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 2^nd 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