PIAA FIRST ROUND   FRIDAY, MARCH 6 RESULTS   GIRLS AAAAAA (2-1) Hazleton Area 71, (1-8) Garnet Valley 34 (ends at 18-8) (3-4) Red Lion 49, (2-2) Scranton 34 (ends at 11-14)   BOYS AAAAA (1-4) Springfield-Delco 49, (2-1) Abington Heights 47 (ends at 19-6) (2-2) Crestwood 60, (1-3) Holy Ghost Prep 58 (ends […]

List compiled by David Kehler To date, the following 156 teams have qualified for this season’s PIAA state championship tournament.  Each listed team’s PIAA District number is in parentheses.  The five Lancaster-Lebanon League teams that have qualified are listed in bold type.   A total of 192 teams will participate in the PIAA tournament.  As […]

Lancaster Mennoite’s boys’ basketball program has steadily built quite the dynasty in recent years. Back-to-back Section Four titles in the L-L League, plus their first league championship in over two decades this season. A Class 2A state title back in the 2022-23 campaign. And maybe most impressively, a whopping six straight appearances in District 3 […]

Truthfully, if you were to have taken an unscientific straw poll on the teams that figured to make a run at the District 3 title in just two years’ time in 2024, you probably wouldn’t have picked a team that had just put the wraps on a 3-18 campaign that season. Then again, if you […]

Each week, LLHoops will compile a weekly list of the top boys’ scoring performances in the conference that week. Thanks to Joe Shindle for compiling the list.   Current season-high Timmy Hambright (Cocalico): 43 points against Lebanon on February 5th  1.  Chase Book (Manheim Central): 33 points in District 3-5A playoff loss to Greencastle-Antrim  2. […]

updated 2/28   2025-2026 PIAA FIRST ROUND BOYS MATCHUPS “hosts” means a home court game (or within District 2) “visits” means opponent’s home court (or in their district)     Boys AAAAAA PIAA First Round District 2 Champion hosts District 1, #7 Team 3-Delaware Valley (17-8) vs. 6-Abington (19-9)   District 2 Runner-up visits District 11 Runner-up 1-Wilkes-Barre […]

  February 21, 2026   Dunmore Hold Off Chiefs Upset Bid   Dunmore 52, Lakeland 46   DUNMORE – Despite a pair of division losses during the regular season, Lakeland came into Saturday’s District 2 Class AAA Semi-Final matchup confident and determined to pull off an upset against highly-regarded #2-seed, Dunmore.  The Chiefs displayed composure, […]

They are the types of moments that every athlete dreams of. Those instances where you indelibly leave a mark so high – and so significant – that there is no real dispute as to what your most memorable moment was over the course of your entire career that ranks above all others. For one Cedar […]

If the conversation you’re looking to have is centered around the best teams that District 3 produced last season from the rank and file that is the boys’ basketball 1A landscape, you’d have a hard time doing much better than these two. First, how about the ones who took the district title home last year? […]

3 miles. That’s the distance between Hershey High School and the nearby Giant Center. A trip so short that they’ve probably made it a million times. Perhaps, but not while riding on a bus while en route to a basketball game that is. Last season, even for those that wouldn’t normally consider themselves to be […]

Article by David Kehler   Cocalico led for the entire game and defeated visiting Solanco 67-51 in the first round of the PIAA District 3 Class 5A playoffs.  By virtue of the win, Cocalico has qualified for the PIAA Class 5A state championship tournament, to be played next month.   Some early first quarter Solanco […]

  2026 District 2 Tournament Picks   BOYS CLASS AAAAAA 2/4 Subregional (1) Wilkes-Barre Area (13-9) (5) Scranton (7-15) at (4) Hazleton Area (11-11) (7) Wyoming Valley West (1-20) at (2) Williamsport (12-10) (6) West Scranton (8-14) at (3) Delaware Valley (14-8)   FAVORITES:  Williamsport, Wilkes-Barre Area KEEP AN EYE ON:  Delaware Valley, Hazleton Area […]

  2026 District 2 Tournament   BOYS PLAYOFFS  BOYS PLAYOFFS   BOYS CLASS AAAAAA 2/4 SUB-REGIONAL WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18 (QUARTER-FINAL RESULTS) (1) Wilkes-Barre Area (13-9) bye (4) Hazleton Area 58, (5) Scranton 40 (ends at 7-16) (2) Williamsport 68, (7) Wyoming Valley West 52 (ends at 1-21) (3) Delaware Valley 50, (6) West Scranton 39 […]

Each week, LLHoops will compile a weekly list of the top boys’ scoring performances in the conference that week. Thanks to Joe Shindle for compiling the list.   Current season-high Timmy Hambright (Cocalico): 43 points against Lebanon on February 5th  1. Chase Book (Manheim Central): 30 points in win over East Pennsboro  2. Chase Fetrow […]

Listed below are the L-L teams that have reached the District 3 basketball tournament in each of the respective classes. Upcoming games beyond this initial list will be updated and accounted for on both the Scoreboard tab and each respective team’s pages.   6A  #16 Manheim Township @ #1 Central Dauphin — 2/17 @ 7pm […]