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LANCASTER-LEBANON LEAGUE HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL GUIDE

LEVEL UPSimon vs. Palm, Manheim Central vs. Cocalico

and a new season of storied battles

2 AUGUST 21, 2019 LNP | LANCASTER, PAHIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL GUIDE

2019 HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL SCHEDULESECTION ONE AUG. 23 AUG. 30 SEPT. 6 SEPT. 13 SEPT. 20 SEPT. 27 OCT. 4 OCT. 11 OCT. 18 OCT. 25

ALL GAMES START AT 7 P.M. UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTEDDenotes HOME games

CEDAR CRESTFALCONS

HEMPFIELDBLACK KNIGHTS

MANHEIM TWP.BLUE STREAKS

McCASKEYRED TORNADO

PENN MANORCOMETS

WARWICKWARRIORS

WILSONBULLDOGS

COCALICOEAGLES

CONESTOGA VALLEYBUCKSKINS

ELIZABETHTOWNBEARS

GARDEN SPOTSPARTANS

L-SPIONEERS

MANHEIM CENTRALBARONS

SOLANCOGOLDEN MULES

ANNVILLE-CLEONALITTLE DUTCHMEN

COLUMBIACRIMSON TIDE

DONEGALINDIANS

ELCORAIDERS

EPHRATAMOUNTAINEERS

LANC. CATHOLICCRUSADERS

LEBANONCEDARS

N. LEBANONVIKINGS

OCTORARABRAVES

PEQUEA VALLEYBRAVES

Lebanon Hershey York McCaskey Warwick WilsonHempfield Manheim TownshipPenn Manor Garden Spot

Dallastown Manheim Central Central York Warwick L-S Penn ManorCedar Crest McCaskeyWilson Manheim

Township

Conrad Weiser Cedar Cliff

Governor Mifflin Elizabethtown Manheim

Central SolancoManheim Township Garden SpotConestoga

Valley L-S

Central Dauphin East Dallastown Central

Dauphin Penn Manor Wilson McCaskeyCocalico Cedar CrestWarwick Hempfield

Penn Manor New Oxford Spring Grove L-S Garden Spot WarwickSolanco

Manheim CentralCocalico Elizabethtown

Donegal Dover Conrad Weiser Cocalico Solanco L-SManheim

Central Penn ManorGarden Spot Conestoga Valley

Conestoga Valley L-S Dallastown Manheim

Township McCaskey HempfieldWilson ElizabethtownCedar Crest Warwick

Daniel Boone Warwick Palmyra Solanco Conestoga

ValleyManheim CentralL-S CocalicoElizabethtown Cedar Crest

Ephrata Garden Spot Manheim Central Hempfield Cedar Crest Conestoga

ValleyMcCaskey WilsonManheim Township Penn Manor

Spring Grove Penn Manor West York

Conestoga Valley Hempfield ElizabethtownGarden Spot SolancoManheim

Central Cocalico

Central Dauphin

Governor Mifflin Spring-Ford Manheim

CentralManheim Township Cedar CrestPenn Manor WarwickHempfield McCaskey

Susquehanna Township Hempfield Warwick Wilson Cocalico Garden SpotElizabethtown Conestoga

ValleyL-S Solanco

Northeastern Kennard-Dale

New Oxford Garden Spot Elizabethtown CocalicoConestoga Valley

L-SMcCaskey Manheim Central

Milton Hershey Octorara Ephrata Northern

LebanonLancaster Catholic ElcoColumbia DonegalPequea

Valley Lebanon

Warwick Northern Lebanon

Annville-Cleona

Lancaster Catholic Elco Pequea

ValleyDonegal LebanonColumbia Octorara

Elizabethtown Pequea Valley Columbia Lebanon Octorara Lancaster

CatholicEphrata Annville-CleonaElco Northern

Lebanon

Cedar Crest Elco Pequea Valley Donegal Columbia OctoraraLancaster

Catholic EphrataNorthern Lebanon

Annville-Cleona

Pottstown Annville-Cleona

Northern Lebanon Elco Donegal LebanonPequea

Valley ColumbiaLancaster Catholic Ephrata

Eastern York

Lancaster Catholic Donegal Pequea

Valley Lebanon Northern Lebanon

Annville-Cleona OctoraraEphrata Elco

Camp Hill Columbia Elco Ephrata Annville-Cleona DonegalLebanon Northern

LebanonOctorara Pequea Valley

Susquenita Lebanon Lancaster Catholic Octorara Ephrata Annville-

CleonaNorthern Lebanon

Pequea ValleyDonegal Columbia

Pine Grove Ephrata Octorara Annville-Cleona

Pequea Valley ColumbiaElco Lancaster

CatholicLebanon Donegal

Kennard- Dale

Donegal Lebanon Columbia Northern Lebanon EphrataOctorara ElcoAnnville-

CleonaLancaster Catholic

SECTION TWO AUG. 23 AUG. 30 SEPT. 6 SEPT. 13 SEPT. 20 SEPT. 27 OCT. 4 OCT. 11 OCT. 18 OCT. 25

SECTION THREE AUG. 23 AUG. 30 SEPT. 6 SEPT. 13 SEPT. 20 SEPT. 27 OCT. 4 OCT. 11 OCT. 18 OCT. 25

Sept. 7 at 1 p.m.

Aug. 29 at 7 p.m.

Red Lion York Reading Cedar Crest Penn Manor Manheim TownshipWarwick HempfieldSolanco Wilson

Sept. 7 at 1 p.m.

Sept. 21 at 7 p.m.

Aug. 29 at 7 p.m.

Aug. 29 at 7 p.m.

Sept. 21 at 7 p.m.

LANCASTER, PA | LNP 3AUGUST 21, 2019HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL GUIDE

L-L LEAGUE

Football 2019

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Season Overview:What’s in store this year .........3• Cover Story: Eagles’ Palm, Barons’ Simon ready to recon-vene on-field rivalry ..............4

SECTION ONECedar Crest ..........................6 Hempfield .............................8Manheim Township ..............10McCaskey ...........................11Penn Manor ........................12Warwick .............................14Wilson ...............................15SECTION TWOCocalico .............................16 Conestoga Valley .................18Elizabethtown .....................19Garden Spot .......................20Lamp.-Strasburg .................22Manheim Central .................24Solanco ..............................26SECTION THREEAnnville-Cleona ...................28Columbia ............................29Donegal .............................30Elco ...................................31 Ephrata ..............................32Lancaster Catholic ...............33Lebanon .............................35Northern Lebanon ................36Octorara .............................37Pequea Valley .....................38

TEAM PREVIEWS

ON THE COVER: Cocalico’s Noah Palm and Manheim Central’s Evan Simon will renew their teams’ Section Two rivalry as their senior seasons unfold.

Photo by Chris Knight, design by Chris Emlet.

Special thanks to Manheim Central and Athletic Director George Derbyshire for their assistance in setting up the cover photo.

Note: All rosters for this edi-tion were submitted by the individual teams. Also, the editorial deadline for this edi-tion was Aug. 19, and chang-es in those rosters may have occurred between then and this week’s games.

EDITORLaura Eckert Thompson

WRITERSDavid BohrDave ByrneKevin ByrneMike GrossTim GrossAndrew KeheJeff ReinhartDiana PuglieseJohn Walk

PHOTOSAndy BlackburnPatrick BlainRobert Devonshire Jr.Chris KnightBlaine ShahanSuzette Wenger

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The Lancaster-Lebanon League has been around since 1972, and in foot-ball, there have been three sections of competition since 1975.

That’s about to change.The upcoming 2019 season will be

the final one contested with three sec-tions — for now — because the league will go to four sections for the first time starting in 2020.

And yes, those league-mandated crossover games are back again this season, and they’ll continue moving forward in the next cycle.

This will be an end of an era, of sorts, for several longtime rivalries; next year, Garden Spot and Lampeter-Strasburg will depart Section Two, and Warwick will leave Section One. And Section Three as you know it will be broken in two for the new-look Sec-tion Four.

But that’s next year. How is this year going to shake down come late October?

All good things ...L-L’s final season before adding a 4th section has potential to produce classic races

LANCASTER-LEBANON LEAGUE 2019 SEASON OVERVIEW

All three section races have the po-tential to be classics. Heck, just last fall, Manheim Township, Warwick and Wilson shared the Section One cham-pionship, while Manheim Central, in Section Two, and Lancaster Catholic, in Section Three, went undefeated in league play and captured their respec-tive section titles outright.

That three-way tie last fall was the first of its kind in Section One since 2000.

The Section One race is shaping up to be another beauty; Manheim Town-ship, Warwick and Wilson are all set to return plenty of firepower, particu-larly the Blue Streaks, who will wel-come back 10 of their top 11 tacklers

on defense from last year, plus several key components from a high-powered offense, including Colgate commit QB Harrison Kirk.

Warwick, fresh of last year’s nine-win season and first District Three playoff win in program history, brings back 1,900-yard passer Joey Mc-Cracken, all-state receiver Trey Glass, and offensive tackle man-child Nolan Rucci — one of the most sought after recruits in the country — to spearhead the offense. And Wilson is, well, Wil-son. West Lawn is a football factory, and the Bulldogs are pretty much al-ways there at the finish line.

OVERVIEW, page 7


COVER STORY

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Manheim Central senior quarter-back Evan Simon and Cocalico senior quarterback/safety Noah Palm sat mere feet from each other on a bench inside the Barons’ football locker room on a weekday evening in late June.

Their presence was requested for a photo shoot for the cover of LNP’s pre-season football guide. It’s in that lock-er room Simon was asked what makes Palm such an effective defensive back. Simon immediately referenced last year’s District Three Class 5A champi-onship game.

“Do you remember that one play?” Simon said as he locked eyes with Palm.

Smirks formed on both faces.“I threw a nice corner route to the

end zone,” Simon said. “And out of no-where (Palm) swats it. He’s just a freak. He’s a really athletic kid.”

Manheim Central went on to beat Cocalico in that district title game, continuing a storied rivalry that stretches back decades between two of the most consistently strong programs in the Lancaster-Lebanon League.

It’s a rivalry that’s only intensified in recent years, considering Manheim Central and Cocalico have finished as No. 1 and No. 2 in the L-L Section Two standings in each of the last three years and five of the last seven. The Barons and Eagles have also met deep in the district playoffs in each of the last three years and four of the last six.

Etching their names in the history

SETTING THE BAR HIGHRivalry will hit top gear as Manheim Central’s Simon, Cocalico’s Palm take field for senior seasons

Manheim Central’s Evan Simon, left, and Cocalico’s Noah Palm are more than ready to kick off their senior seasons.CHRIS KNIGHT | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

books of that rivalry the last few sea-sons have been Palm and Simon, both starting QBs for their respective pro-grams since the start of 2017.

And both have been highly success-ful.

Manheim Central is 27-2 with Simon as starting QB in the Barons’ multiple/spread offense, claiming back-to-back section and district crowns.

Cocalico is 19-5 with Palm under center in the flexbone attack, the Ea-

gles twice being the L-L Section Two runner-up to the Barons and falling to Manheim Central in the district semi-finals in 2017 and the district final in 2018.

Showing poise

Palm also started and made 100-plus tackles as a freshman in Cocalico’s defensive backfield in 2016, the same year the Eagles last beat the Barons, a 28-24 regular season victory in which

(Evan Simon) has all the tools to make every throw. The short throw, the intermediate throw, the deep

throw, throw on the run. ... He’s a nightmare. — Dave Gingrich, Cocalico football coach

COVER STORY, page 7


PIAA CLASS

6A

LANCASTER-LEBANON LEAGUE

SECTION 1CEDAR CREST FALCONS

2018 SECTION 1: 2-4 | 2018 OVERALL: 5-5 | BASE OFFENSE: ZONE OPTION | BASE DEFENSE: 4-3

2019 ROSTERSeniors Pos. Ht. Wt.2 Jack Beasley K/P 6-0 1653 Chris Rios WR/CB 5-10 1735 Lawson Seyfert TE/LB 6-0 2056 Robert Twardowski WR/DB 5-9 1507 Tyler Cruz RB/LB 5-10 20018 Noah Iceman WR/DB 6-3 17523 Cole Miller WR/DB 6-2 18024 Blake Hoke RB/LB 5-10 17525 Chris Byler WR/LB 5-11 16528 Jawuan Stewart WR/DB 6-1 15536 Eric Wawrzyniak TE/DE 6-3 22551 Andrew Foltz OL/DL 5-9 24054 Seth Whitman OL/DL 6-0 23055 Owen Kreider OL/DL 6-0 25559 Gabe Ruiz-Roman OL/LB 5-10 19064 Cade Rambler OL/DL 6-4 27073 TJ Moore OL/DL 6-1 23575 Billy Eddy OL/DL 6-0 22591 Cam Davis TE/DT 5-11 250Juniors Pos. Ht. Wt.1 Dalton Reinhart QB/DB 5-11 1659 Joe Castma TE/LB 6-0 19512 Chris Danz QB/DB 6-0 16013 Tyrese Stewart WR/DB 6-2 15517 Jake Arnold WR/DB 5-7 15520 Taylor Gehman RB/DB 5-5 13022 Christian Morales WR/DB 5-11 16531 Keon Grier WR/DB 5-11 16032 Dylan Stiver WR/LB 5-10 16533 Max Scipioni WR/DE 6-2 21040 Hayden Mease TE/DE 5-11 16053 Simon Gruber OL/DL 5-7 29061 Ryan Howard OL/DL 5-10 230

63 Blake Sowers OL/DL 5-10 25065 Zak Claman OL/DL 5-10 25066 James Green OL/DL 5-8 22068 Cole Pennington OL/DL 6-0 24069 Kyler Sloss OL/DL 5-9 26070 Gavin Taylor OL/DL 6-0 22577 Ian Bowser OL/DL 6-2 20087 Kyle Flowers TE/LB 6-2 19088 Nick Achey TE/DE 6-3 195Sophomores Pos. Ht. Wt.4 Donovan Adams QB/DB 5-11 1358 Jordan Wamsher WR/DB 5-8 15011 Aadyn Richards RB/LB 5-9 18014 Trent Bailey TE/DE 6-4 17516 Eric Umberger WR/DB 5-8 12021 Zion Durant WR/LB 5-9 15526 Trayvon Zerbe RB/LB 5-6 14527 Brayden Koehler WR/DB 5-10 17030 Pedro Perez-Rivas RB/LB 5-10 18535 Layne Seasholtz WR/LB 5-10 13539 Joseph Santiago TE/LB 5-11 17041 Elijah Haddock RB/DB 5-9 14544 Trevor Moore QB/LB 5-11 16052 Gavin Popejoy OL/DL 5-8 18060 Dakota Elder OL/DL 5-9 22062 Zander Brandt OL/DL 5-9 19071 Connor Daubert OL/DL 6-1 22572 Zach Anspach OL/DL 6-2 21076 Ryan Soto OL/DL 5-9 22078 Ethan Barton OL/DL 5-9 19079 Enver Estrella OL/DE 5-11 16080 Eian Haas WR/DB 6-4 16581 Tyler Keener WR/DB 5-9 15086 Sam Bartow WR/DB 5-9 145

HEAD COACHRob Wildasin

(6th season, 27-25)

2019 Schedule 2018 Results8/23 LEBANON 7 p.m.8/30 HERSHEY 7 p.m.9/6 @ York 7 p.m.9/13 @ McCaskey 7 p.m.9/20 HEMPFIELD 7 p.m.9/27 @ Warwick 7 p.m.10/4 PENN MANOR 7 p.m.10/11 @ Manheim Twp. 7 p.m.10/18 WILSON 7 p.m.10/25 @ Garden Spot 7 p.m.

Lebanon W, 42-19Hershey W, 28-14York L, 42-14McCaskey W, 35-21Hempfield L, 38-14Warwick L, 58-17Penn Manor W, 45-7Manheim Twp. L, 16-10 (OT)Wilson L, 42-21Garden Spot W, 54-14

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The Cedar Crest Falcons beat the people they “should have” last season. They lost to the power sides on their schedule. It added up to 5-5, 2-4 and non-contention in tough Section One of the Lancaster-Lebanon League. The results were decisive both ways; Crest’s five wins were by a combined 204-75 and the five losses by 196-76.

But there’s enough experi-ence returning, especially among the big guys around the line of scrimmage, to jus-tify optimism in South Leba-non.

Coach Rob Wildasin came to L-L Media Day on Aug. 9 prepared to field at least one question: What will you do without Logan Horn? The four-year quarterback is now at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

“We plan to keep playing football,” Wildasin said. “I tried to get the administra-tion to cancel the season, but they wouldn’t go for it.”

Pretty sure he was kidding.

About the offense

“We always build our of-fense around our person-nel,” Wildasin said. “I don’t think there’s a lot of mystery (about what that will en-tail).”

Meaning: Senior Tyler Cruz (658 yards, 13 TDs), who is getting Pennsylvania Conference and FCS college looks, is very good. He has a

Looking to take the next stepWith several solid returnees, Falcons are cautiously optimistic

backup, sophomore Aadyn Richards, who is on Penn State’s radar after camping there this summer.

Four starters, and four se-niors, return on the offensive line, led by veterans Andrew Foltz and T.J. Moore.

“We’re going to try to run the football,” Wildasin said.

That still involves serious quarterbacking, especially in a zone-option system. Horn’s replacement figures to be Chris Danz, son of former Falcons QB Chris Danz and grandson of Falcons coach-ing legend Norbie Danz.

Danz participated in the Manning Passing Academy in Louisiana this summer. He also sustained an ankle injury this summer.

Wildasin mentioned two other QBs, juniors Dalton Reinhart and Tyrese Stewart,

but dismissed Danz’s injury with, “We’ll be ready to go.”

About the defense

The D allowed 298 yards per game last year, second-best in the section. It played a lead role in what was nearly last season’s signature Fri-day night, a 16-10 near-miss against Section One tri-cham-pion Manheim Township.

Similar results seem pos-sible this time. Many of the above-mentioned O-linemen stock the defen-sive front. There’s also a high-level end in senior Eric Wawrzyniak. Senior Cole Miller, who’ll be Danz’s top receiving target on offense, should be one of the L-L’s best safeties.

There’s also a budding

From left, Cedar Crest’s Tyler Cruz, Eric Wawrzyniak and Andrew Foltz pose at L-L Football Media Day on Aug. 9.

CHRIS KNIGHT | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

FALCONS, page 9


OverviewHempfield was a playoff team last

fall, and Cedar Crest is just a year re-moved from a postseason trip, so ex-pect the Black Knights and Falcons to push. Meanwhile, Penn Manor and McCaskey, under first-year coach Sam London, hope to keep chipping away at the lead pack.

Can Manheim Central — fresh off a stinging loss to Penn Hills in the PIAA Class 5A state final last December — make it five Section Two champion-ships in a row? And can the Barons do one better, and make it three District

Continued from 3

Three Class 5A crowns in a row? QB Evan Simon, a Rutgers pledge, is back to lead the offense, as Manheim Cen-tral tries to fend off uber rival Cocali-co, with all-state picks Noah Palm and Brock Gingrich back in tow, in the sec-tion and district races.

The usual suspects — Elizabeth-town, Solanco, Conestoga Valley — will no doubt chase. Garden Spot, un-der Matt Zamperini, who is back for his second stint as coach in New Hol-land, is looking to bounce back after a winless campaign last year. And L-S has the weaponry, and the motivation of jumping sections next year, to make a major push.

Lancaster Catholic went 9-0 in

league play and ran away with the Sec-tion Three banner last fall, as Elco and Annville-Cleona finished two games behind the rampaging Crusaders, who went 10-0 overall before bowing out in the District Three Class 3A semifi-nals. So there should be plenty of mo-tivation in Lancaster Catholic’s camp moving forward.

Elco and A-C both return several key cogs from last year’s run, when the Raiders and Little Dutchmen both went playoff dancing. Mean-while, Ephrata and Lebanon both had successful Section Three debuts, with each earning five victories and plenty of respect from their new playmates.

Donegal was a six-win team a year ago, but must replace its entire start-ing backfield. Columbia will return all 22 starters from last fall, when the Crimson Tide went from 0-10 to 3-7 and knocking on the postseason door. And Octorara opens Year Two in the L-L League, and the Braves are now acclimated to their new digs.

Meanwhile, Northern Lebanon and Pequea Valley, under first-year skip-per Jeff Werner, are poised for snap-back seasons after falling back in the pack a year ago.

L-L League football 2019 is teed up and ready to go. Enjoy this one last three-section look, because every-thing changes one year from now.

Cover story: Simon, Palm raring to get back on f ieldPalm stepped in for one clutch play at QB when starter Brady Sawyer had to leave after getting his helmet knocked off.

“It was a third-and-9,” longtime Co-calico coach Dave Gingrich recalled. “Noah threw a 30-yard completion. That was cold off the bench. ...We end-ed up scoring on that drive.”

And because we’re on the topic of a young gun showing poise in his var-sity snaps at QB, Simon admitted the most nervous he’s ever been before a game came in his first career start as a sophomore in Week One of 2017, on the road at Warwick.

Simon calmed the nerves by con-necting with his older brother, Tyler, for a pair of TD tosses to help Man-heim Central go up 35-0 by halftime. Those proved vital as Warwick came charging back but fell short in an eventual 35-27 Barons victory.

Next level

Both Simon and Palm were all-state selections in 2018. And both are head-ed to Division I programs after high school.

The 6-foot, 3-inch, 205-pound Si-mon is committed to Rutgers as a QB, a position where he has shown he can just about do it all, throwing for 2,701 yards and 28 TDs while rushing for

(Noah Palm) is a tough kid. I know everybody likes him at quarterback. I like him even more at safety. I

liked him as a freshman.— Dave Hahn, Manheim Central football coach

Continued from 4

662 yards and 12 TDs in 15 games last season, the Barons’ lone loss coming in the state final.

Simon will en-ter 2019 with 5,350 career passing yards — closing in on Jeff Smoker’s program record of 5,900. Simon’s 59 TD passes are already the most in Central his-tory.

“(Simon) has all the tools to make every throw,” Gingrich said. “The short throw, the intermediate throw, the deep throw, throw on the run. ... He’s a nightmare.”

The 6-foot, 200-pound Palm is committed to New Hampshire, where he’ll compete at defensive back and perhaps even bulk up to become a linebacker. His career defensive num-

bers as a safety entering 2019 are 233 tack-les, five inter-ceptions, three caused fumbles and four fumble recoveries.

He also has 2,500 career rushing yards, 1,366 career passing yards and 43 total ca-reer TDs as a QB.

“(Palm) is a tough kid,” fifth-year Manheim

Central head coach Dave Hahn said. “I know everybody likes him at quar-terback. I like him even more at safe-ty. I liked him as a freshman.”

