BUCKTOWN — As a freshman, Nate Lewis played a couple of minutes in Springfield Township’s double overtime PIAA 3A state final loss. He took a break his sophomore year when the boys soccer program ascended up to 4A, where they nabbed a top three seed in districts but were upset in the quarterfinals and failed to make it back to states via playbacks.

Whether or not Lewis was the secret ingredient in this whole operation isn’t the point – he just knew that he needed to come back this season and finish what he and the Spartans started two years ago.

Lewis scored the first of three second-half goals for Springfield and Harry Bates scored as well while assisting on the team’s other two goals as the Spartans took the wind from third-seeded Owen J. Roberts’ sails in a 3-0 blitzkrieg in Saturday

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