JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Lady Blue Mountain, a girls’ basketball team featuring several Lancaster-Lebanon League standouts, went 3-0 and won the Scholastic Girls’ Basketball gold medal at the Keystone State Games in York recently.
The team, coached by Charles Simpson, included Warwick twins Carmen and Ana Cruz, Lampeter-Strasburg’s Lisa Boyer, Penn Manor’s Dani Busansky, Bianca Ygarza and Ryane […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Former Cedar Crest standout Allison Smith leaves Niagara, will join former Penn Manor star Kelsey Caruthers at St. Francis (Pa.)
Don’t look now, but there is a really nice pipeline taking shape from the Lancaster-Lebanon League to St. Francis University’s women’s basketball program.
First, former Elco star and Penn Manor coach Ashli Schwab left the […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
A girls’ basketball note to pass along, as a coaching vacancy in the L-L League has been filled — at Cocalico, where Rich Kohler has taken over the reins. Ah yes, L-L girls’ basketball. Any time is a good time to chat L-L girls’ basketball.
Cocalico has found a head coach to fill its […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Lancaster Catholic senior standout Brittany Ryder has made her college decision — the Crusaders’ high-scoring forward will continue her basketball career at Juniata College.
Ryder, who was my pick for Section 4 MVP this past season, averaged 16.9 points and hit 19 3-pointers this past season for Catholic, which went 21-11 overall after finishing […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Sorry I didn’t report this one a little earlier, but I’ve been up to my eyebrows in packing for vacation … plus, it flew under my radar for a few days.
Shawn Martin has stepped down after one season as Cocalico’s girls’ basketball coach.
Martin replaced Abbie Houck, who stepped down a year ago.
Under Martin, […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Two college signings to pass along.
And before I go any further, let me say that these are two of the coolest kids I’ve been around and got to interview.
Cocalico senior football standout Zeb Rineer will play for Lebanon Valley College.
Rineer was a First-Team Section 2 All-Star at two positions last fall: on offense, […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com Wednesday, March 26, 8:31 p.m.
One Lancaster-Lebanon League player earned All-State status this season:
Lebanon Catholic sophomore Hailey Carangelo, who averaged 15.6 points a game and drilled 19 3-pointers this season, earned third-team Single-A honors from the Associated Press.
Carangelo helped the Beavers finish third in the L-L League Section 4 race, and then into […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
QUAD-A GIRLS – Central Dauphin 56, Mount Lebanon 49
TRIPLE-A BOYS — Steel-High 65, Susquehanna Township 52
UNIVERSITY PARK — Good evening y’all. I’m back for the evening session of the first day of the PIAA basketball championship games in Penn State’s Bryce Jordan Center. This afternoon, York Catholic won its third girls’ state championship in […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
DOUBLE-A GIRLS: York Catholic 52, Northern Cambria 40
SINGLE-A BOYS: Serra Catholic 67, Freire Charter 66
UNIVERSITY PARK — Top of the day from Penn State’s Bryce Jordan Center. It’s 10:58 a.m. in Happy Valley, and I just found a comfy seat on press row across from the scorer’s table. I’m situated at the far […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Start spreading the news …
These live blogs have been going over pretty well, so what the heck — check back here Friday beginning around 11:30 a.m. or so for my *live blog* from the first day of the PIAA Basketball Championships from Penn State’s Bryce Jordan Center.
I fiddled with posting updates from there last […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
MOUNT SAINT JOSEPH KNOCKS LANCASTER MENNONITE OUT OF THE STATE PLAYOFFS
COATESVILLE – Lancaster Mennonite’s girls’ basketball team ran into a buzz saw Wednesday night.
District 1 runner-up Mount Saint Joseph Academy, a state semifinalist a year ago, was the real deal. And the Magic were simply magical against Mennonite, which saw its magical season […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Five L-L League players joined the 1,000-career-point club this season — which came to a close Wednesday night when Lancaster Mennonite and Lebanon Catholic were bounced from the PIAA playoffs.
Penn Manor’s Kelsey Caruthers, McCaskey’s Teasia Myers, Conestoga Valley’s Allison Bauer, Manheim Central’s Bekah Roland and Lebanon Catholic’s Samantha Carangelo (all seniors) all went […]

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LANCASTER MENNONITE Blazers
Coach: Sherri Gorman.
Section 4: 15-2.
Overall: 28-5.
Points for: 1,708 (51.8 average).
Points against: 1,133 (34.3 average).
Team 3-pointers: 37.
Best individual effort: 25 points – Erin LaVenice, Jan. 22 in a 62-58 overtime loss vs. Lancaster Catholic. What an incredible breakout sophomore season for LaVenice, who started just one game, but was instant energy off […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
LEBANON CATHOLIC Beavers
Coach: Patti Hower.
Section 4: 9-7.
Overall: 15-14.
Points for: 1,500 (51.7 average).
Points against: 1,481 (51.1 average).
Team 3-pointers: 74.
Best individual effort: 27 points – Hailey Carangelo, twice: Jan. 22 in a 70-52 win over Columbia, and March 1 vs. Girard College in a 57-46 win in the first round of the state playoffs.
Winning streak: […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
It was a bittersweet night Wednesday for Lebanon Catholic senior guard Samantha Carangelo.
The Beavers’ sharpshooter played in her final game for Lebanon Catholic, as the Beavers dropped a gut-wrenching 43-42 decision to Bishop Guilfoyle in a PIAA Single-A Eastern quarterfinal game at Big Spring High School in Newville.
But Carangelo, who battled a bout […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
The Lancaster-Lebanon League girls’ basketball season is officially over.
The league’s last two links to the PIAA playoffs were both eliminated Wednesday night in state second-round games:
Section 4 champ and league runner-up Lancaster Mennonite fell behind 29-6 at the half and 38-8 midway through the third quarter and fell to District 1 runner-up Mount […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
CEDAR CREST Falcons
Coach: Gretchen Hall.
Section 1: 14-2.
Overall: 23-8.
Points for: 1,570 (50.6 average).
Points against: 1,285 (41.5 average).
Team 3-pointers: 54.
Best individual effort: 23 points – Meghan Phillips, Feb. 14 vs. Cedar Cliff in the first round of the District 3 Quad-A playoffs.
Winning streak: 7.
Losing streak: 2.
MVP: Carrie Sheffey – The Falcons’ scrappy senior forward was […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
And then there were two.
One of the three Lancaster-Lebanon League girls’ basketball teams still dancing in the PIAA playoffs was eliminated Tuesday night.
Section 1 champ Cedar Crest dropped a 60-49 decision to District 2 champ Scranton in a second-round Quad-A game at Hazleton High School.
The Falcons finished their season 23-8 overall after reaching […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
For Lancaster Mennonite’s girls’ basketball team, crunch time is officially here.
The Blazers have been sailing right along, winners of five games in a row, including a 37-27 triumph over Gettysburg in the District 3 Triple-A championship game, and a 34-32 squeaker over Wilkes-Barre Coughlin in a PIAA first-round game last Saturday.
Mennonite, the Lancaster-Lebanon […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
McCASKEY Red Tornado
Coach: Brian McCloud.
Section 1: 11-5.
Overall: 17-11.
Points for: 1,371 (49.0 average).
Points against: 1,321 (47.2 average).
Team 3-pointers: 39.
Best individual effort: 28 points – Teasia Myers, Dec. 8 vs. Reading. Myers cracked the 1,000-career-point club the same night.
Winning streak: 6.
Losing streak: 3.
MVP: Teasia Myers – The Tornado’s point guard didn’t have the most memorable […]

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