The Emmaus High School boys basketball team competed in its first offseason under new head coach Jerald Brown, who just took over the position following the 2023-24 winter season.

The Hornets experienced an up-and-down offseason in the Lehigh Valley Summer League.

The last two weeks of the regular season, Emmaus had three games. The Hornets began that stretch with a double-digit victory over Eastern Pennsylvania Conference opponent Dieruff, winning 63-41, on Tuesday, July 2, with Jack Csensits dropping in a team and game-high 18 to lead the way from Whitehall High School.

Last week, however, Emmaus dropped both of its games, each against conference foes. On Tuesday, July 9 the Hornets fell just short in a game against Northampton, losing 48-43, at Whitehall. Two nights later at Whitehall Middle School, Emmaus was on the wrong end of another five-point game, this time to Nazareth, 56-51.

Emmaus finished the summer 3-9 overall and will now look toward one final competition this summer, the A-town Throwdown event at Cedar Beach running from July 25-28.

“I’m proud of how the guys worked and continued to get better,” said Brown. “Obviously, we would’ve liked to have won a few more games, but we were in them and competitive, it just didn’t always fall our way.

“The guys will continue to get better this summer and fall and be ready to go for the season this winter.”

Thursday, July 11

Large School Division

Whitehall 40, Freedom 36 (Mason Roberts 16)

Parkland 46, Quakertown 27 (Blake Nassry 10)

Northampton 58, Central Catholic 33 (Noah Walakaovits 20)

Easton 50, Bangor 38 (Ty Dunlap 12)

Nazareth 56, Emmaus 51 (Gavin Kershner, Logan Hahn 16 each)

Dieruff 53, Liberty 41 (Juan Rivera 12)

Small School Division

Catasauqua 58, LV Academy 45 (Emmanuel Bolmer 19)

Brandywine 64, Upper Perkiomen 63 (Nate Winkler 25)

Warren Hills 52, Salisbury 47 (Dean Schaefer 24)

Lehighton 54, Salisbury 48 (Blake Roberts 13)

Tuesday, July 9

Small School Division

Salisbury 50, Upper Perkiomen 42 (Steven Lozada 17)

Lehighton 68, Catasauqua 37 (Cole Dietz 22)

Warren Hills 53, Brandywine 43 (DJ Schaefer 17)

Large School Division

Nazareth 55, Saucon Valley 30 (Gavin Kershner 12)

Wilson West Lawn 74, Notre Dame GP 52 (Madyx Gruber 18)

Easton 58, Saucon Valley 23 (Jacob Cornish 15)

Central Catholic 64, Dieruff 33 (Lucas Mushrush 21)

Liberty 40, Bangor 34 (Jake Hefferner 13)

Executive Education 62, Allen 57 (Jaxon Loper 24)

Freedom 44, Quakertown 34 (Cameron Black 16)

Parkland 48, Whitehall 27 (Blake Nassry 13)

Northampton 48, Emmaus 43 (Noah Walakaovits 19)

Tuesday, July 2

Small School Division

Salisbury 55, Catasauqua 46 (Stephen Lozada 14)

Lehighton 74, LV Academy 47 (Cole Deitz 17)

Warren Hills 49, Upper Perkiomen 36 (Dean Schaefer 15)

Large School Division

Wilson West Lawn 49, Northampton 48 (Maddox Gruber 15)

Nazareth 54, Notre Dame GP 41 (Nasan Marinelli 12)

Allen 53, Freedom 47 (Manny Polanco 13)

Liberty 50, Saucon Valley 34 (Jake Pukszyn 27)

Emmaus 63, Dieruff 41 (Jack Csensits 18)

Executive Education 64, Parkland 57 OT (Jayden Shipley 16)

Easton 45, Quakertown 25 (Josh Walkiewicz 9)

Standings

Small School Division

Team W-L

Lehighton 9 - 2

Warren Hills 9 - 2

Salisbury 8 - 4

Catasauqua 6 - 5

Brandywine 5 - 6

Upper Perkiomen 2 - 9

LV Academy 0 - 11

Large School Division

Team W-L

Wilson West Lawn 12 - 0

Executive Education 9 - 2

Parkland 9 - 2

Liberty 9 - 3

Northampton 8 - 3

Easton 8 - 4

Nazareth 7 - 4

Central Catholic 6 - 5

Allen 6 - 5

Freedom 6 - 6

Whitehall 4 - 7

Quakertown 3 - 8

Emmaus 3 - 9

Bangor 2 - 9

Dieruff 2 - 10

Notre Dame GP 2 - 10

Saucon Valley 1 - 10