Summer time!...The
summer season is almost over...Thanks to all the summer leagues
for giving the players and coaches a chance to improve their
games.
LL wrap...For
the first time EVER we had three 4A teams in states. Warwick,
PM, and Hempfield. I had Jerry Shenk check on the history
of having two 4A teams qualify from the LL. Here is what
he found out for us.
'since 1984 when AAAA started, there has never been three
until this year. Remember for a good while on four D-3 AAAA
teams went to states.
1989 - Cedar Crest and Manheim Township
1993 - Lancaster and Hempfield, Lebanon did make it to
final 8 but only four
teams went to states
1999 - Hempfield and Lancaster
2000 - Lancaster and Hempfield
2001 - Lancaster and Hempfield
2005 - Ephrata and Manheim Township
2006 - Lancaster and Penn Manor
2009 - Penn Manor and Elizabethtown'
Pretty cool huh J
Congrats to those teams.
Some good races last year as well. Hempfield
ran away with Section 1 and finished 2nd in District
3. Solanco, led by scrappy BJ Enck, took Section 2 as Etown
made a huge late charge to get into the LL's. Section 3
was taken by Cocalico with LS giving chase until the last
week of the season. LCHS ran away with Section 4 again.
Good-bye...We'll
miss Warren Goodling. Coach Goodling talked to us a few
weeks ago and stated that he would like to see some of his
former players play in college, play some pick-up, and check
out the Fighting Irish this coming basketball season. A
great run of wins and longevity by Warren. He is the all
time leading wins leader in the LL.
Welcome back..Chris
Sherwood comes back to MC for a second run after helping
out at Penn State Harrisburg for a few years.
Danny Walck takes over at Hempfield. This will be
the third LL team that Danny has coached (LCHS and Warwick).
The veteran coach has big shoes to fill but has had success
wherever he goes.
New sites...Check
out HL sales (http://www.hlteamsales.com/). H and L has
been there from the beginning of LLhoops.com. Give Olivier
a call for uniform and tshirt needs. ...Also, Tornadoalleyhoops.com
(http://www.tornadoalleyhoops.com) has opened a new site. Dave Porter has the BEST picts
on any HS bball web site. Give him a call or email him for
posters and ind. Picts.
New for the
LL....Some switching next year. Spot goes to 2
as the Cocalico Eagles go back to Section 2. Pressure will
be on Spot as the last 3 teams to 'go down' to Section 3
have won it J
LLhoops.com
update...Can you believe that we have been out
here in cyberspace for over 10 years? Things change and
so does the site...Next season we will not be posting ind.
team scores. These can be found on LLinsider.
Without sponsorship,
LLhoops.com will fold after this year. So, some begging
here...The dollar has gotten tight all over- that's for sure...
Old School...can
you identify the 'old players' on the main page compliments
of Dave Porter? I got a few but really...J
Mike Gross of the Sunday News called the 1990's the golden
age of the LL..Hard to argue that. ..but then, we go into
the all LL players. He started with Bowie and Steve Kuhn
and then argued the 1990's guys would be in there. ..We
tried to have ALL LL teams a few years back and found it
next to impossible so have now gone with all decade teams.
...A few of the very old timers that came to my mind were
Jack Hurd (Warwick), Mike Wissler (Columbia), and Bruce
Debord (McCaskey) came to mind as a few players who could
play with that group. ...Got to love the 90's teams though.
J Check out our archives and let us know which players
we missed.
Counting down to Dec!
~Dell Jackson