The Eastern York track and field teams hosted York Suburban on April 30th and the result was an 86-60 loss for the boys. The Golden Knights did manage seven events wins with Demonte Martin and Drake Brown accounting for two each. Martin picked up his wins in the 110H (15.2) and the high jump (5-11) while Brown did his work with wins in the shotput (38-8.25) and discus (135-2). Westin McLain tossed the javelin 133-1 to give Eastern first place in all three throws while Hailu Barrow added a pole vault win with a top height of 9-6. Gavin Johnson claimed the final victory with a 37-3.5 in the triple jump.
The Golden Knights also took part in the 12th Annual Cy Fritz Open on the 26th. Eastern came back from Millersville with four medals, two each by Martin and Olivia McLain. Martin posted a 15.05 in the 110H finals to capture gold while settling for silver in the 300H with a time of 40.72. McLain did all her work in the distance runs, taking fifth in the 1600m with a time of 5:25.76 and seventh in the 3200m with a time of 11:53.94.
GIRLS' LACROSSE
The girl's lacrosse team split their past two games, falling to Kennard-Dale after slipping by West York. The Lady Golden Knights used 12 Addy Malone goals to defeat West York, 16-15, on April 30th. Ellie Lippy tacked on two scores while Annette Kurnik and Regan Young split the final two. Summer Breen finished the win with just two saves. One day later the Lady Golden Knights fell to KD by a 21-7 final. Malone netted all seven scores while Breen tallied three saves.
SOFTBALL
The easiest way to win a softball game is to not let your opponent score. That is the path the Lady Golden Knights took to wins over Dover and York Suburban. Up first was a 7-0 shutout of Dover on April 29th. Maelynn Leber tossed a one-hit gem to earn the win, adding nine strikeouts with no walks. She also helped her cause by poking a RBI double that put Eastern up 1-0 in the third. Kelsey Felix made it 2-0 with another run scoring double in the frame while Katie Lehman capped the three-run burst with a fielder's choice RBI. Morgan Winter earned the Lady Golden Knights final RBI, making it 5-0 with her fourth inning single. Eastern tacked on one more fourth inning run for a 6-0 game with the final run coming in the fifth via a Dover error.
The shutout fun continued on May 1st with an 11-0 blanking of York Suburban that lasted just six innings. Leber tossed her second straight one-hit gem, this time racking up nine strikeouts to go with one walk. McKenzie Buchmyer provided the offensive spark with a three-hit, five RBI game while Morgan Dobbeck added her own three hit, two RBI day. Buchmyer's big bop came in the sixth where her three-run triple extended the lead to 8-0. Dobbeck's two-run double also came as part of Eastern's six run sixth, ending the game via 10-run rule. Buchmyer picked up her remaining RBI base hit during the Lady Golden Knights 5-0 first inning burst, smacking a triple to center that made it a 4-0 game.
BOYS' LACROSSE
The boy's lacrosse team ripped off two wins to even their season record at 7-7 overall. The Golden Knights blew by Kennard-Dale on April 25, 17-5. Kade Wiley finished the win with 10 saves but was never really in trouble thanks to four scores from Cayden Michael combined with three goals and three assists from Gavin Evans. Bryce Henise and Jake Crumling added two scores each while Gage Barton, Torin Young, Rylan Emlet, Lance Manzanet, Zach Grove and Jack Deerdorf chipped in one score each.
A few days later Eastern York topped West York by a 13-10 final. This time it was Crumling leading the way with five goals and one assist. Michael and Henise netted a hat trick each while Stephen Wisler and Grove picked up the final two scores. Wiley turned away nine shots to secure the win.
VOLLEYBALL
The boys' volleyball team took on two more losses, falling to Dover and Northeastern by the same 3-0 final. Eastern fell to the Eagles 25-17, 25-20 and 25-17 on the 25th and to Northeastern 25-18, 25-16 and 25-13 on the 30th. Brady Bixler was front and center for both games, totaling a combined 18 kills, 23 digs, six blocks, two assists and three aces. Nolan Reichard added 15 assists, seven kills, four digs and one block against Dover with another 12 assists, one kill and one dig coming opposite the Bobcats. Nick Spotts posted matching 15 dig games while adding an assist in the Northeastern loss. Devyn Sanders chipped in with 10 digs, seven assists and one kill against Dover while Jake Kennell tallied nine digs, five kills, two blocks and one ace in the match with Northeastern.
BASEBALL
The baseball team ramped up their post season push, ripping off three straight wins to improve to 11-5 overall, settling into the eighth spot in the District 3-4A rankings with three games remaining in the regular season.
The first of those wins came on April 25th with the Golden Knights topping Lancaster Mennonite by a 5-2 final. Emmit Silar was the star at the plate while Drew Dellinger picked up the win for five innings of work on the mound. Dellinger surrendered four hits and issued three walks, leading to two unearned Blazer runs in the top of the second. It took an inning, but the Golden Knights answered back with a two-run frame of their own, knotting the game just shy of the midway point. Silar was responsible for those two runs, ripping a single to center that plated Evan Rishell and Bren Taylor.
Silar left his mark in the fifth when Eastern put together another rally. This time it was another one out single that put the Golden Knights up for good. Two batters later Quinton McNew grounded into a fielder's choice with Taylor scoring from third and Silar racing in from second as Mennonite tried to pin down another out. The frantic play allowed enough breathing room for Owen Shimmel to pick up the easy two inning save. He allowed just one hit to go with three punchouts and one walk.
After a few days rest the Golden Knights were back at it on the 29th, topping William Penn by a 15-5 final in six innings. Shimmel got the start and the win but missed out on the complete game after hitting his pitch limit with one out in the sixth. McNew covered the last two outs, adding one strikeout to Shimmel's 10 while allowing the final Bearcat run.
Eastern needed just 10 hits to earn the win thanks to nine free passes and three York High errors. Dyson Renn collected two of those hits, leading to two RBIs while Jacob Bardo matched the two RBIs on just one hit. Renn picked up his two RBIs over two separate at bats, the first being a one run double in the first that made it 4-0 with the second a fifth inning single that made it 7-2. Bardo also split his work into two at bats with his first inning fielder's choice putting Eastern's first run on the board. Bardo added a one run, sixth inning double for his lone hit of the game. Shimmel helped his cause with a two-run double to right in the fifth that pushed Eastern's lead to 9-2.
The Golden Knights picked up win number three of the stretch on May 1st, holding off Bermudian Springs and their seventh inning rally for the 3-2 win. Eastern York did their scoring early starting with a two run first. Four straight singles to open the game quickly made it 1-0 with Bardo enjoying the RBI that went with his base knock. Renn finished up the first inning scoring with a sac fly two batters later that made it 2-0.
Taylor was one of three players with two hits in the game but was the only member of that trio to drive in a run, doing so with a second inning double that gave Eastern a much-needed insurance run.
Bermudian put together a bottom of the seventh rally that pushed two runs across and left the the tying run stranded on second while the winning run was on first. Rishell pitched his way out of that jam to secure the complete game win. He scattered eight hits with half coming during the Eagles nerve racking rally. He finished with six strikeouts and just one walk to go with those two earned runs.
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