Palm’s defensive numbers might be higher had he not been restricted to mostly playing QB as a sophomore in 2017.

The Eagles didn’t have a suitable backup at the time, and didn’t want to

risk Palm getting hurt on defense.“It’s fun to get out there and hit

some kids,” Palm said.Has he ever put a good stick on Si-

mon?“There was one play,” Simon re-

called of last year’s district title game. “I escaped out of the pocket, ran 10 yards and got out of bounds. A report-er on the sidelines was like, ‘Noah al-most took your head off.’ ”

One last dance

Manheim Central and Cocalico might battle for L-L Section Two su-premacy again this fall, though each team returns just one starting O-line-man and must fill in several spots on both sides of the ball.

The Eagles will try to snap a five-game losing streak to the Barons when they visit Manheim Central on Sept. 27. Perhaps the two teams will meet again in the district playoffs for what would be the fourth consecutive year.

Regardless, it’ll put a bow on what has been an impressive back-and-forth between Simon and Palm that will not soon be forgotten in the long-standing tussle between Section Two foes.

“It’s definitely the biggest rivalry around, I’d say,” Simon said.

Manheim Central senior quarterback Evan Simon, left, and Cocalico senior quarterback Noah Palm pose at Manheim Central High School on June 27.



2019 Schedule 2018 Results

8/23 DALLASTOWN 7 p.m.

8/30 @ Manheim Central 7 p.m.

9/6 @ Central York 7 p.m.

9/13 WARWICK 7 p.m.

9/20 @ Cedar Crest 7 p.m.

9/27 LAMP.-STRASBURG 7 p.m.

10/4 WILSON 7 p.m.

10/11 McCASKEY 7 p.m.

10/18 @ Penn Manor 7 p.m.

10/25 @ Manheim Township 7 p.m.

Dallastown W, 24-19Manheim Central L, 28-7Central York L, 35-31Warwick L, 27-0Cedar Crest W, 38-14Lampeter-Strasburg W, 28-26Wilson L, 26-16McCaskey W, 37-6Penn Manor W, 49-14Manheim Township L, 48-13Harrisburg L, 42-0

PIAA CLASS

6A


SECTION 1HEMPFIELD BLACK KNIGHTS

2018 SECTION: 3-3 | 2018 OVERALL: 5-6 | BASE OFFENSE: MULTIPLE SPREAD | BASE DEFENSE: 3-3 STACK

Seniors Pos. Ht. Wt.3 Max Hostetter TE/DL 6-3 230

4 Ethan Saunders K 5-11 167

7 Ethan Kauffman RB/DB 5-8 170

9 Colin Peters QB 5-11 150

10 Luke Miller RB/LB 5-10 175

12 Nashon Good WR/DB 5-11 175

13 Sam Hess WR/DB 5-8 165

16 Owen Nicodemus RB/DB 5-8 160

18 Jackson Shand WR/LB 6-5 218

43 Nick O’Neill K 5-10 160

51 Marcus Conyers OL/LB 5-10 195

52 Jack Burkhart OL/LB 6-0 190

55 Sean Cramer OL/LB 5-11 195

57 Joe Iandolo OL/LB 6-1 185

66 Andrew Lewis OL/DL 6-0 202

67 Ben Marines OL/DL 6-3 235

81 Nik Stauffer WR/LB 5-11 191

88 Conner Elslager TE/DL 6-3 211

Juniors Pos. Ht. Wt.2 Nathan Roeder WR/LB 5-10 152

8 David Almodovar WR/DB 5-10 155

11 Jadin Jimenez WR/DB 5-6 125

17 Jeury Garcia-Cabrera WR/DB 5-8 150

19 Shaun Hammer WR/DB 6-0 165

26 Elijah Caban WR/DB 5-7 121

28 Luke Kreider RB/DB 5-7 140

30 Abdiel Hernandez WR/LB 5-6 165

34 Devon Shorter RB/LB 6-1 181

48 Gordy Hoover TE/DL 6-0 190

59 Will Alexander OL/DL 5-11 235

77 Aiden Power OL/DL 6-1 235

89 Abiti Lamure WR/DB 5-10 135

Sophomores Pos. Ht. Wt.6 Adam Acker WR/DB 5-5 125

14 Cameron Harbaugh QB 6-0 205

15 Aidan Kennedy WR/DB 5-10 155

20 Ryan Heuston RB/LB 5-9 145

21 Eli Hinton WR/DB 5-8 145

25 Jordan Howard RB/LB 5-7 142

27 Evan Smith RB/DB 5-7 155

32 Aiyden Hallit WR/LB 5-10 140

37 Mekkai Williams LB/DB 5-7 151

38 Joey DeJesus RB/DB 5-6 145

41 Kaleb Elslager OL/LB 6-0 195

42 Gavin Sload WR/LB 5-9 142

44 Max Grube OL/DL 6-2 225

45 Kyle Olmo WR/LB 5-10 135

53 Donovin Arenas OL/DL 5-6 230

58 Trey Marin OL/LB 5-8 155

61 AJ McAlpine OL/DL 6-0 205

64 Evan LaBarre OL/LB 5-10 157

65 Shawn Murphy OL/DL 5-10 178

68 Aiden Webbere OL/DL 5-10 165

71 Chapman Davison OL/DL 5-11 176

72 Skylar Barmore RB/LB 5-10 205

74 Taurus Gilbert OL/DL 6-2 290

78 Dylan Denlinger OL/DL 5-9 208

79 Lucas Miller OL/DL 6-0 260

-- Sierra Mowrer OL/DL 5-2 140

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Quickly scan the 2019 Hempfield football roster and you’ll notice more than a few familiar names missing.

The Black Knights must re-place linemen on both sides of the ball, including Section One Offensive Lineman of the Year Riley Good. There’s also the loss of offensive weap-ons in standout wide receiver Darien Ressler and all-star running back Matt Heuston to consider, but the confidence isn’t lacking in Landisville.

“I think we’ll be pretty ex-plosive,” senior Jackson Shand said.

“A lot of people are down on us right now because we lost a lot of key players — I’ve been seeing that’s kind of the focus (on Hempfield),” the wide receiver and linebacker con-tinued with a laugh. “We did lose some great players, but I think we have a group of guys

Chemistry testHempfield lost some big names, but Knights feeling fine about prospects

that are really going to step up here and hopefully do some-thing great.”

About the offense

Shand will step up at receiv-er, where he’ll be joined by Sam Hess and tight end Max Hostetter, who returns after dealing with injuries last sea-son. Luke Miller, last year’s third-leading rusher (136 yards), slides into the starting role.

The biggest key to the of-fense will be quarterback Colin Peters. In his first year under center, the then-junior threw for 1,455 yards and 11 touchdowns. Rushing for 408

yards and four touchdowns made him the team’s second-biggest threat on the ground — and now he has a year of ex-perience.

“We get a lot of new starters, but I don’t think we’ll struggle on offense at all,” Peters said. “I think we’ll make up for the people we lost.”

About the defense

Overall, Hempfield’s de-fense played well in 2018, but struggled against the passing game, allowing a league-worst 2,243 yards through the air. It’s been a focus through the early workouts, especially

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Final word

The schedule isn’t easy, including trips to York, Warwick and Man-heim Township. The Falcons have won seven straight season-opening Cedar Bowls with neighboring rival Lebanon, but the Cedars appear to be bringing more weapons to the fight this time.

Big picture, this season looks a lot like last season. The Falcons sit around the middle of a tough Sec-tion One pack, probably an upset away from the postseason. They might have a physical and experi-enced enough group to pull it off.

“I don’t worry about what I can’t control,” Wildasin said. “Every-thing I can control, we can control, I think we do well.”

Continued from 6

Hempf ield: Knights liking chemistrywith a new group of defensive backs.

The answer, according to Shand, however, might come from the guys up front.

“We’ve been working on (defending against the pass) a lot, so we’re just hoping it’s different this year — es-pecially with our pass rush,” he said. “I think our pass rush is going to be pretty good this year, so I think a lot of pressure is going to make it easier for our corners.”

Intangibles

“The chemistry is huge this year,” Peters said. “We’re closer than I think I’ve ever been on any other team, so I think we’re going to play really good together, be really fast.”

Final word

“We’re going to be underdogs, so we’re going to use that to our advan-tage,” Peters said. “We like that — we don’t like big targets — so I think we’ll be fine.”

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SECTION 1MANHEIM TOWNSHIP BLUE STREAKS

2018 SECTION: 5-1 | 2018 OVERALL: 10-2 | BASE OFFENSE: SPREAD | BASE DEFENSE: ODD STACK

Seniors Pos. Ht. Wt.1 Brett Benjamin WR/DB 5-9 1754 Harrison Kirk QB/LB 6-2 2055 Bryce Casey RB/LB 5-10 1959 Jonathan Engel WR/DB 6-3 20512 Jon Jon Bouarouy WR/DB 5-7 14014 Matthew Mikulka WR/CB 6-2 17515 Joel Miranda WR/DB 5-9 16017 Jonathan Horst WR/DB 6-0 16020 Trenton Jones WR/DB 6-3 18022 Thomas Scheuerman WR/DB 5-6 13023 Mickey Stokes WR/DB 6-4 17526 Tim Geyer RB/LB 5-7 16027 Zach Gerard RB/LB 5-9 195

2019 ROSTER

Mark Evans(7th season, 48-24)

HEAD COACH

2019 Schedule

2018 Results

8/23 CENTRAL DAUPHIN EAST 7 p.m.8/30 @ Dallastown 7 p.m.9/6 CENTRAL DAUPHIN 7 p.m.9/13 PENN MANOR 7 p.m.9/20 @ Cocalico 7 p.m.9/27 @ Wilson 7 p.m.10/4 @ Warwick 7 p.m.10/11 CEDAR CREST 7 p.m.10/18 @ McCaskey 7 p.m.10/25 HEMPFIELD 7 p.m.

Central Dauphin East W, 17-10Dallastown W, 38-0Central Dauphin W, 22-12Penn Manor W, 41-0Cocalico W, 36-24Wilson L, 16-14Warwick W, 28-20Cedar Crest W, 16-10 (OT)McCaskey W, 49-13Hempfield W, 48-13Chambersburg W, 20-17Central Dauphin L, 27-0

29 Dante Wilson TE/OLB 6-0 22033 Josh Emge RB/LB 5-11 20534 Jackson Wright K/LB 5-8 17535 Nathan Carpenter WR/DB 6-1 19040 Micah Sams II WR/CB 5-3 13043 Sam Emge WR/LB 6-0 20044 Jaden Floyd RB/LB 5-11 21048 Joel Torres RB/DB 5-9 18050 Jeff Dommel OL/DL 6-2 26051 Tyler Kurtz OL/LB 5-11 20059 Anthony Rager OL/DL 5-10 17460 Grayson Kuhns OL/DL 6-1 24061 Matt Mendez OL/DL 5-6 20064 Garith Hartnett OL/DL 6-0 200

65 Justin Herr OL/DL 5-11 23566 Street Spitzley OL/DL 5-10 22077 Vic Nunez OL/DL 5-10 22582 Ben Mann TE/DL 6-5 23087 Reece Snyder WR/DB 6-0 180Juniors Pos. Ht. Wt.3 Evan Clark QB/SS 6-2 1907 Dan Engel WR/DB 6-2 18511 Eddie McDevitt WR/DB 5-5 12013 Michael Vega QB/LB 5-9 17024 Ezequiel RB/DT 5-9 195 Concepcion-Mena RB/DT 5-9 19525 Luong Dao WR/CB 5-8 13028 Aaron Paul WR/LB 6-2 17530 Eric Martin WR/CB 5-8 14232 Shamir Alberto RB/LB 5-11 17041 Cade Clancy RB/LB 5-9 17547 Luke Kelley TE/DL 6-2 19549 Joel Madavaram WR/DB 5-6 11554 Jorge Duran OL/DL 5-10 20067 William Jones OL/DL 6-0 25070 Jake Schall OL/DL 6-2 20073 Josh Williams OL/DL 5-9 22578 Tristan Acosta OL/DL 5-10 20079 Charlie Newman OL/DL 5-11 26083 Nick Mesias WR/S 6-0 17584 Omar Santiago WR/DB 5-2 11688 Dominick WR/CB 5-8 150 Scheuerman

Sophomores Pos. Ht. Wt.6 Isaiah Jones QB/CB 5-8 15510 Anthony Ivey WR/DB 6-1 17516 Elijah Fonseca WR/DB 5-10 14518 Noah Kollar WR/DB 5-9 13519 Jose Duran QB/LB 5-11 15021 Matt Torres RB/LB 5-6 16531 David Roark-Eshelman WR/DB 5-4 13836 Quinn Kavanaugh TE/OLB 6-1 17537 Andrew Frederick WR/DB 6-1 14538 Jesus Perez RB/LB 5-8 17139 Sheron Maxie WR/CB 5-9 14042 Josh Caloviras RB/OLB 5-10 17045 Elijah Zavala WR/DB 5-9 16046 Liam Sages RB/DB 5-11 15552 Yonathan Bekele OL/DL 6-0 21053 Josiah Stewart OL/DL 6-0 17555 Alex Romano OL/LB 5-11 23058 Tyrese Washington OL/LB 5-11 21062 Michael O’Hara OL/DL 5-11 19063 Tyler Moritzen OL/DL 6-0 17568 Carter Rusnak OL/DL 5-11 24569 Brady Rager OL/DL 5-9 28071 Jackson Roache OL/DL 6-1 21072 Wes Hoffman OL/DL 6-3 19576 Sam North OL/DL 5-10 23580 Eliett Maldonado WR/LB 5-7 14081 Matt O’Gorman WR/DB 6-0 17085 Travis Wilk WR/DB 5-9 13086 Aliazer Alicea WR/DB 5-7 13089 Christopher Negron WR/DB 5-7 130


Two years ago, Manheim Township’s group of sophomores mostly stood on the sidelines every Friday night. They watched their older teammates play together in the Blue Streaks’ historic 2017 run to the Lancaster-Lebanon League Section One crown, District Three Class 6A championship and the PIAA Class 6A semifinals.

Those sophomores then became ju-niors and first-time starters in 2018, tasked with upholding the precedent set the year before.

Streaks coming into their ownSenior class keeps Manheim Township’s great expectations alive

“From my class especially we knew we were going to have a lot of pressure on our backs,” senior lineman Justin Herr said. “But we were used to it. We were always the underdogs. Nobody thought we’d do well in a game. We al-ways proved people wrong.”

The Streaks last fall proceeded to

finish as the league’s co-Section One champs with Wilson and Warwick be-fore reaching the district semifinals.

Now, 18 starters return in 2019. So, too, do mighty expectations.

About the offense

The only question mark for this team is on the offensive line, where two new starters are needed alongside returners Herr, Grayson Kuhns and Victor Nunez.

“We’re very speedy,” Herr said of the O-line. “And we’ll do well because of our speed and our tactics.”

The skill position spots are filled by returners in the Streaks’ spread attack: senior quarterback Harrison Kirk (161 of 264, 2,300 yards, 19 touchdowns),

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SECTION 1McCASKEY RED TORNADO

2018 SECTION: 0-6 | 2018 OVERALL: 1-9 | BASE OFFENSE: ZONE GAP | BASE DEFENSE: 4-3/4-4

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2019 ROSTER HEAD COACH

Seniors Pos. Ht. Wt.2 Isaiah Thomas WR/DB 6-1 1553 Da’Aviance Rodriguez WR/DB 5-7 1455 Donovan Trowery RB/DB 5-8 1707 Jovan Rodriguez WR/DB 5-9 1458 Ben Desmarais ATH 6-0 20514 Andre Aleong RB/LB 6-2 18023 Wanya Smith RB/LB 5-10 18025 Yamere Nixon TE/LB 6-1 20547 Kenny Jaccinor WR/DB 5-11 16051 Joshua Martinez OL/DL 5-10 26552 Thyago Alvarez OL/DL 6-2 28060 Andrian Cruz OL/DL 6-0 23061 Gabriel Mundale OL/DL 6-1 23563 Joseph Molina-Hill OL/DL 5-9 24070 Destry Gravely OL/DL 6-4 35075 Alvin Davis OL/DL 6-1 27079 Abdul-Kareem El Hosini OL/DL 6-4 30581 Dagus Robertson TE/DL 6-0 18588 Anthony Mendez WR/DB 5-5 130Juniors Pos. Ht. Wt.1 Jayon Burnside ATH 6-3 1954 Donovan McCallister RB/DB 5-8 1506 Jah’ciere Williams WR/DB 5-10 17510 Samuel Hershey K/P 6-2 17513 Da-Vion Scarborough WR/DB 5-7 13031 Cameron Hiller RB/LB 5-8 17033 Peter Curet RB/DL 5-6 20037 Gabriel Rodriguez WR/DB 5-7 14043 Michael Dejesus RB/LB 5-8 19046 Phillip Milligan RB/LB 5-10 17064 Ethan Lane OL/DL 6-3 27077 Raul Ramos OL/DL 6-2 255Sophomores Pos. Ht. Wt.11 Alex Cooper WR/DB 5-7 13012 Isaac Burks WR/DB 5-10 14515 Tyrese Henry WR/DB 6-2 16016 Michael Rodriguez QB/LB 5-7 16017 Josiah Gray RB/DB 5-7 15018 Shalian Montalvo QB/LB 5-8 16021 Sid-Dare Trowery RB/DB 5-6 15522 Luca Fimiani WR/DB 5-9 15024 Javonze Washington WR/DB 5-11 15526 Jakai Jenkins RB/DB 5-8 17027 Isaac Seals WR/DB 5-5 12528 Zyaire Corteguera WR/DB 6-0 15034 Orion Frailey WR/DB 5-10 15036 Emmanuel Torres RB/LB 5-9 18041 Nelson Martinez TE/DL 6-0 18044 Bassir Epps RB/LB 5-9 18048 Ruben Pabon RB/LB 5-8 18049 Kevin Rodriguez-Rosario RB/LB 5-9 15050 Matthew Hong OL/DL 5-10 21553 Robert Lischner RB/LB 5-9 18555 Christopher Rivera OL/DL 5-8 22058 Jahid Brown OL/DL 5-10 26062 Jonathan Frederick OL/DL 6-0 18065 Jayden Rodriguez OL/DL 6-1 24567 Jonathan Pacheco OL/DL 5-8 170

2019 Schedule

2018 Results

8/23 RED LION 7 p.m.

8/30 YORK 7 p.m.

9/7 @ Reading 1 p.m.

9/13 CEDAR CREST 7 p.m.

9/20 WARWICK 7 p.m.

9/27 @ Penn Manor 7 p.m.

10/4 SOLANCO 7 p.m.

10/11 @ Hempfield 7 p.m.

10/18 MANHEIM TWP. 7 p.m.

10/25 @ Wilson 7 p.m.

Red Lion L, 35-12York L, 55-0Reading W, 34-17Cedar Crest L, 35-21Warwick L, 49-0Penn Manor L, 28-14Solanco L, 64-10Hempfield L, 37-6Manheim Township L, 49-13Wilson L, 39-0

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Welcome to Tornado Alley, Sam London.

The Coatesville grad and former Lincoln University and Cheyney Uni-versity assistant coach and recruit-ing coordinator took over the reins to McCaskey’s football program back in February. He is the Red Tornado’s fourth coach in the last 10 years.

London is an Air Force veteran, and he earned medals for his service in Iraq, so he’s a stickler, a no-nonsense kind of guy. His goal: Rally the troops, preach accountability and strong fun-damentals, and get McCaskey back on track — one year after a 0-6 ride through Section One.

So how is Camp London going?“It’s been great,” senior playmaker

Isaiah Thomas said. “Everybody is working hard and

he’s kept it fun. He’s already teaching us a lot of new things, so we’re anx-ious for the season and to see what we can do.”

Section One is always more fun when McCaskey is in the hunt. Can London get the Tornado back up the leaderboard? That’s his wish. Now it’s up to his troops.

Closing the gapAthletes are there for Red Tornado, it’s just a matter of putting them to work

About the offense

London installed a Zone scheme, and said his squad will run multiple looks, leaning on their athleticism and some returning beef up front to move the ball.

68 Joel Groff OL/DL 6-5 41569 Alejandro Ramirez OL/DL 5-9 22072 Timathy Frederick OL/DL 6-0 17080 Yonathan Mendez TE/LB 6-0 17582 Dale Sallie K/P 5-9 13083 Darrius Edmond WR/DB 6-1 17885 Orland Cortez WR/DB 5-5 130Freshmen Pos. Ht. Wt.9 Matthew Remash QB/DB 6-3 18029 Shymere Covington RB/DB 5-5 14545 Jose Garcia RB/LB 5-10 180

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2019 Schedule 2018 Results8/23 @ Conestoga Valley 7 p.m.

8/30 @ Lamp.-Strasburg 7 p.m.

9/6 DALLASTOWN 7 p.m.

9/13 @ Manheim Twp. 7 p.m.

9/20 WILSON 7 p.m.

9/27 McCASKEY 7 p.m.

10/4 @ Cedar Crest 7 p.m.

10/11 ELIZABETHTOWN 7 p.m.

10/18 HEMPFIELD 7 p.m.

10/25 @ Warwick 7 p.m.

Conestoga Valley L, 31-13

Lampeter-Strasburg L, 42-0

Dallastown L, 42-7

Manheim Township L, 41-0

Wilson L, 44-0

McCaskey W, 28-14

Cedar Crest L, 45-7

Elizabethtown L, 52-17

Hempfield L, 49-14

Warwick L, 53-20

PIAA CLASS

6A


SECTION 1PENN MANOR COMETS

2018 SECTION: 1-5 | 2018 OVERALL: 1-9 | BASE OFFENSE: SPREAD PISTOL | BASE DEFENSE: 4-4

Seniors Pos. Ht. Wt.2 Josh Gibson RB/DB 6-1 190

7 Aaron Gale WR/DB 6-1 163

11 AJ Perez RB/DB 6-0 183

16 Joel Martinez WR/DB 5-5 128

21 Logan Legenstein WR/DB 5-8 151

Juniors Pos. Ht. Wt.3 Luke Braas QB/DB 6-2 191

5 Isaiah Stoltzfus RB/LB 5-10 174

8 Peyton Suydam RB/LB 5-10 218

12 Isaac Hopstetter RB/LB 5-10 168

17 Kyle Murr WR/DB 6-2 175

22 James Morant TE/DL 6-1 170

23 Justin Jones RB/DB 5-5 161

24 Hunter Hoffman WR/LB 5-9 149

32 Isaac Hostetter WR/DB 5-10 140

33 Greyson Schatz WR/DB 6-2 182

44 Jared Musser RB/LB 5-9 174

45 Colt Barley RB/LB 5-0 173

51 Max Jesberger TE/LB 5-11 168

52 Christopher Echavarria OL/DL 6-2 233

53 JD Robinson OL/LB 5-10 193

55 Nicholas Baker OL/LB 5-11 195

57 Milo Graybill OL/DL 5-11 195

58 Matthew Ruiz OL/DL 5-10 170

60 Benjamin Weaver OL/DL 5-10 239

62 Austin Miller OL/DL 5-9 199

63 Nicholas Mann OL/DL 5-10 172

65 Mekhi Lee OL/DL 5-9 188

77 Doran Adelman OL/DL 6-2 275

80 Dorrien Zimmerman WR/DB 6-1 146

Sophomores Pos. Ht. Wt.

