Andy’s Take

It’s one of those things that is as universal and accepted like the sun rising in the east and setting in the west. No matter what the sport, no matter what the level of play, there are always going to be those certain places above all others that coaches, fans, and players alike almost always […]

While the first couple of days following the start of a new year are most often reserved for making resolutions and that of the like, please don’t take issue with neither Garden Spot or Manheim Central boys’ basketball if they happened to enter 2024 with the same exact intentions as they had ended 2023 on. […]

If you are one to prescribe to the notion of character being best defined not by what you do in your best moments, but rather how you respond when you get knocked down, then boy oh boy. Was Saturday night at Eastern York the place for you to be. You see, while some may have […]

Before we start, we (I) swear this will be the last time this topic is ever brought up moving forward. Here it goes. Last year, one of the oddest factoids in Lancaster-Lebanon League basketball lore was finally put rest once Warwick defeated Dallastown to win their own Christmas for the first time since 2007. Pretty […]

Full disclosure. While this is a site primarily focused almost exclusively on that of Lancaster-Lebanon boys’ basketball above all else by and large, it’s not as if we are totally incapable and devoid of recognizing and appreciating good hoops overall when we see it. In that regard, has anyone been doing it better than Berks […]

Before we begin, let’s start off with a question, shall we? If we were to rewind and go all the way back to 2016, who is only team to win an L-L boys’ basketball section in the division where Lampeter-Strasburg resides other than the school with the initials of L-S outright? If you said the […]

  The last time we saw the Lancaster Mennonite Blazers, they were at the Giant Center in Hershey last March rounding out their finest hour in the form of a relatively decisive victory against one the perennial state power brokers of all-time, Aliquippa, for what would prove to be Lancaster Mennonite’s first-ever state title in […]

  At first glance, one may think there isn’t all much that connects Donegal and Ephrata together. For starters, there is roughly 30 miles that separates the two campuses from one another. Or, in a slightly obscure and different form of measurement and distance, about “half a Lancaster County” away. Beyond that, while one program […]

Without question, one of the worst things you can use to describe a team is to call them “frontrunners.” Simply put, for those who are hardwired with that of a competitive nature, them’s fightin’ words. Hard to argue too when you consider that the moniker suggests that teams are only able to thrive when the […]

As far as the statistics will lead you to believe, the players that took to the Wells Fargo Center court on Monday afternoon should have had somewhere around a roughly 0.03% chance of being there. Sure enough, depending on what source you decide to cite, the odds of high school players making it to either […]

If one were to try and describe Octorara’s early season in that of nautical terms, the Braves encountered what seemed to be nothing more than smooth sailing throughout their first few games out of the chute this year. Granted, there were some choppy waters along the way at times mind you, such as the first […]

This might be crazy to even suggest out loud and put into the ethos, but is it possible that the defending Section Two champs, the defending league runners up, and last year’s District 3-5A semifinalists could’ve been the Lancaster-Lebanon League’s biggest mystery team heading into the season? Well, maybe not as crazy or blasphemous as […]

Before we start, let’s just go ahead and get the obvious out of the way early here. That of course being that this is a year in which big things are expected to come from the Warwick Warriors. That’s not a bad thing of course. Far from it in all honesty. Long story short, if […]

Let’s start off with a very unscientific straw poll here, shall we? Okay. “Do you consider the L-L League to be much better off when the McCaskey Red Tornado are the very top of the conversation?” Chances are, I’d have to imagine that any neutral observer without a particular dog in the fight would answer […]

  (Artie Poindexter, LLHoops Player of the Game Against Camp Hill Following 20-Point Effort) At the tail end of last season, the Columbia Crimson Tide found themselves on the receiving end of some particularly hard and painful lessons. Ok sure, but it certainly wasn’t as if they had failed to study and simply not participate […]