Streaks nip Mounts

After taking the lead in the first inning of Tuesday’s Lancaster-Lebanon League Sections One-Two crossover baseball game, Manheim Township saw its advantage shrink from four runs down to just one — with Ephrata still threatening. The visiting Mounts had runners on second and third in the top of the seventh, but Township reliever Will Greiner only had his sights set on home plate.

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Mounts gaining steam

Tuesday night’s Lancaster- Lebanon League Section Two baseball game between Ephrata and Elizabethtown was far from ordinary. But as oddities played out over the course of seven innings at War Memorial Field, Ephrata kept its focus — just keep grinding out at-bats.

The Mounts did just that, plating a run in each of the first three innings before breaking out in the sixth for a 6-1 victory over visiting Elizabethtown.

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Lancaster Mennonite turns away Mounts

Talk about home cooking.

Lancaster Mennonite’s boys volleyball team played its third home match of the season on Thursday night. And for the third time on their home court, the Blazers earned a gut-check 3-2 victory.

Mennonite’s latest five-game thriller came in a key Lancaster-Lebanon League Section Two matchup against visiting Ephrata, which came into Thursday’s clash tied for third place with the Blazers.

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Rhee sparks Mounts

Two nights earlier, Ephrata had suffered a somewhat surprising four-goal loss to Lancaster Country Day/ Lancaster Catholic. It was surprising in the fact that the Mountaineers have high expectations with an experienced squad playing in Section Two of the newly aligned L-L League two-section format this season.

“Shots were there,” Ephrata senior midfielder Bryson Rhee recalled of the loss. “We just weren’t finding the back of the net.”

That topic came back into play Friday night, when host Ephrata found itself trailing by a goal to visiting Lampeter- Strasburg at the end of the first quarter.

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