Andy’s Take

Ed note: We continue with our replays of “Andy’s greatest games 2019-20”. Picts provided by Ke’Shauna Damore of various LCDay games.   Around this time a year ago, there was most certainly still a general sense of “newness” around the inner circle of Lancaster-Lebanon League high school basketball considering it marked the official introduction of […]

  When teams get set to enter the postseason, toying with lineups and determining how game minutes should be distributed is likely a point of discussion that is found somewhere near the absolute back-corner of the stove. Well, for most every team that is. On the night of the Warwick Warriors’ regular season home finale […]

Let’s face it. Now, given the world in which we all find ourselves living in, we’re all guilty in some form or fashion of falling victim to it. That being the struggle to find patience. In fact, while the saying itself hasn’t actually gone anywhere, the premise of, “There’s beauty in the struggle,” may not […]

Typically, making the state basketball tournament is an achievement that is so celebrated and cherished that it generally shouldn’t come with a prevailing sense of “Groundhog Day.” However, when speaking about the ELCO Raiders and their fans most specifically, that certainly had to be the overarching sentiment in their camp heading into their opening round […]

Without a shadow of a doubt, the PIAA state basketball tournament never ceases to fail in providing with its fair share of tantalizing and attractive matchups. That said, perhaps no other round within the dozen boys’ and girls’ statewide brackets comes with more appeal than that of the opening round of the two-week march onward […]

Perhaps the one aspect of a bracket-format playoff scenario that always seems to endear itself to the masses is the “win and go home” facet to it all. Certainly, in just a one game situation and no “best of” series, there’s no reason to think that anything that can’t, nor won’t happen. For it is […]

When most people think of the postseason and the ever-popular idea of brackets, odds are that those same individuals envision the “survive and advance” model of thinking that always takes the country by storm in the month of March each and every year like clockwork. However, not all brackets are necessarily created equal. In the […]

Let’s talk for a second about preseason goals and aspirations, shall we? In the world of high school basketball, most teams likely have the same basic parameters listed on their whiteboards prior to the start of every season. Generally, the list looks a little something like this: Compete and win your win division, make the […]

Chances are that whenever a Lancaster-Lebanon League audience is asked to think about the Wilson Bulldogs, odds are they almost always resort to envisioning football. And to be honest, how could they not? After all, it certainly doesn’t hurt matters that Wilson is the last remaining Berks County school left standing as a gridiron-only member […]

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 […]