Mounts Shine at Penn Relays
- 28 April 2018
PHILADELPHIA — AJ Morales knew to bide his time in the chase pack during the third leg of Ephrata’s Penn Relays 4x800-meter heat through a driving spring rain at Franklin Field on Friday morning.
“I know some of these guys are nervous in big races like this, and they take it out too fast,” said Morales, the lone senior on the Mountaineers’ burgeoning 4x800 squad, which includes Tyler Shue, Tanyon Loose and Andrew Foster. “I have the experience, and I’ve been in that position before, so I worked my way up slowly and in the last 200, just really kicked it in to bring it home.”
Just as it has for much of the season, the weather made a mess of Friday’s Lancaster-Lebanon League baseball schedule. Only one game survived the morning rain, with Elizabethtown and Ephrata ready to face off atop the Section Two standings.
The impression of Theo Yaidoo’s spikes had not yet faded from home plate, and teammate Kandice Liebl was already in the parking lot at Ephrata Middle School and on the way to her sister’s wedding, to serve as a bridesmaid.
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