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A beautiful day of tennis has wrapped up in the form of the 2022 LL League Girls Tennis Flight Tournaments presented by Orthopedic Associates of Lancaster.

Girls Tennis Flight Tournaments Brackets after Day 1

Action continues on Saturday at Conestoga Valley at 8:30 a.m.  Flight 1 singles semifinals and playbacks for both AAA and AA will take the court first, followed by singles semifinals from Flights 2, 3 and 4 as courts become available.  There will be a round of doubles quarterfinals from Flights 2 and 3, then Flight 1 doubles AAA and AA will play their quarterfinal matches. Doubles Flights 2 and 3 will return for semifinals then Flight 1 doubles AAA and AA semifinal to finish off the day.

Finals will be Monday, October 10th at Conestoga Valley

Driven indoors by the rain, the Manheim Township Girls Tennis team brought home another LL League Team Tennis Championship, presented by Orthopedic Associates of Lancaster

The Blue Streaks won the best of 5 competition 3-0, with 2 matches in progress being discontinued once the win was locked up.

Match winners were:
Singles
#1. Kayla Kurtz, Manheim Township 6-1, 6-2
#2. Haley Miller, Manheim Township 6-4, 6-4
#3. Jade Miller, Manheim Township led 6-4, 4-4 DNF

Doubles
#1. Madeline & Catherine Sanchez, Manheim Township and Marissa Jacobs & Delanie Edwards, Lancaster Country Day were tied 6-4, 4-6 DNF
#2. Maya Lamichane & Camille Honrade Manheim Township 6-2, 6-2

The weather forecasters say the rain will clear off and it will be beautiful weather for the 2022 LL League Girls Tennis Flight Tournaments presented by Orthopedic Associates of Lancaster.

Action gets underway Thursday, October 6th at Conestoga Valley and McCaskey at 8:30 a.m.
At Conestoga Valley:

• Flight 1 AAA and AA Singles Round of 16 and Quarterfinals
• Flight 1 AAA and AA Doubles Round of 16
• Flight 2 Singles Round of 16 and Quarterfinals

At McCaskey:

• Flight 3 Singles Round of 16 and Quarterfinals
• Flight 4 Singles Round of 16 and Quarterfinals
• Flight 2 Doubles Round of 16 and Quarterfinals
• Flight 3 Doubles Round of 16 and Quarterfinals

Matches continue on Friday, October 8th, at Conestoga Valley starting at 8:30 a.m.  All brackets will be completed through the semifinals.

Finals and playback matches in all brackets will be on Monday, October 10th starting a 4 p.m.

2022 Girls Tennis Flight Tournaments Initial Brackets

Prior to the arrival of the rain, Manheim Township and Lancaster Country Day hosted the LL League Girls Tennis Team Tournament Semifinals, presented by Orthopedic Associates of Lancaster.

Both host schools won to advance to the Finals to be held at Donegal on Tuesday, October 4th at 4 p.m.

The Cougars bested Manheim Central 3-1.  Match winners were:

1. Sienna Castelli, LCD, 6-0, 6-0
2. Monica Lopez, LCDS, 6-0, 6-1
3. Maggie Auman, LCDS, 6-2, 6-4

Doubles

1. did not finish
2. B Kettler & A. Graff, MC, 6-3, 6-2

In the other semifinal, Manheim Township won 5-0 over ELCO

1. Kayla Kurtz, MT, 6-0, 6-2
2. Haley Miller, MT, 6-1, 6-1
3. Jade Miller, MT, 6-1, 6-0

DOUBLES:

1. Madeline &Catherine Sanchez, MT, 6-0, 6-0 
2. Maya Lamichane & Camille Honrade, MT, 6-0,6-0

2022 Girls Tennis Team Tournament Bracket

The home teams split in the quarterfinals of the LL League Girls Tennis Team Tournament, presented by Orthopedic Associates of Lancaster.

Visiting ELCO topped Lampeter-Strasburg 3-2.  Match winners were

• K. Finn and E. Miller at 1st doubles for LS, 6-0, 6-0
• J. Salgado and E. Williams at 2nd doubles for LS, 6-1, 6-2
• A Bender at 1st singles for ELCO, 6-4, 5-7, 10-6
• C Lehr at 2nd singles for ELCO, 6-2, 6-4
• R Wolfling at 3rd singles for ELCO, 6-5, 7-5

Host Manheim Central beat Conestoga Valley, also 3-2.  Match winners were

• Sydney Peters and Hailey Kowalski at 1st doubles for Manheim Central, 6-1, 6-0
• Lauren Huber and Brooke Kettler at 2nd doubles for Manheim Central 7-5, 7-5
• Jade Flores for at 1st singles Conestoga Valley, 6-0, 6-0
• Paula Valverde-Gomez at 2nd singles for Conestoga Valley, 7-6 (7-4), 6-2
• Brianna Mylin at 3rd singles for Manheim Central 6-1, 6-3

ELCO will travel to Manheim Township on Friday for the semifinals; Manheim Central travels to Lancaster Country Day.

