Like a home game

The Lancaster-Lebanon League Basketball Coaches' Association held its annual all-star game at Hempfield last night.

It was a team of players from Sections 1-2 vs. a team of players from Sections 3-4.
1-2 won the game, but it was like a home game of sorts for the Tide.

I'd say about half of the crowd were Columbia fans to get a final look at the four players wearing the Crimson and Gold in the game -- Adam Pittman, Mike Seibert, Ben Guiles and Coly Tuell. All four represented the team well.

There was a huge number of college coaches in attedance last night -- York College, Millersville, although coach Fred Thompson got there late, Lock Haven (nice to see former MU assistant John Wilson for the first time in a few years), Elizabethtown, DeSales, Catholic University, Lebanon Valley, Albright and Juniata were amog the group. Was talking with the Juniata assistant coach for most of the second half. He was there to look at Hempfield's Jordan Stewart. He knew about Columbia's top players, but didn't seem interested.

Also talked with Hempfield hoops coach Warren Goodling and Hempfield legend "Chis" Reinhart about a story I read in the Philly Daily News on Friday about the Freire Charter coach Roger Threadgill, who said he went to Hempfield. Goodling's been at Hempfield 25 years and had no idea, but said he'd check it out and Reinhart's been a "Hempfield lifer," and didn't recall the name.