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L-L Media Day brings football fever


MANHEIM >> Monday it gets real.

Sure, there has been offseason weight room work, 7-on-7s, trips to team camp, and the just-completed heat acclimation week.

But Monday is when local high school football teams really start getting prepared for the 2015 season, which kicks off Sept. 4 at a stadium near you.

In advance of that, representatives of the Lancaster-Lebanon League teams gathered at Enck's Catering on Friday afternoon for the annual Media Day festivities.

Of course, both anticipation and optimism were running high, as players and coaches chatted away about the fast-approaching season.

Here are some takeaways from the event:

• Lebanon County's best player, Cedar Crest senior defensive back Evan Horn, was one of those on hand, discussing among other things his collegiate future.

Horn, who will appear on the cover of the Lebanon Daily News football preview tab later this month, has Division One scholarship offers in both football and basketball and admitted to being torn in trying to decide which sport to play in college.

One school — Temple – has told Horn they'd be willing to have him play both.

"I'm still trying to figure that out," Horn said. "I'd love to play both. Temple is actually the one school (interested in him for football and hoops), and that's intriguing to me that they want me to play both."