LANCASTER – Wanted to get a couple of photos posted quickly from Thursday’s L-L League baseball championship game. Pequea Valley, the Section 4 runner-up, pulled off the comeback, scoring twice in the top of the seventh to beat Section 4 foe Lancaster Catholic 4-3 for league gold. It was the Braves’ first L-L League...
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LANCASTER – With its 4-1 weather-suspended/resumption victory over Annville-Cleona on Wednesday, Pequea Valley locked up the L-L League Section 4 softball championship. The Braves will take on Section 2 runner-up Conestoga Valley in an L-L League quarterfinal playoff game on Saturday at 10 a.m. at Garrett Field in Willow Street. L-L League playoff bracket...
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LANCASTER – The first of several L-L League basketball coaching vacancies will be filled on Thursday. According to the school’s Web site, Pequea Valley is set to name Jason McDonald as its next girls’ varsity basketball coach. The school board will vote for McDonald’s approval on Thursday night. And if his name sounds familiar,...
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LANCASTER – Key L-L League Section 4 baseball game last Thursday, when Pequea Valley hosted Lancaster Catholic. First place was on the line in Kinzers, and the Crusaders were looking for the regular-season sweep over the Braves. And they got it. Bryan Haberstroh slammed a pair of home runs and Andrew Geraghty and Chris...
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LANCASTER – Busy day on the diamond on Monday. L-L League baseball section play got cranking. And in case you missed it, there were a couple of mighty interesting scores. Like in Section 1, where reigning league champ Cedar Crest fell to Hempfield 3-1. Shaun Corso belted a homer for the Black Knights, who...
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LANCASTER – One of the most prolific pass-catchers in the L-L League the last several seasons has made his college choice. Pequea Valley senior Tyler Schmitt will play wideout for Wilkes University, a Division III program that competes in the Middle Atlantic Conference. And as an added bonus, Schmitt, the Braves’ ace pitcher, will...
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LANCASTER – Make that two coaching vacancies in L-L League girls’ basketball circles. First, Lancaster Mennonite’s Sherri Gorman left her post to take over as the new head coach for Elizabethtown College’s women’s program. More about Gorman’s big switch right here. And now John Trovato is stepping down at Pequea Valley after his second stint...
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LANCASTER – When wrestling resumes Saturday morning at Wilson High School in West Lawn, a trio of L-L League entrants will be in semifinal bouts in the Southeast Regional “AA” Tournament. District 3 champ Mitchell Ball from Pequea Valley, who earned a first-round bye at 160, will take on Sam Scheib from Tri-Valley. Ball...
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LANCASTER – Pequea Valley’s Chelsey Merklinger missed a perfect game by 2 pins. But she picked a perfect time to roll a 298 … in the championship match of the District 3 girls’ singles championship on Saturday night at Berks Lanes in Sinking Spring. Merklinger topped Wilson’s Paige Graeff 298-188 in the championship match....
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ANNVILLE – The balloons and flowers were on standby and there was a guy in the gym holding up a homemade point countdown chart. And there were plenty of handy cams and point-and-click cameras at the ready. But alas, Annville-Cleona senior Victoria Siebecker came up 4 points shy of joining the 1,000-career-point club on Friday...
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