By: BRUCE MORGAN Record Express Sports Editor bmorgan.eph@lnpnews.com, Staff Writer

Things were pretty much black and white for the Warwick boys last Wednesday.

Win and the Warriors would punch their ticket to the District Three Quad-A playoffs.

Lose and they would not.

Making the task even more daunting for the Warwick boys in their regular-season finale was that they were playing Section One champion Manheim Township.

"Going in, we kinda knew that we had to win to extend our season," Warwick coach Jeff Landis remarked.

So that was the scenario as Colby Weit got a pass in the corner from K’shawn Mickens with the fourth-quarter clock expiring. And when Weit’s 3-pointer ripped the bottom of the net at the buzzer, lifting Warwick to a thrilling 51-48 Section One win over the Streaks in Lititz, it set off a big celebration for the Warriors and their fans.

For the fourth time this season — including at the conclusion of wins over Solanco, Hempfield and Cedar Crest — Warwick’s student section rushed the floor to mob their players.

By: BRUCE MORGAN Record Express Sports Editor bmorgan.eph@lnpnews.com, Staff Writer

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Warwick junior heavyweight Tom Devenney (top) will take a 27-2 record into this Saturday's Sectional Wrestling Tournament.Lititz Record file photo
Warwick junior heavyweight Tom Devenney (top) will take a 27-2 record into this Saturday's Sectional Wrestling Tournament.

Trying to predict how many qualifiers you might get to the District Three Wrestling Tournament can be a tricky proposition.

Warwick and Manheim Central will both be competing this Saturday at the District Three Section Three Triple-A Tournament at Hempfield High School, where the top three place-finishers from each weight class will advance to Districts, to be held Feb. 24-25 at the Hersheypark Arena.

And looking ahead to the seeding meeting which was slated for last night (Wednesday), Warwick boss Ned Bushong believes that his squad has a good shot of having four wrestlers with top-three seeds.

"Realistically," Bushong said, "we should have two first seeds and two thirds."

But Warwick’s skipper is quick to add that anything can happen when the action gets underway at 8:30 a.m. this Saturday. Joining Warwick and Manheim Central will be Conestoga Valley, Donegal, ELCO, Ephrata, Hempfield, Lampeter-Strasburg, McCaskey, Manheim Township, Penn Manor and L-L Tournament champ Solanco.

By: BRUCE MORGAN Record Express Sports Editor bmorgan.eph@lnpnews.com, Staff Writer

Warwick junior Maddie Schouten was seeded eighth in the girls 100 breastroke, but equaled her lifetime best performance in that event while stepping up to win the Lancaster-Lebanon League gold medal.Warwick junior Maddie Schouten was seeded eighth in the girls 100 breastroke, but equaled her lifetime best performance in that event while stepping up to win the Lancaster-Lebanon League gold medal.

Nearly 24 hours after Maddie Schouten brought the house down last Friday, the Warwick junior was still walking on air.

"I talked to her Saturday afternoon," Warrior swim coach Mark Daum recalled, "and asked, ‘Did your feet hit the floor yet?’ She said, ‘No.’"

Who can blame her?

Seeded eighth in the girls 100 breastroke, Schouten pulled off an upset by claiming the gold medal in 1:09.35 at the Lancaster-Lebanon League Girls Swimming Championships at the Lititz recCenter. That equaled her lifetime best which she achieved at last year’s District Championships.

"I was blown away," said Schouten, who dropped her seed time of 1:12.82 by more than three seconds. "I had absolutely no idea where I was in the race. When I touched the wall and saw my time and everyone was screaming and I looked at my time again, I was like, ‘Oh my God.’"

By: BRUCE MORGAN Record Express Sports Editor bmorgan.eph@lnpnews.com, Staff Writer

Photo by Preston Whitcraft
Manheim Central's Renee Wiegand (33) attacks the basket against Hempfield's Lauren Trower and Lexi Scott (14).Photo by Preston Whitcraft
Manheim Central's Renee Wiegand (33) attacks the basket against Hempfield's Lauren Trower and Lexi Scott (14).

The numbers didn’t seem to add up for the Manheim Central girls on Monday night.

They had an eye-popping 21 turnovers and scored just one field goal through more than 12 minutes of the second half.

Yet, somehow, with no time left on the clock, the Section Three champion Lady Barons had an opportunity to pull even with Section One runner-up Hempfield in an L-L League quarter-final round playoff game.

But in a pressure-packed situation, and with Manheim Central senior Renee Wiegand waiting out a prolonged delay before stepping to the foul line, her first free throw rimmed out and the Black Knights held on for a 33-31 nail-biter in Manheim.

""Renee is our leader, Renee is our warrior," Central coach Tom McCabe said. "I wish she could have shot (the free throws) right away. I don’t know what the problem was. She’s our best free throw shooter and she wants the ball in crunch time and I love that about Renee … (But) it shouldn’t have come down to the two free throws."

By: BRUCE MORGAN Record Express Sports Editor bmorgan.eph@lnpnews.com, Staff Writer

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Manheim Central's Paige Daniel swims to the L-L League gold medal in the 500 freestyle last Friday in a time of 5:11.59.Photo by Preston Whitcraft
Manheim Central's Paige Daniel swims to the L-L League gold medal in the 500 freestyle last Friday in a time of 5:11.59.

