JEFFREY REINHART jrienhart@LNPnews.com
Eastern University’s women’s volleyball program has quite the pipeline to Lancaster County.
Another Lancaster-Lebanon League volleyball standout recently committed to Eastern, which got commitments from Garden Spot star Maria Horning and Cocalico standout Courtney Reinhold last month.
Lancaster Mennonite senior Mary Poole, an L-L League All-Star and an All-State selection last fall, has committed to […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Here is the L-L League girls’ basketball playoff bracket:
UPPER BRACKET
Section 1 champ Cedar Crest vs. Section 3 runner-up Manheim Central, Monday, 7 p.m. at Lebanon
Section 4 champ (Lancaster Catholic or Lancaster Mennonite) vs. Section 2 runner-up Conestoga Valley, Monday, 7 p.m. at Penn Manor
Semifinals: First-round winners will meet Wednesday at 7 p.m. at […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Here is the L-L League boys’ basketball playoff bracket:
UPPER BRACKET
Section 1 champ McCaskey vs. Section 3 runner-up Manheim Central, Tuesday, 7 p.m. at Hempfield
Section 4 champ (Lancaster Catholic or Columbia) vs. Section 2 runner-up Elizabethtown, Tuesday, 7 p.m. at Conestoga Valley
Semifinals: First-round winners will meet Thursday at 7 p.m. at Lampeter-Strasburg
LOWER BRACKET
Section 2 champ […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Lancaster-Lebanon League officials announced Thursday morning the sites and times for the one-game playoffs that will determine the boys’ and girls’ Section 4 championships.
GIRLS
Lancaster Catholic vs. Lancaster Mennonite, Friday, 7 p.m. at Conestoga Valley.
BOYS
Lancaster Catholic vs. Columbia, Saturday, 1 p.m. at Penn Manor.

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Oh what a night — a wild and crazy night inside Warwick High School, where members of Cedar Crest’s girls’ basketball team, spilling out of the locker room and setting up camp in the hallway and main lobby, were on pins and needles, waiting to hear the final score from the Hempfield-Penn Manor […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Here’s the latest District 3 playoff update.
L-S locked up No. 1 seed in Triple-A.
Hempfield bumped from No. 1 to No. 4 in Quad-A.
Columbia in Double-A.
Conestoga Valley out in Quad-A.
You can find the complete update here.
Nothing is official until all non-playoff games are played Friday night — and, of course, until the District 3 […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Here’s how the L-L League girls’ playoff bracket looks after Wednesday’s regular-season finale.
Still waiting on one-game playoff for Section 4 title between Lancaster Catholic and Lancaster Mennonite — which you don’t want to miss by the way. What a game that should be. They’ve played two absolute classics this season, and the rubber […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
The final night of section play in the Lancaster-Lebanon League turned out to be a real doozie.
After 16 league games, just one section race finished in a tie.
Lancaster Catholic, which topped Pequea Valley 81-34, and Lancaster Mennonite, which edged Lebanon Catholic 47-43, finished tied for the top spot in section 4, and will […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
L-L LEAGUE PLAYOFF BRACKETS (AT LEAST ON THE GIRLS’ SIDE) COULD USE SOME TWEAKING. HOW? DO READ ON.
It’s going to happen.
Whether anybody likes it or not, there is going to be a championship-round worthy game in the first round of the L-L League girls’ basketball playoffs next Monday.
And if you take a close […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
The races in Section 1 and Section 4 of the Lancaster-Lebanon League are still fit to be tied.
With victories on Monday, Hempfield and Cedar Crest in Section 1, and Lancaster Catholic and Lancaster Mennonite in Section 4, remained deadlocked with one game to go in the regular season.
Should those races be tied come […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Took me long enough, but I finally paid my first visit to Lebanon High School this season on Monday, to watch Lampeter-Strasburg win its first section title since (gulp) 1977. Here’s my story from Tuesday’s New Era:
LEBANON – The last time Lampeter-Strasburg hung a section championship banner in the gym, Jimmy Carter was […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Our very own Phil Glatfelter was in Ephrata on Monday night to watch Garden Spot clinch its first section championship since 1974. Here is Phil’s story from Tuesday’s New Era:
To say it was a long time coming would be an understatement.
It’s been 33 years since a Garden Spot girls’ basketball team has won […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Just a quick update on the Lancaster-Lebanon League girls’ playoff bracket, and who might occupy the empty bracket spots at the end of the week. The teams I have listed have either clinched, or are still in contention for those spots.
UPPER BRACKET
Section 1 champ (Cedar Crest or Hempfield) vs.
Section 3 runner-up (Manheim Central);
Section 4 champ […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
With two games to go in the regular season, here are some updated team statistics for you, broken down by section. And this is for all games, through Saturday, Jan. 26.
SECTION 1
TEAM OFFENSE
Penn Manor 53.2
McCaskey 49.7
Cedar Crest 49.6
Hempfield 48.7
Warwick 46.1
Manheim Township 42.7
TEAM DEFENSE
Hempfield 33.0
Cedar Crest 37.1
Warwick 44.3
McCaskey 46.0
Manheim Township 46.9
Penn Manor 47.2
TEAM 3-POINTERS
Cedar […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Allison Bauer, Conestoga Valley: What a week for the Buckskins’ senior sniper. Last Tuesday, she pumped in 27 points in CV’s 68-53 Section 2 victory over Elizabethtown, and she followed that up last Friday with a career-high 30 points and four 3-pointers in the Bucks’ 65-50 Section 2 victory over […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Spent a few minutes updating the L-L League girls’ basketball 1,000-career-point list.
See, that’s what happens when there’s no NFL games on Sunday afternoon.
(Patriots 38, Giants 14, by the way)
Found a couple of players from Cedar Crest who were missing from my master list.
You can find the list here.
And if you can help fill […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
District playoffs are right around the corner – for crying out loud.
District 3 has posted info on the upcoming tournament. You can find that here.
So which L-L League teams will be lacing up their sneakers and playing in the big dance?
Read on …
QUAD-A
IN: Cedar Crest (17-4), Hempfield (18-3), McCaskey (14-7), Penn Manor (13-8) […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
This will be my final notebook before the L-L League playoffs, which start next Monday at a gym near you.
Who will be there?
Good question.
A few teams have locked up spots in the league playoffs: Garden Spot in Section 2, Lampeter-Strasburg in Section 3, and Lancaster Catholic and Lancaster Mennonite in Section 4.
Section 1?
Wow, […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
The last week of the regular season is upon us. Jeepers creepers. Where is the time going?
More shakeups in my top 5 this week after some shakeups in the section races, which are all interesting in one way or another with games on tap for Monday and Wednesday this week.
Here’s my 5:
1. Lampeter-Strasburg […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Here’s a scoring/3-point shooting update for you, through games of Saturday, Jan. 26.
SCORING
There are 34 players in the L-L League who are averaging 10.0 or more points per game. Here’s the list:
(player, school, games, points, average)
Kelsey Caruthers, Penn Manor 21-411-19.6
Nicky Hess, Donegal 19-328-17.3
Brittany Ryder, Lancaster Catholic 21-354-16.9
Bekah Roland, Manheim Central 21-331-15.8
Hailey Carangelo, Lebanon […]

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