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•Class AAAA: CV vs. Central Dauphin

•Class AA: Trinity vs. Wyomissing

By Travis L. PickensAssistAnt sports [email protected]

By now, Cumberland Valley football coach Tim Rimpfel must be used to this.

Another playoff round, another op-ponent that has a bone to pick with his Eagles.

Last season, CV played five playoff games. Four of those were against teams — Bishop McDevitt, Central Dauphin, State College and Wilson — that had ei-ther played the Eagles earlier that season or had a heated recent history with CV.

This postseason is dramatically similar to last.

When the Eagles visit Landis Field for a rematch with Mid-Penn Commonwealth foe Central Dauphin at 7 p.m. tonight in a District 3 Class AAAA semifinal, it will mark the second time in three playoff games CV will face a team it has played within the last 12 months.

“It’s another one of those games where they have great motivation coming in against us,” said Rimpfel, whose team beat the Rams, 30-17, Oct. 8. “We got them the first game, and I’m sure they’re talking revenge.

“Plus, we’re over there again, but I told (the players), ‘A champion responds to those challenges, accepts them and de-lights in those challenges.’”

A week ago, CV made the trip to Wil-son, where a seething team wanted re-venge. The Eagles beat Wilson, 28-21, in last year’s 3-AAAA semifinals and an-swered the bell in their latest trip to Gur-ski Stadium with a 28-14 win.

Now it’s off to another hostile destina-tion against the Rams (10-2), a team the Eagles have played four times in the last 12 months.

“We have to keep pushing because we know this team is going to be ready. Cen-tral Dauphin is coming in angry,” CV se-nior wide receiver and defensive back Kyle Brubaker said. “Any time we play them multiple times in a season, it’s go-ing to be harder and harder each time.”

In the teams’ first meeting, Brubaker

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District 3 class aachampionship

Wyomissing (5, 9-3) vs. Trinity (3, 11-1)

site: Hersheypark Stadium, HersheyTime: Tonight, 7 p.m.coaches: Wyomissing — Bob Wolfrum

(24th year, 216-63-1); Trinity — Bill Ragni (2nd year, 18-5).

Last meeting: Wyomissing, 35-14, in 2006 District 3-AA semifinals.

What’s at stake: Winner advances to PIAA Class AA quarterfinals to meet the District 4 champion, either Danville (12-0) or Lewisburg (12-0), next weekend at a Dis-trict 3 site and time to be announced. Loser is eliminated.

How they got here: Wyomissing defeat-ed No. 4 Delone Catholic, 28-21, in quarter-finals; defeated No. 1 Lancaster Catholic, 21-14, in semifinals. Trinity defeated No. 6 Boiling Springs, 42-0, in quarterfinals; de-feated No. 7 Bermudian Springs, 48-12, in semifinals.

key players: Wyomissing — Grayson Helm, jr., QB; Tyler Rank, sr., FB-LB; Derek Nally, sr., HB-CB; Joseph Cacchione, soph., WR-DB; Skyler Lash, sr., OT-DT. Trinity — Patrick Dill, jr., QB; Jack Miller, jr., HB-DB; Adam Geiger, soph., RB; Chris Lenz, jr., WR-DB; Logan Houck, sr., WR-RB-DB; Colin Rigney, sr., G-LB.

Wyomissing notes: lost two of final three regular-season games before captur-ing two playoff games by a total of 14 points. ... offense averages 32.3 points per game; defense allows 20.5. ... teams have scored at least 21 points on Spartans five times. ... went 4-3 against teams with winning re-cords, including the playoffs. ... finished 2-3 against teams that qualified for the playoffs. ... scored at least 31 points seven times. ... Helm has completed 64 of 135 passes for 1,063 yards with 15 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. ... Rank leads the team with 1,105 rushing yards on 132 car-ries (8.3 yards-per-carry average). ... lead-ing receiver is Cacchione with 446 yards. ... team attempted only five passes, with one completion, against Lancaster Catholic. ... Nally’s 55-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter was the difference against Crusaders. ... finished third in Inter-County League Section II with a 5-2 record. ... first district final appearance since 2006 when it beat Lancaster Catholic, 28-24. ... owns two District 3-AA titles.

Trinity notes: ranked No. 8 in the state, according to Pennsylvania Football news. ... winning streak has grown to 11 games. ... enters tonight with four shutouts and has held seven teams to single digits. ... after Week 1 loss to Lancaster Catholic, has not allowed another team to score more than 13 points. ... leads the area in average points for (43.1) and against (8.5). ... Dill has com-pleted 107 of 186 passes for 1,920 yards with 21 touchdowns and 11 interceptions. ... Dill, who has thrown for at least 100 yards 10 times, leads the area in passing yards

and touchdown passes. ... Geiger leads the team with 1,317 rushing yards, and Miller is second with 921. ... Geiger, who burned Bermudian Springs for a season-high 318 yards, is second in the area in rushing yard-age. ... Miller is second in the area in points scored with 138 on 23 touchdowns. ... Lenz is third in the area with 525 receiving yards on 27 catches. ... team had a disturbing six turnovers against Bermudian Springs. ... Geiger ripped off touchdown runs of 99 and 93 yards against the Eagles. ... 6-1 mark against teams with winning records, includ-ing the playoffs. ... came into this season riding a three-game playoff losing streak. ... is playing in only its third 3-AA final. ... outright champion of the Mid-Penn Capital Division with an 8-0 record.

Breakdown: Trinity breezed past Bermu-dian Springs despite playing a less-than-perfect game. It’s not the best time of year for the Shamrocks to start showing cracks, especially with a physical Wyomissing team on the horizon. Trinity wants to avoid a repeat of the 2007 final when it self-de-structed in a 25-0 loss to underdog Delone Catholic. On paper, the Shamrocks win this game, but they have to play solid to ad-vance. Wyomissing enjoys running the ball and does it well. So did Bermudian, but the Eagles were limited to 176 rushing yards. It’s tough to see Wyomissing reaching Trin-ity’s level, and there has to be a drop-off in emotion after downing the defending state champion. The Shamrocks are cruising and, if they eliminate the mistakes, should win their second district crown.

Prediction: Trinity, 35-16._____


Lewisburg (12-0) vs. Danville (12-0)

site: Ironmen Stadium, DanvilleTime: Tonight, 7 p.m.coaches: Lewisburg — Todd Tilford

(5th year, 36-20); Danville — Jim Keiser (2nd year, 20-3).

Last meeting: Danville, 39-37, in 2007.What’s at stake: Winner advances to

PIAA Class AA quarterfinals to meet the District 3 champion, either Wyomissing (9-3) or Trinity (11-1) next weekend at a District 3 site and time to be announced. Loser is eliminated.

How they got here: Lewisburg defeat-ed Bloomsburg, 21-20, in quarterfinals; defeated Towanda, 39-14, in semifinals. Danville defeated Wyalusing Valley, 62-20, in quarterfinals; defeated Mount Carmel, 38-28, in semifinals.

key players: Lewisburg — Camden Cassels, jr., QB-DB; Nathaniel Brown, sr., RB-OLB; Merle Moscarello, jr., RB-ILB; Ryan Lopes, sr., SE-DB; Brandon Smith, soph., TE-ILB. Danville — Andrew Andrey-chik, jr., QB-S; Russell Heath, sr., FB-ILB; Garrett Llewellyn, sr., WR-LB; Mikeal Ow-ens-Wright, sr., WR-HB-LB; Dylan Dailey, sr., C-MLB.

Lewisburg notes: first time in program history the team started 12-0. ... closest game was a 21-20 victory over Blooms-

burg in 4-AA quarterfinals. ... closest reg-ular-season game was a 20-0 win over perennial power Mount Carmel in Week 2. ... runs a Wing-T on offense and also uses shotgun formations. ... Cassels has com-pleted 63 of 104 passes for 987 yards, with 10 touchdowns and three interceptions. ... two-headed rushing attack is led by Brown, who has 1,177 yards on 143 carries, with 23 touchdowns. Moscarello is second on the team with 1,020 yards and nine touchdowns. ... Lopes is the leading re-ceiver with 395 yards and six touchdowns. ... outright champion of Heartland Confer-ence Division II with a 5-0 record. Danville notes: first time in program history the team started 12-0. ... scored at least 42 points in eight games. ... limited seven op-ponents to single digits. ... averages 44.5 points per game and 13.9 against. ... runs a Wing-T on offense and also uses shotgun formations. ... Anthony Sori, the team’s

second-leading rusher with 1,156 yards and 10 touchdowns, suffered a broken ankle against Mount Carmel and is lost for the season. ... Andreychik has completed 80 of 144 passes for 1,732 yards, with 32 touchdowns and seven interceptions. ... Heath leads the team with 1,220 rushing yards and 14 touchdowns. ... top receiv-ing threat is Llewellyn with 674 yards and 14 touchdowns. ... defense is anchored by Dailey, who has 105 total tackles. ... finished first in Heartland Conference Divi-sion I with a 6-0 record.

Breakdown: In a battle of similar teams, the injury to Sori looms large. Sori was the team’s most dangerous threat on of-fense and, without him, the Ironmen might struggle to put up the same gaudy numbers they have all year. Both teams are battle-tested after navigating difficult sections of the Heartland Conference. We worry about Lewisburg’s narrow win over

Bloomsburg in the 4-AA quarterfinals. Other than that edge-of-your-seat thriller against Bloomsburg, the Green Dragons have been rolling and will take advantage of the short-handed Ironmen.

Prediction: Lewisburg, 23-14._____

Picking the restclass aaasemifinals

conrad Weiser 35, cocalico 27 — What it comes down to is speed. The Scouts have too much of it.

Bishop McDevitt 42, Lampeter-stras-burg 14 — We’d like to think the Crusaders will have at least one test in the district. Sadly, they won’t.

class achampionship

Holy name 26, Millersburg 12 — Blue Jays power their way to school’s first district football title.

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the latest team that wants to make its season by beating CV.


The Cumberland Valley football players are hoping to celebrate Friday night with a victory over Central Dauphin in the District 3 Class AAAA quarterfinals. The winner of that game will ad-vance to the district final and play either Daniel Boone or Red Lion next Saturday at Hersheyp-ark Stadium at a time to be announced.

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Michigan State’s last victory at Beaver Stadium was in 1965, when Penn State was an inde-pendent. That was the year be-fore Joe Paterno became Penn State’s coach.

“It’s huge,” wide receiver and co-captain Brett Brackett said. “It’s the last game of the year. It’s Senior Day. Michigan State’s one of the best teams in the con-ference and that’s going to be a big challenge for us.

“They’re a great football team, just seeing them on some of the film we’ve seen against [teams] we’ve played. We can’t come with our heads down. We got to be ready to fight.”

Penn State and Michigan State, ranked No. 11 in The Associated Press poll released Sunday, have combined to score 1,060 points in their 17 Big Ten meetings, an average of 62.3 points per game.

The Lions have scored 608 points (35.7 avg.) to 452 for the Spartans (26.6 avg.).

“It’s big — it’s for our season,” strong safety Drew Astorino said. “We need to win it. It will determine where we are going to go for our bowl game.”

Penn State most likely will end up in the Jan. 1 Gator Bowl if the Big Ten has two BCS teams,

which is expected.But there is an outside chance

the Lions could be selected for the Outback Bowl on New Year’s Day in Tampa if they beat Michi-gan State to finish 8-4.

