PIAA FIRST ROUND RESULTS   FRIDAY, MARCH 8 RESULTS   GIRLS AAAAAA (2-1) Hazleton Area 63, (1-9) Pennsbury 48 (ends at 20-8)   BOYS AAAAA (2-1) Abington Heights 91, (12-4) Bonner-Prendergast 64 (ends at 11-15) (2-2) Dallas 71, (12-3) West Philadelphia 61 (ends at 10-14)    BOYS AAAA (2-1) Scranton Prep 79, (3-4) Fleetwood […]

Friday March 8 1A Lancaster Country Day 42  Notre Dame East Stroudsburg 33 4A Octorara 50 Danville 63 5A Warwick 53 Franklin Regional 68 Manheim Central 31 Unionville 56 ——————————————————————– Saturday March 9 2A St John Neumann 43 Lancaster Mennonite 71   3A  Columbia 64 Pickett Mastery 46   6A  Cedar Crest 55 Lower Merion […]

Lancaster Mennonite 71 Neumann 43 2A Boys PIAA First round March 9, 2024 Lancaster Mennonite (3-1) faced Neumann (4-2) last year in the first round last season. This season both teams had a new cast. It wasn’t a rematch. Coach Jeff Hartenstine stated, “Both teams have different rosters this year. Neumann had some players that […]

In terms of sheer history, it’d be hard to try and supplant this senior group of Barons if one felt the need to do so. Yes, while there are surely some who in recent Manheim Central history would like to have a say in that regard –likely the 2016 and 2017 Manheim Central senior classes […]

Franklin Regional Defeats Warwick in a PIAA Class 5A State Championship Tournament 1st Round Game: Kehler on Hoops Article by David Kehler In a game that was much closer than the final score of 68 to 53 suggests, Franklin Regional of the WPIAL defeated visiting Warwick on Friday afternoon in the 1st round of the […]

3.2 Hershey vs 7.6 Bethel Park Match-up Preview By: David Bray Jr As the playoffs begin tonight, we take a look at the matchup between the 2 seed from Section 3, 20-4 Hershey who invited the 6 seed from WPIAL, 13-13 Bethel Park to their home for the first round of the PIAA Tournament.  First […]

3.1 Mechanicsburg vs 7.7 Gateway Match-up Preview By: David Bray Friday kicks off the beginning of the PIAA State Championships and two Keystone teams are ready to begin their push towards being the best 5A team in the state. Let’s take a look at the matchup between the Section 3 champions, the 20-5 Mechanicsburg Wildcats […]

PIAA State Championship Tournament Preview: Kehler on Hoops Article by David Kehler The PIAA state championship tournament begins on Friday with a total of 192 teams competing, with 32 teams arrayed in each of six classes. The full schedule is at PIAA.org. It’s always chancy to predict the outcomes of high school basketball tournaments, but […]

Dell’s Column March 3, 2024 District Championship week The LLhoops staff was out covering a bunch of games the past 2 weeks. Andy, TJ , David Bray, and Dell were tracking the LL teams. David Kehler gave us some Philly flavor, and our beat writer from District 2, Jon K, covered the Boys and Girls […]

  GIRLS AAAAAA Hazleton Area 49, Williamsport 33 Kate Bindas pic.twitter.com/PXVZ5WP7lT — LLHoops Neast Beat (@LLHoopsNEPbeat) February 26, 2024 Sophia Shults pic.twitter.com/pFJhCNeYe3 — LLHoops Neast Beat (@LLHoopsNEPbeat) February 26, 2024 Lady Cougars score off the turnover to go up 39-29 pic.twitter.com/hYQZwVTokA — LLHoops Neast Beat (@LLHoopsNEPbeat) February 27, 2024 Sophia Shults for a 43-30 lead […]

  BOYS AAAAAA  Scranton 68, Hazleton Area 58  Pedro Lugo with the SLAM !!! pic.twitter.com/xsaRZQWCVw — LLHoops Neast Beat (@LLHoopsNEPbeat) March 1, 2024 District 2/4 Boys 6A Subregional Championship (mid 1Q): Scranton 11, Hazleton Area 2 pic.twitter.com/QCfDL1OQjP — LLHoops Neast Beat (@LLHoopsNEPbeat) March 1, 2024 Cougars lead 32-23 pic.twitter.com/26sdFF8n9B — LLHoops Neast Beat (@LLHoopsNEPbeat) March […]

    Sports Stop Media provides us with some video from Lancaster Mennonite’s 3A District 3 title View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sports Stop (@sportsstopmedia)

It had never been done. Well, at least, not until Friday night. “It feels amazing,” said Cumberland Valley junior forward Creston Austin. “First one ever in CV history.” Austin and his Eagles teammates accomplished a feat that had not been done in the history of the Cumberland Valley boys basketball program: winning a district title. Cumberland Valley […]

  2024 District 2 Basketball Tournament     BOYS PLAYOFFS  BOYS PLAYOFFS   BOYS CLASS AAAAAA 2/4 SUB-REGIONAL   TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20 (QUARTER-FINAL RESULTS) (1) Scranton (18-4) bye (4) Williamsport 51, (5) Delaware Valley 50 (ends at 8-15) (2) Wilkes-Barre Area (19-5) bye (3) Hazleton Area 81, (6) Wyoming Valley West 41 (ends at 5-18) […]

PIAA Section 3 5A Championship: Battle of the Keystone Division By: David Bray Jr The PIAA Section 3 5A title game was one for the books and it couldn’t have been made possible without the hard work of the Hershey Trojans and the Mechanicsburg Wildcats: 2 Mid-Penn Keystone teams that made it all the way […]