5A District 3 Football Playoffs: Semifinals – #8 Exeter vs. #4 Conestoga Valley (11-15-24)

Barons go BACK TO BACK 🏆🏆

For the 2nd year in a row, Manheim Central wins the L-L League Boys 🏐 Title, beating Warwick again in a rematch of last year’s Final… 3-1!

▪️Warriors took Game 1… 25-19! But Central stormed back with 3 unanswered games (25-21, 25-22, 25-16)! Reagan Miller & Landon Mattiace had 16 & 15 kills respectively for the Barons! Kyle Charles led Warwick with 23 kills!

-- District 3 Playoffs begin May 21! Both Warwick (3A) and Manheim Central (2A) are top 3 in both brackets!

In a low-scoring, defensive battle between Section 3 contenders Cocalico and Warwick, the game came down to the last play… a Hail Mary that felt incomplete for the Warriors! Eagles win a tight one 10-7!

 ♦ Warwick scored in the 1st quarter on a 14 yard TD connection between QB Thomas Myers & WR Judah Willard!

🔹 Cocalico answered back in the 2nd quarter on a long, 89 yard TD dash by Brayden Eppinette! Neither team scored again until Talen Popolis kicked the game-winning field late in the 4th quarter!

-- Cocalico: 2-0 in Section 3... 3-2 overall

-- Warwick: 1-1 in Section 3... 2-3 overall

Warwick jumped out to an early 17-5 lead after 1 quareter, but Elizabethtown made it a game late! That's when the Warriors put the peddle to the metal & picked up another key Section 2 win... 61-48! Caleb Johnsen had 15pts; Tyree Hughes 10 off the bench!

On the latest episode of Sportstalk (5-18-22)... Eric May & Tim Reedy broke down the upcoming 5A District 3 Baseball Playoffs... specifically our local teams in Ephrata & Manheim Central! See where the squads are ranked and how they should do in the bracket!