A few regular season matches remain, but the field for the 2022 Girls Tennis Team Tournament presented by Orthopedic Associates of Lancaster is set.

Lancaster Country Day and Manheim Township have earned byes in to the Semifinals.  The Cougars await the winner of Conestoga Valley at Manheim Township.  The Streaks get the winner of ELCO at Lampeter-Strasburg.  Those first round matches will be on Thursday, September 29th with the semifinals now scheduled for Friday, September 30th (moved earlier due to the forecast of lousy weather).  The finals are still slated for Tuesday, October 4th at Donegal.
2022 Girls Tennis Team Tournament Bracket

Fairview Golf Course hosted the 2022 LL League Golf Championships today, presented by Orthopedic Associates of Lancaster.  

Cedar Crest came out on top in the team competition, shooting a combined 16 over par.  Three Falcons placed in the top 10, including champion Ben Feeman, who finished tied with teammate Dylan Ramsey after 18 holes.  Feeman won on the second playoff hole.  The pair were each 1 over after 18.

Piper Smith of Manheim Township was 3 over to lead the girls competition.

In a rare weather related delay, section championships are not yet decided due to rainouts and scheduling delays with some of the host courses.  Section champions will be posted once all of the regular season tournaments are completed.

2024 Golf Champions
League  Champion: Manheim Township
Boys Champion:  Alex Kaun, Manheim Township (+1)
Girls Champion:  Piper Smith, Manheim Township (+4)
Section 1 Champion: Cedar Crest
Section 2 Champion: Manheim Central
Section 3 Champion: Lampeter-Strasburg
Section 4 Champion: Pequea Valley
2024 Golf Championship Program

Now that everyone is finally back to school across the LL, we look to the end of the 2022 Fall season for the Lancaster Lebanon League postseason presented by Orthopedic Associates of Lancaster.

Football crowns section champions at the end of the regular season (history to be made this year being the first year of the merger with the Berks League), but does not have a league postseason.  The District 3 post season for football gets underway the weekend of November 4,5,6.  The Lancaster Lebanon League playoffs in other sports are as follows:

This fall Orthopedic Associates of Lancaster, presenting sponsor of the Lancaster Lebanon League is hosting a Saturday Sports Clinic through October 29th.  Walk-ins are welcome from 8 a.m. to noon.

Congratulations to all of the outstanding nominees for this year’s A. Landis Brackbill Scholar Athlete Award.  Picking winners is a tall task for the award committee, and two athletes emerged as the winners.

Kelsea Dague of Hempfield is the daughter of Jim and Tracy Dague.  She has earned 8 varsity letters across Field Hockey and Lacrosse.  In Field Hockey she was named an LL League All-Star, and in Lacrosse she has earned All-American status.  She will attend Eastern Michigan University in the fall.

Garrett Campagna of Manheim Township is the son of Scott and Shannon Campagna.  He has earned 7 varsity letters spanning Soccer and Lacrosse.  In the fall he will enroll at MIT.

A. Landis Brackbill

A. Landis Brackbill was the first Executive Director of the Lancaster-Lebanon League.

Brackbill was born and raised in Gap. He attended Salisbury High School and graduated from the F&M Academy. Brackbill had a love for baseball and was a very talented left-handed pitcher.

After High School, he was recruited by Jack Coombs, baseball coach at Duke University.  While at Duke, Brackbill injured his left arm ending his competitive pitching. Although he had an arm injury, he still was able to pitch some batting practice for the Philadelphia Athletics under manager Connie Mack.  Over the years Brackbill had a close relationship with Mr. Mack.

He continued at Duke earning a degree to become a mathematics teacher and started his teaching career at Salisbury High School.  Brackbill continued his education at the University of Pennsylvania obtaining a Master’s Degree with certification as a secondary principal. He became Principal at Terre Hill High School and later moved to Millersville as principal of Manor High School, which is now Penn Manor.

Thank you to the Brackbill family for sponsoring the awards in honor of their father.

SCHOLAR ATHLETES

The Brackbill Award qualifications include the words “exceptional student athletes within the greater community”. To be eligible the recipients must have a minimum of a 3.5 GPA and be participating in two or more varsity sports during their senior year.  The Manheim Touchdown Club began awarding scholarships to each of the Brackbill recipients in 2006.

Because the Brackbill Award Committee already had in place a process to select the most outstanding female and male student athletes in the Lancaster Lebanon League, the decision was made to provide scholarship awards to the Brackbill winners instead of establishing a separate award. The Brackbill Committee is autonomous and has no relationship to the Manheim Touchdown Club.