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Lady Bears Blank Garden Spot Booters

BY ERIC PYLES

The old saying that ‘there is no place like home’ proved to be true for the Elizabethtown girls’ soccer team. The Lady Bears opened their 2021 home slate on September 9th by throttling Garden Spot, 4-0. Jena Witters was the star, scoring all four goals with help from Liana Endy, Lily Heistand and Olivia Shenk after staying solo for the game’s opening score.

Two days later, however, Governor Mifflin handed Etown a 6-3 setback. Heistand, Shenk and Witters picked up one score each while Keegan Miller turned away five shots in the loss. A second home setback came on the 13th with Ephrata coming out on top, 3-1. Miller tallied 13 saves while Witters fed Taryn Hummer for the Lady Bear score.

BOYS’ SOCCER

With the Lady Bear soccer team enjoying the comforts of home, the boy’s squad hit the road for two of their past three affairs. The Bears dropped all three games by a combined 6-1. E-town opened that stretch on the 9th with a 3-1 defeat by Garden Spot. Chaz Mowrer nabbed Elizabethtown’s lone goal and Dominic Santana finished with eight saves.

One day later the Bears welcomed Palmyra to town with the Cougars earning a 2-0 victory.

“Exceptionally strong and well organized; a highly motivated group that will make some noise in Mid-Penn,” said head coach James Sostack of the victory.

Santana finished with seven saves.

Another day, another roadie, this time a September 13th trip to Ephrata that resulted in a 1-0 loss.

“It was a tough evening for the Bears looking to create their own luck. We hope to regroup before the game against Manheim,” Sostack said.

Santana added three saves to his season totals.

TENNIS

The Lady Bears kept their undefeated record by knocking off McCaskey and Lampeter-Strasburg, improving to 7-0 just past the mid-point of the regular season.

E-town enjoyed a quick 5-0 sweep of the Red Tornado on the 10th followed by a 5-2 triumph over L-S on the 13th. The Lady Bears swept singles play in both matches with Alli Evans, Rylee Bender and Julia Anderson doing the work opposite McCaskey with Nizaly OrtizKreiner joining the trio to complete the Lady Pioneer sweep.

Ortiz-Kriner added two doubles wins to her singles victory, teaming with Anderson for the lone doubles win on the 13th and with Kathryn Barraclough for another win against McCaskey. Julia Laszakovits and Becca Mink finished off the McCaskey win with a straight set doubles victory.

VOLLEYBALL

Three matches might not make much of a season, but the Lady Bear volleyball team is still riding high with a perfect 3-0 mark. The mark includes wins over Cocalico (3-0), and Ephrata (3-1) combined with a sweep of Manheim Central to open the season. Meaning the Lady Bears dropped just one game, a 26-24 thriller to Ephrata, while picking up those three wins.

Elizabethtown nearly had three sweeps, but the Lady Bears were unable to put Ephrata away in game three despite holding a few leads throughout. That 26-24 setback came with E-town up two games to none after posting matching 25-23 wins.

E-town regained their early match form to finish the night with a 25-20 win. Sydney Stewart tallied 16 digs and seven aces while Kallee Locker finished with 14 kills. Add in 18 assists from Angela CostaOuimet plus one block from Liz Kern and you get a 3-1 victory.

Elizabethtown picked up their second straight 3-0 sweep on the 9th, topping Cocalico thanks to 10 Stewart kills and another 18 Costa-Ouimet assists. Paige Horst add four aces and Paige O’Connell six digs to round out the contributors.

CROSS COUNTRY

The cross-country teams trekked to Lancaster on the 14th to battle Cedar Crest, Hempfield, and McCaskey. The boys’ placed just two runners inside the top 20 with Nathan Johnson (19th) and Dalton Fink (20th) collecting the honors. The result was an 0-3 day, leaving the Bears 2-3 after two meets.

The Lady Bears enjoyed some success with four top 10 finishes propelling E-town to a 2-1 day. The wins came over Cedar Crest and Hempfield with a 2729 loss to McCaskey. Jordan DiRisio finished fourth while Lilah Drager, Jillian Wivell and Ali Fink formed a bear pack to finish 8th, 9th, and 10th.

FIELD HOCKEY

The field hockey team kept busy over the last week, going 1-3 to sit at 2-2-1 just past the quarter mark of the season. The Lady Bears picked up that win on the 11th with a 7-0 romp over Milton Hershey. Mikaela Condran led the way with four goals and three assists while Sydney Pope needed two saves to secure the win. Regan Flory and Joanna Hanley added one goal and one assists each with Lyla Fair picking up the final score.

The win over Milton Hershey pitted E-town against Newport in their second game on the 11th with the Lady Buffalos posting a 5-2 win. Condran and Flory accounted for the goals while Pope (five saves) and Alaina Telenko (10 saves) teamed up to man the cage.

Elizabethtown prepped for the Milton Hershey Tournament with a September 8th clash opposite Conestoga Valley. The Buckskins managed a 4-0 win. Telenko tallied 12 saves in the loss.

The four-game stretch finished on the 13th with a 2-1 setback against Donegal. Hailey Mertz connected on a penalty stroke in the fourth, but it was not enough to overcome two Emma Miller scores. Telenko finished with four saves while Tessa Cronin picked up one defensive save.

FOOTBALL

The gridiron gang suffered their second straight setback on the 10th, falling to Lower Dauphin by a 32-12 final. The Bears found themselves in a 170 second half hole before finding the endzone for the first time on a 22-yard Josh Rudy to Brock Belmont toss. LD answered with a long TD pass of their own and led 25-6 after a two-point conversion. Elizabethtown tried to mount a fourth quarter rally, but the Bears only managed a threeyard Rudy to Patrick Gilhool score that trimmed deficit to 25-12. A late Falcon score set the final at 32-12 and dropped E-town to 1-2 on the season.

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Photo by Cheri Sine

E-town’s Brieal Frey battles Garden Spot’s Claire Armbruster for the ball during the Bears’ 4-0, Section Two victory over the visiting Spartans on September 9.

Photo by Cheri Sine

The Bears’ Jena Witters stretches out to block the kick by Garden Spot’s Taylor Soehner during E-town’s 4-0, Section Two win at home on September 9.

Photos by Cheri Sine

Nizaly Ortiz-Kreiner (left) and Kathryn Barraclough paired up to blank McCaskey’s Chloe Blessing-Hartley and Zoe Broich, 6-0, 6-0, at number two doubles to add a team point to the Bears’ 5-0, nonleague win in E-town on September 10.

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