Candidly, one of the most fun and interesting aspects that develops and takes shape following the release of the initial District 3 playoff brackets is most definitely the nonconference matchups and high stakes that only the postseason can offer. And if you’re a true high school hoops junkie in every sense of the word, there […]

In sports, the saying seems to go a little something like this. “If you want to be the best, you have to beat the best.” In that regard, rest assured that Annville-Cleona’s assignment on Monday night in the opening round of the District 3-3A tournament would ring true rather loudly with that very statement in […]

  In a sense, really no tournament is ever truly complete without their inclusion. You know, the “Cinderella’s” of the dance. Okay, fair enough. But while Friday night’s Lancaster-Lebanon League boys’ basketball championship game would indeed feature a Cinderella of its own, you’d certainly be hard-pressed to call them that just a few short weeks […]

If someone were tasked with going into a laboratory and concocting the perfect Lancaster-Lebanon League semifinal round matchup in the year 2020, you probably couldn’t have possibly done much better than the first game that tipped off a double-header night of league semifinal play held on Wednesday night at Hempfield. Over the course of the […]

Way back when in a land that is now far and away a distant long ago memory to some, if someone were to have stopped you on the street just a few months ago prior to the start of the Lancaster-Lebanon League Boys’ Basketball season and say that the E-Town Bears and ELCO Raiders would […]

Success, much like beauty, can sometimes be in the eye of the beholder. Take the Lebanon Catholic Beavers for example. This season, while the boys from Assumption Hill failed to win any league games during the 2019-20 campaign, it was just a few weeks ago when Lebanon Catholic was seen flirting with the District 3-A […]

At this stage of the game, most coaches –particularly those with teams that will enter the postseason in the upcoming days—likely feel fairly comfortable in knowing their team from top to bottom considering the regular season is now living on life support with just two more nights left to go. That said, please forgive second-year […]

When you think of the final night of the regular season, chances are that you might envision a team in the situation that Manheim Township found themselves in on Tuesday night. Backs against the wall, desperately trying to protect the very-last District 3 playoff spot, all while having everything come to a head on Senior […]

At the start of the last decade, the college sports world had its overall landscape rocked with the restructuring of conference realignment. Yes, with the presumption of some major, well-known conferences possibly going under when coupled with the prospect of some conferences expanding out to a possible 16-team “superconferences,” numerous universities were left scrambling for […]

Okay, here’s a simple truth that comes contained with the framework of any high school basketball season. Yes, while the season can be undeniably long, especially if you find yourself with a goose egg still hanging in the win column with the finish line of the regular season rapidly approaching in your windshield view, the […]

With just one calendar week remaining in this year’s Lancaster-Lebanon League high school basketball regular season, it’s uncommon –almost rare as a matter of fact—to see the league tournament field already filled out and largely compiled heading into the final night of league-play this coming Tuesday. And in an ironic twist of fate, Section Three’s […]

In sports, much like in show business, sometimes the sequels can be extremely difficult to surpass. Fitting then that the E-Town Bears, a team full of well-known stars, happened to find themselves in that very same position heading into their Thursday night Lancaster-Lebanon League crossover tilt against Hempfield. You see, just a few night ago […]

At this stage of the season, you’re likely playing somewhere within the scope of three main scenarios. First, the place where everyone desires to reside come late-January, is to be firmly and comfortably entrenched within some sort of playoff field, whether it be leagues or districts. The second, the type of situation that is far […]

Monday 1/20 Non-league Lebanon 52 Garden Spot 48 Twin Valley 41 E-Town 82 Donegal 34 West York 73   Tuesday 1/21 League E-Town 66 Warwick  70 (LLHoops.com Live Stream) Hempfield 47 Penn Manor 53 McCaskey 74 Man TWP 85 (OT) Cocalico 58 Conestoga Valley 65 Ephrata 45 Lebanon 56 Garden Spot 55 Solanco 49 L-S […]

No matter what the sport and no matter what the level of competition, there are always a few certain places that likely create a general feeling of queasiness when a team looks at their schedule at the beginning of the season before soon discovering that they must travel to one of the toughest places in […]