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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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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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Mounts blast Cedars

LEBANON — It was Lou Reed Day at Lebanon on Monday, as Ephrata took a walk on the Cedars’ wild side.

Taking advantage of Lebanon’s issues throwing strikes — two pitchers walked 21 batters and hit four — the Mountaineers posted their first softball win of the season, 22-9.

Fifteen of the 21 free passes issued by the Cedars’ Nicole Klish and Desiree Figueroa came around to score, as did three of the four HBPs, as the Mounts (1-2 Lancaster-Lebanon League Section Two, 1-3 overall) jumped out early and never took their collective foot off the gas.

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