The combined efforts of Caden Evans, Brock Hammaker and Zachary Park proved too tough for EasternYork's baseball team on Friday, March 31 as the Donegal Indians defeated the Golden Knights 8-0.

Hammanker drove in one of the Donegal runs in a five-run second inning. Coy Allman and Ale Eisenberger also helped drive the offense in the big frame.

The Indians scored seven runs in their Lancaster-Lebanon League game at Elco on Monday, April 3. They edged the Raiders 7-6, improving their record to 3-1. The Raiders fell to 2-1.

The two-run home run by Nolan Book proved to be the difference maker in Manheim Central's 3-2 defeat of Donegal on Wednesday afternoon, April 5.

The Barons scored those two runs in the top of the third inning of the L-L League game at Mount Joy. They made it a 3-0 lead before the Indians battled back with a two-spot in the home half of the sixth inning. Central's Cael Martin came on late in the game to record the save.

TRACK

Coming off a defeat at the hands of the Elco Raiders, the Donegal boys' and girls' track teams dominated their meet against Northern Lebanon. In the Monday afternoon Section Three meet at Donegal, the boys' team recorded a 99-51 victory over the Vikings while the Donegal girls dominated by a 111-39 margin. Both squads improved to 1-1 on the year.

The Raiders had won by nearly identical scores of 86-64 and 89-61 in the boys' and girls' meets respectively back on March 28.

"We have a lot of new student athletes this year and our inexperience showed in our first meet with Elco," Philip Koser, the Indians' head coach, said.

"There were many great individual results," added the coach. "Caleb Kendig won the shot put with a personal best 46-foot-6. He also won the javelin and was third in the discus."

Another bright spot came in the girls' meet with 4x100 relay teammates Faith Garber, Sophia Floyd, Peyton Mansfield, and Anna Brubaker.

"They ran the eighth fastest time in school history," Koser noted.

The girls' team captured all three relay events. Sophomore Kathryn Fernald, who also won the 800- and 3,200-meter individual events, was part of the 4x800 relay team that also included Kendall Finicle, Lucia Angeles, and freshman Molly Myers.

The 4x100 relay team included 200-m winner Faith Garber as well as Mansfield, Floyd, and Brubaker, who also anchored the 4x400 - Myers, Jayanna Morant, and Gleib.

Garber also claimed the 100-m dash as well as the long jump.

In the javelin and shot put events, junior Nya Bantum took first. Mahagony Hunter had the longest discus toss with Bantum taking second in the event.

Sydney Snyder, Claudia Taylor, and Emily Slobozien finished 1-2-3 in the triple jump. Snyder won the 400 with McKyla Bantum and Morant behind her. Hannah Slobozien took second behind Garber in the long jump while Taylor took third.

SOFTBALL

With Grace Graham's three hits and five runs batted in, the Donegal softball team topped Manheim Central 13-1 on the road, Wednesday afternoon, April 5. Graham had a triple and two singles.

A trio of Tribe teammates drove in two runs each - Ruth Myers, Emma Garber and Natalie Colwell with Myers stroking a double and scoring two runs. Bella Mackison also scored two runs as did winning pitcher Cara Biesecker.

Batting out of the lead-off spot, Biesecker went 1-for-3 with a double and two runs scored. She pitched five innings with two strikeouts and two walks.

The Indians were coming off a 19-4 thumping of the Elco Raiders the previous day. Garber had five RBI's in this win, slugging two doubles on a 3-for-3 afternoon.

Esther Myers, who drove in three, also doubled while Mackison blasted a solo home run in addition to drawing two walks and scoring another run.

Colwell went 2-for-3 with two RBI's.

Biesecker's pitching effort needed to go for only four innings in the mercy rule game. She recorded one strikeout and allowed four runs on three hits.

TENNIS

The Indians split their two recent L-L League tennis matches, bouncing back from a 6-1 loss to Pequea Valley on Tuesday, April 4 to defeat Annville-Cleona by the same score the following afternoon.

Akilan Murugesan and Landon Keller earned the team's only team point with an 8-5 win at number one doubles. Noah Rohrer and Alex Monchik played at number two doubles. The pair falling just short in an 8-4 match was the same fate as Bo Moose and James Turbedsky at number three doubles.

Murugesan not only teamed up with Keller for an 8-1 victory over their Annville rivals at number one doubles, Murugesan also won 6-2, 6-2 at first singles. Keller bounced back from a 6-4 loss to win 6-3 10-2 and claimed the number two singles for Donegal.

Rohrer, who won the number four singles 6-0, 3-6, 10-2, was Monchik's teammate in an 8-5 doubles win. Moose and Turbedsky also won 8-5.