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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