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Conestoga Valley (15-6) and Manheim Township (18-2) play in the second game at 7:30 p.m., preceded by Hempfield (11-8) and Ephrata (15-5), scheduled for 5:30.

Ephrata (15-5) benefited from a five-run outburst, in the second inning, to stop Annville-Cleona 5-0.

The Mountaineers' Derek Sipe had an efficient outing, throwing just 57 pitches in six innings before exhausting his legal allotment for the week (he had thrown eight innings Monday).

Sipe scattered three hits, struck out one and walked nobody as Annville-Cleona (14-6) hit just one ball out of the infield.

"I'm not usually this efficient," he said. "They were just putting the ball in play and my defense was making the plays behind me."

The Mounts, who have now won 13 of their last 14, reached A-C ace Nolan Hostetter in a second-inning bat-around plus one.

Alan Kliewer plated the first run with a bases-loaded pop-up to short left. Alex Weaver, hitting last in the lineup, delivered the key blow, doubling off the fence in left to drive in two runs.

"You never know in the playoffs who is going to be the hero at the plate," said Mounts coach Adrian Shelley. "Today it was [Weaver] in the nine-hole."

Sipe smoked a two-run single through third baseman Andrew Tilley's legs to cap the outburst, and carried his lead home.