Kelly Liebl was in 4th grade when Marcy Dull scored her 1000th point at Ephrata, eight years later Liebl became only the 7th member of the elite list of 1000 point scorers in Ephrata girls basketball lore.
Her 1000th point came on a free throw in the third quarter of the Mounts victory over Solanco. You can watch it here.
Lebanon’s Alexis Hill toed the foul line at Ephrata Middle School Thursday night with 10 seconds on the clock and the Cedars deadlocked at 33 with host Ephrata on the scoreboard.
Through the sweat on her brow and the screeches raining down from the home crowd, Hill bucketed both free-throw attempts to give Lebanon the lead, one it held for a 36-33 victory and control of first place in the Lancaster-Lebanon League’s Section Two.
For 19 years, the Yankees had Mariano Rivera. The Padres had Trevor Hoffman. The Phillies, in 2008, had Brad Lidge.
Wednesday night, the Hempfield girls’ basketball team handed the ball to Alecia Rohrer.
With two shots from the foul line with three seconds remaining, the Black Knights’ senior forward closed a 43-39 win over Ephrata in a physical, grinding gauntlet of a Section One-Two crossover game in Landisville.
As a young team, the Ephrata boys are well aware of their vulnerability late in games.
Last Friday, Warwick knew it too.
“We don’t have a lot of depth,” Mounts’ coach Jason Coletti said. “I’ve got to credit Warwick; they go after you and they wear you down.”
Ephrata won the battle Tuesday night but in the end, Cocalico, by virtue of four forfeit wins, won the war.
The visiting Eagles used those forfeits to jump out to a commanding 24-3 lead. As it turned out, they needed them as the undermanned Mounts won the majority of the head-to-head bouts by a 6-4 margin.
In the end though, Cocalico got late falls from Max Martin (145) and Trevor Fichtorn (152) to clinch an eventual 42-21 victory over Ephrata and keep the Eagles alive for a Section Two title.
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