Chris Helock RB/LB 5-8 155

David White RB/DB 5-7 155

Brandon Lewis RB/LB 5-11 145

Tyler Cugino RB/DB 5-7 165

Jeremiah Kreider OL/DL 5-11 245

Zach Kachel OL/DL 6-0 275

Isach Morales OL/DL 5-10 230

Cameron Eisenhauer OL/LB 5-11 200

Joe Tamayko WR/DB 5-10 130

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Head coach: Jim Vieland (4th season, 4-26)Lancaster-Lebanon League Section: 12010 section: 0-72009 overall: 2-8PIAA Class: Quad-A

Base offense: FlexboneBase defense: 4-4

SCOUTING REPORTKey players returning: QB-DB Jeremy Franck, OL-DE Derek Horst, RB-LB Alex Pstrak, RB-DB Tim Murray, OL-DL Danny Matos, WR-DB Evan Weaver, RB-DB Andrew Burkholder.Key players lost: RB/DB Zach Sandoe, FB/LB tephen Hendrickson.

2011 ROSTER

2011 SCHEDULE 2010 RESULTSSept. 2 @ EXETER, 7 p.m.Sept. 9 @ Cocalico, 7 p.m.Sept. 16 @ Con. Valley, 7 p.m.Sept. 23 @ Manheim Twp., 7 p.m.Sept. 30 PENN MANOR, 7 p.m.Oct. 7 WARWICK, 7 p.m.Oct. 14 @ Wilson, 7 p.m.Oct. 21 HEMPFIELD, 7 p.m.Oct. 28 @ Cedar Crest, 7 p.m.Nov. 4 McCASKEY, 7 p.m.

OUTLOOKWith a number of returning starters and letterwinners from a

season ago, the Mounts will try to turn last season’s close losses into victories. That won’t be easy but getting them over the hump maybe a change of attitude, infused with confidence.

Franck Horst

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Quarterback Jeremy Franck, right, and tailback Tim Murray are part of an experienced offense for the Mounts.

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BY DUSTIN LEEDSports Staff

The time for excuse-making in Ephrata is over.

After a sub-par 2-8 campaign a season ago in Section One, the Mountaineers will strap up once again in Section One before next season’s realignment returns them Section Two.

This season, it’s one last go-around in Section One with some higher expectations.

“The expectations should be higher than what they have been,” said three-year starting quarter-back Jeremy Franck. “Last year, we had a quote, un-quote ‘excuse.’ We were inexperienced in Section One. This year is our second year there. There really isn’t an excuse.

“The expectations should be pretty high around here.”

Expectations because the Mounts return a group of 20 seniors, includ-ing 15 starters.

Although 20 seniors are back, Ephrata will count greatly on that posse due to a lack of depth on the roster.

In that senior bunch are four backs who help form the Mountain-eers’ Flexbone offense: Alex Pstrak, Tim Murray, Andrew Burkholder and Franck. Pstrak was named to the 2010 Lancaster-Lebanon League Section One Second Team at run-

ning back a year ago.“There are definitely some ex-

pectations,’’ said Ephrata coach Jim Vieland. “We were in a lot of games in the fourth quarter last year and we just didn’t have enough in the tank to finish those games, and the guys realize it.”

Despite the 2-8 record a year ago, in seven of their 10 games, the Mounts were either leading in the fourth quarter or within one score in the fourth quarter, but Vieland understands it’s a learning experi-ence and the mentality can be trans-posed.

“It’s about not settling,’’ he said. “We changed a lot of things up. The famous Albert Einstein quote goes: ‘If you want what you’ve done be-fore just keep doing the same things and if you expect different results, that’s the definition of insanity.’

“For us, we had to change some things. We’re trying to move from hoping ... that’s the mindset we have to change around here.”

Leading the Mountaineers is Zach Sandoe and Stephen Hen-drickson. Sandoe, who caught 17

passes for 254 yards and three touchdowns, was the Mounts’ lead-ing receiver last season.

Returning are two-way linemen Kevin Sollenberger, Danny Matos and Section One First-Team defen-sive end Derek Horst, who will be an important part of that mindset change for the Mountaineers.

Tucker Keefer and Evan Weav-er will be targets on offense for Franck, who threw for 826 yards and seven TDs.

The collective group of seniors will not only do its best to be more competitive this coming season, but to be a catalyst for the underclass-men who will jump to Section Two next year.

“We can do some special things and momentum is huge from the end of a season to the offseason,” said Franck. “And as many wins as we can get to help them out is the ultimate goal, really.”

But first, it’s about being a part of the highly-competitive Section One.

“I think there was a level of in-timidation last year for many of them, and people in the community being in Section One,” said Vieland. “There were some eyes that were opened, but we’re not going to have those open eyes this year.

“They’re going to know what to expect and what we’re facing.”

Vowing to be readyJIM V ELAND

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ALEX TRAUTMANLEBANONPosition: QB-LBClass: SeniorHt. 5-7 Wt. 180NOTABLE: Trautman paced Section Two QBs last season with 18 TD passes and 2,389 yards passing.

QUOTABLE: Lebanon coach Gerry Yonchiuk: “Alex brings a lot to the table as a returning L-L all-star. He’s the trigger guy in our of-fense; he’s very intelligent. He’s a great kid, fun to be around.”

JOE WELKSOLANCOPosition: RB-DBClass: SeniorHt. 5-9 Wt. 170NOTABLE: Welk ranked second in the section with 931 yards rushing and aver-aged 7.5 ypc while scoring 9 TDs.

QUOTABLE: Solanco coach Joe Pearson: “He stepped in when John Fisher got hurt and became the guy. ... Joey pretty much carried the load for us. ...The last couple years we’ve had guys right on the verge of 1,000 yards and Joey has the ability to do it.”

JEFF PICKELLAMPETER-STRASBURGPosition: G-LBClass: JuniorHt. 6-4 Wt. 196NOTABLE: His 93 tackles paced the Pioneers and ranked among Section Two leaders.

QUOTABLE: L-S coach John Manion: “Hard worker. He out-works everyone, every day in practice. Probably the best tackler that we’ve had since I’ve been here.”

JORDAN GROFFLAMPETER-STRASBURGPosition: RB-DBClass: SeniorHt. 5-11 Wt. 180NOTABLE: An all-around athlete, Groff tied for second in the section with 72 points scored.

QUOTABLE: L-S coach John Manion: “Great kid and a hard worker. Two-way player and kick returner who does everything the right way. An all-around good football player.”

TYLER STITZSOLANCOPosition: QB-SClass: SeniorHt. 6-1 Wt. 165NOTABLE: Stitz is making the move this season from WR to QB and from DB to safety.

QUOTABLE: Solanco coach Joe Pear-son: “He’s got a nose for the football. He understands the game. He pays attention to route combinations. ... He trusts his reads. I can’t speak enough about him as a football player.”

JESUS GUZMANELIZABETHTOWNPosition: TE-LB-PClass: SeniorHt. 6-2 Wt. 195NOTABLE: At press time, Bears boss Mike Cottle said Guzman, an All-Section punter last year, is in competition with senior Eric Friese to be the team’s starting punter.

QUOTABLE: Elizabethtown coach Mike Cottle: “He’s in a little bit of a dogfight if he’s going to be the starting punter or not.”

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SENIORS Pos. Ht. Wt.Will Barbon WR/DB 5-11 180Logan Miller TE/DE 6-1 190Terence Taylor QB/CB 5-11 165Robbie Cardina K 6-4 175Kinsey Arungwa WR/DB 6-2 168Derek Herr WR/DB 6-4 170Mike Richard WR/DB 5-10 174Justin Decker WR/DB 5-9 184Ryan O’Shea RB/LB 5-7 187Zach Shelly TE/DL 6-0 206Shae McGarvey OL/DL 5-9 218Chase Stillman OL/LB 5-11 177Ake Berhanu OL/DL 5-8 210Tyler Good OL/DL 6-1 260Brian Dobson OL/DL 5-9 200Brad Erb OL/DL 6-0 215Luke Rios OL/DL 5-8 260Taylor Tabbutt OL/DL 6-0 180Jared Nielson WR/DB 6-1 157

JUNIORS Pos. Ht. Wt.Brandon Hernandez WR/DB 5-9 170Ryan Brooks QB/DB 5-10 172Tyler Kolb WR/LB 6-0 160Jonathon Perez TB/LB 5-10 180Anthony Brown TB/CB 5-9 170

Tyler Wenger TE/CB 6-0 180Barrett Deforge RB/LB 5-9 185Spencer Kling OL/LB 5-9 231Chris Orantes OL/DL 6-0 210Casey Ruiz OL/DL 5-10 260Ian Money OL/DL 6-1 240Tyler Petri FB/LB 6-0 200SOPHOMORES Pos. Ht. Wt.Justus Norman TB/DB 5-11 180Brendon Martin QB/DB 5-11 150Ostin Wienand WR/DB 5-10 150Travis Balowski WR/DB 5-4 145JT Rios WR/DB 5-7 142Danny Groff WR/DB 5-6 150Reed Daily RB/LB 5-11 176Orlando Lopez RB/LB 6-0 200Steve Gonzalez WR/DB 5-8 160Arthur Soanes TE/LB 5-9 197Alex Salerno OL/DL 5-11 183Tyler Cameron OL/DL 5-8 186Jeff Huyard OL/DL 5-8 170Joe Okonski OL/LB 6-0 180Denzel Bell WR/LB 5-7 116Mason Knapik WR/DB 5-10 163Abdul Rana TE/DE 6-2 175David Vargas WR/DB 5-6 150

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Head coach: Tom Nichols (3rd season, 12-11)Lancaster-Lebanon League Section: 22009 section: 5-22009 overall: 5-6PIAA Class: Quad-A

Base offense: I Base defense: 4-3

SCOUTING REPORTKey players returning: WR-FS Mike Richard, C-DE-ILB Shae McGarvey, G-DT Tyler Good, FB-LB Tyler Petri.Key players lost: OL-DL Travis Switzer, OL-DL Cole Dillman, QB Alex Dienner, WR Diaire Brison, OL-DL Nick Marsico, RB-DB Derek Burkholder.

2011 ROSTER

2011 SCHEDULE 2010 RESULTSSept. 2 CONRAD WEISER, 7 p.m.Sept. 9 @ Warwick, 7 p.m.Sept. 16 EPHRATA, 7 p.m.Sept. 23 @ Garden Spot, 7 p.m.Sept. 30 @ Elizabethtown, 7 p.m.Oct. 7 SOLANCO, 7 p.m.Oct. 14 MANHEIM CENTRAL, 7 p.m.Oct. 21 @ Lebanon, 7 p.m.Oct. 28 @Cocalico, 7 p.m.Nov. 4 LAMP.- STRASBURG, 7 p.m.

OUTLOOK Ask any CV player about the changes on offense and they imme-diately break out in a smile. “Hopefully we can use the speed of our backfield to our advantage,” said Tyler Petri. “I’m looking forward to it,” added Terence Taylor. “I have a lot of guys around me and it should be exciting.” If Taylor blossoms into an all-around QB, there could be plenty of smiles to go around come November.

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The Buckskins’ Shae McGarvey figures to be a lead blocker when new CV quarterback Terence Taylor looks for daylight.

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They will wear the usual red, white and blue uniforms.

They will be coached by Tom Nichols.

They will play their home games in Witmer.

But, make no mistake about it, these will not be the same old Buckskins.

What you see between the side-lines this fall, especially in terms of offense, will be a change of pace for a Nichols-led Conestoga Valley team.

Always a proponent of the power running game, Nichols is shaking things up this season.

“It’s going to be a little bit hard-er to figure out where we’re going this year,” Nichols said. “We’ll try to do more misdirection this year

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than we’ve ever done in the past.”The reason behind the shift in schemes is simple.His name is Terence Taylor and he has speed to

burn.Taylor, a 5-foot-11 senior, will start at quarterback

and brings with him an impressive track resume. He won the 400 at the L-L meet last spring and eventually took fourth at the PIAA meet.

“He’s fast, really fast,” said CV lineman Shae Mc-Garvey. “It’s fun blocking for him because he can make something out of nothing. He gives us a lot more op-tions.”

The running attack featuring Taylor and tailback Anthony Brown will certainly make it difficult for op-posing defenses.

Fullback Tyler Petri can be thrown into the mix and wideout Michael Richard, among others, gives Taylor an outlet when the Bucks have to go to the air.

“We have a lot of plays that are going to help set up our passing,” said Taylor, who also starts at cornerback on defense. “I think running is what a lot of teams are going to plan for.”

While there is not much work needed on his running, Taylor has worked on his passing game.

“He’s a great athlete, but he’s just never really worked at being a quarterback full time,” said Nichols,

who is confident in Taylor’s all-around game. “The con-fidence lies in if everything breaks down, he can just take off. He can make something out of nothing. We’re not asking him to win games throwing the ball.”

For Taylor and the ground attack to be successful, a lot of pressure will fall onto the shoulders of the offen-sive line. While they did lose the likes of Travis Switzer and Cole Dillman to graduation, the Bucks will wel-come back Tyler Good to the mix.

The 6-1, 260-pound senior tore his ACL in the 2010 season opener, underwent surgery and missed the rest of the season.

“I’m really excited to come back,” Good said. “It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to play football. It was hard to watch.”

This year, many will want to be watching the re-vamped Bucks.

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Cameron Stoltzfus WR/DB 5-9 150Caleb Towner TE/LB 6-2 210Mark Burkhart WR/DB 5-11 150SOPHOMORES Pos. Ht. Wt.Roy Ingerson QB/DB 5-6 134Caleb Groff QB/LB 6-1 165Jerry Eldreth RB/DB 5-5 140Toby Kreider RB/LB 5-7 150Coby King RB/DB 5-4 135Joe Bennett RB/LB 5-7 155Jorge Garnica RB/LB 5-7 150Karson Beane RB/DB 5-7 150Mike Chew RB/LB 5-6 165Dominic Paloni RB/LB 5-10 165Dalton Kilby OL/LB 5-6 170Reese Sadler OL/DL 5-7 195Colin Buffington OL/DL 6-0 225Ian Newswenger OL/DL 6-1 230Alex Furches OL/LB 5-9 180Colin Shaw OL/DL 5-9 170Casey Pierce OL/DL 6-3 240FRESHMEN Pos. Ht. Wt.Bo Spiller OL/DL 6-0 210

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Head coach: Joe Pearson (7th season, 24-37)Lancaster-Lebanon League Section: 22010 section: 2-52010 overall: 4-6PIAA Class: Triple-A

Base offense: Shotgun-Wing TBase defense: 3-5

SCOUTING REPORT

Key players returning: WR/DB Tyler Stitz, RB/DB Joe Welk, OL/DL Matt Boulden, OL/DL Jon Boulting-house, OL/DL Eric Pence, TE/LB Connor Glackin.Key players lost: OL/DL Jordon Gliffing, QB/LB Ralph Brown, OL/DL Donta Henderson, RB/DB John Fisher, RB/LB Phil Dobinson, OL/DL Tyler Lam.

2011 ROSTER

2011 SCHEDULE 2010 RESULTSSept. 2 @ Penn Manor, 8 p.m.Sept. 9 @ Central Dauphin, 7 p.m.Sept. 17 OXFORD, 7 p.m.Sept. 23 @ E-town, 7:30 p.m.Sept. 30 MAN. CENTRAL, 7:30 p.m.Oct. 7 @ Conestoga Valley, 7:30 p.m.Oct. 14 LEBANON, 7 p.m.Oct. 21 @ Lamp.-Strasburg, 7:30 p.m.Oct. 28 GARDEN SPOT, 7 p.m.Nov. 4 COCALICO, 7 p.m.

OUTLOOK

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SOLANCO

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Much is expected of Tyler Stitz, who moves from wide receiver to quarterback and, on defense, from cornerback to safety. The Mules also have a proven back in Joe Welk, and lots of experience in the right places. Not a bad darkhorse in the section.


There are a lot of attractive things about Solanco, not the least of which are their Big Uglies.

The Mules, 4-6 last year, return four guys with starting experi-ence along their offen-sive front — tackles Jon Boultinghouse and Matt Boulden, guard Eric Price and center Tyler Ayers — after see-ing that group create enough running room for their teammates to accumulate 1,945 yards on the ground in 2010, third-most in Section Two. Running back Joe Welk, who also returns, accounted for 931 of those, and averaged a healthy 7.5 a pop.

Now the idea is to do all that, and then some.

“We’re road-grad-ers,” Ayers said. “We like to pound it down their throats.”

But there is more to line play than that.

“There’s like a trust,” Ayers said. “You know he’s going to do his job every time. If he does his job, you’ll do your job and it will work out.”

Added Boulden, “Basically we’re all friends. We know what works between us. We’re all familiar with what we’re good at, what to say and how to communicate.”

Tyler Stitz, who last year ex-celled at wide receiver and cor-nerback, this year moves into the middle of things, at quarterback and safety. There is little question about his athletic ability or instincts — he had 22 receptions on offense last year, and a league-high eight in-terceptions on defense — but a big key to whether the Mules improve on last year’s finish is whether he can throw the ball effectively.

In 2010 Solanco managed just

601 yards through the air, third-fewest in the entire league.

“I’m definitely ready for the challenge,” Stitz said. “The passing game’s not bad. We worked con-stantly on the new passing stuff.”

Coach Joe Pearson said Stitz hit a deep throw in Solanco’s opening scrimmage, against Twin Valley.

Now, the coach said, “It’s a matter of accu-racy, things like that. … It’s just building up that consistency.”

Stitz has the req-uisite skill players around him, starting with Welk. He took on a prominent role when John Fisher was lost for the season in the 2010 opener, after a blood vessel burst in his quad. Welk saw his role expand further when Dustin McVey went down with an ankle sprain in Week Seven.

“This year, with Tyler in the backfield, I don’t think he has to carry as much of the load,” Pearson said.

At the same time the coach believes Welk has a good shot at 1,000 yards this season. Especially working behind that line.

“I think the pass-ing game’s going to be good,” Stitz said, “but the running game’s going to be special, I feel.”

Added Ayers, “I think we’ll be more balanced, but we’ll still be up there in rushing. That’s what

we do.”Many of the same players turn

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“We definitely think we have ev-erything we need,” Boulden said.

“I feel like it will be a real good year for us,” Ayers added, “hope-fully one of the best in school his-tory.”

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But is there a limit to how much a football team should practice out of season? Maybe there doesn’t need to be a limit.

“It’s not crystal clear what’s allowed and what’s not allowed for football,’’ Locker said. “We have stipula-tions about contact time for football. Some basketball teams probably played 35 games this summer with their high school coaches. Baseball plays fall ball and summer ball. Soccer and lacrosse can be year ‘round. Lacrosse has pads on and they are killing each other. It would be nice if PIAA came up with a system that is fair and equitable but is enforceable.’’

