Lampeter blocks Wyomissing’s championship run with overtime victory
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Lampeter-Strasburg 30, Wyomissing 27 (OT)
(This story will be updated later tonight with additional details and postgame reaction.)
By Sean McBryan — MikeDragoSports.com correspondent
LITITZ — It took everything it had for Lampeter-Strasburg to pry away the District 3 championship trophy from Wyomissing, which had five consecutive titles.
The Pioneers defeated the Spartans 30-27 in overtime Friday night at Warwick’s cold, wet Grosh Stadium in the District 3 Class 4A championship.
In overtime, Keegan Maher knocked through a 28-yard field goal on the second-seeded Spartans’ first possession but Wyomissing accepted a roughing the kicker penalty for a first-and-goal from the 5.
Three straight runs left the Spartans at Lampeter-Strasburg’s 2-yard-line, forcing a 20-yard field goal attempt that was blocked by Dominic Brown.
Peter Fiorello knocked through a 22-yard field goal — his third make of the night — on the top-seeded Pioneers’ first possession of OT to lift them to their first district title since 2020 and fourth overall.
It’s the Pioneers’ third title in the last six seasons. They’ll face either WPIAL champ Thomas Jefferson or District 9 champ Clearfield, which play tomorrow at 1:00, in the PIAA semifinals next week.
The loss marks the first time a Bob Wolfrum-coached team has been defeated by the same opponent twice in one season since Conrad Weiser did it in 1996.
The Spartans (10-3) had much more success on the ground in the second go-around with the Pioneers, who snapped their 36-game home winning streak in a 20-7 victory on Oct. 26.
Wyomissing mustered only 148 rushing yards in that game and 3.7 yards per carry. It surpassed that by halftime Friday with 191 yards and finished with 394.
Chase Eisenhower carried the load, with 24 rushes for 169 yards and two touchdowns.
The biggest run of the night for the Spartans came from Tyler Niedrowski, who took a carry 80 yards for a touchdown to give Wyomissing a 27-20 lead with 3:15 left in the game.
Lampeter-Strasburg (13-0) quarterback Calieb Howse made a wild play on the Pioneers’ next drive, scrambling backward, avoiding defenders, and lobbing a pass to the opposite side of the field to Mason Hostetter, who came down with an 18-yard grab to convert a 4th-and-13.
Howse then found Christian Nolt on third down for a 5-yard touchdown with 28 seconds left to tie the game.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | OT | Final | |
| Wyomissing | 0 | 14 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 27 |
| Lampeter-Strasburg | 10 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 30 |
Scoring summary
| 1 | Lampeter-Strasburg | Brown, 1 run (Fiorello kick) | 9:33 |
| 1 | Lampeter-Strasburg | Fiorello, 34 FG | 3:34 |
| 2 | Wyomissing | Eisenhower, 20 run (Maher kick) | 10:47 |
| 2 | Wyomissing | Macrina, 33 run (Maher kick) | 2:05 |
| 3 | Lampeter-Strasburg | Weichler, 33 pass from Howse (Fiorello kick) | 8:41 |
| 4 | Lampeter-Strasburg | Fiorello, 41 FG | 9:17 |
| 4 | Wyomissing | Eisenhower, 3 run (kick blocked) | 6:52 |
| 4 | Wyomissing | Niedrowski, 80 run (Maher kick) | 3:15 |
| 4 | Lampeter-Strasburg | Nolt, 5 pass from Howse (Fiorello kick) | 0:28 |
| OT | Lampeter-Strasburg | Fiorello, 22 FG | 0:00 |
Team statistics
| Wyomissing | Lampeter-Strasburg | |
| First downs | 16 | 15 |
| Rushes-yards | 57-394 | 46-162 |
| Passing yards | 11 | 151 |
| Total yards | 405 | 313 |
| Passes | 1-4-0 | 11-21-0 |
| Fumbles-lost | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| Punts-average | 7-29.1 | 7-34 |
| Penalties-yards | 9-55 | 12-106 |
Individual statistics
RUSHING
Wyomissing: Eisenhower 24-169, Niedrowski 7-93, Macrina 12-78, Hardy 9-52, Fleischood 3-14, Team 2-(-12).
Lampeter-Strasburg: Brown 34-145, Howse 11-15, Weichler 1-2.
PASSING
Wyomissing: White 1-4-0—11.
Lampeter-Strasburg: Howse 11-20-0—151, Brown 0-1-0—0.
RECEIVING
Wyomissing: Hardy 1-11.
Lampeter-Strasburg: Weichler 3-64, Hostetter 3-45, Brown 3-12, Fluhr 1-25, Nolt 1-5.
MISSED FIELD GOALS
Wyomissing: Maher 20.
