District 3 schedule change

On page 10 of today's paper, you'll see a schedule for the District 3 girls' soccer championship, which was scheduled to start today. But the District has rescheduled the first round matchups for Thursday.

For local hooligans, matches of note in the first round are:

Tulpehocken vs. Lancaster Christian, at 7 p.m.
Hamburg vs. Biglerville, at 4:30 p.m.

Tulpehocken is ranked 4th in District 3's own Power Rankings and should be able to coast in the first round of the playoffs. If the Trojans win, they'll get the No. 4 seed in the tournament, and play the winner of the Central Catholic/Shippensburg match.

If Hamburg wins, it will play the winner of the Wyomissing/Camp Hill match as the No. 12 seed. Round 2 will now be played Saturday. The semifinals will be played May 20 and the Finals set for May 23 at Hersheypark.

Since the schedule has changed, it definitely works out better for Item coverage of this tournament. I covered a lot of District 11 soccer throughout my career and am excited to see some "real" football here in Berks County.

My only recollections of Berks soccer is being on the receiving end of a sound thrashing at the hands of Tulpehocken's JV team in the mid-1990s.

Check back on Thursday night for some results from these matches.