While the PIAA might be fuzzy as to specifics for football, it does say that teams/students may practice prior to the first practice date as long as it is complete-ly voluntary to do so. In other words, the coach cannot be holding mandatory practices prior to the official start of the season.

But when a player misses a workout that’s “not mandatory,’’ might his chances to get in a game be diminished?

“(Missing offseason workouts) won’t hurt kids who know what they are doing,’’ Gingrich said. “If the player knows what he’s doing and is athletic enough to catch up ... . We’ve had kids this summer that didn’t do much and are key contributors. They may start behind a little but by the first game, will work themselves up to speed because they are good enough.’’

But what about the fringe kid, or the second or third stringer and they miss those workouts?

“If they are involved in other activities, I don’t hold them responsible for missing the workout,’’ he said. “I

want them to be involved in volleyball, baseball, or other activities. Now, if he’s home eating potato chips, that’s a different situation.’’

Coaches generally use offseason workouts to get a head start on teaching, to install different schemes and to give depth players more attention than they might see at a regular practice.

“Pretty much what we do in the spring is to get ready for the summer,’’ Gingrich said. “Then what we do in the summer is try to get everything in so when ‘official’ practice starts, we’re not doing a bunch of teaching. You still work on some fundamentals (in the fall) but we don’t have to do as much teaching.’’

Offseason workouts can build team camaraderie, too.

“When we would go to Body Zone once every other week in the offseason in the evening, we just get to-gether and throw the ball around and have some fun,’’ said Elco coach Mark Evans. “It’s good for some team building.’’

The evolution of football practice from solely in-season to an all-season routine has forced coaches to keep up. No one wants the other guy to have an edge so, maybe against their better judgment, they do more

“If you don’t do it, you’re going to get buried,’’ Locker said.

“We’ve always put a lot of time in the weight room in the winter and start to incorporate some football skill work in the spring, whether it’s one day a week or three days a week,’’ said Penn Manor coach Todd Mealy. “That’s become a signature of our football pro-gram to compete in Section One. I think it’s needed.’’

And that begs the question. If all teams went back to just football from Aug. 15 to the end of the playoffs, wouldn’t every team be on equal footing?

“That would be great,’’ Gingrich said. “I’m prob-ably one of the few coaches who sees the road we’re going down. We’re losing the three-sport athlete, losing kids being kids. I’m not against hard work. You can do things to get yourself better. But every now and then, kids need to be kids.’’

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Kodi Zombro WR/DB 5-10 150Anthony Wayne WR/DB 6-1 165

Alex Trautman QB/LB 5-7 180

Steven Padillas RB/DB 5-8 160

Adrian Krall RB/DB 5-9 175

Alexander Kuhn WR/DB 5-11 160

Kiev Gardner WR/LB 6-1 190

Isaiah Baker WR/DB 5-6 160

Codey Short K 5-8 150

Tyler Antal WR/DB 6-0 180

Slade Muraira OL/DL 6-0 190

Benjamin Maldonado OL/DL 6-1 210Tyler Roth OL/LB 5-9 190

Joshua Sholly OL/LB 5-6 213Jed Murray OL/LB 5-9 195

Erick Caba OL/DL 5-10 190

Aaron Cabinaw OL/DL 5-10 260

Gerald Goodman OL/DL 6-1 207

Carlos Sepulveda OL/DL 6-0 275

James Perez OL/LB 6-1 240Dylan Trokie OL/DL 6-3 286

JUNIORS Pos. Ht. Wt.Devin Padillas WR/DB 5-9 160Zacariah Norman WR/LB 5-9 150

Patrick Reed WR/LB 5-8 188Alex Cabinaw OL/DL 5-10 195Michael Calini OL/DL 5-9 202Dillon Hower OL/DL 5-10 215Jorge Ocasio OL/DL 5-9 220Drey Murray RB/DB 5-8 140SOPHOMORES Pos. Ht. Wt.Mark Pyles QB/DB 5-11 185Cameron Martin QB/DB 6-0 150Saheem Gil RB/DB 5-9 160Jeremy De La Cruz RB/DB 5-7 170David Del Rio WR/DB 5-6 130Jorian Ginnetto WR/DE 6-2 200Malik Esbri WR/DB 5-7 150Darius Ramsey OL/DL 5-8 245David MacFaline OL/LB 5-9 207Dalton Whitman OL/DL 5-10 206Joseph Rupponer OL/DL 5-5 195Colin Wathen OL/DL 6-1 170Nate Tobias OL/DL 6-4 385Taj Cintron WR/DB 5-8 150

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Head coach: Gerry Yonchiuk (6th season, 19-32)Lancaster-Lebanon League Section: 22010 section: 1-62010 overall: 4-6PIAA Class: Triple-A

Base offense: Air RaidBase defense: 3-4

SCOUTING REPORTKey players returning: QB Alex Trautman, OL-DL Erick Caba, OL-LB Tyler Roth, WR-DB Tyler Antal, WR-DB Isaiah Baker, RB-DB Steven Padillas, OL-LB Jed Murray, WR-DB Kiev Gardner, QB-LB Mark Pyles. Key players lost: OL-LB Jason Capello, OL-DL Chris Ahnert, WR-DB William Brown, OL-DL Travis Drupp, RB-LB Ron Hunter.

2011 ROSTER

2011 SCHEDULE 2010 RESULTSSept. 2 @ Cedar Crest, 7 p.m.Sept. 9 NORTHERN LEBANON, 7 p.m.Sept. 16 @ Elco, 7 p.m.Sept. 23 @ Lamp.-Strasburg, 7 p.m.Sept. 30 GARDEN SPOT, 7 p.m.Oct. 7 COCALICO, 7 p.m.Oct. 14 @ Solanco, 7 p.m.Oct. 21 CONESTOGA VALLEY, 7 p.m.Oct. 28 @ Manheim Central, 7 p.m.Nov. 4 ELIZABETHTOWN, 7 p.m.

OUTLOOK

Trautman Roth

LEBANON

CEDARS

Caba

CEDAR CREST W, 35- 7@ Northern Lebanon W, 49-14ELCO W, 28-24LAMPETER-STRASBURG L, 44-33@ Garden Spot L, 34-7@ Cocalico L, 42-35SOLANCO L, 34-27@ Conestoga Valley L, 19-12MANHEIM CENTRAL L, 42-7@ Elizabethtown W, 42-14

The Cedars are hoping to turn some of last season’s close losses into victories this season. They seem well-equipped to do so, with the likes of Alex Trautman returning. An upturn in their defensive performance will help, too.

BY TOM ARNOLDSports Correspondent

Starting his sixth season as head football coach, Ger-ald Yonchiuk has high hopes for the 2011 football sea-son.

“Last year, we ended up 4-6, this after a stretch where we went 3-0 only to lose to Lampeter-Strasburg, 44-35,” said Yonchiuk. “So, I feel anything less than a 6-4-plus season will be a disappointment.

“We’ve got to find a way to win one of those close games this season.’’

With the loss of running back Ron Hunter and wide receiver William Brown along with others, the bulk of the offense will fall into the hands of quarterbacks Mark Pyles and Alex Trautman and running back Adri-an Krall.

Wide receivers Kiev Gardner and Tyler Antal, as well as Isaiah Baker, will also help the Cedars.

Trautman was the No. 1 quarterback in Section Two in 2010 and was the Coaches’ All-Star pick. Brown was

also picked on the All-Star squad as well.The Cedars lost two All-Stars on defense when Chris

Ahnert and Jason Capello graduated.“We lost three games by five points or less last year,”

said Yonchiuk. “We were in every game, but just couldn’t score enough points and put things together.”

In its final game in the 2010 campaign, Lebanon beat a tough Elizabethtown team, 42-14.

“That was really important, especially after going 3-0 and losing a shootout to L-S, it was a real confidence- builder going into the next season,” remembered Yon-

chiuk.The Cedars will

have a lot of expe-rience on the 2011 team with 20 re-turning seniors, but only five juniors.

“We will try to get some of the underclassmen in there to get experience when we have the chance,” Yon-chiuk offered.

“This group of (seniors) only lost one game as fresh-men so they are hungry and want to go out winners.”

Lebanon uses an Air Raid offense, which is a “no-huddle” type offense styled after the 1984 Brigham Young football team quarterbacked by Jim McMahon.

“The no-huddle really puts pressure on the defense,” said Yonchiuk. “I had coaches come up to me at this year’s quarterback club meetings and say their defense is still tired. That’s why it’s so important to be in good shape and ready to play. As always, staying healthy is going to be so important.

“This season, the Lancaster-Lebanon League is wide open. If you ask any of the other Section Two coaches, they’ll all agree. Any team is capable since there is re-ally no dominant team.”

Senior-laden Cedars ready to go

GERRY YONCHIUKLebanonCedars


Alex Trautman will be one of the Cedars’ two quar-terbacks in their Air Raid offense.

Jeff Ruppenthal / Staff photos

Receiver Isaiah Baker will be one of the Cedars’ re-ceiving threats this season.



T hirty years of coaching high school football didn’t prepare Manheim Central’s Mike Wil-liams for this.

Truth is, nothing could have.How do you prepare to deal with two

auto accidents that occur within six months of one another and claim the lives of five of your players?

Evan Heiser, Nicolas Bryson, John Griffith, Cody Hollinger and DeVaughn Lee are the student-athletes Manheim Central High School Principal Jeffrey Hughes referred to as “our fallen Barons” at the school’s commencement last June.

Now, as Wil-liams prepares for his 31st season at the helm of Cen-tral’s high-profile program, he finds himself — and his team — in uncharted waters.

He is not, he said, expect-ing smooth sailing this season.

“I think the way to look at our team is this: Hope-fully, by midseason, we’ll

begin to turn it around,” he said, then paused.“How,” he finally asked, “do you deal with this?”He and his team, he acknowledged, are caught in

an emotional tug of war. They want to look back to bet-ter days, but at the same time, they know they must move forward.

He admits that his storied program, which since the 1980s has collected a voluminous amount of glit-tering hardware, has been remarkably trouble-free.

“We’ve been pretty blessed,” he stated. “There were not too many major issues before this.”

In an effort to find comfort in the familiar, Williams

compared Central’s current situation to waking on a Saturday morning following a Friday night loss.

“You’re whimpering like a puppy dog,” he said. “By Sunday, you’re focusing on the next game.”

Williams, of course, is not alone in dealing with this particular loss. His assistant coaches and players are struggling to do the same.

“We’ve definitely bonded more as a team,” said Caleb Walton, a senior and first-year starter at quar-terback.

“It’s brought us together, shown us how things can happen in a second.

“This season,” he added, “is for them.”Fellow senior Andrew Kauffman, the team’s lone

two-year letterman who will see time at wide receiver and linebacker, said the Barons are motivated to make this season “a memorable one.”

Said Kauffman, “We’re really young. We have a few returning starters but we have a lot of people who have to prove themselves.

“This team is coming together. (The tragedies) are definitely motivating. It’s our biggest motivation.”

Williams said the Barons have a sign in their weight room dedicated to their fallen teammates. It reads “We Are Manheim” and carries the jersey numbers of the fallen players on it.

He said a memorial decal will be affixed to Central’s helmets this season, and that when the Barons break from their huddles in games, they will do so with a chant of “129.” The latter represents the combined uniform numbers of Bryson, Griffith, Hollinger and Lee — all of whom died in the January 2010 accident and would have been starters this season. Heiser, who died in the August 2010 accident, would have been a senior last season.

One thing Williams and his coaching staff is seeking to avoid is self-pity among Central’s players.

“We can’t treat them with kid gloves,” he said. “As coaches, we have to lead them in the right direction. It’s not going to be

‘Woe is me.’ Our section is going to be pretty good.”Translation: You can’t feel sorry for yourself. Be-

cause come game day, the opponent isn’t going to feel sorry for you.

And while Williams expressed his gratitude at the outpouring of support from other area schools in the wake of the January tragedy — many students took to wearing Central’s maroon and gray colors — he fully expects his young team to be fighting for every win on Friday nights this fall.

“We’re going to be hanging on for dear life,” he said with a wry grin.

Which is why a guy who has more than 300 career wins to go along with section, district and state titles sees this season’s opener against Lower Dauphin on Sept. 2 as one of the more pivotal games in school his-tory.

“If we can beat Lower Dauphin,” Williams opined, “it will be one of the most thrilling victories in school history.”

And a tribute to their fallen.

At Manheim, an emotional tug of war

The decal on the left will be affixed to the helmets of Manheim Central’s play-ers. The helmet decal on the right — a league-wide tribute initiated by Eliza-bethtown coach Mike Cottle — has been offered to the other 22 teams in the Lancaster-Lebanon League. “Hopefully, the decal teaches all players that honoring the Manheim players is the right thing to do,’’ Cottle said.“We’ve definitely

bonded more as a team. It’s brought us together, shown us

how things can happen in a second.”

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Josh Zink WR/DB 5-8 141Jesse Grube LB 5-9 149Caleb Walton QB 6-1 185Josh Good WR/DB 6-1 188Reid Pavlik WR/DB 5-6 161Derek Shaub TE/LB 5-10 203Caleb Martin RB/LB 5-11 196Trent Lilley OL/DL 5-9 207Austin Good OL/DL 6-2 219Derick Landis OL/DL 6-3 288Luis Santiago WR/DB 5-5 148Bryant Myer K/P 5-11 173Andrew Killinger WR/DB 6-0 177Andrew Kauffman WR/LB 6-0 185JUNIORS Pos. Ht. Wt.Cole Proffitt QB/WR 6-3 173Brenden Wagner WR/DB 5-10 158Brian Hess RB/DB 5-9 168Dillon Harnly WR/DB 5-11 182Justin Greene RB/LB 5-7 170Hunter Root RB/DB 5-9 150Nate Henry DL 6-2 205J.Mitchell Gingrich RB/LB 5-7 152Kyle Mangan DL 5-8 174Bobby Flory DL 5-11 181Tanner McCauley OL/DL 5-9 212Manny Del Carpio OL/DL 6-0 227Joe Aument OL/DL 5-10 230Dakota Shackelford OL/DL 5-9 220

Drew Hanselman OL/DL 5-11 250Chris Lynn DL 6-1 188Austin Garner RB/LB 5-7 197Aaron Seibert WR/DB 5-10 138SOPHOMORES Pos. Ht. Wt.Andrew Seiverling WR/DB 5-9 149Jon Hershey K/P 5-11 186Matt Carter WR/DB 5-10 143Colin Fry QB 5-9 179Noah Dieffenbach WR/DB 5-7 137Alex Eby WR/DB 5-2 108Nick Brubaker WR/DB 5-9 148Austin Hart TE/LB 5-10 166Michael Brown RB/LB 5-6 161Jon Carmody DL 5-6 153Ian Hanselman RB/LB 6-0 175Dylan Berkheiser WR/DB 5-6 145Joe Strazza WR/DB 5-5 118Daniel Kolk RB/LB 5-8 150Tye Mowrer WR/LB 5-9 143Wade Beamesderfer RB/LB 6-1 180Joey Nolt TE/DL 5-10 221Josh Wood RB/DB 5-5 150Anthony Christian WR/DB 5-6 135Rey Lasanta LB 6-0 182Taylor Geib TE/LB 6-1 184Nate Brandt OL/DL 5-9 208Jay Swayne OL/DL 6-1 272Aaron Lefever OL/DL 5-10 281Nicholas LaPorte OL/DL 6-3 215Bernardo Hernandez WR/DB 5-5 161

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Head coach: Mike Williams (31th season, 310-64-3)Lancaster-Lebanon League Section: 22010 section: 5-22010 overall: 8-4PIAA Class: Triple-A


SCOUTING REPORTKey players returning: WR-DB Josh Good, WR-LB Andrew Kauffman, K-P Bryant Myer.Key players lost: WR-DB John Griffith, WR-DB DeVaughn Lee, RB-LB Cody Hollinger, RB-DB Nick Bryson, RB-DB Michael Smith, QB-DB Chase Moyer, LG-NT Rob LaPorte, OL-DL Peter Ireland, WR-S Derek Hart, C Blake Kreider, RB Tyler Griffith.

2011 ROSTER

2011 SCHEDULE 2010 RESULTSSept. 2 LOWER DAUPHIN, 7 p.m.Sept. 9 WILSON, 7 p.m.Sept. 16 @ Selinsgrove, 7 p.m.Sept. 23 COCALICO, 7 p.m.Sept. 30 @ Solanco, 7:30 p.m.Oct. 7 @ LAMP.-STRASBURG, 7 p.m.Oct. 14 @ Conestoga Valley, 7 p.m.Oct. 21 @ Elizabethtown, 7 p.m.Oct. 28 LEBANON, 7 p.m.Nov. 4 GARDEN SPOT, 7 p.m.

OUTLOOK

Walton

MANHEIM CENTRAL

BARONS

Kauffman

@ Lower Dauphin W, 47- 10@ Wilson L, 25-22SELINSGROVE W, 21-20@ Cocalico L, 34-28SOLANCO W, 49-20@ Lampeter-Strasburg L, 27-24CONESTOGA VALLEY W, 15-8ELIZABETHTOWN W, 42-21@ Lebanon W, 42-7@ Garden Spot W, 42-7DOVER W, 64-14@ Lampeter-Strasburg L, 25-20

How well the Barons rebound from their off-season tragedy will tell the tale of this campaign. Tradition and pride remain a Central theme.


They are accustomed to the role of being the top dog in L-L Section Two.

Accustomed to bearing the bull’s-eye each fall.

Not this year.“We’re pretty young,” senior wideout/line-

backer Andrew Kauffman said. “If we step up, we should be able to compete with the top teams (in the section), like L-S and Cocalico.”

Said senior Caleb Walton, a first-year starter at quarterback, “It’s a totally different mind-set. Instead of everybody coming after you, you get to be the spoiler. We don’t have the target on our back.”

The Bar-ons lost key contributors Nick Bryson ( r u n n i n g back/defen-sive back), John Griffith ( W R / D B ) ,

Cody Hollinger (RB/LB) and DeVaughn Lee (RB/LB) to an auto accident in January.

“All of them,” Barons coach Mike Williams said, “were going to be starters.”

Not only is Central dealing with that tragedy — the second of its kind to hit the storied football program since August 2010 — the Barons have to replace 18 members of last year’s squad that went the cap-and-gown route.

“It’s going to be a challenge,” Williams said.

Walton will be at the wheel of Central’s spread offense. He was the backup to departed se-nior Chase Moyer a year ago, the only time in his six years of playing organized football that he had not started at quarter-back.

“In the spread, every single decision is on me,” said Walton, who checks in at 6-foot-1, 185 pounds. “Every play I have to make a couple of decisions. It’s a lot of pressure. I’ll keep doing what I have to do, make the right reads and hope it all works out.”

Since the Barons run the spread offense at every level of their football program, from midgets on up to the varsity, Walton isn’t expecting any surprises.

“Each year I’ve run it I’ve become more comfort-able with it,” he said. “I’m extremely comfortable with it after running it for three, four, five years. There have been some changes here and there to make it better — getting the tight end involved more — but basically it’s the same thing.”