4 Tyler Glessner QB/DB 5-10 154

9 Erik Hinkle WR/DB 5-6 124

13 Tyler Hargan WR/DB 5-7 123

14 Michael Hoskins RB/LB 5-8 133

15 Seth Lyter QB/DB 5-5 127

18 McCabe Kreider RB/LB 5-1 100

20 Brad Frey WR/DB 5-11 139

28 Harrison Brown RB/LB 5-7 125

29 Derek Warfel WR/DB 5-10 145

30 Joe Grumbein RB/LB 5-8 121

34 Ethan Adelman WR/DB 5-9 145

35 Cameron Schol RB/DB 5-7 142

36 Luke Spearing QB/DB 6-2 165

42 Eric Kristin WR/DB 6-0 155

50 Anthony Glessner FB/LB 6-1 168

56 Charlie Gonzalez OL/LB 5-9 165

64 Gavin McCanna OL/DL 5-10 230

72 Evan Jurgenson OL/DL 6-6 316

75 Pedro Gomez OL/DL 6-1 173

87 Josh Wentzel WR/DB 5-9 141

88 Shishir Neupane RB/LB 5-7 127

2019 ROSTER

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Following a winless 2015 season, Penn Manor had no-where to go but up.

The Comets won twice in 2016, then three times the next season. It may not have been a meteoric rise, but a foundation had seemingly been laid.

Then 2018 happened — a 1-9 campaign with a mostly junior-sophomore mix that yielded too many points — 41 a game — and produced not enough offense.

But now, more than just eternal hope springs, because the Comets are older, wiser and far more experienced, with eight starters returning on both sides of the ball.

“In (Lancaster-Lebanon League) Section One, your chances are diminished when you’re counting on that many sophomores,” said coach John Brubaker, now in his fifth sea-son. “The good thing is that all those guys are back, and that experience will help us.”

Just how much is the big question.

“We need to see some suc-cess on the scoreboard, with-out a doubt,” Brubaker said. “But we’re really not focusing on that as a team. If we get our preparation, effort and execu-tion real good, our results are going to be good.”

Critical to a push to good-ness will be the play of junior quarterback Luke Braas, who secured the position over the last three games of 2018.

“It’s a challenge I’m looking

Comets look to turn cornerWith more experience gained, Penn Manor has postseason goals

forward to,” Braas said. “I like the guys we have around me. We got some new coaches and they’re good. We have a good staff. I like the transition.”

About the offense

Braas, who completed 41 of 101 passes for 770 yards last season, will direct the spread pistol with seven other re-turning starters, including senior Aaron Gale at receiv-er, senior running back Josh Gibson and junior RB Isaiah Stoltzfus, juniors Ben Weaver, Austin Miller, Max Jesberger

and senior converted running back Nick Baker up front.

Stoltzfus and Gibson led the ground game in 2018 with 241 and 226 yards, respectively. The running game as a whole netted a tick less than 87 yards a game.

“The offensive line is the driving force,” Gibson offered as a key to more production.

About the defense

The Comets operate out of a 4-4 scheme, with again eight starters back, including

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Streaks McCaskeysenior running back Jaden Floyd (154 attempts, 729 rushing yards, four TDs) and wide receivers Brett Benjamin (37 receptions, 595 yards, four TDs), Mickey Stokes (19 recep-tions, 281 yards, five TDs), Anthony Ivey (17 receptions, 265 yards, one TD) and Jon Engel (11 receptions, 103 yards, one TD) and tight end Ben Mann (seven receptions, 107 yards, two TDs).

Kirk, Floyd, Benjamin, Mann and Herr earned L-L all-star or honorable mention nods in 2018. And Kirk (Col-gate University), Mann (Yale Univer-sity) and Engel (Lafayette) are already committed to collegiate programs.

About the defense

Ten starters are back for a 3-4 de-fense that held opponents to 225 yards a game last year. Up front is Mann (54 tackles, eight tackles for loss, five sacks) and Kuhns (44 tack-les, eight tackles for loss, three sacks) at end and Herr (43 tackles, six tack-les for loss, three sacks) at nose guard.

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The biggest question mark here: Thomas was a 1,000-yard passer at QB last fall, but he might be on the move to wideout. That would likely leave the snap-calling duties to Ben Desmarais, who threw for 200 yards and a couple of scores last season.

“Quarterback, receiver, doesn’t really matter,” Thomas said. “Wherever the coaches need me to go, I’ll play. We’ve been pretty strong on the line, and we have a lot of skill kids back.”

Two of those linemen are key cogs Thyago Alvarez, who will anchor the O-line at guard, and Destry Gravely, a real run-stuffer from his D-tackle spot.

As for the skill kids, backs Donovan Trowery and Da’Aviance Rodriguez are burners, and wideouts Jovan Rodriguez, Da-Vion Scarborough and Jah’ciere Wil-liams will be targets for whoever is QB.

About the defense

London is going with a 4-3 look on this side of the ball, and the Tornado will have several holes to plug; the only full-timer due back is Gravely.

Some names to know should include Ethan Lane and Gabriel Mundale at D-end, linebackers Andre Aleong, Yamere Nixon and Desmarais, and secondary playmakers Rodriguez, Alex Cooper, Jayon Burnside, Kenny Jaccinor, Wil-

leading tacklers Gibson, a defensive back, and linebacker Stoltzfus.

The same upfront force counted on to help the Comets move the ball will be counted on to stuff opposing rush-ers. Senior Logan Legenstein and ju-nior Isaac Hostetter join Baker and Gale in a deep secondary.

Intangibles

Brubaker speaks enthusiastically about the extensive buy-in from all major parties.

“We’ve got buy-in from the kids,

Continued from 12

buy-in from the parents, and buy-in from the community and the school district,” he said.

“I don’t know how many times I’ve been around the Millersville area and everybody wants to know how the football team’s going to be. This sum-mer, I’ve heard that more than ever. Get those three heads to come togeth-er right there and you’ve got a formula for success.”

Key to the season

This key to the season is brought to you by, without hesitation, Braas, Gib-son and Gale, all skill position players. But probably as important, they say, is keeping fresh. A roster deep with ex-

perienced players should make that possible.

Last word

“I don’t know how many wins

that’s going to take,” Brubaker said of his team’s lofty goal of making the district playoffs, “but our guys want to play more than 10 games. I like it that their aspirations are high.”

Continued from 11Continued from 10

One honorable mention Kurtz (65 tackles, two tackles for loss, one sack) alongside seniors Dante Wilson (28 tackles) and Bryce Casey (31 tackles, eight tackles for loss, three sacks).

The veteran defensive backfield is made up of safety Engel (85 tackles, three interceptions, two fumble re-coveries) and senior corners Benja-min (36 tackles, three interceptions, eight pass break-ups) and Matt Mi-kulka (37 tackles, eight intercep-tions, one caused fumble, one forced fumble).

Special teams

The Streaks will need to find a new kicker and punter, but the return game should be strong with Benja-min (358 return yards) and Ivey (302 return yards).

liams and Thomas.

Intangibles

Sam Hershey returns to handle the kicking duties, and he’s got a thunder leg. That’ll help with field position. The athletes are there. Now it’s about getting everyone on the same page.

“For us, it’ll be all about hard work,” Thomas said. “No days off. And (Lon-don) is making everyone accountable for their actions. Now we just have to put the work in every day. Be a team. Listen. And take it one step at a time.”

Key to the season

The coaching turnover within the program has been startling over the last decade, so some stability would be nice. That means soaking in every last thing that comes out of London’s mouth, and applying it on the field. Keep it simple.

“They want to compete, and they want to do whatever it takes to be successful, and that’s music to my ears,” London said. “At the end of the day, I’m proud of these kids already.”

Final word

“If we work hard every day, we’re going to shock people,” London said. “Things are changing. We’re going to close this gap. We have a lot of talent, and now it’s just a matter of putting the guys in the right places.”

Manheim Township’s Brett Benjamin takes off after a catch Nov. 9, 2018.



2019 Schedule

2018 Results

8/23 EPHRATA 7 p.m.

8/30 @ Garden Spot 7 p.m.

9/6 MANHEIM CENTRAL 7 p.m.


9/20 @ McCaskey 7 p.m.

9/27 CEDAR CREST 7 p.m.

10/4 MANHEIM TOWNSHIP 7 p.m.

10/11 @ Wilson 7 p.m.

10/18 @ Conestoga Valley 7 p.m.

10/25 PENN MANOR 7 p.m.

Ephrata W, 63-6Garden Spot W, 62-0Manheim Central L, 27-20Hempfield W, 27-0McCaskey W, 49-0Cedar Crest W, 58-17Manheim Township L, 28-20Wilson W, 38-12Conestoga Valley W, 42-3Penn Manor W, 53-20Palmyra W, 64-0Cedar Cliff L, 33-23

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Bob Locker(19th season, 88-98)

HEAD COACH

Warwick’s Trey Glass breaks away for a touchdown against Palmyra during a district playoff game Nov. 2, 2018.


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A three-year renaissance for War-wick’s football program yielded eight wins and a playoff berth in 2016, a competitive season marred by a start-ing quarterback injury in 2017, and last year’s campaign, which saw the Warriors reel in the program’s first district playoff victory and a share of the Lancaster-Lebanon League Sec-tion One title.

Warriors keep growingHope solid foundation leads to continuing success

With a solid foundation returning, the Warriors want more.

“We have expectations now,” senior Trey Glass said, “but last season was last season. This year, we’ve got to dig a new path and get farther than we ever have.”

That path begins with a season opener scheduled for Aug. 23 at home against Ephrata.

About the offense

Glass, Section One’s Receiver of the Year last year (72 catches, 1,331 yards, 15 touchdowns) and an all-state selec-tion, leads a corps of returning wide-outs that includes Justin Gerhart, Conor Adams and Caleb Schmitz. Thatcher Miller looks to fill the void left by Hayden Rucci, an all-state tight end, while a trio of running backs — Sean Badessa, Colton Miller and Aus-tin Bufis — vie for carries and yardage from the backfield.

WARRIORS, page 17


2019 Schedule 2018 Results8/23 CENTRAL DAUPHIN 7p.m.8/30 @ Governor Mifflin 7p.m.9/6 @ Spring-Ford 7p.m.9/13 MANHEIM CENTRAL 7p.m.9/20 @ Penn Manor 7p.m.9/27 MANHEIM TWP. 7p.m.10/4 @ Hempfield 7p.m.10/11 WARWICK 7p.m.10/18 @ Cedar Crest 7p.m.10/25 McCASKEY 7p.m.

CentralDauphin L,23-7GovernorMifflin W,42-28Spring-Ford W,33-22ManheimCentral L,20-10PennManor W,44-0ManheimTownship W,16-14Hempfield W,26-16Warwick L,38-12CedarCrest W,42-21McCaskey W,39-0RedLion W,36-0Harrisburg L,36-12

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2018SECTION:5-1|2018OVERALL:8-4|BASEOFFENSE:ZONE READ|BASEDEFENSE:4-4

DougDahms(14thseason,

145-28)

2019 ROSTER

HEAD COACH

Seniors Pos. Ht. Wt.2 NickWilliams QB/DB 5-10 1603 MattFry WR/DB 5-11 1655 BradyGibble WR/DB 6-2 1808 EliRotenberg WR/DB 6-0 1709 NateHoekstra WR/LB 5-11 18510 AlexGibble WR/DB 5-11 17019 NickDanner WR/DB 5-8 18522 A.J.Futrick RB/LB 5-11 19024 EamonKenny WR/DB 5-5 13538 AvantiLockhart RB/LB 6-2 21042 OwenSnyder TE/LB 6-0 19548 AlfredHorn TE/LB 5-10 19551 SavionCarino OL/DL 5-10 20055 AnthonyKoper OL/DL 5-11 23558 Jean-CarloVentura OL/DL 5-10 24059 TylerBrown OL/DL 6-0 20063 AdamVanino OL/DL 5-11 25564 NateKeller OL/DL 6-0 26065 MasonHall OL/DL 5-11 24566 TylerFreeman OL/DL 5-10 24569 RobertSterley OL/DL 5-10 25577 SalPugliese OL/DL 6-1 26578 MathewWendel OL/DL 5-10 20079 NickManspeaker OL/DL 5-10 27080 StephenCrump TE/DE 6-1 19581 DougWeller WR/DB 5-11 19085 JohnnyWildman TE/LB 5-11 190Juniors Pos. Ht. Wt.1 TroyCorson WR/DB 5-10 1656 JulianSmith WR/DB 6-0 16511 JabariDiaby WR/DB 6-0 18012 MasonLenart RB/DB 5-9 15516 LukeHolman QB/DB 6-4 18017 KalebBrown QB/DB 6-0 17518 RyanMoseman QB/LB 6-1 17521 DarrenErmold WR/DB 5-11 17527 JoeKieffer WR/DB 5-10 16528 AdrianSantana RB/LB 5-11 21544 EthanAshcroft TE/LB 6-1 21047 EthanCapitano RB/LB 6-0 185

52 TrentMaus OL/DL 5-10 23054 ChaseWalters OL/DL 6-1 24056 JeffColacin OL/DL 5-10 24057 ZhaneStephenson OL/DL 5-10 22072 MylesPerez OL/DL 6-1 24073 AlfredoReyes OL/DL 5-5 16574 MattSchrufer OL/DE 6-0 21598 JackWagner LB/K 5-9 210Sophomores Pos. Ht. Wt.14 GannonBrubaker QB/DB 5-10 15020 LoganKauffman WR/DB 5-10 16525 JadynJones RB/LB 5-10 18526 TJFlite WR/DB 5-10 17029 EvanWilliams WR/DB 5-10 16530 JonRamsey TE/DE 5-11 18534 SeanDendall WR/DB 6-0 17036 ErickJackson WR/DB 5-10 15037 JaisonBeckford RB/LB 5-10 17539 GavinLenart RB/LB 5-8 18540 JulianRodriguez WR/DB 5-9 14541 BenBorn WR/DB 5-9 14049 RoccoEllig WR/DB 5-10 15550 AlexWorley OL/DL 6-0 17853 KyleHassler OL/DL 6-0 22560 NickBricker OL/DL 6-0 24561 JackDurning OL/DE 5-11 18562 JadenGarcia OL/DL 5-10 20067 DominicMemmo OL/DL 5-10 18068 JoshuaHushen OL/DL 5-10 21570 JulianRohrbach OL/DL 5-8 20071 KyleFackler OL/DL 5-11 23075 DaxsenWashington OL/DL 6-1 21076 ElianRodriguez OL/DL 5-10 20582 DannySmith WR/DB 5-10 14083 JTTamayo WR/DB 5-10 14587 JheyvenLoraRivera OL/DL 5-10 20089 JoshDrake WR/DB 5-11 16590 JuliusDiossa OL/DL 5-7 17099 DavidKoch TE/DE 5-11 170


Earning a share of the Sec-tion One championship and reaching the District Three Class 6A quarterfinals doesn’t sound like such a bad thing, right?

But after Wilson tied Man-heim Township and Warwick for section gold before bow-ing out to eventual champ Harrisburg in the second round of the district playoffs last November, the Bulldogs exited the 2018 season with kind of an empty feeling in-side.

Injuries ravaged Wilson’s locker room — 2017 Section One Linebacker of the Year Nick Johnson broke his ankle in Week One and missed the season, and rugged RB-LB Avanti Lockhart missed five games with nagging ailments — and the Bulldogs never re-ally got up to their usual cruis-ing altitude.

That should serve as plen-ty of motivation this time around, as Wilson begins its 75th season of varsity foot-ball. As well as this: Manheim Township, with returning weapons all over the place — including 10 top tacklers due back on defense — and a deep Warwick squad that beat the Bulldogs last year, are loaded for bear.

“We’re the underdogs,” Wil-son coach Doug Dahms said. “There’s no doubt about that.”

Can Wilson win the sec-

Underdog BulldogsComing off an injury-ravaged season, Wilson wants to stay healthy and stay competitive in a stacked Section 1

Wilson’s Brady Gibble catches a pass for a touchdown against Hemp-field at Reading’s FirstEnergy Stadium on Oct. 5, 2018.

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tion crown outright? Can the Bulldogs make a deeper post-season run? And, most im-portantly, can Dahms’ troops stay healthy? Those are the million-dollar questions in West Lawn.

About the offense

Priority No. 1 for Dahms is finding a new quarterback, and the Bulldogs went into camp with Kaleb Brown, Ryan Moseman and Nick Williams

on the preseason depth chart.Whoever wins the job will

benefit from the return of studs Adam Vanino at center and guards Nate Keller and Anthony Koper taking care of business up front.

The receiving corps is spear-headed by the very capable hands of vets Troy Corson, Matt Fry and Brady Gibble, and backs Lockhart, A.J. Futrick and Mason Lenart all got touches last year.

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PIAA CLASS

5A


SECTION 2COCALICO EAGLES

2018 SECTION: 5-1 | 2018 OVERALL: 10-3 | BASE OFFENSE: FLEXBONE | BASE DEFENSE: 4-3

2019 ROSTER

Seniors Pos. Ht. Wt.

5 Ronald Zahm RB/DB 6-0 170

8 Marshall Patterson WR/DB 6-0 160

10 Noah Palm QB/DB 6-0 200

32 Shawn Fester TE/DL 6-4 200

35 Cody Shay RB/LB 6-0 215

40 Trey Griffin TE/DL 6-3 250

51 Brock Gingrich OL/DL 6-3 280

73 Austin Sauder OL/DL 5-9 215

Juniors Pos. Ht. Wt.

1 Alex Mellinger K 5-7 135

2 Micah Ulysse RB/DB 5-0 165

3 Aaron Weitzel K 6-2 185

9 Alex Estrada WR/DB 5-10 155

12 Elyjiah Firestone WR/DB 5-11 145

16 Carson Nash QB/WR 6-2 185

28 Casey Bernhard WR/DB 5-9 135

52 Ben Bearinger OL/LB 5-11 180

60 Nate Benton OL/DL 5-7 215

64 Evan Haldeman OL/DL 6-0 225

66 Jared White OL/DL 5-7 200

70 Daniel Klumpp OL/LB 6-0 170

80 Hayden Hersh TE/LB 5-9 160


6 Luke Angstadt RB/LB 5-7 160

7 Cameron Boyer RB/DL 5-4 155

13 Blayke Taddei QB/DB 5-8 145

15 Toby Haldeman QB/DB 5-9 150

20 Anthony Bourassa RB/LB 5-6 170

22 Steven Flinton RB/DB 5-8 155

25 Dylan Brubaker RB/DB 5-8 135

26 Cole Boyer RB/DB 5-9 150

33 Alex Stokrp WR/DB 6-0 155

36 Austin Vang RB/LB 5-6 170

54 Jared Stauffer OL/DL 6-2 215

58 Trystan Moore OL/DL 5-8 200

72 Damien Wolf OL/DL 5-10 190

78 Ryan Brubaker OL/DL 6-5 240

82 Brennan Maharg WR/DB 5-8 135

86 Cade Thorp WR/LB 5-5 135

88 Blake Johnson WR/DB 5-8 145

89 Trevor Lehman RB/LB 5-11 160

Freshmen Pos. Ht. Wt.

4 Ethan Brown QB/DB 5-9 140

29 Jacob Kohl RB/DB 5-8 155

34 Tyler Angstadt RB/LB 5-6 140

37 Grant Lockhart WR/LB 5-3 110

50 Chase Tucker OL/DL 5-10 180

68 Nathan Motter OL/DL 6-1 275

71 Charles Drain OL/DL 6-0 215

Dave Gingrich(16th season, 119-57)

HEAD COACH

2019 Schedule

2018 Results

8/23 @ Conrad Weiser 7 p.m.8/29 @ Cedar Cliff 7 p.m.9/6 GOVERNOR MIFFLIN 7 p.m.9/13 ELIZABETHTOWN 7 p.m.9/20 MANHEIM TOWNSHIP 7 p.m.9/27 @ Manheim Central 7 p.m.10/4 CONESTOGA VALLEY 7 p.m.10/11 @ Garden Spot 7 p.m.10/18 @ Solanco 7 p.m.10/25 LAMPETER-STRASBURG 7 p.m.

Conrad Weiser W, 21-13Cedar Cliff W, 31-21Governor Mifflin W, 35-21Elizabethtown W, 41-14Manheim Township L, 36-24Manheim Central L, 41-23Conestoga Valley W, 49-14Garden Spot W, 55-21Solanco W, 42-7Lampeter-Strasburg W, 62-23Solanco W, 36-0York W, 61-35Manheim Central L, 48-14

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What will Cocalico do for an encore?One year after starting 10 new full-

timers on defense and then going all the way to the District Three Class 5A championship game, the Eagles are set to return a solid nucleus of vet performers, including all-state inte-rior lineman stud Brock Gingrich, and do-it-all two-way dual-threat QB-DB Noah Palm, who is back for his fourth season as a varsity starter on defense and third on offense.

But the one number that leaps off the Eagles’ preseason page is this one: Eight.

Coach Dave Gingrich has just eight seniors on his roster, and just six of those guys played full-time last year.

“Next man up,” Brock Gingrich said. “That’s where we’re at. And that’s what we’ll do.”

Will it be enough to give Manheim Central a run for its money in the Sec-tion Two chase, and to get another stab at the Barons in the district champion-ship? Time will tell. But Cocalico won’t lower its bar over a lack of seniors.

About the offense

Palm returns for his third season at

‘Next man up’ for EaglesWith just 8 seniors returning, Cocalico still planning

to be very much in the Section Two title chase

the wheel of Cocalico’s punishing Veer attack. He was a 1,300-yard rusher with 28 TD keepers last fall, and he’s thrown just two interceptions in his varsity ca-reer. Needless to say, he’s special.

