Over the course of Friday and Saturday this week, nearly the entirety of the Lancaster-Lebanon League boys’ basketball slate was chock full of holiday tournament games. Those are fine of course. Nothing wrong with the opportunity to be crowned a champion during the season. But sometimes there are hidden gems scattered about too. Headline games […]

This is usually the time of year when we start to get a clearer picture on things. A more concise view as to who exactly figure to serve in their respective roles in terms of being either a mover or a shaker in each of the four Lancaster-Lebanon League division races if you will. And […]

It’s just a couple of days before Christmas. Just a few more days until Santa leaves some presents underneath the tree. For high school basketball teams however, they’ll gladly take a prize on the 23rd as opposed to waiting until the 25th to open something up. And on a rare Monday afternoon high atop the […]

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.   1. Ja’Loney Porter (McCaskey): 40 points in loss against Manheim Township 2. Elisha Slabach (Annville-Cleona): 37 points in win over Pequea Valley 3. Ja’Loney Porter: 35 points […]

This time of year, all one needs to do is to take a step outside and feel just how cold and unforgiving the winter season can be at times. In some ways, while not necessarily a direct line of comparison you’d always think, so too can this time of year be just as harsh and […]

For anyone tasked with the assignment of trying to make prognostications as for how this year of Lancaster-Lebanon League boys’ basketball year ultimately figured to take shape and who the favorites might be prior to the start of the season, it would be a bit of an unenviable task quite frankly. Section One? Good luck […]

  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 […]