He learned a lot, he said, from being on the sidelines last year and watching Moyer. The experience wasn’t something Walton had wanted at the outset, but he

learned to appreciate it, learned to appreciate the fact that he was able to sort things out. On and off the field.

“My role was to help Chase as much as I could,” he said. “That was my role and I accepted it. Not being in the chaotic mess on the field, the game sort of slowed down a little bit for me.

“Seeing it from the sidelines helped me read de-fenses better and have a bet-ter understanding. It definitely helped me out in the long run, helped me get ready for next year.”

Now “next year” is here, and Walton is one of the key compo-nents of a young and untested Baron squad. Of the 58 players listed on its preseason roster,

only 10 have varsity experience. Of those, only Kauff-man is a two-time letterman.

“We have 58 players, which is good for us,” said Wil-liams. “The bad thing is, we have 14 seniors and about 30 sophomores. I think we have a lot of potential, it’s just not going to jump out at you right away.”

Said Kauffman, “We’re a little short (of depth) in some positions. A lot of people are going to have to prove themselves. I think they’ll do a pretty good job of it.”

They’ll have to, because as Walton noted, Manheim Central’s football tradition doesn’t allow for anything less than success.

“We’re always motivated to go as far as we can (in the playoffs) and be the best team we can be,” he said. “At Manheim, we have a tradition.”

Challenges abound forBarons

MIKE WILLIAMSManheim Central

Barons


Caleb Walton takes the reins at quarterback for the youthful Barons.


“We’re a little short (of depth) in some positions. A lot of people are going to have to prove themselves. I think they’ll do a

pretty good job of it.”

Andrew Kauffman,Senior wideout/linebacker


TOTAL OFFENSESection One

G Rush Pass PerGameWilson ......................................10 2,760 1,120 388.0Manheim Township ..........10 1,901 1,907 380.8Cedar Crest ............................10 1,674 1,779 345.3Warwick ..................................10 2,544 734 327.8McCaskey ...............................10 1,831 1,097 292.8Penn Manor ..........................10 1,342 1,164 250.6Ephrata ....................................10 1,216 910 212.6Hempfield ..............................10 1,596 232 182.8

Section Two G Rush Pass PerGameLebanon .................................10 1,143 2,492 363.5Cocalico ..................................10 2,968 519 350.7Lamp.-Stras. ..........................10 2,040 1,259 329.9Manheim Central ...............10 1,578 1,624 320.2Conestoga Valley ................10 1,650 983 263.3Garden Spot .........................10 1,512 1,112 262.4Solanco ...................................10 1,945 601 254.6Elizabethtown .....................10 881 1,365 219.2

Section Three G Rush Pass PerGameLancaster Catholic .............10 2,316 1,608 392.4Columbia................................10 1,681 2,068 374.9Pequea Valley .......................10 1,476 2,071 354.7Northern Lebanon ............10 2,300 934 323.4Annville-Cleona ..................10 2,021 964 298.5Donegal ..................................10 1,699 1,218 291.7Elco ............................................10 1,295 1,287 258.2

TOTAL DEFENSESection One

G Rush Pass PerGameWilson ......................................10 680 704 138.4McCaskey ...............................10 1,313 1,297 261.0Penn Manor ..........................10 1,591 1,085 267.6Warwick ..................................10 1,488 1,336 282.4Hempfield ..............................10 1,745 1,261 300.6Ephrata ....................................10 2,407 972 337.9Manheim Township ..........10 2,365 1,115 348.0Cedar Crest ............................10 2,957 1,241 419.8

Section Two G Rush Pass PerGameLamp.-Stras. ..........................10 1,332 1,021 235.3Cocalico ..................................10 1,506 1,099 260.5Garden Spot .........................10 1,638 1,080 271.8Solanco ...................................10 1,742 1,060 280.2Conestoga Valley ................10 1,514 1,404 291.8Elizabethtown .....................10 1,604 1,396 300.0Manheim Central ...............10 1,934 1,101 303.5Lebanon .................................10 1,954 1,228 318.2

Section Three G Rush Pass PerGameLancaster Catholic .............10 497 1,466 196.3Donegal ..................................10 1,844 1,931 323.5 Elco ............................................10 2,061 1,331 339.2Columbia................................10 2,368 1,061 342.9Northern Lebanon ............10 1,835 1,763 359.8Annville-Cleona ..................10 1,857 1,583 382.2Pequea Valley .......................10 2,432 1,444 387.6

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SENIORS Pos. Ht. Wt.Ethan Beck QB/SS 5-11 173Bruce Boyer K 5-11 197Wes Fornwalt RB/FS 6-0 195Eric Friese P 6-1 175Rudy Goldsmith G/DE 5-11 195Jesus Guzman TE/LB 6-0 180Cody Halbleib FB/CB 5-8 153Kyle Ivory WR/CB 5-11 159Tony Lonardi T/DE 6-4 204Jerred Long T/DL 5-10 200Nick McElheny TE/LB 5-7 170Brett Nissley T/DL 6-0 230Nick Petersen T/DL 5-8 190Tommy Price RB/LB 5-7 151Ryan Rehrer T/DL 5-11 200Anthony Vera WR/CB 5-11 155JUNIORS Pos. Ht. Wt.Kirby Breault RB/SS 5-9 155Josh Cooper C/DL 5-11 220Jonathan Cunningham G/LB 5-10 172Max Daley QB/FS 5-9 146Nick Detz RB/CB 5-9 165Kolby Eisenbise C/DL 5-6 180Michael Grice RB/LB 5-10 180Lucas Kline TE/LB 5-9 150Michael Shank WR/CB 5-7 140TJ Stevens WR/LB 6-0 150

Mike Vertucci WR/CB 5-8 140SOPHOMORES Pos. Ht. Wt.Shane Bair C/DL 5-7 192Austin Brinser G/DE 5-10 181Ethan Cleis TE/DE 6-0 155Tyler Cottle QB/CB 6-1 145Evan Courtney QB/CB 5-9 145Andre Dubar-Smith TE/LB 5-9 168Derrick Fake RB/FS 5-6 127Logan Farris FB/LB 6-0 185Liam Flowers G/DL 5-8 170Alec Gibbons QB/FS 5-11 150Bryce Grohol G/DL 5-7 205Heberto Guzman RB/FS 5-7 136Austin Hilsher K/WR/CB 5-9 144Nick Hopwood T/DL 5-10 170Peter Kambesis T/DL 5-10 185Jordan Kwamanakweeda WR/FS 5-10 134Francisco Leon-Guzman G/DE 5-10 185Nick Lonardi RB/FS 5-8 139Luke Longenecker FB/LB 5-9 210Aidan Maghan T/DL 5-10 190Sean McKnight T/DL 6-0 230Tommy Miele G/DL 5-10 185Bailey Mohr WR/LB 5-7 150Arthur Quaye RB/CB 5-9 145Conrad Vinkavich T/DL 5-7 184Devin Zook TE/DE 5-10 163

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SCOUTING REPORTKey players returning: T-DE Tony Lonardi, RB-FS Wes Fornwalt, RB-LB Tommy Price, C-DL Josh Cooper, RB-SS Kirby Breault, G-LB Jonathan Cunningham.Key players lost: QB-FS Andy Breault, TE-DE Tyler Clark, WR-FS Ryan Brown, C-DL Derek Klim, T-DL Joe Martin, T-DE Brian Range.

2011 ROSTER

2011 SCHEDULE 2010 RESULTSSept. 2 CEDAR CLIFF, 7 p.m.Sept. 9 HERSHEY, 7 p.m.Sept. 16 @ Manheim Township, 7 p.m.Sept. 23 SOLANCO, 7 p.m.Sept. 30 CV, 7 p.m.Oct. 7 @ Garden Spot, 7 p.m.Oct. 14 @ Cocalico, 7 p.m.Oct. 21 MANHEIM CENT, 7 p.m.Oct. 28 @ Lampeter-Stras, 7 p.m.Nov. 4 @ Lebanon, 7 p.m.

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@ Cedar Cliff L, 14- 28@ Hershey L, 7-14MANHEIM TOWNSHIP L, 26-28@ Solanco W, 27-10@ Conestoga Valley L, 14-21GARDEN SPOT L, 0-22COCALICO W, 22-21@ Manheim Central L, 21-42LAMPETER-STRASBURG L, 6-28LEBANON L, 14-42

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Elizabethtown hopes greater attention to strength training will translate into wins this season.



It’s one thing to get an early start on a season, but this was ridiculous: Not only did Elizabethtown begin its offseason weightlifting program one week after closing out the 2010 campaign, but the Bears did so with daily 6 a.m. workouts.

“I’m not a morning person; I didn’t like them,” coach Mike Cottle said. “I didn’t like them at all.”

He wasn’t alone.“Starting out,”

halfback Wes Fornwalt said, “it was bad.”

“It was definite-ly hard to get used to,” added Tom Price, who this year moves from halfback to full-back in the Bears’ Wing-T scheme.

He, too, was asked if he’s an ear-ly riser.

“If my mom can get me out of bed, then yeah,” he said.

Cottle designed the workout schedule, which ran through the end of the last school year (before giv-ing way to the summer program), so that the guys who played other

sports wouldn’t be pressed for time each afternoon. There were loftier aims, too.

“It’s a team-building thing, a dedication thing,” he said. “It will make us a stronger team in terms

of chemistry and tightness.”

And a stron-ger team, period. Cottle has no qualms about his players’ tough-ness. But, he ad-mitted, “Usually teams up front are stronger

than us. We had to do something to get stronger.”

Especially after a 2010 season in which the Bears rushed for 881 yards, fewest in the league, en route to a 2-8 finish. They also scored 151 points, which was second-fewest, and averaged 219.2 yards per game, which was third-fewest. Andy

Breault, the departed quarterback, had some success throwing to wide receiver Ryan Brown, who’s also gone, but that was about it.

And as Cottle said, too often Breault was “scrambling for his life.”

Maybe things will be better this year, though the Bears must first find Breault’s successor. The candi-dates are senior Ethan Beck, junior Max Daley and sophomore Tyler Cottle, the coach’s son.

Beck was Breault’s primary backup last year, and has the most experience. Daley, who moved to E-town from Maryland in 2010, is a good runner. And Mike Cottle said his son has “a really strong arm” and runs the offense well, though the coach added a caveat.

“I’m not sure he’s physically ready yet,” he said.

Nobody is, if the line doesn’t hold up; that is far and away the biggest concern of the elder Cottle. Center Josh Cooper is the only returning starter up front. He will be joined by guards John Cunningham and

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Bears coach Mike Cottle said the team’s weightlifting regimen could result in more than bigger muscles.


Francisco Guzman, and tackles Tony Lonardi and Brett Nissley.

And while the Wing-T does not depend as much on blowing people off the ball as other offenses, the Bears clearly need to be more assertive at the point of at-tack. Fornwalt, who will be joined at halfback by Kirby Breault, was the team’s leading rusher last year, with just 321 yards (4.8 a carry).

Hence the early workouts, which had some unin-tended consequences.

“Once you get in there, you felt better than if you got up for a normal day,” Price said.

“I actually started concentrating better in school,” Lonardi added.

Maybe the workouts will help at night, too. Friday nights in particular.

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SENIORS Pos. Ht. Wt.John Armbrust QB 6-2 190Bob Barret OL/DL 6-3 297Matt Christie OL/DL 5-8 162Ryan Connel WR/DB 5-8 155Blake Bauder WR/DB 5-10 136Kyle Connel RB/LB 5-9 156Nick Ferstler OL/OLB 5-1 166Deandre Grandstrom OL/DL 6-0 221Cody Henry OL/DL 5-9 194Charlie Himes OLB 5-11 159Rob King RB/LB 5-10 175Dakota Leid RB/DB 5-8 164Matt Macnamara OL/DL 5-6 132Emilio Morles OL/DL 5-10 241Jason Nolt OLB 6-0 145Steven Riehl OL/DL 5-8 202Francis Sangrey WR/DB 5-11 150Connor Schlegal WR/DB 5-10 165Ben Sensenig OL/DL 6-0 240Nathan Shimp OL/DL 5-9 285Damian Weidner WR/DB 5-7 153Ricky Zellefro OL/DL 5-9 305JUNIORS Pos. Ht. Wt.Vince Borja WR/DB 6-1 163Matt Christie OL/DL 5-8 162David Drescher WR/DB 5-5 139Adam Haas RB/LB 5-8 185Austin Haas WR/OLB 5-10 160Tanner Leid WR/DB 5-8 163Matt Martin WR/DB 5-6 132

Josh Padilla RB/DB 5-9 146Tyson Petersheim WR/DB 5-9 146Brian Peter K 5-7 145Tanner Reed WR/DB 5-8 143Seth Rehrer RB/DB 5-9 175Matt Martin WR/DB 5-6 132Rylan Sweed RB/LB 5-10 175Ian Thomas WR/LB 5-11 170Ben Weaver OL/DL 5-11 194SOPHOMORES Pos. Ht. Wt.Nick Boisrand OL/DL 6-0 190Jon Brannon RB/DB 5-9 157Mike Bressi OL/DL 5-11 252Cevaughan Caldwell WR/DB 5-11 171Alesio Caruso OL/DL 5-4 158Robbie Jacobs OL/DL 5-9 215Robbie Jeffers WR/OLB 6-1 187Zach Jones OL/DL 6-1 232Juwan Lewis WR/OLB 6-5 190Ryan Overly OL/OLB 5-10 180Angel Sanchez WR/DB 5-5 132Ryan Rodriguez WR/DB 5-4 112Troy Shaub WR/DB 5-9 153Fischer Stoltzfus OL/DL 5-5 156Rylan Sweed RB/LB 5-10 170Chris Trostle OL/DL 5-9 193Corey Twaddel RB/DB 5-6 152Zach Walker OL/DL 6-2 215Nate Wallace OL/DL 5-10 286Christian Wardell WR/DB 5-6 148Ben Swarr RB/LB 5-8 171Alex Wilson OL/DL 6-1 199

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Base offense: Pistol-SpreadBase defense: 3-4

SCOUTING REPORTKey players returning: QB John Armbrust, WR-S Dako-da Leid, WR-S Ryan Connel, RB-LB Kyle Connel,OG-NG Nate Shimp.Key players lost: C-DE Anthony Huber, WR-CB Mike Little, OT-DT Vinny Heffner, WR-CB Neil O’Malley.

2011 ROSTER

2011 SCHEDULE 2010 RESULTSSept. 2 @ Twin Valley, 7 p.m.Sept. 9 @ Dover, 7 p.m.Sept. 16 WARWICK, 7 p.m.Sept. 23 @ CONESTOGA VALLEY, 7 p.m.Sept. 30 @ Lebanon, 7 p.m.Oct. 7 ELIZABETHTOWN, 7 p.m.Oct. 14 @ Lamp.-Strasburg, 7 p.m.Oct. 21 COCALICO, 7 p.m.Oct. 28 @ Solanco, 7 p.m.Nov. 4 @ Manheim Central, 7 p.m.

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TWIN VALLEY W, 41- 6DOVER L, 41-17@ Warwick L, 20-10@ Conestoga Valley L, 22-15LEBANON W, 34-7@ Elizabethtown W, 20-0LAMPETER-STRASBURG L, 42-7@ Cocalico W, 17-7SOLANCO L, 20-17@ MANHEIM CENTRAL L, 42-7

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BY DUSTIN LEEDSports Staff

Garden Spot will do what it takes to make the best of a tough situa-tion.

The Spartans’ biggest loss of the 2011 season may have come before they even take the field for their sea-son opener Sept. 2.

Adam Haas, Garden Spot’s lead-ing rusher from a year ago, will miss his entire junior season after he suf-fered a torn ACL during optional off-season work-outs.

Haas, who finished third in Sec-tion Two with 844 rushing yards, led the Spartans in rushing touchdowns (six) and was named to the 2010 Lancaster-Lebanon League Football Coaches Section Two Second Team at running back.

But despite the loss, Spartans coach Matt Zamperini and starting senior quarterback John Armbrust hope their squad can use the injury as a motivator.

“He loved to be out there and that’s a big loss, so we all try and do things for him,’’ Armbrust said. “It’s a big loss, but we’ve got a group of (running) backs that can step in.”

Coach Zamperini reinforced his quarterback’s comments.

“I absolutely think because of the circumstances it can bring a team together,” Zamperini said. “Adam is the type of kid that kids rally around and some other kids are going to have to take on that responsibility.”

Although Spot most likely won’t feature a 25-carry-a-game back, among those who can help take on the responsibility at running back are Haas’ brother and fellow junior, Austin Haas, junior Josh Padilla, se-nior Dakoda Leid and sophomores Ben Swarr and Corey Twaddel.

“They’re all different ages, but they’re all pretty athletic, tail-back type kids who can play,” Zamperini said. “We just need to find out which couple understand what they’re do-ing the best and execute the best.”

Garden Spot will field a team of 21 seniors and returns seven starters on each side of the ball. The return-ing group will look to draw motiva-tion and experience from a 4-6 sea-son last year that saw a pair of losses to Conestoga Valley and Solanco. In both games, the Spartans lost the game late in the fourth quarter by one score each.

“We have a big senior class, a lot of leaders and a lot of kids who have Friday night experience,” said Zamperini. “I think that’s the big-gest thing, transforming that Friday night experience into this season.”

Armbrust will lead the charge of experienced players for Garden Spot in a Pistol-Spread offense.

“It’s a tremendous responsibil-ity on a quarterback but it (Pistol-Spread) makes it that much more difficult for defenses to prepare,” Zamperini said. “He’s reading some-one all of the time, he has the oppor-tunity to carry the football almost every run play. It’s a real challenge defensively.

“That’s what I love about the Pis-tol Spread offense, the defense liter-ally has to defend sideline-to-side-line,” he added.

Spread out wide for Garden Spot will be seniors Connor Schlegal, the Spartans’ leading receiver as a

sophomore, who was bothered by nagging injuries a year ago, Ryan Connell, juniors Tyson Petersheim, David Drescher, and sophomore Cevaughan Caldwell.

Up front the Spartans’ offensive line will feature four returning start-ers including, Bob Barret (6-foot-3 297), Nathan Shimp (5-9 285), Ben Weaver, (5-11 200) and Ben Sensenig (6-0 240) who will do their best to protect Armbrust.

“We have a really senior-heavy team this year and everyone knows what they’re doing,” Armbrust said. “Everyone has a goal (going to the playoffs) and we’re going to achieve it this year.”

Armbrust enters the season in his third year as a starter and only one full season of the spread offense under his belt, but draws plenty of praise from his coach.

“Of any QB I’ve ever coached, he has a linebacker mentality,” Zamperini said. “He’s a tough, hard-nosed kid, he’s very coachable and wants to succeed.

“I think these kids have high ex-pectations for themselves and when you have that, it’s where you want it.”

