For Lancaster Mennonite girls' basketball fans who felt a 65-mile, one-way trip during 5 o'clock traffic seemed a bit too daunting Tuesday — and therefore chose not to accompany the Blazers to their next PIAA stop — no worries.

You didn't miss much.

Except a good, old-fashioned rout. Compliments of the Blazers.

Setting the tone with a 23-2 game-opening run, Lancaster Mennonite drilled District Four champion Loyalsock Township, 60-48, in a PIAA Class AA second-round game Tuesday night at Martz Hall.

The win puts the Blazers (24-5) in Friday's quarterfinals opposite Delone Catholic (22-5), which advanced with a 44-43 victory over Tamaqua Tuesday. The game will be played at a site and time to be determined.

"At this point, it doesn't matter who you get," Mennonite coach Sherri Gorman said of Friday's matchup, "because everybody's good."

You might get a different opinion from Gorman's players.

Fact is, Friday's showdown is the one the Blazers have been wanting since last year.

It was, after all, a year ago that Delone dashed Mennonite's state title hopes, handing the Blazers a 57-56 overtime loss in the PIAA quarters.

The Blazers did get some redemption last month, when they handed the Squirettes a 45-41 loss in the District Three Class AA semifinals. But it didn't satisfy their appetite the same way.

"We want to play (Delone) again," Mennonite senior forward Erin LaVenice admitted Tuesday.

Meanwhile, there was no such drama Tuesday in a game that wasn't nearly as close as the final score might suggest.

Tied 2-2 early in the first quarter, Mennonite — powered by nine points from senior guard Steph Rheinheimer —ended the period with a 21-0 run to take control for good.

"I thought we had our fastbreak working, and we haven't been able to run that very well lately," said LaVenice, who added six points to that first-quarter surge. "But we executed very well tonight."

Basically in every facet.

The Blazers consistently got the ball to LaVenice on the low post. She finished with a game-high 22 points to go with 10 rebounds.

They got their normal perimeter contribution from Steph Rheinheimer, who finished with 16 points.

And they got their normal collective effort from a stifling defense that forced 16 total turnovers out of Loyalsock (21-7), which fell behind 32-14 by halftime, despite a second quarter lull by the Blazers that got Gorman's attention.

"We got a talking-to (at halftime)," LaVenice said with a grin.

Still, the damage had long since been done.

In fact, the only time Loyalsock remotely challenged came halfway through the fourth quarter, when the Lancers' Sami Lane (team-high 19 points) scored on the break to make it 48-34 with 4:35 left to play.

Loyalsock cut the deficit to 12 (50-38) with 3:12 left, but never got closer.