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Youth Prevails on Senior Night


Colby Simes and the rest of the Ephrata seniors celebrated their final home swimming meet at the Ephrata Rec Center Tuesday against rival Cocalico.

However, even with the senior ceremony taking place at intermission, it was the Mountaineers’ underclassmen who stole the show.

While Simes did his part, winning the 200-yard freestyle and 100 free, the rest of Ephrata’s individual wins — for both boys and girls — came from those not a part of the festivities.

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Knights Unfazed by Deficit


Not much fazes Hempfield’s girls basketball team these days.

Not after back-to-back Lancaster-Lebanon League Section One titles, last year’s league crown and a perfect start to this season.

Not even a 10-point second-half deficit, on the road, against a veteran team coming off back-to-back section championships of its own.

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Cedars Show Strengths


LEBANON — Will there be a changing of the guard atop the Lancaster-Lebanon League Section Two girls basketball race this season?

It’s still really early, but it sure is starting to look that way.

Two nights after Warwick KO’d co-defending champ Elizabethtown, Lebanon pulled off the same trick Thursday, beating co-defending champ Ephrata 4942 as the Cedars continued their resurgence.

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Strong Start Lifts Mounts


Two of the top bowling teams in the Lancaster-Lebanon League met Wednesday in what promised to be a battle.

It turned out to be just that as Ephrata hosted Warwick at Dutch Lanes, with the Mountaineers posting some of the season’s best marks in a 5-2 Section Two victory.

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Lady Mounts Eliminated from Districts


The Lancaster-Lebanon League’s last link to the District Three Class 6A girls basketball playoffs has been eliminated.

Section Two co-champ and No. 4 seed Ephrata saw its season come to a screeching halt Thursday night as Berks County heavyweight Governor Mifflin rode into town and shot the lights out.

The Mustangs made 11 3-pointers —seven in the first half, when they bolted to a 15-point lead — and feasted on 19 turnovers on the way to a convincing 57-33 victory over the host Mountaineers in a quarterfinal game in Ephrata.

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