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Flexible Cocalico outmaneuvers Ephrata


Flexibility is a huge asset for swimmers.
 
Not just in their physical makeup, but in their ability to master more than one stroke.
 
The Cocalico girls' team is blessed with a quartet of standouts, and head coach Matt Woods deployed them perfectly in Tuesday's 97-73 triumph over rival Ephrata in a Section Two swim meet at the Ephrata Rec Center.
 

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Ephrata tops Elizabethtown


The last time Ephrata's girls' basketball team walked off the court, morale was anything but high -- the Mountaineers having been manhandled by Lampeter-Strasburg, 59-36, in the championship game of their own holiday tournament last Friday.
 
Wednesday was about making amends.
 

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Mounts will host Pioneers in Finals


Ephrata's and Lampeter-Strasburg's girls' basketball teams both got to the title game of the Ephrata Holiday Tournament the same way Thursday night.
 
They stole a ticket. Pretty much literally.
 
Forcing nine first-quarter turnovers out of McCaskey to take control from the outset, Ephrata rolled to a 65-35 first-round victory over the Red Tornado Thursday night at Ephrata Middle School.
 

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Pioneers stop Mounts in Finals


By now, Lampeter-Strasburg's girls' basketball team is aware of the bull's-eye it's wearing on its collective back.

 
A bull's-eye that, perhaps, got a bit bigger Friday night.
 
Getting a game-high 14 points from junior guard Taylor Lininger and a defensive effort that forced 29 Ephrata turnovers, L-S remained undefeated by rolling to a 59-36 victory over the Mountaineers in the championship game of the Ephrata Holiday Tournament on Friday night at Ephrata Middle School.
 

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Spartans outduel Mounts


There's nothing like senior leadership.
 
A truism neither Garden Spot coach Brian Schilling, nor Ephrata coach Josh Clair could dispute Tuesday evening.
 
Schilling's senior leaders -- tri-captains Nick Cook, Tanner Leid and Matt Christie -- came through in a large way in the league opener in New Holland.
 

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