• When: Friday and Saturday, 9 a.m., 2 p.m.
• Where: Leisure Lanes, Mountville, and Clearview Lanes, Mount Joy.
• Who: 144 boys; 112 girls; 36 boys teams; 24 girls teams.
• Format: Singles (Friday) — Each bowler rolls five games of qualifying, with the boys at Leisure Lanes and girls at Clearview Lanes. The top 12 boys and top 12 girls advance to a modified bracket-style final Friday afternoon at Clearview Lanes. The 12 advance to the state tournament.
Team (Saturday) — Three standard games will be followed by six Baker games of qualifying, with the boys at Leisure Lanes and girls at Clearview Lanes. The top six boys and top six girls teams advance to a bracket-style final Saturday afternoon at Leisure Lanes. The six teams advance to the state tournament.
• Lancaster-Lebanon League boys (27): Cedar Crest — Toby Zombro; Columbia — Tristan Lenhart; Conestoga Valley — Josiah Casler, Ryan Muckle, Daniel Subers, Mason Tardibuono; Elco — Hunter Heinsey; Elizabethtown — Derek Deardorff, Evan Kimble, Declan Lentz, Mason Moore; Ephrata — Jacob Buckwalter, Samuel Buckwalter, Braden Murphy, Tanner Murray; Garden Spot — Gavin Courtney; Hempfield — Blake Garman, Derick Keller, Priest McKenzie; Lampeter-Strasburg — Nick Bukowski, Maddux Harsh; Manheim Township — Logan Wenger; Northern Lebanon — Charles Albright; Penn Manor — Chris Hull; Warwick — Jordan Adams, Damian Erisman, Landon Kahler.
• L-L girls (20): Cocalico — Alyssa Nessinger; Elco — Morgan Kline; Elizabethtown — Candice Bixler, Miranda Davis, Ella Eberle; Garden Spot — Danise Torres, Sarina Trupe; Hempfield — Ava Green; Lampeter-Strasburg — Katie Pope; Lebanon — Alexa Lopez; Manheim Central — Kitiara Macfeat; Manheim Township — Bethany Jacquith, Hope Broich; McCaskey — Elizabeth Dejesus; Northern Lebanon — Paxton Horner; Penn Manor— Eva Brubaker, Hope Leaman, Corinne Smith, Kayla Wasche; Warwick — Taylor Miller.
• L-L boys teams (8): Conestoga Valley, Elizabethtown, Ephrata, Hempfield, Lampeter-Strasburg, Manheim Central, Manheim Township, Warwick.
• Lancaster County Independent boys team (1): Donegal.
• L-L girls team (1): Penn Manor.
• Last year’s champions: Boys singles — Stephen Leslie, Abraham Lincoln. Girls singles — Ariana Woodcock, Shikellamy. Boys team — Central York. Girls team — Shikellamy.
• Notes: Leslie won the boys title last year after qualifying 10th. He defeated Vincent Biehn of Pennsbury 199-179 in the final. ... No L-L boys return from last year’s bracket finals. ... Woodcock defeated Warwick’s Taylor Miller 178-166 in last year’s girls final. Miller qualified seventh for the bracket finals, and won by 15 in the quarterfinals and 23 in the semifinals. She returns this year. ... Penn Manor’s Eva Brubaker and Elizabethtown’s Ella Eberle also return after reaching the modified bracket finals last year. Neither advanced beyond the opening-round quad matches. ... Manheim Township’s boys team qualified fourth last year and advanced to the semifinals, where it lost 2-1 to eventual champ Central York. The Blue Streaks went on to win the state title. ... Penn Manor’s girls qualified second last year, though trailing top qualifier Shikellamy by over 500 pins (the Comets beat out third-place Governor Mifflin by over 300 pins). Penn Manor, which won the title in 2022, beat Mifflin 2-1 before — not surprisingly — falling by the same score to Shikellamy. The Comets went on to finish second in the state, losing again to Shikellamy by the same 2-1 score.
• Next: Pennsylvania State High School Championships, March 15-16, at Leisure Lanes, Mountville.
