JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Monday column time, and this week, a trip to L-S to catch up with a pair of talented freshmen - the Pioneers’ Kelsey Souders and Katie Andrews, who are already making waves. Talk about bright futures …
When Lampeter-Strasburg held basketball tryouts prior to this season, Kelsey Souders and Katie Andrews just wanted to […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
I hope everyone is having a nice holiday. Other than my bout with strep throat (anyone have a cough drop?), I can’t complain.
Since I am a stat monger, I’ll begin this week’s notebook with the scoring leaders and 3-point leaders, through all holiday tournament and non-league games over the break:
SCORING LEADERS: Twenty-seven (27) […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
L-L LEAGUE GIRLS’ BASKETBALL RANKINGS COMING OUT OF THE HOLIDAY BREAK
I hope you’re having a nice holiday season.
But not even the holiday break can keep me from my weekly rankings, which feature the same five teams as last week – just in a different order of sorts.
We hop back into L-L League play […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Sorry. No big, elaborate Penn State-Texas A&M preview. No grids. No stats. No notes about the TV crew. Too much going on right now (Christmas, family gatherings, girls’ basketball beat, etc, etc).
But I do have a prediction for you:
Penn State 38, Texas A&M 10.
This will be a rout. But do tune in …

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
I was in Ephrata on Thursday night for the first round of the Ephrata Holiday Tournament. L-S survived McCaskey’s wild comeback in the opener, and Ephrata kept on chugging in the nightcap, setting up a Mountaineers-Pioneers (that’s a lot of eers) final on Friday. Here is my story from Friday’s New Era:
They are […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
HEMPFIELD TOPS CATHOLIC IN TOURNEY FINALE, WINS 11th GAME IN A ROW
Busy night on the local hardwoods on Thursday, with a ton of first-round holiday tournament action, a championship game over at Hempfield, plus a non-league game sprinkled in for good measure. Here are the caps:
Analicia Evans pumped in a season-high 21 points […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
ONCE AGAIN, HOST BLACK KNIGHTS, CRUSADERS WILL MEET IN HEMPFIELD HOLIDAY TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
It has become one of the better - and bitter - rivalries in local girls’ basketball circles.
For the last 12 years, Hempfield has invited Lancaster Catholic to play in its holiday tournament.
Tonight, for the 11th time each, the Black Knights and […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
I screwed up the starting times of the girls’ Hempfield Holiday Tournament in my preview stuff a couple of days ago.
If you showed up at Hempfield on Wednesday night at 6, hoping to catch Hempfield vs. Lancaster Mennonite, instead you were treated to Lancaster Catholic vs. Dallastown first - then the Hempfield-Mennonite game.
If […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
COLUMBIA’S BRIAN GROFF, PEQUEA VALLEY’S SEAN PERSCH, LANCASTER CATHOLIC’S KYLE SMITH, LEBANON’S JORDAN CLENTIMACK, LAMPETER-STRASBURG’S ANTHONY CINTRON and JUSTIN TAYLOR, MANHEIM TOWNSHIP’S DAVID SOLDNER and ROBERT DE LA ROSA ARE HONORED.
A tip of the cap and a big congratulations to the eight (8) Lancaster-Lebanon League football players who earned Associated Press All-State honors.Two […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
For my Monday feature this week, I ventured over to Mount Joy to have a chat with Nicky Hess, Donegal’s crack 3-point specialist. Enjoyed my time there, also having a nice converstation with the Indians’ Alaina Potteiger and Morgan Kibler and coach Cathy Koenig. Want to know why Hess is one of the […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Analicia Evans, Hempfield: The Black Knights’ senior forward had three solid performances in Hempfield’s three victories last week. On Monday, she scored 13 points in a 48-24 crossover win over Ephrata; on Wednesday she scored 12 points and hit a game-icing 3-pointer in a 42-29 Section 1 win over McCaskey; […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Nine Lancaster County players have been named to the Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association All-State team, highlighted by three players from state runner-up Garden Spot.
Senior setter Maria Horning, junior middle hitter Ashley Schnader and junior outside hitter Rachel Wenger, who helped the Spartans to a runner-up finish in the PIAA Triple-A tournament, were all […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Digging all of the lead changes already this season.
Seems like there is a great race in every section so far, meaning things could get mighty interesting when L-L League play starts up again in (gulp) 2008.
Happy New Year to you, while I’m at it.
A bit of a shakeup once again in my rankings […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
The first major checkpoint of any basketball season is upon us:
The holiday break.
And at this season’s holiday break, three of the four section races in the L-L League feature a tie.
SECTION 1 – Defending champ Cedar Crest and Hempfield are both 5-0. Black Knights are smoking hot, winners of nine in a row. […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
MILLERSVILLE IS IN THE MARKET FOR A HEAD FOOTBALL COACH. AGAIN. HERE ARE THREE GUYS WHO SHOULD GET INTERVIEWS - PRONTO.
I really liked Joe Trainer, Millersville’s outgoing football coach. Straight shooter. Awesome X and O guy. Brutally honest with the media. Genuinely cared about his kids, especially when the going got tough. And […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Local high school football fan?
Stumbled across a very intersting article in the Harrisburg Patriot-News late last week, detailing changes in the District 3 football playoffs.
Looks like the Triple-A champ (L-S won that crown this year) will enter the PIAA playoffs in the western bracket.
And there will be no more District 3/6 Quad-A sub-regional.
For […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
I was over at Lancaster Catholic on Friday night for an absolute thriller between the host Crusaders and Lancaster Mennonite. Catholic led 33-17 at the half before all heck broke loose. And the girl who helped Mennonite rally for the victory is coming off a bout with the flu. Read on:
Kelsey Gorman woke […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Roundups from Friday’s games - holiday break time. League play starts up again Wednesday, Jan. 2. Happy holidays to you and yours.
With standout senior point guard Teasia Myers out with a sprained right ankle for the second game in a row, McCaskey fell behind 16-0 after the first quarter, and host Penn Manor […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Joe Trainer has resigned his post as head football coach at Millersville University. He stepped down after three years on the job, and he’s set to take over as defensive coordinator at the University of Rhode Island.
Joe Trainer has resigned as head football coach at Millersville University.
The former Villanova University defensive coordinator compiled […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
I was in the big city on Wednesday for McCaskey girls’ hosting Hempfield. Red Tornado stud point guard Teasia Myers missed the game (and will miss a few more games) with an ankle injury. So it wasn’t exactly the greatest game of all-time for McCaskey’s offense, which sputtered without Myers. Here is my […]

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