MID PENN REPORT - 4/23/14

CUMBERLAND VALLEY 12 CENTRAL DAUPHIN 11 (2OT)
- 1-3-3-4... That is the quarter by quarter scoring total for both teams in this one. Clearly the Rams and Eagles came to battle with neither team giving up an inch. They would need two extra frames to get a winner.

     CV saw Tommy Lehman (4 goals) and Nick Zumbrum (3 goals) lead the way. While the Rams had a stand out performance from Nate Beard (3 goals, 3 assists) and Colton Nye (2 goals, 2 assists). Both of these teams have improved significantly since the start of the season. Nic Brown continues to play well for Coach Bogazyck as he had 15 saves on the night.
    Tremendous effort by both teams in another great Mid Penn conference game.

TRINITY 10 STATE COLLEGE 5
- The Shamrocks were looking to get things going back in the right direction this week and a home game with State College would be an excellent place to start. The Little Lions had jumped ahead of Trinity in the Commonwealth Division standings and represented a must win for the Rocks to keep any glimmer of hope alive for an Mid Penn Title.
     Things were back and forth early with Mitch Kleist getting the opening goal for Trinity. Brady Franks would follow up for State College and they continued this way through the third quarter with a 5-4 lead for Trinity.
     Senior Midfielder Connor Bailey showed excellent poise and leadership as he helped put the Rocks over the top with 2 goals and 1 assist down the stretch. Sophomore standout Jesse Altmeyer led the day with 3 goals and 2 assists.

NORTHERN YORK 16 MECHANICSBURG 2
-There was electricity in the air at Bostic field during each teams pregame warm-ups. The weather was nice (for the time being) and both squads seemed to be exceptionally focused and amped up for a game that pitted players from the same youth program against one another. What made this game different is Mechanicsburg Coach Scott Brisbane, for whom the cup/game is named, was now coaching Mechanicsburg. Coach Miller and the Polar Bears showed class by having the starters (all seniors) come over and greet Coach Brisbane prior to the start of the game. Then came the lightening....
       The teams returned to the field with limited warm-ups over an hour later to get the game started. Derek Myers wasted little time finding an early goal in the first quarter. The Wildcats answered quickly with an outside shot from Aaron Heisey to tie it at 1-1. Northern began to pull away as they would end the first quarter of play up 4-1. The Polar bears would score two more to open the second when Heisey would score the Wildcats second and final goal of the game.
     From their it was all Northern. 9 Players would score with Zach Martick leading the day with 3 goals. Luke Lyons was able to get back on the field after a knee dislocation had cost him much of the season. You could tell he was not 100% but this game means a lot to both schools and towards the end of the game Northern did everything they could to help the Senior net his lone goal of the evening.
     

LOWER DAUPHIN 17 CD EAST 3
- The Falcons are now 6-6 and in second place in the Keystone Division. It has been a remarkable turn around for LD as they have won 4 in a row and 6 out their last 8. During this stretch they have outscored their opponents 59-17. Cleary this is a team that has started to gain confidence and momentum down the stretch. They have two tests in CV and CD coming up, but with the way they are playing we would not count them out.
     11 different Flacon players were involved in the scoring led by Mike Mattis (4 goals) and Garret Schrug (3 goals, 2 assists). LD led 4-1 at the end of the first, 9-2 at the half, and put things away in the second half.

CHAMBERSBURG 20 BISHOP MCDEVITT 5
- The Trojans continue to be a very difficult team to figure out. As we said yesterday a four game losing streak is not a good thing on your resume but they did have a quality win over State College. Last nights runaway win over McDevitt shows they are capable of scoring a lot.
      Coach Flohr's team managed 20 goals with just 7 players scoring. Jake Pierson (5 goals, 4 assists), Chase Chashell (3 goals, 3 assists), and Nick Lombardozzi (4 goals, 1 assist) all had great games.
    Coach Walters team is losing a bit of the steam they had found last week. After winning 2 of 3 they dropped a heart breaker to LCD and now seem to be in a bit of a funk. Griffin Hanes led the Crusaders with 3 goals.

