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Manheim Township's girls' lacrosse team played for a state championship Saturday. Manheim Central's baseball team and Lampeter-Strasburg's softball team will play for berths in state finals Monday.
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This Space’s take on the structure of the college football playoff is, broadly, the same as it was when I wrote this, 18 months ago:
CENTER VALLEY — Manheim Central pitcher Connor Rohrer kept pounding the strike zone with electric stuff, and kept waiting for the Barons’ offense to break through.
CENTER VALLEY — Wyoming Area's remarkable postseason run continued Thursday at the expense of Elco's.
About 100 citizens attended the Hempfield School District board meeting Tuesday to express or hear opinions on the controversy surrounding transgender athletes competing in high school sports.
FREDERICKSBURG — Elco’s baseball team didn’t win a Lancaster-Lebanon League Section title this spring, or even qualify for the league playoffs.
Three Lancaster-Lebanon League softball teams - Warwick, Lampeter-Strasburg and Pequea Valley - won District Three championships last week.
Lancaster Catholic’s baseball team won at least one championship in each of Ty Book’s six seasons as head coach.
Warwick took part in a crisply played, championship-level baseball game Tuesday, which can’t be making the Warriors feel any better right now.
LNP | LancasterOnline sportswriters Jeff Reinhart and Mike Gross wrap up the District Three tournament in volleyball, the state track and field championships, and a weekend of all-star football games, including the Big 33 game.
Warwick’s baseball team will play for a berth in the District Three Class 6A championship game Tuesday, and the Warriors have a chance to keep playing for a while because of two pitching aces, Matt Seibert and Matt Williams.
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In the story of the Atlantic League as baseball-reform laboratory, the “robo-ump,’’ seems old news, so 2019.
