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Malatesta big for Pioneers

Lampeter-Strasburg starting shortstop Giovanni Malatesta had yet to pitch an inning this season before he came on in the biggest inning of the year Monday night in Ephrata.

Malatesta drove in the go-ahead runs at the plate in the top of the seventh inning, then escaped a bases-loaded jam from the mound in the bottom of the frame to help Lampeter-Strasburg top the host Mountaineers 5-2.

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Group Effort leads Streaks over Mounts

Now this was a team effort.

A committee of Manheim Township pitchers held Ephrata in check just enough for the Blue Streaks to put together a crooked-number inning and beat the Mounts 3-1 in a Lancaster-Lebanon League crossover game in Neffsville Monday.

Township (12-2) has won 10 of 11. But both losses were to L-L Section One opponents Warwick and Hemp-field. Sections One and Two play crossovers, but they don’t count in the league standings.

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Mounts outlast Knights

It wasn’t the way you’d dream of doing it, but two walks and two hit-by-pitches gave Ephrata a dramatic 6-5, eight-inning win over Hempfield in a nonleague baseball game at War Memorial Field Friday.

\The extra-inning hero was probably relief pitcher Brenden Kapczynski, who came to the plate with two on and nobody out. He tried to bunt, failed, got behind 0-2 and then fouled off some tough pitches before working a walk to load the bases.

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