Palm will benefit from the return of speed-back Ronald Zahm, and FB Cody Shay, who steps in for all-star Garrett Longenecker, had plenty of touches last fall, so Cocalico’s back-field is in great shape.

The question mark is up front, where Gingrich, at left guard, is the only re-turning starter. Austin Sauder has seen time as a backup at right guard. Newbies include tackles Ryan Bru-baker, Evan Haldeman, Jared White and Ben Bearinger, and center Jared Stauffer. That group must get on the same page quickly to keep Palm pro-tected and the offense chugging.

“We lost our center, right guard and both tackles, so that’s a concern,” Dave Gingrich said. “We have a lot of work to do there. We’re anxious to see what this new group can do.”

But make no mistake about it: Hav-ing Palm back to direct traffic is a fan-tastic start.

“He’s everything you want in a quar-terback,” Brock Gingrich said. “He’s a great player. He does it all.”

About the defense

Gingrich is a major run-stuffer up front, and Palm was an all-state pick at safety last year, after registering 100 tackles. He’s a stick machine, and was recruited by New Hampshire to play DB in college.

Five starters in all are due back on defense, with end Shawn Fester, Shay at inside ’backer and Zahm at safety flanking Gingrich and Palm. Basket-

ball standout Trey Griffin, one of the new seniors, is out for football for the first time, and he’s expected to con-tribute at end.

COCALICO, page 17


Bulldogs

Warriors

Wilson must plug in a few spots up front, and also find a tight end — to go along with a new QB. Other than that, the beef and the skill kids are here.

About the defense

The defense never rests in West Lawn, and there are plenty of top-shelf defenders due back, includ-ing Lockhart and Nate Hoekstra at linebacker, Jeff Colacin off the edge, and a talented secondary fea-turing safeties Corson and Fry, plus Brown at cover corner.

Defense has always been Wilson’s bread and butter, and that group should be ahead of the curve at the outset.

Intangibles

Jack Wagner returns to handle the kicking chores, and he’s a good one. Wilson also features one of the best return men in Section One in Corson, who is a threat to take it to the house in special teams.

Key to the season

Keeping everyone out of the trainer’s room as much as humanly possible.

Injuries gutted Wilson’s depth last season, and the Bulldogs can’t afford a repeat. Breaking in a new QB and plugging some holes, obvi-ously, are also important.

“But,” Dahms said bluntly, “first and foremost we absolutely have to stay healthy.”

Final word

“I expect there to be plenty of mo-tivation, after the season we had last year,” Dahms said. “We were so beat up and couldn’t stay healthy. So the motivation will be to stay healthy, try and win the section out-right, get back to the district finals, and win it.”

Joey McCracken returns at quarter-back, where he completed 92 of 158 passes for 1,970 yards and 27 touch-downs to three interceptions last year.

“I think he’s improved significant-ly from last year to this year,” head coach Bob Locker said of McCracken, a junior. “I think the game has slowed down even more for him. His reads are better. His arm’s stronger. He’s got a year’s worth of experience.”

About the defense

Most of the Warriors’ starters on defense return with experience. On the line, the Warriors lost Rucci (Wis-consin) and Nick Coomer (Delaware)

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to graduation, but Nolan Rucci and Hunter Deibler (defensive end), and Caleb Goss (nose guard), saw signifi-cant playing time last year.

Warwick also brings back all three starting linebackers in Jonathan Forbes, David Hnasko and Bufis, as well as Gerhart at defensive back and Adams and Glass at safety.

Intangibles

Warwick’s 10 turnovers last year were the fewest in Section One, and its plus-14 turnover margin matched Manheim Township’s atop the section. It helped the team’s prolific offense maintain a flow and kept pressure on opposing defenses.

Glass was knocked out of last year’s District Three quarterfinal loss to Ce-dar Cliff with a knee injury that side-lined him for most of the offseason,

but he said he was fully recovered by the start of camp.

Key to the season

“If we’re going to be a really good football team this year,” Locker said, “then I think the difference for us is going to have to be learning how to win games against quality opponents in lower-scoring scenarios.”

The average score of Warwick’s three losses last year was 29.3-21.

Final word

“We have a lot of momentum behind us,” McCracken said, “and we have bigger goals, higher expectations, and it really just pushes us. We don’t really want to look back to last year. We want to build something new, and then build upon that.”

Cocalico: It’s next man up for Eagles

Intangibles

Speed kills, and Cocalico should be in good shape in that department with Palm and Zahm making plays out of the backfield. Carson Nash and Steven Flinton should also be speedy play-makers on the flanks, at wideout and in the secondary.

Key to the season

Getting the new trench guys up to snuff, and fast, because Cocalico’s Veer is an intricate attack, and everyone needs to be firing.

“We’ll have to rely on our athletes and returning players until every-one else gets up to speed,” Dave Gin-grich said. “But everybody in that locker room expects to win. And

we’ll find a way to get better and get those wins.”

Final word

“We’ll never lower the bar; we have to keep raising it up,” Brock Gingrich said. “We’ll have a lot of youngsters playing, but that’s just how it is. It’s up to us to put the pieces together and keep working.”

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Cocalico’s Ronald Zahm, left, stretches for the end zone under pressure from Conestoga Valley’s Zach Fisher on Oct. 5, 2018.SUZETTE WENGER | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER


PIAA CLASS

5A


SECTION 2CONESTOGA VALLEY BUCKSKINS

2018 SECTION: 3-3 | 2018 OVERALL: 5-5 | BASE OFFENSE: 1-BACK SPREAD | BASE DEFENSE: 4-3

Gerad Novak(4th season, 13-17)

2019 ROSTERHEAD COACH

Seniors Pos. Ht. Wt.8 Bradley Stoltzfus QB/S 6-0 17517 Derek Ulishney WR/S 5-10 17020 Eddie Hernandez WR/C 5-10 15032 Zion Gadsden RB/OLB 5-9 16555 Josh Mathiot C/DT 6-3 25056 Brandon Camp T/DE 5-10 19057 Justin Norwood C/DT 5-8 21562 Frank Haggerty T/OLB 6-0 18064 Christian Figueroa T/DE 6-1 190

Juniors Pos. Ht. Wt.1 Booper Johnson RB/OLB 6-0 1853 Marcus Humphries RB/OLB 6-0 1854 Zach Fisher WR/S 6-1 1707 Abraham Marente RB/OLB 5-2 1409 Eliasar Hernandez RB/OLB 5-6 16011 Keaghan Sweigart WR/C 5-11 15014 Dante Ellis WR/C 5-11 15016 Cooper McCloud WR/S 6-0 18019 Anthony Ortiz WR/C 5-10 15523 James Williams RB/C 5-0 12031 Spencer Gehman TE/OLB 5-11 18038 Ali Elgarhy RB/C 5-7 14539 Kaden Martin RB/MLB 5-9 19054 Matt Peck T/DT 5-11 24059 Frank Koch T/DT 5-10 24063 Omega Muya G/DT 5-9 24569 Garrett Spangler G/DE 5-11 22570 Leo Marente G/DT 6-0 22078 Zach Sornoza T/DT 5-10 225

Sophomores Pos. Ht. Wt.2 Avery Tran WR/C 5-9 1555 Jaiyell Plowden WR/S 6-0 1606 Jabari Aspilaire WR/S 5-11 15510 Zach Stoudt WR/S 5-10 14015 Michael Burnett TE/OLB 5-10 17018 Matt Tenbrink WR/C 5-8 15022 Owen Shetter WR/OLB 6-1 16524 Josue Marente RB/MLB 5-7 20025 Trent Schickel RB/OLB 5-7 17036 Ben Nolt TE/OLB 6-0 18049 Caden Wanger P/K 5-9 15551 Tucker Hastings T/DE 5-11 20053 Jesse Lonnon G/DT 6-0 26558 Kyle McGallicher C/DT 5-8 23566 Jonathon Lopez T/DE 5-7 18572 Oscar Gonzalez G/DT 5-2 25073 Simeon Teklu T/DE 5-8 18074 Noah Admassu G/DT 5-5 22075 Carter May T/DT 6-0 22077 Thomas Ripson T/DT 6-6 31580 Anthony Serrano WR/C 5-6 14584 Charles Janvrin WR/OLB 5-11 17587 Aiden Johnson TE/DE 6-3 180

Freshmen Pos. Ht. Wt.12 Macoy Kneisley QB/FS 5-10 150

2019 Schedule

2018 Results

8/23 PENN MANOR 7 p.m.8/30 NEW OXFORD 7 p.m.9/6 @ Spring Grove 7 p.m.9/13 @ Lampeter-Strasburg 7 p.m.9/21 @ Solanco 7 p.m.9/27 GARDEN SPOT 7 p.m.10/4 @ Cocalico 7 p.m.10/11 @ Manheim Central 7 p.m.10/18 WARWICK 7 p.m.10/25 ELIZABETHTOWN 7 p.m.

Penn Manor W, 31-13

New Oxford L, 25-24

Spring Grove W, 26-14

Lampeter-Strasburg W, 20-7

Solanco W, 31-27

Garden Spot W, 42-14

Cocalico L, 49-14

Manheim Central L, 48-7

Warwick L, 42-3


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Kindergarten graduation ceremo-nies usually leave elementary school teachers misty-eyed, the bright hopes for the future competing with those cute, construction-paper caps.

High school graduation exercises can release a good flow of tears from football coaches, especially when the coach watches nearly all his team walk into the next chapter of life.

Such was the case for Gerry Novak as Buckskin after Buckskin, many three-year starters, paraded across the stage last June, diploma in hand.

Three starters return, six letter-win-ners in all, as a new of band of Buck-

Learning on the jobGraduation losses thrust newest Buckskins into fire

skins prepare to do battle in 2019.“We took it hard to graduation last

year. We got hammered,” Novak said.“We have a pretty good nucleus of

guys,” he added. “We’re going to have young kids playing on both sides of the ball, young in terms of age, but also in terms of playing experience.

“Even though there aren’t a lot of re-turning players that have a lot of playing time, they’ve jelled together. The key is to get the young kids to grow up quickly.”

About the offense

Center Josh Mathiot is the only re-turning member of a huge, punishing

BUCKSKINS, page 21


PIAA CLASS

5A


SECTION 2ELIZABETHTOWN BEARS

2018 SECTION: 3-3 | 2018 OVERALL: 6-5 | BASE OFFENSE: SPREAD | BASE DEFENSE: 4-3

Andy Breault(2nd season, 6-5)

HEAD COACH

2019 Schedule

2018 Results

8/23 @ Donegal 7 p.m.8/30 @ Dover 7 p.m.9/6 CONRAD WEISER 7 p.m.9/13 @ Cocalico 7 p.m.9/20 MANHEIM CENTRAL 7 p.m.9/27 SOLANCO 7 p.m.10/4 @ Garden Spot 7 p.m.10/11 @ Penn Manor 7 p.m.10/18 LAMPETER-STRASBURG 7 p.m.10/25 @ Conestoga Valley 7 p.m.

Donegal W, 49-33Dover W, 61-40Conrad Weiser L, 29-6Cocalico L, 41-14Manheim Central L, 50-0Solanco W, 45-44Garden Spot W, 65-28Penn Manor W, 52-17Lampeter-Strasburg L, 20-13Conestoga Valley W, 30-3Governor Mifflin L, 30-0




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Seniors Pos. 2 Cole Rice WR/DB12 Cole Hitz WR/DB16 Anthony Pagan WR/DB18 Kaidyn Heaps RB/DB37 Leon Allen RB/LB49 Jett Kelly TE/DE52 Adnan Traore G/LB56 Ray Perez T/DL63 Joe Sikora C/DL66 Tristan Mabee G/DL68 Alex Miller T/DL72 Josh McNitt G/DL73 Sam Broomell T/DL

Juniors Pos. 6 Cameron Poulos RB/DB8 Joseph Yaidoo RB/DB9 Cade Denlinger K/P13 Elijah Reitmeyer WR/LB14 Brandon Lewis WR/DB20 Riley Drager RB/DB21 Isaac Thomas WR/LB24 Mark Snader WR/DB26 Leighland Olsen WR/DB28 Hayden Stahlman TE/DE31 Caiden Herr WR/DB35 Richard Patterson WR/LB42 Bobby Walters WR/LB

49 Jett Kelly TE/DE50 Gavin Gray G/LB58 Calvin Stewart T/DL62 Jacob Shue G/DL64 Marshall Bowers C/DL70 Gabe Cooper T/DL74 Billy McNitt T/DL80 Devon Garcia WR/DB86 Sean Doll TE/DLSophomores Pos. 1 Ashton Astree WR/DB3 Addison Johnson WR/DB4 Braxton Cicero WR/DB10 Patrick Gilhool QB/DB

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Bears look to hit the ground runningElizabethtown will rely on experienced O-line

game leading all L-L passers.The air raid attack led Elizabeth-

town to a respectable 3-3 mark in L-L Section Two play, a 6-4 regular season record and an appearance in the Dis-trict Three Class 5A playoffs.

Just about every playmaker from

that squad has graduated. However, four of five O-linemen return. So should fans expect to see more from the Bears’ ground game?

“It’s fair to say there will be a little bit more run-blocking this year,” senior center Joe Sikora said.

On the other side, five defensive starters are back.

“I’d just like to take what last year’s team was able to accomplish and carry that over into this year,” Breault said. “We’re young except for the guys up front. We want to use that to our ad-vantage with the guys up front.”

About the offense

Sikora returns in the trenches along-side senior guard Adnan Traore, ju-

nior tackle Billy McNitt and senior guard Jett Kelly.

Freshman Josh Rudy and sopho-more Patrick Gilhool were battling it out in preseason camp for the starting QB gig. Gilhool got all of the second-team reps a year ago as Patrick’s back-up. Their top targets happen to share the same first name — senior wideouts Cole Rice (six receptions, 128 yards, one touchdown) and Cole Hitz (three receptions, 23 yards).

Time at the tight end spot might be split between Kelly, junior Sean Doll and sophomore Brandonn Frey.

About the defense

Kelly (31 tackles) and senior Tristan BEARS, page 21


PIAA CLASS

5A


SECTION 2GARDEN SPOT SPARTANS

2018 SECTION: 0-6 | 2018 OVERALL: 0-10 | BASE OFFENSE: SPREAD | BASE DEFENSE: 4-3

Matt Zamperini(1st season)

HEAD COACH

2019 Schedule

2018 Results

8/23 @ Daniel Boone 7 p.m.8/30 WARWICK 7 p.m.9/6 @ Palmyra 7 p.m.9/13 @ Solanco 7 p.m.9/20 LAMPETER-STRASBURG 7 p.m.9/27 @ Conestoga Valley 7 p.m.10/4 ELIZABETHTOWN 7 p.m.10/11 COCALICO 7 p.m.10/18 @ Manheim Central 7 p.m.10/25 CEDAR CREST 7 p.m.

Daniel Boone L, 24-21Warwick L, 62-0Palmyra L, 44-20Solanco L, 48-21Lampeter-Strasburg L, 42-0Conestoga Valley L, 42-14Elizabethtown L, 65-28Cocalico L, 55-21Manheim Central L, 63-0Cedar Crest L, 54-14

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Seniors Ht. Wt.Alexander Diedrich 5-11 228Michael Golub -- --Ethan Good 5-10 144Cameron Killinger 5-8 178Charles Martin 6-1 195Nicholas Vafeades -- --Daniel Yang 5-8 201

Juniors Ht. Wt.Kupakwashwe Agbokah -- --

John Dykie 6-0 200Willie Floyd -- --Stephen Foor -- --Bret Graybill -- --Zander Heagy 6-0 153Andrew Jones 5-6 125Israel Mares 5-9 211Jesse Martin 6-2 177Bryce Mercer 5-7 152Isaiah Rivera -- --Luke Shirk 6-1 195

Adam Stefan 5-7 179Brandon Swope 5-9 259Cameron Wing 5-7 123Travis Zeiset 5-11 217

Sophomores Ht. Wt.Tyler Gillenwater -- 120Andrew Good -- --William Thomas Hartman -- --Derrick Lambert -- --Joel Martin -- --

Luke Martin -- --

Walker Martin -- --

Aiden McCloud -- --

Gavin Miller -- --

Sean Moran -- --

Luke Nagle -- --

Tyler Schnitz -- --

Ryan Troop -- --

Garden Spot’s Jesse Martin breaks away for a long touchdown run against Palmyra on Sept. 7, 2018.


Conf idence is keyGarden Spot will measure success by gains in skillANDREW [email protected]

On the heels of consecutive hum-bling seasons, they’re keeping it real at Garden Spot in 2019.

No bold projections of making it to districts, no promises of even a win-ning season. The Spartans are young, relatively inexperienced — as many as six returning starters on both sides of the ball — and perhaps a little emo-tionally rattled after a winless 2018.

“My expectation is that we improve,” said junior quarterback Jesse Mar-tin, one of a few on the team who has played through 18 losses over the last two years. “Last year obviously was very upsetting. I’d like to see us win a

few games, possibly break even.”“I expect everybody to play four

quarters, don’t give up,” junior run-ning back and defensive end John Dykie said. “We need 100 percent from everybody to get the job done.”

In the end, success might not be measured by wins and losses, but

SPARTANS, page 21


Buckskinsoffensive line that carved out 132.5 yards per game.

“I’m ... trying to bring everyone to-gether,” said Mathiot, who said that the progress has been good. “We’re working through that, and I think we’ve got to a pretty good point. We just have to keep it going from here.”

“Our O-line is going to be the ques-tion,” Novak said. “(If ) they can give Bradley a little bit of time to get the ball

Continued from 18

off, I think we can do some good things.”“Bradley” being returning quarter-

back Bradley Stoltzfus, who complet-ed 122 of 204 pass attempts for 1,601 yards and 11 touchdowns.

He is also the brother of Grant Stoltzfus, holder of several CV passing records.

“We like to talk back and forth about the records he set and what I’m trying to do,” the younger Stoltzfus said. “I’m definitely carrying over the confidence I had during the season.”

The Bucks will need Stoltzfus to be on target, and, of the Bucks’ top four targets in 2018, the only one returning is Derek Ulishney.

“We also have some fast guys, first years,” notes Ulishney, who pulled in 15 balls for 236 yards and three scores. “Don’t sleep on them. They’ll run right past you.”

Speaking of running, the Bucks’ of-fense is predicated on establishing the run, and Booper Johnson gets the call after averaging 5.25 yards per carry as the understudy to since-graduated Keegan Martin.

About the defense

But what about the other side of the ball?

“We’re really slim on defense,” No-vak admits.

With Ulishney and Zach Fisher re-turning in the secondary and Brandon Camp up front, opportunities abound for newbies as well.

“We need to improve each week,” Novak said.

“I like to say, if we can be around 75-76 percent efficiency, offensively and defensively, after the first week, and then go up by two, maybe three percent every game, I’ll feel pretty good.

“We’re going to have to be simple, and then try to be explosive.”

Bears: Ground game

Elizabeth-town’s

Cole Rice is slowed by Penn Manor’s

Logan Legenstein

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Mabee (2018 L-L Section Two hon-orable mention) will anchor the de-fensive line, taking orders from mid-dle linebacker Traore (82 tackles, 2018 L-L Section Two second-team all-star).

Rice (64 tackles, eight pass de-flections, two caused fumbles, one blocked field goal) and Hitz (23 tackles) will hold down the safety

spots.

Special teams

Cade Denlinger returns at kicker. And if the Bears can find some block-ers for the return game, they have an adequate option in bringing the ball up the field with Rice, who was a 2018 L-L Section Two honorable mention as a kick returner.

Spartans

Continued from 19

rather how well the Spartans stay in ball-games, how stoutly they play defense, and how diverse the offense be-comes, relieving pres-sure on Martin and Dykie to do it all. Last season, the pair’s com-bined yardage account-ed for about 90 percent of the team’s produc-tion.

Maybe above all, suc-cess will have been achieved if swagger re-turns rivaling that of the Spartans during new/old coach Matt Zam-perini’s first 10 years at Spot.

“We have to do a great job of coaching,” said Zamperini, who guided the Spartans to 56 victo-ries and four playoff ap-pearances from 2006 to 2015. He coached the Al-bright College defensive line the past three sea-sons while remaining at Spot as a teacher.

“We need to help them gain confidence to do their job,” he said, “to build their belief that they can compete.”

Continued from 20 About the offense

Returning with Zam-perini is the spread op-tion, which will feature Martin and Dykie, and Zamperini hopes a few others, applying side-line to sideline pressure. Senior receiver Ethan Good figures to add some depth with Luke Shirk, Derrick Lam-bert and Zander Heagy providing some beef up front.

“When you run the spread, you’re throwing the ball around,” Zam-perini said. “Jesse’s the ideal quarterback for what we want to do. We have some kids who are young but they will pose a threat to secondaries.”

About the defense

Taking over the coordi-nation of the 4-3 scheme is Zamperini. Among his returning starters are Dykie and big bodies Shirk and senior Charles Martin, who both size up at 6-2 and 260 pounds. The defense last season yielded close to 400 yards

and 49 points a game on average.

“We have to play solid, aggressive defense,” Zam-perini said. “That’s the biggest area that needs to be fixed. We need to bring back some defensive at-titude.”

Key to the season

Limiting opposition run game with aggressive play, and getting mean-ingful contributions from offensive weapons not named Martin and Dykie. They will get theirs.

Intangibles

Zamperini’s return will have an impact, of course.

“When the job came open, I felt a sense of duty to take it,” he said. “There are kids on the team I know well and like a lot. They de-serve the best chances to succeed. I think I can show them the best things foot-ball has to offer.”

Final word

“We have everything to gain and everything to prove,” Dykie said of the 0-10 season. “I want to be on the team that brings us out of that (negativity).”


