Mounts Win League Title
- 16 May 2023
A year ago at about this time, Manheim Township was rolling over Ephrata in the Lancaster-Lebanon League championship game when Adrian Shelley, the Mounts’ coach, surveyed the mood in his dugout and was less than delighted.
“Things got a little noncompetitive,’’ Shelley recalled Monday night at Clipper Magazine Stadium, with a goal medal around his neck.
“I said to the dugout, ‘we got to remember this, because it looks like we’re ready to tuck our tails and jump on a bus and go home.’’’ It was 11-2, Township. Shelley gave the ball to then-junior pitcher Ben Burkey, who “went out there and showed some grit.’’