Ephrata kept knocking on the door. To no avail.
Finally, the door opened.
In the 95th minute in overtime, Jorja Welsh headed in Emily Weidner’s corner kick service and the Mountaineers outlasted Manheim Central 2-1 Tuesday evening in Ephrata in a key Lancaster-Lebanon League Section Two girls soccer match.
MYERSTOWN – They are the unsung heroes of every football game. Their jerseys are the dirtiest.
And the men in the trenches wouldn’t have it any other way.
In a 28-7 nonleague football win over Elco on Friday night, it was those men — Frank Riggs, Deric Hoover, Cole Seiger, James Ellis, Marquis Greer and Cole Freeman — who played both ways, that were the difference makers for Ephrata (3-1).
Especially one — Hoover.
The George Male Trophy is staying in Lititz.
In the annual battle for the coveted prize, Warwick capitalized on five Ephrata turnovers and knocked off its backyard rival for the 15th year in a row, winning 42-14 in a nonleague football game at Ephrata’s War Memorial Field.
There was no hill too steep for the Ephrata Mountaineers during Tuesday’s girls volleyball matchup versus Elizabethtown. There were simply too many hills to climb.
On the brink of being swept by the Bears, the Mountaineers forced a deciding fourth set with a momentous rally, but ultimately fell to host Elizabethtown 3-1 (25-23, 25 23, 24-26, 25-20) in an early matchup of Lancaster-Lebanon League Section Two unbeatens.
Ephrata girls soccer coach Rob Deininger had a huge smile on his face as he walked off his home field Thursday night, and with good reason.
His Mounts had kept their record perfect at 2-0 with a big 2-0 Lancaster-Lebanon League Section Two win over Lampeter-Strasburg.
But while the victory came over a team laden with a ton of talent from its 2020 District Three championship run and a brimming with confidence after a solid 4-2 win over Elizabethtown earlier in the week, Deininger wouldn’t go as far as saying it was a statement game.
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