A few L-L League items to pass along …
SPARTANS’ YUNGINGER PICKS E-TOWN COLLEGE – Recent Garden Spot grad Nadine Yunginger will continue her scholastic and athletic careers at Elizabethtown College, where the Spartans’ two-sport standout hopes to participate in two sports for the Blue Jays.
Yunginger, a forward in field hockey and a gritty point guard in basketball, hopes to play hockey and hoops for E-town. The Jays’ field hockey coach recently stepped down, so Yunginger is still mulling her career on the field hockey field for the Jays. But she will definitely play basketball for veteran coach Yvonne Kauffman.
Last fall, Yunginger was an Honorable Mention Section 2 All-Star in field hockey, and last winter, she averaged a team-best 9.3 points a game and hit a team-best 31 3-pointers for the Spartans.
Yunginger also earned six awards at Garden Spot’s graduation ceremonies – U.S. Marine Corps Distinguished Athlete Award; American Legion Conestoga Post 662 Annual Scholarship; New Holland Elementary School PTO Scholarship; District 3 E. Jerry Brook Academic Excellence Award; Outstanding Athlete Award; and President’s Volunteer Service Award.
E-town’s field hockey team went 17-4 overall last fall, and the Jays’ women’s basketball team went 11-14 overall this past season.
BULLER TO BARONS – Manheim Central’s football team just got a whole lot better along the offensive and defensive lines … not that anyone in Section 2 of the L-L League – or District 3 Triple-A – wanted to hear that.
Shaun Buller, a menacing 6-0, 280-pound offensive and defensive tackle, and his family have moved into Central’s school district, and Buller will be eligible to play for the Barons this fall.
With Buller helping to blow open holes, E-town’s offense finished sixth in the L-L League last season, churning out 351.8 yards per game while piling up 2,438 rushing yards in 11 games.
E-town and Central have rekindled their football rivalry the last couple of years. Two seasons ago the Bears blasted the Barons in E-town on the way to sharing the Section 2 title with Solanco. Last fall, Central repaid the favor on the way to reclaiming the Section 2 crown and a trip to the District 3 Triple-A finale.
Buller played in those games for the Bears; now he’ll switch sides and get dirty in the trenches playing for the Barons.
That could be a mighty interesting week for him, when Central visits E-town on Oct. 23.
