The 2024-2025 school year is year one in a new two year cycle. Every two years the PIAA updates classifications based on enrollment and playoff success. With those new classifications the LL League also reconfigures sections. Here are the section alignments for the next two years. Teams are listed alphabetically; sports in the fall season lead off.
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2024 A. Landis Brackbill Scholar-Athlete Award
Each year the Lancaster-Lebanon League is pleased to recognize the top female and male student athletes of the graduating senior class. 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.
A. Landis Brackbill was the first Executive Director of the Lancaster-Lebanon League. He was born and raised in Gap, 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.
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.
The award is presented by the Brackbill family in honor of their father. Thank you to the Brackbill family for sponsoring the awards in honor of their father.
Brenna was a member of the Blue Streaks’ field hockey and girls lacrosse teams. She will attend Wake Forest University. Camden competed for ELCO in soccer, basketball, tennis and track. He will attend Lock Haven University.
To see each school’s nominees, check out this year’s program.
Brackbill Award 2024
2024 Softball Brackets (now) set
There is still some business to attend to in Section 3, but otherwise the bracket is set for the Lancaster Lebanon League Softball tournament, presented by Orthopedic Associates of Lancaster.
Section Champions will host games starting at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, May 10th.
Annville-Cleona at Solanco
Hempfield at Donegal
Manheim Central at Warwick
The exception is the Section 4 Champion Northern Lebanon. The Vikings hold their prom Friday evening, so Elizabethtown will travel to Northern Lebanon for an 11 a.m. start on SATURDAY May 11th.
Semifinals are Monday, May 13th at Millersville University, games at 4 p.m . and 7 p.m.
Finals are Wednesday, May 15th at Millersville University, 7 p.m.
2024 Softball Bracket
2024 Baseball Bracket is Set
The 2024 Lancaster Lebanon League Baseball tournament, presented by Orthopedic Associates of Lancaster, is set to kick off on Thursday, May 9th.
Section champions have earned home field advantage with all quarterfinal games to begin at 4:15 p.m.
Manheim Central at Hempfield
Lampeter-Strasburg at Northern Lebanon
Manheim Township at Donegal
Lancaster Catholic at Ephrata
Semifinals are scheduled for Saturday at Ephrata, and the Championship game will be Monday evening, May 13th at Clipper Magazine Stadium.
Please note that if weather postpones a game on Thursday, it will be played on Friday and the Semifinals will still be played on Saturday.
Boys Tennis Flight Tournament Wrap Up
Temperate, cold, rainy, hot, humid-everything but snow could be found in the 2024 edition of the Lancaster-Lebanon Boys Tennis Flight Tournaments presented by Orthopedic Associates of Lancaster.
Cooper Lehman of Hempfield repeated as AAA Singles Champion. That marks Lehman’s 3rd straight AAA Singles Championship. Other flight winners:
- Flight 1 AAA Singles-Cooper Lehman, Hempfield
- Flight 1 AA Singles-Michael Georgelis, Lancaster Country Day
- Flight 2 Singles-Luke Main, Cocalico
- Flight 3 Singles-Spencer Lehman, Lampeter-Strasburg
- Flight 4 Singles-Canyon Curry Manheim Township
- Flight 1 AAA Doubles-Lehman & Hurst, Hempfield
- Flight 2 AA Doubles-Georgelis & Weigle, Lancaster Country Day
- Flight 2 Doubles-Sheffield & Wolfe, Cedar Crest
- Flight 3 Doubles-Reynolds & Hager, Manheim Township
- 2024 Boys Tennis Flight Tournament Brackets
FREE PIAA Physicals for 24-25 Season at OAL
The LL League is grateful to have Orthopedic Associates of Lancaster as the sponsor of our league championships.
But OAL is not just for high school champions, they serve ALL interscholastic athletes. This year OAL is once again offering FREE PIAA Physicals for any junior high or high school athlete planning to compete in a PIAA sport next school year.
