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6- MERCHANDISER - Manheim Central Edition - January 11, 2023 SPORTS Conestoga Valley • Donegal • Elizabethtown Garden Spot • Hempfield Lampeter-Strasburg • Manheim Central Penn Manor • Pequea Valley • Solanco MORE SPORTS PICTURES and other high school sports news at
Lady Baron Hoopsters Sit at 7-3 Overall
BY ERIC PYLES
Thanks to the balmy weather currently hanging around Central Pennsylvania it may not feel like winter but rest assured, it is. That means the high school sports scene moves inside to gymnasiums, natatoriums, bowling alleys and gun ranges.
The Manheim Central girls’ basketball team has 10 games under their belts and despite opening 0-2, now sport a 7-3 record thanks to a six-game winning streak that stretched from December 8th to the 28th. Those wins came over Twin Valley (45-25), Hempfield (47-31), Elizabethtown (55-11), West Perry (54-30), Conestoga Valley (48-25) and York Suburban (47-46). That onepoint victory over York Suburban earned Central a spot in the title game of Suburban’s Holiday Tournament, but Greencastle-Antrim hoisted the trophy while snapping the winning streak with a 41-39 victory.
The Lady Barons returned to their winning ways on January 3rd, rolling by Garden Spot 50-30. Maddie Knier netted a game high 19 while both Abbie Reed and Payton Snyder chipped in with eight points apiece.
BOYS’ BASKETBALL
The boys are only nine games into their 2022-2023 slate, but those nine games have gone well with Manheim winning seven of them. The two losses came to Columbia and West York with the Columbia loss preventing the Barons from a title shot at the Mifflin County Holiday Tournament. Central did rebound from that Columbia loss, topping Mifflin County 64-43 in the consolation game.
Manheim Central kicked off their season with a title run at the Red Lion Tip-off where they topped Cedar Cliff, 58-54, and the host Lions by a more comfortable 73-56 final. Central shook off the loss to West York with wins over Elizabethtown (4544), Conestoga Valley (63-58) and York Suburban (64-48) while adding a 70-49 win over Garden Spot on January 3rd. Trey Grube posted a game high 26 in that win while Aaron Enterline (14 points) and Connor Fahnestock (12 points) provided the backup.
WRESTLING
The wrestling team has mixed in a few big tournaments throughout their early season dual meet schedule. The results have the Barons at 3-1 in dual meets with December wins over Lebanon (64-9) and Lampeter-Strasburg (44-24) countering a loss to Spring Grove by a 46-18 final.
Central picked up their first win of 2023 on January 4th, topping Ephrata 36-27. The Barons opened with pinfall wins by Leo Bonanno (114), Braxton Keiffer (121) and Barret Keiffer (127) with a setback at 133 making it 18-6, a third of the way through the weight classes. Jake Hess added an old-fashioned decision at 139 before back-to-back Ephrata wins made it 21-15. A 19-3 tech fall win for Brett Barbush at 160 and a major decision win by Brodie Daugherty at 172 stretched Manheim’s lead to 30-15.
Ephrata wins at 189 and 215 added suspense to the match with a 30-27 score, but that quickly dissipated with Wyatt Kupres picking up the lone forfeit of the match at 285 to secure the 36-27 win.
In their big tournaments Manheim Central has been up & down with an 18th place finish at the season opening Cumberland Valley Kick-off Classic. They followed with mixed results at the Panther Holiday Classic held at Mount Aloysius College in Cresson, PA on December 16th and 17th and finished with a 3-2 mark in the Bob Rohm Duals. Central topped Central Columbia, Mifflinburg Area and Crestwood but fell to Lackawanna Trail HS and Huntingdon Area HS.
RIFLE
The rifle team stumbled out of the starting gate, dropping their opening match 497-496 to Garden Spot on December 13th. The Barons rebounded well from there, ripping off wins over Governor Mifflin (494-490), Elizabethtown (495-494) and Wilson (491-487) leaving them in a three-way tie for first with Garden Spot and Ephrata.
BOWLING
The bowling team followed the same script, dropping their initial match of the season to Columbia on December 9th. From there the Barons have posted four straight wins, topping Cocalico, Lampeter-Strasburg, Lancaster Catholic and ELCO by a combined 24-4 over the final weeks of December.
SWIMMING
The swimming season started slowly with just two meets completed for both the boys’ and girls’ teams. The boys’ team managed to rebound from their 120-42 season opening loss to Hempfield with a 95-52 win over Penn Manor. Unfortunately, the Lady Barons were not as fortunate, following their 126-36 loss to Hempfield with a 112-38 loss to Penn Manor.
Photo by Mark Palczewski
Maddie Knier zeroes in a jumper in the paint for two of her game-high 19 points in Manheim’s 50-20, Section Two win over visiting Garden Spot on January 3.
Photo by Mark Palczewski
