Andy’s Take
Balanced Falcons Start Fast, Make Early Statement As Cedar Crest Comes Away With Impressive Opening Nonleague Victory Over Governor Mifflin
December 5, 2022 Andy HerrThe saying goes that you only have one chance to make a good first impression. Ironic is some ways though when you apply that same logic to the 2022-23 Cedar Crest Falcons that is. After all, chances are that you know most of their names and faces already as it is. Last year, behind what […]
Central Dauphin Rejects Manheim Township’s Persistent Advances As Rams Take Third In Manheim Township Tip-Off Tournament
December 4, 2022 Andy HerrYou know, whenever Central Dauphin and Manheim Township happen to find themselves locked up in competition no matter what the sport, chances are two-fold. First, there will be a lot of eyeballs on the matchup itself. Why? Most certainly because those two names alone carry nothing if not a ton of equity and weight behind […]
Solanco Starts Anew, Become Chiseled As Golden Mules Prevail Over Oxford In First Game Of New Era
December 3, 2022 Andy HerrThere’s something to be said about new beginnings. Whether it be in life or even in the world of high school basketball, sometimes change can be for the better. And what a better place to start than opening night of the gauntlet that is the regular season itself if we’re talking hoops. It’s not exactly […]
All Section LLhoops.com Teams: 2021-22
April 15, 2022 Andy HerrEd note: Welcome to the 2021-22 All LLhoops.com teams. Between Dell and Andy, we saw each player at least once. We continue with our 6 player teams- more awards for more deserving players. Names appear in alphabetical order. Enjoy! Section One First Team Ethan Benne (Penn Manor) Sebastian Henson (Manheim Township) Fernando Marquez (Cedar Crest) […]
2022 Lancaster-Lebanon League All-Stars Score, Keep Scoring, Then Score Some More As Departing Senior Class Explodes For 242 Combined Points In Annual Showcase Game
April 6, 2022 Andy HerrNo matter how you may try and slice it, you’d be hard-pressed to argue that this most recent season of Lancaster-Lebanon League boys’ basketball was anything but a success story. Simply put, while the teams that reside in the L-L as a whole not only made a case for moving the conference upwards into the […]
Musings And Takeaways From State Finals Weekend At Giant Center (2022 Edition)
March 28, 2022 Andy HerrWell, the three-day, hour-long drive that yours truly took from Denver to Hershey on Route 322 this past weekend has since come and gone. Candidly, it’s always a bittersweet moment to walk out of Giant Center late on a Saturday night (usually in gale force winds too for whatever the reason) in knowing and acknowledging […]
Old Forge Pulls Out All The Stops (And Scores) As Blue Devils Get Past Lancaster Mennonite For Second Consecutive Season To Reach The PIAA-2A State Semifinals
March 17, 2022 Andy HerrThe following are simply cold-hard facts. The state of Pennsylvania ranks as the fifth-most populous state in all the Union. With such a distinction, it’s easy to reconcile that fact once you consider that the state is home to some roughly 13-million people and change. Not only that, but the state’s governing scholastic sports body, […]
Fourth Quarter Lull Proves Costly As Devon Prep Surges Past Columbia, Reaches Quarterfinal Round Of PIAA-3A Tournament As Crimson Tide ‘Goes Down Swinging’
March 14, 2022 Andy HerrRemember the year 2020? Yeah, I know we all do in our own unique ways. Remember March 2020 more specifically? Certainly, right? After all, that’s right when everyone’s collective world turned completely upside down around the globe. Of course, if you’re more so of the PIAA boys’ basketball crowd specifically, you will probably remember […]
Nativity Starts Fast, Rises Past Lancaster Country Day As Hilltoppers Set Their Sights On Quarterfinal Round of PIAA-1A Tournament
March 12, 2022 Andy HerrIn a lot of ways, it’s one of the worst kept secrets known to man. Well, maybe not to ALL of mankind I suppose, but certainly for those who operate and reside within the high school basketball community that is. And of course, that “secret” being that the further and further you advance in the […]
Neumann-Goretti Looks The Part As Saints Oust ELCO In PIAA-4A First Round, Move One Step Closer To Ninth State Championship
March 9, 2022 Andy HerrOver the span of its entire history, the ELCO Raiders boys’ basketball team has made it to the PIAA state tournament two times. On Tuesday night, it that number would get bumped up to three once the group from Myerstown set sail for Cardinal O’Hara High School, just on the western outskirts of Philadelphia. However, […]
Red Knights Remain The Gold Standard As Reading Wins Consecutive District 3-6A Crowns, Fends Off Feisty Warwick Effort For Program’s 23rd Title
March 6, 2022 Andy HerrYou know, it’s somewhat funny in a way. By most assumptions, by the time you reach the championship round of the District 3 playoffs that ultimately concludes at the Giant Center, there largely figures to be a few names that you can expect to find there waiting for your viewing pleasure, but particularly in the […]
Lancaster Mennonite Staves Off Persistent Mounts’ Advances As Blazers Top Antietam For Second Consecutive Season To Claim District 3-2A Gold
March 6, 2022 Andy HerrQuick question here for the audience, but how many of you would like to pretend that the last couple of years, last year in particular, never took place at all? A fair amount? Yeah, kinda figured as much. Okay, but I see not everyone in the crowd has their hand raised here. Who’s that abstaining? […]
Lampeter-Strasburg Passes Another Test As Pioneers Add A New Trophy, District 3-5A Gold, Following Victory Over Shippensburg En Route To 27-0 Record
March 4, 2022 Andy HerrWhen the fine folks at the District 3 office got together earlier in the year and ultimately rolled out the schedule and slate of championship games that were going to be held inside the Giant Center in the early portion of the month of March, you can best believe that every boys’ basketball program from […]
Lampeter-Strasburg Is The Last To Blink As Pioneers Stare Down Hershey, Prevail In Wild Triple Overtime Thriller To Advance To District 3-5A Title Game
March 1, 2022 Andy HerrThere was a time not all that long ago – just a few years ago to be exact – that Monday’s District 3-5A semifinal game between Hershey and Lampeter-Strasburg would’ve held up at Giant Center. And sure, while change can sometimes present itself in a manner akin to that of an welcomed house guest, it […]
Warwick Takes A Punch, Responds With A Knockout As Warriors Topple Cumberland Valley To Advance To District 3-6A Final Four
February 26, 2022 Andy HerrNo matter how you slice it, whether you consider that the circumstances regarding the considerable shrinkage of the PIAA basketball bracket last March in lieu of the COVID-19 pandemic to be a necessary move or not, there most figured to be winners and losers because of such a decision. The good news? Well, the fact […]