Long time parents and athletes might ask if the May 15th date would be valid for the 2024-2025 school year and the answer is YES! The PIAA recently updated their physical exam rules to make any physical exam administered May 1st of the prior school year or later a valid physical exam (in years prior June 1 was the earliest a physical could be complete).
2024 Boys Tennis Flight Tournament Day 2
Day 2 of the LL League Boys Tennis Flight Tournaments presented by Orthopedic Associates of Lancaster is almost done.
But, rain intervened and several doubles matches were suspended. Play will resume as scheduled on Monday, April 29th at 12:30 at Conestoga Valley. The suspended doubles matches will be completed first. All doubles tournaments will be completed next, followed by singles championships and play backs.
2024 Lacrosse Semifinals
The 2024 LL League Lacrosse Semifinals (both boys and girls), presented by Orthopedic Associates of Lancaster, are set.
And if the brackets look like deja vu all over again, it is not. The top two teams in each of the two sections in each of boys and girls lacrosse are the same. The pre-set game times for the semifinals based on section finishes have been adjusted so that fans can make the trip from Warwick to Penn Manor (or vice versa) to see both of their lacrosse teams.
The girls lacrosse semifinals will be Friday, May 10th at Penn Manor’s Comet Field. Section 1 Champion Manheim Township will play Cocalico at 5 p.m. and Section 2 Champion Lampeter-Strasburg will play Hempfield at 7 p.m.
The boys lacrosse semifinals will also be Friday, May 10th and contested at Warwick. Game times are reverse. Section 2 Champion Lampeter-Strasburg will play Hempfield at 5 p.m. and Section 1 Champion Manheim Township will play Cocalico at 7 p.m.
The finals will be Tuesday, May 14th at F&M’s Shadek stadium. The girls finals will be at 5 p.m. followed by the boys finals at 7 p.m.
2024 Boys Tennis Flight Tournament Brackets
The 2024 edition of the LL League Boys Tennis Flight Tournaments presented by Orthopedic Associates of Lancaster will kick off Thursday April 25th at Conestoga Valley and McCaskey.
Flight 1 Singles (AA & AAA) round of 16 and quarterfinals will be at Conestoga Valley. Flight 1 AAA features the only defending champion in Hempfield’s Cooper Lehman. Also at Conestoga Valley will be Flight 1 Doubles (AA & AAA) round of 16 matches. Interspersed amongst the Flight 1 matches will be Flight 2 singles round of 16 and quarterfinals, and the day at Conestoga Valley will conclude with the bottom half of the Flight 2 doubles round of 16 matches.
McCaskey will play host to Flight 3 (singles) and Flight 4 round of 16 and quarterfinals, Flight 3 doubles round of 16, and the top half of the Flight 2 doubles round of 16 matches.
Matches at both sites start at 8:30 a.m.
2024 Boys Tennis Flight Tournament Brackets
Action continues at Conestoga Valley on Saturday, April 27th at 8:30 a.m. Matches will be played in all flights through the semifinals and necessary playback matches in Flight 1 Singles.
Finals for all flights, and 3rd and 5th place matches in Flight 1 Singles, will be played at Conestoga Valley on Monday, May 1st at Conestoga Valley. The final session starts at 12:30 p.m.
National Athletic Training Month
March is National Athletic Training Month. NATM is held every March in order to spread awareness about the important work of athletic trainers. On a cold and raw weekend like this one, with (OUTDOOR!) spring sports in full swing, the LL League encourages all coaches, athletes, parents and fans to be sure to say THANK YOU to the athletic trainers that are there keeping the athletes healthy.
Orthopedic Associates of Lancaster is the presenting sponsor of the LL League. In addition to their generous sponsorship, OAL has 10 athletic trainers providing services in seven different schools across Lancaster and Lebanon Counties, and counting! Thank you to OAL and all of the LL’s athletic trainers. We appreciate you!