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Layla Smith, Conestoga Valley, senior, third base, plans to attend Lancaster Bible College and play softball

Have you always played third base?

The Lancaster-Lebanon League's boys basketball coaches have selected the following section all-stars for the 2025-2026 season. (Pictured is Manheim Township's Jack Kenneff.)

Section 1

DeMere Salisbery, McCaskey (unanimous)

Jemar Pauleus, Cedar Crest (unanimous)

Jack Kenneff, Manheim Township

Jayzen Gant, Hempfield

Manny Martinez, Lebanon

Yianni Papadimitriou, Manheim Township

Top defensive players

Lancaster-Lebanon League’s girls basketball coaches have selected the following all-stars for the 2025-26 season. (Pictured is Janae Patterson, Pequea Valley's unanimous Section 4 MVP.)

Section 1

MVP: Olive Brandt, Lebanon

Co-Coaches of the Year: Ashli Shay, Cedar Crest; Devonne Pinkard, Manheim Township

Sportsmanship Award: Penn Manor

First Team

Olive Brandt, Lebanon (unanimous)

Lancaster-Lebanon League Rifle has recognized its 2026 all-stars and top scorers at its individual tournament. (Pictured is league champion Dominic Santamaria of Conestoga Valley and coach Hank Oxendine.)

All-stars are based on the average of shooters' top 12 scores of the season with 100 being perfect. The league tournament was based on 20 targets worth 10 points each for a perfect score of 200.

All-Stars

Dominic Santamaria, Conestoga Valley, 99.92

Cody Zeiset, Manheim Central, 99.5

Savannah Casey, Garden Spot, 99.5

Lancaster-Lebanon League swim coaches have recognized league champions and all-stars for the 2025-26 season. All-Stars will be announced later. (Pictured is Henry Paterson, member of McCaskey's two champion relay teams.)

Boys

Section 1 Champion: Hempfield
Section 2 Champion: Cocalico
League Champion: Hempfield

Lancaster-Lebanon League coaches have selected the following all-stars for the 2025-2026 season. (Pictured is Avery Planck, Lampeter-Strasburg's Section 2 All-Star.)

Lancaster-Lebanon League football coaches selected the following players as all-stars for the 2025 season. (Pictured is Section 2 Back of the Year Sawyer Esbenshade of Conestoga Valley.)

Section 1

Outstanding Back of the Year: Orion Abrams, Hempfield 

Outstanding Lineman of the Year: Michael Glover, Wilson 

Offensive Back of the Year: Isaiah Zimmerman, Cedar Crest

Offensive Lineman of the Year: Michael Glover, Wilson 

Mitchell Swarr (left) and Charlie Creighton, both seniors, lead a “good mix of older and younger” Lampeter-Strasburg wrestlers into the ’25-’26 season. Both agree the strength of the team will be in the mid- to heavyweight classes.

For both Mitchell and Charlie, the Elizabethtown team is the Section 2 favorite, though Conestoga Valley or Donegal may
make a surprise showing, but “Do not county out L-S!” they say. Mitchell and Charlie agree L-S is evenly matched against E-town, and the two squads are very familiar with each other.

Tyra Bookman wrestles as a junior at McCaskey. She has accumulated 17 wins through her sophomore year. Tyra wrestles any of these weight classes 136, 142 and 148 pounds. She hopes to start off strong in McCaskey’s first match, a tournament at Boiling Springs.

Last wrestling season Tyra ranked at 18th in the state meet. She plans to improve that ranking this year.

The McCaskey wrestling team recently graduated all the seniors who started the wrestling program at McCaskey in 2023. This year’s team is mostly juniors, sophomores and freshmen with four seniors.

Warwick’s girls swim team relies on Hayden Eby to compete in a full schedule of events — 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard freestyle, 200-yard medley, and a relay team.  Hayden sees her role this season to help in developing teamwork for a young team of just 2 seniors.

Individually, Hayden wants to make this year her best.  She previously qualified for the District 3 meets as a sophomore and junior. This year she wants to make the District podium.