Winter notebook

• Columbia will play Warwick in boys’ basketball for the first time in a number of years.
Remember the good old days of the rivalry and there is no truth to the rumor that Dave Althouse is coming out of retirement to sit on the Warwick bench for that one.
• Columbia could play Lancaster Catholic three times this year in boys’ basketball.
• The Day of Basketball between Columbia and Eastern is Saturday, Dec. 13, across the river in Eastern’s new gym, starting at noon.
• One rule change of note this season in boys’ basketball is that players can no longer line up in the first spot under the basket on foul shots. They are pushed back a block.
• With Warwick and Eastern on the basketball schedule, there’s no truth that there will be alumni games between the schools.
• Columbia was going to have it own wrestling tournament, this year, but they couldn’t get enough teams.
Instead, the Tide will travel to  Hanover for the Smackdown Duals after Christmas. If anything, it will get the Tide ready for the post-season.
• The L-L wrestling tournament will be held at Conestoga Valley.
• Mark Saturday, Jan. 10 on your calendars. Columbia will host a big tri-meet in Section 3 with Northern Lebanon and Donegal.
• The Tide boys scrimmaged Garden Spot and Warwick to get ready for the season. The girls worked out with Conestoga Valley, E-town and Penn Manor.
• Columbia scrimmaged Northeastern in wrestling.
• Columbia’s junior high basketball teams open their seasons next Friday with L-S and then travel the next day across the river to meet Eastern.
The boys’ team should be pretty good and the girls will be improved, but still young.
• The Tide bowling team in the last four years has two second place finishes and two section titles.
• There is only one three-night week this season on the basketball schedule and that’s not until after the new year.