The Spartans rallied for 22 fourth-quarter points Saturday to beat Purdue, 35-31, and main-tain a three-way tie for a share of the Big Ten championship and a spot in the Rose Bowl. No. 5 Wisconsin (10-1, 6-1) and No. 8 Ohio State (10-1, 6-1) are tied atop the standings with Michi-gan State.

If there is a three-way tie, the team with the best BCS ranking will earn the Big Ten’s automatic Rose Bowl bid.

A two-way tie between Michi-gan State and Wisconsin would mean the Spartans, who beat the Badgers, 34-24, would go the Rose Bowl. Wisconsin would win a tiebreaker with Ohio State because the Badgers beat the Buckeyes, 31-18.

Penn State holds a 14-12-1 overall advantage against Mich-igan State in a series that began in 1914.

Brackett expects the Lions, who are 0-3 against Top 25 teams this season and 14-29 since 2000, to embrace their spoiler role.

“If we had a choice, we wouldn’t be in [this position],”

Brackett said. “But that’s where we are right now and that’s what we’re going to have to do.

“We’re going to have to go out and try to play a great football game and knock off a real good football team.”

In 2008, Penn State whipped the Spartans at Beaver Stadium, 49-18, to clinch a share of the Big Ten regular-season champi-onship and a Rose Bowl berth.

Daryll Clark threw for a ca-reer-high 341 yards and four touchdowns against Michigan State, and the Lions defense held running back Javon Ringer to a season-low 42 yards on a snowy, cold day.

Penn State and Michigan State will be in opposite divisions in 2011 and are not scheduled to meet the next two years.

“Me personally, I’m really ex-cited about playing Michigan State,” said right guard Stefen Wisniewski, from Central Cath-olic, who is one of only 11 seniors on the roster. “It’s my last game at Beaver Stadium and I certain-ly don’t want to go out with my last game being a loss.

“I think the team is going to be motivated as well.”

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McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.

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Spoiler

Drivers should expect law enforce-ment, locally and statewide, to be out in force. That was the message of a news conference Monday in Ferguson Town-ship, hosted by the state Department of Transportation and attended by state and local police representatives.

Lutz said one concern will be chang-ing traffic patterns. At a time when Park Avenue and University Drive are trans-formed into one-way streets to accom-modate football traffic coming into Bea-ver Stadium, Lutz said he expects many residents will be trying to leave town, for Christmas shopping or to head to hunt-

ing camps.And Lutz said there may be confusion

after the game, when students coming back to on-campus housing after a week away could find those streets are now one way in the opposite direction to accom-modate traffic leaving Beaver Stadium.

Reminders of the changed patterns are posted to Penn State Live, and po-lice want students returning to residence halls to check the routes before driving into town.

It’s been 12 years since Penn State has hosted a football game at Beaver Stadium during the holiday weekend.

Several factors have changed in the in-tervening years. The big one is the com-

pletion of Interstate 99.“It’ll be a good test for what we can ex-

pect regularly in the future. With the Big Ten schedule adding Nebraska, we could be playing a post-Thanksgiving Saturday game every other year,” Lutz said.

But police said they’ll be patrolling heavily well before football traffic begins.

The Centre County Alcohol Task Force — which just had its grant renewed for 12 months in October — will spend the weekend looking for drunken drivers, Ferguson Township police Sgt. Ryan Hendrick said.

At the same time, the Thanksgiving buckle-up program is being enforced by about 550 police departments across the

state, including in Centre County.A statewide effort to clamp down on

aggressive driving that began in Octo-ber is also under way, and will continue through December.

“You’re going to have a lot of police of-ficers out between now and Jan. 1,” said John Conti, a law enforcement liaison for the two state campaigns.

“Specifically this weekend, we have targeted all our police departments to put a special emphasis on patrol this week-end, especially here in Centre County.”

———Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune

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Check out Varsity Sports at www.cumberlink.com/varsity for stats, scores, standings and stories from local high school football games.

The following is a list of leaders through the 12th week of the high school football sea-son. Stats reflect only those reported to The Sentinel:

RUSHINGPlayer (team) Rushes Yards Average1. Todde` Statum (Ship) 216 1,542 7.12. Adam Geiger (T) 112 1,317 11.73. Jeremy DiPietro (CV) 98 1,079 11.04. Matt Richmond (NoY) 149 1,004 6.75. Colby Whitten (BiS) 178 941 5.26. Jack Miller (T) 89 921 10.37. Ryan Miller (BoS) 145 880 6.08. Kevin Snyder (CV) 117 861 7.39. Dan Flynn (CV) 130 806 6.210. Kelvin White (EP) 157 697 4.4

——RECEIVING YARDS

Player (team) Receptions Yards1. Adam Breneman (CC) 60 8772. Alberto De Los Santos (EP) 27 5553. Chris Lenz (T) 27 5254. Bryton Barr (M) 21 5205. Chase May (WP) 21 470

——RECEPTIONS

Player (team) Receptions Yards1. Adam Breneman (CC) 60 8772. Tyler Botchie (M) 29 3952. Sal Purpura (M) 29 3904. Alberto De Los Santos (EP) 27 5554. Chris Lenz (T) 27 5254. Ryan Herr (CH) 27 448

——PASSING YARDS

Player (team) Co. Att. Yards TD Int.1. Patrick Dill (T) 107 186 1,920 21 112. James Rusenko (M) 122 251 1,672 18 133. Kelvin White (EP) 103 183 1,510 18 94. Tyler Orris (CC) 91 145 1,015 6 35. Cody Failor (C) 81 196 1,010 9 10

——SCORING

(Includes two-point conversion where applicable)Player (team) TD Points1. Todde` Statum (Ship) 24 1462. Jack Miller (T) 23 1383. Jeremy DiPietro (CV) 15 904. Kevin Snyder (CV) 14 885. Dan Flynn (CV) 14 845. Adam Geiger (T) 14 84

——KICKING

Player (team) FGs Xpts. Pts.1. Alex Cramer (T) 5 62-71 772. Lance Geesey (CV) 5 48-53 633. Sam Dell (BoS) 4 26-28 384. Zach Myers (Ship) 2 31-38 374. Taylor Walls (EP) 2 31-34 37

——OFFENSE

Team Points Average1. Trinity 518 43.12. Cumberland Valley 421 35.03. Shippensburg 320 29.04. East Pennsboro 305 27.75. Cedar Cliff 241 21.9

——DEFENSE

Team Points Average1. Trinity 102 8.52. Shippensburg 133 12.03. Cumberland Valley 188 15.64. Northern 178 17.85. Big Spring 215 19.5

Sentinel PickSWeek13

Guest Picker:Brett Livingston,

Carlisle baseball coach

Red Lion atDaniel Boone

Travis L. PickensLast week:

7-7Season:122-46

Tom Ash

Last week:6-8

Season:116-52

Ron RogersLast week:

6-8Season:120-48

Guest Picker

Last week:4-10

Season:100-68

Andy Sandrik

Last week:5-9

Season:113-55

Daniel Boone Daniel Boone Daniel Boone Daniel Boone Red Lion

Cumberland Valleyat Central Dauphin

Cocalico atConrad Weiser

B. McDevitt atLampeter-Strasburg

Wyomissing atTrinity

Millersburgat Holy Name

Danville atLewisburg

Forest Hills atTyrone

Woodland Hillsat N. Allegheny

Bloomsburg atMercyhurst

Shepherd atKutztown

Auburnat Alabama

LSU atArkansas

Michigan Stateat Penn State

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Penn State head coach Joe Paterno looks on from the side-lines during the second half against Indiana Saturday in Landover, Md.

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PENN STATE

Spoiler role for PSUMichigan State (10-1) at Penn State (7-4)

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Week 12

By SArA GANimMcclatchy-tribune

Police in Centre County said they’re bracing for a trifecta of events —Thanksgiving travel, Black Friday and a home Penn State football game — that, for the first time since 1998, are all fall-ing on the same weekend.

“We’re looking at the holiday week-end, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, as be-ing the perfect storm for us,” said Cliff Lutz, assistant chief with Penn State police. “We’re going to have contraflow with football traffic — the shopping crowd is going to be moving the op-posite direction, we’re going to have people heading up to hunting camps in the opposite direction, plus the stu-dents will be returning, perhaps in the midst of the football traffic.”

By roN muSSElmANMcclatchy-tribune

Michigan State usually tries to ruin Penn State’s postseason plans in the regular-season finale.

But Saturday the Nittany Lions and the Spartans will reverse roles at Beaver Sta-dium.

“It’s definitely a big game,” said wide receiver Derek M o ye . “ We were kind of s c o r e b o a r d watching [Sat-urday] from the sideline. I was hoping they won so the game has some national implications for the BCS and the Big Ten championship.

“Even though it’s not for us, it’s going to be big for us to go out there and pretty much ruin their season.”

Penn State (7-4, 4-3) is 8-0 against Big Ten Conference co-leader Michigan State (10-1, 6-1) at home since entering league play in 1993. The Lions, who beat Indi-ana, 41-24 Saturday, have a 13-4 overall edge against the Spartans during that stretch.

A triple traffic threat in

State College this weekend

Football fans, ■

thanksgiving travelers, black Friday shoppers make for messy roads.

• See Traffic, D10

Game: Penn State (7-4, 4-3 big ten) vs. Michigan State (10-1, 6-1).

When: noon Saturday.Where: beaver

Stadium, university Park, Pa.

TV: eSPn2.

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Penn State wide receiver Brett Brackett (83) celebrates his touchdown with tight end Kevin Haplea (82) during the first half against Indianam Saturday in Landover, Md.

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Michigan State’s big ten title hopes Saturday at beaver Stadium.

• See Spoiler, D10

Class AAAATeam (District) Record Last Week1. LaSalle College (12) 11-1 12. North Penn (1) 11-1 23. Easton (11) 11-1 64. Neshaminy (1) 11-1 75. Council Rock South (1) 11-1 96. North Allegheny (7) 11-1 NR7. Cumberland Valley (3) 10-2 NR8. West Chester Rustin (1) 11-1 NR9. Woodland Hills (7) 9-3 NR10. Pittsburgh Central Catholic (7) 11-1 4Dropped out: Wilson (3), North Hills (7), Dallastown (3), West Chester Henderson.

——Class AAA

Team (District) Record Last Week1. Allentown Central Catholic (11) 12-0 12. Archbishop Wood (12) 12-0 23. Abington Heights (2) 12-0 34. Montour (7) 12-0 55. Bishop McDevitt (3) 10-2 66. Grove City (10) 11-0 87. Clearfield (9) 12-0 108. Pottsgrove (1) 10-2 NR9. Central Valley (7) 9-3 NR10. Lampeter-Strasburg (3) 11-1 NRDropped out: Thomas Jefferson (7), Mars (7), Greencastle-Antrim (3).

——Class AA

Team (District) Record Last Week1. Aliquippa (7) 12-0 12. Tyrone (6) 12-0 33. Northern Lehigh (11) 12-0 54. Lewisburg (4) 12-0 65. Danville (4) 12-0 76. South Fayette (7) 12-0 87. West Catholic (12) 10-2 98. Trinity (3) 11-1 109. North Schuylkill (11) 11-1 210. Brockway (9) 11-0 NRDropped out: Lancaster Catholic (3).

