Akilan Murugesan and Landon Keller led things off with a win. The rest of their teammates followed.

Their win and the team's victory was a 7-0 triumph - that of the Donegal boys' tennis team playing a match at Elizabethtown on Friday, March 24.

Keller and Murugesan, both seniors, paired up for an 8-1 victory over Luke Risser and Emery Morgan of E-town at the first doubles match.

At number two doubles, Noah Rohrer and Alex Monchik formed a winning Donegal duo as they posted an 8-1 win. James Turbedsky, who was Rohrer's basketball teammate during the winter, teamed up with Bo Moose for an 8-3 win at number three doubles.

In singles play, Murugesan held on for a 6-4 win at the first set against Risser before making it a straight sets win on a 6-2 second set victory.

Keller (6-0, 6-1) also won in straight sets. Moose eked by Finn Grinnell 7-6, 6-0 and Rohrer took the fourth singles 6-1, 6-3.

Donegal improved to 3-1 with that win but lost 7-0 to Lancaster Country Day on Wednesday, March 29. The loss dropped the Indians record in the Lancaster-Lebanon League to 1-1.

Rohrer and Monchik gave a great effort at number one doubles, falling short 8-4. The number three doubles with Moose and Turbedsky was an even closer finish at 8-6.

The Cougars took the four singles matches in straight sets.

SOFTBALL

The softball team opened the week of March 27 with a trip to Pennsboro for a non-league game with the Panthers. Donegal drew first blood, scoring in the top of the first. Upon relinquishing the lead in the fourth frame, the Indians regained the lead only to have Pennsboro even the score in the home half of the fifth.

The see-saw game ended with Pennsboro putting up three in the sixth inning for a 5-2 win.

With a single and a double, Cara Biesecker drove in one of the Indians runs and scored the other.

Biesecker also started and went the distance, striking out four batters and giving up 10 base hits.

Natalie Colwell, who also had a run batted in, and Esther Myers, who scored the other Donegal run, both went 2-for-3 on the day. The Indians collected seven hits.

BASEBALL

The Elizabethtown Bears clawed out a victory in a close Lancaster-Lebanon League baseball game at home, defeating Donegal 3-2 on Wednesday, March 29. Tied at 1-1 after two complete innings, Donegal pushed ahead with one run in the seventh on Brock Hammaker's two out single to left that plated Devin Bailey.

The Bears, however, took advantage of three walks and a game-winning single to center that pushed across two runs

Hammaker and Bailey both collected two hits and one RBI in the loss..

The loss dropped the Indians' record to 1-1 on the year.

"I think we will have a strong Section Three this year from top to bottom," Jeff Hartman, the Indians' head coach, stated. "Manheim Central will be the team to beat again."

Hartman would be looking at key returning seniors Alex Eisenberger, Caden Evans, Landon Baughman, Landon Robertson and Jaden Fabian to help lead the team.

"Fabian was a first team all-star," Hartman pointed out. "He was all-section pitcher and is a projected top of the rotation starter.

"Evans is projected at number two, but is pushing toward the top," Hartman said of the Widener University commit.

The previous week Donegal had a solid 10-0 win at West York, posting the non-league shutout on Wednesday, March 22.

Fabian picked up the win on the hill with five strikeouts over five innings. Ryan Shepard fanned two in the sixth.

The Indians pounded out 10 hits and took advantage of four walks and four errors. They led 2-0 after three complete but broke the game open with eight runs over the final three innings.