March 5, 2022   Mountaineers Hold Off Spartan’s 2nd Half Run   Dallas 61, Mid Valley 53   By Phil T. WILKES-BARRE – Late in the third quarter, a Gabe Tanner triple not only erased a ten-point halftime deficit but also gave Mid Valley their first lead since the opening stanza.  But, as they […]

  March 5, 2022   Lady Comets Hold Off Top-Seed Lady Patriots   Abington Heights 38, Pittston Area 31   By Phil T. WILKES-BARRE – After a slow start to second half, the Lady Comets were able to retake the lead and secure their 38-31 Girls 5A District 2 championship win. Daniella Ranieli got the […]

Dell’s column March 6, 2022 District 3 LL teams What a year for the LL. The boys were represented in 5/6 classes at Hershey this week. Congrats to all teams that played (Warwick, LS, Columbia, Lancaster Mennonite, Lancaster Country Day). Also, congrats to a Lancaster Co. team- Linville Hall – on winning the 1A game. […]

You know, it’s somewhat funny in a way. By most assumptions, by the time you reach the championship round of the District 3 playoffs that ultimately concludes at the Giant Center, there largely figures to be a few names that you can expect to find there waiting for your viewing pleasure, but particularly in the […]

  DISTRICT 2 BOYS TOP 10   (games through 3/5/22)   1.  Dallas (24-3) 4A 2.  Scranton (21-2) 6A 3.  Pittston Area (20-4) 5A 4.  Holy Redeemer (21-4) 3A 5.  Williamsport (18-6) 6A 6.  Mid Valley (21-5) 4A 7.  Hazleton Area (19-7) 6A 8.  North Pocono (17-6) 5A 9.  Holy Cross (19-6) 2A 10. (tie) […]

Quick question here for the audience, but how many of you would like to pretend that the last couple of years, last year in particular, never took place at all? A fair amount? Yeah, kinda figured as much. Okay, but I see not everyone in the crowd has their hand raised here. Who’s that abstaining? […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: With Lampeter-Strasburg 27-0 heading into the PIAA Tournament, here is a look back at the only Lancaster County team that finished as an undefeated state champion — Lancaster Catholic’s 2002-03 club, which went 35-0. A longer version of this story will be part of LLHoops.com‘s upcoming book about the 50th anniversary of the […]

DISTRICT 1 CLASS 6A & CLASS 5A CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES: LOWER MERION AND CHESTER WIN Traditional powers Lower Merion and Chester won PIAA District 1 championships on Saturday afternoon at Temple University. Chester defeated Radnor, in overtime, 66-65 for the Class 5A title, and Lower Merion topped Norristown Area 68-57 for the Class 6A championship. Although […]

    2021-2022 PIAA FIRST ROUND BOYS MATCHUPS   “hosts” means a home court game (or within District 2) “visits” means opponent’s home court (or within their district) (   ) indicates team’s district seeding going into tourney     Boys AAAAAA PIAA First Round (3/9) District 2/4 Champion hosts District 1, #9 Team   1-Scranton (21-2) vs. […]

    2022 District 2 Tournament     BOYS PLAYOFFS  BOYS PLAYOFFS     BOYS CLASS AAAAAA 2/4 SUB-REGIONAL   WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23 (QUARTER-FINAL) (1) Scranton (19-2) bye (4) Wilkes-Barre Area 71, (5) Delaware Valley 53 (ends at 7-15) (2) Hazleton Area (19-6) bye (3) Williamsport (17-5) bye   SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26 (SEMI-FINALS) (1) Scranton 91, […]

Post to be updated as results from early in the week come in….   Monday 2/28 5A Semifinals Hershey 82 L-S 86 (3OT) 5A 9th Place Bracket Manheim Central 50 Palmyra 64 Milton Hershey 45 E-Town 57 4A Consolation Bracket ELCO 49 Eastern York 44 3A Consolation Bracket Lancaster Catholic 51 Tulpy 72 Tuesday 3/1 […]

Ed Note: Bruce Badgley is producing this game via NFHS. The fee is $11. This fee will allow you access to NFHS for 30 days. LLhoops and Spooky Nook is partially sponsoring this event. It’s best if you sign up before hand.   Tip off scheduled for 7:45 Sat. Click HERE for the game. 6A […]

Columbia 47 York Catholic 30 Boys 3A Finals March 5, 2022 Defense..defense..defense. This is the chant heard throughout the season. Well, Columbia used its defense to propel itself to a District 3 title. The Tide used its customary 2-3 zone and switched over to a 1-3-1 to cause multiple turnovers (14) and get a few […]

Ed Note: Bruce Badgley is producing this game via NFHS. The fee is $11. This fee will allow you access to NFHS for 30 days. LLhoops and Spooky Nook is partially sponsoring this event. It’s best if you sign up before hand. Tip off is scheduled for 4:15 Sat Click HERE for the game. 3A […]

Ed note: Special thanks to LMHS boosters for sponsoring the live stream. REPLAY! Boys 2A Final LMHS 52 – Antietam 46 Bruce Badgley , James Hein on the call. Click HERE or the banner for the game! End of Game– Last 2 min