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Bears Bounce Back

Ainsley Raybold will be the first person to tell you that she hasn’t exactly been shooting the lights out this basketball season.

But Monday night, Raybold made buckets. Big bucket after back-breaking bucket in crunch time, when Elizabethtown needed them most.

Raybold drilled four second-half 3-pointers, including a pair of game-changing fourth-quarter treys, plus another must-have jumper down the stretch, and the Bears rallied from a 12-point deficit to top Ephrata 47-43 at Cocalico in a one-game playoff between the Section Two co-champs for a spot in the L-L League playoff bracket.

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Hempfield Holds Off Ephrata

In absolute crunch time, with the game on the line and the clock winding down, when Hempfield needed a big bucket Thursday night, the Black Knights went to the paint.

There, Orianna Edmond and Lauren Moffatt delivered.

Edmond scored all 10 of her points in the pivotal second half, including a pair of money fourth-quarter lane hoops, and Moffatt scored a teamhigh 12 points, including the go-ahead bucket on a shot in the key, and the host Knights fended off Ephrata 40-34 in a nonleague girls basketball game in Landisville.

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Barnica Thankful for Return to Health, Bowling

There’s a noticeable hitch in Nathan Barnica’s delivery as he competes for the Ephrata bowling team.

While the sophomore’s 205 average wouldn’t lead anyone to think much of that hitch, the story behind it, and bowling’s role in his recovery, is nothing short of inspirational.

“He wasn’t able to even walk, and now he’s back and he’s rolling the ball incredibly,” Ephrata bowling coach Nick Vanderwende said recently. “It’s without a doubt the most heart-warming thing I’ve experienced in the sport.”

In October 2018, Barnica was diagnosed with acute flaccid myelitis, a disease that develops from a common virus and affects the spinal cord, causing muscles and reflexes to become weak.

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