——Class A

Team (District) Record Last Week1. Clairton (7) 12-0 12. Rochester (7) 12-0 23. Riverside (2) 11-1 34. Mercyhurst Prep (10) 12-0 45. Southern Columbia (4) 10-2 56. Holy Name (3) 10-1 87. Farrell (10) 11-1 98. Schuylkill Haven (11) 10-2 NR9. Bishop McCort (6) 8-4 NR10. Curwensville (9) 10-1 NRDropped out: Springdale (7), Sharpsville (10), Line Mountain (4).

Pennsylvania Football News state rankings

These D3 playoffs full of surprisesNotebook

By TrAViS l. PickENSaSSiStant SPortS [email protected]

Since the District 3 brackets expanded in 2006, there have been upsets here and there.

One of our favorite underdog stories is that of Garden Spot in 2008.

Two years ago, coach Matt Zamperini’s team finished the season a pedestrian 6-4 and earned the No. 10 seed in the Dis-trict 3 Class AAA playoffs.

Once the postseason began, Garden Spot found another level and won a pair of road games — at Lebanon and at Gre-encastle-Antrim — to reach the semifi-nals, where the magic ran out in a 20-0 loss to No. 2 West York.

Garden Spot was the only surprise team to make it to that level of the dis-trict playoffs two years ago. And that’s normally what we see — it’s rare when more than one team makes such a shock-ing run.

But, this season has been vastly differ-ent.

Consider the following:• Red Lion, the No. 8 seed in 3-AAAA,

avenged a 38-36 regular-season loss to Dallastown by knocking out the top-seeded Wildcats, 14-6, in the quarter-finals. In the same half of the bracket, Daniel Boone did the unthinkable and stunned No. 4 Harrisburg, 14-12, Sat-urday. The Blazers were bumped up to Class AAAA this season and, with a home game against the Lions tonight, have a realistic shot to play for 3-AAAA gold.

• Cocalico, the No. 13 seed in 3-AAA

that entered the playoffs at 5-5, owns upset wins over West York (28-21) and Susquehanna Township (28-7). Both of those games were on the road, which is where the Eagles will be tonight against fellow surprise semifinalist Conrad Weiser. The eighth-seeded Scouts (9-3) downed top-seeded and previously unbeaten Greencastle-Antrim, 34-20, on Friday. The combined record for Co-calico and Conrad Weiser: 16-8.

• Bermudian Springs was the talk of the district last week for its 3-AA quar-terfinal win over previously unbeaten Littlestown, but the Eagles, bounced by Trinity in the semifinals, were supplant-ed as that bracket’s biggest giant slayer Friday when Wyomissing sent tremors through the state with a 21-14 win over defending PIAA champion Lancaster Catholic. The Crusaders were the top seed and favorite to win a third-straight 3-AA title. The Spartans are seeded fifth and enter tonight’s district final against Trinity with a 9-3 record.

• See Notebook, D6

Samuel Getty/Special to the Sentinel

Daniel Boone defenders sack Harrisburg sophomore quarterback Kyle Cook on a failed two-point conversion with 1:04 remaining in the game Saturday at Severance Field. Daniel Boone upset the Cougars, 14-12, in the District 3 Class AAAA quarterfinals.


District 3: Playoff preview capsules

• See Caps, D11

District 3 Class AAAASemifinals

Cumberland Valley (Seed No. 7, 10-2) at Central Dauphin (6, 10-2)

Site: Landis Field, HarrisburgTime: Tonight, 7 p.m.Coaches: Cumberland Valley — Tim Rimpfel (22nd

year, 286-93-3); Central Dauphin — Glen McNamee (5th year, 43-16).

Last meeting: Cumberland Valley, 30-17, on Oct. 8.What’s at stake: Winner advances to 3-AAAA final to

meet either Red Lion (8, 9-3) or Daniel Boone (5, 11-1) at Hersheypark Stadium next Saturday at a time to be an-nounced. Loser is eliminated.

How they got here: Cumberland Valley defeated No. 10 Spring Grove, 35-21, in first round; defeated No. 2 Wilson, 28-14, in quarterfinals. Central Dauphin defeated No. 11 Warwick, 42-7, in first round; defeated No. 3 Governor Mif-flin, 35-26, in quarterfinals.

Key players: Cumberland Valley — Eric Sawyer, sr., QB; Kevin Snyder, sr., RB-SS-LB; Jeremy DiPietro, jr., RB-DB; Dan Flynn, sr., FB-LB; Colton Kirkpatrick, sr., TE-LB; Barry Lyons, sr., TE-DE; Kyle Friend, jr., T-DT. Central Dau-phin — Brandon LaVia, soph., QB; Zayd Issah, soph., RB-LB; Jon Schnaars, sr., WR; Matt Kirchner, sr., LB; Kemji Rajis, sr., LB; Artie Rowell, sr., OL-DL.

Cumberland Valley notes: defending 3-AAAA cham-pion. ... has scored at least 30 points in all but three games this year and lost two of them. ... averages 35.0 points per game, which is second-best in the area, and 15.6 against, good for third. ... Snyder, who has 861 rushing yards on 117 carries and has 70 total tackles, will continue his football career at Rutgers as a linebacker. Snyder had a breakout game against Wilson with a 94-yard touchdown run and a 59-yard touchdown pass to Kyle Brubaker on a halfback option. ... DiPietro leads the team with 1,079 rushing yards on 98 carries. The junior’s yards are third-most in the area. ... Flynn, who leads the team with 114 total tackles, has 806 rushing yards. ... Sawyer has completed 60 of 121 passes for 693 yards with five touchdowns and three interceptions. The senior hasn’t thrown a pick since Week 3 against Bishop McDevitt. ... Kirkpatrick, who has 110 total tackles, is the top receiving threat with 231 yards. ... Eagles are aiming for 10th 3-AAAA title. ... there has not been a repeat champion in 3-AAAA since Bishop McDevitt in 2004-05. ... 5-1 record on the road this year. ... jumped out to a 28-0 lead against Wilson before Bulldogs scored two late touchdowns. ... team is on a three-game winning streak in away playoff games and hasn’t lost a true post-season road game since 2005 at Hempfield. ... finished second in Mid-Penn Commonwealth Division behind Har-risburg with a 5-1 record.

Central Dauphin notes: riding a five-game winning streak. ... following mid-season shutout loss to Harrisburg, outscored next five opponents, 203-70. ... losses are to Cumberland Valley (by 13) and Harrisburg (by 28). ... has won four of six games against teams with winning records, including the postseason. ... held five teams to seven points or less. ... jumped out to a 14-0 lead on Governor Mifflin, then held on as the Mustangs pulled within 21-19 with 6:12 to go in the third. A 4-yard pass from LaVia to Schnaars and an 8-yard run by Issah put Mifflin away. ... the 26 points allowed were the most the Rams gave up in five weeks and the fourth-highest total against them all year. ... LaVia has completed 106 of 179 passes for 1,599

yards, with 17 touchdowns and six interceptions. ... Issah leads the team in rushing yards with 1,596 and 21 touch-downs. ... Schnaars is the team’s leading receiver with 957 yards and 12 touchdowns. ... Kirchner paces the defense with 112 total tackles. ... Rowell will continue his football ca-reer at the University of Pittsburgh. ... first time Rams have

won more than one playoff game since 2002, when they were district champions. ... snapped a four-game 3-AAAA

quarterfinal losing streak last week. ... finished third in the Mid-Penn Commonwealth Division with a 4-2 record.

Breakdown: Central Dauphin’s offense is running like a well-oiled machine. The Rams haven’t been slowed since they lost to Harrisburg back on Oct. 16. That has to be of some concern to a CV defense that bends to the limit but rarely breaks. Wilson spent most of the first half in Eagles territory Friday but failed to score. Something tells us that if CV plays with fire like that again, it’s going to get burned. This will be the fourth meeting in the last 12 months between these two teams — CV won the last two — so they’re awfully familiar with each other. As is the case with most games between CV and CD, the team that doesn’t

make mistakes will win.Prediction: Cumberland Valley, 31-21.

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Red Lion (8, 9-3) at Daniel Boone (5, 11-1)

Site: Daniel Boone High School Stadium, BirdsboroTime: Tonight, 7 p.m.Coaches: Red Lion — Pat Conrad (7th year, 37-38);

Daniel Boone — Dave Bodolus (8th year, 69-25).Last meeting: Teams have never played each other.What’s at stake: Winner advances to 3-AAAA final to

meet either Cumberland Valley (7, 10-2) or Central Dau-phin (6, 10-2) at Hersheypark Stadium next Saturday at a time to be announced. Loser is eliminated.

How they got here: Red Lion defeated No. 9 McCas-key, 14-13, in first round; defeated No. 1 Dallastown, 14-6, in quarterfinals. Daniel Boone defeated No. 12 Cedar Cliff, 34-16, in first round; defeated No. 4 Harrisburg, 14-12, in quarterfinals.

Key players: Red Lion — Tanner Klinefelter, jr., QB-FS; Jeremy Knaub, sr., RB-ILB; Branden Kessler, sr., WR-FS;

Joe Baublitz, sr., WR-FS; Andrew Zeller, sr., OL-DT. Daniel Boone — Tommy Bodolus, jr., QB-DB; Darrell Scott, jr., RB-DB; Randy Vanhorn, sr., WR-DB; Zack Robinson, jr., OL-DL; Ryan Stone, sr., OL-LB.

Red Lion notes: trying to become the second YAIAA team to play for a 3-AAAA title (the first was South West-ern in 2000, and the Mustangs lost to Cumberland Valley, 49-14). ... averaged a mere 14 points in two playoff games but is averaging only 9.5 against. ... 2-3 record against teams that qualified for the 3-AAAA playoffs. ... lost to Cumberland Valley on opening night, 45-6. ... scored at least 27 points in all but three regular-season games. ... lost regular-season finale to Dallastown before beating the Wildcats in 3-AAAA quarterfinals last week. ... blocked an extra point in the fourth quarter to defeat McCaskey in first round. ... Klinefelter has completed 121 of 202 passes for 1,722 yards with 20 touchdowns and five interceptions. ... team’s leading rusher is Knaub with 816 yards and 14 touchdowns. Knaub has added 61 total tackles from his inside linebacker spot... top receiving threat is Kessler with 919 yards on 49 catches. Kessler, who leads the team with 65 total tackles, has 10 receiving touchdowns. ... Baublitz has added 444 receiving yards and seven touch-down catches. ... Lions have not played an Inter-County team this season. ... 2-1 record outside of the YAIAA. ... finished tied for second in YAIAA Division I with Spring Grove at 3-2.

