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Track Teams Fall Short Against McCaskey

BY ERIC PYLES

In high school track and field, just like life, sometimes you are the hamster and sometimes you are the wheel. For the Conestoga Valley track teams, April 25th saw them being the wheel to McCaskey’s hamster with both sides falling to the Red Tornado. The girls lost 12426 and the boys, 111-39.

Wins were hard to come by with just three for the Lady Buckskins and only four for the boys. Joey Castronova was the lone athlete to garner two first place finishes, taking the 400m while teaming up with Carson Miller, Joey Benedict, and Andrew Hoffner to take the 1600m relay. Emmanuel Gitonga (800m) and Zach Phy (300H) accounted for the other two wins.

Three different Lady ‘Bucks enjoyed victories starting with Seana Dougherty in the 3200m and ending with Jazlyn Cintron in the high jump. In between was Jessica Koenig’s 100H win.

The track teams spent April 23rd at Wilson High School, competing in the Leonard Stephan Meet. The boy’s, behind a handful of bronze medals, finished 10th out of 21 teams while the girl’s finished 16th.

Grace Lapp led the way for the Lady Buckskins, taking third in the 300H while also taking one of the legs of the 1600m relay that finished seventh. Cintron, Brooke Denlinger and Kylynn Frankford rounded out the 1600m relay team. Koenig tacked on a sixth place run in the 100H.

Zach Stoudt picked up a bronze medal in the high jump while adding a seventh place in the long jump. Phy (300H) and Gitonga (800m) also earned bronze medals. Castronova helped the cause with a fifth-place finish in the 400m while Aidan Zimmerman settled for eighth place in the javelin.

BASEBALL

The early season difficulties the baseball team worked through have gone away and have been replaced with a slide that is now seven games long.

Hempfield collected a 16-1 win on April 20th with Owen Fisher taking the loss after getting the start. Evan Lapp finished on the mound with the pair combining for five strikeouts. Sam Thompson provided the offense with his third inning home run.

One day later the Buckskins went a full seven innings, but the result was a 9-0 loss to Township. Abdiel Fernandez-Colon accounted for the lone hit with his fifth inning single. Connor Esbenshade was on th hook for the loss after covering the opening four innings. Preston Fisher and Tucker Hastings handled the final two frames.

April 22nd brought the Falcons of Cedar Crest to Witmer with the visitors posting a 12-4 win. Thompson got the start and took the loss with Caden Miller covering the final two innings. The pair combined for five strikeouts. CV saw their offense split four ways with Fernandez, Lapp, Evan Wilson, and Jude Thompson all accounting for one RBI.

The Buckskins were back at it on the 23rd, falling to Manheim Central by a 9-1 final. Hastings got the start and covered the initial three innings to absorb the loss. Preston Fisher and Wilson combined to cover the final three frames. Hastings broke up the Baron shutout with an RBI single in the sixth.

CV finished with a 3-2 setback to McCaskey on April 25th. Luke Landis and Owen Fisher each enjoyed one RBI but neither had a hit. Landis pushed a run across with a fielder’s choice while Fisher went the sac fly route. Owen Fisher, along with Preston Fisher, covered the pitching duties with Owen taking the loss for five innings of work.

TENNIS

The tennis team finished their regular season on April 20th, topping McCaskey 3-2. Yuji Wenger was the lone singles winner with the double’s tandems of Henry McQuate-Krahnke and Grady Ray as well as Ivan Shrom and Luke Snader accounting for the two other team points.

VOLLEYBALL

The volleyball team sits at 5-6 after losses to Penn Manor and Exeter. CV fell to Penn Manor by a 30 count on the 21st with the Comets posting wins of 25-21, 25-22 and 25-15. Kenji Pha tallied 20 assists, Camden Clapper six kills and Kyle Hutchinson 12 digs in the loss.

Conestoga Valley stepped outside the L-L for their April 25th battle with Exeter with the Eagles posting a 3-1 win (25-17, 25-20, 23-25 and 25-23). Hutchison picked up 16 digs while Pha dished out 22 assists. Carson Hoover added 10 kills.

LACROSSE

It does not happen often in high school lacrosse, but the Lady Buckskin managed to finish in a deadlock with Elizabethtown on April 25th, posting a 10-10 final. Annika Bredeman, Sophia Hess, Cassandra Malles and Alaina Culbert each lit the lamp twice while Caroline Kulp and Jordyn Hironimus added one score each. Jamie Handwerger finished with 13 saves.

One day later CV ran into the force that is Manheim Township. The Lady Streaks collected a 21-2 win with Hess netting both Buckskin goals. Handwerger added another 13 saves to her season tally.

On April 20th, CV faced another L-L mainstay in Hempfield with the Knights posting a 13-2 win. Handwerger finished with seven saves while Hess and Danae Ulrich split the two goals.

The going was just as rough for the boys with losses to Penn Manor and Lancaster Country Day dropping the Buckskins to 9-4. Ben Nolt tallied 29 saves in the two losses while Jeff Fisher posted nine goals and four assists. Keller Dillman added four goals and two assists while Tyson Zwaska and Hunter Silvaggio picked up two scores each. Noah Nolt picked up the final score.

SOFTBALL

The softball team erased a fourgame slide and replaced it with a three-game winning streak. Before the Lady Buckskins could kickstart the winning they had to deal with a 3-2 loss to Hempfield on the 20th. Rhiannon Henry struck out 13 but surrendered three runs on three hits to take the loss. She did help herself with an RBI single, but CV’s only other run came from Hollyn Helsel’s RBI single, making it a 3-2 final.

CV rebounded on the 22nd with an 11-0 win over Cedar Crest. Henry covered all five innings, adding nine strikeouts to get the win. Becca Hartranft led with two hits and four RBI while Alexa Freeburn added two hits and two RBI.

Up next was a 4-1 win over Manheim Central on the 23rd. Henry, Hartranft, Freeburn and Laken Smith split the offense with one RBI apiece while Henry picked up the win thanks to her 11-strikeout performance.

Conestoga Valley finished their three-game run with a 12-0 win over McCaskey on the 25th. Henry needed just five innings to rack up 12 strikeouts while Smith and Tori Rhoads paced the offense with six total RBI.

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The Buckskins’ Joseph Castronova runs to a 52.50 win in the 400 dash in CV’s 111-39, Section One loss at McCaskey on April 25.

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Jazlyn Cintron clears the bar at 4’-6” to win the high jump for the Buckskins in their 124-26, Section One loss at McCaskey on April 25.