Mounts Shine at Penn Relays

PHILADELPHIA — AJ Morales knew to bide his time in the chase pack during the third leg of Ephrata’s Penn Relays 4x800-meter heat through a driving spring rain at Franklin Field on Friday morning.

“I know some of these guys are nervous in big races like this, and they take it out too fast,” said Morales, the lone senior on the Mountaineers’ burgeoning 4x800 squad, which includes Tyler Shue, Tanyon Loose and Andrew Foster. “I have the experience, and I’ve been in that position before, so I worked my way up slowly and in the last 200, just really kicked it in to bring it home.”

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Mounts Arms Quiet Falcons

Capitalizing on four errors and some timely hitting, Ephrata pushed its way past Cedar Crest, 6-1, in Section One-Two crossover baseball Monday night.

For the first five innings under the lights at War Memorial Field, the teams battled back and forth with no more than a run separating them. After Ephrata took a 1-0 lead on a throwing error in the second, Cedar Crest answered right back, tying the game in the third inning.

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Mounts Make Early Lead Stand

Just as it has for much of the season, the weather made a mess of Friday’s Lancaster-Lebanon League baseball schedule. Only one game survived the morning rain, with Elizabethtown and Ephrata ready to face off atop the Section Two standings.

Just like in the teams’ first meeting this season, Ephrata took the early lead, but there would be no offensive outburst for the visiting Bears at War Memorial Field. Instead, Ephrata played small ball to plate three runs and used dominant pitching to hold on for a 3-1 victory.

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Ephrata Outslugs McCaskey

The impression of Theo Yaidoo’s spikes had not yet faded from home plate, and teammate Kandice Liebl was already in the parking lot at Ephrata Middle School and on the way to her sister’s wedding, to serve as a bridesmaid.

McCaskey may have wished she’d left two hours earlier.

Liebl was on base four times, scoring four times and driving in four runs in the Mountaineers’ 20-10 victory on Friday in an L-L Section One-Two softball crossover curtailed after five innings by the 10run rule.

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