Daniel Boone notes: stopped a two-point conversion with 1:04 to play Saturday to beat Harrisburg, 14-12, in the quarterfinals. ... first year in Class AAAA after being bumped up from Class AAA. ... 6-1 record at home this year, including a 34-16 victory over Cedar Cliff in 3-AAAA first round. ... loss was to 3-AAAA quarterfinalist Governor Mifflin, 42-0, on Oct. 22. ... Bodolus has completed 135 of 243 passes for 2,090 yards, with 28 touchdowns and 15 interceptions. ... team’s leading ground-gainer is Scott with 1,614 yards and 15 touchdowns. ... Vanhorn paces the Blazers with 828 receiving yards and seven touchdowns. ... Stone and Robinson lead the team with 75 and 73 total tackles, respectively. ... has a 1-0 record against YAIAA teams — defeated Susquehannock, 35-7, in Week 2. ... regular season schedule included three teams with win-ning records (Boone won two of those games). ... played only two Class AAAA schools in regular season and went 1-1. ... finished tied for first in Inter-County League Section I at 6-1 with Governor Mifflin and Pottsville.

Breakdown: It’s not an accident that Daniel Boone has made it this far. The Blazers came into Harrisburg with a great game plan — put tons of pressure on Cougars backup quarterback Stanley Lumpkin Jr. and hope he can’t handle it. The converted wide receiver couldn’t, and the Blazers emerged with what the Reading Eagle is call-ing one of the bigger upsets in District 3 playoff history. Now it’s time to see if Daniel Boone can put last week’s win behind it and be ready to face Red Lion, another surprise semifinalist. Both teams have advanced through the play-offs by playing hard-nosed, physical defense. That’s going to continue tonight in Birdsboro. Expect the fundamentally sound Blazers to play another sound game and shock the district by playing for the 3-AAAA title in their first year as a member of the state’s largest classification.

Prediction: Daniel Boone, 16-10._____

Red Devils face ■

open competition at quarterback next year.

Dickinson battles inconsistency

By KuRT BoPPSENTINEL [email protected]

The 2010 season may not have been what Darwin Breaux was hoping for, but the Dickinson football coach is proud of his team nonetheless.

Breaux’s Red Devils finished the year 3-7 overall and 3-6 in the Centennial Confer-ence. Dickinson had to settle for seventh in the conference just a season after finishing tied for second and nearly getting an NCAA berth.

The 2010 campaign for Dickinson was marred by inconsistency. The biggest dis-play of their up-and-down play came in a home game with Gettysburg. Dickinson jumped out to a 24-7 lead late in the second quarter, but the Red Devils’ offense soon stalled as the Bullets came back to win, 28-24.

“The most important thing this season was our guys were ready to compete every single week,” Breaux said. “We just have to get better at finishing games. That’ll be the focal point of the offseason.”

The Red Devils will also look to replace a senior class full of leaders — both on and off the field. Among the seniors on offense are captain Tim Smith, kicker Gordon Craig and wide receiver Craig Helfer.

“This whole senior class has been a hard-working group,” Breaux said. “There have been some four-year starters in this class. There are also kids who have never really started, but they’re good team guys. Com-peted well and played well together.”

Smith finished the season with 951 all-purpose yards out of the backfield for Dickinson. The captain scored five rushing touchdowns and one through the air, and also passed for one as well.

Smith was named an All-Centennial Conference honorable mention.

Breaux called Smith a “complete” football player.

Smith understands the game well and is an accomplished runner, blocker and re-ceiver, the coach said, and could play any position.

Smith rushed for 1,767 yards and 15 touchdowns in his career.

Also helping to lead the offense was Helf-er, who topped the team this year in receiv-ing yards (711) and receiving touchdowns (eight).

Breaux said Helfer is a great route runner and “exceptional” blocker, and the coach expressed disappointment that Helfer didn’t get conference recognition.

The third standout senior on offense was Craig, who earned All-Centennial honor-able-mention honors after finishing as the all-time leader in field goals at Dickinson. The senior led the team in points this sea-son with 11 field goals and 22 extra points.

“Gordon’s had a huge impact on our pro-gram for four years,” Breaux said. “Very consistent. He loved the opportunity to kick when the game was on the line. Those are the kids you want on the field for you.”

On the defensive side, Breaux said, key losses for next year include Josh Harrison, Pat McNeal, Pete Hamill, Adam Farrell and Kevin Wood. Breaux said that although the losses will be felt, he is confident players will step up to fill their positions.

“We’ve got a good nucleus at linebacker and secondary,” the coach said. “We’re cer-tainly going to address those three areas in the offseason and through recruiting.”

Players returning to the defense are ex-pected to include Michael Tucker, who was All-Centennial honorable mention, and Scott Sullivan, who led the team in inter-ceptions (three) and was second in tackles

(84).The big question left for the Red Devils is

a recurring one from this season: Who will be the starting quarterback?

“It’ll be a wide-open position when we come in next year,” Breaux said.

The coach hopes to recruit a couple of players who could compete for the posi-tion right away. Also in the hunt should be Ricky Martz (1,107 yards passing, nine touchdowns and five interceptions in eight games), Jordan Kaufman (536 yards, two touchdowns and four interceptions in sev-en games) and Todd Smolinsky, who saw limited time in five games.

To fix the team’s inconsistency, Breaux said, he’ll need better execution and better fundamentals — which he said will be the focus this offseason.

“All about being as fundamentally sound as you can be and playing with that mind-set all game,” Breaux said. “A coach will always say there are five or six plays that’ll determine the outcome. We’ve got to avoid

penalties and turnovers on those plays and play fundamentally sound.”

When asked about his final thoughts on the 2010 season, Breaux reiterated his pride in his players and their competitiveness.

“Proud of the way we competed every single week,” Breaux said. “Not the season we anticipated, but we’re excited for the offseason and 2011.”


Trinity junior quarterback Patrick Dill fumbles the ball against Bermudian Springs last week. If the Shamrocks commit six turnovers again, they’ll have a hard time beating Wyomissing tonight.

Year in review

Dickinson College Red Devils2010 Record: 3-7 overall, 3-6 conferenceCC offensive rankings: SCORING - 5 (22.7); TOTAL YDS. - 6 (319.6); RUSHING - 3 (146.6); PASSING

- 7 (173.0).CC defensive rankings: SCORING - 8 (29.0); TOTAL YDS. - 7 (361.0); RUSHING - 8 (166.5); PASS-

ING - 5 (194.5).other CC rankings: TURNOVER MARGIN - 8 (-3); PENALTIES - 1 (45); 3rd DOWN CONV. % - 6

(39.1); FIRST DOWNS - 7 (170).offensive leaders: RUSHING: Tim Smith (126-523, 5 TDs); PASSING: Ricky Martz (89-156-5, 1107

yds., 9 TDs); RECEIVING: Craig Helfer (42-711 yds., 8 TDs).Defensive leaders: TACKLES: Kevin Wood (87), Scott Sullivan (84), Jack Connolly (67); SACKS:

Pete Hamill (4.0), Adam Farrell (2.0), Jack Connolly (2.0), Kevin Wood (1.0), Corwyn Gordon (1.0), Cole Glennon (1.0); INTERCEPTIONS: Scott Sullivan (3), Pete Hamill (2), Julian Rosen (2), Pat McBreen (1).

Craig Helfer

“The most important thing this season was our guys were ready to compete

every single week. We just have to get better at finishing games. That’ll be

the focal point of the offseason.”

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played a key role in helping the Eagles win.He intercepted Central Dauphin sophomore

quarterback Brandon LaVia inside the 10-yard line in the second quarter and, in the third, tackled sophomore running back Zayd Issah for a loss on fourth-and-2.

In all, CV kept the Rams off the scoreboard on three different occasions when they moved into CV territory.

The Eagles did the same to Wilson on Friday — the Bulldogs crossed midfield five times in the first half yet trailed, 14-0, at halftime.

“Our defense is more of a bend-but-don’t-break philosophy,” Brubaker said. “If they drive the ball down the field but we get turnovers, it takes a lot out of the other team because they just worked real hard, and it goes away with the turnover.”

“You just have to stop them,” CV senior full-back and linebacker Dan Flynn said. “If they don’t score any points, you’re never going to lose.”

Central Dauphin’s offense is similar to what Spring Grove and Wilson threw at CV in earlier weeks.

The difference this time will be Central Dau-phin’s huge offensive line.

Spring Grove’s line was porous. Wilson’s was skilled and strong but lacked size.

Central Dauphin has the size, strength and skill needed to win playoff football games. The line is anchored by 6-foot-3 University of Pitts-burgh recruit Artie Rowell, who tips the scales at 285 pounds.

“Really, their offensive line is the best we’ve seen as far as up and down the line,” Rimpfel said. “There’s no real weak spot. Harrisburg has a couple outstanding linemen, but they also have some weak spots. These guys are solid.”

The first time around, Central Dauphin rushed for 233 yards but finished with its second-low-est scoring output of the season — the Rams

scored 17 against Bishop McDevitt on Sept. 10 and were blanked by Harrisburg on Oct. 22.

“I think we neutralized them after awhile,” Rimpfel said. “The first half we struggled. The second half, I thought we did a pretty good job. I don’t know if it was conditioning or what, but they did not have the success in moving us off the ball like they did in the first half.”

If the Eagles wait until the second half to try and take control of tonight’s game, it might be too late.

In both of their losses, CV fell behind by at least two touchdowns.

Bishop McDevitt held a 14-0, first-quarter lead Sept. 17, and Harrisburg was up, 21-0, in the second quarter on Oct. 30.

Each time, the Eagles stormed back and pulled even before ultimately falling.

“All year we’ve been coming out slow in the first half or the first quarter,” Flynn said.

“I think we did a little better in the Wilson game. Hopefully, this game we’ll come out ready so we can get a jump on them.

“As long as we get that head start, we’ll be alright.”

More often than not, when CV and Central Dauphin meet on the football field, it’s a big deal.

The last two years, the games have meant even more because of the postseason factor.

Last year, Central Dauphin won the regular-season meeting, 38-35, thanks to a nearly flaw-less effort.

Two weeks later in the 3-AAAA quarterfinals, CV took advantage of Central Dauphin’s mis-takes in a 24-21 win.

“That’s been the key,” Rimpfel said. “If we put the ball on the carpet a lot or throw

interceptions, we’re in trouble. It’s the same way with them. Look at last year — in the regu-lar season we had more turnovers and then, in the playoffs, they had a couple turnovers right away, and we took advantage of that.

“A good team will do that.”

