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Pioneers stop Mounts


Travis Jones knew it back in August, even if his players didn't.
 
There was something special about the hand he'd been dealt.
 
"The guys' (playing) ability and their sense of caring for each other," Lampeter-Strasburg's first-year boys' soccer coach said, explaining his preseason optimism. "They just love being out here together, and I knew that the very first time I saw them."
 

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Mounts Blank Barons


They've played well over the last week and a half, well enough to become part of the Section Two playoff equation.
 
And Monday night Ephrata's playoff plans got a tremendous boost with a 2-0 victory over Manheim Central on Mountaineer Field.
 
Kelly Liebl scored in the sixth minute and Mackenzie Lagaza added insurance in the 58th to lift the Mounts (7-3 L-L, 9-5 overall) into the thick of the section race.
 

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Elizabethtown Gains Ground on Ephrata


Deep down, James Sostack knows he has a good team, regardless of what the standings say.
 
In the first half of the Lancaster-Lebanon League season, Elizabethtown's boys' soccer coach watched his guys lose three Section Two games -- all by one goal.
 
A goal that was usually given up in the first few minutes of those matches.
 

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Pioneers shoutout Mounts


One statistic sums up the Ephrata-Lampeter-Strasburg matchup: The Pioneers (3-2) had piled on 27 points before Ephrata (0-5) tallied its initial first down, setting the tone for a 34-0 [box score] victory.
 
L-S dominated both sides of the lines of scrimmage all night. On the offensive side of the ball, the line opened gaping holes for running backs Dan Lind and Ross Souders. Defensively, the Pioneers spent the entire evening in the Ephrata backfield, disrupting one running play after another.
 

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Ephrata, E-town wins set up a showdown


It was a doubleheader with singular significance:
 
Sort out the confusion that is the logjam atop the Section Two field hockey standings.
 
When the final whistled sounded at Ephrata on Wednesday night, the host Mountaineers had emerged with a 3-1 triumph over Manheim Central.
 

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