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Pioneers Advance to District Final With 3OT Win
ron Mallory, in check with 8 points. Parido, needing four three-pointers to hit the Last Monday’s 87-83 triple career 100 mark, did just that, OT victory over Hershey, in nailing his final triple with the District 3 5A semifinal, is 2:34 left in the third quarter proof that Together Everyand settling for 12 points. one Achieves More. “These Wert followed with 11 points, guys…what a bunch,” said Vranich led with eight head coach Ed Berryman. rebounds and dished out five “No one is afraid of the assists, and Luke Hines added moment; they pick each one bucket. other up and don’t give up. GIRLS’ BASKETBALL They are relentless.” Playing teams two, and And each of them had big sometimes three times in a moments in this one. season is never easy. EspecialTy Burton finished with 35 ly when the first meeting didpoints, 30 in the second half n’t go as you had planned. and 18 in the overtimes. He Such was the case for the girls’ was 11-for-11 from the foul basketball team. Last Friday, line and dropped a trey at the February 25, the Pioneers end of the second OT to tie looked to split the series the game at 76-76. against Gettysburg but this Berkeley Wagner (14 time on a bigger stage. In points) hit two big threes in their first meeting, back on the second OT, was fouled on January 17, the Warriors a rebound and an ensuing pulled out a 41-39 win. In the scramble that led to two made District Three 5A quarterfifree throws that pushed the nals on Friday, the No. 2 seed lead to 85-82 with 22.4 seccanned six of their nine onds left. triples in the first half, took a Luka Vranich (13 points) 31-24 lead at the half, and scored six in the second and then connected on 15-of-24 six in the third, grabbed free throws after the break to rebounds and dished assists advance to the semifinals that often go unnoticed as L-S with a 55-43 victory. fought off a 25-22 halftime “Camryn Felix hit three deficit. three-pointers in the second Ben Wert only hit one three quarter,” noted head coach pointer but it was the first of Tony Fink. “She has some two straight by L-S, giving range, and we just did not them their first lead of the close out. And in the second night, 11-9. half, (Anne) Bair was 12-forIsaiah Parido’s (11 points) 14 from the free throw line,” and one with .8 left in the he continued. first quarter gave L-S its Fexlix (14 points) and biggest lead of the night, 16Autumn Oaster (12 points) 11. He also canned two big combined for seven of those threes in the fourth, both threes and Bair led the way breaking a tied score. with 22 points. It was more And last, but certainly not than L-S could handle. Katie Ranck finished with 11 points and Kiersten Hostetter and Ella Horst both added ten. The Warriors jumped out to a 7-0 lead before L-S cut the lead to 11-9 on a Kelsey McTaggart triple. Hostetter’s trey at the end of the quarter made it 15-12. L-S kept at it in the second quarter. Jenna Daveler snatched a pass and drove for a layup and Maggie Visniski (5 points) scored in the paint for Lampeter’s first lead of the night, 16-15. That was shortlived as L-S turned the ball photo by Mona Steinhauer over twice and Gettysburg Lampeter-Strasburg’s Luke Hines celebrates after the Pioneers 87-82 3OT victory over Hershey in the District Three 5A semifinals answered with three straight triples and a 24-16 lead. on Monday February 28. BY MONA STEINHAUER
least, was sixth man Luke Hines (season-high 11 points), the unsung hero of the game. He hit five straight points late in the fourth and held his ground in the paint against Hershey’s big man, Zach Miller, making it as difficult as possible to score. “He definitely had an impact on the game,” said head coach Ed Berryman. “Overall, it was an amazing basketball game against two teams laying it all out, not wanting to back down. It was a high-quality game and probably the best game I’ve ever been a part of. Prior to Hershey, the Pioneers took care of Northeastern, 66-52 in the quarterfinals on February 24. Burton and Wagner connected on back-to-back three pointers (the team hit 11 on the night) to start the game and L-S never looked back. Up 20-11 on a bucket by Vranich (4 points), Northeastern closed the gap with a three by Nick Rizzuto (21 points) and then dropped three straight triples in the second quarter to get within two, 25-23. L-S responded with a 9-0 run and finished the half in front 41-27. They led by as many as 19, 52-53 in the third quarter before surviving a Northeastern fourth quarter rally (19-14) down the stretch. Wagner, with limited playing time in Lampeter’s first round game, led with a team high 19 points and four triples. Burton added 18 points and helped keep the Bobcat’s leading scorer, Kar-
Hostetter’s threepointer before the half cut the led to 31-24. Gettysburg led by as many as 16 in the third quarter before L-S rallied with a 9-0 run, including six from Ranck, to stay within striking distance. L-S got to within five, 47-42 with 3:47 left in the game but Bair kept the hosts in front, connecting on eight free throws while holding L-S to Staff photo a single point. The Lampeter-Strasburg’s Riley Bonholtzer mixes it up with Luke Mentzer of Warriors managed Chambersburg in a 120-pound, opening-round match at the South Central just one field goal in AAA Regional Championships in Spring Grove on February 25. that final quarter but went 9-for-18 from the but outscored the Blue Devils 25-26 saw his season come to 23-18 after the break. Hostet- a close. line to advance. Coming off a bronze medal “I was happy that we com- ter’s 3-point buzzer beater at peted, but we went there to the end of the third got L-S to performance a week earlier, within six, 36-30. Her back- Riley Bonholtzer, wrestling at win,” said Fink. Battling back in the conso- to-back triples in the final 120 suffered a round of 16 fall lation bracket, the Pioneers minute of the game cut it to (3:09) against Chamberstraveled to No. 3 seed Green- 43-38 before the Pioneers ran burg’s Luke Mentzer, the eventual sixth place finisher castle Antrim Tuesday, March out of time. Ranck (14) and Hostetter and immediately dropped into 1, for state seeding purposes (10) were the double-digit the consolation bracket where and suffered a 45-38 loss. “It took us too long to scorers. Visniski (8), Daveler he suffered a second loss, 7-5 adjust to their press and we (3) and McTaggart (3) also to Damian Key (Dallastown). A first period takedown were missing Ella Horst, a contributed. proved to be the difference as WRESTLING starter, so that played a role,” Lampeter-Strasburg’s lone both wrestlers scored five secsaid Fink. That press led to seven entry into the Class 3A Dis- ond period points, Bonholtzer turnovers and eventually a trict Three/South Central with a takedown and a near14-5 first quarter deficit. They Regional championships held fall early. Neither scored in were down 27-15 at the half Friday and Saturday, February the final period.
photo by Mona Steinhauer
Fighting back through the District Three 5A consolation bracket, the Pioneers Kiersten Hostetter tries to get by Greeencastle Antrim’s Mia Libby Tuesday, March 1. for more photos, visit www.townlively.com