District 3 playoff glance

All games begin Friday at 7 p.m. unless notedSeeds, records in parenthesis

Class AAAAFirst Round

Dallastown 28, Conestoga Valley 14Red Lion 14, McCaskey 13Harrisburg 75, Penn Manor 28Daniel Boone 34, Cedar Cliff 16Wilson 48, Manheim Twp. 21Cumberland Valley 35, Spring Grove 21Governor Mifflin 42, William Penn 6Central Dauphin 42, Warwick 6

QuarterfinalsRed Lion 14, Dallastown 6Daniel Boone 14, Harrisburg 12

Cumberland Valley 28, Wilson 14Central Dauphin 35, Governor Mifflin 26

SemifinalsRed Lion (8, 9-3) at Daniel Boone (5, 11-1)Cumberland Valley (7, 10-2) at Central Dauphin (6, 10-2)

Class AAAFirst Round

Greencastle-Antrim 42, Hamburg 6Conrad Weiser 53, East Pennsboro 37Cocalico 28, West York 21Susquehanna Twp. 53, Gettysburg 14Lampeter-Strasburg 41, Big Spring 13Manheim Central 64, Dover 14Bishop McDevitt 45, Kennard-Dale 24Hershey 15, Shippensburg 6

QuarterfinalsConrad Weiser 34, Greencastle-Antrim 20Cocalico 28, Susquehanna Twp. 7Lampeter-Strasburg 25, Manheim Central 20Bishop McDevitt 63, Hershey 0

SemifinalsCocalico (13, 7-5) at Conrad Weiser (8, 9-3)Bishop McDevitt (3, 10-2) at Lampeter-Strasburg (2, 11-1)

Class AAQuarterfinals

Lancaster Catholic 56, Schuylkill Valley 21Wyomissing 28, Delone Catholic 21Bermudian Springs 37, Littlestown 0Trinity 42, Boiling Springs 0

Semifinals

Wyomissing 21, Lancaster Catholic 14Trinity 48, Bermudian Springs 12

ChampionshipWyomissing (5, 9-3) vs. Trinity (3, 11-1) at Hersheypark Stadium,

Friday, 7

Class AQuarterfinals

Steelton-Highspire 41, Columbia 32Semifinals

Holy Name 42, Steelton-Highspire 7Millersburg 13, York Catholic 12

ChampionshipMillersburg (3, 8-3) at Holy Name (1, 10-1) at Hersheypark Stadium,

Friday, 1

CVOf all the surprise teams taking the

field tonight, the most shocking of them all is Daniel Boone.

The Blazers finished the regular sea-son with a 9-1 record, but its schedule was loaded with Class AAA schools. When it played a strong AAAA foe, Governor Mifflin, Daniel Boone was blasted, 42-0.

So it seemed like only a matter of time before the clock would strike midnight on the district’s third-small-est Class AAAA school.

But that has yet to happen and might not for at least another week.

The disciplined Blazers weren’t over-ly impressive Saturday, but they flew to the ball on defense and made Har-risburg pay for its bevy of mistakes. That’s a winning combination for any team to survive and advance in high school football’s six-week knockout stage.

First time for everythingCumberland Valley senior running

back/linebacker Kevin Snyder not only threw his first career pass in a varsi-ty football game during Friday’s 28-14 win at Wilson, he also had his first breakout game of the season on the ground.

Snyder, a Rutgers recruit, rushed for a game-high 157 yards and one touch-down.

It was only the second time this season Snyder eclipsed the 100-yard mark. He has 861 rushing yards on the season.

YikesFor an offense that had been running

so smoothly, it was only a matter of time before a problem arose.

Friday night, Trinity turned the ball over an alarming six times, which in-cluded four interceptions thrown by junior quarterback Patrick Dill.

Dill had only two other games this year in which he threw multiple inter-ceptions — at Lancaster Catholic and vs. East Pennsboro. He threw two in each game.

Despite the trouble holding onto the ball, Trinity still finished with 561 yards of total offense and smashed Bermu-dian Springs, 48-12, in the District 3 Class AA semifinals.

Commonwealth flexes muscleLast season, Cumberland Valley and

State College — division rivals in the Mid-Penn Commonwealth — met in the PIAA Class AAAA semifinals.

While it’s a long shot that the Little Lions (6-6) will get back to the state semifinals, they’re still alive in the bot-tom half of the state bracket and meet District 8 champion Perry Traditional Academy (11-1) tonight in Pittsburgh.

In all, there are three Commonwealth Division teams — Cumberland Val-ley (10-2) travels to Central Dauphin (10-2) in a 3-AAAA semifinal tonight — alive in the state’s final 16.

And, had Harrisburg not been tripped by upstart Daniel Boone, four Com-monwealth teams would still be play-ing.

Playoffs by the numbersAfter crunching some figures from

the first two weeks of the District 3 playoffs in classes AAAA, AAA and AA, we came up with an interesting con-clusion.

The 10 games conducted in the sec-ond round were, on average, only 8.1 points closer than the 20 played in the first week.

The average spread of the games in the first round was 26.0 points, and the spread of last week’s games was 17.9.

Quick hits• In its first season competing in the

3-AAA tournament, Bishop McDevitt has outscored Kennard-Dale and Her-shey, 108-24, in two mercy-rule wins.

• Harrisburg’s loss to Daniel Boone on Saturday was its first playoff de-feat at Severance Field since 2006 and snapped a four-game home playoff winning streak.

• Red Lion owns the smallest aver-age winning margin of the 12 teams still alive in the district. The Lions beat McCaskey and Dallastown by an aver-age of 4.5 points. Wyomissing, with the second-smallest margin, won its two games by an average of seven.

• In the three games last week that pitted the Philadelphia Catholic League against the Philadelphia Public League, the private schools won all three by a combined score of 113-13. LaSalle College, Archbishop Wood and West Catholic were winners over Northeast, Dobbins-Randolph Vo-Tech and Bok Vo-Tech, respectively.


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Cumberland Valley senior wide receiver and defensive back Kyle Brubaker had a great game defensively against Central Dauphin in the October meeting between the two Mid-Penn powers. If the Eagles hope to beat the Rams again, the defense will need to stand tall.



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District 3: Playoff preview capsules

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District 3 Class AAAASemifinals

Cumberland Valley (Seed No. 7, 10-2) at Central Dauphin (6, 10-2)

Site: Landis Field, HarrisburgTime: Tonight, 7 p.m.Coaches: Cumberland Valley — Tim Rimpfel (22nd

year, 286-93-3); Central Dauphin — Glen McNamee (5th year, 43-16).

Last meeting: Cumberland Valley, 30-17, on Oct. 8.What’s at stake: Winner advances to 3-AAAA final to

meet either Red Lion (8, 9-3) or Daniel Boone (5, 11-1) at Hersheypark Stadium next Saturday at a time to be an-nounced. Loser is eliminated.

How they got here: Cumberland Valley defeated No. 10 Spring Grove, 35-21, in first round; defeated No. 2 Wilson, 28-14, in quarterfinals. Central Dauphin defeated No. 11 Warwick, 42-7, in first round; defeated No. 3 Governor Mif-flin, 35-26, in quarterfinals.

Key players: Cumberland Valley — Eric Sawyer, sr., QB; Kevin Snyder, sr., RB-SS-LB; Jeremy DiPietro, jr., RB-DB; Dan Flynn, sr., FB-LB; Colton Kirkpatrick, sr., TE-LB; Barry Lyons, sr., TE-DE; Kyle Friend, jr., T-DT. Central Dau-phin — Brandon LaVia, soph., QB; Zayd Issah, soph., RB-LB; Jon Schnaars, sr., WR; Matt Kirchner, sr., LB; Kemji Rajis, sr., LB; Artie Rowell, sr., OL-DL.

Cumberland Valley notes: defending 3-AAAA cham-pion. ... has scored at least 30 points in all but three games this year and lost two of them. ... averages 35.0 points per game, which is second-best in the area, and 15.6 against, good for third. ... Snyder, who has 861 rushing yards on 117 carries and has 70 total tackles, will continue his football career at Rutgers as a linebacker. Snyder had a breakout game against Wilson with a 94-yard touchdown run and a 59-yard touchdown pass to Kyle Brubaker on a halfback option. ... DiPietro leads the team with 1,079 rushing yards on 98 carries. The junior’s yards are third-most in the area. ... Flynn, who leads the team with 114 total tackles, has 806 rushing yards. ... Sawyer has completed 60 of 121 passes for 693 yards with five touchdowns and three interceptions. The senior hasn’t thrown a pick since Week 3 against Bishop McDevitt. ... Kirkpatrick, who has 110 total tackles, is the top receiving threat with 231 yards. ... Eagles are aiming for 10th 3-AAAA title. ... there has not been a repeat champion in 3-AAAA since Bishop McDevitt in 2004-05. ... 5-1 record on the road this year. ... jumped out to a 28-0 lead against Wilson before Bulldogs scored two late touchdowns. ... team is on a three-game winning streak in away playoff games and hasn’t lost a true post-season road game since 2005 at Hempfield. ... finished second in Mid-Penn Commonwealth Division behind Har-risburg with a 5-1 record.

Central Dauphin notes: riding a five-game winning streak. ... following mid-season shutout loss to Harrisburg, outscored next five opponents, 203-70. ... losses are to Cumberland Valley (by 13) and Harrisburg (by 28). ... has won four of six games against teams with winning records, including the postseason. ... held five teams to seven points or less. ... jumped out to a 14-0 lead on Governor Mifflin, then held on as the Mustangs pulled within 21-19 with 6:12 to go in the third. A 4-yard pass from LaVia to Schnaars and an 8-yard run by Issah put Mifflin away. ... the 26 points allowed were the most the Rams gave up in five weeks and the fourth-highest total against them all year. ... LaVia has completed 106 of 179 passes for 1,599

yards, with 17 touchdowns and six interceptions. ... Issah leads the team in rushing yards with 1,596 and 21 touch-downs. ... Schnaars is the team’s leading receiver with 957 yards and 12 touchdowns. ... Kirchner paces the defense with 112 total tackles. ... Rowell will continue his football ca-reer at the University of Pittsburgh. ... first time Rams have

won more than one playoff game since 2002, when they were district champions. ... snapped a four-game 3-AAAA

quarterfinal losing streak last week. ... finished third in the Mid-Penn Commonwealth Division with a 4-2 record.

Breakdown: Central Dauphin’s offense is running like a well-oiled machine. The Rams haven’t been slowed since they lost to Harrisburg back on Oct. 16. That has to be of some concern to a CV defense that bends to the limit but rarely breaks. Wilson spent most of the first half in Eagles territory Friday but failed to score. Something tells us that if CV plays with fire like that again, it’s going to get burned. This will be the fourth meeting in the last 12 months between these two teams — CV won the last two — so they’re awfully familiar with each other. As is the case with most games between CV and CD, the team that doesn’t

make mistakes will win.Prediction: Cumberland Valley, 31-21.

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Red Lion (8, 9-3) at Daniel Boone (5, 11-1)

Site: Daniel Boone High School Stadium, BirdsboroTime: Tonight, 7 p.m.Coaches: Red Lion — Pat Conrad (7th year, 37-38);

Daniel Boone — Dave Bodolus (8th year, 69-25).Last meeting: Teams have never played each other.What’s at stake: Winner advances to 3-AAAA final to

meet either Cumberland Valley (7, 10-2) or Central Dau-phin (6, 10-2) at Hersheypark Stadium next Saturday at a time to be announced. Loser is eliminated.

How they got here: Red Lion defeated No. 9 McCas-key, 14-13, in first round; defeated No. 1 Dallastown, 14-6, in quarterfinals. Daniel Boone defeated No. 12 Cedar Cliff, 34-16, in first round; defeated No. 4 Harrisburg, 14-12, in quarterfinals.

Key players: Red Lion — Tanner Klinefelter, jr., QB-FS; Jeremy Knaub, sr., RB-ILB; Branden Kessler, sr., WR-FS;

Joe Baublitz, sr., WR-FS; Andrew Zeller, sr., OL-DT. Daniel Boone — Tommy Bodolus, jr., QB-DB; Darrell Scott, jr., RB-DB; Randy Vanhorn, sr., WR-DB; Zack Robinson, jr., OL-DL; Ryan Stone, sr., OL-LB.

