The weather may have been more fitting of a late season cross country meet but that did not affect the Conestoga Valley track and field teams in their sweep of Solanco on May 1st. The boys romped 109-41 with the Lady Buckskins posting a modest 81-68 victory.

The boys did their heavy lifting on the track where they won every event. Zach Phy and Timothy Gitonga were the lone repeat solo winners with Phy taking the 100m and the 300H while Gitonga claimed the 1600m and 3200m. Aiden Zimmerman claimed two of CV's three field wins with a 121-2 toss in the discus and a 170-4 heave in the javelin.

Phy picked up another win when he joined Jayden Johnson, Hoffner and Michael Jackson to post a 44.9 in the 400m relay. Hoffner, David Irwin, Caron Miller, and Nigel Marquez teamed up for a 1600m win while Jordan Craighead, Micah Mao, Mason Denlinger, and Irwin opened with a 3200m relay win. Johnson added a 200m win and Miller an 800m win with Joey Castronova and Caleb Malari rounding out the winners.

For the Lady Buckskins it was Alondra Ortiz and Brooke Denlinger leading the way with two solo wins and two relay victories apiece. Ortiz did her work in the 100m and 200m while Denlinger claimed the 100H and 300H. The pair enjoyed wins in two relay races as well with Hallie Schnapf and Mae Lindor joining for a 400m relay win and Bellemarie Alston and Elli Hershey for a 1600m relay win. Alston, along with Meagan Kime, Kylee Antrim and Seana Dougherty posted a 10:32.1 to take the 3200m relay. Alston and Felicia Pius picked up the final two wins on the track while Kaitlyn Williams took the javelin with a toss of 98-5.

VOLLEYBALL

In their only match over the last week, CV ended up on the wrong side of a 3-0 loss to Hempfield with the Knights posting wins of 25-19, 25-17 and 25-20. Drew Hultstrand collected 18 assists to go with eight digs while Carson Hoover finished with seven kills and one ace.

LACROSSE

There are two sides to a win-loss record and unfortunately for the CV girl's lacrosse team they are having trouble adding to the good side of that ledger. The Lady Bucks dropped games against Cedar Crest and York Suburban, falling to 1-13 on the year.

CV dropped that York Suburban game by a 10-8 final on Aril 28th, two days after their 7-6 setback to Cedar Crest. Jamie Handwerger finished with 13 saves against the Lady Falcons but a 2-1 first half deficit was the deciding factor. Jordyn Hironimus paced the attack with two goals while Sophia Hess, Danae Ulrich, Samantha Silvaggio and Olivia Sowal all netted one goal.

The boys' lacrosse team inched closer to locking up a postseason berth with wins over Cedar Crest, Chambersburg, and Warwick. The results stretched CV's winning streak to four games with a 9-6 mark to show for their efforts.

All three wins were by comfortable margins, starting with an 18-3 drubbing of Cedar Crest on April 26th. Soren Stoltzfus needed just three saves thanks to Jeff Fisher's five goals and five assists. Add in three goals from both Hunter Silvaggio and Isaiah Sensenig, two goals from Noah Nolt and single scores from Tyson Zwaska, Justin Corson, Bryce Zwaska, Eli Tlumach and Brian Miller and you that win.

The Buckskins stepped out of the L-L for their April 29th showdown, inviting Chambersburg to town, and sending them home with a 15-1 loss. Fisher netted another five goals but only three assists while Nolt collected four scores. Tyson Zwaska, Corson and Sensenig cleaned up the scoring with two goals each. Stoltzfus finished with five saves.

Warwick was the next victim, falling by a 17-5 final on May 2nd. Nolt went crazy, outscoring the Warriors by himself with a nine-goal game. Fisher was the only other multi-goal scorer with three while Sensenig, Corson and Tlumach added one goal each. Stoltzfus had another five saves in the win.

TENNIS

The tennis season ended with the Buckskins taking part in the L-L Flight Tournament. Michael Horst knocked off Marin Davis of Warwick and Toss Weist of Ephrata before bowing out with a Flight Two semifinal loss to Manheim Township's Zach Taylor.

Nolan Miller was the only other singles player to have any traction, topping Elizabethtown's Ethan Duralja in the opening round of Flight Four action before falling to Manheim Township's Jake Palandjian in the quarterfinals. Fabian Heine, in Flight Three, and Yuji Wenger, in Flight One, both dropped their opening matches to bring their singles season to a close.

Heine did enjoy a bit of success in doubles play, getting help from Boro Krstic to claim a win over Manheim Central's Aaron Cassel and Rodney Sauder in Flight Two doubles. The ride ended in the quarterfinals with a loss to Pequea Valley's Hayden Winey and Cole McEvoy.

One of CV's two remaining doubles teams were unable to make it out of the first round when Miller and Eli Lefever lost their Flight Three match to McCaskey's Logan McIntyre and Maxwell Smith. Wenger and Horst were also able to advance out of the opening round with a win over Lance Wilson and Todd Weist of Ephrata in the Flight One bracket. Their season ended in the quarterfinals with a loss to Cedar Crest's Rocco Shkreli and Joe Shkreli.

BASEBALL

Four baseball games in a seven-day stretch are a lot and when three of them end as losses it can be difficult to shake off. For Conestoga Valley, the highlight of that stretch came on April 27th with a 1-0 win over Lebanon. Owen Fisher picked up the win after covering the first four innings while Brenden Bossert covered the final three innings. Together they allowed three hits and no runs to go with nine strikeouts and two walks. Fisher helped his cause, plating the winning run with his fourth inning double.

The Buckskins opened the month of May on the wrong side of a 9-3 final with Ephrata claiming the win. The Mountaineers plated all nine runs through three innings, giving the loss to Evan Wilson with Caden Miller covering the final two and one third innings. Jude Thompson used one of his two singles to plate CV's two fourth inning runs while Wilson picked up the rarely seen hit by pitch RBI in the third.

Elizabethtown came to town on the 2nd, leaving with a 7-2 victory. Fisher was hit with the loss this time after covering six of the seven innings while both Seth Burkett and Thompson saw action in relief. Thompson accounted for CV's lone RBI by drawing a walk in the sixth inning.

The Buckskins made it three in a row on the 3rd, falling to Solanco 10-8 with the Mules scoring the winning runs in the top of the seventh. That gave the loss to Bossert with Evan Lapp covering the final one and two-thirds innings. CV used the long ball to generate their offense with Wilson, Lapp and Miller all going yard. Wilson and Lapp enjoyed back-to-back home run action in the first while Miller connected for his shot in the fourth. Brandon Hursh tacked on one last RBI with a sixth inning sac fly.

SOFTBALL

The softball team closed out April on a mini run, topping Elizabethtown and Lebanon on back-to-back days. CV needed a five-run rally to get by E-town on the 26th with Rhiannon Henry picking up the win. Alexa Freeburn led the offense with a two-hit, two-RBI game. Isabella Rodriguez, Brylee Bateson, Tori Rhoads, Kylie Metzler, and Bianca Henry all chipped in with one RBI each.

One day later the Lady Buckskins collected an 8-3 win over Lebanon with Rodriguez and Emma Wanger leading the way. Wagner had two hits to go with two RBI while Rodriguez had just one hit with her two RBI. Bianca Henry and Ashley Cirilo picked up one RBI apiece. Bateson earned the win, covering four and two-third innings with Rhiannon Henry taking over to finish things out.

Conestoga Valley suffered a setback on May 3rd, falling to Solanco by a 10-0 final. Rhiannon Henry and Bateson combined to cover the five-inning affair with Henry absorbing nine of the 10 Solanco runs.