Mary Bolesky, microphone in hand, and with Lancaster Catholic’s student body and invited guests listening attentively inside the Crusaders’ venerable on-campus Berger Gymnasium, scanned the crowd.
- May 8, 2024
- 80°
High School Basketball
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Manheim Township’s Ava Byrne, Lebanon’s Kailah Correa, Lancaster Catholic’s Mary Bolesky and Rylee Kraft, Columbia’s Brie Droege and Linville Hill Christian’s Courtney Good, come on down.
Coaching boys basketball at Ephrata is Matt Herbener’s dream job. He’s purple and gold all the way through.
Five Lancaster Countians - Ethan Benne of Penn Manor, Cody Fisher of Lancaster Mennonite, Stephen Smucker and Giovanni Sejuste of Linville Hill Christian and Matt Gilhool of Penn Charter - made the Pennsylvania Sports Writers All-State basketball teams announced Wednesday.
The only time the Gilhool brothers were teammates was playing baseball for the Elizabethtown Boys Club. They were on the Pirates. Matthew was 12. Daniel was 9.
Kiki Jefferson’s dream has always been to play basketball at the professional level.
Two of the three Lancaster-Lebanon League girls basketball coaching vacancies have been filled, with Donegal and Warwick recently welcoming new skippers.
It seems like just yesterday when Kiki Jefferson was scoring boatloads of buckets and making big plays for Lancaster Catholic’s girls basketball team.
What it came down to is Owen Chernich couldn’t choose. He has played both sports since second grade. Why stop now?
Ty Burton still thinks about it sometimes. He still wonders. Was leaving Lampeter-Strasburg the right decision?
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