Andy’s Take

While you never want to really say it loud, the simple fact of that the matter is that some teams can find themselves at a proverbial fork in the road, yes, sometimes even just eight days into the start of a brand-new season. Again, while the verdict of using such hyperbolic language is always open […]

Without much in the way of debate, it’s one of the worst kept secrets around Lancaster-Lebanon League basketball circles heading into the season. That of course being that big things are expected from the Cedar Crest Falcons. Hard to really offer much of a great argument that counters that logic seeing as how the Falcons […]

(Ethan Benne POG Against Twin Valley) Whether you consider it either fair or foul, it’s not totally incorrect to suggest that some years just naturally appear to be more important than others on the surface. A sort of “make or break” campaign if you will. That said, perhaps the notion would be labeled “foul” due […]

As is always the case whenever a season kicks off anew, there are inevitably a share of initial gut-reactions that those who follow any sport tend to make in a sort of grandiose and sweeping nature. And in all reality, not even high school basketball is immune to such abrupt judgements. Almost on the same […]

It’s early December which in the high school basketball corner of the universe means that hope always springs eternal. Yes, just as sure as when the temperatures outside start to plummet, so too do the aspirations and dreams of the teams found competing inside of local gyms during those cold winter months at such a […]

If the saying goes that “Winning cures all ills,” certainly that theme would figure to be prevalent during the initial phases of a program rebuild. Case in point, this year’s Pequea Valley boys’ basketball team. It’s no secret. Over the last decade plus most specifically, the wins during the wintertime down in Kinzers have relatively […]

It’s funny sometimes how everything can come full circle. Certainly, this premise can hold true in high school basketball as well. Case in point, Friday night’s opening game of the season contested between Solanco and Twin Valley. Ironically, it was in this very game a season ago, the lead-off game at the Octorara Tip-off tourney […]

By any objective measure, when describing the 2022-23 Lancaster Lebanon League boys’ basketball season in all its totality, you’d have to say it was largely shaded in some sort of hue resembling that of success. After all, we bore witness to more than a few storylines that will surely resonate around the local hoops landscape […]

First of all, regardless of what the eventual outcome was going to be at the end of 32 minutes of play Friday afternoon at Hershey’s Giant Center, let’s not make any mistake about it. This season for the Lancaster Mennonite Blazers quickly went from promising in the preseason, sensational during the season, historical during the […]

At last check, the state of Pennsylvania is estimated to have a population of just under 13 million residents residing inside its borders. Beyond that, there are a whopping 715 schools across the commonwealth who field high school boys’ basketball teams. However, even for a state that covers over 46,000 square miles with a population […]

There’s a phrase out there that says, “Two things can be true at once.” Simple and innocuous, yes, but never has a quote personified a high school boys’ basketball team more than this 2022-23 Lancaster Mennonite bunch perhaps. Yes, while it remains as true as ever that making your conference tournament, winning three-straight district championships, […]

Death, taxes, and Hempfield Basketball making a deep run in the state playoffs. Okay, maybe that’s not the exact the verbiage of the phrase, but as far as a local audience is most concerned, it isn’t a notion all that farfetched. Remember if you will to a time not all that long ago, say five, […]

While the logic of it all may seem a little bit unconventional at least on the surface, sometimes the best medicine that a team can find for itself is getting firmly pushed up against the metaphorical ropes while tasked with having only two options– to either sink or swim. And if ever there was a […]

There’s no denying it. There is just something intrinsically special about the state basketball tournament. After all, while the Twitter debates, looking at unscientific polls and everything of the like are fun in the interim, having the opportunity to settle the score as for who and what pockets of the commonwealth are truly the best […]

When you reach this stage, that of course being the highest level of achievement as far as high school basketball inside the mid-state is concerned with the dandy dozen known as the District 3 championships, you typically would like if the occasion would be rather large and significant in stature. Shall we say historic even? […]