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Lancaster Catholic, the reigning PIAA Class AA champions, highlighted the list of 46 Lancaster-Lebanon League players named to the Pennsylvania Football News All-State team. The Crusaders placed nine players on the Class AA team.

Adam DePietro (offensive line), Brandon Hollister (athlete) and Rom...

Tyrone brought the mojo.

Lancaster Catholic brought the muscle.

And for much of the second half of Saturday's Class AA state football final, you wondered if mojo would trump muscle down on the floor of Hersheypark Stadium.

It didn't, the Crusaders eventually earning a 17-7 victory and their...

It was one for the seniors and one for the ages.

Lancaster Catholic won its second state title in three years Saturday afternoon, grinding out a 17-7 victory over Tyrone in the Class AA final in Hersheypark Stadium.

The Crusaders thus closed out a 16-0 season, and became the first Lancaster Co...

Back in the Dark Ages, when This Space first started covering high school football, the game was basic and crudely elemental.

Almost everybody ran the ball too much. If you pushed the other guys backwards, you won.

Change came glacially, and then steadily, and then in a rush, if you'll forgive...

Lancaster Catholic coach Bruce Harbach and Tyrone boss John Franco both know how to build a state championship team. They know it just doesn't happen in a season.

In fact, according to both coaches, it takes a few years of seasoning to get the ingredients just right.

"As sophomores, this senio...

A great sports trilogy needs four ingredients: talent, contrasting styles, a reigning champion and a rubber match.

Lancaster Catholic-Philadelphia West Catholic Part III has it all.

"It's been a great rivalry the past couple of years and it will be a challenge again this time," WC coach Brian ...

They have beaucoup quickness and speed.

So much so that reigning state Class AA football champion Philadelphia West Catholic, whose nickname is the Burrs, might be more aptly named the Blurrs.

Meaning Lancaster Catholic QB Andrew Dzurik will need to speed-read the District 12 champs' defense i...

 

Experience in December football comes in handy on days like Saturday.
Nothing seemed to be going right for Lancaster Catholic. There were too many penalties (eight for 66 yards) and mistakes. There was virtually no running game — and hardly any offense — against a profoundly to...

Hard to imagine now, but Adam and Bobby DePietro almost didn't play high school football. Not because they couldn't, but because they didn't want to.

The DePietro twins, now seniors at Lancaster Catholic, played football in sixth and seventh grade while in the Manheim Township School District. Bo...

Mike Williams and his staff have won the Section Two Coach of the Year award more times than the Manheim Central coach can remember.

His latest honor meant more than any other. By far.

Following an 8-3 season, Williams was voted the Section Two Coach of the Year by his peers. The award had lit...