Win and you are in. It is the perfect scenario for any sports team looking to secure a post-season berth. And it was exactly the setup for the Elizabethtown boys' volleyball team and their May 11th clash with Cocalico. Win and move your record to 9-3 which secures second place in Section Two and the L-L playoff berth that comes with the win. Unfortunately for the Bears the season finale went to the Eagles by scores of 25-12, 25-12 and 25-20 with the 3-0 Cocalico win lumping Cocalico, E-town and Garden Spot together in second place with matching 8-4 records and giving the L-L berth to the Spartans.

Cooper Torborg finished with five kills and five blocks with Eli Miller adding 18 assists and Prabin Bhattarai nine digs.

TRACK

If the calendar reads the second weekend in May look no further than Hempfield High School if you are in need of a track and field fix. Every year the L-L track world gathers in Landisville for the Lancaster-Lebanon League Championship Meet and this year was no different with the two-day event taking place May 12th and 13th. Both sides of the Bear contingent collected six medals with a few near misses, leaving the Lady Bears 10th in the team standings and the boys 13th.

Ali Fink fronted the Lady Bear push, finishing fourth in both the 1600m (5:16.85) and the 800m (2:23.62). Jordan DiRisio joined Fink on the 1600m podium, finishing sixth with a time of 5:23.50. DiRisio was one of the near misses for E-town with her 11:56.50 placing her tenth which was roughly eight seconds out of the medal count.

Anna Rank just missed gold in the pole vault while setting a new school record, topping out at 12', the same height as ELCO's Carissa Bender but the Lady Raider senior took the top spot with fewer misses. Felicia Morris captured Elizabethtown's lone bronze, covering 36-3.25 with her top triple jump. Noreen Lehman collected the final medal, finishing fifth in the javelin with a top toss of 108-6. Genna McDonald was another near miss, her 62.20 placing her tenth in the 400m and just over a second out of a medal.

The boy's 13th place team finish was highlighted by three relay medals, starting with the work of Donte Checco, Nate Merlo, Trevor Merlo, and Max Gerhart who claimed eighth with an 8:27.59 in the 3200m relay. The 1600m relay team of Jason Stark, Djemba N'Dikwe, Owen Dommel and Juan Lopez posted a 3:28.04, good enough for fourth place after the dust settled. Add in the eighth-place finish from the 400m relay team of Dommel, N'Dikwe, Stark and Anthony Wreh and E-town collected seven of their 19 team points in relay events.

Lopez posted the top solo finish, taking fourth in the 400m with a 50.50. Stark and his 52.69 ended up in 12th place, just over a second off the medal stand. Caleb Fuge added a fifth place run in the 110 hurdles, posting a 15.53 in the finals. Jackson Kay picked up the final medal on the track with his seventh-place time of 1:59.67 in the 800m while Colin Rilatt seized the final solo medal with a toss of 120-5 in the discus, good enough for eighth place.

Jaysen Conrad just missed the podium in two separate events, his 9:59.24 placing him ninth in the 3200m while his 4:30.55 had him tenth in the 1600m. Bradley Kreider was a few steps behind Conrad in the 1600m, taking 11th with his 4:24.31.