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Girls Cross Country Sweeps Again
- 05 October 2005
The Ephrata Mounts Girls cross country team (16-1) completed
a sweep yesterday, setting themselves up for a showdown for 2nd place
next week when they host Manheim Township (15-1). The Lady Mounts
easily handled a Garden Spot team that came in with a record of 12-2,
as they won handily 21-40.The Lady Mounts also beat Penn Manor 20-47 and Manheim Central 15-55. The Mounts placed six runners in the top 10, and 10 in the top 24.
Once again Alicia Harbold paced the Mounts with a 2nd place finish tackling the course in 21:33. Jaime Singer (4th; 21:52), Brynn Lyons (5th; 22:03), Kelly Holst (6th; 22:10), Dana Haas (9th; 22:25) and Amber Davies (10th; 22:35) were the other Mounts cracking the top ten.
Since recovering from an early season injury Leah Sipe (11th; 22:41) has been turning in some nice times as well. On this afternoon Samantha Fink (12th; 23:00) was right behind her.
Kate Anderson (17th; 23:39) and Taylor Fletcher (24th; 25:01) also figured into the scoring to help the Mounts.
Garden Spot also defeated Penn Manor and Manheim Central to lift their record to 14-3.
Things didn't turn out so well for the boys (4-13), although they did place three runners in the top ten. Givi Palagashivili finished the course in 18:32 which was good enough for third place, while Brad Sweigart (5th; 18:44) and Niraj Amin (10th; 19:35) also placed in the top 10.
The Mounts lost to Garden Spot on the sixth-man rule 29-29, and also lost 23-36 to Penn Manor and 26-33 to Manheim Central.
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