District 3 playoff preview: Twin Valley vs. West York
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District 3 Class 4A semifinal
No. 3 Twin Valley (11-0) vs. No. 2 West York (10-1)
Kick: Friday, 7, at West York High School.
Series: First meeting.
District playoff history: Twin Valley is making its fifth straight appearance and has earned a win in each of the past four seasons; 4-4 overall. Has never advanced past semifinals. . . West York seeking fourth championship and first since 2008. Lost in semifinals to Wyomissing last year. Overall: 20-14 in 19 appearances.
Common opponents: Twin Valley beat Elco 60-0 and Donegal 49-14 . . . West York beat Elco 42-7 and Donegal 45-8.
Fast fact: Twin Valley’s first-string defense has allowed two first-half touchdowns in 11 games.
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Raiders update: Completed first unbeaten regular season in program history. . . Set program record for wins last week with 55-15 win over West Perry in quarterfinal. . . Set record in 2023 with 10 wins. . . Record-breaking Drew Engle rushed for career-high 212 yards and scored five touchdowns against West Perry. . . The senior has scored a program-record 29 TDs, tied for most in Berks, and last week became program’s all-time scoring leader with 53 TDs. . . He has a team-leading 1,324 rushing yards and needs 276 yards to break the single-season mark of 1,599, which he set in 2023. . . Needs 244 yards to become program’s all-time leading rusher. . . Junior Lucas Myers needs 55 yards to give team a pair of 1,000-yard rushers for the second time. . . He has 18 TDs and is averaging team-best 11.8 yards per carry. . . Soph Maverik Foster is the league’s top-rated passer: He is completing a league-best 73.2 percent of his throws with 15 TDs and zero INTs. . . Ranked No. 1 in the Lancaster-Lebanon League in total offense, total defense, scoring, scoring defense, and pass defense during the regular season; No. 2 in rush defense. . . Have mercy-ruled 10-of-11 opponents; in eight games the second half has begun with a running clock. . . Ranked No. 1 in the state in Class 4A by PennLive.com.
Did you know? When Drew Brandt kicked a 38-yard field last week West Perry became the first team to score against Twin Valley in the first quarter this year, and the first to take a lead over the Raiders. That lead lasted all of 15 seconds as Drew Engle ran 80 yards for a TD following the kickoff.
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Bulldogs update: Lone loss came in Week 8 to New Oxford, 14-7. New Oxford is unbeaten and the No. 1 seed in 5A. . . Have limited 9-of-11 opponents to one touchdown or less, with two shutouts. . . Allowing 7.2 points per game, lowest of any team in District 3, and fourth-lowest among Class 4A teams in the state. . . Defense has recorded 96 tackles for loss, 32 sacks and 25 takeaways. . . Top defender is soph all-league DE Logan Boyer, who has 23 tackles for loss and 10 sacks. . . Junior all-league ILB Daegan Trostel has 10 tackles for loss. . . Senior Slade Moore was an All-State pick last year and an all-league pick this season at both C and DT. He suffered a leg injury in last week’s 20-0 win over Middletown and ended the game on the sidelines on crutches. . . Junior S Julius Fuentes-Bream has more than 20 Division I offers; he played last season for Bishop McDevitt’s PIAA Class 5A championship team. . . Pass-heavy offense is led by soph QB Jensen Ferber, who completed 11-of-14 passes for 110 yards last week in 20-0 win over Middletown. . . He has thrown for 2,408 yards and 29 TDs this season and shared Offensive Player of the Year honors in Division 2 of the York/Adams League. . . Ferber threw five touchdowns and passed for 255 yards in a season-ending 50-7 win over Dover. . . Top target is all-league WR Julius Madden, who has 48 catches for 747 yards and 10 TDs. . . Also has all-league targets in WR Janziel Torres and TE Jamen Garnett. . . All-League PK Tyler Kuhn has been good on 47-of-50 PATS and two field goals. . . Graduated 18 seniors from team that went 9-3 and reached district semifinals. . . Moved into PennLive.com state rankings this week at No. 9.
Fast fact: Twin Valley needs 10 points to become just the fourth in Berks history to score 600 points in a season and 82 to become the highest-scoring team in Berks history. The Raiders are averaging 54.0 points per game, second-most in the state. They had a winning margin of 46.0 in the regular season, the highest in Berks history.
Quotable: “They’ve got athletes all over the field and they play an exciting brand of football. They’re aggressive on defense and their offense spreads the field vertically and horizontally and makes you play in space. (Our staff is) excited to get a different type of challenge and come up with a game plan for that, and to see what our kids are capable of doing with that type of challenge.” – Twin Valley coach Brett Myers, on West York
Quotable: “My inside linebackers, outside linebackers, they’re fast. Those two defensive ends are sophomores who are just explosive off the ball. I will say, it’s the best (defensive) group I’ve coached. They just are.” – West York coach Ron Miller, to PennLive.com.
Fast fact: Twin Valley had a pair of 1,000-yard rushers in 2023, when Drew Engle gained 1,599 yards and Evan Johnson 1,089. They are the second-most productive rushing duo in Berks history. The record was set by Governor Mifflin’s Wilson Fontanez and Jan Johnson in 2014; they rushed for 2,831 yards.
Winner plays: No. 1 Susquehanna Township (11-0) or No. 4 Wyomissing (10-1) for championship Nov. 21 at a neutral site to be determined.