Spartans can deal with adversity

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Quarterback John Armbrust, right, and running back Dakoda Leid are two of the Spartans; offensive weapons.


It’s not easy to be dealt a blow like Adam Haas’ injury before the season starts but the circumstance opens an opportunity for another player and the Spartans already have several from which to pick. Having John Armbrust back at QB will make who-ever carries the ball more comfortable with the offense.


FINAL DISTRICT THREE2010 POWER RANKINGS

Following are the 2010 District Three Football Power Rankings for the Class AAAA, AAA, AA and A schools which were eligible for the District Three playoffs. Listed with each school are win-loss record and power rating. L-L teams boldface.

CLASS AAAA1. Dallastown (10-0) ................................... 0.8682262. Wilson (10-0) .......................................... 0.8603713. Governor Mifflin (8-2) ............................ 0.7943354. Harrisburg (8-2) ...................................... 0.7895635. Daniel Boone (9-1) ................................. 0.7886186. Central Dauphin (8-2) ............................. 0.7827747. Cumberland Valley (8-2) ......................... 0.7825898. Red Lion (7-3) ......................................... 0.7537289. McCaskey (7-3) ...................................... 0.72614810. Spring Grove (6-4) ................................ 0.70345711. Warwick (6-4) ...................................... 0.69954012. Cedar Cliff (7-3).................................... 0.67837813. Penn Manor (5-5) ................................ 0.64900514. York (5-5) .............................................. 0.64518315. Manheim Township (5-5) .................... 0.64398216. Conestoga Valley (5-5) ........................ 0.587620

CLASS AAA1. Greencastle-Antrim (10-0) ...................... 0.8292862. Lampeter-Strasburg (9-1) .................... 0.8094063. Bishop McDevitt (8-2) ............................ 0.7858314. West York (8-2) ....................................... 0.7760375. Susquehanna Township (8-2) .................. 0.7500546. Shippensburg (8-2) .................................. 0.7154627. Manheim Central (7-3) ......................... 0.7033268. Conrad Weiser (7-3) ................................ 0.7021239. East Pennsboro (7-3) ............................... 0.61738310. Dover (6-4) .............................................0.61113311. Hershey (6-4) ........................................ 0.60734212. Gettysburg (6-4) .................................... 0.60542013. Cocalico (5-5) ....................................... 0.58688714. Kenard-Dale (5-5) ................................. 0.57715115. Big Spring (5-5) .................................... 0.54303316. Hamburg (6-4)....................................... 0.539157

CLASS AA1. Lancaster Catholic (10-0) ..................... 0.8251272. Littlestown (10-0) ................................... 0.8159373. Trinity (9-1) ............................................. 0.7514914. Delone Catholic (9-1) ............................. 0.7356795. Wyomissing (7-3) .................................... 0.6276636. Boiling Springs (7-3) .............................. 0.6161587. Bermudian Springs (7-3) ......................... 0.6016418. Schuylkill Valley (6-4) ............................ 0.537016

CLASS A1. Reading Holy Name (9-1) ....................... 0.7595122. York Catholic (7-3) ................................. 0.6150553. Millersburg (7-3) ..................................... 0.5400864. Steelton-Highspire (6-4) ......................... 0.5285535. Columbia (4-6) ....................................... 0.436469x-6. Halifax (3-7) ........................................ 0.293208x-7. Camp Hill (1-9) ................................... 0.236845x-8. Fairfield (0-9) ....................................... 0.175249

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Zach Cage OL/DL 6-0 180Mitch Deering WR/DB 5-6 125Zach Eberly OL/DL 6-4 170Austin Fromm RB/DL 5-7 175Jeremy Fullerton WR/DB 5-7 140Cody Fulton OL/DL 5-10 230Kyle Horning OL/DL 5-11 250Jhett Janis QB/DB 5-8 145Dalton Kern RB/ILB 5-8 150Casey Kerschner TE/ILB 6-0 200Taylor Lilley WR/DB 5-8 140Hilton Martin WR/OLB 5-8 135Mike Micozzi WR/DB 5-8 160Spencer Moser RB/DB 5-7 150Mitch Naumann OL/LB 5-8 150Shane Reiff OL/DL 5-9 170Christian Saunders WR/LB 5-4 130Mitchell Shober WR/DB 5-9 155Zack Snyder OL/DL 5-9 200Hiram Tapia TE/LB 6-0 220Cole Ulrich WR/DB 6-0 160Ryan Weaver WR/DB 5-7 145Alec Whitsett WR/DB 5-9 140Brad Whittaker RB/OLB 5-6 150FRESHMEN Pos. Ht. Wt.John Fry OL/DL 5-9 225Frank Ackerman OL/DL 5-10 205

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Head coach: Dave Gingrich (8th season, 50-30)Lancaster-Lebanon League Section: 22010 section: 4-32009 overall: 8-6PIAA Class: Triple-A

Base offense: FlexboneBase defense: 4-4

SCOUTING REPORTKey players returning: WR-DL Kyle Felpel, WR-DB Austin Landis, OL-DL Dan Mullins, OL-ILB Jerrad Seifrit TE-ILB Ryan Schweitzer, OL-DL Corey Buckwalter. Key players lost: RB-LB Austin Hartman, WR-DB Kevin Antol, OL-DL Ben Brugger, RB-OLB Jordan Martin, RB-OLB Roman High, OL-DL Brad Entzminger.

2011 ROSTER

2011 SCHEDULE 2010 RESULTSSept. 2 SCHUYLKILL VALLEY, 7 p.m.Sept. 9 EPHRATA, 7 p.m.Sept. 16 @ Governor Mifflin, 7 p.m.Sept. 23 @ Manheim Central, 7 p.m.Sept. 30 LAMP.-STRASBURG, 7 p.m.Oct. 7 @ Lebanon, 7 p.m.Oct. 14 ELIZABETHTOWN, 7 p.m.Oct. 21 @ Garden Spot, 7 p.m.Oct. 28 CONESTOGA VALLEY, 7 p.m.Nov. 4 @ Solanco, 7 p.m.

OUTLOOK

Seifrit Felpel

COCALICO

EAGLES

@ Schuylkill Valley W, 55- 21@ Ephrata L, 21-20GOVERNOR MIFFLIN L, 31-12MANHEIM CENTRAL W, 34-28@Lampeter-Strasburg L, 42-21@ LEBANON W, 42-35@ Elizabethtown L, 22-21GARDEN SPOT L, 17-7@ Conestoga Valley W, 41-35SOLANCO W, 35-14@ West York W, 28-21@ Susquehanna Twp. W, 28-7@ Conrad Weiser W, 17-16@ Bishop McDevitt L, 29-14


Cocalico’s gymnasium won’t be the only thing under construction in Denver this fall.

Its football team will also be go-ing through a rebuilding phase.

After going 8-6 in 2010, and a sil-ver in the District Three Class AAA championship game (which doubled as a state quarterfinal game), the Eagles saw a mass exodus of start-ers. Graduation claimed 20 players, a transfer one other, leaving Cocali-co with 13 starting spots to fill.

“We’ve never had a loss of start-ers like this,” admitted Cocalico coach Dave Gingrich, who spent 13 years as assistant and enters seventh season as the head man in Denver.

“It’s just something you have to figure out. You look at what you have and try to maximize your tal-ent. We have talent but are they ready for varsity football in 2011? I don’t know.”

What is a certainty is that the new starters have big shoes to fill.

Last year’s seniors reached the district playoffs all three years, which was the best a class had done at Cocalico since 1997.

“It’s going to be hard to replace those guys,” admitted senior Jerrad Seifrit, who returns as an offensive tackle and linebacker. “One thing that we can carry over is the never-quit attitude that class had.”

Another big hole to fill is at full-back where Austin Hartman, the school’s all-time leader rusher, be-came only the seventh player in L-L League history to rush for more than 4,000 yards in a career — he

finished with 5,116.“It’s going to be hard to replace a

guy like Austin,” Seifrit explained. “We have a lot of guys that will try to step up. It won’t be one, it will be a few.”

The Eagles do have 10 starters from last season, including seven on offense. Four linemen return with Seifrit, Logan High, Zach Rissler and Dan Mullins and are joined by returnees Brock Gosling at quar-terback, Spencer Moser (who also started at quarterback at times last season) at tailback and receiver Kyle Felpel.

Tyler Buckwalter, Nick Reiten-bach or Dalton Kern will be the fullback, Casey Kerschner or Ryan Schweitzer the tight end, Austin Landis or Mitch Deering the other receiver and Colin Brewer at cen-ter.

The defense will be young and inexperienced with only Felpel, Sei-frit and Landis returning from last

season.“Our goal is to reach our ceiling,

wherever that may be,” Gingrich explained. “It’s not the debt ceiling, where there’s no top, but we’ll reach ours somehow, some way.”

Gingrich will look to his special teams to become more of a factor in games. Kicker Wyatt Dungan re-turns along with punter Felpel.

“In the past we wanted the spe-cial teams to break even with the other team,” Gingrich recalled. “We’re going to need to win the spe-cial teams battle this year.”

Though the Eagles are young and green, Gingrich, a high school math teacher, is looking forward to a challenging teaching opportunity.

“This year will be a challenge but it’s also exciting,” Gingrich ad-mitted. “We have a great coaching staff that cares about the kids and are teachers. We’ll see what kind of teachers we are this year.”

DAVE GINGRICHCocalicoEagles


Spencer Moser, who saw time as a quarterback last season, is set at tailback. He rushed for 434 yards last season and threw for 336.


Eagles hittingreset button

Although most his starters from last season’s team have graduated, Cocalico coach Dave Gingrich knows there are players on the current roster with talent. What this year’s players don’t have, however, is experience and that’s what kind of scary. The speed with which the new starters mature will be a measure of team success.


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Blue Ridge TVFriday, Sept. 2

Lower Dauphin vs. Manheim Central, 7 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 19Ephrata vs. Cocalico, 7 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 16Warwick vs. Garden Spot, 9 p.m. (taped)

Friday, Sept. 23

Cocalico vs. Manheim Central, 7 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 30Lampeter-Strasburg vs. Cocalico, 7 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 7 Warwick vs. Ephrata, 7 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 14McCaskey vs. Warwick, 7 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 21Hempf ield vs. Ephrata, 7 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 28Conestoga Valley vs. Cocalico, 7 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 4Garden Spot vs. Manheim Central, 7 p.m.

2011 H.S. football on televisionPCN TV

Saturday, Sept. 3Cathedral Prep at McDowell, 9 p.m. (taped)

Tuesday, Sept. 6Bishop McDevitt at Gateway, 7 p.m. (taped)

Saturday, Sept. 10McGuffey at Belle Vernon, 9 p.m. (taped)

Saturday, Sept. 17Saegertown at Cochranton, 9 p.m. (taped)

Saturday, Sept. 24Cocalico at Manheim Central, 9 p.m. (taped)

Saturday, Oct. 1Beth. Liberty at Parkland, 9 p.m. (taped)

Saturday, Oct. 8Allen. Cent. Cath. at Whitehall, 9 p.m. (taped)

Friday, Oct. 15 Northwestern at Northern Lehigh, 9 p.m. (taped)

Saturday, Oct. 22 Montoursville at Hughesville, 9 p.m. (taped)

Saturday, Oct. 29West Allegheny at Hopewell, 9 p.m. (taped)

Saturday, Nov. 5Berwick at Hazleton, 9 p.m. (taped)


SENIORS Pos. Ht. Wt.Nate Shank QB/LB 5-10 175Jordan Groff RB/DB 5-11 180Dan Neff RB/DB 5-11 150Ray Lopez WR/DB 5-11 170Mike McNelis RB/LB 6-0 195Jeremy Jennings WR/DB 5-7 155Matt McCrudden FB/LB 6-1 180Chad Harrison C/LB 5-8 170Andre Dienner G/DT 5-11 205Travis Rittenhouse OT/DT 6-2 230Josh Moyer WR/DB 5-9 150Andrew Wright P 6-2 155JUNIORS Pos. Ht. Wt.Nick Smith TE/LB 6-2 165Zane Danehower RB/LB 5-8 170Lance Witmer RB/DB 5-8 140Cameron Westerlund RB/DB 5-9 145Ryan Lawler RB/DB 6-2 170Drew Burford FB/LB 5-8 170Collins Thiongo G/LB 5-8 180Jeff Pickel G/LB 5-11 200Drew Stauffer OT/DT 6-2 190Jason Lindsley C/LB 5-10 190Adam Thiboldeaux OT/DT 5-11 200Bobby Neuenschwander OT/DT 6-1 175

Matt Yoksh OT/DT 5-11 235Jesse Dostal OT/DT 6-3 230Keith Brubaker TE/DB 5-11 165Joshua Kwalalon RB/LB 5-9 200SOPHOMORES Pos. Ht. Wt.Matthew Wright K 5-11 145Brett Brooks QB/DB 6-1 180Kenny Kirchoff TE/LB 6-3 190Dan Lind FB/LB 5-9 150Dan Stutts RB/LB 5-6 140Kyle Horner WR/DB 5-9 135Sean Harris RB/LB 5-7 145Zach Byers G/LB 5-10 175Michael Warfel G/DT 6-0 180Trace Oliver OT/DT 6-0 185Tyler Williams G/LB 6-1 165Justin Rosa G/DT 5-11 175Cory Clites C/DT 6-0 190Jordan Spahr TE/LB 6-0 175Kevin Souders WR/DB 5-8 140Dylan Riley WR/DB 5-9 160FRESHMAN Pos. Ht. Wt.Ross Souders QB/DB 5-10 150Andrew Buchanan G/LB 5-8 170

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Head coach: John Manion (14th season, 97-43)Lancaster-Lebanon League Section: 22010 section: 6-12010 overall: 11-2PIAA Class: AAA

Base offense: Pistol-Wing-TBase defense: 3-3 Stack

SCOUTING REPORTKey players returning: RB-DB Jordan Groff, OG/LB Jeff Pickel, QB-DB Nate Shank, RB-LB Mike McNelis, WR-DB Ray Lopez, RB Matt McCrudden, RB Dan Neff.Key players lost: TE-DE Chris-tian DelRocini, WR-DB Ethan Martin, OT-DT Dan Makaus-kas, OT-DT Dan Dorgan, RB-LB Andrew Stover, DB Jon Pugliese.

2011 ROSTER

2011 SCHEDULE 2010 RESULTSSept. 2 @ Hempfield, 7 p.m.Sept. 9 PENN MANOR, 7 p.m.Sept. 16 @ Cedar Cliff, 7 p.m.Sept. 23 LEBANON, 7 p.m.Sept. 30 @ Cocalico, 7 p.m.Oct. 7 @ Manheim Central, 7 p.m.Oct. 14 GARDEN SPOT, 7 p.m.Oct. 21 SOLANCO, 7:30 p.m.Oct. 28 ELIZABETHTOWN, 7 p.m.Nov. 4 @ Conestoga Valley, 7 p.m.

OUTLOOK

The Pioneers have all the ingredients to repeat as section champions - its line may be a little on the inexpereinced side - particularly with great depth in the skill positions.

Groff

LAMPETER-STRASBURG

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Pickel

HEMPFIELD W, 38- 0@ Penn Manor W, 44-7CEDAR CLIFF W, 28-7@ Lebanon W, 44-33COCALICO W, 42-21MANHEIM CENTRAL W, 27-24@ Garden Spot W, 42-7@ Solanco W, 35-0@ Elizabethtown W, 28-6CONESTOGA VALLEY L, 33-21BIG SPRING W, 41-13MANHEIM CENTRAL W, 25-20BISHOP McDEVITT L, 40-10

Shank

Pioneers’ QB Nate Shank threw for 1,318 yards last season.Marty Heisey / Staff


What will Lampeter-Strasburg do for an encore?

If it’s anything like the perfor-mance the Pioneers had last season, it may be the start of becoming a perennial Section Two power.

L-S was nearly perfect in its first season in Section Two. The Pioneers won nine straight games to open the season before finishing the regular season with 9-1 mark and the Sec-tion Two title. They advanced to the District Three Class AAA semifi-nals, losing to eventual champion Bishop McDevitt, 40-10, and fin-ished the season 11-2.

But that was last year.“We’re preparing the exact same

way we do every year,” L-S coach John Manion says. “We’re not think-ing about anyone else. I don’t think there’s a chip on our shoulders with something to prove. It’s a new year but the same challenge.”

Still, the Pioneers expect the same success this year but under-stand they’re a marked team now.

“I think our expectations are what they are every year, which is to win the section and compete every week,” senior Jordan Groff said.

“We’re going to embrace the fact that we’re a marked team,” admit-ted senior Nate Shank. “It’s going to be a challenge, but at the same time

it’s going to be fun.”Shank, a fourth-year starter, and

Groff, a third-year starter and an All-Section Two First Teamer last year, are two of four players who return in the backfield on offense for L-S.

Fullback Matt McCrudden and halfback Dan Neff return as well. Those four accounted for 1,812 yards on the ground last season and hit paydirt 28 times. Shank also threw for 1,318 yards and 11 scores.

Receiver Ray Lopez also returns on offense.

“A lot of our offense depends on execution and timing and we don’t have to mess with that stuff with all of those guys back,” Manion ex-plained. “We have different block-ing schemes up front so we can fo-cus on that more since the backfield is back.”

The question mark for the of-fense is up front where only senior Jeff Pickel returns on the line.

“I like what we have on the line,” Manion says. “We just need some experience.”

Shank is confident the new line-men will perform at the highest level.

“Our linemen have worked hard in the offseason,” he said. “They feel like they have something to prove this season.”

The Pioneers’ switch to a 3-3 stack on defense last season was a success. L-S had the top defense in the section, surrendering 235.3 yards per game.

Pioneers brace for the challenge of repeating

JOHN MANIONLampeter-Strasburg

Pioneers


Please see PIONEERS, page 35


Lampeter-Strasburg’s backfield will be bolstered by the return of Jor-dan Groff, right, who rushed for 496 yards and nine TDs last season.

Like the offense, all of the linemen are gone from last season but most of the secondary is back. Pickel, an All-Section Two First-Team selection, anchors the defense at linebacker. Groff, Lopez and Shank are back in the defensive backfield.

“Our season may depend on the defense,” said Manion. “If we can fill those holes quickly.”

The mixture of veterans and rookies for L-S leaves little time for the Pioneers to find their flow.

A fact not lost on the team as it prepares for a defense of their section crown.

“We have to come in ready to go,” Pickel said. “We can’t hold back be-cause we have something to work for, which is to defend that title.”

