Article: Haines has high hopes for new football team...

Can lightning strike twice in the same place?

Andrew Haines hopes it can -- in Lancaster County, at least.

The 24-year-old Lampeter-Strasburg grad will bring minor-league football back to the area this summer, when his newly formed Lancaster Lightning kicks off its inaugural season in the North American Football League.

Lancaster will open its season against the Central Penn Piranha in Harrisburg's City Island Stadium. The Piranha played almost all its games in Lancaster County when it formed in 1995, and it attracted a sizable local following.

But Central Penn made City Island its permanent home three years ago.

Haines, who owns the Lightning, hopes to bring back the excitement that the ...

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