Andy’s Take

Michael Lower With Dell Jackson, His Dad’s Coach At Penn Manor, With Both G.J. And Michael Lower Now 1,000-Point Scorers At Penn Manor “Time waits for no man.” We’ve all heard that phrase before, I’m sure. Try as we might at times, there still hasn’t been a scientific way proven to not just stop the […]

Giovanni Sejuste. LLHoops POG In Linville Hill Win Over Lancaster Mennonite In Avon Grove Holiday Tournament. In retrospect, maybe this wasn’t the best place for this game. A game of this magnitude to take place. Nothing against the fine folks at Avon Grove of course. They have an absolutely beautiful, sprawling campus that comes complete […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

(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 […]

Coming into the year, we knew it would be this way. We knew that the version of the Columbia Crimson Tide boys’ basketball team that last played in the state tournament against Math, Civics, and Sciences at Norristown High back in March wouldn’t resemble anything like the 2024-25 edition of the Tide. For starters, well, […]

In years previous, it’d be fair to say that the Manheim Township Blue Streaks boys’ basketball program was rather aggressive shall we say in their schedule-making. To be sure, seeing Township play game after game, day after day, to begin the regular season slate almost seemed to be an expected norm of sorts. This year […]

At this time a year ago, things couldn’t have been going much better for the Pequea Valley boys’ basketball program. After just the first full weekend of the season last year, the Braves wasted next to no time asserting themselves and injecting themselves into the conversation of feel-good stories by going to Tulpehocken in back-to-back […]