PIAA CLASS

4A


SECTION 2LAMPETER-STRASBURG PIONEERS

2018 SECTION: 2-4 | 2018 OVERALL: 6-6 | BASE OFFENSE: SPREAD/WING-T | BASE DEFENSE: 3-3 STACK

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Seniors Pos. Ht. Wt.2 Cliff Wilson RB/DB 5-8 1704 Devon Stanley WR/DB 6-0 1857 Jacob Kopelman TE/DB 6-0 19012 Logan Bradley WR/DB 6-2 20018 Ryan Beers WR/DB 6-0 16521 Bryan McKim RB/DB 5-7 18534 Tim Martin RB/DB 5-8 15543/53 Christian Garver OL/LB 6-1 19054 Mike DelGrande OL/LB 6-1 21555 Jake Hines OL/LB 6-4 20075 Jason Chedester OL/DL 5-10 166

83 Jack Shenk WR/DB 6-2 165

Juniors Pos. Ht. Wt.5 Drew Gochnauer RB/DB 5-9 1408 Alex Knapp RB/DB 5-8 17510 Sean McTaggart QB/LB 6-1 19511 Austin Stoltzfus WR/DB 6-1 16315 Conner Nolt QB/LB 6-2 16520 Kaden Swope RB/DB 5-9 12524 Drew Harris RB/LB 5-11 18026 Owen Fikkert RB/DB 5-7 14530 Matt Weese RB/DB 5-10 16032 Elijah Carr RB/DL 5-9 17735 Gabe Parmer WR/DB 5-11 17544 Brady Cole TE/LB 6-0 18050 Ayden McKee OL/LB 5-10 16051 Caden Eshbach OL/LB 5-10 17552 Makyah Schwartz OL/DL 5-11 15557 Ashton Spahr OL/DL 5-11 21059 Zac Shelley OL/DL 6-1 26064 Parker Owens OL/DL 6-2 18565 Alex Cardwell OL/LB 5-8 14567 Neil Eckman OL/DL 5-10 24069 Marshall Moyer OL/DL 5-8 22072 Jake Scranton OL/DL 6-1 25077 Landon Teeter OL/DL 6-7 21579 Tyler Weit OL/DL 5-11 22581 Ian Herr WR/DB 6-1 180

Sophomores Pos. Ht. Wt.6 Brayden Smith TE/LB 6-1 1909 Berkeley Wagner WR/DB 6-0 15514 Giovanni Malatesta RB/DB/K 5-5 13522 Payton Cunningham RB/DB 5-7 14023 Mathan Schreiner RB/DB 5-8 16028 Brayden Adams RB/DB 5-6 14031 Austin Cole WR/LB 5-8 13542 Cole Younger RB/DB 5-6 16556 Nick DelGrande OL/LB 6-4 21058 Evan Sellers OL/DL 5-11 23068 Eric Lukusa OL/DL 5-10 17082 Dante Gilot WR/DB 5-6 13585 Andrew Reidenbaugh K 6-0 15588 Beau Heyser TE/DL 6-1 210

Freshmen Pos. Ht. Wt.63 Tristan Showers OL/DL 5-10 185

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2019 Schedule

2018 Results

8/23 SPRING GROVE 7 p.m.

8/30 PENN MANOR 7 p.m.

9/7 @ West York 1 p.m.

9/13 CONESTOGA VALLEY 7 p.m.

9/20 @ Garden Spot 7 p.m.



10/11 SOLANCO 7 p.m.

10/18 @ Elizabethtown 7 p.m.

10/25 @ Cocalico 7 p.m.

Spring Grove W, 35-13Penn Manor W, 42-0West York W, 35-28Conestoga Valley L, 20-7Garden Spot W, 42-0Hempfield L, 28-26Manheim Central L, 43-7Solanco L, 48-27Elizabethtown W, 20-13Cocalico L, 62-23Elco W, 37-0Berks Catholic L, 35-14

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Lampeter-Strasburg’s Sean McTaggart, right, and teammate Bryan McKim celebrate a touchdown against Elco in a District Three Class 4A playoff game on Nov. 2, 2018.



It will be a nostalgic kind of football season at Lampeter-Strasburg this fall.

The Pioneers are set to open their final campaign in Section Two of the Lancaster-Lebanon League; L-S will move to Section Three next year in the league’s impending realignment, so this will be the last go-round of rivalry

Out with a bangL-S’s senior class wants to leave its mark on Section 2

games for the Pioneers before they re-kindle some former Section Three ri-valries from back in the day.

L-S will feature one of the top quar-terbacks in the circuit in Sean McTag-gart, a gifted dual-threat player who accounted for 2,420 total yards and 24 total touchdowns last fall in his break-out sophomore campaign.

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2018 LNP L-L League football standings, statisticsSection One

League OverallTeam W L PF PA W L PF PAb-Manheim Township .. 5 1 196 72 9 1 309 118b-Warwick ................... 5 1 245 77 8 2 432 113b-Wilson ...................... 5 1 179 91 7 3 271 182Hempfield .................... 3 3 153 135 5 5 243 243Cedar Crest .................. 2 4 142 182 5 5 280 271Penn Manor ................. 1 5 69 246 1 9 106 413McCaskey..................... 0 6 54 237 1 9 110 408

Section Two League OverallTeam W L PF PA W L PF PAa-Manheim Central ..... 6 0 304 51 10 0 421 88Cocalico ....................... 5 1 272 120 8 2 383 211Elizabethtown .............. 3 3 167 186 6 4 335 305Conestoga Valley ......... 3 3 117 175 5 5 201 269Solanco ........................ 2 4 188 223 6 4 379 280Lampeter-Strasburg ..... 2 4 126 228 5 5 264 255Garden Spot ................ 0 6 84 315 0 10 139 499

Section Three League OverallTeam W L PF PA W L PF PAa-Lancaster Catholic .... 9 0 336 75 10 0 364 82Elco .............................. 7 2 210 192 8 2 230 192Annville-Cleona ........... 7 2 352 202 7 3 365 241Donegal ....................... 6 3 311 173 6 4 344 223Ephrata ........................ 5 4 292 193 5 5 298 256Lebanon ....................... 5 4 247 183 5 5 266 225Columbia ..................... 3 6 174 303 3 7 187 342Octorara ...................... 2 7 137 233 2 8 143 259Northern Lebanon ....... 1 8 132 380 1 9 146 430Pequea Valley .............. 0 9 57 279 0 10 75 366

a-won section title; b-tied for section titleFollowing is Lancaster Newspapers’ 2018 statistical report after the

completion of regular-season play for Lancaster-Lebanon League foot-ball teams. It was compiled by Kevin Byrne with statistics provided by the teams. Players are ranked according to yardage for rushers, receptions and the NFL rating system for quarterbacks.

A plus/minus (+/-) turnover stat is found with each team’s defensive stats.

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING

Section OnePlayer, School Att. Yds. Avg. TDElijah Morales, Wilson ............................... 157 963 6.13 13Nick Fucci, Warwick ................................... 139 760 5.47 15Matt Heuston, Hempfield ..........................133 695 5.23 13Tyler Cruz, Cedar Crest ..............................131 658 5.02 13Isaiah Jackson, McCaskey ..........................152 620 4.08 2Jaden Floyd, Manheim Township ..............110 579 5.26 3Logan Horn, Cedar Crest .............................. 87 550 6.32 7Colin Peters, Hempfield ............................... 97 425 4.38 4Neisso Dorvil, Cedar Crest ...........................50 331 6.62 3Cameron Horst, Manheim Township ...........65 285 4.38 2

Section TwoPlayer, School Att. Yds. Avg. TDJoel McGuire, Solanco ...............................167 1531 9.17 26Tyler Flick, Manheim Central .....................198 1447 7.31 28Nafis Moore, Solanco .................................. 95 1004 10.57 17Noah Palm, Cocalico .................................. 104 957 9.2 20Garrett Longenecker, Cocalico ...................118 933 7.91 8John Dykie, Garden Spot ...........................193 839 4.35 5Keegan Martin, Conestoga Valley ..............146 803 5.5 12Bryan McKim, Lampeter-Strasburg ..............99 603 6.09 6Nick Yannutz, Solanco ................................ 135 599 4.44 0Jesse Martin, Garden Spot ........................132 593 4.49 5

Section ThreePlayer, School Att. Yds. Avg. TDZion Gibbs, Donegal ................................... 117 1082 9.25 19Caleb Turner, Annville-Cleona ...................144 868 6.03 9Jeffrey Harley, Lancaster Catholic ................71 834 11.75 14Jordan Minick, Donegal .............................110 821 7.46 6Luke Williams, Elco .................................... 175 787 4.5 4Caden Keefer, Ephrata ...............................176 760 4.32 15Trevor Porche, Annville-Cleona ...................90 747 8.3 6Braden Bohannon, Elco .............................148 703 4.75 15Joseph Mejias Rios, Lebanon .......................64 682 10.66 6Jeremy Bours, Annville-Cleona ....................86 627 7.29 10

PASSINGSection One

Player, School Com Att Int Yds TD Rtg.Joey McCracken, Warwick ......................72 114 3 1570 20 135.4Harrison Kirk, Manheim Twp. ...............142 237 4 2046 19 107.7Adam Ricketts, Warwick .........................81 133 5 1338 11 106.7Anthony Futrick, Wilson .......................121 216 5 1354 13 85.3Colin Peters, Hempfield ........................105 194 9 1349 11 75.7Logan Horn, Cedar Crest .........................94 173 11 1398 10 73.8Luke Braas, Penn Manor .........................41 101 3 770 5 71.8Isaiah Thomas, McCaskey .......................84 161 13 1071 9 58.3Aaron Gale, Penn Manor ........................33 82 8 470 4 36.1Ben Desmarais, McCaskey ......................13 37 4 213 2 33.8

Section TwoPlayer, School Com Att Int Yds TD Rtg.Noah Palm, Cocalico ...............................28 56 0 658 11 132.3Evan Simon, Manheim Central ...............83 149 2 1539 16 121.7Cole Patrick, Elizabethtown ..................151 249 9 2530 26 114.7Joel McGuire, Solanco ............................17 41 2 383 5 94.8Bradley Stoltzfus, Conestoga Valley ......122 204 7 1601 11 88.3Sean McTaggart, Lampeter-Strasburg ..105 195 10 1646 13 83.0Jesse Martin, Garden Spot .....................59 150 11 564 4 28.9

Section ThreePlayer, School Com Att Int Yds TD Rtg.Dylan Martin, Donegal............................33 63 3 721 9 113.2Eyan Margut, Northern Lebanon ..............9 26 1 293 6 101.4Braden Bohannon, Elco ..........................29 56 1 436 5 100.0Gavin Sullivan, Lancaster Catholic ..........56 90 7 804 11 98.3Caden Keefer, Ephrata ............................91 161 5 1231 12 92.9Isaiah Rodriguez, Lebanon ....................149 263 9 1938 18 88.6Darian Ulrich, Elco ..................................17 32 2 271 3 86.8Jeremy Bours, Annville-Cleona ...............32 74 3 598 7 86.4Matt McCleary, Columbia .....................127 261 9 1899 17 80.3Ethan Borcky, Northern Lebanon .........124 233 7 1328 8 69.1Nick Mattingly, Octorara .........................55 102 6 682 5 66.7Jansen Schempp, Octorara .....................15 40 5 244 3 44.2John Smith, Pequea Valley ......................31 72 5 324 2 37.0Collin Bailey, Pequea Valley ....................46 87 7 418 1 36.5

RECEIVINGSection One

Player, School Rec. Yds Avg. TDTrey Glass, Warwick ..................................... 64 1130 17.66 12Darien Ressler, Hempfield ........................... 41 776 18.93 4Brody Dunlop, Cedar Crest ..........................41 571 13.93 9Hilton Ridley, Manheim Township ...............31 482 15.55 2Brett Benjamin, Manheim Township ...........28 484 17.29 4Hayden Rucci, Warwick ............................... 27 601 22.26 1Hilton Michael, Warwick ............................. 27 542 20.07 7Isaiah Gilmore, Wilson................................. 27 285 10.56 7Jamiere Gray, McCaskey .............................. 26 448 17.23 5Noah Santiago, McCaskey ........................... 25 290 11.6 2

Section TwoPlayer, School Rec. Yds Avg. TDCole Livingston, Elizabethtown ....................36 670 18.61 10Luke Pierson, Elizabethtown ........................35 599 17.11 5Joe Cardina, Conestoga Valley .....................35 485 13.86 4Alex Diahn, Elizabethtown ...........................31 569 18.35 6Gavin Horning, Conestoga Valley.................28 361 12.89 3Parker Graff, Conestoga Valley .....................27 363 13.44 2Dylan Sweger, Elizabethtown ......................24 378 15.75 2Zack Ringler, Garden Spot ............................ 23 277 12.04 3Isaac Perron, Manheim Central ...................22 325 14.77 2Austin Stoltzfus, Lampeter-Strasburg ..........22 324 14.73 0Joey Underwood, Lampeter-Strasburg ........22 203 9.23 1

Section ThreePlayer, School Rec. Yds Avg. TDLeighton Rivera, Lebanon ............................ 41 584 14.24 6Eyan Margut, Northern Lebanon .................41 578 14.1 5Ryan Redding, Columbia .............................. 40 524 13.1 2Dalton Temple, Pequea Valley .....................37 378 10.22 2Jahlil Young, Lebanon .................................. 36 439 12.19 4Alex Rufe, Lebanon ...................................... 32 536 16.75 6Tucker Parmer, Ephrata ............................... 31 437 14.1 4Terrance Elliott, Columbia ...........................25 404 16.16 5Spencer Linton, Northern Lebanon .............24 222 9.25 0Ethan Herb, Northern Lebanon ...................22 254 11.55 3

SCORINGSection One

Player, School TD Conv/S FG XP TNick Fucci, Warwick ................................ 19 0 0 0 114Trey Glass, Warwick ................................ 14 0 0 0 84Tyler Cruz, Cedar Crest ........................... 13 0 0 0 78Matt Heuston, Hempfield ....................... 13 0 0 0 78Elijah Morales, Wilson ............................ 13 0 0 0 78Jack Rodenberger, Manheim Township .... 0 0 9 36 63

Darien Ressler, Hempfield ........................ 9 0 0 0 54Brady Gibble, Wilson ................................ 9 0 0 0 54Jack Wagner, Wilson ................................. 0 0 7 27 48Curtis Johnson, Hempfield ....................... 0 0 5 29 44

Section TwoPlayer, School TD Conv/S FG XP TTyler Flick, Manheim Central .................. 28 0 0 0 168Joel McGuire, Solanco ............................ 26 1 0 0 158Nafis Moore, Solanco ............................. 20 1 0 0 122Noah Palm, Cocalico ............................... 20 0 0 0 120Cole Livingston, Elizabethtown ............... 18 0 0 0 108Garrett Longenecker, Cocalico ................ 13 0 0 7 85Keegan Martin, Conestoga Valley ........... 12 0 0 0 72Joe Cardina, Conestoga Valley .................. 4 0 5 24 63Ronald Zahm, Cocalico ........................... 10 0 0 0 60Nick Gavala, Manheim Central ................. 0 1 1 50 55

Section ThreePlayer, School TD Conv/S FG XP TZion Gibbs, Donegal ................................ 23 0 0 0 138Caden Keefer, Ephrata ............................ 15 1 0 0 92Braden Bohannon, Elco .......................... 15 0 0 0 90Jeffrey Harley, Lancaster Catholic ........... 14 0 0 0 84Jeremy Bours, Annville-Cleona ............... 10 0 0 0 60Daniel Mueller, Lancaster Catholic ........... 0 0 4 43 55Jansen Schempp, Octorara ....................... 9 0 0 0 54Jordan Minick, Donegal ............................ 9 0 0 0 54Caleb Turner, Annville-Cleona .................. 9 0 0 0 54Leighton Rivera, Lebanon ......................... 9 0 0 0 54

TEAM STATISTICS: TOTAL OFFENSESection One

G Rush Pass Yards/GWarwick ................................................... 10 1246 2925 417.1Cedar Crest .............................................. 10 1980 1565 354.5Manheim Township ................................. 10 1360 2079 343.9Wilson ..................................................... 10 1730 1436 316.6Hempfield ................................................ 10 1449 1422 287.1McCaskey................................................. 10 730 1293 202.3Penn Manor ............................................. 10 867 1151 201.8

Section Two G Rush Pass Yards/GSolanco .................................................... 10 3861 383 424.4Manheim Central ..................................... 10 2299 1539 383.8Lampeter-Strasburg ................................. 10 2034 1673 370.7Cocalico ................................................... 10 2910 683 359.3Elizabethtown .......................................... 10 983 2549 353.2Conestoga Valley ..................................... 10 1325 1632 295.7Garden Spot ............................................ 10 1751 671 242.2

Section Three G Rush Pass Yards/GAnnville-Cleona ....................................... 10 3261 641 390.2Lancaster Catholic ................................... 10 2845 821 366.6Donegal ................................................... 10 2721 791 351.2Lebanon ................................................... 10 1514 1874 338.8Ephrata .................................................... 10 1772 1301 307.3Octorara .................................................. 10 1683 985 266.8Columbia ................................................. 10 681 1933 261.4Elco .......................................................... 10 1887 707 259.4Northern Lebanon ................................... 10 495 1710 220.5Pequea Valley .......................................... 10 849 742 159.1

TEAM STATISTICS: TOTAL DEFENSESection One

Rush Pass Yards/G +/-Manheim Township ............................... 895 1332 222.7 26/12Wilson ................................................... 989 1695 268.4 20/18Warwick ................................................. 882 1818 270.0 24/10Cedar Crest .......................................... 1724 1265 298.9 12/21Hempfield ............................................ 1251 2018 326.9 10/17McCaskey............................................. 2257 1273 353.0 8/22Penn Manor ......................................... 2350 1803 415.3 12/18

Section Two Rush Pass Yards/G +/-Manheim Central ................................. 1122 947 206.9 20/12Cocalico ............................................... 1639 1241 288.0 20/5Lampeter-Strasburg ............................. 1741 1303 304.4 15/17Solanco ................................................ 1794 1664 345.8 6/14Conestoga Valley ................................. 2415 1158 357.3 17/9Elizabethtown ...................................... 2365 1262 362.7 16/13Garden Spot ........................................ 2538 1491 402.9 10/27

Section Three Rush Pass Yards/G +/-Lancaster Catholic ................................. 887 1059 194.6 16/12Elco ...................................................... 1294 1297 259.1 15/11Lebanon ............................................... 1670 954 262.4 17/14Annville-Cleona ................................... 1874 1069 294.3 8/8Donegal ............................................... 1625 1427 305.2 16/8Octorara .............................................. 2012 1212 322.4 17/23Columbia ............................................. 2428 928 335.6 11/14Ephrata ................................................ 1928 1464 339.2 15/17Pequea Valley ...................................... 2379 1105 348.4 9/16Northern Lebanon ............................... 2539 1344 388.3 7/13


PIAA CLASS

5A


SECTION 2MANHEIM CENTRAL BARONS

2018 SECTION: 6-0 | 2018 OVERALL: 14-1 | BASE OFFENSE: MULTIPLE SPREAD | BASE DEFENSE: 4-2-5

Dave Hahn(5th season, 48-7)

HEAD COACH

2019 Schedule

2018 Results

8/23 SUSQUEHANNA TOWNSHIP 7 p.m.

8/30 HEMPFIELD 7 p.m.

9/6 @ Warwick 7 p.m.

9/13 @ Wilson 7 p.m.


9/27 COCALICO 7 p.m.

10/4 @ Lampeter-Strasburg 7 p.m.


10/18 GARDEN SPOT 7 p.m.

10/25 @ Solanco 7 p.m.

Susquehanna Township W, 44-0Hempfield W, 28-7Warwick W, 27-20Wilson W, 20-10Elizabethtown W, 50-0Cocalico W, 41-23Lampeter-Strasburg W, 43-7Conestoga Valley W, 48-7Garden Spot W, 63-0Solanco W, 57-14Governor Mifflin W, 51-14Cedar Cliff W, 42-20Cocalico W, 48-14Upper Dublin W, 34-12Penn Hills L, 36-31

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Seniors Pos. Ht. Wt.4 Wes Herder WR/DB 6-1 2115 Colby Wagner WR/DB 5-11 1756 Evan Simon QB/DB 6-3 2057 Ben Wagner WR/DB 5-11 16510 Tyler Hartl WR/DE 5-11 18014 Jordan Beamesderfer WR/DB 5-10 15415 J.D. Grube WR/LB 5-9 16317 Jon Frias-Herder WR/DL 6-0 17521 Maliki Rivera RB/LB 5-8 18723 Joey Noble WR/DB 5-10 16325 Jake Harbach RB/LB 5-8 20635 Cole Lastinger WR/DB 5-11 16049 Clay Bedi RB/LB 5-9 16053 Devin Fahnestock OL/DL 5-7 15556 John Dailey OL/DL 5-11 22659 Troy Kolk OL/DL 5-11 23863 Jonathan Brown OL/DL 5-10 25366 Nolan Weaver OL/DL 6-0 25277 Mason Morales OL/DL 6-1 28379 Christian Zdenek OL/DL 6-2 32086 Chris Pagano TE/LB 5-9 18087 Jake Martin TE/DE 5-10 181

Juniors Pos. Ht. Wt.9 Kade Kegarise QB/DB 5-10 15716 Nate Reed K 6-2 14118 Owen Pappas WR/DB 5-9 16020 Josh Moore WR/DB 5-9 16127 Logan Shull K 5-7 19034 Juan Perez RB/LB 5-10 19547 Devynne Neville TE/LB 6-0 18748 Ben Sheaffer RB/LB 5-6 15452 Jeremy Knight OL/DL 5-6 22255 Owen Kupres OL/DL 5-11 19065 Yanni Romero OL/DL 5-5 24384 Westley Borden TE/LB 5-10 155

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State championship or bust?There are always plenty of high ex-

pectations wafting around at Man-heim Central, and after a state semi-final loss in 2017, and an excruciating setback in the state final last Decem-ber, the next obvious box to check on the list would be a PIAA crown.

“We don’t talk about winning state championships, even though every

Barons f ind focusPlenty left on the to-do list after state runner-up finish

kid wants to win one,” Central coach Dave Hahn said. “What kid, right now, doesn’t want to win a state champion-ship? But we can’t worry about that. We have to focus on what we have to do.”

Central’s to-do list includes replac-ing some thunder up front and a key skill kid in the backfield. Still, the bar remains higher than ever for the Barons, who are 34-3 in their last 37

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n Sept. 6: Manheim Central at Warwick.

n Sept. 13: Ephrata at Lancaster Catholic.

n Sept. 20: Manheim Twp. at Cocalico.

n Sept. 27: Cocalico at Manheim Central.

n Oct. 4: Manheim Twp. at Warwick.

n Oct. 11: Cocalico at Garden Spot.

n Oct. 18: Pequea Valley at Ephrata.

n Oct. 25: Lampeter-Strasburg at Cocalico.

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n Oct. 10: Palmyra at Milton Hershey (WQIC).

n Oct. 11: Donegal at A-C (WLBR).

n Oct. 18: A-C at Elco (WLBR).

n Oct. 25: TBA.

Barons: Much remains to accomplishgames, the four-time reign-ing Section Two champs, the back-to-back District Three Class 5A champs, and they’ll open the season rid-ing a shiny 25-game regu-lar-season unbeaten streak.

“The expectation is to get back to where we were,” vet two-way lineman and re-turning all-star Troy Kolk said. “We know we have big targets on our backs, so we have to go one week and one game at a time.”

