After the first week of L-L League boys’ meets, here are the top runners in the league:
Vince McNally, CV, 3 meets, 3 points, 1.00 avg.
Kevin Hull, Hempfield, 4 meets, 4 points, 1.00 avg.
Jared Feinstein, Cedar Crest, 3 meets, 3 points, 1.00 avg.
Joe Kline, Ephrata, 3 meets, 3 points, 1.00 avg.
John Wallace, Cocalico, 4 meets, 4 […]

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After the first week of L-L League girls’ meets, here are the top runners in the league:
   
Sydney Clark, Hempfield, 4 meets, 4 points, 1.00 avg.
Megan Ecker, Penn Manor, 3 meets, 3 points, 1.00 avg.
Justine Barr, L-S, 3 meets, 3 points, 1.00 avg.
Katelyn Oliver, Warwick, 4 meets, 4 points, 1.00 avg.
Emily Martin, Garden Spot, 3 meets, […]

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The District 3 swimming psych sheets are out.
You can find them here.
Enjoy.
(And how sweet is this layout, by the way?)

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McCaskey and Lancaster Catholic, who meet tonight in the first round of the Lancaster-Lebanon League playoffs, earned special distinction among local teams in the District 3 girls’ basketball playoff field.
The Red Tornado and the Crusaders earned the highest seedings in their respective playoff brackets.
McCaskey is seeded third in the Quad-A bracket, while Catholic earned a […]

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If you like rematches, you’ll love the first round of the District 3 Quad-A boys basketball playoffs, where four Lancaster-Lebanon League Section 1 rivals will meet again — this time with their seasons on the line.
In back-to-back games at Conestoga Valley on Feb. 21, Section 1 champ McCaskey, the No. 7 seed, will take on […]

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If you haven’t seen them, District 3 has released the brackets for the upcoming district playoffs, which begin with the ever-popular pigtail games this weekend, followed by first-round play on Feb. 20.
Click HERE to see the brackets. And I’d suggest printing them up. Works for me.
19 local boys’ teams and 18 local girls’ teams made […]

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I hope you’ve enjoyed Reinhart’s Rankings: The New Era 9.
I’ve certainly had a great time putting the rankings together every week. And I need you to know that my rankings are for entertainment purposes only.
I’ve actually heard people talking about my rankings, and I’ve got quite a few e-mails and posts about the rankings over […]

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According to the latest District 3 rankings (posted by Geoff Morrow at the Harrisburg Patriot-News on Saturday morning) 14 Lancaster-Lebanon League girls’ teams qualified for the district playoffs.
 
Another four teams from Lancaster County earned a spot in the Single-A bracket.
 
District 3 officials will release the official brackets (with sites and times and play-in game schedules) […]

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I spent Saturday morning scouring my Lancaster-Lebanon League girls’ basketball stat sheets one last time before I tuck away the regular-season stuff and put the postseason stuff on the front burner.
I found some pretty interesting things, which I’ll chronicle for you here now, in my final L-L League girls’ basketball notebook before the playoffs get […]

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The Lancaster-Lebanon League regular season is in the books.
 
Congrats to the section champs:
 
1 – Cedar Crest, via a riveting one-game playoff victory over McCaskey. That gave the Falcons two wins over the Red Tornado in less than 24 hours – and three wins over McCaskey this season. I thought it was impossible for a team […]

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And you thought you were going to get a rare Friday night off …

The schedule says the Lancaster-Lebanon League regular season is over.
Apparently Cedar Crest and Lampeter-Strasburg didn’t get that memo.
The Falcons and the Pioneers came up clutch on the final night of league play Thursday, extending the L-L League season by one night.
In South […]

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If you need one more refresher course on where we stand heading into the final week, here is my column from Monday’s New Era …
The finish line is upon us.
There are just two games to go in what has been a memorable regular season.
The races have been compelling and the plot twists entertaining.
And there’s […]

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Before I get to the latest District 3 rankings, I wanted to give you a quick update on a local girls’ player who doesn’t always get a lot of pub.
She is Living Word Academy senior forward Megan Smoker (that’s her on the right), and she’s having another big season for the Lions.
She certainly had a […]

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Having a hard time with the rankings this week because so much is going on.

Hempfield making a late-season push for the Section 1 crown …
 
Conestoga Valley holding on by its fingernails for the Section 2 lead …
 
Lebanon and Lampeter-Strasburg battling it out for the Section 3 title …
 
Lancaster Mennonite and Lebanon Catholic having at it […]

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Three games to go. Wow, where did this season go?
Some news, notes and observations for you …

The plot thickens.
 
The Lancaster-Lebanon League Section 3 race got a facelift Tuesday night, when Lebanon took over sole possession of first place when the Cedars topped Northern Lebanon 57-23 and Elco shocked Lampeter-Strasburg 69-60 – in Lampeter.
Lebanon (11-2, 14-6) […]

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My column from Monday’s New Era …
Two weeks to go.

Two weeks to put the finishing touches on the Lancaster-Lebanon League section races – two of which are deadlocked.
Two weeks to get as many wins as possible to not only qualify for the District 3 playoffs, but to get a better seed – and avoid the […]

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The District 3 playoffs are nearly upon us.
Admit it: You can’t wait to make the trip to the Giant Center over and over and over again. Seems like there’s a three – or four-week stretch every year when I’m in the Giant Center literally every day. Sometimes I feel like I should just pitch a tent. […]

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Believe it or not, the finish line is upon us. If you squint, you can see it.

Two weeks and four games to go, and with juicy races in Section 1 and Section 3 yet to be settled, we should be in for a fantastic (if not a photo) finish.
 
Based on my observations, here’s how I […]

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Must say it was a real treat to finally get to see Garden Spot and Solanco play on Friday night, when I ventured out in the arctic conditions and headed to New Holland. This Solanco team is particularly spunky (and young), and not only topped Garden Spot to tie the Spartans for second place (and […]

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Wow, what a night.
Cedar Crest (still stinging from last Friday’s loss to Warwick) storms into Lancaster and wacks McCaskey, 69-40.
Not completely stunned that the Falcons won, but that final score was definitely a head-turner.
<Please check for Phil Glatfelter’s recap of the Crest-McCaskey game in Wednesday’s New Era.>
Speaking of Section 1 … just when it looked […]

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