ALL-DISTRICT 2 GIRLS 2020-2021 TEAM   Riley Baird (Greater Nanticoke Area, 5-3 Junior G, 13.6 ppg) Cecelia Collins (Scranton Prep, 6-1 Senior G, 16.5 ppg) Carena Colo (North Pocono, 5-7 Senior G, 13.8 ppg) Bella Hill (Dallas, 5-6 Senior G, 15.1 ppg) Helena Jardine (Crestwood, 5-7 Senior G, 13.3 ppg) Kylie Lavelle (Riverside, 6-1 […]

  ALL-DISTRICT 2 BOYS 2020-2021 TEAM   Ryan Harder (Tunkhannock, 6-4 Senior G, 18.4 ppg) Jake Koretz (Wyoming Seminary, 6-2 Senior G, 16.4 ppg) Zach Kovalchik (Valley View, 6-3 Senior G, 14.2 ppg) Mike Leonardo (Delaware Valley, 6-5 Senior G, 13.7 ppg) Mason Mendygral (Wyoming Valley West, 5-11 Senior G, 16.1 ppg) Cayden Merrifield (West […]

Foreword written by Mike Drago of the Reading Eagle…   Rahsool Diggins earned All-State recognition as both a sophomore and junior, but he changed his game for his senior season at Archbishop Wood. Knowing he’d be playing point guard at the University of Connecticut he prepared himself by playing that role for the Vikings. Diggins’ […]

Foreword written by Mike Gross of LNP…   Archbishop Ryan’s Aaron Lemon-Warren was leading the powerful Philadelphia Catholic League in scoring in the 2019-20 season when a broken foot shut him down for the year. Ryan started this season two weeks after everyone else in the PCL due to a COVID-19 shutdown, and the PCL […]

Foreword written by Mike Gross of LNP…   It was far from a normal boys’ basketball season for Neumann-Goretti, one of Pennsylvania’s most successful programs. The Saints, who have won nine state championships since 2009, went 4-6 with no postseason in 2020-21, thanks to a combination of pandemic-related issues and the use, acknowledged by the […]

Foreword written by Mike Gross of LNP…   “The only thing on my bucket list that I really want,’’ Loyalsock boys’ basketball coach Ron Insinger told the Williamsport Sun-Gazette last month, was a state championship. Insinger’s Lancers got him there a few days later, defeating Brookville 75-53 for the PIAA Class 3A championship and completing […]

Foreword written by Mike Gross of LNP….   No Pennsylvania high school basketball team had a better year than Class AA state champion Sacred Heart, a truth reflected in voting for the Pennsylvania Sportswriters’ all-state team. Jake DiMichele, a 6-3 junior swingman for the Chargers, is the AA player of the year, which goes to […]

Foreword written by Mike Gross of LNP….   Berlin Brothersvalley, a small public high school in Somerset County, accomplished about all it could in boys’ basketball the past two years without winning a state championship. The Mountaineers went a combined 55-3, and were stopped short of the big prize by COVID-19 halting the PIAA tournament […]

Foreword written by Mike Gross of LNP…   High honors have gotten routine and redundant for Germantown Academy basketball star Jordan Longino. Longino, a 6-4 senior guard bound for Villanova, is the Non-PIAA Player of the Year, which goes to the leading vote-getter for the Pennsylvania Sportswriters’ Non-PIAA all-state team, announced Sunday. Longino was Class […]

For as strange of a year that the 2020-21 Lancaster-Lebanon League Boys’ high school basketball season was, any semblance of normalcy—no matter how brief it may have been—was always a welcomed sign. From players suiting up in masks, to teams literally having to live by the mantra of “taking one day at a time” in […]