In Ephrata’s road win at Conestoga Valley on Thursday night, Cooper Truskey became the Mounts’ program all-time leader in three-pointers hit. The senior guard currently sits at 118 made triples after he eclipsed the previous high of 117 set by Brent Burkholder who held the honor since 2001. Congrats to Cooper (Cover photo courtesy of […]

On Thursday night against Lancaster Catholic, L-S’ Chase Smucker eclipsed the 1,000-point mark at the free throw line. Video of the moment linked here via the L-S team X account. He becomes the 8th Pioneer in program history to hit that mark, the first since Seth Beers in 2020. Congrats to Chase  (Cover photo provided […]

(Josiah Hayes- LLHoops Player of the Game in ELCO win over Donegal)   The calendar tells us it’s December 13th. Maybe it’s still a little early to go and start throwing around the hyperbolic language, especially considering how divisional play hasn’t even started in some instances. Then again, it’s probably just a matter of who […]

Coming into the year, we knew it would be this way. We knew that the version of the Columbia Crimson Tide boys’ basketball team that last played in the state tournament against Math, Civics, and Sciences at Norristown High back in March wouldn’t resemble anything like the 2024-25 edition of the Tide. For starters, well, […]

In years previous, it’d be fair to say that the Manheim Township Blue Streaks boys’ basketball program was rather aggressive shall we say in their schedule-making. To be sure, seeing Township play game after game, day after day, to begin the regular season slate almost seemed to be an expected norm of sorts. This year […]

Central Dauphin defeated host Archbishop Ryan 78 to 64 in the feature game of the second day of the Scholastic Play-by-Play Network’s Kobe Bryant Classic on Sunday evening in Philadelphia.  The prestigious event was held at Archbishop Ryan for the first time ever.  It is rare for a PIAA District 3 team to play a […]

At this time a year ago, things couldn’t have been going much better for the Pequea Valley boys’ basketball program. After just the first full weekend of the season last year, the Braves wasted next to no time asserting themselves and injecting themselves into the conversation of feel-good stories by going to Tulpehocken in back-to-back […]

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.   T1. Michael Lower (Penn Manor) 31 points vs Conestoga Valley in 66-63 win T1.Elisha Slabach (Annville-Cleona) 31 points vs Millersburg in 58-51 win 3. Chase Smucker (Lampeter-Strasburg) […]

(Matt Knight. LLHoops POG In Twin Valley Win Over Northern Lebanon)   If you’ve been following along with the litany of preseason prognostications that have surrounded the start of the 2024-25 Lancaster-Lebanon League boys’ basketball season, there isn’t really a reason to be shy nor bullish on the prospects that make up the cast of […]

There are reasons for optimism around these parts this winter. And for good reason too. This season, it’d be more than fair to say that for the first time in a few handful of years, there are expectations being asked and laid at the feet of the Ephrata Mounts boys’ basketball team heading into the […]

Earlier this week, Coach Goodling, Jon Graham, and Andy Herr had the opportunity to come in and preview the upcoming season and their expectations/outlook for the 2024-25 season and chat all things LLHoops.com in this, the website’s silver anniversary of 25 years running. The show premiers on Friday December 13th at 9pm on Lancaster County […]

Truthfully, you can’t really make this claim considering how early in the season it still is –especially being a game played on December 4th much less. But in some ways, Cocalico’s Wednesday night tilt at home this week against Governor Mifflin was a bit of a litmus test as to how the remainder of the […]

If you hadn’t already noticed, but it’s now the first few days of December, and we’re suddenly back to playing real basketball games with results that will have very real ramifications over the course of the next few months. Yes, it’s a bit of an oddity in fact considering how the season –usually—wouldn’t get started […]

As cliche as it may be, everyone is obviously giddy this time of year in the high school basketball world. And how could they not be considering hope springs eternal for everyone on the very first weekend of the season? Even still, there might be a few teams who eagerly await the start of a […]

October 2 L-S vs Hereford (Maryland) @ 6:30 (Court 5) L-S vs Manheim Township @ 7:30 (Court 6)   October 9 L-S vs Milton Hershey @ 6:30 (Court 15) L-S vs Red Land @ 7:30 (Court 5)   October 16 L-S vs Ephrata @ 6:30 (Court 5) L-S vs Red Lion @ 7:30 (Court 7) […]