About the offense

Rising senior all-state QB Evan Simon, who is clos-ing in fast on Jeff Smoker’s program passing record, committed to Rutgers in the Big Ten earlier this summer, and he’ll have twins Ben and Colby Wagner back on the flanks. Central should be A-OK in the passing depart-ment.

Two concerns here: Cen-tral must replace four O-line kids up front — and that’s annually the Barons’ bread and butter — and find a new feature RB for Tyler Flick, an 1,800-yard rusher last year, and the program’s all-time leading ground gainer.

Some names to become familiar with include Owen Pappas, Larry Marley, Ma-

Continued from 24

Manheim Central’s Colby Wagner takes off after a catch against Penn Hills during the PIAA Class 5A championship game at Her-sheypark Stadium on Dec. 7, 2018.


liki Rivera, Juan Perez and J.D. Grube, who are expect-ed to step into larger skill-player roles.

Kolk is the only full-timer back on the line, and he’ll switch from guard to left tackle, protecting Simon’s blind side. Nolan Weaver has some experience in the trenches, and he’ll flank Kolk. Everyone else will be new.

“One of our biggest con-cerns is getting the line to-gether,” Hahn said. “We’ll need those guys to come to-

gether and get to know their assignments. That’ll be key for us.”

About the defense

Landan Moyer and Flick, two polished all-star line-backers, are gone. And the Barons must replace ball-hawker safety Evan Hosler in the back.

The upside is a veteran front four that includes ends Tyler Hartl and Jake Harbach and tackles Kolk and Weaver. The Wagner

twins are back to anchor the secondary, and Hahn is ex-pecting big things from new ’backers Chris Pagano, Clay Bedi and Perez.

Intangibles

Another Barons calling card is special teams, so keep an eye on the Wagner twins in the return game, and for kickers Logan Shull and Nate Reed to take care of the field-position game.

And probably Central’s biggest intangible: Confi-dence.

“We accept the pressure,” Hahn said. “You can’t fear making mistakes. You can’t fear losing. We know that if we work hard enough, all of those fears go away. We’ll be ready to go.”

Key to the season

Keeping Simon upright. Finding a durable, reliable go-to running back. And getting the new O-line kids on the same page, pronto.

Final word

“The line definitely has to step up,” Kolk said. “They know what they have to do, and they have that mindset. Now we have to come out strong and prove it.”


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SECTION 2SOLANCO GOLDEN MULES

2018 SECTION: 2-4 | 2018 OVERALL: 7-5 | BASE OFFENSE: TRIPLE OPTION | BASE DEFENSE: 4-3

Seniors Pos.15 Chad Carter LB16 Gabe LaMonaca LB21 Grady Unger QB26 Rashawn Carter DB28 Wilber Olivares K35 Josh Firlein DB44 Danny Bird DL45 Nick Yannutz RB56 Nate Neuhauser DL75 David Hileman OL81 Rustin Spangler WR82 Jake Smolik WR89 Patrick Henley WR

Juniors Pos.4 Mason St. Clair DB7 Ronnie Fulton RB12 Colesen Sheaffer RB22 Ryan Smith WR23 Brian Slocum RB25 Mason Hecker RB27 Nate Miller DB32 Moses Dominguez LB37 Zach McFalls DB42 Seth Harnish LB55 Justin Dagen OL58 Deven Rapant LB67 Shane Towner OL68 Connor Sprout OL74 Caden Fuller DL83 Nathan Immel WR

Sophomores Pos.6 Elijah Reimold RB10 Zach Turpen QB11 Jon Revolorio RB17 Mitchel Eckman DB19 Steven Williams WR24 Aidan Wood RB30 Shawn Willever WR34 Trent McDowell K36 Weston Bare DB38 Robert Castagna RB43 Brian Coleman FB46 Colton Stoltzfus LB52 Jake Frampton OL59 Cole Gladfelter OL61 Benjamin Boyle OL62 Connor Charles DL64 Connor Smith OL70 Jason Todd OL78 Jesse Balderson OL80 Joshua Auker WR86 Jimmy Morales WR

Freshmen Pos.2 Josiah Forren QB9 Taivon Murphy DB33 Nick Defrancesco LB40 Logan Pittman LB49 John Sankus DL

2019 ROSTER

HEAD COACHTony Cox

(6th season, 32-24)

2019 Schedule 2018 Results8/23 NORTHEASTERN 7 p.m.

8/30 @ Kennard-Dale 7 p.m.

9/6 @ New Oxford 7 p.m.

9/13 GARDEN SPOT 7 p.m.



10/4 @ McCaskey 7 p.m.

10/11 @ Lamp.-Strasburg 7 p.m.

10/18 COCALICO 7 p.m.


Northeastern W, 38-13Kennard-Dale W, 46-6New Oxford W, 43-28Garden Spot W, 48-21Conestoga Valley L, 31-27Elizabethtown L, 45-44McCaskey W, 64-10Lampeter-Strasburg W, 48-27Cocalico L, 42-7Manheim Central L, 57-14Waynesboro W, 49-0Cocalico L, 36-0

Solanco’s Nick Yannutz runs the ball against Elizabethtown during an L-L Section Two football game on Sept. 28, 2018. Yannutz ran for 839 yards and three touchdowns last season.



Thirty-seven seniors from last fall’s seven-win, District Three Class 5A quarterfi-nalist Solanco football team are gone to graduation. And with that, the Mules must re-place 16 starting spots enter-ing 2019. On paper entering camp, a lot of those holes were expected to be filled by a mix of seniors, juniors and sopho-mores.

Long story short, it’ll be a col-lective effort from several fresh-faced varsity players to keep So-

Mules have many new facesSolanco lost much to graduation, but expectations remain high

lanco’s winning ways going.“We all just work together,”

Solanco senior running back/defensive back Rashawn Cart-er said. “Sophomores, all the younger classes. We have a good senior class with a bunch of leadership. Keeping every-body together. We expect a lot out of each other.”

About the offense

Senior Grady Unger will take over the starting QB gig in the Mules’ run-heavy triple-option attack. Unger

spent the last two years learn-ing under the tutelage of QB Joel McGuire. And for what-ever it’s worth, Unger was the starting QB on last year’s JV team that lost just one game.

“By this point, I’m confi-dent with how we run the of-fense,” Unger said. “Joel really taught me everything there is to know about how we run the triple-option.”

Unger will likely toss or hand off to senior Nick Yan-nutz (164 carries, 839 rush-ing yards, three touchdowns),

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Junior guard Justin Dagen is the lone returner on the offensive line. Fellow junior Connor Sprout will as-sume duties at center and sophomore Jake Frampton will slide in at the other guard spot. Meanwhile, the two tackle spots were still up for grabs en-tering preseason camp, with juniors Caden Fuller and Deven Rapant and sophomores Connor Smith and Cole

Continued from 26 Gladfelter battling it out.Keep an eye on seniors Jake Smo-

lik and Rusty Spangler at wide re-ceiver.

About the defense

Senior tackle Nate Neuhauser (40 tackles, four tackles for loss, two sacks, one forced fumble) returns on the D-line in Solanco’s 4-3 setup. Alongside him will be newcomers Dagen, Framp-

ton, senior Danny Bird and freshman John Sankus.

Senior Chad Carter (45 tackles) and junior Seth Harnish (84 tack-les, two sacks) are returning line-backers who will provide guidance to newbie junior linebacker Moses Dominguez.

Senior Rashawn Carter (31 tack-les, one fumble recovery) is the lone returner in the defensive backfield. Entering preseason camp, the remain-

ing back positions were up for grabs among senior Josh Firlein, juniors Mason St. Clair, Mason Hecker and Nate Miller, sophomore Jon Morales and freshman Taivon Murphy.

Final word

Chad Carter had this to say on So-lanco’s many new and young starters: “We hold ourselves pretty high. I think we’ll be fine.”

Pioneers: Want to make last Section 2 ride memorable“Having Sean back is a big advantage

for us,” said L-S receiver Jacob Kopel-man, one of McTaggart’s sure-handed targets. “He’s one of the top-ranked dual-threat quarterbacks in his class in the state. There’s a reason for that. So we’re going to stretch some defens-es.”

With a plethora of skill kids in tow, L-S’s offense has the potential to make a lot of defensive coordinators dizzy in the coming months. And after a couple of years of middle-of-the-pack finish-es in the section race, this could be the season the Pioneers are back with the lead pack.

About the offense

McTaggart returns to pilot the Spread Wing-T, and he’s a good one. He’ll have familiar faces like backs Bryan McKim, Alex Knapp, Owen

Continued from 22 Fikkert and Drew Harris, and receiv-ers Kopelman and Austin Stoltzfus at his disposal, giving L-S a must-see of-fense.

However, just one experienced trench enforcer is due back, and that’s OT Zac Shelley.

“We have to protect the quarter-back,” coach John Manion said, “be-cause we’re like four or five deep at wide receiver, and all of those kids are typical No. 1 kind of kids. Skill-wise, we’re set. But we only have the one kid back on the line in Zac. The other guys are coming along; we know who the top eight are, and now they just have to play it out.”

About the defense

A new look for the Pioneers, who junked their 4-3 look in favor of a 3-3 Stack scheme, which Manion dusted off and reinstalled for this fall.

Key cogs should include Kopelman, Knapp and Logan Bradley all return-ing to the secondary, plus Shelley at DT and Christian Garver at inside LB. And here’s a name to remember: Man-ion is high on Michael DelGrande, who should slot in nicely at OG and LB.

“We changed to a three-front scheme, like we used to,” Manion not-ed. “We really like our inside ’backers (Del Grande, Garver, Harris). Up front, it’s kind of a thin group for that style of defense, but they can all move and they all have high motors. They’ll pack a punch for their size.”

Intangibles

Don’t underestimate the last year in Section Two angle; this senior class wants to leave its mark against the usual suspects, and L-S has a battalion of skill kids to light up any scoreboard.

“We’re going to give you everything

we’ve got,” Kopelman promised. “It’s our last season in this section, so we want to go out with guns blazing, and set off some fireworks.”

Key to the season

Giving McTaggart enough time for him to use all of his targets and spread the ball around. And stopping people. All the points should be great; L-S has to play some inspired defense, too.

Final word

“I like the competition level, and how they’ve become an actual ‘team’ already, even before we started prac-ticing,” Manion said. “We have very solid athletes across the board, and our older guys are pushing the young-er guys. They support each other, so that part has been really nice.”


PIAA CLASS

3A


SECTION 3ANNVILLE-CLEONA LITTLE DUTCHMEN

2018 SECTION: 7-2 | 2018 OVERALL: 7-4 | BASE OFFENSE: VEER | BASE DEFENSE: 4-3

2019 Schedule 2018 Results8/23 @ Milton Hershey 7 p.m.8/29 OCTORARA 7 p.m.9/6 @ Ephrata 7 p.m.9/13 @ Northern Lebanon 7 p.m.9/20 COLUMBIA 7 p.m.9/27 @ Lancaster Catholic 7 p.m.10/4 PEQUEA VALLEY 7 p.m.10/11 DONEGAL 7 p.m.10/18 @ Elco 7 p.m.10/25 LEBANON 7 p.m.

Milton Hershey L, 39-13Octorara W, 39-30Ephrata W, 41-35Northern Lebanon W, 62-13Columbia W, 56-8Lancaster Catholic L, 23-14Pequea Valley W, 54-18Donegal L, 35-14Elco W, 31-19Lebanon W, 41-21Bermudian Springs L, 14-7

Seniors Pos. Ht. Wt.

1 Quamir Parker WR/LB 6-3 205

4 Keeyon Allen RB/DB 5-6 139

5 Josh Speraw RB/DB 6-0 195

16 Jeremy Bours Jr. QB/DB 5-11 185

22 Tyler Long RB/DB 5-9 160

23 Evan Heilman RB/DB 5-10 175

29 Dylan Scheer WR/DB 5-9 155

36 Romeo Varela RB/LB 5-6 170

43 Trevor Porche RB/LB 5-10 180

50 Steven Colledge OT/DT 5-10 180

55 Deklan Shaughnessy OT/DE 5-11 175

58 Dante Bonilla OT/DE 5-8 205

65 Matthew Pajski OT/DE 5-8 202

70 Dakota Graham OT/DT 5-10 185

71 Dion Lopez OG/DT 5-10 225

72 Jaren Bomgardner OG/DT 6-2 220

75 Danny Davies OT/DT 6-4 220

77 Seth Jamison OT/DE 5-7 194

84 Cory Boyer WR/DB 6-3 155

87 Caden Horning TE/LB/LS 6-4 190

Juniors Pos. Ht. Wt.

2 Drew Eby WR/DB 5-8 142

11 Kenneth Schaeffer WR/DB 5-9 132

12 Michael Lopez WR/DB 5-6 138

21 Macrae Plummer K/P 5-9 158

52 Kyle Black OG/LB 5-11 225

66 Matt Nace C/LB 5-7 166

67 Hunter Alcala OG/DT 5-10 230

68 Logan Wagner OT/DT 5-8 206

99 Hunter Nelson OT/DT 5-7 183


3 Chase Maguire RB/LB 5-7 130

8 Ethan Missimer WR/DB 5-6 125

9 Alexander Correa RB/DB 5-9 140

26 Rogan Harter RB/DB 5-5 122

51 Ethan Schriver C/DE 5-8 186

76 Bradley Smith OT/DE 5-10 175

Freshmen Pos. Ht. Wt.

24 Alex Long RB/DB 5-9 163

2019 ROSTER

Matt Gingrich(5th season, 26-16)

DAVID BOHRLNP CORRESPONDENT

Had the 2018 football season been a fishing trip, Annville-Cle-ona’s boat would have had sever-al fish in it, but the Little Dutch-men would have been talking about the one that got away.

A-C was 7-3 in the regular season and 7-2 in Lancaster-Lebanon League Section Three, earning a home playoff game. But a winnable contest was lost 14-7 to Bermudian Springs in a driving rainstorm.

“I’d be lying if I said we weren’t looking for our first playoff win,” A-C head coach Matt Gingrich said about goals in 2019. “We felt that we left one on the table last year.”

The good news for the Dutch-men is that many of the players who got them close to that first playoff win a year ago are back, including their primary quarter-back and several running backs.

About the offense

Junior Bours, who passed for 630 yards and seven touch-downs and rushed for 654 yards and 11 scores last season, returns as the Dutchmen’s quarterback in his senior season.

Though he does not expect to have a 1,200-yard rusher this year, Gingrich hopes to have sev-eral backs with more than 500 yards each on the ground. Trev-or Porche is back after running for 700 yards in seven games last season. Evan Heilman and Tyler Long both return as well after productive years in 2018.

A new face among the starters

Playof f goals for A-CLittle Dutchmen sorely want the win that eluded them in 2018

is 6-4 wideout Cory Boyer, giv-ing Bours a large target when the Veer offense attacks through the air. The offensive line has four returning starters: tackles Matt Pajski and Declan Schaun-shessy, and guards Jaren Bom-gardner and Dion Lopez.

About the defense

The Dutchmen expect to be small up front in their 4-3 align-ment, but hope to make up for their size with some quickness.

Defensive end Dante Bonilla and tackle Logan Wagner are back in their starting roles. Re-turning linebackers are Romeo Varela and Dan Tobias.

Gingrich does not expect to have a 140-tackle player like Gavin Stoudt, who has gradu-ated, but several 60-tackle linebackers. All four defensive backs have starting experience: corners Dylan Scheer and Long, and safeties Josh Speraw and Heilman. Mac Plummer will do the placekicking and some of the punting along with Bours and Porche.

Intangibles

The scheme on offense and defense will be about sharing the load. The offense will be giving several carries to a half-dozen backs, and the lineback-ers will be taking on responsi-bilities across the field.

Gingrich said that last year, he had to factor in which players were on the field before calling certain plays, and occasionally having to change the call at the last moment when he realized which combination of players was out. This season, he feels that will not be an issue — all of the players know how to per-form each play.

Key to the season

The Dutchmen have 42 play-ers on the roster. Gingrich said he is comfortable with the depth in terms of those num-bers, but he needs to make sure that the second string players are ready to go for Week One.

Final word

“I feel like I’ve got kids who

are smart and football smart,” Gingrich said. “I have been able to change things in practice on the fly. We’ve discussed why I’m

doing certain things, and we have players who under-stand. They aren’t just play-ing football. They’re think-ing football.”

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SECTION 3COLUMBIA CRIMSON TIDE

2018 SECTION: 3-6 | 2018 OVERALL: 3-7 | BASE OFFENSE: MULTIPLE | BASE DEFENSE: 4-2-5

Bud Kyle(3rd season, 3-17)

HEAD COACH

Seniors 2 Matt McCleary5 Phillip Acosta9 Zachary Nikolaus12 Ryan Redding18 Branden Chant22 Luke McGinnis25 Gabriel Davilla28 Julius Martinez40 Parker Ohrel52 Matt Gambler56 Jacob Bianco60 John Smith65 Dale Nell

Juniors 1 Demetrius Diaz6 Justin Elliott20 Keegin Zink

26 Darnell Tucker70 David Graham75 Aiden Gladfelter85 Michael Poole

Sophomores3 Robert Footman8 Jvon Collazo11 Nathanael Glenn29 Devon Wright50 Joel Ober62 Derek Nell72 Collin McCarty

Freshmen7 Dung Ly44 Steven Rivas81 Jayden Boone98 Christopher Sabino

2019 ROSTER

2019 Schedule

2018 Results

8/23 @ Eastern York 7 p.m.8/30 LANCASTER CATHOLIC 7 p.m.9/6 @ Donegal 7 p.m.9/13 PEQUEA VALLEY 7 p.m.9/20 @ Annville-Cleona 7 p.m.9/27 LEBANON 7 p.m.10/4 @ Ephrata 7 p.m.10/11 OCTORARA 7 p.m.10/18 NORTHERN LEBANON 7 p.m.10/25 @ Elco 7 p.m.

Eastern York L, 41-13Lancaster Catholic L, 49-7Donegal L, 50-14Pequea Valley W, 25-13Annville-Cleona L, 56-8Lebanon L, 15-6Ephrata L, 28-26Octorara W, 26-21Northern Lebanon W, 34-19Elco L, 50-28


Columbia just needed a while to pick up the system coach Bud Kyle and his staff installed in 2017. After going 0-10 that first year, the Crimson Tide got off to an 0-3 start in ’18.

But then things began to shift.The Tide went 3-4 in their final seven

games last fall, finishing one spot shy of qualifying for the four-team District Three Class 2A playoff field. It marked quite the turnaround from that win-less season. And the three victories were the program’s most since 2013.

What’s more, two of the four losses came by single-digit margins. Turn those around and the Tide would’ve leaped

Tide f ind motivationWith every starter back, Columbia eyes an end to its 7-year playoff drought

into the postseason. That narrow margin has served as motivation over the offsea-son for a Columbia team that brings back every starter from a year ago.

“A lot of them were aware going into the last week of the season that if we won that game we had the potential of going to a district playoff game,” Kyle

said. “We ask these kids to set goals. And a lot of their goals is to get to a dis-trict championship game. They knew what it could have been. The potential is there. The hard work and dedication from the guys is where we came a long way from last year to this year.”

The possibility of snapping a seven-

year playoff drought is within reach.“Everybody knows what they have

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SECTION 3DONEGAL INDIANS

2018 SECTION: 6-3 | 2018 OVERALL: 6-4 | BASE OFFENSE: WING-T | BASE DEFENSE: 5-2

Seniors Pos. Ht. Wt.2 Jacob Shoemaker WR/DB 6-3 17521 Kasper Sipe FB/LB 6-0 18532 Joe Fox HB/DB 5-10 16053 AJ McCarty C/T 6-0 23564 Connor Ruhl T/T 6-3 240

Juniors Pos. Ht. Wt.7 Mason Ober HB/DB 5-9 1658 Trent Weaver QB/DB 5-10 16519 Nolan O’Connell WR/DB 5-9 13026 Garrett Blake HB/DB 6-2 18531 Hayden Guerrero HB/DB 5-10 16550 Joel Grillo G/LB 5-9 16054 Owen Kling T/T 6-2 23566 Jacob Eachus T/T 6-2 22581 Gavin Hawk TE/DE 6-2 170

Sophomores Pos. Ht. Wt.4 Luke Bixler K 5-10 18013 Devon Gochenaur WR/DB 5-9 13015 Nick Minick HB/DB 5-7 13520 Ian Brown RB/DB 5-7 13525 Cody Stough HB/DB 5-6 13033 Connor Hyle FB/LB 5-4 16043 Josh Myers HB/DB 5-9 15051 Owen Champ C/T 5-10 24052 Brandon Coco G/LB 5-10 17056 Tommy Devonshire G/LB 5-10 15558 Gavin Creek G/T 5-10 17560 Zach Patterson T/T 5-10 17061 Brandon Witmer T/T 6-1 18573 Jacob Erb G/T 5-10 18079 Ethan Halbleib T/T 6-1 19080 David Munz WR/DB 5-11 14082 Tyler Hess TE/DE 6-1 17088 Owen Fisher TE/DE 5-10 170

2019 ROSTER

Chad Risberg(2nd season, 6-4)

HEAD COACH


There’s optimism in Mount Joy. Just listen to senior lineman Connor Ruhl, a two-way Lancaster-Lebanon League Section Three all-star last season.

“I think we’re going to be better than last year,” Ruhl said.

Donegal went a respectable 6-3 in Section Three play and 6-4 overall in 2018, finishing just one spot shy of qualifying for the 10-team District Three Class 4A playoff field. Of those four losses, three were by eight points or less. In other words, the Indians were in just about every game.

And seven defensive starters are back from that team. As are four of five O-linemen, including Ruhl.

“We’re more solid on the line this year,” Ruhl said. “I think we lacked on the line last year. We weren’t as strong as we needed to be.”

It’s also Year Two under coach Chad Risberg, which means a lot of the players are more familiar with the playbook than they were this time last season. And even though the In-dians will need to find new skill guys on offense, junior quarterback Trent Weaver did start two games last year, including the Week Six 21-20 victory at Octorara.

Then there’s this added component:

Indians read between linesHope experienced returners add up to additional success in 2019 season

the Indians are embracing their small roster of 33 players and the inherent challenges based on that roster, such as many of the starters going both

ways on Friday nights.“Everybody usually doubts us a lot,”

Ruhl said. “I think we’re going to do just fine this year.”

About the offense

The strongest unit of the Indians’ Wing-T offense will be in the trenches, with the return of seniors Ruhl and AJ McCarty and juniors Joel Grillo and Owen King.

Ruhl and McCarty were both L-L Section Three all-stars last year.

