In many ways, seeing Hempfield and Lancaster Catholic matched up against one another in Thursday night’s Lancaster-Lebanon League semifinal tilt could best be summed up by using just two words: Dramatic and ironic. First, for the word dramatic. In Hempfield’s case, the Black Knights needed to beat McCaskey on Tuesday night in order to play […]

In Lancaster-Lebanon League circles, there are few rivalries that can compare to the high intensity, drama, and let’s just say “feelings” toward one another than that of Columbia and Lancaster Catholic. Yet for all the heroes, champions, and yes, even state champions, who have donned the uniform for both the Crusaders and Crimson Tide over […]

          The final stretch of regular season play is often a peculiar time. On one hand, you have teams that are just going through the final motions of a long and arduous road. On another, you have those teams that are fighting to scratch their claw their way into the postseason, […]

In its truest form, high school sports are a cyclical beast. Hamstrung, yet rooted in its most fundamental principle of a four-year maximum of eligibility, no team is ever truly immune from the wild swings of graduation losses and holdovers and impact that may have on a program on an ever-evolving year-to-year basis. And aside […]

Every year right around this time in the world of Lancaster-Lebanon League basketball, most everyone’s attention is fully focused on the impending section title races along with the hunt for those elusive District 3 playoff berths as well. It’s certainly understandable of course. After all, who wouldn’t be intrigued by those nip and tuck divisional […]

Even though Lancaster Country Day has only been a full-fledged member of the Lancaster-Lebanon League for just three years now, the overarching outlook of the Cougars’ basketball season seems to consistently take on the same narrative perennially. First and foremast, scratch and flaw to get somewhere within the first two slots of the L-L Section […]

When trying to concoct the ideal high school basketball game, there are usually the same key elements at play that help make up the perfect potion. First, make sure that the two competing teams are either rivals or divisional foes. Check. Second, if possible, make sure that it is either the first or only meeting […]

We all knew heading into the 2020-21 high school basketball season that things were inevitably going to be different. Truth is however, I don’t think we really understood what exactly that really meant. For the Lancaster-Lebanon League, the conference’s tournament is without a shadow of a doubt the best league tournament going in all of […]

Let’s face it. There’s just something special about seeing two iconic franchises square off against one another. In terms of District 3 basketball most specifically, you’d be hard-pressed to find two programs that have been better flagbearers for their respective leagues –and their own counties for that matter– than Central York and McCaskey respectively over […]

Over the course of a long and winding high school basketball season, no team is truly to immune the many ebbs and flows in terms of momentum, or lack thereof, that comes attached at the hip for such a long duration of time. In fact, for as much natural God-given talent that one team may […]

It’s been awhile since the Warwick Boys Basketball program has been able to boast the fact that they may have the best team in the entire Lancaster-Lebanon League. Like for the first time in an entire generation “awhile.” Thankfully, for a program that has a rich and storied history that had fallen on a considerable […]

At the start of every season, there are ultimately storylines that develop and take shape that seem to catch just about everyone by surprise. And truthfully, given how different the 2020-21 season figured to be on the surface alone, perhaps the emerging feel-good stories that had taken shape throughout the first few weeks of the […]

Let’s talk for a second about schedules, shall we? In terms of who has had the toughest yet to date, one could easily make the argument on Lancaster Mennonite’s behalf. Consider this, the Blazers have already gone up against the following thus far in the young season. Lancaster Catholic, Columbia, Annville-Cleona, Conestoga Valley, as well […]

If you’ve been following along throughout the first few days and nights of the 2020-21 Lancaster-Lebanon Boys’ Basketball season, it’s become rather apparent that one of the worst kept secrets is that Section One figures to be a wild roller coaster ride this year. Though the sample size remains relatively small across the board, no […]

Alright, alright. Clichés aside, we all know this year was inherently going to be different than any year of high school basketball that we’ve ever seen before and hopefully will only ever see for the rest of time. Among the ways in which it is expected to be different? The fact that no team will […]