Continued from 34


Pioneers


SENIORS Pos. Ht. Wt.Charles Sweigert WR/DB 6-0 185Peter Heise WR/LB 6-2 190Sean Gibbons QB/DB 5-10 155Andrew Dzurik QB/DB 6-3 200Andrew Geraghty WR/DB 5-11 180Grady Benson WR/DB 5-10 170Andrew Long TE/LB 6-2 215Brandon Hollister RB/LB 6-0 200Brandon Cunningham RB/LB 5-8 198Chris Henkel RB/LB 5-9 185William Rothfus WR/LB 5-9 155James Le FB/LB 5-9 205James Dreer OL/DL 6-1 230Aaron Oyler OL/DL 6-2 235Jacob Rider OL/DL 6-2 240Rodrigo Castro OL/DL 6-2 210Chance Groff OL/DL 6-0 265Anthony Juliano OL/DL 6-2 250Geraldo Flores Jr. OL/DL 5-7 270Adam DePietro OL/DL 6-5 285Robert DePietro WR/LB 6-4 210JUNIORS Pos. Ht. Wt.Sean Titus WR/FS 6-2 170Isiah Taltoan WR/DB 5-10 165Mac McCafferty QB/DB 6-3 210Vincent Solomon QB/DB 5-9 150Kyle Harnish WR/DB 5-11 165Linhao Zhang RB/LB 5-11 180Matthew Nazario WR/DB 6-3 185Carmelo Cruz RB/LB 6-0 215Roman Clay RB/LB 5-11 205Stephen Reichwein TE/LB 6-2 195Patrick Anstett RB/LB 5-10 190Andrew Longenecker RB/LB 5-9 160Greg Harmon OL/LB 5-10 190Josh Hagen OL/DL 6-0 250

Patrick McBrearty OL/DL 5-11 230Turner Skehan OL/LB 6-1 190Luke McDonald OL/DL 6-2 235Evan Schnader OL/DL 5-10 225Shay Mento OL/DL 6-0 260Satchel Ziffer TE/LB 6-3 210Ben Gingrich TE/LB 6-3 210Nevin Pagan TE/DL 6-2 210SOPHOMORES Pos. Ht. Wt.Michael Spica WR/DB 6-0 150Jack Shedleski WR/DB 5-10 140Harrison Heise WR/DB 6-3 170Keenan Reigel QB/DB 5-9 150Brandon McCafferty QB/DB 6-1 180Jordan Saldana RB/LB 5-8 145Ben Snyder WR/LB 6-1 140Montana Miller WR/DB 5-6 140Stephen Sheetz WR/DB 5-10 145Charles Bell RB/LB 6-0 195Trey Miller RB/LB 6-0 195Marc Royer RB/LB 5-8 165Trevor Daggett WR/LB 5-10 180Adiel Colon RB/DB 5-7 150Christian Lomboy WR/DB 5-11 160Kurt Kessler WR/LB 5-11 155Stephen Kramer WR/LB 5-8 155Rafael Mateo WR/FS 6-0 160Benjamin Bauer OL/DL 6-1 205Jackson Houston OL/DL 5-9 255Joseph Roehm OL/DL 6-0 210Tyler Loudermilk OL/DL 6-1 180Chris Yurista Jr. OL/DL 6-2 300Steve Lopez OL/DL 5-8 170Thomas McIntyre OL/DL 6-4 205Evan Purvis WR/DB 6-2 170Omar Lopez WR/LB 6-1 180Charles Scarff TE/DE 6-4 195

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Head coach: Bruce Harbach (10th season, 89-24)Lancaster-Lebanon League Section: 32009 section: 6-02009 overall: 11-1PIAA Class: Double-A

Base offense: Multiple-I/SpreadBase defense: 3-5-3

SCOUTING REPORTKey players returning: OL-DL Adam DePietro, WR-FS Sean Titus, WR-DB Charles Sweigart, TE-LB Andrew Long, RB-LB Brandon Hollister, RB-LB Roman Clay, OL-DL Anthony Juliano, WR-DB Isiah Taltoan, RB-LB Carmelo Cruz, OL-DL Jacob Rider, OL-DL Luke McDonald.

Key players lost: RB-DB Rhys McCall, WR-LB Greg Kirchner, OL-DL Mike Meck, OL-DL Caleb Rudy, RB-LB Trevor St. Clair, QB Joe Roda, OL-DL Mike Svetecz.

2011 ROSTER

2011 SCHEDULE 2010 RESULTSSept. 2 @ Trinity, 7 p.m.Sept. 9 @ Hempfield, 7 p.m.Sept. 16 McCASKEY, 7 p.m.Sept. 23 @ Donegal, 7 p.m.Sept. 30 EAST PENNSBORO, 7 p.m.Oct. 7 PEQUEA VALLEY, 7 p.m.Oct. 14 @ Northern Lebanon, 7 p.m.Oct. 21 @ COLUMBIA, 7 p.m.Oct. 28 @ Annville-Cleona, 7 p.m.Nov. 4 ELCO, 7 p.m.

OUTLOOK

Perennially the team to beat in Section Three, Catholic has more than enough weapons, and attitude, to make a deep run through Novem-ber. And December.

Juliano Hollister

LANCASTER CATHOLIC

CRUSADERS

TRINITY W, 35- 7 HEMPFIELD W, 35-0@ McCaskey W, 17-7DONEGAL W, 42-7@ East Pennsboro W, 42-0@ Pequea Valley W, 41-7NORTHERN LEBANON W, 47-0@ Columbia W, 56-20ANNVILLE-CLEONA W, 55-7@ Elco W, 39-18SCHUYLKILL VALLEY W, 56-21WYOMISSING L, 21-14

BY DAVE BYRNESports Staff

This will be a season of transition for Lancaster Catholic football.

The Crusaders play their final sea-son in Section Three of the Lancaster-Lebanon League, as well as in Class AA of the PIAA; at least for the near future.

The enrollment-based promotion to Class AAA sparked Catholic to request a jump to Section One of the L-L start-ing with the 2012 schedule cycle.

Or, to be more accurate, a return to Section One.

One of the charter members of Sec-tion One when the L-L formed, a lot of football has been played between then and now.

Some of it very good. Some not.“It’s a winning tradition that has

been established,” notes coach Bruce Harbach. “Our determination as a staff … hopefully we can continue with that.”

The raw numbers support him. Har-bach’s teams have gone 89-24 in seven seasons and have appeared in five of seven District Three AA championship games.

Over that period Catholic has par-ticipated in three PIAA post-seasons, winning the Class AA championship in 2009.

Given that success, returning to Section One is a logical, and welcome, response.

But that transition is not foremost in the halls of purple and gold.

Catholic is looking to erase the mem-ory of the abrupt and unwelcome end to the 2010 season.

The defending AA champion Cru-saders were sailing to a return berth in the state title game when Wyomissing sucked the wind out of their world with a 21-14 upset victory in the district playoffs.

The hurt is fresh.“These kids, they’re upset about the way (the season)

ended,” said Harbach. “They’ve been using that as a motivational factor over winter workouts.”

Not surprisingly, they’ve also been champing at the bit to get underway.

“I would com-pare this group to the 2009 team,” Har-bach said.

“(They’re) physi-cal, playing with an angry attitude. They’ve been talk-ing about putting the pads on for months.”

And lest one think the focus is post-season redemp-tion, well, there is that, but:

“Every year our goals remain the same, no matter what,” said Harbach. “Stay healthy. Every week is dif-ferent. You’ve got to stay healthy. The healthy teams, at the end, survive.”

And with survival, the remaining goals fall in to place: “Win the section,” he continued, “Get in districts, win in districts. Get to states, win in states.”

The Crusaders are certainly well appointed to do just that. Raw numbers redux: Catholic rosters 70 players. Among that number 15 starters return, seven on of-fense, eight on defense.

With an eye towards the “Big School” wars of the future, Harbach is easing the Crusaders into a two-pla-toon system.

Catholic returns a pair of bruising backs in First Team Section Three All-Star Roman Clay (171 carries, 1,544 yards, 20 touchdowns) and Second Team selection Brandon Hollister (126-1,015, 21 TDs), as well as Mark Royer (26-118) and fullback Carmelo Cruz (13-76).

The Crusaders are nine-deep at receiver, and depth carries over up front, led by Section Three Lineman of the Year Adam DePietro (6-5, 285).

Joining DePietro are Aaron Oyler (6-2, 235), Anthony Juliano (6-2, 250) and Luke McDonald (6-2, 235). The center position is an unknown coming into camp. Don’t expect that situation to last for long.

Also in the air for now is who will open the season at quarterback. Senior Sean Gibbons is battling fellow senior Andrew Dzurik, a transfer from Hempfield, and junior Mac McCafferty for the keys to the offense.

Gibbons has been waiting for his moment since a start in injury relief of Kyle Smith as a sophomore.

He broke camp as the No. 1 last year, but was dis-

Looking to finish strong

BRUCE HARBACHLancaster Catholic

Crusaders


Brandon Hollister returns for the Crusaders after rushing for over 1,000 yards last season.

Marty Heisey / Staff photos

Please see STRONG, page 37


Section One

League Overall

Team W L PF PA W L PF PAa-Wilson 7 0 294 43 11 1 462 138McCaskey 5 2 159 142 7 4 271 188Warwick 4 3 181 163 6 5 252 246Manheim Twp. 4 3 236 190 5 5 312 280Penn Manor 4 3 155 132 5 6 231 299Hempfield 3 4 127 171 3 7 127 272Cedar Crest 1 6 159 300 1 9 205 422Ephrata 0 7 132 258 2 8 152 331

Section Two

League Overall

Team W L PF PA W L PF PAa-Lamp.-Stras. 6 1 239 124 11 2 425 211Man. Central 5 2 242 124 8 4 416 218Conestoga Valley 5 2 163 119 5 6 215 221Cocalico 4 3 201 194 8 6 372 339Garden Spot 3 4 127 140 4 6 184 207Solanco 2 5 111 215 4 6 176 256Elizabethtown 2 5 104 184 2 8 151 254Lebanon 1 6 163 228 4 6 275 274

Section Three

League Overall

Team W L PF PA W L PF PAa-Lanc. Cath. 6 0 280 59 11 1 479 115N. Lebanon 4 2 152 160 4 6 230 332Elco 3 3 146 147 3 7 210 260Ann.-Cleona 3 3 124 176 4 6 237 289Columbia 3 3 161 143 4 7 307 324Donegal 2 4 144 163 3 7 201 296Pequea Valley 0 6 92 261 2 8 263 403 a-section champion

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placed by John Roda. Harbach says Gibbons is, “Hungry. He under-stands what’s going on.”

Coming to the program this spring, Dzurik is, “finally feeling ac-climated to our system,” according to Harbach.

McCafferty has carried the ex-pectation of being the heir apparent for two years and has the greatest upside of the three.

“We might not know (the starter) until a day or two before the first game,” says Harbach.

“It’s going to come down to who makes the least mistakes. Whoever steps up, that’s the man who wins the job. If he keeps making mistakes, we’ll go to the next guy.”

If center and quarterback are un-settled, the Crusader defense is very settled.

Returning to a team that allowed 9½ points per game, Catholic is led by a pair of First-Team Section Three All-Stars: linebacker Brandon Hollister and free safety Sean Titus.

Titus hawked six interceptions as a sophomore; Hollister led the team in tackles as a junior with 81.

The Crusaders are deep, very deep, at ’backer and in the defen-sive backfield. Getting the two-pla-toon off the ground may effect the productivity of the defensive line, as personnel are sorted out and plugged in.

“We may struggle a little bit ear-ly on,” offers Harbach. “But who

knows? We haven’t shown any signs of it yet.

“The seniors have won a state championship, they’re hungry for another. They want to make a lot of noise in the section, districts and in states, hopefully.”

Continued from 36

The Crusaders have several players to choose from when running the ball and Roman Clay is always a good choice.

Marty Heisey / Staff

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SENIORS Pos. Ht. Wt.Michael Robinson QB/DB 5-8 170Shawn Bhatti DB 6-0 175JJ Wann LB 6-0 170Johnnie Martin HB/DB 5-10 175Hosea Summerville OLB 5-10 165Carson Cox HB/LB 5-7 160Eddie Lazowski FB/LB 6-0 190Ryan Porta C/DE 5-11 230Evan Ross G/DE 5-7 165Lucas Meador T/T 6-0 245Caleb Pardun G/LB 6-0 230Alex Eichelberger TE/DE 6-0 200Ryan Sensenich DB 6-0 165Nick Nunemaker TE/DE 6-0 170

JUNIORS Pos. Ht. Wt.Matt Foltz QB/DB 6-3 180Joey Jaskot DB 6-2 180Dalton Garrett DB 5-10 175Dylan Maxwell HB/OLB 6-2 170Norman Whitfield TE/DE 6-3 180Devon Smith FB/DB 5-10 160Jimmy Bogel FB/LB 5-7 160David Tolbert TE/LB 5-8 165Matt Ferruzza G/DE 6-0 220Mike Houseal OG/LB 6-2 185Tim Vega G/T 5-10 235Tyler Briel T/DE 6-0 160Zach Jacob T/T 5-10 180Henry Chicas T/T 6-0 260

Evan Rineer T/T 6-0 220Kyle Bohan C/T 6-0 230Derek Breneman C/T 6-7 300Chris Robinson OLB 5-8 145Mason Fox DB 5-6 120SOPHOMORES Pos. Ht. Wt.Justin Amspacher QB/LB 5-10 155Zach Trigg HB/LB 5-5 170Kris Trimby FB/LB 6-0 170Jarrod Smith HB/LB 5-7 180Jaquan Brown HB/DB 5-6 170Zach Porta DB 5-8 140Devan Martin HB/DB 5-10 170Elijah Schlaybach TE/DE 6-1 185Tommy Walker DB 5-5 145Derek Frantz OT/DT 5-9 225Logan Beard OT/DT 6-0 165Colin Mast G/LB 5-11 160Ricky Estep G/LB 5-8 185Ethan Longenecker T/T 5-5 270Nate Smith T/T 5-10 230Josh Albert G/DE 6-0 175Tyler Moyer TE/LB 5-10 165Andrew Beck DB 5-8 130Luke Rogers G/DE 5-8 185Mike Waltz TE/DE 6-0 170Daina Stanley DB 5-5 130Kevin Retallack DB 5-9 160Elijah Eisenhart DB 5-7 150

Head coach: Jeff Polites (3rd season, 5-15)Lancaster-Lebanon League Section: 32010 section: 2-42010 overall: 3-7PIAA Class: Triple-A

Base offense: Wing-TBase defense: 4-4

SCOUTING REPORTKey players returning: HB-DB Johnnie Martin, FB-LB Eddie Lazowski, G-LB Caleb Par-dun, OT-DT Lucas Meador, G-LB Mike Houseal, TE-DE Alex Eichelberger, QB-DB Mike Robinson.Key players lost: DT Eric Boyer, HB-FS Drake Brumfield, OT David Winegarden.

2011 ROSTER

2011 SCHEDULE 2010 RESULTSSept. 2 @ Daniel Boone, 7 p.m.Sept. 9 FLEETWOOD, 7 p.m.Sept. 16 CONRAD WEISER, 7 p.m.Sept. 23 LANC. CATHOLIC, 7 p.m.Sept. 30 @ Pequea Valley, 7 p.m.Oct. 7 @ Annville-Cleona, 7 p.m.Oct. 14 TRINITY, 7 p.m.Oct. 21 NORTHERN LEBANON, 7 p.m.Oct. 28 @ Elco, 7 p.m.Nov. 4 @ Columbia, 7 p.m.

OUTLOOKThe ingredients are there for the Indians to make a marked im-

provement from last season in the wins and losses department. There is a strong nucleus of returnees along the line and plenty of skill posi-tion players return with experience. The team’s attention to defensive detail should also contribute to the Indians’ success.

Martin Lazowski

DONEGAL

INDIANS

Robinson

DANIEL BOONE L, 46- 13@ Fleetwood W, 21-13@ Conrad Weiser L, 34-7@ Lancaster Catholic L, 42-7PEQUEA VALLEY W, 49-16ANNVILLE-CLEONA W, 20-13@ Trinity L, 40-6@ Northern Lebanon L, 31-28ELCO L, 14-13COLUMBIA L, 47-27


After a 2-8 season in 2009, you’ve got to figure that Donegal’s football team wasn’t feeling too bad when it opened the 2010 slate by going 3-3 in its first six games.

The positive vibe ended there, however, when the In-dians failed to win another game.

Particularly galling amid the four-game losing streak was a 31-28 loss to Northern Lebanon in which the Indi-ans had a 14-0 lead and another lead in the fourth quar-ter, and a 14-13 loss to Elco.

The Elco loss, suffered at home, stung because the Indians:

a) Gave up a fake field goal for a touchdown;b) Failed to convert from the Elco 10 in the first half;c) Failed to convert from the Elco 1 in the third quar-

ter;d) Had an extra-point blocked that would have tied

the game with under two minutes to play.So, with a number of solid skill positions and line

starters returning, the Donegal theme for this season is this: Be ready at the opening kickoff and finish the job.

“The Elco game was one of those games where we didn’t feel comfort-able until the sec-ond or third quar-ter,’’ said Donegal coach Jeff Polites. “Elco had scored twice and we were never able to recover. It goes back to the little things, the fundamental things that we didn’t do well that game.’’

Indians quarterback Mike Robinson said the team can learn from last season’s misgivings.

“We shouldn’t, as a team, put ourselves in that posi-tion (to lose at the end),’’ he said. “There were times in that (Elco) game where we could have pulled ahead and won. That’s where I’m hoping it will be different this year. This year, we can’t get complacent with a lead. We have to want to take it to every team by as much as pos-sible.’’

On paper, at least, the Indians appear to have the horses to do just that.

Robinson, who got his first start in the fourth game last season and went on to throw for 948 yards and 10 TDs on 66-for-120 passing, will have halfback Johnnie Martin (86-730, seven TDs) and fullback Eddie Lazows-ki (105-584, three TDs) to carry the ball.

Martin could very well be one of Robinson’s favor-ite throwing targets again this season. Martin caught 21 balls for five TDs last season. Shawn Bhatti (eight catches, 104 yards) also returns at wide receiver.

“Being able to throw in the Wing-T offense is a nice luxury for us,’’ Polites said. “We’re not going to be the traditional run-the-ball offense. We can spread the Wing-T and that allows you to play with your strengths.’’

Returning L-L League all-star Caleb Pardun will an-chor the Indians’ offensive line that features the expe-rienced Lucas Meador at tackle and Alex Eichelberger at tight end.

“Being able to trust your line, that they are going to be able to block for you, there’s no feeling like that,’’ Robinson said.

The Indians would multiply their good feelings if they could rectify another one of last season’s bugaboos, that is, giving up too many points.

Donegal moved up to second in Section Three in the number of yards yielded per game, an indication that its defense had made strides. But it gave up nearly 30 points per game.

As with their offense, the Indians are counting on ex-perience to be better defensively.

“It’s guys in the right place, knowing what they have to do because we went through it last year,’’ said Martin, who is a cornerback on defense.

Linebacker Mike Houseal, a Second-Team All-Star who led the team with 95 tackles a year ago, returns as does Pardun (honorable mention at defensive end), Eichelberger and Lazowski. Lucas Meador (three sacks) is back at tackle.

