For Tyler Purvis and Ross Hall, games of this magnitude are nothing new.
The senior duo from Lancaster Catholic will lead the Crusaders into the second round of the PIAA Class AAA basketball playoffs against York Suburban on Tuesday night. Game time is 7:30 p.m. from Central Dauphin East High School. It’s the second straight season […]

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The season continues for six Lancaster-Lebanon League teams who are still in the running for a PIAA title.
Half of that number will compete in the Class AAAA field, which is traditionally dominated by District 1. The suburban Philly-based district has produced six state champions since the year 2000 — including two straight and four of […]

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The Harrisburg Patriot-News released its All-District 3 Tournament Team for each class over the weekend, and six L-L League players — Christian Walck (Hempfield), Ross Hall (Lancaster Catholic), Tyler Purvis (Lancaster Catholic), Phil Yoder (Lancaster Mennonite), Dean Royal (Lancaster Mennonite) and Zach Arnold (Lebanon Catholic) are on it.
Go here to see the entire team.

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Here are the sites and times for the first-round state playoff games involving L-L League teams. The full brackets can be found here.
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Penn Manor (17-10) vs. Penn Wood (23-3): Saturday, 3:30 p.m. at Norristown H.S.
Warwick (17-10) vs. Scranton (20-6): Saturday, 4:30 p.m. at Marywood University (Scranton)
Hempfield (27-1) vs. Nazareth (20-6): Saturday, 7 p.m. in Hersheypark […]

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For three Lancaster-Lebanon League boys teams, getting to the District 3 finals was one thing.
Winning a championship was another.
Hempfield, Lancaster Catholic and Lancaster Mennonite will all spend the early part of the week regrouping from disappointing losses in their respective district title games. The Black Knights were the last victim, falling 54-46 to Reading in […]

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 Umm…about that live blog at was supposed to happen tonight…
About midway through the third quarter of tonight’s District 3 Class AA final between Lancaster Mennonite and Trinity, I began wondering why no one was commenting. So I checked the LancSports.com main page to be sure the link to the blog was active…and discovered it wasn’t.
Oops.
So […]

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Two words: Instant classic.
Thursday night’s District 3 Class AAA championship between Lancaster Catholic and Eastern York will not be soon forgotten by those fortunate enough to be in the Giant Center to witness it.
That the Golden Knights won, 55-53, on a short jumper by Nate Bollinger with 2.7 seconds left is almost irrelevant. Both teams […]

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By all accounts, this has been a successful District 3 playoff run for the Lancaster-Lebanon League. An unprecedented success, actually.
On Wednesday night, Lancaster Mennonite became the third L-L League team to reach the District 3 finals with its 68-57 triumph over Delone Catholic in the Class AA semifinals in Hershey’s Giant Center (click here to […]

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It seems sort of funny now, all that talk about Hempfield’s inability to win a district playoff game.
That’s all you heard as the District 3 Class AAAA playoffs approached. But the Black Knights sure look like they’re getting used to playoff success.
Tuesday night, they took another giant step forward in Hershey’s Giant Center, putting together an impressive […]

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 Maybe now people will start taking Lancaster Catholic seriously. I’m including myself in that company.
If the Crusaders haven’t proven themselves by now, I’m not sure what else they can do. Catholic continued its surge through the District 3 Class AAA playoffs with a rout of perennial Mid-Penn superpower Steel-High in Monday night’s semifinals in Hershey’s […]

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