HERSHEY 14 COCALICO 3
- Hershey was coming off their first loss of the season, a 12-4 defeat by Wilson, and they wasted little time getting things back on track. A 6-0 first quarter was followed by a 4-2 second frame. 10-2 headed into the second and half and the Trojans were on cruise control. One has to wonder if the fact they are beating most of their opponents early and in a dominating fashion is actually a "bad" thing. Hershey will need to be able to dig in and fight back in the district playoffs and possibly states. They don't seem to be getting a whole lot of experience with that in the regular season.
     Jake Wilson got back to form with 6 goals and Logan Calhoun followed with 4. George Briggs continues to be an excellent feeder from X with 8 assists on the day. That is really an amazing stat. Hershey loves to cut from the top and Briggs is an excellent ball hander who regularly hits the open man.
    Next up for Coach Schein and Hershey is the most anticipated game of the spring where they will go to Carlisle on Thursday to play the Herd.

STANDINGS
Commonwealth Division

TEAM	LEAGUE	OVERALL
Carlisle	8-0	10-1
Trinity	6-2	10-2
State College	6-3	7-5
Cumberland Valley	5-4	8-6
Chambersburg	3-4	4-5
Northern York	2-4	4-6
Mechanicsburg	1-6	2-8

Keystone Division

TEAM	LEAGUE	OVERALL
Hershey	8-0	11-1
Lower Dauphin	4-5	6-6
Central Dauphin	3-4	5-5
Palmyra	2-4	7-5
Bishop McDevitt	1-6	2-9
CD East	0-7	0-11

2014 PIAA District III Boys

Lacrosse Power Rating

Official Rankings Includes all results reported as of April 19th

Top 16 Qualify

RANK			SCHOOL NAME			POWER RATING
1	Wilson (12-0)	0.783077		1.000000	(12-0)		0.517949	(101-94)
2	Carlisle (10-1)	0.733133		0.909091	(10-1)		0.518072	(86-80)
3	Hershey (10-1)	0.728462		0.909091	(10-1)		0.507692	(99-96)
4	West York Area (10-1)	0.718447		0.909091	(10-1)		0.485437	(100-106)
5	Manheim Township (10-1)	0.712069		0.909091	(10-1)		0.471264	(82-92)
6	Hempfield (10-2)	0.688987		0.833333	(10-2)		0.512563	(102-97)
7	Trinity (8-2)	0.668771		0.800000	(8-2)		0.508380	(91-88)
8	Dallastown Area (10-2)	0.662879		0.833333	(10-2)		0.454545	(90-108)
9	York Suburban (10-2)	0.662480		0.833333	(10-2)		0.453659	(93-112)
10	Governor Mifflin (11-2)	0.661538		0.846154	(11-2)		0.435897	(85-110)
11	Central York (8-2)	0.649686		0.800000	(8-2)		0.465969	(89-102)
12	Ephrata Area (9-3)	0.646411		0.750000	(9-3)		0.519802	(105-97)
13	Warwick (9-4)	0.611366		0.692308	(9-4)		0.512438	(103-98)
14	Susquehannock (9-4)	0.604672		0.692308	(9-4)		0.497561	(102-103)
15	Berks Catholic (7-3)	0.593065		0.700000	(7-3)		0.462366	(86-100)
16	Cumberland Valley (7-5)	0.585690		0.583333	(7-5)		0.588571	(103-72)
17	Red Lion Area (8-4)	0.571003		0.666667	(8-4)		0.454082	(89-107)
18	Cocalico (7-5)	0.534695		0.583333	(7-5)		0.475248	(96-106)
19	Central Dauphin (5-4)	0.527877		0.555556	(5-4)		0.494048	(83-85)
20	Lampeter Strasburg (5-4)	0.508173		0.555556	(5-4)		0.450262	(86-105)
21	Eastern York (6-6)	0.505488		0.500000	(6-6)		0.512195	(105-100)
22	Exeter Township (5-6)	0.502273		0.454545	(5-6)		0.560606	(111-87)
23	Palmyra Area (6-5)	0.499459		0.545455	(6-5)		0.443243	(82-103)
24	Elizabethtown Area (6-7)	0.496333		0.461538	(6-7)		0.538860	(104-89)
25	Wyomissing Area (5-6)	0.495902		0.454545	(5-6)		0.546448	(100-83)
26	Penn Manor (5-7)	0.475020		0.416667	(5-7)		0.546341	(112-93)
27	Lower Dauphin (4-6)	0.438421		0.400000	(4-6)		0.485380	(83-88)
28	Chambersburg Area (3-5)	0.426175		0.375000	(3-5)		0.488722	(65-68)
29	Twin Valley (3-6)	0.419521		0.333333	(3-6)		0.524862	(95-86)
30	Cedar Crest (4-8)	0.397841		0.333333	(4-8)		0.476684	(92-101)