JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com

Tennis anyone?
She is a two-time reigning Lancaster-Lebanon League girls’ tennis finalist.
She is the reigning District 3 Triple-A girls’ tennis singles champion.
She qualified for the PIAA Tournament for the first time last fall, won her first-round match and advanced to the state quarterfinals.
She attends one school. But she plays tennis for another.
And when the […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Former Lancaster Catholic standout Lauren Zink has received a wild card entry into next week’s inaugural women’s Pro Circuit Tennis Challenge, a United States Tennis Association event that will be contested on the hard courts at the Hempfield Area Recreation Commission in Landisville.
All matches are free to the public, with qualifying rounds set […]

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COCALICO’S DUONG, LANCASTER CATHOLIC’S VERONIS WIN SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIPS
Our very own Phil Glatfelter was at Elco High School on Monday for the District 3 boys’ tennis singles championships, where a pair of L-L League players stormed to victory. Here’s Phil’s story from Tuesday’s New Era:
MYERSTOWN — After winning the Lancaster-Lebanon League Double-A title last week, Alex […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Congratulations to Cocalico’s Michael Duong and Lancaster Catholic’s Alex Veronis, who captured District 3 boys’ tennis championships Monday at Elco High School in Myerstown.
Duong and Veronis won L-L League singles championships last week.
Monday, they both kept on rolling.
In the Triple-A finale, Duong topped a familiar foe – Manheim Township’s Peter Bookman – 6-1, […]

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These boys’ tennis preview caps were prepared by our very own Phil Glatfelter.
SECTION 1
Cedar Crest
COACH: Mike Rohrbach (fourth season).
2007 RECORD: 8-5, 6-4 L-L Section 1.
KEY PLAYERS LOST: Brett Laudermilch, Andrew Wentzel, Brad Wolfson.
KEY PLAYERS RETURNING: Colin Habecker, sr.; Tyler Lied, sr.; Nick Steele, sr.; Tyler Chanas, jr.; Jordan Maria, jr.; Stephen Kurban, so.
OUTLOOK: Only Kurban […]

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Phil Glatfelter was in lovely Myerstown on Monday afternoon for the district girls’ tennis championships, where Leah Rutt, a Lancaster Christian student playing for McCaskey, won the Triple-A singles title. Here is Phil’s story from Tuesday’s New Era:
MYERSTOWN — Leah Rutt had plenty of reason to focus, playing in her first District 3 Triple-A girls’ […]

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McCaskey sophomore Leah Rutt captured the District 3 Triple-A tennis singles championship on Monday at Elco. The reigning L-L League runner-up defeated Northern York’s Jenna Hessert 6-2, 6-4 in the title match. Please check back Tuesday for the full story. Congrats to Leah.

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Lauren Hankle was completely gassed.
“I’m so tired,” Hempfield’s senior said, “that I can’t even think right.”
Temperatures soaring near 90 degrees in the second week of October will do that to you, especially when you spend nearly two and a half hours on the tennis court, chasing shots left and right in a pressure-packed […]

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JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Just back a little while ago from the Lancaster-Lebanon League girls’ tennis championships over at Conestoga Valley.
Two observations:
1. Today is Oct. 9 - why is it so stinking hot?
2. Lovely courts over at CV. I like what they’ve done to the place. The bleachers were a nice touch and the courts look amazing.
On the […]

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Our very own Phil Glatfelter put together the following capsule, previewing the upcoming L-L League girls’ tennis championship:
Lancaster-Lebanon League
Girls Tennis Championships
WHEN: Today — Two rounds of singles and one round of doubles, 9 a.m. Saturday — one round of singles and two rounds of doubles, 9 a.m. Monday — singles and doubles finals, 12:30 p.m.
WHERE: […]

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Here is Phil Glatfelter’s L-L League girls’ tennis preview, which focuses in on a pair of friendly rivals, who also just happen to be two of the best players in the L-L League and in District 3: Lauren Hankle and Jennie Eckhart. Read on:
They finished 1-2 in the district last year.
But each would have been […]

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Phil Glatfelter put together these team capsules, previewing the upcoming L-L League girls’ tennis season:
Section 1
Cedar Crest
COACH — Gila Hodge (5th season).
KEY PLAYERS — Lauren Fulmer jr., Steph Gast jr., Danielle Bond fr., Emma Forster fr.
OUTLOOK — Three of the top players are gone from last year’s team, which was 6-4 in the section, so […]

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Chad DiPilla and Alex Veronis earned singles victories and Lancaster Catholic swept the doubles competition Friday in its 4-1 win over District 6 champ Somerset in a PIAA Double-A boys team tennis quarterfinal match at the Hershey Racquet Club.
The Crusaders, who won the Lancaster-Lebanon League and District 3 Double-A team tournaments already this spring, were […]

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Lancaster Catholic is moving on.
Manheim Township is headed home.
Catholic, the reigning District 3 Double-A boys’ tennis team champ, won its first-round PIAA Double-A match on Tuesday, edging District 4 runner-up Loyalsock 3-2 at Elco in Myerstown.
Township, the District 3 Triple-A third-place finisher, saw its season come to a crashing halt after a 5-0 loss to […]

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The clock struck midnight for the Lancaster-Lebanon League’s top two boys’ singles tennis players in the semifinal round of the District 3 Tournament on Monday afternoon at Elco in Myerstown.
Cocalico senior Michael Duong, the L-L League’s reigning Triple-A champ and the fourth seed in the district draw, dropped a 6-1, 4-1 (retired) decision to eventual […]

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Was at McCaskey the other day to do a column on the Red Tornado’s boys’ tennis team, which is an eclectic bunch, to say the least. Here’s my story from Thursday’s New Era:
McCaskey’s boys’ tennis team is quite the melting pot.
Heck, just three of the Red Tornado’s top 10 players are actually enrolled at McCaskey.
The […]

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