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Spot Football Notches Second Straight Shutout
also ran the ball 11 times for 68 yards. Joel Martin gained 65 yards on 13 carries. If groups of fans at Garden Martin broke through the Spot’s homecoming game on FriCedars’ defense for a six-yard day night, October 8, were branrushing touchdown in the second dishing the often-used prop quarter, making it 14-0. Martin where one person holds up a connected on the first of his giant D and the person(s) next to three field goals and made his them a cardboard fence - thus making a chant for defense - then second one before halftime, givthey would have been pleased ing the home team a 20-0 lead. with that particular unit of the Nagle hauled in a 28-yard Spartans football team. touchdown pass in the third Garden Spot recorded its secquarter and Harting dashed to ond straight shutout, limiting the Lebanon endzone from 46 Lebanon to only 58 total yards in yards out in the second half. the 36-0 victory. The win was the Sandwiched in between these Spartans’ first of the year in the was a long 41-yard field goal by Lancaster-Lebanon League. Martin. BOYS’ SOCCER The Spartans finished their regular season with an exclamation point, defeating Cedar Crest by a score of 6-2 as Trey Dwyer, who also had an assist on the day, and George Rohrbaugh each scored two goals. In this non-league home game played on Wednesday, October 13, the Spartans (9-5-1) went up 1-0 in 12th minute of the match. Dwyer scored his second goal of the game 12 minutes later and Nicklas Gleason, who had one assist as well, made it 3-0 in the 29th minute. Taking a 3-0 lead into the second half, the Spartans allowed the Falcons to swoop in and score twice as they narrowed the lead to 3-2 seven minutes into the second half. Rohrbaugh gave Garden Spot a cushion with his first goal at the 51-minute mark. He increased his team’s lead four minutes later while Luke Steiner added one more score with three minutes to Photo by Connor Hollinger the final whistle. Two days earlier, the Spartans Mikaela Bernek and William Fithian pose after being crowned Garden Spot’s 2021 Homecoming Queen and King during half- and Lampeter-Strasburg played time ceremonies at the Spartans’ 36-0 victory over Lebanon on to a 2-2 draw. The draw against October 8. the L-L League foe was the first BY ARA GRIGORIAN
In terms of scoring, this was still a close one until the second quarter. The Spartans (2-4, 1-0 league) took a 7-0 lead into the second period thanks to Kyle Harting connecting with Derrick Lambert on a 15-yard touchdown pass plus Walker Martin’s extra point. Harting finished with a big night, completing 12 passes for 206 yards and two touchdowns. The beneficiary of most of those receiving yards was Zecheriah Nagle. The Garden Spot junior caught six passes for 146 yards. Harting also helped keep the Garden Spot offense versatile. In addition to 12 completions, he
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Spartans Aiden McCloud (52) and Cullen Witmer team up to sack Lebanon quarterback Emanuel Mason during Garden Spot’s 36-0, Homecoming victory on October 8.
one of the year for the Spartans (5-4-1 league). Garden Spot wrapped up the regular season ranked 11th in the District Three 3A power rankings. FIELD HOCKEY In its 5-0 shutout of Solanco back on October 5, the Garden Spot field hockey team improved to 9-1-0 in the L-L League. The Spartans held on to first place and claimed the Section Three title while compiling a solid 13-30 record overall. That placed the Spartans seventh in the District Three AA power rankings - just shy of Susquehannock. Garden Spot’s win streak ended at seven games in a tough 1-0 loss at Ephrata on Saturday, October 9. Three days later, the offense came through at crucial times, especially in overtime, for a 4-3 victory at Cedar Crest. This match was an uphill battle for the Spartans, who gave up three goals in the first quarter. Erin Gonzalez provided the scoring to start and to end the game. She scored in the opening minute of the first stanza. After Lauren Horning scored two goals - one in the second quarter and another in the fourth - Gonzalez sent everyone home with her gamewinner at the 11:58 mark of overtime. Horning also added an assist while Melanie Esh assisted on two goals. After giving up the three early goals, Bryna Kelly stayed undaunted in front of the Spartans cage, making seven saves. VOLLEYBALL In a tough L-L League match, the Spartans came up short against Lebanon 3-2 on Thursday, October 7. Other than Garden Spot’s 2516 victory in the first set, every other set was a close one. The
Cedars tied the match with a 2519 win in the second set and pulled ahead, winning 25-20. Garden Spot regained momentum and won 25-21 only to fall short in the tiebreaker, 15-12. The Spartans evened their league record at 5-5 (6-7 overall) by beating Cocalico 3-0 on Tuesday. The host Spartans posted winning sets of 25-6, 25-19 and 25-21. GIRLS’ SOCCER The Spartans fell to 2-8-0 in league play with a 4-0 loss to Lampeter-Strasburg on Tuesday, October 12. Hannah Cissne, Chloe Bucher, Ashlynn Keys and Jenna Daveler each scored for the Pioneers. Garden Spot fell to 3-12-0 overall. CROSS COUNTRY The Garden Spot boys’ squad (5-5) outran Manheim Central 22-36 in a Section Two race at Central on Tuesday, October 12.
Despite Michael Greenwald posting a first-place finish at 18:04 for the Barons, the Spartans took second place through fourth in the race. Alan Krock was only one second behind Greenwald as he took second. Josiah Martin’s pace of 18:08 was good for third. Will Culbert was fourth overall. Another trio of Garden Spot runners crossed the line in successive order. Finn Wenrich took sixth at 19:08 while Thomas Watt registered 19:13 for seventh place. Evan Graham was eighth with 19:15. The girls team fell to 5-5, losing to Central 17-43. The top four finishers in the girls’ race were Central runners. Julia Hoover came across the finish line in fifth place, posting a time of 22:25 for Garden Spot. Nicole Kelch (23:30) was sixth. Hayley Zimmerman finished ninth at 24:46.
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Derrick Lambert takes a pass 15 yards into the end zone for the Spartans’ first touchdown in their 36-0, Homecoming win over Lebanon on October 8.