“This year, I think we’ll be solid fundamentally at ev-ery position to hopefully take care of some of the big plays we gave up,’’ Polites said. “We gave up big third downs and that’s what kills a defense.’’

Holding leads and preventing opponents’ big plays. Sounds like a recipe for success. And there is no better teacher than experience.

“Whenever we’re in big-time situations, there won’t be any fear, we’ll know what to do,’’ Martin said.

For that, the Indians will have a couple of reference points: Northern Lebanon and Elco last season. It’s a time to remember and one to forget.

Learning from the past

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Johnnie Martin, above, returns to the Indians af-ter rushing for 730 yards last season. Donegal will benefit from the experience of quarterback Mike Robinson, right.


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MIKE BURKE IVCOLUMBIAPosition: WR/OLBClass: SeniorHt. 6-3 Wt. 195NOTABLE: Led L-L receivers with 1,027 yards and 15 TDs on 66 catches. Named Section Three Wide Receiver of the Year.QUOTABLE: Columbia coach Mike Burke III: “He’s got big-play capabil-ity. Big, strong and explosive. ... He committed to our offseason workout program with our strength and conditioning coach before last season and worked out like a mad man. He could always catch so he worked on his strength, speed, conditioning and route running.”

SEAN TITUSLANCASTER CATHOLICPosition: WR/FSClass: JuniorHt. 6-2 Wt. 170NOTABLE: Fronted Section Three ball-hawkers with six in-terceptions and was named All-Section First Team.

QUOTABLE: Lancaster Catholic coach Bruce Harbach: “Outstanding free safety and wide receiver. Good speed, good size and a smart football player.”

ROMAN CLAYLANCASTER CATHOLICPosition: RB/LBClass: JuniorHt. 5-11 Wt. 205NOTABLE: Power runner who pounded out 1,243 yards and 17 TDs last season. Led L-L runners with an 11.0 yards per carry average and was named First Team All-Section.

QUOTABLE: Lancaster Catholic coach Bruce Har-bach: “Tough, physical running back. Good speed and sees the field very well.”

SETH LEFEVERCOLUMBIAPosition: WR/OLBClass: SeniorHt. 6-2 Wt. 191NOTABLE: Earned All-Section First Team honors at tight end after hauling in 27 catches for 338 yards and 4 TDs.

QUOTABLE: Columbia coach Michael Burke III: “In my mind, one of the top tight ends. This year, he’ll be our H-back, but he’s capable of doing everything - running back, receiver, quarterback. We’ll be moving him around. On defense, he’s one of the top linebackers in the league. He has a nose for the football, he has the instincts.”

FREDDIE HESSANNVILLE-CLEONAPosition: RB/LBClass: SeniorHt. 6-2 Wt. 215NOTABLE: His five intercep-tions helped him gain Section Three First-Team honors on defense to go with his Honorable Mention at running back .

QUOTABLE: Annville-Cleona coach Terry Lehman: “Freddie is one of the most coachable, hard-work-ing players I have coached in my 25 years as head coach. He is the old fashioned-type football player who loves hitting, mud and sweat. ”

ADAM DePIETROLANCASTER CATHOLICPosition: OL/DLClass: SeniorHt. 6-5 Wt. 285NOTABLE: Section Three’s Lineman of the Year and an All-State performer. Helped front a defense that was tops in Section Three.

QUOTABLE: Lancaster Catholic coach Bruce Harbach: “Outstanding lineman, he’s keeping up our tradition at Catholic. Good feet, good hands, moves very well. That’s what got him a (D-I) scholarship.”

BRANDON HOLLISTERLANCASTER CATHOLICPosition: RB/LBClass: SeniorHt. 6-0 Wt. 200NOTABLE: Rushed for 750 yards and 16 TDs and teamed with Roman Clay in a punishing backfield. Named All-Section First Team on defense.QUOTABLE: Lancaster Catholic coach Bruce Harbach: “Another outstanding running back and linebacker. Great speed, physical runner. He and Roman complement each other very well. Smart and a real fierce hitter on defense. ”

CALEB PARDUNDONEGALPosition: G/LBClass: SeniorHt. 6-0 Wt. 230NOTABLE: Named First-Team offense and Honor-able Mention on defense.

QUOTABLE: Donegal coach Jeff Polites: “Caleb is our toughest player, on both sides of the ball. He’s a kid who practices hard and that’s the kid we want to use as an example to the young kids, learn to do things right and on time. He can be a guard or a center; he’s our utility guy.”

DYLAN HICKERNELLELCOPosition: RB/LBClass: SeniorHt. 5-10 Wt. 185NOTABLE: A Section Three First Team All-Star on offense and defense last season, Hickernell led the Raiders in rushing (107-659, 6.2, 6 TDs) and ranked second on the team in tackles (112).

QUOTABLE: Elco coach Mark Evans: “Dylan’s a three-year starter on both sides of the ball. He brings a solid work ethic to our program. He’s a solid role model, a hard-working, no-nonsense type of kid.”

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Kristofer Evans OL/DL 6-3 297

Benjamin Hank OL/DE 6-1 190

Tyler Harrison QB/S 5-10 173

Seth Lefever WR/OLB 6-2 191

Dion Matthews OL/LB 5-9 190

Victor Rivera WR/OLB 5-11 177

John Bosley OL/DL 6-1 216

Nathan Warner FB/LB 5-10 200

Jordon Halter WR/DB 5-10 155

JUNIORS Pos. Ht. Wt.

Andrew Combs RB/DB 5-5 162

Bryan Flory TE/OLB 5-10 175

Alec Hooper WR/DB 5-9 130

Will Kreiser WR/OLB 6-3 191

Quincy Mancotywa OL/DL 5-10 237

Christopher Murray WR/DB 5-11 158

Nicholas Nobile WR/DB 5-8 145

Trevor Powers OL/DL 5-8 185

Nick Williams WR/S 6-0 140


Vanyel Leytham-Peterson OL/DL 6-1 210

Andre Munoz-Medina OL/DL 5-11 230

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Dashawn McIlwain RB/DB 5-8 150

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Head coach: Mike Burke III (2nd season, 4-6)Lancaster-Lebanon League Section: 32010 section: 3-32010 overall: 4-6PIAA Class: Single-A

Base offense: PistolBase defense: 4-3

SCOUTING REPORT

Key players returning: WR-OLB Mike Burke IV, OL-DE Benjamin Hank, QB-S Tyler Harrison, WR-OLB Seth Lefever, TE-OLB Bryan Flory, WR-DB Nick Nobile.Key players lost: FB-OLB Johnny Vazquez, FB-DE Dominic Trout, OG-ILB Marcus Fischer,OL-LB Cain Warfel, OL-LB Byron Germer, WR-DB John Markley.

2011 ROSTER

2011 SCHEDULE 2010 RESULTSSept. 2 @ Eastern York, 7 p.m.Sept. 9 NORTHEASTERN, 7 p.m.Sept. 16 @ Daniel Boone, 7 p.m.Sept. 23 BOILING SPRINGS, 7 p.m.Sept. 30 @ ELCO, 7 p.m.Oct. 7 NORTHERN LEBANON, 7 p.m.Oct. 14 ANNVILLE-CLEONA, 7 p.m.Oct. 21 @ Lanc. Catholic, 7 p.m.Oct. 28 @ Pequea Valley, 7 p.m.Nov. 4 DONEGAL, 7 p.m.

OUTLOOK

Harrison Burke IV

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Hank

EASTERN YORK W, 43- 24@ Northeastern L, 32-26DANIEL BOONE L, 49-25@ Boiling Springs L, 35-20ELCO W, 26-6@ Northern Lebanon L, 20-15@ Annville-Cleona L, 21-13LANCASTER CATHOLIC L, 56-20PEQUEA VALLEY W, 48-13@ Donegal L, 47-27@ Steelton-Highspire L, 41-32

TOM ARNOLDSports Correspondent

Even though Mike Burke III is in his second year as head coach at Columbia, it’s almost like he’s been there for over 20 years. In fact, he has.

Burke’s father, Mike II, was head coach at Columbia for 20 years and Mike III played for his dad while in high school and now the next gen-eration, Mike IV, a starting wide receiver and outside linebacker for the 2011 version of the Crimson Tide, is one of the key returning players.

Burke II is now an assistant for his son and it has been interesting for the two Burkes to survive.

“We butted heads a few times last year,” laughed Burke III. “He coached for 20 years here and he had his ways of doing things and now I come in and do things my way. It was interesting, but in the end, it worked out very well.”

In the 2010 season, Burke III guided the Tide to the District Three Class A playoffs only to fall to a tough Steel-High squad, finish-ing the season 4-7 overall.

“With the talent we have coming back and the experience (of those players), I expect to do better this season,” explained the next genera-tion head coach.

Injuries always play a role and for Burke III and the rest of the re-turning coaching staff. This season will be no different.

“Last year, we would get out to a good start, but then not play all four quarters, which I took as a direct reflection on me as a coach,” said Burke III. “This year, we’ve done things different-ly in practice so hopefully that will not be the case.”

Even though their numbers will be down this season, Burke III feels the Tide will compete.

“Some of the kids have jobs, and we lost a few to discipline and then a few more transferred to different schools,’’ he said. “So, our numbers are going to be down. Overall, we lost six players (who we thought

would be back).’’The core that Burke III has will

have experience.Burke IV, an All-State selection

last season, and Seth Lefever return after being named to the L-L League Coaches All-Star team last season.

Also coming back for the Tide will be quarter-

back Tyler Harrison and wide re-ceiver Nicholas Nobile, who Burke III is counting on for big things.

“We are going to be strong at QB with Harrison, who threw for over 2,000 yards last season, and the trio of wide receivers (Burke IV, Nobile and Lefever) will give us a lot of ex-

perience at the wide receiver posi-tion,” he said.

Columbia will be tested from the start as it opens against rival Eastern, an AAA team. Then they square off against another AAA team in Northeastern followed by a AAAA team in Daniel Boone.

“We’ll be tested early, but with our talent and experience and if we stay healthy, we should be fine,” said Burke III. “This group of seniors went undefeated in junior high so they know how to play together.”

The Tide use a Pistol type of-fense, which has the running backs lined up directly behind the quar-terback and a 4-3 defense, which Burke III feels will be a strong suit for the Tide.

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Sometimes, football is about more than just a game.The following two items prove that.Aevidum awareness: Cocalico’s football team will

wear two decals on the back of their helmets this season — one remembering Manheim Central’s fallen players and the other bearing the word “Aevidum.”

The word was created in 2003 by Cocalico High School students following a fellow student’s suicide.

According to the website Aevidum.com, the word was created from the Latin root “vid” (meaning “life”). Aevidum is used as an expression of reassurance, mean-ing “I’ve got your back.”

The Aevidum Club at Cocalico is a branch of the Stu-dents Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) Club at Cocalico High. Both are dedicated to raising

awareness of depression and suicide. The latter is the third-leading cause of death among young people.

Cocalico High English teacher Joe Vulopas serves as the advisor to the Aevidum Club while math teacher and head football coach Dave Gingrich is an assistant advisor.

“What started out as a couple of kids trying to spread the word that depression is an illness now has over 100 kids in the group,” Gingrich said. “We wanted to spread the word through athletics. We want kids to know we’re looking after them and they’re looking after one another.”

Since its inception, the Aevidum Club has earned nu-merous honors, including SADD’s National Activity of the Year Award in 2009, which was selected from more than 10,000 schools, and Pennsylvania’s Activity of the Year Award at the state’s SADD conference. Aevidum has also been recognized by the Pennsylvania State Leg-islator and mental health experts across the country.

According to Aevidum.org, these student-based clubs are working to raise awareness of the warning signs of suicide so that teachers and students can recognize those dealing with depression.

“With that,” the website states, “lives will be saved because everyone will realize ... it is OK to seek help.”

The group is working to get the word “aevidum” in-

cluded in dictionaries.Camaraderie amid competition: Competing for a

starting job can build camaraderie between teammates.Or drive them apart.As Lebanon prepares for its biggest game of the year

— the annual Cedar Bowl against county rival Cedar Crest — the Cedars are experiencing the former.

A bit of background:A year ago at this time, Lebanon QB Alex Trautman

lit up the night sky — and the Crest defense — by con-necting on 20 of 29 passes for 239 yards and two touch-downs without an interception.

He was the trigger man in a 35-7 win in the celebrat-ed Cedar Bowl, one of the longest-running backyard brawls in District Three.

This year, Trautman may miss the opener against the Falcons due to a left ankle sprain. Cedars boss Gerry Yonchiuk isn’t ruling out the option that Trautman may be filling the air with footballs come Friday night, but he’s hedging his bets.

“We’re taking it one day at a time,” he said.Enter Mark Pyles. The sophomore is the heir appar-

ent to run Lebanon’s vaunted “Air Raid” offense, and Yonchiuk likes what he sees in his young gun.

“He’s athletic, he throws on the run and he can run the ball,” he said. “We can move the pocket a little bit.”

Trautman, by contrast, is a pure passer, a guy whom Yonchiuk credits with having “great pocket awareness.”

The differences has Yonchiuk looking at ways his two QBs can share time in the starting lineup.

When Trautman starts, Pyles is versatile enough to play running back or receiver. When Pyles starts, Yon-chiuk said Trautman will be rested in order to see time at linebacker, a position he hasn’t started at since his freshman season.

The best news to come from all of this as far as Yon-chiuk is concerned is the camaraderie that exists be-tween the two competitors.

“I feel very good about that,” he said. “(Trautman and Pyles) have a great rapport, a great understanding.”

Where rivalry might have existed there is rapport, and a competition that could have torn the team apart has instead brought it closer.

(Staff writer Dustin Leed contributed to this story).

Spreading the word through footballClub at Cocalico seeks to raise awareness about depression, suicide

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SENIORS Pos. Ht. Wt.Mitch Ball FB/LB 6-0 190Jordan Crause OL/DL 6-1 255Nathan Girvin OL/DL 6-0 205Drew Jackson RB/DB 5-7 150Brooke Lacock K 5-7 125Trevor Kritzberger OL/DL 5-8 165Jhenson Lapp OL/DL 6-0 240Dakota Patrone WR/DB 5-11 175Jin Pethsarath OL/DL 6-0 230Jon Ross TE/LB 6-1 215Caesar Santiago RB/LB 6-0 180Evan Scheuer TE/LB 6-1 180Chris Schmid RB/LB 5-6 160Tyler Schmitt WR/DB 6-4 195Chad Tyson QB/LB 5-11 175JUNIORS Pos. Ht. Wt.Wes Brown OL/DL 6-2 210Tyler Erickson WR/DB 5-8 150Josh Farrell WR/DB 5-9 160Paul Lewis FB/LB 5-7 180

Andrew MacIntyre OL/DL 6-6 235

Zachory Mann FB/LB 5-11 175

Brian Thomas RB/LB 5-9 175

Colby Zander WR/DB 5-10 160


Keith Beiler FB/LB 5-10 200

Dillon Galvin FB/LB 5-9 170

Zachory Fox RB/LB 5-7 150

Tyler Hershey WR/DB 5-10 160

Rashaun Leed WR/DB 6-0 165

Brian Peterson QB/DB 5-6 160

Brandon Reifsnyder WR/DB5-7 120

Brett Reifsnyder OL/DL 6-2 230

Nick Roop WR/DB 5-11 165

Carlos Rodriguez OL/DL 6-3 180

Mark Shaubach WR/DB 5-9 120

Tanner Schmitt QB/DB 5-10 160

Christian Stoltzfus RB/LB 5-6 150

Ben Tejaro OL/DL 6-0 230

Shane Zook WR/DB 5-9 160

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Head coach: Evan Breisblatt (1st season)Lancaster-Lebanon League Section: 32010 section: 0-62010 overall: 2-8PIAA Class: AA

Base offense: MultipleBase defense: Odd

SCOUTING REPORT

Key players returning: QB-LB Chad Tyson, RB-LB Chris Schmid, WR-DB Tyler Schmitt, TE-LB Evan Scheuer, OL-DL Jordan Crause, OL-DL Jhenson Lapp, OL-DL Jin Peth-sarath. Key players lost: QB Ben Myers.

2011 ROSTER

2011 SCHEDULE 2010 RESULTSSept. 3 @ York Tech, 1 p.m.Sept. 9 @ Kutztown, 7 p.m.Sept. 16 OCTORARA, 7 p.m.Sept. 23 @ Annville-Cleona, 7 p.m.Sept. 30 DONEGAL, 7 p.m.Oct. 7 @ Lanc. Catholic, 7 p.m.Oct. 14 ELCO, 7 p.m.Oct. 21 PINE GROVE, 7 p.m.Oct. 28 COLUMBIA, 7 p.m.Nov. 4 N. LEBANON, 7 p.m.

OUTLOOK

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BRAVES

Schmid

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While construction continues on a 4,000-square-foot fitness center adjacent to Pequea Valley High School, there is building of another sort happening on the football field.

Seeking to elevate the Braves from the basement in Section Three this season will be new coach Evan Breisblatt, who arrives in Kinzers with a mentality culled from his time as defensive coordinator at Class AAAA Coatesville.

Breisblatt is new to the Braves but he’s not, too. He coached Pequea’s defense in 1999, the pro-gram’s second season.

Asked about the challenge in front of him — Pequea was 0-6 in the section and 2-8 overall last sea-

son — Breisblatt was brutally hon-est.

“I don’t know,’’ he said, refrain-ing from the blowing of smoke.

“But,’’ he added, “we’ve been working pretty hard, doing the right things. We’re excited.’’

Being at Coatesville on and off for the past eight seasons has pro-vided Breisblatt with a foundation of discipline and enthusiasm, which he hopes to cement at Pequea Val-ley.

Building better BravesPequea Valley’s Tyler Schmitt, right, being defend-ed by teammate Dakota Patrone, looks to reprise

last season’s effort, which saw him catch a league-best 75 passes.

Please see PEQUEA VALLEY, page 43

New coach Evan Breisblatt has talent in the skill positions and some heft up front with which to raise the Braves’ fortunes. Combine the talent and Breisblatt’s attitude and Pequea could be out of the cellar by November.

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Following is Lancaster Newspapers’ final 2010 statisti-cal report after 10 weeks for Lancaster-Lebanon League football teams. It is compiled by the sports staff with sta-tistics provided by the schools. Players are ranked ac-cording to yardage for rushers, total receptions and the NFL rating system for quarterbacks.