Red Lion notes: trying to become the second YAIAA team to play for a 3-AAAA title (the first was South West-ern in 2000, and the Mustangs lost to Cumberland Valley, 49-14). ... averaged a mere 14 points in two playoff games but is averaging only 9.5 against. ... 2-3 record against teams that qualified for the 3-AAAA playoffs. ... lost to Cumberland Valley on opening night, 45-6. ... scored at least 27 points in all but three regular-season games. ... lost regular-season finale to Dallastown before beating the Wildcats in 3-AAAA quarterfinals last week. ... blocked an extra point in the fourth quarter to defeat McCaskey in first round. ... Klinefelter has completed 121 of 202 passes for 1,722 yards with 20 touchdowns and five interceptions. ... team’s leading rusher is Knaub with 816 yards and 14 touchdowns. Knaub has added 61 total tackles from his inside linebacker spot... top receiving threat is Kessler with 919 yards on 49 catches. Kessler, who leads the team with 65 total tackles, has 10 receiving touchdowns. ... Baublitz has added 444 receiving yards and seven touch-down catches. ... Lions have not played an Inter-County team this season. ... 2-1 record outside of the YAIAA. ... finished tied for second in YAIAA Division I with Spring Grove at 3-2.

Daniel Boone notes: stopped a two-point conversion with 1:04 to play Saturday to beat Harrisburg, 14-12, in the quarterfinals. ... first year in Class AAAA after being bumped up from Class AAA. ... 6-1 record at home this year, including a 34-16 victory over Cedar Cliff in 3-AAAA first round. ... loss was to 3-AAAA quarterfinalist Governor Mifflin, 42-0, on Oct. 22. ... Bodolus has completed 135 of 243 passes for 2,090 yards, with 28 touchdowns and 15 interceptions. ... team’s leading ground-gainer is Scott with 1,614 yards and 15 touchdowns. ... Vanhorn paces the Blazers with 828 receiving yards and seven touchdowns. ... Stone and Robinson lead the team with 75 and 73 total tackles, respectively. ... has a 1-0 record against YAIAA teams — defeated Susquehannock, 35-7, in Week 2. ... regular season schedule included three teams with win-ning records (Boone won two of those games). ... played only two Class AAAA schools in regular season and went 1-1. ... finished tied for first in Inter-County League Section I at 6-1 with Governor Mifflin and Pottsville.

Breakdown: It’s not an accident that Daniel Boone has made it this far. The Blazers came into Harrisburg with a great game plan — put tons of pressure on Cougars backup quarterback Stanley Lumpkin Jr. and hope he can’t handle it. The converted wide receiver couldn’t, and the Blazers emerged with what the Reading Eagle is call-ing one of the bigger upsets in District 3 playoff history. Now it’s time to see if Daniel Boone can put last week’s win behind it and be ready to face Red Lion, another surprise semifinalist. Both teams have advanced through the play-offs by playing hard-nosed, physical defense. That’s going to continue tonight in Birdsboro. Expect the fundamentally sound Blazers to play another sound game and shock the district by playing for the 3-AAAA title in their first year as a member of the state’s largest classification.

Prediction: Daniel Boone, 16-10._____

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open competition at quarterback next year.

Dickinson battles inconsistency

By KuRT BoPPSENTINEL [email protected]

The 2010 season may not have been what Darwin Breaux was hoping for, but the Dickinson football coach is proud of his team nonetheless.

Breaux’s Red Devils finished the year 3-7 overall and 3-6 in the Centennial Confer-ence. Dickinson had to settle for seventh in the conference just a season after finishing tied for second and nearly getting an NCAA berth.

The 2010 campaign for Dickinson was marred by inconsistency. The biggest dis-play of their up-and-down play came in a home game with Gettysburg. Dickinson jumped out to a 24-7 lead late in the second quarter, but the Red Devils’ offense soon stalled as the Bullets came back to win, 28-24.

“The most important thing this season was our guys were ready to compete every single week,” Breaux said. “We just have to get better at finishing games. That’ll be the focal point of the offseason.”

The Red Devils will also look to replace a senior class full of leaders — both on and off the field. Among the seniors on offense are captain Tim Smith, kicker Gordon Craig and wide receiver Craig Helfer.

“This whole senior class has been a hard-working group,” Breaux said. “There have been some four-year starters in this class. There are also kids who have never really started, but they’re good team guys. Com-peted well and played well together.”

Smith finished the season with 951 all-purpose yards out of the backfield for Dickinson. The captain scored five rushing touchdowns and one through the air, and also passed for one as well.

Smith was named an All-Centennial Conference honorable mention.

Breaux called Smith a “complete” football player.

Smith understands the game well and is an accomplished runner, blocker and re-ceiver, the coach said, and could play any position.

Smith rushed for 1,767 yards and 15 touchdowns in his career.

Also helping to lead the offense was Helf-er, who topped the team this year in receiv-ing yards (711) and receiving touchdowns (eight).

Breaux said Helfer is a great route runner and “exceptional” blocker, and the coach expressed disappointment that Helfer didn’t get conference recognition.

The third standout senior on offense was Craig, who earned All-Centennial honor-able-mention honors after finishing as the all-time leader in field goals at Dickinson. The senior led the team in points this sea-son with 11 field goals and 22 extra points.

“Gordon’s had a huge impact on our pro-gram for four years,” Breaux said. “Very consistent. He loved the opportunity to kick when the game was on the line. Those are the kids you want on the field for you.”

On the defensive side, Breaux said, key losses for next year include Josh Harrison, Pat McNeal, Pete Hamill, Adam Farrell and Kevin Wood. Breaux said that although the losses will be felt, he is confident players will step up to fill their positions.

“We’ve got a good nucleus at linebacker and secondary,” the coach said. “We’re cer-tainly going to address those three areas in the offseason and through recruiting.”

Players returning to the defense are ex-pected to include Michael Tucker, who was All-Centennial honorable mention, and Scott Sullivan, who led the team in inter-ceptions (three) and was second in tackles

(84).The big question left for the Red Devils is

a recurring one from this season: Who will be the starting quarterback?

“It’ll be a wide-open position when we come in next year,” Breaux said.

The coach hopes to recruit a couple of players who could compete for the posi-tion right away. Also in the hunt should be Ricky Martz (1,107 yards passing, nine touchdowns and five interceptions in eight games), Jordan Kaufman (536 yards, two touchdowns and four interceptions in sev-en games) and Todd Smolinsky, who saw limited time in five games.

To fix the team’s inconsistency, Breaux said, he’ll need better execution and better fundamentals — which he said will be the focus this offseason.

“All about being as fundamentally sound as you can be and playing with that mind-set all game,” Breaux said. “A coach will always say there are five or six plays that’ll determine the outcome. We’ve got to avoid

penalties and turnovers on those plays and play fundamentally sound.”

When asked about his final thoughts on the 2010 season, Breaux reiterated his pride in his players and their competitiveness.

“Proud of the way we competed every single week,” Breaux said. “Not the season we anticipated, but we’re excited for the offseason and 2011.”


Trinity junior quarterback Patrick Dill fumbles the ball against Bermudian Springs last week. If the Shamrocks commit six turnovers again, they’ll have a hard time beating Wyomissing tonight.

Year in review

Dickinson College Red Devils2010 Record: 3-7 overall, 3-6 conferenceCC offensive rankings: SCORING - 5 (22.7); TOTAL YDS. - 6 (319.6); RUSHING - 3 (146.6); PASSING

- 7 (173.0).CC defensive rankings: SCORING - 8 (29.0); TOTAL YDS. - 7 (361.0); RUSHING - 8 (166.5); PASS-

ING - 5 (194.5).other CC rankings: TURNOVER MARGIN - 8 (-3); PENALTIES - 1 (45); 3rd DOWN CONV. % - 6

(39.1); FIRST DOWNS - 7 (170).offensive leaders: RUSHING: Tim Smith (126-523, 5 TDs); PASSING: Ricky Martz (89-156-5, 1107

yds., 9 TDs); RECEIVING: Craig Helfer (42-711 yds., 8 TDs).Defensive leaders: TACKLES: Kevin Wood (87), Scott Sullivan (84), Jack Connolly (67); SACKS:

Pete Hamill (4.0), Adam Farrell (2.0), Jack Connolly (2.0), Kevin Wood (1.0), Corwyn Gordon (1.0), Cole Glennon (1.0); INTERCEPTIONS: Scott Sullivan (3), Pete Hamill (2), Julian Rosen (2), Pat McBreen (1).

Craig Helfer

“The most important thing this season was our guys were ready to compete

every single week. We just have to get better at finishing games. That’ll be

the focal point of the offseason.”

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Spoiler role for PSUMichigan State (10-1) at Penn State (7-4)

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Week 12

By SArA GANimMcclatchy-tribune

Police in Centre County said they’re bracing for a trifecta of events —Thanksgiving travel, Black Friday and a home Penn State football game — that, for the first time since 1998, are all fall-ing on the same weekend.

“We’re looking at the holiday week-end, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, as be-ing the perfect storm for us,” said Cliff Lutz, assistant chief with Penn State police. “We’re going to have contraflow with football traffic — the shopping crowd is going to be moving the op-posite direction, we’re going to have people heading up to hunting camps in the opposite direction, plus the stu-dents will be returning, perhaps in the midst of the football traffic.”

By roN muSSElmANMcclatchy-tribune

Michigan State usually tries to ruin Penn State’s postseason plans in the regular-season finale.

But Saturday the Nittany Lions and the Spartans will reverse roles at Beaver Sta-dium.

“It’s definitely a big game,” said wide receiver Derek M o ye . “ We were kind of s c o r e b o a r d watching [Sat-urday] from the sideline. I was hoping they won so the game has some national implications for the BCS and the Big Ten championship.

“Even though it’s not for us, it’s going to be big for us to go out there and pretty much ruin their season.”

Penn State (7-4, 4-3) is 8-0 against Big Ten Conference co-leader Michigan State (10-1, 6-1) at home since entering league play in 1993. The Lions, who beat Indi-ana, 41-24 Saturday, have a 13-4 overall edge against the Spartans during that stretch.

A triple traffic threat in

State College this weekend

Football fans, ■

thanksgiving travelers, black Friday shoppers make for messy roads.

• See Traffic, D10

Game: Penn State (7-4, 4-3 big ten) vs. Michigan State (10-1, 6-1).

When: noon Saturday.Where: beaver

Stadium, university Park, Pa.

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Penn State wide receiver Brett Brackett (83) celebrates his touchdown with tight end Kevin Haplea (82) during the first half against Indianam Saturday in Landover, Md.

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Michigan State’s big ten title hopes Saturday at beaver Stadium.

• See Spoiler, D10

Class AAAATeam (District) Record Last Week1. LaSalle College (12) 11-1 12. North Penn (1) 11-1 23. Easton (11) 11-1 64. Neshaminy (1) 11-1 75. Council Rock South (1) 11-1 96. North Allegheny (7) 11-1 NR7. Cumberland Valley (3) 10-2 NR8. West Chester Rustin (1) 11-1 NR9. Woodland Hills (7) 9-3 NR10. Pittsburgh Central Catholic (7) 11-1 4Dropped out: Wilson (3), North Hills (7), Dallastown (3), West Chester Henderson.

