Facing a team that had just claimed its first victory of the season three days earlier, the Pequea Valley Braves traveled to New Holland on Tuesday, February 16.

What transpired on the court at Garden Spot High School was a non-league girls' basketball match that saw the Braves almost register a phenomenal comeback win.

The Braves outscored the Spartans 18-7 in the fourth quarter. They had already shaved one point off the 28-10 halftime deficit.

Garden Spot held on for a 44-40 win as Pequea fell to 3-8 overall.

The Braves' Sarah Arment and Spot's Taylor Soehner shared the game's top scoring honors with 18 points each. Brooke Liney canned a pair of three-point baskets and finished with eight points.

The Braves were coming off a 69-19 loss to Eastern York on Saturday, February 13.

Mara Weaver's 18 points led the way for the Golden Knights. She sank four treys and went 4-for-4 at the foul line.

Arment and Rebecca Cox each scored four points for Pequea.

BOYS' BASKETBALL

Devon Colyer, with 22 points, was the top scorer in a 51-41 defeat of Kutztown on Wednesday, February 12 at Kinzers as the PV boys improved to 3-6 on the year.

Luke Peifer and Nevin Stoltzfus each scored nine points with all of Stoltzfus's coming off his three treys.

Xavier Goodman gave Kutztown 19 points in a losing cause.

On Saturday, February 13, the Braves lost at home to Lancaster Mennonite. The Blazers' 50-27 win was possible thanks to their 27-0 run in the third quarter.

Stoltzfus led the Braves with seven points while Peifer and Nathan Blank each scored four.

Mennonite's Camden Hurst poured in 25 points.

WRESTLING

The Braves finished seventh in the Lancaster-Lebanon League Wrestling Championships held on Saturday, February 13, at Manheim Township.

The Braves, as a team, finished with 39 points, which was good for seventh place.

Top finishers for Pequea Valley were Nate Miller and Jace Beegle, both of whom finished third. Also, Dustin Huber finished fourth at the 152-pound weight class.

Beegle, wrestling through the 126-pound bracket, majored Ethan Missimer of Annville-Cleona by a 9-1 final. In his next bout, he faced eventual champ Alizaer Alicea who defeated Beegle 4-0.

In the consolation semis, Beegle pinned Taylor Gehman of Cedar Crest to earn a trip to the third-place match. He worked Mason Casey of Garden Spot for a library book.

Huber's fourth-place finish involved a pin and a major decision followed by an 8-2 defeat of Cooper Gill.

Huber's next time on the mat would be to face Kevin Ollavaria of Township. After a quarterfinals loss, he is part of the suicide squad as Woolley also battled back to win 1-0 at the third-place match.

Also earning third was heavyweight Nate Miller. He made his impact immediately with a pin against John Pacheco of McCaskey. Eventual heavyweight champ Zac Shelley would take down Miller in the semis. But the Pequea senior earned an uncontested win in the semis of the consolation brackets and pinned Caleb Mussmon of Hempfield in the third-place match.

Also competing for Pequea, in the tournament that featured only the top eight wrestlers from each weight class, was Luke Brown at 172 pounds.

Brown suffered a close 5-4 defeat to Turk Baum of Cocalico. Following a pin by Northern Lebanon's Clayton Erb, Brown suffered a 7-3 defeat in consolations.