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING

Section One G Att. Yds. Avg. TDDeron Thompson, War................10 304 2,017 6.6 25Rodney Gillin, Wilson...................10 151 1,581 10.5 24Markeith Williams, McC ..............10 203 1,154 5.6 12Dustin McFarland, CC ..................10 133 815 6.1 6Scott Sallade, Man. Twp. .............. 9 116 553 4.8 5Brad Ohlinger, Wilson.................... 8 69 527 7.6 6Garrett Young, PM ........................... 9 76 522 6.9 3Joe Gamble, Hempfield ............... 8 98 494 5.0 4Julian Alecia, Hempfield ............10 126 492 3.9 5Kevin Coleman, MT ........................ 9 79 442 5.6 10Brady Souders, Man. Twp. ........... 9 51 393 7.7 5

Section Two G Att. Yds. Avg. TDAustin Hartman, Cocalico ........... 8 164 1,289 7.9 20Joe Welk, Solanco .........................10 125 931 7.5 9Adam Haas, Garden Spot ..........10 155 844 5.5 6Derek Burkholder, CV .................... 7 151 831 5.5 7Chase Moyer, Man. Cent. ...........10 83 525 6.3 9Michael Smith, Man. Cent. ........10 94 509 5.4 11John Armbrust, GS .......................10 115 473 4.1 5Alex Dienner, CV ............................10 140 444 3.2 10Matt McCrudden, L-S ..................10 92 435 4.7 5Spencer Moser, Cocalico ............. 8 81 434 5.4 5Alex Trautman, Lebanon ...........10 88 433 4.9 7Dustin McVey, Solanco ................. 7 93 421 4.5 6

Section Three G Att. Yds. Avg. TDRickey Snyder, AC ..........................10 267 1,726 6.5 13Roman Clay, Lanc. Cath. ............... 9 138 1,243 11.0 17Chris Schmid, PV ............................10 206 1,162 5.6 8Tanner Dresch, N. Leb. ................10 154 815 5.3 10Colton Ryan, N. Lebanon ...........10 137 803 5.9 5Brandon Hollister, LC ...................10 100 750 7.5 16Johnnie Martin, Donegal ..........10 86 730 8.5 7Dylan Hickernell, Elco .................10 107 659 6.2 6Eddie Lazowski, Donegal ..........10 105 584 5.6 3Ryan Daub, N. Lebanon .............10 67 557 8.3 6

PASSINGSection One

G Com Att I Yds TD Rtg.Garrett Levengood, CC ........10 93 183 8 1,768 16 95.6Brennan Scott, MT .................10 132 233 5 1,848 14 93.4Zack Hurst, Warwick .............10 38 79 2 659 4 83.3Zach Zweizig, Wilson ...............6 45 89 4 673 7 83.2Jonathan Hulyo, McC ...........10 73 149 10 1,054 11 69.0Jeremy Franck, Eph. ..............10 57 117 8 826 7 63.6

Adam Sahd, PM.......................10 71 157 12 1,111 8 54.4Section Two

G Com Att I Yds TD Rtg.Chase Moyer, MC....................10 97 172 2 1,607 17 116.1Spencer Moser, Coc..................8 20 37 0 336 3 112.0Nate Shank, L-S........................10 62 101 5 1,121 8 105.3Alex Dienner, CV .....................10 58 120 5 961 8 80.6Alex Trautman, Leb. ...............10 180 345 13 2,389 18 76.1Andy Breault, E-town ...........10 92 189 5 1,328 7 73.2John Armbrust, GS ................10 86 186 6 1,066 11 70.8Ralph Brown, Solanco ..........10 64 151 10 677 2 32.9

Section Three G Com. Att. I. Yds TD Rtg.John Roda, Lanc. Cath. .......10 93 141 5 1,557 21 127.9Tyler Harrison, Col. ................10 139 217 6 1,991 21 114.4Ben Myers, PV .........................10 195 309 11 2,175 21 91.8Tanner Dresch, NL .................10 51 111 6 947 10 83.4Tyson Hayes, AC .....................10 75 154 5 804 12 76.9Mike Robinson, Don. ...........10 68 124 9 956 10 76.5Tyler George, Elco .................10 118 220 9 1,254 10 68.6

RECEIVINGSection One

G Rec. Yds Avg. TDQuint Miller, Man. Twp. .................. 10 56 850 15.2 9Lucardy Jean-Francois, CC ........... 10 45 1,013 22.5 10Brady Souders, Man. Twp. ............ 10 29 433 14.9 2Daulton Parmer, PM ........................ 10 27 355 13.1 2Julian Carabello, Wilson ...................9 24 496 20.7 8Diante Cherry, McCaskey ............. 10 23 379 16.4 3Jacob Morgan, Wilson ................... 10 23 277 12.0 4Taylor Steinbauer, CC ..................... 10 22 333 15.1 3Zach Sandoe, Ephrata .................... 10 17 254 14.9 3Aaron Swinton, McCaskey ........... 10 17 224 13.1 1

Section Two G Rec. Yds. Avg TDWill Brown, Lebanon ...................... 10 50 696 13.9 6Tyler Antal, Lebanon ....................... 10 43 593 13.8 2Ryan Brown, E-town ....................... 10 32 651 20.3 4Derrick Schwenk, Lebanon ......... 10 28 439 15.7 3Derek Hart, Man. Cent. .................. 10 28 593 21.2 8Brandon Artman, MC ..................... 10 28 372 13.3 5Diaire Brison, CV ............................... 10 26 501 19.3 5Nick Martin, GS .................................. 10 25 328 13.1 3Ron Hunter, Lebanon ..................... 10 22 193 8.8 0Tyler Stitz, Solanco ........................... 10 22 362 16.5 2Chris Brown, CV....................................8 21 333 15.9 4

Section Three G Rec. Yds. Avg. TDTyler Schmitt, Peq. Valley .............. 10 75 874 11.7 12Mike Burke IV, Columbia ............... 10 66 1,027 15.6 15Eric Ondo, Elco ................................... 10 61 710 11.6 7Chad Tyson, Peq. Valley ....................9 59 782 13.3 6Josh Henning, AC ............................. 10 43 569 13.2 9Seth Lefever, Columbia ................. 10 27 338 12.5 4

Nicholas Nobile, Columbia .......... 10 24 245 10.2 0Chris Schmid, Peq. Valley .............. 10 24 153 6.4 1Brandon Dunbar, Peq. Vall. .............9 23 221 9.6 1Greg Kirchner, Lanc. Cath. ............ 10 22 492 20.1 7Taylor Nauman, Donegal ............. 10 22 252 11.5 3

SCORINGSection One

G TD FG XP TDeron Thompson, Warwick. .........10 25 0 0 150Rodney Gillin, Wilson........................10 25 0 0 150Quint Miller, MT ...................................10 12 0 2 74Markeith Williams, McC. ..................10 10 0 0 60Kevin Coleman, MT ..............................9 10 0 0 60Owen Jones, Wilson ..........................10 0 2 42 48Brad Ohlinger, Wilson..........................8 7 0 0 42Brady Souders, MT ................................9 7 0 0 42Jeremy Franck, Ephrata ...................10 7 0 0 42

Section Two G TD FG XP TAustin Hartman, Cocalico .................8 20 0 0 120Jordan Groff, Lamp.-Stras. ..............10 12 0 0 72Michael Smith, MC ............................10 12 0 0 72Joe Welk, Solanco ..............................10 12 0 0 72Chris Garraffa, L-S ...............................10 0 3 45 54Ron Hunter, Lebanon .......................10 9 0 0 54Chase Moyer, Man. Central ............10 9 0 0 54Derek Hart, Man. Central ................10 8 0 2 50Brandon Artman, Man. Cent. .......10 7 0 2 44Alex Trautman, Lebanon ................10 7 0 2 44

Section Three G TD FG XP TMike Burke IV, Columbia .................10 18 0 4 112Roman Clay, Lanc. Catholic ..............9 17 0 8 110Brandon Hollister, LC ........................10 16 0 2 100Rickey Snyder, A-C .............................10 13 0 0 78Tyler Schmitt, Peq.Vall. .....................10 12 0 5 77Johnnie Martin, Donegal ...............10 12 0 4 76Josh Henning, AC ...............................10 8 0 6 54Eric Ondo, Elco .....................................10 9 0 0 54Tyler George, Elco ..............................10 7 0 0 42Greg Kirchner, Lanc. Cath. ..............10 7 0 0 42

DEFENSIVE STATISTICSTACKLES

Section One G TotalBryan McCall, Warwick ............................................... 10 118Ande Olson, Penn Manor .......................................... 10 109K.J. Pederson, Hempfield .......................................... 10 106Will Hollis, Hempfield .................................................. 10 102Deron Thompson, Warwick ..................................... 10 94

Section Two G TotalDillion Schaffner, Elizabethtown ........................... 10 106

Andrew Kauffman, Manheim Central ................. 10 104Phil Dobinson, Solanco .............................................. 10 95Jeff Pickel, Lampeter-Strasburg ............................. 10 93 Alex Beamesderfer, Manheim Central ................ 10 86

Section Three G TotalBen Moyer, Elco .............................................................. 10 129Dylan Hickernell, Elco ................................................. 10 112Josh Henning, Annville-Cleona.............................. 10 105Mike Houseal, Donegal .............................................. 10 95Drake Brumfield, Donegal ........................................ 10 86

SACKSSection One

G TotalT-Jay Fry, McCaskey ........................................................10 10.0Bryan McCall, Warwick .................................................10 8.5TJ Ford, McCaskey ...........................................................10 7.0Alex Quinn, Penn Manor ................................................8 6.5Jordan Brown, Hempfield ...........................................10 5.0

Section Two G TotalChristian DelRocini, Lamp.-Strasburg ...................10 10.0Alex Cintron, Lampeter-Strasburg ..........................10 9.0Ethan Martin, Lampeter-Strasburg ........................10 8.0Anthony Huber, Garden Spot ...................................10 7.5Jon Henry, Garden Spot ...............................................10 6.0

Section Three G TotalDominic Trout, Columbia ............................................10 7.0Freddie Hess, Annville-Cleona ..................................10 5.0Michael Burke IV, Columbia .......................................10 4.0Caleb Pardun, Donegal ................................................10 4.0Eric Boyer, Donegal ........................................................10 3.0Adam DePietro, Lancaster Catholic .......................10 3.0Lucas Meador, Donegal ...............................................10 3.0C.J. Rudy, Lancaster Catholic .....................................10 3.0

INTERCEPTIONSSection One

G TotalGarrett Young, Penn Manor ........................................9 5Matt Rissinger, Warwick ............................................. 10 3

Section Two G TotalTyler Stitz, Solanco ........................................................ 10 8Kirby Breault, Elizabethtown ................................... 10 3John Griffith, Manheim Central ............................. 10 3Ethan Martin, Lampeter-Strasburg ...................... 10 3Jon Pugliese, Lampeter-Strasburg ....................... 10 3Michae Rehrer, Elizabethtown ................................ 10 3

Section Three G TotalSean Titus, Lancaster Catholic................................. 10 6Josh Henning, Annville-Cleona.............................. 10 4Johnnie Martin, Donegal .......................................... 10 3Eric Ondo, Elco ................................................................ 10 3

Pequea Valley

“I bring a rapport with my players that I think they want to play for me and their school,’’ he said. “We’re trying to bring pride.’’

Prior to applying for the job at Pequea, Breisblatt did his homework. He watched game film to form his own scouting report on the returning players. He talked to people within the program to find out where it’s been and where it’s going.

Then, getting a look at the new fitness center, he was fairly jazzed about the oppor-tunity.

Those game films must have brought some smiles, particularly when the camera focused on running back Chris Schmid and wide receiver Tyler Schmitt.

Schmid ran for 1,162 yards and eight touchdowns last season and caught 24 passes. All Schmitt did was lead Section Three in receiving with 75 catches for 874 yards, 12 of the receptions going for TDs.

Schmid, however, has battled some knee bursitis in the preseason. He’s hop-ing to be ready for the opener.

Taking over for the graduated Ben Myers at quarterback will be Chad Ty-son, a converted receiver.

“We feel like Chad is one of the top five athletes in our league,’’ Breisblatt said. “He brings a lot to the table, both throwing and running the ball.’’

Tyson said he’s ready for the new chal-lenge.

“I had to learn a lot of new techniques but it’s a big help to have Chris and Tyler coming back at running back and receiv-er, guys that have experience,’’ he said.

So far, Schmitt likes what he sees in Tyson’s job at QB.

“He throws the ball well and has good down-the-field vision,’’ he said.

Tyson will also benefit from an expe-rienced offensive line that includes Jor-dan Crause, Nate Girvin, Jin Pethsarath and Jhenson Lapp. In camp, Andrew Mc-Intyre and Ben Teijaro will battle for the right tackle spot.

As for the defense, Breisblatt decided to build from scratch.

“I’m treating it as though they have never played defense before,’’ Breisblatt said. “That’s not a knock against anyone. That’s just the way I have to do it. We’ll start with fundamentals, of stances and proper technique, different coverages and schemes.’’

If the past is any indication, the Braves ought to see some defensive improve-ment under Breisblatt. In only its second season back in ’99, with Breisblatt coach-ing defense, PV only managed to go 3-7 but shut out Rising Sun, lost to Lampeter-Strasburg 7-6 and lost to Donegal 14-0.

They held opponents to a modest aver-age of 20.8 points per game.

With 19 players on the team.Yes, 19.On defense this season, Crause, Lapp

and Pethsarath will be the down linemen, with Evan Scheuer leading a group of linebackers that will include Mitch Ball, who is out for football but has been wres-tling for PV.

The defense will also be bolstered by a pair of transfers, Paul Lewis from Oc-torara, and Jon Ross, who moved in from Wisconsin.

“We want to be physical and we want to attack on both sides of the ball,’’ Breis-blatt said. “We don’t want to sit on our heels. We want to dictate on offense and defense.’’

As the architect of Pequea’s “football’’ building, that’s not a bad blueprint.

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2 0 1 0 L - L L E A G U E F O O T B A L L F I N A L R E G U L A R S E A S O N S T A T I S T I C S



Aaron Beard SE/DL 6-4 200Brian Boltz K 5-10 175Ryan Daub RB/DB 5-11 180Tanner Dresch QB/DB 6-0 190Bruce Gerberich RB/K 6-0 185Matt Hodges OL/DL 6-1 250Phil Long OL/DL 6-3 240Tyler Mann OL/LB 5-9 178Lukas Quanbeck OL/DL 6-0 199Antonio Ortolaza RB/DB 5-8 128Colton Ryan RB/LB 6-0 215Jordan Seltzer OL/DL 6-3 221Jaspal Singh Brar SE/DL 6-1 189 Corey Wall RB/P/DB 6-0 163JUNIORS Pos. Ht. Wt.Jake Arnold OL/LB 5-11 155Ian Betts QB/RB/DB 5-10 145Kyle Dasher OL/DL 5-10 255Marcus Disbrow RB/LB 5-10 190Andrew Emrich OL/DL 5-10 205Kenny Hernley OL/LB 5-10 163Ryan Kelliher OL/DL 6-2 186

Oscar Maysonet SE/DL 6-1 188Joey Motter SE/DB 5-8 135Tony Pesta RB/LB 6-1 230Tito Rivera RB/DB 5-7 135Tyler Sellers RB/LB 5-11 172Zach Smith OL/DL 6-1 280Pat Stevens SE/DB 6-4 170Tyler Weaver OL/DL 5-10 215Cody Weidner SE/DB 5-6 150Josh Wolfe OL/DL 6-4 225SOPHOMORES Pos. Ht. Wt.Drew Bene QB/DB 5-11 170Derek DiAngelis RB/DB 5-9 160Dan Galffy RB/DB 5-11 145Ian Graft OL/DL 6-3 270Grant Hershey OL/DL 5-10 181Brett Noll-Emmerick RB/DB 5-7 142

James Rhoads RB/DB 5-9 160Dylan Sellers SE/DB 5-8 158FRESHMEN Pos. Ht. Wt.Jacob Funck OL/DL 6-0 190Travis Gates RB/DB 5-8 150Mason Yost SE/DB 5-7 150

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Head coach: Roy Wall (2nd season, 4-6)Lancaster-Lebanon League Section: 32010 section: 4-22010 overall: 4-6PIAA Class: Triple-A

Base offense: Spread OptionBase defense: 3-3 Stack

SCOUTING REPORT

Key players returning: QB Tanner Dresch, RB-LB Colton Ryan, DB-RB Ryan Daub, OL Jordan Seltzer, OL Ryan Kelliher.Key players lost: OL-DL Charlito Iwuagwu, DB-SE Brian Keaton, LB Cody Reese, DL Skylar An-drus, DB-SE Brenton Yost.

2011 ROSTER

Sept. 2 PINE GROVE, 7 p.m.Sept. 9 @ Lebanon, 7 p.m.Sept. 16 @ Hamburg, 7 p.m.Sept. 23 ELCO, 7 p.m.Sept. 30 A-C, 7 p.m.Oct. 7 @ Columbia, 7 p.m.Oct. 14 LANC. CATHOLIC, 7 p.m.Oct. 21 @ Donegal, 7 p.m.Oct.. 28 PALMYRA, 7 p.m.Nov. 4 @ Pequea Valley, 7 p.m.

2011 SCHEDULE 2010 RESULTS

OUTLOOK

In Section Three, it’s Catholic High and everybody else. Northern Lebanon has the offensive tools to be the best of the rest. Defense? We’ll soon see.

Dresch

NORTHERN LEBANON

VIKINGS

@ Pine Grove L, 35-7LEBANON L, 49-14HAMBURG L, 40-10@ ELCO W, 33-28@ Annville-Cleona L, 14-12COLUMBIA W, 20-15@ Lancaster Catholic L, 47-0DONEGAL W, 31-28@ Palmyra L, 48-47PEQUEA VALLEY W, 56-28

DaubRyan

BY DAVE BYRNESports Staff

If there is one thing Roy Wall knows going into year two at Northern Lebanon it’s that the glass is waaay more than half full.

The Vikings, their second-year coach attests, are light years ahead of where they were at this time last year.

“Last year everything was new,” he shared. “New coach. New offense. New defense. New assistant coaches. We talked about getting into a comfort zone.”

Comfort was a foreign concept as the season opened with the Vikings dropping their first three contests by a cumulative 124-31.

“It took us a while to get going,” Wall admitted. “Then it clicked for us.”

The Vikings won four of their last seven games — going 4-2 in L-L Section Three play — and proved to be an entertaining evening out as they defeated Elco (33-28), Columbia (20-

15) and Donegal (31-28) while dropping tight decisions to Annville-Cleona (14-12) and, in a nonleague contest, Palmyra (48-47).

“We kept getting better as the year went on,” said Wall, “and we played a lot of underclassmen. We have nine players back that started for us by the end of last year.”

Of the 19 returning letterwinners, hands down the most experienced crew of this year’s Norsemen can be found in the offensive backfield.

Together for a third year are quarterback Tanner Dresch and slotbacks Colton Ryan and Ryan Daub. Co-rey Wall, the coach’s son, returns for his second year.

All this group did last year was rush for 2,300 yards out of Wall’s Spread-Option, second only to Lancaster Catholic in Section Three and fifth-best overall in the league.

Colton Ryan totaled 803 yards on 137 carries, scor-ing five touchdowns and was named a Second Team Section All-Star. Ryan Daub was 67 for 557 and six TDs, earning Honorable Mention status.

