Dell Column: Feb. 18, 2024
Written by: Dell Jackson on February 18, 2024
Dell Column
Feb. 18, 2024
LL tournament…
We had coverage of all the Boys games and the Girls Final.
First Round
Manheim Central @ Columbia
Penn Manor @ LS
Octorara @ Cedar Crest
Lancaster Mennonite @ Warwick
Semis
Penn Manor vs Warwick
Manheim Central vs Cedar Crest
Penn Manor/Warwick Gallery via Hosh Posh
Finals
Girls
GIRLS Live Stream
Girls – Lebaon vs Lancaster Catholic Gallery vs Mark22
Boys
Warwick vs Cedar Crest
Warwick/Cedar Crest Gallery via Mark22
BOYS Live Stream
Stop Sports Media- Celebration video
Live stream Links
Girls – interviews with Jeff Reinhart, Tim Speraw, and POG Mary Bolesky
Boys – interviews with Jason Guarante, Andy Herr, Matt johns, and POG’s Leo Tirado and RJ Young.
We have to include one X post plus the reply by Travis Boyd!
— Travis Boyd (@taboyd66) February 17, 2024
Mid Penn- Hershey vs Cumberland Valley
LL History…
Cedar Crest claimed its 5th overall title- 4 by current Head Coach, Tommy Smith.
LLhoops provides the history (51 years worth) on the boys side for all to checkout (and folks do! )
LINK
Andy’s thoughts on the LL tournament. LINK
Special thanks to LL Program Back Page sponsors for LLhoops.com. Also, props to Dessie Jackson for design and advertisement work.
District 3
LLhoops staff will update you on games this week and next. We will provide coverage of the tournament via our normal coverages. We might be able to live stream a final game or 2 if we can get the fees paid.
Here is the current schedule as of Feb. 18- LINK
Congrats….
To all LL teams that won’t be playing this week. What? Really. All teams put in the work, practice, prepare and compete. Some teams, when measured by W/L’s accomplished more than the previous year and some did not. This writer has been on both ends of a winning season and losing season. Trust me, it’s much tougher to keep the train rolling on a losing season.
LLhoops site…
The hits keep coming….This season we broke all of our past records for visitors and page views. Most come into the main page and then branch out- usually to our score and standing page. Our out of LL coverage continues to gather more followers each year as well (Neast, David Kehler, and Mid Penn Keystone). The LL girls live stream out drew the boys for the second year in a row :). We had over 2,000 uniques visitors on a single day last week. Our core followers averages around 500 per day. We will pick up some interest form other follower during the tournaments via X and the site. The google search is the nubmer one way people are finding us. Give it a try and see if there are many other LLhoops…a few but we are always the top search, so far.
App me?
This is a tease for sure. Circle W Sports is working on a mobile app for our site- another first for the LLhoops team. Stay tuned!
Web design- LLhoops customer
Best…
To all the LL teams entering the District 3 tournament this year. Hoping we get a bunch of the LL teams having a chance at a gold crown and qualifying for the PIAA tournament.
~Dell Jackson
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