Without question, one of the worst things you can use to describe a team is to call them “frontrunners.” Simply put, for those who are hardwired with that of a competitive nature, them’s fightin’ words. Hard to argue too when you consider that the moniker suggests that teams are only able to thrive when the […]

As far as the statistics will lead you to believe, the players that took to the Wells Fargo Center court on Monday afternoon should have had somewhere around a roughly 0.03% chance of being there. Sure enough, depending on what source you decide to cite, the odds of high school players making it to either […]

Trailing by three points, Lampeter-Strasburg made a defensive adjustment at halftime of Monday night’s Lancaster-Lebanon League Section 3 showdown with Donegal.   “We went to more of what we call a matchup zone,” said L-S head coach Ed Berryman. “They have great shooters so it gave it like a 3-2 (zone) look but we were being […]

If one were to try and describe Octorara’s early season in that of nautical terms, the Braves encountered what seemed to be nothing more than smooth sailing throughout their first few games out of the chute this year. Granted, there were some choppy waters along the way at times mind you, such as the first […]

This might be crazy to even suggest out loud and put into the ethos, but is it possible that the defending Section Two champs, the defending league runners up, and last year’s District 3-5A semifinalists could’ve been the Lancaster-Lebanon League’s biggest mystery team heading into the season? Well, maybe not as crazy or blasphemous as […]

Before we start, let’s just go ahead and get the obvious out of the way early here. That of course being that this is a year in which big things are expected to come from the Warwick Warriors. That’s not a bad thing of course. Far from it in all honesty. Long story short, if […]

Let’s start off with a very unscientific straw poll here, shall we? Okay. “Do you consider the L-L League to be much better off when the McCaskey Red Tornado are the very top of the conversation?” Chances are, I’d have to imagine that any neutral observer without a particular dog in the fight would answer […]

  (Artie Poindexter, LLHoops Player of the Game Against Camp Hill Following 20-Point Effort) At the tail end of last season, the Columbia Crimson Tide found themselves on the receiving end of some particularly hard and painful lessons. Ok sure, but it certainly wasn’t as if they had failed to study and simply not participate […]

While you never want to really say it loud, the simple fact of that the matter is that some teams can find themselves at a proverbial fork in the road, yes, sometimes even just eight days into the start of a brand-new season. Again, while the verdict of using such hyperbolic language is always open […]

Without much in the way of debate, it’s one of the worst kept secrets around Lancaster-Lebanon League basketball circles heading into the season. That of course being that big things are expected from the Cedar Crest Falcons. Hard to really offer much of a great argument that counters that logic seeing as how the Falcons […]

(Ethan Benne POG Against Twin Valley) Whether you consider it either fair or foul, it’s not totally incorrect to suggest that some years just naturally appear to be more important than others on the surface. A sort of “make or break” campaign if you will. That said, perhaps the notion would be labeled “foul” due […]

As is always the case whenever a season kicks off anew, there are inevitably a share of initial gut-reactions that those who follow any sport tend to make in a sort of grandiose and sweeping nature. And in all reality, not even high school basketball is immune to such abrupt judgements. Almost on the same […]

It’s early December which in the high school basketball corner of the universe means that hope always springs eternal. Yes, just as sure as when the temperatures outside start to plummet, so too do the aspirations and dreams of the teams found competing inside of local gyms during those cold winter months at such a […]

If the saying goes that “Winning cures all ills,” certainly that theme would figure to be prevalent during the initial phases of a program rebuild. Case in point, this year’s Pequea Valley boys’ basketball team. It’s no secret. Over the last decade plus most specifically, the wins during the wintertime down in Kinzers have relatively […]

It’s funny sometimes how everything can come full circle. Certainly, this premise can hold true in high school basketball as well. Case in point, Friday night’s opening game of the season contested between Solanco and Twin Valley. Ironically, it was in this very game a season ago, the lead-off game at the Octorara Tip-off tourney […]