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Sharon Hershey shoots part the big 6 foot Stacey
Dee.
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absence didn’t seriously
hurt the team until Friday's
championship game against
Susquehanna Township, a
Harrisburg school.
Early in the first quarter,
it became clear that the
Donegal Susquehanna
match-up was going to be a
contest of skill versus size.
Donegal had a clear edge in
ballhandling, shooting and
teamwork. Susquehanna
Township, with vastly su-
perior height, controlled the
backboards.
With Merchant out of the
lineup, Coach Bill Earhart
moved 5'10° Beth Keffer
into the center’s slot, while
ballhandling whiz Sherri
Derr moved up from guard
to forward. Derr plays any
position brilliantly, but she
isn't very tall. Being
guarded by a §5'9"" forward
didn’t stop Derr from being
the team’s high scorer, with
16 points, but she was at an
obvious disadvantage in the
rebounding department.
Not one of the Donegal
front three—Keffer, Her-
shey and Derr—was nearly
as tall as her opposite
number on the Susquehanna
Township squad. The big-
gest Susquehanna Township
player was six-foot Stacey
Dee, a one-woman team
who scored 33 of her
team’s 54 points, and pulled
in so many rebounds that
her squad often got five or
six shots at the basket on
one possession.
The lead seesawed back
and forth until the last
quarter, when big Stacey
moved under the offensive
boards and led her team into
a 14-point explosion. With
little more than a minute to
go, Donegal suddenly ap-
plied a pressure defense
which forced plenty of
turnovers, and allowed them
Grappler Mike Greiner
wins 119lb championship
Mike Greiner, DHS, won
the 119-pound wrestling
championship of District
Three last Saturday at
Shippensburg State College.
Greiner came out on top by
winning a 5-3 decision over
Brown of Juniata.
Jeff Bell lost in the semi-
finals to Rarick of Kutztown,
who went on to win the
championship at 145
pounds, but the loss was on
a technicality after the two
wrestlers were tied after the
regular bout and again after
overtime. Jeff, however,
won his consolation bout
over Heim of Halifax, 5-1,
thereby placing third and
qualifying for the state
tournament this coming
weekend at Hershey.
Bell and Greiner are
among only 13 wrestlers
from the Lancaster-Lebanon
League to qualify for the
state tournament.
Sherry Derr [no. 31] shoots for two of her sixteen
points. Sherry, who was moved from guard position to
forward, was Donegal’s high scorer for the game.
Girls settle for 2nd in AA District tournament
to come roaring back—but
the clock ran out before the
Donegal girls could catch
up.
With an aggressive re-
bounder like Merchant in
the lineup, the outcome
would probably have been
different. Her absence,
however, gave the Indian-
ette bench a chance to
shine. Gainer, Donovan and
Miller all turned in im-
pressive performances.
Anyone who thought that
Donegal was a five-girl team
was wrong; their subs would
be stars on most clubs. They
can all shoot and move the
ball.
Coping with a full-court
press for most of the game,
Doncgal’s substitute guards
meshed easily with Sherri
Kinsey's offensive leader-
ship, running circles around
Susquehanna’s defense,
and leaving their tall
opponents flailing like wind-
mills in a vain attempt to
break up the attack.
The Indianettes have had
a great season: they are the
best team in Lancaster and
Lebanon Counties, having
beaten many larger schools.
They are also second-place
champions in the AA
District.
Next year, it seems safe to
predict, the Indianettes will
have another winning sea-
son.
It is hard to believe that
the girls’ basketball pro-
gram at Donegal is only five
years old. Their success is a
tribute to the leadership of
Coach Bill Earhart, and the
hard work of the Indianettes
themselves.
The girls are a real credit
to this community, not
simply because they are
winners, but because of the
intelligence, poise, and
cheerful good sportmanship
they have displayed all year,
both on and off the
basketball court.
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Several local projects
to be publicly discussed
The Lancaster County
Commissioners and the
Redevelopment Authority of
the County of Lancaster will
hold a meeting for residents
of northwestern Lancaster
County Thursday, March
13, beginning at 7:30 pm.
The meeting will be held at
the Donegal Senior High
School
The meeting is open to
the public. Projects recom-
mended to receive Com-
munity Development Funds
granted by the U.S. Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban
Development will be dis-
cussed.
Projects of local interest
include the Mount Joy
Borough storm sewer con-
struction. Under the pro-
gram, storm water inlets
would be constructed along
West Main Street, Orchard
Road and under Old Market
Street near Manheim Street.
$160,000 of funding has
been requested. $96,000 is
the recommended funding.
Another project is the
Marietta Jaycees Recreation
Center. The Jaycees have
requested $90,139 to «pro-
vide architectural fees, heat-
ing, plumbing and electrical
work to continue the
improvements to the Cen-
ter. Funding recomended is
$66,400.
The Marietta Borough
requested $259,950 to de-
sign and construct storm
drainage facilities on Front
Street from New Haven
Street to Pine Street.
* $80,000 have been recom-
mended.
Soccer tourny at DHS
Soccer clubs from - the
Lancaster-Lebanon area will
be competing in an indoor
soccer club tournament
beginning on Thursday,
March 13.
Thursday's action fea-
tures Division One teams
Cedar Crest, Conestoga
Valley, Elco, Garden Spot,
Lebanon and Manheim
Township. Division Two
goes at it Friday evening.
Jill McKain, far right, and Lisa Derr, left came up with the benefit dance idea
Battling it out will be
Donegal, Elizabethtown,
Hempfield, Solanco, Penn
Manor, Pequea Valley and
the Lancaster soccer clubs.
Finals will be held on
Saturday.
Action on all three nights
begins at 7:30 in the
Donegal High School gym-
nasium. The public is
welcome. Admission is by
donation.
for the Michael Drace family. Michael and his son Bobby, a student at Beahm,
were presented a check at a special assembly this past Friday.
Students help Drace family
Jill McKain and Lisa
Derr, students at W.IL
Beahm Junior High, de-
cided they wanted to help
their classmate and friend
Bobby Drace. Bobby and his
family lost their Maytown
home in a February 10 fire.
The girls came up with an
idea for having fun and
helping out the Drace family
at the same time. A benefit
dance was held at the school
February 29.
$255 was raised for the
family at the dance. An
additional $60 was collected
in a container at the school.
Last Friday the students
of Beihm presented Bobby
and his father, Michael,
with a $315 check.
“It just seemed like the
right thing to do,’’ said Jill.
‘“We wanted to help Bobby
and his family.”
Restoration Associates
sponsor furniture clinic
The Marietta Restoration
Associates announce the
next in a series of free
workshops to be held at the
Restoration Information
Center, 38 W. Market
Street, Marietta.
On March 18, a furniture
refinishing clinic will be
held at 7:30PM. It will
feature inexpensive techni-
ques for removing paint or
finish from any surface and
methods for repairing da-
maged finishes along with
ideas for new finishes. Small
pieces of furniture may be
brought to the workshop for
suggestions on refinishing.
Call 426-1694 or 426-3214
for reservations.
March 12, 1980
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