Without taking the time to sit down and compile the math behind it all, let’s just cut to the chase and say that there are a litany of games played every year inside the Lancaster-Lebanon League boys’ basketball scene. When you consider that the conference contains 25 programs who can play up to 22 […]

In their Monday night home win over Conestoga Valley, Warwick senior Caleb Johnsen hit the 1,000-point career milestone. In doing so, Johnsen becomes the 9th Warrior in program history to join the exclusive fraternity, and is the first Warwick player to do so since Chris Fairbanks in 2005, who hit the mark on the final […]

If you find yourself playing in what most would coin to be a “big game” when the calendar reflects that its only December 17th, chances are that expectations are high for you and your team. On Tuesday night up in Fredericksburg, that was indeed the subplot that surrounded this Lancaster-Lebanon League Section Four affair. For […]

Is it feasible to call a team that made it to the state playoffs in the 5A ranks a season ago a bit of a surprise just a couple of weeks into this brand-new season? Especially when they graduated all of four players off said team? If so, this 2024-25 Manheim Central Barons outfit might […]

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.   Chase Smucker (Lampeter-Strasburg): 37 points in win over York Catholic 2. Ya’Majesty Washington (Warwick): 31 points in win over Solanco 3. Ladarian “LD” Miller (Columbia): 29 points […]

It happens every year. Without fail, there will always be a storyline that emerges from the first few weeks of the high school basketball season come each December. Sure enough, 2024-25 would be no such exception to this virtual rule of law. By now, it’s been well documented about how the Lebanon Cedars have been […]

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 […]