——Class AAA

Team (District) Record Last Week1. Allentown Central Catholic (11) 12-0 12. Archbishop Wood (12) 12-0 23. Abington Heights (2) 12-0 34. Montour (7) 12-0 55. Bishop McDevitt (3) 10-2 66. Grove City (10) 11-0 87. Clearfield (9) 12-0 108. Pottsgrove (1) 10-2 NR9. Central Valley (7) 9-3 NR10. Lampeter-Strasburg (3) 11-1 NRDropped out: Thomas Jefferson (7), Mars (7), Greencastle-Antrim (3).

——Class AA

Team (District) Record Last Week1. Aliquippa (7) 12-0 12. Tyrone (6) 12-0 33. Northern Lehigh (11) 12-0 54. Lewisburg (4) 12-0 65. Danville (4) 12-0 76. South Fayette (7) 12-0 87. West Catholic (12) 10-2 98. Trinity (3) 11-1 109. North Schuylkill (11) 11-1 210. Brockway (9) 11-0 NRDropped out: Lancaster Catholic (3).

——Class A

Team (District) Record Last Week1. Clairton (7) 12-0 12. Rochester (7) 12-0 23. Riverside (2) 11-1 34. Mercyhurst Prep (10) 12-0 45. Southern Columbia (4) 10-2 56. Holy Name (3) 10-1 87. Farrell (10) 11-1 98. Schuylkill Haven (11) 10-2 NR9. Bishop McCort (6) 8-4 NR10. Curwensville (9) 10-1 NRDropped out: Springdale (7), Sharpsville (10), Line Mountain (4).

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These D3 playoffs full of surprisesNotebook

By TrAViS l. PickENSaSSiStant SPortS [email protected]

Since the District 3 brackets expanded in 2006, there have been upsets here and there.

One of our favorite underdog stories is that of Garden Spot in 2008.

Two years ago, coach Matt Zamperini’s team finished the season a pedestrian 6-4 and earned the No. 10 seed in the Dis-trict 3 Class AAA playoffs.

Once the postseason began, Garden Spot found another level and won a pair of road games — at Lebanon and at Gre-encastle-Antrim — to reach the semifi-nals, where the magic ran out in a 20-0 loss to No. 2 West York.

Garden Spot was the only surprise team to make it to that level of the dis-trict playoffs two years ago. And that’s normally what we see — it’s rare when more than one team makes such a shock-ing run.

But, this season has been vastly differ-ent.

Consider the following:• Red Lion, the No. 8 seed in 3-AAAA,

avenged a 38-36 regular-season loss to Dallastown by knocking out the top-seeded Wildcats, 14-6, in the quarter-finals. In the same half of the bracket, Daniel Boone did the unthinkable and stunned No. 4 Harrisburg, 14-12, Sat-urday. The Blazers were bumped up to Class AAAA this season and, with a home game against the Lions tonight, have a realistic shot to play for 3-AAAA gold.

• Cocalico, the No. 13 seed in 3-AAA

that entered the playoffs at 5-5, owns upset wins over West York (28-21) and Susquehanna Township (28-7). Both of those games were on the road, which is where the Eagles will be tonight against fellow surprise semifinalist Conrad Weiser. The eighth-seeded Scouts (9-3) downed top-seeded and previously unbeaten Greencastle-Antrim, 34-20, on Friday. The combined record for Co-calico and Conrad Weiser: 16-8.

• Bermudian Springs was the talk of the district last week for its 3-AA quar-terfinal win over previously unbeaten Littlestown, but the Eagles, bounced by Trinity in the semifinals, were supplant-ed as that bracket’s biggest giant slayer Friday when Wyomissing sent tremors through the state with a 21-14 win over defending PIAA champion Lancaster Catholic. The Crusaders were the top seed and favorite to win a third-straight 3-AA title. The Spartans are seeded fifth and enter tonight’s district final against Trinity with a 9-3 record.

• See Notebook, D6

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Daniel Boone defenders sack Harrisburg sophomore quarterback Kyle Cook on a failed two-point conversion with 1:04 remaining in the game Saturday at Severance Field. Daniel Boone upset the Cougars, 14-12, in the District 3 Class AAAA quarterfinals.


Michigan State’s last victory at Beaver Stadium was in 1965, when Penn State was an inde-pendent. That was the year be-fore Joe Paterno became Penn State’s coach.

“It’s huge,” wide receiver and co-captain Brett Brackett said. “It’s the last game of the year. It’s Senior Day. Michigan State’s one of the best teams in the con-ference and that’s going to be a big challenge for us.

“They’re a great football team, just seeing them on some of the film we’ve seen against [teams] we’ve played. We can’t come with our heads down. We got to be ready to fight.”

Penn State and Michigan State, ranked No. 11 in The Associated Press poll released Sunday, have combined to score 1,060 points in their 17 Big Ten meetings, an average of 62.3 points per game.

The Lions have scored 608 points (35.7 avg.) to 452 for the Spartans (26.6 avg.).

“It’s big — it’s for our season,” strong safety Drew Astorino said. “We need to win it. It will determine where we are going to go for our bowl game.”

Penn State most likely will end up in the Jan. 1 Gator Bowl if the Big Ten has two BCS teams,

which is expected.But there is an outside chance

the Lions could be selected for the Outback Bowl on New Year’s Day in Tampa if they beat Michi-gan State to finish 8-4.

The Spartans rallied for 22 fourth-quarter points Saturday to beat Purdue, 35-31, and main-tain a three-way tie for a share of the Big Ten championship and a spot in the Rose Bowl. No. 5 Wisconsin (10-1, 6-1) and No. 8 Ohio State (10-1, 6-1) are tied atop the standings with Michi-gan State.

If there is a three-way tie, the team with the best BCS ranking will earn the Big Ten’s automatic Rose Bowl bid.

A two-way tie between Michi-gan State and Wisconsin would mean the Spartans, who beat the Badgers, 34-24, would go the Rose Bowl. Wisconsin would win a tiebreaker with Ohio State because the Badgers beat the Buckeyes, 31-18.

Penn State holds a 14-12-1 overall advantage against Mich-igan State in a series that began in 1914.

Brackett expects the Lions, who are 0-3 against Top 25 teams this season and 14-29 since 2000, to embrace their spoiler role.

“If we had a choice, we wouldn’t be in [this position],”

Brackett said. “But that’s where we are right now and that’s what we’re going to have to do.

“We’re going to have to go out and try to play a great football game and knock off a real good football team.”

In 2008, Penn State whipped the Spartans at Beaver Stadium, 49-18, to clinch a share of the Big Ten regular-season champi-onship and a Rose Bowl berth.

Daryll Clark threw for a ca-reer-high 341 yards and four touchdowns against Michigan State, and the Lions defense held running back Javon Ringer to a season-low 42 yards on a snowy, cold day.

Penn State and Michigan State will be in opposite divisions in 2011 and are not scheduled to meet the next two years.

“Me personally, I’m really ex-cited about playing Michigan State,” said right guard Stefen Wisniewski, from Central Cath-olic, who is one of only 11 seniors on the roster. “It’s my last game at Beaver Stadium and I certain-ly don’t want to go out with my last game being a loss.

“I think the team is going to be motivated as well.”

———Distributed by

McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.


Spoiler

Drivers should expect law enforce-ment, locally and statewide, to be out in force. That was the message of a news conference Monday in Ferguson Town-ship, hosted by the state Department of Transportation and attended by state and local police representatives.

Lutz said one concern will be chang-ing traffic patterns. At a time when Park Avenue and University Drive are trans-formed into one-way streets to accom-modate football traffic coming into Bea-ver Stadium, Lutz said he expects many residents will be trying to leave town, for Christmas shopping or to head to hunt-

ing camps.And Lutz said there may be confusion

after the game, when students coming back to on-campus housing after a week away could find those streets are now one way in the opposite direction to accom-modate traffic leaving Beaver Stadium.

Reminders of the changed patterns are posted to Penn State Live, and po-lice want students returning to residence halls to check the routes before driving into town.

It’s been 12 years since Penn State has hosted a football game at Beaver Stadium during the holiday weekend.

Several factors have changed in the in-tervening years. The big one is the com-

pletion of Interstate 99.“It’ll be a good test for what we can ex-

pect regularly in the future. With the Big Ten schedule adding Nebraska, we could be playing a post-Thanksgiving Saturday game every other year,” Lutz said.

But police said they’ll be patrolling heavily well before football traffic begins.

The Centre County Alcohol Task Force — which just had its grant renewed for 12 months in October — will spend the weekend looking for drunken drivers, Ferguson Township police Sgt. Ryan Hendrick said.

At the same time, the Thanksgiving buckle-up program is being enforced by about 550 police departments across the

state, including in Centre County.A statewide effort to clamp down on

aggressive driving that began in Octo-ber is also under way, and will continue through December.

“You’re going to have a lot of police of-ficers out between now and Jan. 1,” said John Conti, a law enforcement liaison for the two state campaigns.

“Specifically this weekend, we have targeted all our police departments to put a special emphasis on patrol this week-end, especially here in Centre County.”

———Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune

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The following is a list of leaders through the 12th week of the high school football sea-son. Stats reflect only those reported to The Sentinel:

RUSHINGPlayer (team) Rushes Yards Average1. Todde` Statum (Ship) 216 1,542 7.12. Adam Geiger (T) 112 1,317 11.73. Jeremy DiPietro (CV) 98 1,079 11.04. Matt Richmond (NoY) 149 1,004 6.75. Colby Whitten (BiS) 178 941 5.26. Jack Miller (T) 89 921 10.37. Ryan Miller (BoS) 145 880 6.08. Kevin Snyder (CV) 117 861 7.39. Dan Flynn (CV) 130 806 6.210. Kelvin White (EP) 157 697 4.4

——RECEIVING YARDS

Player (team) Receptions Yards1. Adam Breneman (CC) 60 8772. Alberto De Los Santos (EP) 27 5553. Chris Lenz (T) 27 5254. Bryton Barr (M) 21 5205. Chase May (WP) 21 470

——RECEPTIONS

Player (team) Receptions Yards1. Adam Breneman (CC) 60 8772. Tyler Botchie (M) 29 3952. Sal Purpura (M) 29 3904. Alberto De Los Santos (EP) 27 5554. Chris Lenz (T) 27 5254. Ryan Herr (CH) 27 448

——PASSING YARDS

Player (team) Co. Att. Yards TD Int.1. Patrick Dill (T) 107 186 1,920 21 112. James Rusenko (M) 122 251 1,672 18 133. Kelvin White (EP) 103 183 1,510 18 94. Tyler Orris (CC) 91 145 1,015 6 35. Cody Failor (C) 81 196 1,010 9 10

——SCORING

(Includes two-point conversion where applicable)Player (team) TD Points1. Todde` Statum (Ship) 24 1462. Jack Miller (T) 23 1383. Jeremy DiPietro (CV) 15 904. Kevin Snyder (CV) 14 885. Dan Flynn (CV) 14 845. Adam Geiger (T) 14 84

——KICKING

Player (team) FGs Xpts. Pts.1. Alex Cramer (T) 5 62-71 772. Lance Geesey (CV) 5 48-53 633. Sam Dell (BoS) 4 26-28 384. Zach Myers (Ship) 2 31-38 374. Taylor Walls (EP) 2 31-34 37

——OFFENSE

Team Points Average1. Trinity 518 43.12. Cumberland Valley 421 35.03. Shippensburg 320 29.04. East Pennsboro 305 27.75. Cedar Cliff 241 21.9

——DEFENSE

Team Points Average1. Trinity 102 8.52. Shippensburg 133 12.03. Cumberland Valley 188 15.64. Northern 178 17.85. Big Spring 215 19.5

Sentinel PickSWeek13

Guest Picker:Brett Livingston,

Carlisle baseball coach

Red Lion atDaniel Boone

Travis L. PickensLast week:

7-7Season:122-46

Tom Ash

Last week:6-8

Season:116-52

Ron RogersLast week:

6-8Season:120-48

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Last week:4-10

Season:100-68

Andy Sandrik

Last week:5-9

Season:113-55

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Danville atLewisburg

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Penn State head coach Joe Paterno looks on from the side-lines during the second half against Indiana Saturday in Landover, Md.

