For the second week in a row, the Garden Spot boys basketball team played the underdog role and managed to pull the upset over the first-place team in Lancaster-Lebanon League Section Two.
Last week, it was Cameron Sensenig hitting a walk-off runner at the buzzer to down the previously undefeated Barons on the Spartans’ home court.
Down three points with 30 seconds left at rival Manheim Central, Ephrata boys basketball coach Charlie Fisher called a timeout to set up a potential game-tying play.
A former Manheim Central assistant under Barons’ varsity coach Chris Sherwood, Fisher drew up something he had learned from Sherwood seasons ago.
Ephrata senior swimmer Sydney Dundon couldn’t contain her excitement on the pool deck at the Ephrata Recreation Center. After all, it had been four years coming.
She and the Mountaineer girls team had finally defeated neighbor Cocalico, ending a five-year run for the Eagles in the annual Lancaster-Lebanon League rivalry meet.
It was around this time two years ago when Manheim Central boys basketball coach Chris Sherwood came to a realization about his assistant coach, Charlie Fisher.
“We were playing Lebanon in the first round of the league playoffs,” Sherwood recalled in an interview last month. “I was gonna go watch Lebanon play Hershey in a late-season game. He (Fisher) wanted Cedar Crest. He said ‘Let me have an opportunity to go scout Cedar Crest. I’ll do the whole thing.’ ”
Charlie Fisher has been waiting all season for his team to play its best game.
Tuesday night, that wait ended when the Ephrata boys basketball team outlasted visiting Lampeter- Strasburg, 61-49, in a pivotal Lancaster-Lebanon League Section Two showdown.
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