Ephrata shredded Elco’s pass defense most of the night, with junior quarterback Caden Keefer completing 18 of 32 passes for 228 yards and a touchdown. But the Raiders were the ones who made the big plays on defense, coming up with three interceptions to secure a 21-18 [boxscore] win Friday at Ephrata’s War Memorial Stadium.
Quarterback Caden Keefer and running back Richard Greer powered visiting Ephrata past Donegal, 27-20 [boxscore], on Friday night in Mount Joy.
The Ephrata duo led a game-winning, 17-play drive in the fourth quarter, spanning eight minutes of game clock and culminating in Greer’s 3-yard touchdown for a 21-20 lead with 3:01 to play.
Mike Tyson loved to say, “Everybody’s got a plan, until they get punched in the mouth.”
Ephrata punched Elizabethtown in the mouth — figuratively — scoring 37 seconds into Tuesday night’s match at Jane Hoover Field.
It was the first of three first-half goals as the defending L-L Section Two girls soccer champion Mountaineers (3-0 league, 7-0 overall) outpaced the host Bears 5-1.
The ball sailed in from the corner during visiting Elizabethtown’s second-half siege in the Ephrata end Tuesday night, bouncing into a mass of humanity before the Bears’ Jake Sevcik punched a header toward the goal in the 55th minute.
Ephrata goalkeeper Cole Hummel launched himself toward the starlit sky, slapping the ball around the far post and out of bounds to keep a 2-1 lead intact. Hummel finished with 13 saves, the score held, and the defensive- minded Mountaineers claimed sole possession of first place in Lancaster-Lebanon League Section Two boys soccer race.
An early surge of pressure from No. 9 Cumberland Valley (13-7-0), capped by Austin Warren’s goal in the 10th minute, helped the Eagles earn the other spot in the district final.
“It’s been a really good season for us,” Eagles coach Matt Billman said, “and we really renewed an emphasis on attacking. We said, ‘Let’s attack. Let’s make the other team adjust to us.’ We just really stressed that, in the first 5-10 minutes, let’s go at these guys and get after their backs.”
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