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Mounts Winners in Section 2


The final out of the Lancaster- Lebanon League baseball regular season and the final piece of the league’s playoff puzzle were delivered by Ephrata and its freshman pitcher Camryn Simes on Monday.

Simes threw a two-hit shutout as the Mounts edged Elizabethtown 1-0 to lock up the L-L Section Two title under the lights at War Memorial Field.

The Bears (13-7 overall, 9-6 in the section) had reeled off seven straight late-season wins to make Section Two a three-team pennant race, but are out of the league playoffs with the loss, coupled with section runner-up Lampeter-Strasburg’s 7-1 defeat of Cones-toga Valley on Monday.

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Long Working on Comeback


Jianna Long knew her times weren’t going to be the same. At least not right away.

The 400 meters she ran in 55.82 seconds at the PIAA Track and Field Champion-ships 11 months ago came before she tore the ACL in her left knee. It was before she missed two full seasons of sports.

Getting to compete at all was a gift. That’s how the Ephrata junior chose to look at it.

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Elizabethtown Holds Off Ephrata


When it was finally over — after five grueling sets, all the rallies, all the ups and all the downs, digs, blocks and kills — Josh McCoy was a puddle.

But he had a big smile on his face.

Elizabethtown’s powerful hitter slammed 15 kills, including three must-have spikes in crunch time, and the Bears outlasted host Ephrata 3-2 on Tuesday night in a hotly contested Lancaster-Lebanon League Section Two boys volleyball match.

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Mules Rally Top Mounts


Solanco’s softball team, according to head coach Brett Miller, has been finding different ways of winning this season. Sometimes the Golden Mules lead wire-to-wire. Sometimes they have a lead, give it away and rally to win. Sometimes they trail from the jump, then fashion a winning rally.

Thursday was an option three kind of afternoon in Quarryville as the Lancaster-Lebanon League Section Two leaders took the measure of Ephrata, 6-4.

The Mountaineers (5-5 league, 9-5 overall), gamely trying to stay on pace for a spot in the league playoffs, won the first four-and-a-half innings, 4-0.

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Mounts Forge Early Lead


Ephrata improved to 2-0 on the young baseball season with a 10-4 defeat of Warwick at War Memorial Field Monday.

The Mounts scored five in the first inning and stayed in control the rest of the way.

Trent Wolf and Ben Burkey shared the work on the mound for the Mounts. Wolf allowed three runs, two earned, and struck out five. Burkey threw the last three frames, allowed an unearned run and struck out six.

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