The Elizabethtown Bears will be playing at home against the Ephrata Mountaineers at 4:15 p.m. on Monday. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
Elizabethtown's pitching crew heads into the game hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Friday. They put the hurt on Conestoga Valley with a sharp 10-0 victory.
Meanwhile, everything went Ephrata's way against Manheim Township on Saturday as Ephrata made off with a 6-0 win.
Not much got past Trent Wolf, who gave up just four hits and racked up six Ks to keep Manheim Township off the board. Wolf has been consistent recently: he hasn't pitched less than five innings in four consecutive pitching appearances.
On the hitting side, Ephrata's victory was truly a team effort as six different players contributed at least one hit. One of them was Chase Prange, who scored a run while going 2-for-4.
Elizabethtown's win ended a five-game drought on the road and puts them at 10-8-1. As for Ephrata, they have been performing well recently as they've won nine of their last 11 matches, which provided a nice bump to their 14-5 record this season.
Elizabethtown couldn't quite finish off Ephrata when the teams last played back in April and fell 3-1. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Ephrata's Camryn Simes, who pitched five innings while giving up just one earned run off four hits. Now that Elizabethtown knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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