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Mounts blank Pioneers

Ephrata girls soccer coach Rob Deininger had a huge smile on his face as he walked off his home field Thursday night, and with good reason.

His Mounts had kept their record perfect at 2-0 with a big 2-0 Lancaster-Lebanon League Section Two win over Lampeter-Strasburg.

But while the victory came over a team laden with a ton of talent from its 2020 District Three championship run and a brimming with confidence after a solid 4-2 win over Elizabethtown earlier in the week, Deininger wouldn’t go as far as saying it was a statement game.

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Mounts top Cougars

PALMYRA — It’s an historic start, and a great position from which to build.

On a clear Friday night at Palmyra’s Buck Swank Stadium, the Ephrata football team used a strong opening half, as well as 135 rushing yards and four touchdowns from running back Andre Weidman, to post a 28-7 nonleague triumph over the hometown Cougars. Now 2-0 on the young season, the Mountaineers are off to their best start since 2000.

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Mounts drop Muhlenberg Win Season Opener

Most of today’s Ephrata players had not yet been born the last time Mountaineers won the opening game of a football season.

Kris Miller said it’s been 18 years since his team started 1-0, and although it wasn’t pretty and there are areas to clean up, the head coach will take the 41-20 nonleague triumph over Muhlenberg on Saturday morning at Ephrata’s War Memorial Field.

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