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Grube Scores Seven Times in Win Over Gov. Mifflin

BY ARA GRIGORIAN

The Black Knights faced their toughest competition in a Wednesday evening match at home as the Blue Streaks posted a 15-14 victory in Lancaster-Lebanon League boys’ lacrosse action at Hempfield. The loss was the Knights’ (71) first of the season as they fell to 4-1 in league play.

Hempfield was coming off a decisive 18-4 defeat of Governor Mifflin on Saturday, April 9. In that non-league game, Max Grube scored seven times and dished off three assists. A.J. McAlpine, who also had two assists, and Jason Hilton notched hat tricks.

Ryan Heuston (2g, 1a) Toby Marco (1g, 2a) and Zack Antesberger, who scored twice, also had points while Seamus Mack registered an assist.

Two days earlier, in a home game against league foe Elizabethtown, the 21-3 win had 14 different Knights earning points. Heuston (4g, 3a) and McAlpine (4g, 2a) led the way while Grube scored twice and assisted five times.

Antesberger (2g, 1a) and Phillip Krauser (2g) also scored multiple times while Cole Gibbons, Evan Bush, Logan Klinger, and Hilton each recorded a goal and an assist.

In that Township match, Hempfield’s six fourth-quarter goals fell short in the Knights’ comeback bid.

Heuston scored five times with Grube (4g, 3a) Antesberger (3g, 1a) Marco (1g, 2a) and McAlpine (1g, 1a) also coming through while Hilton notched an assist.

GIRLS LACORSSE

Looking at the standings in L-L League girl’s lacrosse, it is obvious that nobody wants to give an inch. Hempfield, Lampeter-Strasburg and Manheim Township all went into midweek with unbeaten records in the L-L League with the Pioneers at 6-0 and both Township and Hempfield at 5-0.

The Black Knights pelted the net at Lancaster Country Day to the count of 25-8 on Monday, April 11.

They were coming off dominant wins against Governor Mifflin - 18-8 on Saturday - as well as an 18-1 thumping of Elizabethtown back on Thursday, April 7. That was a 61-17 aggregate scoring.

As is often the case, Kelsea Dague (5g, 1) led Hempfield on Monday. Natalie Bole (4g) also found the net multiple times. Mackenzie Warfel, who had two assists, and Mia Brennan each had hat tricks. Claire Skovera led the team in assists with five. Skovera, Brynn Axe, Isabelle Masengarb, and Kenna Price each tallied two goals.

Eryn Murphy had four saves in the victory. She had six saves in the Mifflin match.

Masengarb’s seven goals were tops against Mifflin. But in terms of total points, it was Whitney Hershey (4g, 5a). Bole adding a hat trick while Axe and Dague each scored twice.

TRACK

In a Section One meet at Cedar Crest, the Falcons topped the Knights in both boys’ and girls’ track and field. The girls’ team lost 123-27 with Mia Sheldon earning first in the high hurdles at a time of 17.2 seconds. Madeline Kemmick won the javelin with an 88-foot-5 toss.

The boys’ meet ended in a 94-56 final where Hempfield won the javelin again with Peter Wentzel hurling it 147 feet-5 inches. Ryan Criste won both the long jump (20-4) and the high jump at 6 feet.

Brady Weachter took the pole vault (9-6) while Vincent Wisotky’s discus toss went 115-4.

Aidan Hodge took first in the 3,200-meter run with a time of 9:33.9

TENNIS

Playing consecutive Section One matches on the road, Hempfield lost at Manheim Township 4-3 on Monday, April 11 and 6-1 to Cedar Crest on Wednesday.

Cooper Lehman, who earned the Knights’ lone team point at Crest with 6-1, 6-0 straight sets, teamed with Eric Jordan for a tough number one doubles match where they fell short 8-5.

Hempfield (9-3, 3-2 league) split the singles matches at Township. Lehman persevered a 7-5, 1-6, 10-6 number one singles match. Jordan won the second singles as well as teaming up with Lehman for a 9-8 win at first doubles.

In the tight match, Andre Hurst and Trent Meyers were on the losing end of a tight 98 second doubles. Eli Worley and Jonah Comeaux fell 8-4 at third doubles.

BASEBALL

The Knights played five games in six days, winning four and improving to 7-3 on the year. In a stretch of grueling games that started on Friday, April 8, the Knights defeated McCaskey 10-5, won a non-league game 4-2 at Dallastown on Saturday, April 9, and posted a 10-2 win at Elizabethtown on Monday before losing 5-3 to Warwick - the first place team in Section One. Hempfield wrapped up the stretch with a 4-1 defeat of Solanco as Austin Dunlap threw a complete game with five strikeouts and only one earned run allowed.

In the McCaskey game, Aiden Rodenberger’s two-run single broke a scoreless tie. Chuck Sheerer’s sacrifice fly RBI made it 4-0 and, after the Red Tornado had cut the lead to one run, Cameron Berger’s two run single made it 6-3 in Hempfield’s favor.

Hunter Williams earned the win, going 5 2/3 innings. Dunlap came on in relief to close it out.

Rodenberger was the winning pitcher, going six innings with five strikeouts and four hits allowed in the win at Dallastown. Berger earned the save.

Dunlpa and Marcus Rivera both slugged solo home runs to support Logan Harelson’s earned victory at Elizabethtown. The Knights also took advantage of three E-town errors in the fourth inning.

In the Solanco game, Hempfield scored three in the fifth on a pair of infield errors and timely singles by Sheerer, Toole and Dunlap.

SOFTBALL

Elizabethtown won an extra-inning game at Hempfield on Monday, April 11. Hempfield fell to 3-5 on the season (2-3 league).

The Bears pushed across the winning run in the eighth inning of the 2-1 win. The game winner came in the inning after Hempfield had tied it on an RBI single by sophomore Carley Ernst. The hit sent the game into extras and scored Carly Guthrie, who went 3-for-3 with a double. Emma McPherson also had a double.

Ernst helped her own cause, tying the game. She went the distance but was denied the win despite eight strong innings. She had 12 strikeouts and gave up eight hits and only two walks.

Photo by Mark Palczewski

Hempfield’s AJ McAlpine maneuvers past E-town’s Wyatt Wawrzyniak during the Black Knights’ 21-3, Section One victory at home on April 7. for more photos visit www.townlively.com