Dresch also was named a section honorable mention after running for more than 700 yards while complet-ing 51 of 11 passes for 947 yards and 10 scores.

He can only get better. “He’s really got a handle on the offense,” Roy Wall observed.

“Ninety-five percent of all the plays, he decides who is going to get the ball, whether it will be a run or a pass.

“We had three inadvertent whistles last year. That’s how good he was at disguising our option attack.”

Boosting the productivity of this group is an experi-enced offensive line paced by tackles Jordan Seltzer (6-3, 211) and Matt Hodges (6-1, 250), guard Lucas Quan-beck (6-0, 199) and center Ryan Kelliher (6-2, 186), all of whom played the entire 2010 campaign.

Guard Andrew Emrich (5-10, 205), who broke into the starting rotation late in the season, rounds out the road graders.

As one might surmise, looking over Northern Leba-non’s 2010 results, survival for the Vikings often meant out-scoring their lapses as they acclimated themselves

to Wall’s 3-3 Stack defensive scheme.“We were defensively challenged last year,” admit-

ted Wall. “We gave up some big scores. This is where our improvement really has to occur.”

And, speaking of improvement ... .Prior to arriving in Fredericksburg, Wall coached

Millersburg for nine seasons.The challenges were similar and the rewards great

as Wall’s Indians made three District Three Class A championship game appearances in his final four years, winning it all in 2009.

“The best year was 2006 when we came from out of nowhere,” he said, adding, “unfortunately, at the same time, there was a team called Steel-High that was pret-ty good that kept knocking us off.

“I feel a lot of similarities with this year’s team. Our whole line was back (then), we were loaded offensive-ly.”

Can these Vikings replicate that success?“We know that, going into this season, we should be

competitive in all our games,” vows Wall.“We’re in a comfort zone when it comes to (knowing)

what we’re going to do. Now we have to be in a refining mode. We have to get a little better each time. We can’t be satisfied.”

Vikings’ offense ready to thrive

ROY WALLNorthern Lebanon

Vikings


QB Tanner Dresch, making the handoff, and run-ning back Colton Ryan are key cogs in the Vikings’ potent offense.



SENIORS Pos. Ht. Wt.Zachary Pletz QB/DB 5-11 155Lucas Heck K/P 5-9 145Cole Achey WR/DB 5-8 135Nathanael Litschi WR/QB/DB 6-4 175Uriah Alleman RB/DB 5-8 160Joseph Fisher WR/LB 6-0 155Thomas Price TE/DL 6-0 175Dylan Hickernell RB/LB 5-8 175Christopher Hickernell OL/DL 5-10 190John Gilbertson RB/LB 6-0 180JUNIORS Pos. Ht. Wt.Brandon Lane WR/LB 5-9 170Junior Finkey WR/DB 5-6 150Adam Shoemaker TE/LB 6-1 190Kyle Keefer RB/LB 5-11 170Zach Carley OL/DL 5-7 205Christopher Kreider OL/DL 6-0 215Andrey Pecherin OL/DL 5-11 195Schuyler Harting OL/DL 6-4 260

Dalton Debelius OL/DL 5-11 280Matthew Fies OL/DL 6-2 265Daniel Hagmayer WR/DB 5-11 135Nick Sprenkle WR/DB 6-1 165SOPHOMORES Pos. Ht. Wt.Philip Kline WR/DB 5-6 110Derek Miller WR/DB 6-0 165Tucker Evans QB/WR/DE 5-11 175

Fernando Gonzalez WR/DB 5-10 145

Anthony Pletz QB/DB 5-11 170Chase Holter WR/DB 5-5 125Joshua Rittle QB/DB 5-6 160Cameron Strause QB/RB/LB 5-11 170

Dylan Bennett WR/DB 5-2 110Kevin Kererise K/P 5-6 155Steven Rhoades OL/DL 5-11 220Vincent SanSeverino OL/DL 6-1 205

Ashton Tracey OL/DL 5-10 185FRESHMAN Pos. Ht. Wt.Patrick Adams OL/DL 6-4 260

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Head coach: Mark Evans (14th season, 71-64)Lancaster-Lebanon League Section: 32010 section: 3-32009 overall: 3-7PIAA Class: Triple-A


SCOUTING REPORTKey players returning: RB-LB Dylan Hickernell, TE-DE Tom Price, OL Schuyler Harting, RB-SS Cameron Strause, WR-QB-DB Nate Litschi.Key players lost: OL-DL Justin Gilbert, WR-DB Eric Ondo, WR-DB Tyler George, TE-DE Bryan Bowman, OL-DL Nicolo Vivona.

2011 ROSTER

2011 SCHEDULE 2010 RESULTSSept. 2 @ Hamburg, 7 p.m.Sept. 9 @ Pine Grove, 7 p.m.Sept. 16 @ LEBANON, 7 p.m.Sept. 23 @ No. Lebanon 7 p.m.Sept. 30 COLUMBIA, 7 p.m.Oct. 7 CAMP HILL, 7 p.m.Oct. 14 @ Pequea Valley, 7 p.m.Oct. 21 ANNVILLE-CLEONA, 7 p.m.Oct. 28 DONEGAL, 7 p.m.Nov. 4 @ Lanc. Catholic, 7 p.m.

OUTLOOK

Harting Hickernell

ELCO

RAIDERS

HAMBURG L, 13- 7PINE GROVE L, 38-17@ Lebanon L, 28-24NORTHERN LEBANON L, 33-28@ Columbia L, 26-6@ Camp Hill L, 34-14PEQUEA VALLEY W, 34-0@ Annville-Cleona W, 48-36@ Donegal W, 14-13LANCASTER CATHOLIC L, 39-18

Litschi

The injury bug bit the Raiders last year. Mark Evans and Co. enter this season with their sights set firmly on returning to the playoffs.


For the past 12 seasons, Elco has largely avoided the injury bug.

The 2010 season marked unlucky 13.“That 13th year got us,” Raiders coach

Mark Evans said. “The volume of injuries we had, when you only have 30-something kids, it’s hard to keep the system in place.”

Ravaged by injuries, the Raiders dropped their first six decisions. They rebounded to win three of their last four games, the lone loss coming in the season finale to L-L Section Three boss Lancaster Catholic.

And it is that late-season surge that Ev-ans and Co. are looking to build on this time around.

“We have a lot of youth, but I think we’ll be re-ally, really good,” said wide re-c e i v e r / d e -

fensive back Nate Litschi, one of eight seniors on the 37-man roster.

“I think we have a lot of guys ready to work. It’s a solid corps; it helped us through last year.”

The Raiders’ range of emotions have run the gamut the past two seasons. In 2009 they reached the district playoffs. Last season, they were 3-3 in the section but overall, finished four games under .500.

“We’ve been through a lot, we’ve seen the ‘ups’ and we’ve seen the ‘downs,’” said Litschi. “We want to get back to the top of the roller-coaster. We’re ready to work.”

When injuries were mentioned, Litschi shrugged.

“Injuries are part of the game,” he said. “You have to work through it.”

Indeed, and Elco is hoping to avoid the same this season. Having experienced the playoffs just two years ago, they’re anxious to get back to the postseason.

“I think we can compete, we can make the playoffs,” junior two-way lineman Schuyler Harting stated.

Riding the high of a playoff run the previous season, the Raiders felt the same a year ago.

“I honestly felt we would be 9-0 going into the Lan-caster Catholic game,” said senior running back/line-backer Dylan Hickernell. “Then we went 0-6 and we didn’t know what happened.”

Hickernell returns as one of the L-L’s best players. He ranked among Section Three leaders last year in rushing, grinding out 659 yards and a 6.2 yards per carry average, and was second on the team in tackles with 112.

He was named to the section’s First Team offense and defense. Harting is a returning all-star as well.

Hickernell and Litschi are two members of a senior

class whose strong leadership Evans cites as a team strength.

Inexperience and a lack of depth — Elco graduated seven starters on offense and seven on defense — pose potential problems.

Among the graduated is Eric Ondo, a Section Three First-Team All-Star at wideout and defensive back, and fellow first-team stars in Justin Gilbert (center/DL) and Bryan Bowman (outside linebacker).

Asked about the Raiders’ depth, Hickernell de-scribed the situation as “no different than any other year.”

And Elco’s lack of experience?“We’re pretty young, but we’re not going to use that

as an excuse,” Harting said. “We think we can compete. Our young guys are pretty talented. If they get it (the Raiders’ spread offense and 4-4 defense), we’ll be well off.”

Said Evans, “We’ll try to evolve as the season goes on. Whatever the situation, we want to be able to over-come it.”

Raiders eye return to playoff form

MARK EVANSElco

Raiders


Said wide receiver Nate Litschi, “I think we have a lot of guys ready to work.’’



SENIORS Pos. Ht. Wt.Zack Brandt SE/DB 5-9 150Tyler Eckenrode OL/DE 6-2 245Jeremy Flick SE/DB 5-11 160Tyson Hayes QB/DB 6-1 190Freddie Hess RB/LB 6-2 215Dylan Kaplan SE/DB 5-4 135Jared Kramer OL/DL 5-10 255Cody Nelson SE/DB 5-11 165 Keith Witmer RB/LB 5-8 190Austin Zechman OL/DL 5-10 220Jon Zohner OL/LB 5-9 165JUNIORS Pos. Ht. Wt.Adam Connor RB/DB 5-10 155Zachery Dougherty OL/DL 6-2 260Tanner Fitting TE/LB 5-11 175Ian Hertz OL/DL 5-11 150Zach Hitz RB/LB 5-8 150Nat Hughes OL/LB 5-8 185Daultyn Kline OL/DL 6-1 205Sawyer Reddinger SE/LB 5-10 140Tim Seiler RB/LB 5-9 145Jon Zohner OL/LB 5-6 163

SOPHOMORES Pos. Ht. Wt.Troy Alexander SE/DB 5-8 135Dylan Andela RB/DB 5-9 165Geordan Barr OL/LB 5-10 175Robbie Beidler TE/LB 5-11 180Kyle Blackman SE/DB 6-4 180Austin Blauch OL/LB 5-8 160Brandon Boger OL/DL 6-1 250Luke Fies RB/LB 5-9 150Quentin Hall RB/DB 5-8 150Paxson Hayes SE/LB 5-9 165Tre Keller OL/DL 5-6 240Dylan Loy RB/LB 5-8 150Mike Marakowski OL/LB 5-10 205Richmond Owusua RB/DL 5-11 215Taylor Prentice SE/DB 5-10 155Mitch Rodkey QB/DB 5-8 130Sam Soliday K 5-9 160Zach Southall QB/DB 5-6 130Oliver Woelfling OL/LB 5-10 175FRESHMEN Pos. Ht. Wt.John Groh RB/LB 5-11 180Darius Ramos OL/DL 5-11 230

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Head coach: Terry Lehman (25th season, 122-118-1)Lancaster-Lebanon League Section: 32010 section: 3-32010 overall: 4-6PIAA Class: Double-A

Base offense: IBase defense: 3-5

SCOUTING REPORTKey players returning: RB-LB Freddie Hess, QB-DB Tyson Hayes, OL-DE Tyler Eckenrode, QB-RB Adam Connor, OL-LB Nat Hughes.Key players lost: RB-LB Ricky Snyder, SE-DB Josh Henning, OL-DL Nick Wanamaker.

2011 ROSTER

2011 SCHEDULE 2010 RESULTSSept. 2 @ Palmyra, 7 p.m.Sept. 9 HAMBURG, 7 p.m.Sept. 16 @ Fleetwood, 7 p.m.Sept. 23 PEQUEA VALLEY, 7 p.m.Sept 30 @ No. Lebanon, 7 p.m.Oct. 7 DONEGAL, 7 p.m.Oct. 14 @ Columbia, 7 p.m.Oct. 21 @ Elco, 7 p.m.Oct. 28 LANC. CATHOLIC, 7 p.m.Nov. 4 WILLIAMS VALLEY, 7 p.m.

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PALMYRA L,33-14@ Hamburg L, 18-14FLEETWOOD W, 68-34@ Pequea Valley W, 33-28NORTHERN LEBANON W, 14-12@ Donegal L, 20-13COLUMBIA W, 14-13EASTERN LEBANON L, 48-36@ Lancaster Catholic L, 55-7@ Williams Valley L, 28-17

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The Little Dutchmen will look for offensive pro-duction from quarterback Tyson Hayes, above, and Freddie Hess.

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Schemes and dreams are what the Dutchmen are about this season. A new defensive look has A-C charged up to make a run at the postseason.


One look at Annville-Cleona’s box scores from the 2010 campaign tells all you need to know about the Little Dutchmen’s 4-6 finish.

Three of their losses were the product of not being able to hold a halftime lead. Another loss came in a game in which A-C was tied at the break.

“Last year, we didn’t have depth,” said quarterback Tyson Hayes, one of 11 seniors on this year’s squad.

“It was frustrating to have all those fourth-quarter losses.”

The Dutchmen are determined not to have recent history repeat itself.

“We have to finish games,” said Hayes. “In conditioning camp, we kept saying ‘Fourth quarter, fourth quarter.’”

Head coach Terry Lehman be-lieves the end-game frustrations suffered last season have already benefited this year’s outfit.

“We’re more of a leaner, more physical team,” he said.

Senior two-way lineman Tyler Eckenrode believes the same, be-lieves that in sacrificing size for speed, this year’s squad is more physically prepared to withstand the rigors of four quarters of foot-ball.

“I think we’re going to be a really fast team,” he said. “Our running

backs are quick. We don’t have the size we had last year, but we defi-nitely have more toughness.”

The changes at A-C aren’t just physical. The Dutchmen defense, which ran a 4-4 scheme last year, has adopted a 3-5 look.

It’s not entirely new, since Lehm-an adopted the 3-5 scheme for the final two games of the 2010 season. The Dutchmen dropped both games, but Lehman believes the more ag-gressive 3-5 front is a better fit for his current crop of players.

“It’s more downhill (style),” he said of the blitz-heavy package. “It really suits us.”

Senior Freddie Hess, a 215-pound hammer who will line up at one of said linebacker spots, is one of those who likes the attacking style of the 3-5.

“Linebacker is one of our strong points,” said Hess. “Our defense is going to be much better.”

Hayes, who at 190 also brings some size to the linebacker corps, agreed.

“We’re definitely going to be bet-ter playing the 3-5,” he said. “It suits us better (than the 4-4).”

What also suits A-C is the influx of some talented players from for-mer county rival Lebanon Catholic. The Beavers have not had a football program since the 1990s, and this year, for the first time, Lebanon Catholic players are being allowed to suit up for Annville-Cleona.

“It’s a win-win (situation),” Lehm-an stated. “These are some young kids with potential, and they’ll help us, depth-wise.”

A-C graduated 15 players from last year’s team that finished 3-3 in L-L Section Three. Included in that list was all-star WR/DB Josh Hen-ning, the section’s Defensive Back of the Year; Ricky Snyder, Section Three’s Outstanding Back of the Year whose 1,726 yards ranked sec-ond in the L-L to Warwick’s 2,000-yard back Deron Thompson; and 299-pound tackle Nate Uhrich.

All-Stars return in Hess, who has moved from his defensive end posi-tion; Eckenrode and senior two-way lineman Jared Kramer.

Hess, an all-star running back last season, joins Hayes and Eck-enrode as prime movers in the Dutchmen offense. A year ago, A-C featured one of the best rushing at-tacks in the L-L. The Dutchmen ran for 2,021 yards, but passed for just 964.

A-C will still be multi-option, but as Lehman promised, “not as one-dimensional.”

A-C seeks better finishTERRY LEHMAN

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An old school offense with a modern facelift.Meet Lampeter-Strasburg’s Pistol Wing-T offense.Pioneers’ coach John Manion believed his offense

needed a change. For more than a decade Manion’s team ran the traditional Wing-T with the quarterback under center, a fullback four yards from the line of scrimmage and two wing backs typically flanked to the right and left.

That look was altered prior to last season.“We were too predictable,” Manion said on his rea-

soning to go to the Pistol. “The Pistol allowed us to mask the things that we do. It’s fun for the kids and allowed us to spread the field.”

University of Nevada head coach Chris Ault is cred-ited with popularizing the Pistol formation in 2004. In the Pistol, the quarterback is three to four yards away from the center (a mini shotgun) and the fullback one to two yards behind the quarterback.

It’s window dressing for any offense a team runs and allows a fast team to utilize its speed before the ball is snapped.

“We knew we had speed with (halfbacks) Jordan (Groff) and Dan (Neff) so a lot of plays were to them at full speed,” L-S returning starting quarterback Nate Shank explained. “The Pistol allowed us to get them the

ball at full speed.”In the traditional Wing-T, most halfback motions

were either stutter steps or a brisk jog. In the Pistol, most motions are a full sprint to the mesh point of the quarterback and running back.

“We have to adjust our timing a little better with the Pistol,” said Groff, a returning All-Section Two First-Team running back. “I like it because we can run full speed in motion and we can get out quicker. It’s some-times hard for a defense to adjust to a full speed mo-tion.”

Besides the timing between the quarterback and halfbacks, a few more adjustments were needed to make the Pistol effective in Lampeter, which were mainly the footwork of the quarterback and fullback.

Since the fullback is five yards from the line of scrimmage, rather than the four yards in the tradition-al Wing-T, he needs to be a step quicker.

The quarterback’s footwork is reduced in the Pistol since he’s already four yards from the line, which is where the mesh point is at for most Wing-T plays. In the Pistol, the quarterback’s initial footwork is virtu-ally nonexistent.

“The midline is still there,” explained Shank, refer-ring to the imaginary line that splits the center and runs through the backfield. “But the only footwork I use now is to step with the motion.”

With those small adjustments a team can run just

about any offense it wants.In the Wing-T, each series consists of a middle run-

ning play, a left and right outside running play and a passing play. Each play in a respective series is de-signed to look alike to confuse the defense.

The basic bread-and-butter series for most Wing-T teams is the 20 series. It’s typically the first series implemented.

The plays illustrated on this page are the three main plays in the 20 series, the guard trap (inside run), buck sweep (outside run) and waggle or bootleg (pass).

Plays are broken down with the formation first (Red), the series second (2), the hole number (1) third and the type of play (trap) last.

The 21 trap is an inside run to the fullback. The key to the play is “trapping” the play-side defensive tackle by allowing him to come up field where the right of-fensive guard, who is pulling, blocks him. This creates a seam in the 1 hole.

The 27 sweep is an outside run for the right half-back. The left halfback, left tackle and right guard seal the edge while the left guard “kicks out” any defender to create an alley.

The waggle is a play-action pass to the right. A fake trap and sweep begin the play, and hopefully draw a linebacker or safety up towards the line, before the quarterback rolls right with four passing options and an option to run himself.

Hittin’ ’em with their best shot

Lampeter-Strasburg’s Pistol offense is designed to make use of several weapons while fooling the defense


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