Octorara Braves

Here are the updated dates/times and matchups for this year’s L-L League championships as presented by the L-L League and its corporate partner, OAL

By Kyle Morgan Who would you pick? The reigning league champions? Or the team with the best regular-season record?  Score one for the latter. Octorara has now earned the first L-L League playoff victory in program history with a 76-63 win over Cedar Crest, who won last year’s title game. That means there will be […]

Here are the dates/time and matchups for this year’s L-L League championships as presented by the L-L League and its corporate partner, OAL

Earlier this week, inside of their thrilling come-from-behind victory while just up the road at L-S, Octorara’s Vincent Thaler decided on his own to make it a memorable game, albeit for a far different occasion aside from seeing the Braves officially make it a perfect sweep over fellow L-L competition this season while en route […]

As we come down the final stretch of the regular season in the LL, there is still a lot to be determined in the final week of league play. Let’s take a look at where things stand before games tip on Thursday, January 29th. As always, views and opinions expressed in this column represent my […]

Coming into this 2025-26 season, we figured they’d be good. But, c’mon. This good? Shoot, outside of their own locker room, even with all the logical, plentiful optimism and all, the jury would’ve probably been out if you were to tell the masses as to where the Octorara Braves’ boys’ basketball team stood at the […]

As the season ramps up, so too do our LLHoops livestream productions. We are excited to bring you a Friday night rivalry with a much-improved L-S team of late making the short trek down to tangle with Octorara, the lone unbeaten squad in all the Lancaster-Lebanon League, in a key Section Three tilt for backyard […]

Overall Thoughts: The game Tuesday in Xfinity Mobile Arena ended with the Octorara Braves ahead of the Kennett Blue Demons 57 – 46. Octorara used a fourth quarter run to pull out a double digit victory in a game that was otherwise very close and even saw the Blue Demons lead for a good portion […]

  It’s one of the worst kept secrets this year when it comes to the landscape of Lancaster-Lebanon League boys’ basketball action. That of course being that the Octorara Braves come into their 2025-26 campaign with a boatload full of optimism and sky-high hopes.   And frankly, how could they not? If the name of […]

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The 2025-2026 LLHoops season officially kicked off yesterday with LNP’s Media Day. As was the case last year, I’ll use this space primarily to post quick observations from what I see during the season. Full Media Day Interviews on our YouTube Page Here 2025-2026 Media Day Notes: 1. Watch your head. A number of players […]

Before we get started and look forward, let us first look back. Like, all the way to the very beginning type of “back.” There, on just the second day of the newly designated high school basketball schedule — Saturday, November 30th to be exact — the Octorara Braves traveled down to District 1 territory and […]

David Kehler, All-State voter and contributor to LLHoops.com, checks in to give us his preview of the upcoming 5A bracket which begins this weekend and will end with 5A’s state championship game, slated for an 8pm tip at the Giant Center in Hershey on Friday, March 28th. Enjoy PIAA State Championship Tournament Preview   This […]

Article by David Kehler   Trailing 46 to 25 early in the fourth quarter to Warwick, Octorara launched a furious rally fueled by pressure defense but fell just short in a Lancaster-Lebanon League playoff quarterfinal on Monday night in Lititz.  Host Warwick, which led from the second minute of the game, held on for a […]

Section 2 and Section 3 ended up exactly as I thought when I surveyed the landscape at the mid-way point of league play, so catch up on those articles if you want a little more insight into these teams. This is the first of 4 posts previewing each of the Round 1 LL League Play […]

Sometimes, the best thing you can do right after suffering a tough loss is to get right back up and ride the horse again in next to no time at all. Of course, that can’t always be the case in every single instance. Especially not when the schedule dictates your fate as such. For the […]

Ed note: LLhoops will be presenting 5 High School Games Jan. 14 on the NFHS network, live streaming.You must have an account with NFHS in order to watch. One price will get you any NFHS game for 1 full month 11.99 per month, 79.99 per year with access to any NFHS games -PA championships as […]

Off the Court: The combination of fans in attendance and physical size makes Octorara feel like the smallest gym in the LL (maybe there is technically a smaller one somewhere in section 4). When the student section is locked in you would think it was Cameron Indoor Stadium (I would know, I did my undergrad […]

As cliche as it may be, everyone is obviously giddy this time of year in the high school basketball world. And how could they not be considering hope springs eternal for everyone on the very first weekend of the season? Even still, there might be a few teams who eagerly await the start of a […]