Manheim Central’s Paige Daniel and Ephrata’s Kylee Parsons had a pretty good rivalry going in the 500 free for a couple years at the L-L League Swimming Championships.

Two seasons ago, Parsons prevailed for the gold medal.

Last year, Daniel turned the tables.

Nothing lasts forever, though, and with Parsons focusing on other events last Friday at the Lititz recCenter, the MC junior admitted that it was weird carrying on without her.

"I love racing Kylee," Daniel said, "and I kinda wish she would’ve swam it this year so we could see what happens."

What happened was that Daniel became a two-time L-L champ in the 500 free, touching the wall in 5:11.59 easily ahead of Hempfield junior Valerie Urban, who finished in 5:17.69.

By: BRUCE MORGAN Record Express Sports Editor bmorgan.eph@lnpnews.com, Staff Writer

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Warwick star athletes who signed National Letters of Intent last week were (front row, left to right) Bethany Han (Ball State), Kayla Laughman (Temple), Jenica Miller (LaSalle), Alexis Charles (East Stroudsburg), Brittany Hasson (St. Francis), Jonathan Wenger (Elon) and Ryan Bertrando (Lehigh); (back row, l-r) Jake Watson (Florida Tech), Emma Rissinger (Maryland), Emily Harting (Old Dominion), Alyssa Manley (Syracuse), Asher Klahold (Lock Haven), Shawn Mearig (LaSalle), Derek Adams (Shippensburg) and Morgan Heckel (Mansfield).Photo by Preston Whitcraft
Warwick star athletes who signed National Letters of Intent last week were (front row, left to right) Bethany Han (Ball State), Kayla Laughman (Temple), Jenica Miller (LaSalle), Alexis Charles (East Stroudsburg), Brittany Hasson (St. Francis), Jonathan Wenger (Elon) and Ryan Bertrando (Lehigh); (back row, l-r) Jake Watson (Florida Tech), Emma Rissinger (Maryland), Emily Harting (Old Dominion), Alyssa Manley (Syracuse), Asher Klahold (Lock Haven), Shawn Mearig (LaSalle), Derek Adams (Shippensburg) and Morgan Heckel (Mansfield).

Combined, the Warwick field hockey and boys soccer teams won 38 games last fall, captured a pair of Lancaster-Lebanon League crowns, and earned 12 playoff victories.

Last Wednesday, Feb. 1, they produced another remarkable number.

By: BRUCE MORGAN Record Express Sports Editor bmorgan.eph@lnpnews.com, Staff Writer

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Warwick senior guard Macaulay Soto drives to the basket.Lititz Record file photo
Warwick senior guard Macaulay Soto drives to the basket.

Greta Weidemoyer just needed a routine.

That, in a nutshell, is what her discussion with Warwick coach Amy Derr centered on following the Lady Warriors’ 46-42 defeat to Cedar Crest last Friday.

Weidemoyer — and the Warwick girls as a team — had struggled at the foul line and Derr was trying to offer her that tip.

"We just talked about her having that routine, keeping that routine, focusing and just getting up there and doing it," Derr said.

It worked.

On Monday night, Warwick’s junior forward got the chance to test that training in a game situation and her foul shot with :0.0 left on the clock lifted the Lady Warriors to a 34-33 conquest of Penn Manor in a key Section One game in Lititz.

"I do better when I don’t think about it and I just take it and shoot it," Weidemoyer remarked. "So on Saturday at practice, we worked on me getting a routine down to do the same thing every time and I think that definitely helped me calm down, especially with the last one here."

The Sutter’s Brigade U-16 field hockey team, consisting mostly of Warwick players, will battle the Windy City Flame at the Disney Field Hockey Showcase in Orlando, Fla. in a game which will be covered on ESPN3 on Friday at 2:30 p.m.

Members of the squad include Warwick’s Hannah Bollinger, Nikki Calamia, Jessica Cochis, Jamie Martin, Lucy Reed, goalkeeper Kailynne Reinoehl, Delaney Ryan, Casie Stief, Jaycie St. John and Hannah Weidman. Players from Donegal, Lampeter-Strasburg and Palmyra also compete for the team.

Visit watchespn.com for more details.

By: BRUCE MORGAN Record Express Sports Editor bmorgan.eph@lnpnews.com, Staff Writer

The Warwick boys easily could have folded the tents on Monday night.

Trailing by 12 points against Penn Manor at the half, 19-7, and with starting players Matt Engle, Derrick Shields and K’shawn Mickens at less than 100 percent, it didn’t look good.

But Tyler Morris scored a team-high 14 points to help lead a comeback, and his fourth triple with one minute left in the fourth pulled the Warriors even 35-all. Ultimately, however, Penn Manor’s Landon Alecxih scored with only :02 remaining and the Comets prevailed 37-35 in a Section One game in Millersville. Alecxih led all scorers with 18 points.

"It was a hard game to lose because the first half was so tough — nothing wanted to go in," Warwick coach Jeff Landis said. "But their defense kept them in the game."

The loss dropped Warwick to 10-11 overall (9-6 Section One) heading into their regular-season finale last night (Wednesday) against Section champ Manheim Township. For the Warriors, seeded 19th in the latest power ratings, it’s a must-win game for their District Three Quad-A playoff hopes.