Mounts trim Cedars

LEBANON — It was late in the second quarter of Friday’s Ephrata-Lebanon game and the scoreboard kept insisting it was (insert down here) and 35, from the Lebanon 29-yard line.

An incomplete pass here, a no-gain run there, a couple plays nullified by penalties against both teams and eventually it was fourth-and-35 from the 29. Impossible, and yet, on this night, somehow plausible.

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Expectations at Ephrata

Another girls volleyball season is freshly underway around the Lancaster-Lebanon League, and there’s noticeable excitement surrounding several teams and players.

Nowhere is that anticipation more palpable than at Ephrata, where the Mountaineers return five of seven starters from a team that reached the L-L semifinals and the District Three quarterfinals, falling one win shy of a PIAA tournament berth.

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Mounts claim George Male Trophy

The streak is history for Ephrata.

Not since 2005 had the Mounts taken down Warwick in the annual battle for the George Male Trophy. It was a stretch of 15 straight losing games for the purple-and gold.

But that ended on Friday night, as Ephrata rallied from a 21-13 halftime deficit, limiting the Warriors to just 81 yards of offense in the second half while scoring 16 unanswered points to pull out the streak-busting 29-21 nonleague football victory at War Memorial Field.

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Mounts hard works falls short

Working hard for each other.

Those were Ephrata coach Wes Deininger’s words about his team early in the year and pretty much summed up their efforts in a 2-1 loss to Wilson in a District Three Class 4A semifinal at West Lawn on Tuesday night.

From passing to defending the net, it wasn’t about ‘I’, it was about a common goal, bringing home a championship to Ephrata.

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