In hindsight, how exactly do you prepare for this game? Admittedly, it’s a bit of a curious, if not totally leading question to try and ask. Aside from the pure “Captain Obvious” aspect to it all that involves, you know, preparing, and putting together a scouting report and subsequent gameplan of attack, there was more […]

Article by David Kehler   Father Judge defeated Roman Catholic 41 to 34 on Sunday afternoon at The Palestra to win the Philadelphia Catholic League championship before a sellout crowd.  The view from here is that the Philadelphia Catholic League playoffs are the premier competition in Pennsylvania boys basketball.  It has been proven time and […]

  Article by David Kehler   As of this morning, the following 117 teams have qualified for the PIAA state championship tournament, well over half of the total field.  The tournament field is comprised of 32 teams in each of six classes, with the classes mostly based on the number of boys enrolled in 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. Previous season-high Ja’Loney Porter (McCaskey): 40 points vs Manheim Township on December 19th Current season-high  Chase Smucker (Lampeter-Strasburg): 50 points in win over Northern York 2. Chase Smucker: […]

  Ever since they came into the league, they hadn’t been shy when it came to saying out loud that reaching that stage for what would be the first time in its program history would be a momentous achievement whenever that time ultimately came to pass. The school? Lancaster Country Day. The occasion? Reaching the […]

Article by David Kehler   Central Dauphin defeated host Cumberland Valley 78 to 74 in overtime on Friday night to advance to the semifinals of the PIAA District 3 Class 6A tournament in an exciting game before a capacity crowd.  It was the third game between the two Mid Penn Conference Commonwealth Division rivals this […]

Maybe it first came at Media Day around Thanksgiving. Perhaps it was back near the July 4th holiday smack dab in the middle of their always imposing slate of competition found during the summer circuit. Shoot, maybe it can even be traced as far back as the afternoon of March 16th last year, the day […]

  For a litany of reasons, there isn’t anything much better on the local hoops landscape than that of the District 3 tournament. No matter whether you’re talking about the boys’ or the girls’ side of the docket, among the many things that make it great is obviously where all roads hope to lead to […]

Beginning this week, the Lancaster-Lebanon League will send a dozen of its boys’ basketball teams across four of the six classifications into the District 3 playoffs with the end goal of winding up at the Giant Center. Listed below are the teams that made it, and their first games slated. Keep it tuned to LLHoops.com […]

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. Current season-high Ja’Loney Porter (McCaskey): 40 points vs Manheim Township on December 19th   1. Camden Ochs (Cocalico): 30 points in win over Lebanon T2. Chase Fetrow (Octorara): […]

      “The Team of the Decade.” How does one achieve such a distinction? Admittedly, it’s a bit of an inexact science in a way. Sometimes, it’s based purely on intuition and what your gut has to say about it. Ala, which programs routinely step up in the biggest of moments and routinely deliver […]

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  It’s an unproven and unscientific fact, but there’s magic in this week. Otherwise, how could you possibly try and describe the way in which events transpired on Monday night? If you ask around, those with any sort of vested interest in the comings and goings surrounding the Lancaster-Lebanon League at large — but particularly […]

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In their Monday night season finale at home against Camp Hill, Annville-Cleona senior center, Jon Shay, eclipsed the 1,000-point plateau over the course of his Dutchmen career. With the achievement, Shay now becomes just the 10th player in A-C history to make the club, joining alongside his fellow senior classmate, Elisha Slabach, who also went […]