Donegal will need to fill in at the skill positions, where Weaver (6 for 14, 70

Donegal’s Jacob Shoemaker, right, closes in for a tackle on Elizabethtown’s Cole Livingston on Aug. 25, 2018.


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PIAA CLASS

3A


SECTION 3ELCO RAIDERS

2018 SECTION: 7-2 | 2018 OVERALL: 8-3 | BASE OFFENSE: VEER | BASE DEFENSE: 4-4

Seniors Pos. Ht. Wt.7 Erik Williams TE/LB 5-11 18521 Austin Martin WR/DB 6-0 16022 Richard Greene RB/LB 5-6 15540 Michael Torres WR/DB 6-0 17550 Hunter Hockley OL/DL 5-10 19553 Austin Sprenkle OL/DL 5-10 21565 Ethan Balderrama OL/DL 5-10 18072 Wyatt Hermansky OL/DL 6-1 22573 Jalil Shouse OL/DL 6-1 25587 Andre Magee TE/DL 6-1 18088 Evan Huey WR/DB 5-7 145

Juniors Pos. Ht. Wt.2 Owen Kahl QB/DL 6-0 18011 Virdicio Chekanov WR/DB 5-9 15017 Braden Bohannon QB/DB 5-10 17025 Jordan Fernandez RB/LB 6-0 20029 Trenton Brubaker RB/LB 5-6 14552 Logan Tice OL/DL 5-10 22555 Ben Wargo OL/DL 5-10 245

76 John Ball OL/DL 6-1 21584 RJ Peiffer WR/DB 6-3 19089 Andrew Tracey WR/DB 6-0 180

Sophomores Pos. Ht. Wt.3 Evan Beamer --/-- 6-4 1704 Cole Thomas WR/DB 5-10 1855 Clay Hoover WR/DB 5-6 15010 Reece Shuey K/P 6-0 18524 Cameron Martin RB/LB 5-9 17532 Luke Williams RB/LB 6-2 18558 Nate Henson OL/DL 5-10 19562 Eddie Bean OL/DL 6-1 20575 Gabe Torres OL/DL 5-10 18578 Cody Sky OL/DL 5-10 28079 Jacob Yunginger OL/DL 5-11 280

Freshmen Pos. Ht. Wt.1 Calvin Blatt WR/DB 5-6 13534 Landon Gettle K 5-8 16066 Colin Daub OL/DL 6-3 250

2019 ROSTER

Bob Miller(8th season, 34-36)

HEAD COACH

2019 Schedule 2018 Results8/23 @ Susquenita 7 p.m.8/30 @ Lebanon 7 p.m.9/6 LANC. CATHOLIC 7 p.m.9/13 OCTORARA 7 p.m.9/20 @ No. Lebanon 7 p.m.9/27 EPHRATA 7 p.m.10/4 @ Donegal 7 p.m.10/11 @ Pequea Valley 7 p.m.10/18 ANNVILLE-CLEONA 7 p.m.10/25 COLUMBIA 7 p.m.

Susquenita W, 20-0Lebanon W, 7-6Lanc. Catholic L, 48-0Octorara W, 21-14No. Lebanon W, 19-14Ephrata W, 21-18Donegal W, 39-33 (OT)Pequea Valley W, 34-0Annville-Cleona L, 31-19Columbia W, 50-28Lamp.-Strasburg L, 37-0

DAVID BOHRLNP CORRESPONDENT

Elco comes into the 2019 football season with sev-eral key players returning from a team that posted an 8-3 record overall, 7-2 in Lancaster-Lebanon League Section Three and qualified for the District Three playoffs.

But while the Raiders do have some experience coming back, the actual number of players is small. For a team that lived on the edge in 2018 — the Raid-ers’ first five wins were all by seven points or fewer — it will be important not to take any steps back in the early weeks of the season.

About the offense

No surprise that junior Braden Bohannon is back as the quarterback in the Veer offense.

But in 2019, coach Bob Miller wants to be sure that Bohannon is able to utilize his teammates in the backfield. The goal is to have running backs Luke Williams and Jordan Fernandez take some of the pressure off Bohannon’s legs and arm.

But when Bohannon is throwing, he will still have three-year starter Evan Huey to get the ball to, plus Austin Martin, who returns from a back injury. The key for the offense will be how quickly the line jells, with two new guards in the mix. Center Logan Tice and tackles Ben Wargo and Hunter Hockley are back.

About the defense

Miller said that the success of the defense will hinge on the impact of the defensive line, where Hockley is back at end. John Ball did not start last year but Miller said he has made tremendous strides since last fall and could be a key for the Raiders.

Luke and Erik Williams key the linebacker corps, tak-ing the inside positions in Elco’s 4-4 alignment. Bohan-non will take free safety, while Huey, Virdicio Chekanov and Austin Martin will line up at cornerback. Landon Gettle and Reece Shuey could each take placekicking duties. Shuey and Bohannon can both punt.

Intangibles

The Raiders have 36 players on the roster. Miller

Positive about progressWith many players back after successful 2018, Elco has confidence to spare

said there is a large freshman class waiting to come up, but the sophomore class is smaller, keeping the numbers down.

Though Miller isn’t worried about the overall total, he does have concerns about individual positions on the field if there are injuries.

Key to the season

Miller pointed to two issues, one physical and one mental, when discussing what the Raiders need to do to be successful this fall.

First, he said, the turnover ratio must improve. Second, the players must enjoy each day they put on pads. Miller feels that if the team can keep a positive attitude throughout the year, it will give extra energy to the two-way players and help them finish on top of evenly matched games.

Final word

“We really want to see more big plays and not just have three yards and a cloud of dust,” Miller said.

“It’s important to get the linemen to understand the offensive scheme more. You look at Cocalico and Annville-Cleona, their yards per carry was much higher than ours. ... (The linemen) get into the sec-ond and third level.”

Elco QB Braden Bohannon runs the ball against Columbia on Oct. 26, 2018. Bohannon is back for his junior season.



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5A


SECTION 3EPHRATA MOUNTAINEERS

2018 SECTION 2: 5-4 | 2018 OVERALL: 5-5 | BASE OFFENSE: PISTOL OPTION | BASE DEFENSE: 4-3

HEAD COACHKris Miller

(4th season, 5-25)

Seniors Pos. Ht. Wt.2 Tucker Parmer WR/S 5-4 1475 Samuel Knowles WR/CB 5-8 1376 Caden Keefer QB 6-0 18624 Kyle Raudenbush WR/CB 5-8 14452 Jesse Shilalo OL/DL 5-3 17760 Damian Kubovcsak OL/DL 6-0 177

Juniors Pos. Ht. Wt.1 Owen Morrongiello RB/LB 5-11 1743 Marshall Mondo WR/CB 5-5 1254 Taj London WR/FS 5-10 1378 Miracle Wratto RB/CB 5-7 16010 Kai Mast K 6-0 18111 Zach Wanous RB/LB 5-5 15718 Castor Shuman WR/CB 5-10 14121 Brandon Hernandez WR/CB 5-11 15434 Walter Graves WR/CB 5-7 13035 Brock Boyer WR/S/P 5-10 16345/54 Trent Martin RB/G/LB 5-7 18750 Tyler Nelson OL/DL 5-10 22465 Nick Tihansky OL/DL 5-9 21971 Dylan Deknikker OL/DL 5-9 19272 Bryan Stewart OL/DL 5-5 21575 Griffin Snyder OL/DL 5-9 21076 Zach DaBella OL/DL 6-0 19382 Chris Batista WR/CB 6-0 171

Sophomores Pos. Ht. Wt.7 Joseph Gunzenhauser QB/S 5-9 1379 Elijah Knowles WR/CB 5-6 12012 Ricardo Dyer WR/LB 5-11 16813 Richard Greer RB/DE 5-7 19014 Stanley Wratto RB/LB 5-7 16017 Jaydin Mabry WR/S 5-10 14819 Feyon Peterson WR/CB 5-10 16220 Anthony Stidham RB/LB 5-7 14022 Devon Litten RB/LB 5-10 15725 Connor Halton WR/CB 5-1 9227 Josiah Yaidoo RB/LB 5-7 12732 Connor Worley WR/S 5-10 14242 Mitchell Perciful WR/CB 5-8 13055 James Ellis OL/DL 5-11 17061 Deric Hoover OL/DL 5-9 22061 Ben Slider OL/DL 5-9 22467 Cole Sieger OL/DL 5-9 22368 Frank Riggs OL/DL 5-10 254

Freshmen Pos. Ht. Wt.26 Andre Weidman RB/LB 5-10 157

2019 ROSTER

2019 Schedule

2018 Results

8/23 @ Warwick 7 p.m.8/30 @ Northern Lebanon 7 p.m.9/6 ANNVILLE-CLEONA 7 p.m.9/13 @ Lancaster Catholic 7 p.m.9/20 DONEGAL 7 p.m.9/27 @ Elco 7 p.m.10/4 COLUMBIA 7 p.m.10/11 @ Lebanon 7 p.m.10/18 PEQUEA VALLEY 7 p.m.10/25 @ Octorara 7 p.m.

Warwick L, 63-6Northern Lebanon W, 61-14Annville-Cleona L, 41-35Lancaster Catholic L, 35-12Donegal W, 27-20Elco L, 21-18Columbia W, 28-26Lebanon L, 30-24Pequea Valley W, 45-0Octorara W, 42-6

DIANA [email protected]

For years, the discussion surround-ing Ephrata football revolved around one thing: When would the team get its long-awaited win?

The Mounts ended that line of ques-tioning — and notorious 52-game los-ing streak — with a 61-14 blowout of

On to the next goalAfter long-awaited win, Mountaineers adjust focus

Northern Lebanon in Week Two last season.

Now, they’re ready for a bigger chal-lenge.

“After last year, everyone knows that we’re a different team,” senior quar-terback Caden Keefer said. “We’re not just here to win a game anymore, we’re

Ephrata quarterback Caden Keefer cuts to avoid being tackled by Octorara’s Bryan Penny-packer during an L-L Section Three game on Oct. 26, 2018.


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PIAA CLASS

3A


SECTION 3LANCASTER CATHOLIC CRUSADERS

2018 SECTION: 9-0 | 2018 OVERALL: 10-1 | BASE OFFENSE: MULTIPLE | BASE DEFENSE: 4-4/4-2-5

HEAD COACHTodd Mealy

(2nd season, 10-1)

Seniors Pos. Ht. Wt.1 Gavin Sullivan QB/DB 6-2 1604 Austin Helm QB/DE 6-3 1805 Jeffrey Harley RB/DB 5-7 18026 Alex Vazquez RB/LB 5-8 16041 Henry Gartley TE/LB 5-11 19542 Alex Cruz RB/LB 6-0 22553 Liam Besecker OL/DL 6-5 265 55 Cary Frick OL/DE 6-0 20059 Nathaniel Giles OL/DL 5-10 180 62 Trey Wells OL/DL 6-5 26564 Andrew Nicklaus OL/DL 5-10 17067 Oliver Klemmer OL/DL 6-4 21575 Todd Kauffman OL/DL 6-2 27585 Andrew Miklos TE/OLB 6-5 230

Juniors Pos. Ht. Wt.20 Will McCormac RB/OLB 5-7 18021 Nevin Roman RB/DB 5-10 18022 Robert Reisinger RB/DB 5-10 18025 Bryant Maria RB/OLB 5-6 16034 Christian Thompson WR/DB 6-4 19556 Devin Atkinson OL/DL 6-0 22070 Robert Anater OL/DL 5-10 21074 Aiden Steiman OL/DL 6-0 23586 Joseph Aten TE/OLB 6-0 17088 Curtis Cannon WR/LB 5-8 160

Sophomores Pos. Ht. Wt.2 Mason McClair QB/DB 6-0 1603 Tony Cruz RB/OLB 5-10 1607 Pierce Frailey WR/DB 5-7 1308 Daniel Mueller K 5-7 17519 Daulton Musser WR/LB 5-10 15528 JJ Keck WR/LB 5-11 18050 Andrew Reese OL/LB 5-11 23058 Eddie Hauk OL/DL 6-1 28065 Blaise Stehman OL/DL 5-6 18578 Isaiah Caine OL/TE/DL 6-0 24080 Mason Zander WR/LB 6-0 150

Freshmen Pos. Ht. Wt.14 Will Cranford QB/DB 5-7 13024 Mason Misel WR/DB 5-2 10035 Lawrence Wolpert WR/LB 5-10 14060 Kyle Wassell OL/DL 5-8 15569 Ah’mir Williams OL/DL 5-5 170

2019 ROSTER

2019 Schedule 2018 Results8/23 CAMP HILL 7 p.m.8/30 @ Columbia 7 p.m.9/6 @ Elco 7 p.m.9/13 EPHRATA 7 p.m.9/20 @ Lebanon 7 p.m.9/27 ANNVILLE-CLEONA 7 p.m.10/4 @ Octorara 7 p.m.10/11 @ Northern Lebanon 7 p.m.10/18 DONEGAL 7 p.m.10/25 PEQUEA VALLEY 7 p.m.

Camp Hill W, 28-7Columbia W, 49-7Elco W, 48-0Ephrata W, 35-12Lebanon W, 27-21Annville-Cleona W, 23-14Octorara W, 43-0Northern Lebanon W, 52-7Donegal W, 22-14Pequea Valley W, 37-0Bermudian Springs L, 20-10

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A new era of Lancaster Catholic football began last year with a 10-0 regular-season run, a Lancaster-Leba-non League Section Three title, a No. 1 seed in the District Three playoffs and a bye through the quarterfinals of the postseason tournament. But Todd Mealy’s first season as the Crusaders’ head coach met an abrupt ending with a 20-10 loss to Bermudian Springs in the district semifinals.

“Obviously, it was a tough loss,” senior lineman Liam Besecker said, “but I think instead of sitting back and playing the blame game, we just stepped up. We knew we needed to get better, and that’s what we’ve been doing.”

With a core of veteran players at skill positions and underclassmen eager to contribute, a renewed and refocused Lancaster Catholic squad looks to re-tain its Section Three supremacy with a chance to venture deeper into post-season play.

About the offense

Gavin Sullivan returns for a third season under center for the Crusaders after completing 63 of 101 passes last

Stepping up and moving onPutting playof f loss in past, Crusaders ready to take care of unfinished business

year for 888 yards and 11 touchdowns to eight interceptions. And his experi-ence has added speed to his decision-making in the pocket.

“He’s really to the point now,” of-fensive coordinator Gordie Eck said, “where he understands what the de-fense is, where they should be, and

what we’re trying to do to them. And that split second difference of not having to process after he catches the snap to think about it, where he already knows, you can see it in practice. He just looks so much more crisp.”

Sullivan’s targets include do-it-all

Lancaster Catholic’s Gavin Sullivan, center, rolls out of the pocket looking to pass against Bermudian Springs on Nov. 9, 2018.


CRUSADERS, page 39


2019 Schedule

2018 Results

8/23 ELIZABETHTOWN 7 p.m.

8/30 @ Pequea Valley 7 p.m.

9/6 COLUMBIA 7 p.m.

9/13 @ Lebanon 7 p.m.

9/20 @ Ephrata 7 p.m.

9/27 OCTORARA 7 p.m.

10/4 ELCO 7 p.m.

10/11 @ Annville-Cleona 7 p.m.

10/18 @ Lancaster Catholic 7 p.m.

10/25 NORTHERN LEBANON 7 p.m.


Pequea Valley W, 41-6

Columbia W, 50-14

Lebanon W, 34-12

Ephrata L, 27-20

Octorara W, 21-20

Elco L, 39-33 (OT)

Annville-Cleona W, 35-14

Lancaster Catholic L, 22-14

Northern Lebanon W, 63-20

Indiansyards, one TD) and senior wide receiv-er Jacob Shoemaker (nine receptions, 146 yards, two TDs) have the most var-sity experience.

Risberg said he expects the backfield to rotate between senior Joe Fox (10 carries, 62 yards) and juniors Garrett Blake (seven carries, 52 yards) and Mason Ober (10 carries, 43 yards).

About the defense

After giving up 20-plus points in six of 10 games while allowing an aver-age 300 yards, the Donegal defense is expected to be much improved with seven starters back in its 5-2 setup.

Ruhl (73 tackles, four tackles for loss), Kling (41 tackles, four tackles for loss), McCarty (43 tackles, three tack-les for loss) and junior D-end Garett Blake (57 tackles, two tackles for loss, one sack) return on the D-line. Ruhl was a L-L Section Three first-team all-star D-tackle in 2018.

Grillo (44 tackles, one tackle for loss) will hold down one of the two inside linebacker posts while the defensive backfield will be led by Shoemaker (20 tackles) and senior free safety Joe Fox (79 tackles, eight pass deflections, three interceptions).

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ColumbiaWe can’t have a superstar out there trying to do what they want to do. We have to be on the same page.”

About the offense

McCleary was a Lancaster-Leba-non League Section Three second-team all-star last season. And he’s already getting looks from NCAA Division II PSAC programs and a couple low-level Division I colleges. He’ll direct Columbia’s spread of-fense with top targets in senior tight end Ryan Redding (2018 L-L Section Three honorable mention, 40 recep-tions, 524 yards, two TDs) and wide-outs Demetrius Diaz-Ellis (2018 L-L Section Three first-team all-star, 21 receptions, 509 yards, seven TDs) and Darnell Tucker (19 receptions, 265 yards, one TD).

The ground game should also be

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strong with a returning O-line made up of seniors Dale Nell and Matt Gambler, juniors Jacob Bianco and Aiden Gladfelter and sophomore Collin McCarty.

That group will open holes for se-nior Luke McGinnis and sophomore Nate Glenn, each of whom went over 100 rushing yards last season. Mc-Cleary (195 rushing yards) is also tough to bring down when he gets outside of the pocket. And keep an eye on freshman back Stevie Revis.

About the defense

Gambler, Bianco, Nell and senior Gabe Davilla will front Columbia’s 4-4 defense. Gambler and Davilla were both L-L Section Three second-team all-stars last season.

Behind them are senior lineback-ers McGinnis, Redding and Julius Martinez and sophomore Robert Footman.

Juniors Diaz-Ellis and Darnell Tucker will patrol in the defensive backfield.

We ask these kids to set goals. And a lot of their goals is to get to a district championship game. They

knew what it could have been.— Bud Kyle, Columbia coach

Ephratahere to see how many we can win — just go out and play our hardest and try to play every game with that mentality.”

The Mounts may be a different team this season, but they boast a number of familiar faces — 18 returning play-ers in all — with that experience bring-ing some added excitement and loftier goals to War Memorial Field.

“The past couple of years, the main question everyone wanted to know was are you guys going to win a game. Now, after last season, going 5-5, break-ing the streak and all of that, people are saying how many are you going to win?” coach Kris Miller said. “Can you

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be one of the last teams at the end that have a shot in Week Nine or Week 10 to win a section championship? We talk about that’s what the expectations are and now our work and our approach has to meet those expectations.”

About the offense

The expectations might be the highest for the Ephrata offense, which returns the Section Three Quarterback of the Year in Keefer (1,231 passing yards, 760 rushing yards, 27 total touchdowns) and its entire wide receiving corps, led by last year’s team leaders Tucker Par-mer (437 yds, 4 TDs) and Sam Knowles (323 yds, 4 TDs).

The Mounts will turn to juniors Rich-ard Greer and Miracle Wratto in the backfield, where Miller hopes the duo will

provide a “thunder and lightning punch.”“We didn’t have to start back at square

one on offense,” Miller said. “It’s the same offense that we ran last year, so now we’ve started where we finished in Week 10 and now we can add a few more wrinkles. We’re a lot farther ahead in the game and that can help us a lot earlier in the year to be really competitive and be exciting to watch on offense.”

About the defense

Ephrata lost a number of starters, but that’s given Miller the chance to change the defensive scheme to a 4-3 after two years playing in a 3-3 stack. The move is one the coach hopes will fix the issues on the perimeter and al-low the squad to showcase its speed.

Look for Parmer at safety and

Knowles and Castor Shuman return-ing at corner to lead the secondary, while Greer heads the defensive ends and Trent Martin and Zach Wanous steer the linebackers.

Intangibles

“This is probably the most athletic group that we’ve had,” Miller said, “so we’ll be able to do things, maybe play a little faster than we have before.”

Final word

“We know what it takes now and now we know how to raise that bar,” Knowles said. “Everyone’s going to be surprised once they see how hard we’ve worked in the offseason in games.”


PIAA CLASS

6A


SECTION 3LEBANON CEDARS

2018 SECTION: 5-4 | 2018 OVERALL: 5-5 | BASE OFFENSE: AIR RAID | BASE DEFENSE: 3-3 STACK

HEAD COACHGerry Yonchiuk

(14th season, 41-91)

Seniors Pos. Ht. Wt.2 Julian Manzolillo RB/OLB 5-6 2003 Joseph Mejias Rios RB/OLB 5-4 1506 Nathaniel Portes WR/DB 5-7 16018 David Vargas-Garcia WR/LB 6-1 18020 Hari Allen RB/DL 5-9 17625 Derrick Perez WR/DB 5-10 16526 Jose Moreno WR/OLB 5-9 15027 Daequan Ellis RB/LB 5-8 19028 Luis Torres Orta RB/OLB 5-8 16229 Wilbert Colon WR/DB 5-8 13044 Andrew Bowers RB/LB 5-10 21545 Ruben Ortiz DB/QB 5-10 19052 Justin Mejias-Knox OL/DL 5-10 23053 Jenner Beckley OL/LB 5-8 21554 Joseph Levengood WR/DB 5-10 14055 Jocksan Acosta Diaz OL/DL 6-1 20857 Miguel Mejias-Knox OL/DL 5-8 22078 Jordan M. Torres OL/DL 6-1 330

Juniors Pos. Ht. Wt.4 Matthew Brown WR/OLB 5-7 1545 Alexander Rufe WR/DB 5-9 1507 Darryl Reed WR/DB 5-5 1508 Michael Johnson QB/DB 5-10 1509 Nathan Hollinger WR/DL 6-3 18510 Isaiah Rodriguez QB 6-5 20811 Rafael Quinonez III RB/OLB 5-5 17012 Harrison Schappell QB 5-10 18514 Ken Rosario Cruz WR/DB 5-7 14515 Izaa Reyes-Vega WR/DB 5-8 12517 Jonathan Mercado RB/LB 5-10 17419 Nasir Enoch WR/LB 6-0 19022 Kaden Harbaugh WR/DB 5-11 18023 Lamont Leibold WR/DB 5-7 12733 Skyler Sattizahn RB/LB 6-0 19550 Matthew Carvajal OL/LB 5-9 23058 Erick Vega OL/DL 5-8 21859 Mario Martinez OL/DL 5-8 26561 Synsier Gonzalez OL/DL 5-11 20572 Camren Eberhart OL/DL 5-9 22075 Jaden Deitzler OL/DL 5-9 23676 Chris Rivera OL/DL 5-10 252

Sophomores Pos. Ht. Wt.13 Jamie Torres WR/DB 5-4 10921 Nathaniel Serrano RB/LB 5-7 13624 Pedro DeArce WR/DB 5-10 16532 Angel Martinez WR/OLB 5-6 15051 Thomas Hershey OL/DL 5-8 26062 Jean Duran Santana OL/DL 5-6 18864 Rashon Baine-Palm OL/DL 5-9 211

2019 ROSTER

2019 Schedule

2018 Results

8/23 @ CEDAR CREST 7 p.m.8/30 ELCO 7 p.m.9/6 @ Pequea Valley 7 p.m.9/13 DONEGAL 7 p.m.9/20 LANCASTER CATHOLIC 7 p.m.9/27 @ Columbia 7 p.m.10/4 @ Northern Lebanon 7 p.m.10/11 EPHRATA 7 p.m.10/18 OCTORARA 7 p.m.10/30 @ Annville-Cleona 7 p.m.