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By Travis L. PickensAssistAnt sports [email protected]

By now, Cumberland Valley football coach Tim Rimpfel must be used to this.

Another playoff round, another op-ponent that has a bone to pick with his Eagles.

Last season, CV played five playoff games. Four of those were against teams — Bishop McDevitt, Central Dauphin, State College and Wilson — that had ei-ther played the Eagles earlier that season or had a heated recent history with CV.

This postseason is dramatically similar to last.

When the Eagles visit Landis Field for a rematch with Mid-Penn Commonwealth foe Central Dauphin at 7 p.m. tonight in a District 3 Class AAAA semifinal, it will mark the second time in three playoff games CV will face a team it has played within the last 12 months.

“It’s another one of those games where they have great motivation coming in against us,” said Rimpfel, whose team beat the Rams, 30-17, Oct. 8. “We got them the first game, and I’m sure they’re talking revenge.

“Plus, we’re over there again, but I told (the players), ‘A champion responds to those challenges, accepts them and de-lights in those challenges.’”

A week ago, CV made the trip to Wil-son, where a seething team wanted re-venge. The Eagles beat Wilson, 28-21, in last year’s 3-AAAA semifinals and an-swered the bell in their latest trip to Gur-ski Stadium with a 28-14 win.

Now it’s off to another hostile destina-tion against the Rams (10-2), a team the Eagles have played four times in the last 12 months.

“We have to keep pushing because we know this team is going to be ready. Cen-tral Dauphin is coming in angry,” CV se-nior wide receiver and defensive back Kyle Brubaker said. “Any time we play them multiple times in a season, it’s go-ing to be harder and harder each time.”

In the teams’ first meeting, Brubaker

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Cumberland Valley senior Dan Flynn, a fullback and linebacker, will play a key role on defense as the Eagles try to slow down Central Dauphin’s potent offense. • See CV, D6


Wyomissing (5, 9-3) vs. Trinity (3, 11-1)

site: Hersheypark Stadium, HersheyTime: Tonight, 7 p.m.coaches: Wyomissing — Bob Wolfrum

(24th year, 216-63-1); Trinity — Bill Ragni (2nd year, 18-5).

Last meeting: Wyomissing, 35-14, in 2006 District 3-AA semifinals.

What’s at stake: Winner advances to PIAA Class AA quarterfinals to meet the District 4 champion, either Danville (12-0) or Lewisburg (12-0), next weekend at a Dis-trict 3 site and time to be announced. Loser is eliminated.

How they got here: Wyomissing defeat-ed No. 4 Delone Catholic, 28-21, in quarter-finals; defeated No. 1 Lancaster Catholic, 21-14, in semifinals. Trinity defeated No. 6 Boiling Springs, 42-0, in quarterfinals; de-feated No. 7 Bermudian Springs, 48-12, in semifinals.

key players: Wyomissing — Grayson Helm, jr., QB; Tyler Rank, sr., FB-LB; Derek Nally, sr., HB-CB; Joseph Cacchione, soph., WR-DB; Skyler Lash, sr., OT-DT. Trinity — Patrick Dill, jr., QB; Jack Miller, jr., HB-DB; Adam Geiger, soph., RB; Chris Lenz, jr., WR-DB; Logan Houck, sr., WR-RB-DB; Colin Rigney, sr., G-LB.

Wyomissing notes: lost two of final three regular-season games before captur-ing two playoff games by a total of 14 points. ... offense averages 32.3 points per game; defense allows 20.5. ... teams have scored at least 21 points on Spartans five times. ... went 4-3 against teams with winning re-cords, including the playoffs. ... finished 2-3 against teams that qualified for the playoffs. ... scored at least 31 points seven times. ... Helm has completed 64 of 135 passes for 1,063 yards with 15 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. ... Rank leads the team with 1,105 rushing yards on 132 car-ries (8.3 yards-per-carry average). ... lead-ing receiver is Cacchione with 446 yards. ... team attempted only five passes, with one completion, against Lancaster Catholic. ... Nally’s 55-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter was the difference against Crusaders. ... finished third in Inter-County League Section II with a 5-2 record. ... first district final appearance since 2006 when it beat Lancaster Catholic, 28-24. ... owns two District 3-AA titles.

Trinity notes: ranked No. 8 in the state, according to Pennsylvania Football news. ... winning streak has grown to 11 games. ... enters tonight with four shutouts and has held seven teams to single digits. ... after Week 1 loss to Lancaster Catholic, has not allowed another team to score more than 13 points. ... leads the area in average points for (43.1) and against (8.5). ... Dill has com-pleted 107 of 186 passes for 1,920 yards with 21 touchdowns and 11 interceptions. ... Dill, who has thrown for at least 100 yards 10 times, leads the area in passing yards

and touchdown passes. ... Geiger leads the team with 1,317 rushing yards, and Miller is second with 921. ... Geiger, who burned Bermudian Springs for a season-high 318 yards, is second in the area in rushing yard-age. ... Miller is second in the area in points scored with 138 on 23 touchdowns. ... Lenz is third in the area with 525 receiving yards on 27 catches. ... team had a disturbing six turnovers against Bermudian Springs. ... Geiger ripped off touchdown runs of 99 and 93 yards against the Eagles. ... 6-1 mark against teams with winning records, includ-ing the playoffs. ... came into this season riding a three-game playoff losing streak. ... is playing in only its third 3-AA final. ... outright champion of the Mid-Penn Capital Division with an 8-0 record.

Breakdown: Trinity breezed past Bermu-dian Springs despite playing a less-than-perfect game. It’s not the best time of year for the Shamrocks to start showing cracks, especially with a physical Wyomissing team on the horizon. Trinity wants to avoid a repeat of the 2007 final when it self-de-structed in a 25-0 loss to underdog Delone Catholic. On paper, the Shamrocks win this game, but they have to play solid to ad-vance. Wyomissing enjoys running the ball and does it well. So did Bermudian, but the Eagles were limited to 176 rushing yards. It’s tough to see Wyomissing reaching Trin-ity’s level, and there has to be a drop-off in emotion after downing the defending state champion. The Shamrocks are cruising and, if they eliminate the mistakes, should win their second district crown.

Prediction: Trinity, 35-16._____


Lewisburg (12-0) vs. Danville (12-0)

site: Ironmen Stadium, DanvilleTime: Tonight, 7 p.m.coaches: Lewisburg — Todd Tilford

(5th year, 36-20); Danville — Jim Keiser (2nd year, 20-3).

Last meeting: Danville, 39-37, in 2007.What’s at stake: Winner advances to

PIAA Class AA quarterfinals to meet the District 3 champion, either Wyomissing (9-3) or Trinity (11-1) next weekend at a District 3 site and time to be announced. Loser is eliminated.

How they got here: Lewisburg defeat-ed Bloomsburg, 21-20, in quarterfinals; defeated Towanda, 39-14, in semifinals. Danville defeated Wyalusing Valley, 62-20, in quarterfinals; defeated Mount Carmel, 38-28, in semifinals.

key players: Lewisburg — Camden Cassels, jr., QB-DB; Nathaniel Brown, sr., RB-OLB; Merle Moscarello, jr., RB-ILB; Ryan Lopes, sr., SE-DB; Brandon Smith, soph., TE-ILB. Danville — Andrew Andrey-chik, jr., QB-S; Russell Heath, sr., FB-ILB; Garrett Llewellyn, sr., WR-LB; Mikeal Ow-ens-Wright, sr., WR-HB-LB; Dylan Dailey, sr., C-MLB.

Lewisburg notes: first time in program history the team started 12-0. ... closest game was a 21-20 victory over Blooms-

burg in 4-AA quarterfinals. ... closest reg-ular-season game was a 20-0 win over perennial power Mount Carmel in Week 2. ... runs a Wing-T on offense and also uses shotgun formations. ... Cassels has com-pleted 63 of 104 passes for 987 yards, with 10 touchdowns and three interceptions. ... two-headed rushing attack is led by Brown, who has 1,177 yards on 143 carries, with 23 touchdowns. Moscarello is second on the team with 1,020 yards and nine touchdowns. ... Lopes is the leading re-ceiver with 395 yards and six touchdowns. ... outright champion of Heartland Confer-ence Division II with a 5-0 record. Danville notes: first time in program history the team started 12-0. ... scored at least 42 points in eight games. ... limited seven op-ponents to single digits. ... averages 44.5 points per game and 13.9 against. ... runs a Wing-T on offense and also uses shotgun formations. ... Anthony Sori, the team’s

second-leading rusher with 1,156 yards and 10 touchdowns, suffered a broken ankle against Mount Carmel and is lost for the season. ... Andreychik has completed 80 of 144 passes for 1,732 yards, with 32 touchdowns and seven interceptions. ... Heath leads the team with 1,220 rushing yards and 14 touchdowns. ... top receiv-ing threat is Llewellyn with 674 yards and 14 touchdowns. ... defense is anchored by Dailey, who has 105 total tackles. ... finished first in Heartland Conference Divi-sion I with a 6-0 record.

Breakdown: In a battle of similar teams, the injury to Sori looms large. Sori was the team’s most dangerous threat on of-fense and, without him, the Ironmen might struggle to put up the same gaudy numbers they have all year. Both teams are battle-tested after navigating difficult sections of the Heartland Conference. We worry about Lewisburg’s narrow win over

Bloomsburg in the 4-AA quarterfinals. Other than that edge-of-your-seat thriller against Bloomsburg, the Green Dragons have been rolling and will take advantage of the short-handed Ironmen.

Prediction: Lewisburg, 23-14._____

Picking the restclass aaasemifinals

conrad Weiser 35, cocalico 27 — What it comes down to is speed. The Scouts have too much of it.

Bishop McDevitt 42, Lampeter-stras-burg 14 — We’d like to think the Crusaders will have at least one test in the district. Sadly, they won’t.

class achampionship

Holy name 26, Millersburg 12 — Blue Jays power their way to school’s first district football title.

Caps• Continued from 5

Central Dauphin is ■

the latest team that wants to make its season by beating CV.


The Cumberland Valley football players are hoping to celebrate Friday night with a victory over Central Dauphin in the District 3 Class AAAA quarterfinals. The winner of that game will ad-vance to the district final and play either Daniel Boone or Red Lion next Saturday at Hersheyp-ark Stadium at a time to be announced.


D3D12 — The Sentinel, Carlisle, Pa., Friday, November 26, 2010 www.cumberlink.com

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