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Bears Fall to LD in District Three 5A Opener
Small. Rudy claimed that match but was unable to keep his momentum, falling to The case for rested and fresh Grant Hoover (Hempfield) in versus rested and rusty was put the quarterfinals. From there the test by the boys’ basketball the senior rebounded with team on February 21st when wins over Matthew Locklier the Bears got back to action (Hershey) and Bryson Cantrell after a 12-day break. Rested and (McCaskey) before falling to rusty came out on top as ElizaPenn Manor’s Ty Grassel in bethtown failed to reach double the consolation semifinals. digits in two different quarters Rudy bounced back again, colon their way to a 41-40 loss to lecting his fifth-place medal Lower Dauphin in the opening with a win over Manheim round of the District Three 5A Central’s Logan Forrest. playoffs. The final three Bears to The first of those single make the medal stand all did so digit quarters came in the as sixth place finishers starting opening frame where LD, the with Reitmeyer at 120. The 11th seed, was able to take a junior went 3-3 on the day 10-6 lead thanks to Elizabethwith wins over Mario Hummel town’s struggles on the offen(Warwick), Dabens Charles sive end. E-town, seeded (McCaskey) and Mark Overlansixth, was able to find some der (Donegal). The losses were offense in the second, leading to Manheim Township’s Kamto a 15-12 edge but still faced dyn Williams, Lampeter-Strasa 22-21 deficit at the break. burg’s Riley Bonholtzer and the The second of the single digit final one to Hempfield’s Zy quarters came in the third with McCain-Murry that gave Reitanother six-point showing for meyer the sixth-place medal. the Bears. The Falcons manFindlay was up next, finishaged just eight points but that ing sixth at 126 after bowing stretched their lead to 30-27. out of his last match due to Once again, the Bears were able injury. The day started well to regroup, this time leading to with the junior topping Mila 13-11 advantage in the ton Hershey’s Trevor Parsell fourth, but it was not enough in the quarterfinals after to overcome that three-point opening with a first-round hole, leading to the loss. bye. Things went sideways Patrick Gilhool netted 18 from there as losses to Seapoints while Braden Cummings mus Mack (Hempfield) in the added 10 as the only other championship semifinals and double-digit scorer. Nathan Fletcher (Central WRESTLING Dauphin) in the consolation The wrestling team made semifinals set the stage for their annual trip to LanFindlay’s injury default. disville for the sectional Candy (285) was the last round of the District 3-3A Bear to reach the podium. Championship. The trip could Candy took out Manheim Central’s Ryland Fittery in the opening round. He followed with a loss to eventual champion Caleb Mussmon (Hempfield) before bouncing back to top David Isidro (Milton Hershey) and Jonathan Eisenhooth (Palmyra) in the consolation bracket. Back-to-back losses to Central Dauphin’s Ben Stewart and Donegal’s Nicholai Brotzman brought Candy’s season to an end. BOWLING The bowling team took their next postseason steps starting with the LancasterLebanon League Girls’ Championship on February 16th. Photo by Cheri Sine Braden Cummings looks to put up a shot against Lower E-town sent eight Lady Bears Dauphin’s Charlie Fortney in the Bears’ 41-40, District Three to Clearview Lanes with three opening-round loss in E-town last Monday. keglers making it to the BY ARA GRIGORIAN
have gone better for the Bears as only half of the 12 grapplers made it to the medal stand with only two of those doing well enough to keep their season alive. Those two wrestlers were Nathan Thomas and Aiden Robinson with Austin Reitmeyer, Ryan Findlay, Jake Rudy, and Bradley Candy rounding out the podium finishers. Robinson did his work in the 152-pound bracket where he posted a win over Solanco’s Wade Adams to secure the bronze. The junior opened his day with a bye and a quarterfinal win over Donegal’s Ian Brown before a semifinal loss to Warwick’s Andrew McClune dropped him into the consolation bracket. There he picked up a win over McCaskey’s Tellin Cintron before taking bronze with the win over Adams. Thomas kept his season alive with a fourth-place finish despite ending his day with a loss to Hempfield’s Clay Gainer in the consolation finals of the 138-pound draw. Thomas’ two wins came over Andrew Smith (Solanco) in the championship quarterfinals and over Warwick’s Bryn Hess in the consolation semifinals. In between was a loss to Manheim Township’s Aliazer Alicea. One Bear managed to finish his sectional round in fifth place and that was Rudy. Despite entering as the sixth seed in the 160-pound bracket, Rudy found himself on the mat for a first-round match opposite Donegal’s Andrew
stepladder finals. That meant the end of the season for Gabriella Eberle (969), Kendra Griffie (959), Makenna Locke (781), Rylee Bender (778) and Pauline Kuty (756). Alaina Telenko posted the top qualifying score in that trio, rolling games of 199, 164, 229, 160, 190 and 193 to finish third in qualifying. That set Telenko up in the finals opposite Willow Hee of Penn Manor with Telenko taking the battle 177-169. Her second-round battle was opposite Lacey Slaymaker, with another Lady Comet posting a 166-164 win to end Telenko’s day. Slaymaker also ended Allison Evans day, topping her 172-163 in the opening round of the finals. Evans earned her way into the match-up with qualifying games of 180, 152, 201, 149, 198 and 200 for the seventh best pin count. Hannah Griffie was the last of the trio to qualify, doing so in eighth thanks to her 1052. Her championship run ended with a loss to Eva Brubaker, another Lady Comet, by a 234-186 final. The Bears sent four bowlers to 222 Dutch Lanes on February 18th where the boy’s took center stage for their singles championship battle. Only one of those four advanced to the final but that was enough as Zach Wentzel posted five straight wins to take home the boy’s title. “He started out fantastic,” said head coach Frank Telenko. “Then he started to struggle but kept positive throughout. I was proud of how well he performed and didn’t give up. His final five games to win the title were so good, that he was going to be tough to beat.” Those final games saw Wentzel bowl a 221, 214, 233, 230 and 235, knocking off Ryan Muckle (Conestoga Valley), Connor Firestone (Cedar Crest), David Broich (Manheim Township), Derek Warfel (Penn Manor) and Manheim Township’s Nick Tomlinson in the title game. Ayden Pope just missed the finals. His 1130 qualifying score fell just short of the 1164 cut line. Derek Deardorff ’s 1067 and Daniel Eberle’s 989 completed Elizabethtown’s championship bowlers.
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Patrick Gilhool hits a jumper over Lower Dauphin’s Cody Rosati for two of his game-high 18 points in E-town’s 41-40, District Three first-round loss to the visiting Falcons on February 21.
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E-town’s Techeal Gonquoi runs a fastbreak against Lower Dauphin’s Braden Landis in the Bears’ 41-40, District Three 5A opening-round loss at home on last Monday. for more photos, visit www.townlively.com