Cedar Crest L, 42-19Elco L, 7-6Pequea Valley W, 58-26Donegal L, 34-12Lancaster Catholic L, 27-21Columbia W, 15-6Northern Lebanon W, 56-18Ephrata W, 30-24Octorara W, 28-0Annville-Cleona L, 41-21


In 2013, Lebanon’s Mark Pyles had what might have been Lancaster-Leb-anon League football’s all-time MVP season as a quarterback, linebacker and placekicker, dragged the Cedars to a winning record in L-L Section Two and (barely) into the District Three Class 5A playoffs.

Then an enrollment surge pushed Lebanon to Class 6A and L-L Section

Cedars’ future is nowPlayers buying in to work ethic, realizing potential

One, where just two years ago another brilliant QB, Zakee Salisman, made the offense Madden-like. Overmatched everywhere else, the Cedars didn’t win a league game.

Lebanon is still in 6A, but now in Section Three. Many of the right ele-ments — including, but not limited to the quarterback position — seem to be falling into place.

“People are starting to realize the potential we have,” linebacker An-drew Bowers said. “People want to put something into football.”

Sixteen starters are back from a team that won five games in Section Three a year ago.

The roster had around 55 names on it as practice began. Almost all of them attended a team camp at Millersville University in July. The weight room has been busy at a school where that has not commonly been the case.

“I can tell that they like each other, like being around one another, and they’ve been working their tails off,” veteran coach Gerry Yonchiuk. said. “Just a lot of positive energy.”

About the offense

Start with Isaiah Rodriguez, a 6-5 ju-nior who completed 56 percent of his throws for 1,938 yards and 18 touch-downs last year. He led Section Three in passing attempts, completions, yards, TDs and passer rating.

Rodriguez is more of a drop-back guy than Pyles or Salisman. He spent a week this summer at the Manning Passing Academy in Louisiana observ-ing guys like Clemson’s Trevor Law-

rence, Georgia’s Jake Fromm and Or-egon’s Justin Gilbert, and came away “impressed with their footwork, and just how fast their feet move.”

There are plenty of speedy guys for Rodriguez to throw or hand the ball to, but the real key could be a solid front anchored by returners Camren Eber-hart at center, tackles Matt Carvajal and Synsier Gonzalez and guard Jaden Deitzler.

About the defense

Lebanon finished second in Section Three in total defense a year ago and third in points allowed. Nine starters are back. Critically, according to Yon-chiuk, that includes all three inside linebackers in the Cedars’ unusual 3-3 base front — Bowers, David Vargas and Skyler Sattizahn.

“That’s so important,” Yonchiuk said. “They’re like quarterbacks. An-drew, in particular, is the quarterback of our defense. It takes a lot off of our staff, because I can count on them.”

Final word

Yonchiuk believes Section Three is where the Cedars belong — for now.

“Two years ago, in Section One, we couldn’t win a game, and that was a re-ally talented team, but we just didn’t have the depth in numbers,” he said.

“So we’ve built that back up. Will we be back in Section Two eventually? Yes, probably.

“It’s a different deal for us, and for all the urban school districts in our league. It’s a unique thing.”

People are starting to realize the potential we have. People want to put something into football.

— Andrew Bowers, Lebanon Cedars linebacker


PIAA CLASS

4A


SECTION 3NORTHERN LEBANON VIKINGS

2018 SECTION: 1-8 | 2018 OVERALL: 1-9 | BASE OFFENSE: SPREAD | BASE DEFENSE: 3-3 STACK

2019 Schedule 2018 Results

8/23 PINE GROVE 7 p.m.

8/30 EPHRATA 7 p.m.

9/6 @ Octorara 7 p.m.

9/13 ANNVILLE-CLEONA 7 p.m.

9/20 ELCO 7 p.m.

9/27 @ Pequea Valley 7 p.m.

10/4 LEBANON 7 p.m.

10/11 LANC. CATHOLIC 7 p.m.

10/18 @ Columbia 7 p.m.

10/25 @ Donegal 7 p.m.

Pine Grove L, 50-14Ephrata L, 61-14Octorara L, 28-7Annville-Cleona L, 62-13Elco L, 19-14Pequea Valley W, 20-6Lebanon L, 56-18Lancaster Catholic L, 52-7Columbia L, 34-19Donegal L, 63-20

Seniors Pos. Ht. Wt.12 Ethan Borcky QB/DB 6-0 18020 Tyler Lewis RB/DB 5-8 18121 Nickols Winters SB/LB 5-11 17023 Chase Bressler RB/LB 5-11 16525 Alex Folmer SB/DB 6-0 16527 Nate Leedy-Reidel SE/DB 6-0 17062 Josh Werni OL/DL 5-8 175

Juniors Pos. Ht. Wt.10 Nate Shirk QB/SE/DB 5-11 15014 Levi Ditzler SE/DB 6-0 17018 Tyler Boltz SE/DB 5-11 15519 Evan Horst SE/DB 5-9 15550 Quinn Kegler OL/DL 5-9 16555 Kris Frazier OL/LB 5-9 16057 Arthur Shirk OL/DL 5-10 19559 Dominic Varvel SE/LB 5-10 17067 Shane Lutza OL/LB 5-10 180

Sophomores Pos. Ht. Wt.2 Ethan Ebersole QB/DB 5-9 16042 Tyler Wolfe SE/DB 5-10 13052 Kalani Adams OL/DL 6-0 19556 Tyler George OL/DL 6-0 17076 Evan Ditzler OL/DL 6-1 22077 Spencer Taylor OL/DL 6-3 280

2019 ROSTER

Roy Wall(10th season, 45-48)

HEAD COACH


In 2004, Roy Wall’s first year as head coach at Mill-ersburg High, his Indians went 0-10.

Two years later they were playing for a district championship — the first of four district finals, and one title, over the next five years.

At Northern Lebanon, Wall won Lancaster-Leba-non League Section Three titles in 2014, ’15 and ’17. But by the middle of the ’17 season, he was sensing deja vu.

“We were dealing with 22, 23 players, with injuries and eligibility and everything like that,” he said. “We canceled our JV season after Week Two.”

In short, Wall saw the Vikings’ 2018 season com-ing.

He restarted the JV program, and played every non-senior on his roster in every JV game. Varsity Friday nights were a baptism by fire.

The varsity went 1-9, 1-8 in the section. The JVs went undefeated.

“It was basically starting from scratch,” Wall said. “The good thing is now we have nine starters back on both sides of the ball.”

Vikings poised to riseAfter a rocky 2018 season, Northern Lebanon has sights on comeback trail

About the offense

The Vikings don’t actually have “everybody back” — two of last year’s three leading rushers and receivers have graduated. That’s a little deceptive, though. Four different Vikings threw passes last year, but Wall did find a quarterback, Ethan Borcky, now a senior, who completed 53 percent of his throws for 1,328 yards a year ago, despite running for his health. A lot.

There are some solid skill-position guys, like run-ning back Nick Winters and receivers Nate Leedy-Reidel and Alex Folmer. Leedy-Reidel and Folmer combined for 35 catches for 434 yards last year. The key, as always, will be developing enough big guys up front to compete on the line of scrimmage.

About the defense

This was a problem in 2018. The Vikings yielded nearly 400 yards and 43 points per game. Incredibly, they were outrushed 2,539 to 495 for the season.

And the only Viking to make the all-Section Three defense a year ago, end Seth Ebersole, was a senior. Many of the guys mentioned on offense will have to get

it done on this side of the ball too, along with linebacker Chase Bressler, end Ashton Seip and DB Josh Werni.

The phrase “nowhere to go but up” seems to apply.

Final word

“I feel like there’s a lot of pride in our program,” Borcky said. “We weren’t exactly the biggest and strongest last year, so a lot of us got in the weight room, did a lot of training and seven-on-seven.

“There’s more (commitment) now, especially from the seniors.”

Ethan Borcky looks for a

receiver during practice

at Northern Lebanon High

School on Aug. 9, 2018. Borcky, who

threw for 1,328 yards last

season, will now embark on his

senior campaign.

BLAINE SHAHAN | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER


PIAA CLASS

4A


SECTION 3OCTORARA BRAVES

2018 SECTION: 2-7 | 2018 OVERALL: 2-8 | BASE OFFENSE: MULTIPLE | BASE DEFENSE: 4-2-5

Jed King(12th season,

24-79)

HEAD COACH

KEVIN [email protected]

Second outings, whether for a band, writer, filmmaker or football team, are looked at from the inside as an oppor-tunity to grow and improve, and often from outside influences in anticipa-tion of a backslide.

As the Octorara Braves embark on their second season in the Lancast-er-Lebanon League, the experience gained by the nine starters returning on both offense and defense the first time around should help immeasur-ably in avoiding any of the latter for a team that went 2-7 in Section Three last year.

“Last year, we were just trying to compete, but this year, we’re trying to win,” senior guard/linebacker Colby Wrigley said.

Senior tight end/defensive end Matt Keating echoed the sentiment.

“Last year it was more just to see who we’re up against and what to watch for,” he said. “Now, we know what to expect and we can compete with these teams.”

About the offense

Senior quarterbacks Nick Mattingly and Jansen Schempp are back shar-ing snaps, and are joined by returning starters at all the skill positions. Soph-omore running back Michael Trainor (73 carries, 375 yards) and tight end Keating (17 receptions, 200 yards) return with Schempp (21 receptions, 286 yards, three touchdowns) and Mattingly (8 receptions, 179 yards, 2 touchdowns) lining up wide when not under center, along with sophomore Caleb Rising.

Ready for the next stepInaugural L-L season gave Octorara experience, now team’s ready to grow

The running game, lead by the two QBs, will benefit from the return of four of last years five starters on the O-line: senior Wrigley, junior Aidan Ross and sophomores Angel Mauricio and Kaden King.

Of his quarterbacks, coach Jed King said, “They both can run the full com-plement of offense when they’re play-ing quarterback and I think that really

Seniors Pos. Ht. Wt.1 Matt Keating TE/DL 6-2 1902 Logan Forte RB/LB 5-8 18512 Jansen Schempp QB/DB 6-0 17015 Dylan Smith WR/DB 6-0 16516 Nick Mattingly QB/DB 5-10 16044 Nick McCaw RB/LB 5-7 23050 Xavier Shelton OL/DL 6-0 21060 Colby Wrigley OL/LB 5-11 22076 Matt Joe OL/DL 6-0 32078 Jack Imms OL/DL 6-4 225

Juniors Pos. Ht. Wt.3 Devon Dejesus RB/DB 5-7 1305 Caleb Rising WR/DL 6-2 1906 Bryan Pennypacker WR/DB 5-11 16021 Marco Cruse WR/DB 5-11 17033 Ryan Kernan WR/DB 5-6 15043 Haydyn Wrigley RB/LB 5-6 15055 Aidan Ross OL/DL 5-8 210

Sophomores Pos. Ht. Wt.4 Mike Trainor RB/DB 5-6 15010 Weston Stoltzfus QB/DB 5-9 13422 Darryl Jones RB/LB 5-6 14524 James Taylor WR/DB 6-0 14058 Angel Mauricio OL/LB 5-10 16065 Andrew Koennecker OL/DL 5-8 19070 Kaden King OL/DL 6-0 21075 Paul Orner OL/DL 6-0 245

Freshmen Pos. Ht. Wt.7 Mason Ellingsworth TE/LB 5-10 17013 Paulie Murray QB/LB 5-7 17518 Cory Diantonio WR/DB 5-6 13526 Steele Wrigley RB/DB 5-8 13528 Dominick Reber RB/LB 5-6 15041 Brad Moore WR/DB 5-8 13142 Zion Peters RB/LB 5-5 15050 Derek Guerra OL/DL 5-7 17066 Joseph Scott OL/DL 6-0 17577 Carlos Zruita OL/DL 5-6 23880 Jose Perez WR/DB 5-4 12588 Chris Busby WR/DB 6-0 150

2019 ROSTER

2019 Schedule

2018 Results

8/23 POTTSTOWN 7 p.m.8/29 @Annville-Cleona 7 p.m.9/6 NORTHERN LEBANON 7 p.m.9/13 @ Elco 7 p.m.9/20 PEQUEA VALLEY 7 p.m.9/27 @ Donegal 7 p.m.10/4 LANCASTER CATHOLIC 7 p.m.10/11 @ Columbia 7 p.m.10/18 @ Lebanon 7 p.m.10/25 EPHRATA 7 p.m.

Pottstown L, 26-6Annville-Cleona L, 39-30Northern Lebanon W, 27-7Elco L, 21-14Pequea Valley W, 19-6Donegal L, 21-20Lancaster Catholic L, 43-0Columbia L, 26-21Lebanon L, 28-0Ephrata L, 42-6

Octorara quarterback Nick Mattingly tries to elude Pequea Valley’s Luke Brown during a Sept. 21, 2018, Section Three game.

ANDY BLACKBURN | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Last year we were just trying to compete, but

this year, we’re trying to win.

— Colby Wrigley, Octorara senior

OCTORARA, page 39


PIAA CLASS

2A


SECTION 3PEQUEA VALLEY BRAVES

2018 SECTION: 0-9 | 2018 OVERALL: 0-10 | BASE OFFENSE: MULTIPLE | BASE DEFENSE: 4-3

HEAD COACHJeff Werner

(1st season)

Seniors Pos. Ht. Wt.1 Mike Finger RB/DB 5-7 1458 Brandon Ratiavong K -- --10 Alex Toomey WR/DB -- --21 Mike Beals RB/DB 5-4 14027 Andrew Weaver DL/WR 5-11 17031 Jake Stoltzfus OL/DL -- --32 John Smith RB/DL 6-0 20044 Collin Bailey QB/CB -- --68 Seth Gray OL/DL 6-5 245-- Bennett Nordhoff K -- --

Juniors Pos. Ht. Wt.3 Carter Rohrer WR/DB 5-7 14012 Collin Rohrer WR/DB 5-7 14019 Nate Fisher QB/S -- --20 Tony Lazar WR/S 5-11 17524 Dustin Huber RB/LB -- --50 Luke Brown OL/LB 5-9 19055 Connor Brown OL/DL 5-11 20066 Ian Hershey OL/DL 5-9 130-- Luke Simpson OL/DL -- --

Sophomores Pos. Ht. Wt.13 John Carter WR/DB 5-7 15063 Drew White OL/DL 6-0 185-- Jason Garber OL/DL -- ---- Billy Johnson WR/DB -- ---- Liam McGinley WR/DB -- ---- Xavier Padilla WR/DB 5-9 154

Class not listed Pos. Ht. Wt.11 Dominic Wallse WR/DB -- ---- Elijah Kern --/-- -- ---- Giles Smith OL/DL -- --

2019 ROSTER

DAVE [email protected]

One of those unsung lifers who are seemingly the backbone of every ath-letic program, new Pequea Valley head coach Jeff Werner steps into the spot-light after 33 seasons under the radar.

For 26 seasons, Werner assisted his former high school coach, Phil Kauff-man, and Kauffman’s successor, Dave Gingrich, at Cocalico before getting his first taste of head coaching — albeit at the junior high level — for Ephrata.

After seven seasons prepping the Mountaineers of the future — includ-ing winning 13 of the last 14 games — Werner felt ready for a new challenge.

“I’m pretty excited about it. I had op-portunities to move up,” Werner said, “but the main reason I stayed down was because I just like working (with) and developing kids. I got a lot of grati-fication from that.

“This job came up, I thought, ‘Well, I’m not getting any younger. If I’m go-ing to fulfill this, you know, let’s go for it now.’ ”

Werner takes over a program that has struggled of late with injuries and low numbers. He looks to turn that page.

“I’ve got a great group of kids,” he said. “One thing I noticed, right out of the get go with these guys, they’re very hard workers, they’re all business.

“As a coach, it’s pretty refreshing to be able to coach that type of mental aspect. They’re doing well, picking up the system and I feel good about the upcoming season.”

About the offense

Returning at quarterback for the Braves is Collin Bailey, who through the preseason last year was preparing

Getting down to businessAfter a 2018 fraught with injuries and other challenges, Braves look to rebound

2019 Schedule 2018 Results8/23 KENNARD-DALE 7 p.m.8/30 DONEGAL 7 p.m.9/6 LEBANON 7 p.m.9/13 @ Columbia 7 p.m.9/20 @ Octorara 7 p.m.9/27 NORTHERN LEBANON 7 p.m.10/4 @ Annville-Cleona 7 p.m.10/11 ELCO 7 p.m.10/18 @ Ephrata 7 p.m.10/25 @ Lancaster Catholic 7 p.m.

Kennard-Dale L, 33-0Donegal L, 41-6Lebanon L, 58-26Columbia L, 25-13Octorara L, 19-6Northern Lebanon L, 20-6Annville-Cleona L, 54-18Elco L, 34-0Ephrata L, 45-0Lancaster Catholic L, 37-0

Pequea Valley’s John Smith gains yardage against Octorara on Sept. 21, 2018.ANDY BLACKBURN | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

to be a wide receiver.Then incumbent QB John Smith got

hurt just before the first game.“And it was like, ‘You’re starting

tomorrow,’ ” Bailey recalled. “I was standing there like a deer in the head-lights. I was like, ‘Oh, man. OK.’ ”

With Smith in and out of the lineup over the course of the year, Bailey got

PEQUEA VALLEY, page 39


Crusaders Octorara

Pequea Valley: At work

throws teams for a loop. We’re run-ning an offense that I feel this year is going to keep teams off balance with different sets and we have a lot of guys who can carry the ball out of those sets. So it’s going to be a little bit more unpredictable.”

About the defense

Two-way players Trainor (54 tackles), Schempp (50 tackles) and Mattingly (21 tackles, 2 in-terceptions) anchor a defensive backfield that should be a strength this year.

Senior linebackers Wrigley (45 tackles, one sack), Logan Forte (22 tackles) and Nick McCaw (20 tack-les, one sack) and defensive tackle Matt Joe (12 tackles) along with returning DT Ross (16 tackles) and DEs Keating (13 tackles) and King (15 tackles).

Key to the season

Octorara led Section Three last year in both turnovers given up (23) and taken away (17).

“Those are two things that we practice every single day with our skill kids and our line guys,” King said.

“We practice to create turnovers, and we practice to protect the foot-ball and get the football out. We be-lieve turnovers win football games and so that’s one of our main fo-cuses.”

Final word

“We had a pretty big senior class graduate in our last year in the Ches-Mont League,” King said. “So we came in with a lot of inexperi-enced guys and we didn’t score a ton of points. That’s going to change be-cause these guys have been on the field, they gained the confidence from playing last year and compet-ing and battling.

“I think that they’re ready for this next step.”

in enough work to complete 53 per-cent of his passes for 418 yards.

“By the last two weeks, three weeks, I had the idea down and just was smoother than the first week,” he said.

“I understand the game of football a lot better, I’ll tell you that.”

About the defense

Bailey is one of six returning letter

tight end Andrew Miklos and wide-outs Mason McClaire and Henry Gart-ley. They complement a multi-faceted rushing attack that includes Jeffrey Harley Jr. (80-920, 15 TDs), Nevin Ro-man, and Alex and Tony Cruz.

About the defense

Miklos, an outside linebacker and a Delaware commit, has been the Cru-saders’ centerpiece, recording 38 tack-les, including two for loss and six sacks, an interception and a forced fumble. Alex Cruz (ILB), Besecker and Devin Atkinson (DE), Trey Wells (DT) and Roman (FS) return as key pieces of a Catholic defensive unit that allowed an L-L League-low 197 yards per game last year.

Intangibles

As the reigning section champion coming off an unbeaten regular season campaign, the Crusaders know they’ll get the best efforts from their L-L League rivals. Last year, games with Lebanon and Donegal were decided by one possession, and Annville-Cleona came up nine points short. Lancaster Catholic expects similar challenges throughout the schedule.

Key to the season

“At the end of the day,” Eck said, “it

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comes down to our offensive line.”Wells (guard), Besecker (tackle) and

Atkinson (tackle) have the experience to anchor the line.

Junior Robert Anater is among the underclassmen looking to fortify the unit.

If the line can stay healthy and con-sistent, Lancaster Catholic’s skill play-ers have the opportunity to make key plays throughout the season, which is scheduled to open Aug. 23 at home against Camp Hill.

Final word

“I think having that loss (to Bermu-dian Springs) really helped us real-ize that we don’t like to lose,” Harley said, “and that we need to work on a lot more stuff. We can’t just run through teams.

“We train angry, and I think we have a better mentality with how we’re sup-posed to play against teams. We have more fight. We’re in there to really play.”

winners for the Braves, along with Mi-chael Beals and Jacob Stoltzfus. And all will see double duty on both the of-fensive and defensive sides of the foot-ball.

“Last year, at linebacker, the first couple weeks were a struggle,” said Stoltzfus, who returns there to anchor the defense while also starting at tight end.

“I feel I put a lot of work in and it paid off,” he continued. “I want that leader-

ship (role), and that responsibility. I’m ready for it and I want to be able to show my other teammates that I can do it.”

Final word

Asked what would constitute a suc-cessful season, Werner said, “I set pretty high goals. I want to go into ev-ery game prepared to win, expecting to win.

“Does that happen? No. OK. But that’s how we’ll prepare. I don’t have any win-loss record in mind, obvious-ly. I’m just trying to win every game.”

Lancaster Catholic’s Andrew Miklos takes off after a catch against Columbia in a Lancaster-Lebanon League Section Three football game on Aug. 31, 2018.

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