Season ends for Trinity

If anything, the Trinity football team went down swinging Saturday.

Down 28-0 early in the third quarter to Lewisburg on Saturday afternoon at Hersheypark Stadium in the PIAA Class AA quarterfinals, the Shamrocks battled back.

Two touchdown runs from Adam Geiger pulled Trinity within 28-14 but an interception stopped Trinity's next drive.

In all, Lewisburg scored 17 points off turnovers in the 10-point win.

But it was a nice ride for Trinity, which came into this postseason on a three-game losing streak in the playoffs. The Shamrocks won the school's second football title and played in the state tournament for only the second time.

The 12-2 season also bodes very well for the future: a good chunk of the players who set foot on the A-Turf on Saturday will be back next year.

In all, it was a season of learning and growing for the Shamrocks. In a year where football was relatively down in the area -- only Cumberland Valley and Trinity were alive after the first round of the playoffs -- the small private school in Shiremanstown stood out as being one of the best.

For that, the players can hold their heads high.