FOOTBALL: LC’s Pinzka embraces leadership role – The Intelligencer

LANSDALE — Senior quarterback Joe Pinzka comes from a long line of Lansdale Catholic Pinzkas.

“It seems like he’s been here forever,” Crusaders third-year coach Tom Kirk said. “Certainly the Pinzka name has been here a long time. Even before I got here, I knew the Pinzka name.”

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